Best of 2021 Contest Feedback

Gonna give props to Scopely for trying something new and out of the box. This PvE live multiplayer was something I didn't expected from this game, specially with it's weird non-live PvP format.

While the matches were fun, A LOT of people forgot to equip their Boss Breakers abilities, which caused a lot of detriment to experience. Not faulting the devs on this one, but I think efforts can be made on the UI to remind players about it.

My main issue with Faction Boss was that the Blue Gems Shield is just NOT FUN to destroy. It shouldn't take more than 4 "turns" to be done with it, and every single move that generate/destroy blue gems should count to put the shield down, not just selected ones.

I don't think that moves like the ones Tech Steamboat use shouldn't count because it would be "too easy" to break the shield, when in higher levels it would be very useful if you want any chance of winning.

The other issue I have is that this mode is clearly aimed at people in the endgame, characters with high damage output, lots of HP. Would be cool to have some sortof balancing for "newer players" or people with certain class at a lower level.

And finally, for my grips, I wasn't very thrilled to go all out on Faction Boss since the points we got for the contest were pretty mild. Reached Level 6 and wasn't going to waste my weekend trying to grind some few points for a next milestone I'm not gonna reach.

I think this mode has potential tho, keen to see how is gonna look next year.

The concept in itself is great. Similar to Pokémon go, you have 4 faction mates trying to take down one big boss. However, the concept was not fulfilled at all. The boss would glitch way to often during matches. The damage going up way to high every turn in higher levels not equal at all to who we could use. That shield was way to high for fair competition. The blitz had so many issues, including most players not being able to compete, or even when they could compete, rewards weren’t given. The loot was trash compared to the $ value. An event for everyone should be able to max without spending hundreds of dollars or 30-40 hours with just having luck. The coin for being able to do premium blitz was nice for those who actually did get it. The potential is there. But for when this finally does release in 2022. It must have less glitch, rewards must be better. And the people who can be used must be equal to the boss level. 4 5sg should be able to beat any boss battle. Not just 4 specific whale players or very mythic guys!

I appreciated the new mode of gameplay. I liked that this mode actually required coordination with teammates to make sure that teams were functional and had a chance to defeat the boss. Most other modes, even team-ish ones like feud are still solo exercises. Personally I really enjoyed the later invasion modes so am happy we have something that will scratch that team effort itch again.

While the mid-event downtime was annoying, I’ll give the benefit of the doubt for it still being in beta.

My main critique for this mode was the lack of tangible rewards for winning the boss matches. I’m happy I cleared a L10 match for one classs (and made it past L7 in all) the effort to try and pip out another victory or two was not worth anything to me since the rewards were solo points (and wouldn’t have resulted in another solo milestone being reached). A recalibration of rewards (coins/tp/tokens/???) for clearing the matches would be a good switch and make it worthwhile for people to play (and stress test the servers).

Additionally, having played a bunch of matches over the weekend, I’m still not sure exactly how the boss breakers trigger. Is it manual? Automatic? A better tutorial of how things work would have been helpful.

Finally, I had the same complaints initially that have been listed above about thinking that gems were not being counted to the shield from moves. I ended up convincing myself it always counted my gems (but immediately upon move being fired, not after they would break) so maybe a recalibration of the timing of that, or a pop up that shows you broke X number of gems similar to the way you’d see that your teammates broke some.

Only 15 people maxed the milestones. So basically the strong got stronger. Event milestones should be based on league level like the mlc milestones. Rewards wouldn't be as good for the lower leagues but at least you would have a chance to get something.

It looks like something with hope the points and the rewards might need a little tweaking and hopefully a little bet work with the boss it self there where some times it's same like a little freeze up happening and a few times got kicked out but there dose look to be same hope here that this could be a good thing moving forward

the good part - something new to the game, the event as a whole including the best of 2021/ faction boss rewards It was such so Ill executed that most of the community took a break from the game for most parts of the weekend.

considering we just got done with talent up and the hof mini talent up events, you guys expect us to do 15k talent up across 4 different stable links? Either this wasn’t thought out to it’s full extent or you don’t care

pull odds are crap, firstly breaking down the pulls across stables and then including random, free characters in the higher odds category is again a low ball move

boss events needs work

1. there has to be a way to reduce animation timings, while you give the boss an instant hit ability, players struggle with laggy animations
2. adding to the above last second moves don’t get counted plus you lose the move charge
3. network issues for one affects the entire team
4. i feel +move charges should carry forward to boss battles
5. rewards were abysmal
6. random crashes were rampant again luckily there was no hp loss
7. overall as a so called best of the year event this was a pretty terrible event

This had bugs all over it and it was too slow and when I would connect 3 it wouldn't go through and would freeze in that position forever and it always said wait until the other team members and it was not good and I ended up closing the app and opening it back up with no prevail this game mode has potential at this moment I don't see it need a couple of fixes and to be generous I will give it a 2/10 it would had been 1/10 but that would be too cruel of me

The boss having a move that increases through out the match definitely shouldn't be should be more of a even playing field. Gems should count as the numerical value in the gem.

