6-Star Characters

@entrailbucket said:

@GrimSkald said:

@bluewolf said:
It's going to be very interesting to see how they balance out the need to make the shiny new tier powerful enough to need and yet somehow not make your time focused on lower tiers, ascending them etc, feel like wasted time.

6s may force a re-evaluation of ascension approach depending on what resources can be used, whether they obliterate lower tiers etc.

(Not to mention the upcoming rebalances).

This is going to be key. If the 6★s are far and away better than anything, then there's really no point in working up the rest of your Roster -- it will take too long to get anything other than 1★s there, so the top end will be dominated by native 6★s and 1|6★s (as noted above, when they allow ascension, which will almost certainly not be day 1.) At that point the top end can use cover swaps to bring up the top end 5★s there (many of us have dupe MThors, for example,) but it will still be pretty rare.

I can't help but think that a fully covered 6★ won't be better than a 550 5★ (even not boosted, but we'll see, it could be closer to a 672.) Otherwise it badly exacerbates the "only a few characters are usable" problem.

We can really only compare to the 5* rollout. They were extremely difficult to get at launch, so they were kind of irrelevant except for the most insane whales. They were beatable with top tier 4* but required a lot of effort, strategy, or luck.

We did catch up eventually but by that time there was more of a tier. Of course, only a few of them were usable, so it didn't really matter that there were more 5*. Hopefully they avoid that problem this time.

I think there was a very distinct change in philosophy after the first few 5★s. I suspect they intended the 5★s to be very hard to get but still very useful with even just a few covers. Keeping in mind that this was before Champion levels, ascension, and even weekly boosted characters this was much easier to accomplish. Heck, even their match damage was impressive -- there were 2★ and 3★ players doing a lot with a 1 yellow cover OML -- this was one of the reason he was nerfed as he was, not because he was too powerful, but because something like 80% of the player base used him regularly.

We may see this philosophy in use with the 6★s, particularly if they're horrendously difficult to cover. If a 4 or 5 cover 6★ is equal to a 450 5★, for example, that would add some granularity to the game.

I guess we'll see. At this point I'm cautiously optimistic.

That one whale spent a hell of a lot more than hundreds per month prior to 5* Rumor was he spent money that didn't belong to him and got in a lot of trouble. Who knows but he was far far bigger than anyone other whale at that time.

I am skeptical of its rollout, but hesitantly optimistic about having fun with 6*s and a new thing to chase? This also might make me sound like a pyschopath.

BUT! I do think they should either make this anniversary super special (besides 6*s) to compensate for how poorly the game is currently running. (Many many bugs, but one that really drives me crazy is me getting literally one match-3 away from winning a match and the game crashes, resulting in a loss. That's bad!)

@WilliamK1983 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@MegaBee said:

@entrailbucket said:
This happens every year.

Guys, the anniversary is always mediocre. Stop building it up. Don't listen to the devs' hype. The first anniversary was pretty cool and I think the second one was good too (whichever one had the 4Thor lightning rounds).

Every other anniversary has been, like, fine. Stop being disappointed in them. Would it be nice if the anniversary was super awesome? Yes. But how many mediocre ones do we have to have in a row before people stop expecting them to be awesome?

Do I recall correctly that someone summarized the past anniversaries last year?

I'm not sure. I do remember someone complaining that the vaults were much worse, and then somebody else posted them side by side and they were exactly the same thing.

I would usually post the vault contents, costs, duration, etc. Can do it again if y'all want.

That would be very useful IMO.

@entrailbucket said:

@WilliamK1983 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@MegaBee said:

@entrailbucket said:
This happens every year.

Guys, the anniversary is always mediocre. Stop building it up. Don't listen to the devs' hype. The first anniversary was pretty cool and I think the second one was good too (whichever one had the 4Thor lightning rounds).

Every other anniversary has been, like, fine. Stop being disappointed in them. Would it be nice if the anniversary was super awesome? Yes. But how many mediocre ones do we have to have in a row before people stop expecting them to be awesome?

Do I recall correctly that someone summarized the past anniversaries last year?

I'm not sure. I do remember someone complaining that the vaults were much worse, and then somebody else posted them side by side and they were exactly the same thing.

I would usually post the vault contents, costs, duration, etc. Can do it again if y'all want.

Wait till somebody complains again!

So, have it ready in 0.68 seconds? Crack the whip, Dr. Jones.

Playing with boosted Mephisto in PVP has reminded me that they still haven't bothered (aren't capable?) to fix "the Mephisto bug" where tiles can't be matched because they are visually different colours to what they match as. But sure, by all means bring on a new tier of characters instead of fixing year-old bugs or giving us the indistinguishable play experience that the new engine was going to bring.