Street Showdown event

Hey Paul, a special tour normally comes out when a new character makes its way to champion, that’s nothing new. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t do the other tours and have a chance to get him in the bags besides the loot pulls.

How are points made for the community portal event?

It shows that I only made 5 points:

It’s weird as I followed the instructions and signed in on the portal as instructed.

I the beat all of the tours (Minus Dawkins) using the bonus characters.

I even made a noticeable amount in purchases.

This is where I am on stats:

What’s going on I see people with 235 points, what am I missing?

They bought the 150 points for 89,99 to start with. If i understand it correctly we can gain those points by using raw or showdown superstars in the event starting later today (1 point each fight i guess, or 2 if you use 2 raw/smackdown stars). Thats why there is no big development in the community contest so far. We all got 5 points each for free as a starter. Some bought additional points. But the big boost will come during the sd-event.

what im not sure of: will i get points in the solo contest for using ANY Authors of Pain or do i need to compete with Rezar and Akam together? Thanks God my Rezar is pretty strong. Thus i should manage those 20 fights anyway. But would be far easier if Rey could assist :)

Four refreshes of opponents in the special showdown tour and EVERY opponent has already been attacked... Ugh, waste close to 100k and no progress... really?

Honestly, EVERYTIME something new gets added... it’s ALWAYS broken. Do you even QA your stuff or the players your QA department

Its definitely broken. That is even more than usually. I put my defence down so that i get attacked and can take revenge - which saves me some coins to find new opponents. But everybody is not available. 30 of them already.

I managed to play one match even though the same opponent was “unavailable” before. But unfortunately that was just a one-hit-wonder. I finished my Greg Valentine match, but im not sure if those points did count for the contest. In the solo contest menu you cant really find the information yet of how many matches count (like 1/15 or 0/1).

but we need to be more understanding since this is the first showdown-event ever. Im sure it will be resolved for future events of that kind. Unimaginable that this kind of mistake could repeatedly occur for years to come over and over again. ;-)

It baffles me how two hours of waiting around trying to find an opponent while wasting gold coins for no reason is still a thing. Sure, a mess up that benefits the player base gets fixed within 30min, but one that hinders the player base is never resolved. Why is it so difficult to even try to create a system that's not F'd up right off the bat. Why are there not different tiers of random bots at the 200 mark so that everyone can get off the starting line and spread out so it's not such a big issue to see nothing but oppoenents that have already been attacked. If those bots aren't able to fight back to progress then they'll weed out at the bottom anyways.

Frustrating how to play a game. Simple play game beat opponent play next game. Actual gameplay try opponent unavailable, try other 2 opponents all unavailable, refresh try all 3 people all unavailable. Keep refreshing no people to play.

No chance of maxing an event or progressing when can't even play a match 2hrs later I've managed 3 fights.

Is there any compensation for the poor playability of this event? Not the silly appreciation bags. Most people won't progress very far at this rate.

Yeah, I'm getting about a match an hour. There's a noticeable drop in playability compared to past showdown events (could be due to the community event?) and there seriously needs to be something done if I can go through 3 sets of opponents in a row and all of them are occupied.

Someone suggested bot matches but I don't see the issue of just having it so that not all battles are actually counted in the battle log - just have it so that after someone gets battled (win or lose), they don't have any other wins/losses count against them for 15 minutes or so and remove the 'recently battled' state so that if you

Fix your game. Why am I receiving emails from support saying the issue is fixed when I am continuously getting this message no matter how many times I refresh. I missed a ton of points yesterday for the refresh. And I still can’t play a match today.

TL;DR

Positives: Nice to see the street profits getting added to the game.

Negatives: Literally everything else about the event.

Showdown continues to be a nightmare that apparently "can't" be fixed. But unlike Invasion, which also got nuked for being unfixable, we'll continue to have you play it twice a month.

The community event portion had the milestones FAR too excessive. Presumably, Scopely has metrics on how many SD matches are typically completed and which characters are used, so the failure here to make realistic expectations is insane.

Moving forward, what I would suggest is doing away with Showdown Events entirely in their current form where it relies on the luck of the draw and the luck of your admittedly broken system happening to function. If you won't remove it completely pending getting it fixed, set the coin refresh to 0 and turn off the showdown ranking coins as a factor in the scoring and instead move to a grinding based community event.

Can you please be more specific on what you mean as a unfair advantage?