I'll start with the good. The new mode is a welcome addition. I enjoyed it and the strategy needed. A few connection issues that need to be ironed out which made defeating higher level bosses impossible at times as you sat watching the timer go down while your character did nothing.

The bad though - the event and milestones were terrible. You dangle the carrot of good prizes on the prize wall but make even the lowest prize behind a massive talent up and/or massive paywall. I was able to clear the tours with all required wrestlers for once and got past level 8 on the 4 styles of faction boss and not a single prize wall coin.

The coin amount in prizes were good though.

Edit: the boss shield was a pain but only because gems generated from moves didn't count as gems destroyed. For example the 1*7 area generated from tech Steamboat did not reduce the shield count. I like the concept though

Easily the worst event in my time in the game, 3 years.

Constant technical issues with the Boss matches including lag, locked out of games, move selection delayed at end of players time, disconnections, unable to play any other part of games.

Rewards for normal blitz completely pointless.

Another pay to win event at a level that makes it prohibitive for majority of players.

Good that you're trying to develop something new but if this event is the best you can do then just improve what's still broken instead of bringing such a soul destroying and time waste of an event (clearly no UX/CX employed as this wasn't even funny it was so bad).

Move animations take up too much time in Faction Boss. Would be nice for the time to stop. To go along with this if we use a move and can’t complete the action before the timer is up we should be able to A) finish the move or B) be reimbursed the mp for the next round.

Also just to reiterate the issue with Blitz rewards, I personally stopped playing since I figured we wouldn’t be reimbursed properly.

So all in all was a did weekend. Too many bugs that didn’t really make it enjoyable

1. Kudos to finally trying something new. This game desperately needs something other then SD and Feud. Still miss invasion. Boss battle has potential but it needs a complete overhaul.

2. Having to break that many blue gems with none falling, my generate blue gem move not working etc is complete bs. I had 5* silvers that was only able to get off the original 2-3 moves and got killed because we couldn't get blue gems to fall or our generate blue gems didn't count.

3. Rewards were nowhere near worth the play for it. Milestones were damn near unattainable.

4. Lobby needs to be more then 10, more like 20

5. Rules should of been explained better. Took us most of Saturday night to realize some things.

6. Blitz rewards were a joke, as were the requirementsfor tours. Majority of us only had the free person. So we didn't even have a chance for bonuses after normal.

7. This was cleary a pay to play event., which was pretty Shitty of you guys for a new possible game mode...At the very least have higher percentages for pull!

8. Boss "home" page needs to be easier to read/navigate.

The faction boss even was cool the actual event was kind of lame and super hard to earn the milestones with out spending a ton plus I kinda got ripped off on some bags… anyways with more work can be cool

Boss Battle was not executed properly. When gems were broken during a move or by a 4 match row break, it never counted. It only counted when it matched. Destroying Multiply gems didn't attribute at all.

The matching was a MAJOR issue. The lag was horrible as if you were in the middle of an animation, the move would never complete. The animations took at least 20 secs off the minute.

Increase the time.

Decrease the animations.

Allow a break of ANY gem by ANY method to be counted to the amount. Breaking multiply gems should attribute correctly as well.

The concept was nice, but it needs to be worked on before we do another.

Regardling the Blitz? One of the easiest for yhe blue tickets. One of the worst for the gold.

The faction contest wasn't the best. At all.

Also, when are we recycling the inventory? Last years Thanksgiving rvent was one of the best. This past event was very lackluster.

It was one of the slowest and most troublesome events I have ever played.

Blitz:

The game gave a little low rewards and in some cases it even crashed and gave no rewards.

The premium blitz was very restrictive, but good.

Boss:

It made me very complicated about the type of game, the server failures, the shield that was a headache in general, since if you managed to break it, your friends or yourself no longer had life to continue.

Loots:

They were very expensive, I bought a few and as always not even fragments of something new. Every time I have less faith to buy a loot because I know that if I do not buy more than 100 loots, I will not have something new. Unfortunately I have no money to spare. The worst thing is that if I wanted to advance in the event I had to buy, and as I mentioned on other occasions, they have become very usurers with that issue.

Event:

It looked promising for the awards, but it was almost impossible to get there. I just stayed in the first few, trying to increase points but it was outrageous to do so.

As I read other comments, even if they give away fighters, if they do not give more opportunities in the game, people will continue to go for this type of usurious game that only thinks about making money.

That's my feedback on the event.