BriMan2222 said: mdreyer93 said: Please don't reduce the god boost scaling. IMO God boosts have been the best addition to the game in a while. Character diversity is so much greater now. This. PVP has been so much more fun with the weekly rotating boosts. If those are removed or lowered enough that it doesn't make much of a difference all that will happen is we will go back to the monotonous everybody use their strongest meta team pvp, which is mostly just wall to wall Wanda/colossus.
mdreyer93 said: Please don't reduce the god boost scaling. IMO God boosts have been the best addition to the game in a while. Character diversity is so much greater now.
illusionist_KA said: BriMan2222 said: mdreyer93 said: Please don't reduce the god boost scaling. IMO God boosts have been the best addition to the game in a while. Character diversity is so much greater now. This. PVP has been so much more fun with the weekly rotating boosts. If those are removed or lowered enough that it doesn't make much of a difference all that will happen is we will go back to the monotonous everybody use their strongest meta team pvp, which is mostly just wall to wall Wanda/colossus. as you've seen from my previous comments. "There is no THIS". God boosts have ruined the sanctity of pvp. All these basic Toyota Prius rosters, screwing up MMR. If you want the god boost to stay, then OPEN UP MMR. I need to see all these basic 450 teams that use boosted characters. I'm stuck in 550 land and can only queue those rosters. Skip, after skip, after skip - same teams over and over again. While these prius's can hit me from 0 points and i will never see them. Either remove god boost, or open up MMR.
illusionist_KA said: BriMan2222 said: mdreyer93 said: Please don't reduce the god boost scaling. IMO God boosts have been the best addition to the game in a while. Character diversity is so much greater now. This. PVP has been so much more fun with the weekly rotating boosts. If those are removed or lowered enough that it doesn't make much of a difference all that will happen is we will go back to the monotonous everybody use their strongest meta team pvp, which is mostly just wall to wall Wanda/colossus. As far as the comments of seeing the same teams. there have been numerous posts on how to beat wanda and colossus teams. Also, we have gone through many years of same combo teams. it's how the game works. you should be old enough to remember logan and phoenix, thanos and panther, thor and okoye, thor and gambit, iceman and prof5x, beta and kitty, and so forth. we go through patterns of this over and over again. better things do come along and makes the previous teams obsolete or less utilized.
BriMan2222 said: illusionist_KA said: BriMan2222 said: mdreyer93 said: Please don't reduce the god boost scaling. IMO God boosts have been the best addition to the game in a while. Character diversity is so much greater now. This. PVP has been so much more fun with the weekly rotating boosts. If those are removed or lowered enough that it doesn't make much of a difference all that will happen is we will go back to the monotonous everybody use their strongest meta team pvp, which is mostly just wall to wall Wanda/colossus. As far as the comments of seeing the same teams. there have been numerous posts on how to beat wanda and colossus teams. Also, we have gone through many years of same combo teams. it's how the game works. you should be old enough to remember logan and phoenix, thanos and panther, thor and okoye, thor and gambit, iceman and prof5x, beta and kitty, and so forth. we go through patterns of this over and over again. better things do come along and makes the previous teams obsolete or less utilized. You misunderstood my point, I don't have any problem beating scarlet steel, the key word in my post was "monotonous". As you said, we went through patterns of this over and over. And the pattern was use the meta and only the meta over and over and over and over and over. When I made the jump from 4 star to 5 star the thing I missed most was the weekly boost list changing and coming up with fun team combos out of the boosted characters. After I champed my 5 stars I was using all panthos all the time, as was the style at the time. Sure the meta would change every few months and things would feel new for a minute. But then it would feel like the same old same old soon enough. With the boosts the meta changes week to week and by the time it starts to feel stale a new boost list comes along
JRYUART said: The thing that most players don’t realize about being in the 550 tier is that there is a point during your climb, for every single pvp event, where you are stuck with the choice of 5-6 of the same qs only. If you and your alliance mates play the same slice , cycling invariably goes allyallyallyally non-allyrepeatI’ve seen many posts in the past about “etiquette” where you shouldn’t hit a target multiple times in a row. This is one of the reasons people get multiple hits in a row. I shouldn’t have to resort to hitting my teammate for points just to climb high enough to get new qs but most times, we have no choice but to either hammer the one non-ally q, or hit our teammates. This clog/qhell occurs from beginning of event til end. If the godboost is here to stay, then I agree with @illusionist_KA , please fix the MMR so that we can see more qs.
KGB said: illusionist_KA said: BriMan2222 said: mdreyer93 said: Please don't reduce the god boost scaling. IMO God boosts have been the best addition to the game in a while. Character diversity is so much greater now. This. PVP has been so much more fun with the weekly rotating boosts. If those are removed or lowered enough that it doesn't make much of a difference all that will happen is we will go back to the monotonous everybody use their strongest meta team pvp, which is mostly just wall to wall Wanda/colossus. as you've seen from my previous comments. "There is no THIS". God boosts have ruined the sanctity of pvp. All these basic Toyota Prius rosters, screwing up MMR. If you want the god boost to stay, then OPEN UP MMR. I need to see all these basic 450 teams that use boosted characters. I'm stuck in 550 land and can only queue those rosters. Skip, after skip, after skip - same teams over and over again. While these prius's can hit me from 0 points and i will never see them. Either remove god boost, or open up MMR. If those Prius's are hitting you then you must be able to see them in your retal nodes even if you can't queue them directly until they break MMR....KGB
jsmjsmjsm00 said: If you are so concerned with having allies in your PvP join a different time slice than them. This really sounds like you are inflating your own minor inconvenience to try and remove a game play feature that is incredibly beneficial to many many more people.
Is this because of god boosts or because there are so few people playing in that rarified air that you bump into the same folks, lest you break MMR? I don’t think anyone is disputing the issues you or KA are discussing, but they are issues that were there prior to god boosts. And it’s important not to conflate them. Especially if it would mean removing a feature that is literally saving this game for many players.
Daredevil217 said: I want to know how exactly god boosts are exacerbating this issue of queuing the same people over and over?As more and more players enter that tier, I imagine it will be less of a problem because that just means more and more targets to hit. I’m sure Wanda/Knull was annoying to face over and over but at least it’s a week and done. Then you get a new meta to face. I prefer the meta shifting weekly over staying stagnant for months.
JRYUART said: Daredevil217 said: I want to know how exactly god boosts are exacerbating this issue of queuing the same people over and over?As more and more players enter that tier, I imagine it will be less of a problem because that just means more and more targets to hit. I’m sure Wanda/Knull was annoying to face over and over but at least it’s a week and done. Then you get a new meta to face. I prefer the meta shifting weekly over staying stagnant for months. Something tied to the way the MMR ranks your top characters based on power level is affecting the diversity of choices when it comes to available q's, and godboost might affect this in some way. We don't know for sure until the devs officially reveal how MMR works, everything we have heard is deductions and anecdotal. And you would think that with more players entering the tier that it would diversify. Since this issue has been around for awhile, we have seen newer players entering the tier but we still have the same issue. This is the crux of the issue - even with more players available that would be considered the same "tier", the options still don't open up. I am actually more of an advocate of addressing the MMR issues, where if godboost might have some sort of influence, should be addressed. Keep the godboost if it means we have the chance to see everyone floating in the bracket.