Faction feud steps (80% kickout boost)

This 80% kick out realy frustrating

Total feud waiste lost time lost hps

while i can understand the reason behind the 80% kickout perk this should be canceled asap. this perks ruins the feud as the boost is way too high. if ynot completely cancel the boost at lease decrease it to max 30%. current superstars can do enough damage to win opponent with 80% kickout boost that means 5sg superstars can kickout out 2 and 3 times during a brawl and that certainly kills the fun of the game.

Yes! I truly agree that kickout perk shouldn't be their, because there's no advantage as of in offense and it's just a pain to others in defense... rather just give them warscore boost or hp boost but kickout boost isn't good at all it makes the game unfair and unenjoyable. It's a request from your player base to you to remove those kickout perks. Thank you scopely.

So many of us spend on this game and while that is by choice we expect a sort of respect from the creators. Yet time and time again you place before us some nonsense like this kickout buff. I agree that the steps should add to warscore but at the same time there needs to be a balance. We don't ask for much but give us something that us worth us dedicating our time and money to.

Which one of absolute bell ends came up with that idea? My chemotherapy was more enjoyable that enduring that absolute shower of idiocy.

These pay features are an absolute joke, and it in turns makes the game a joke. Once this happens players leave or never stay playing longer than a week/month. It not on not drains health packs, but makes people rage quit and not play the game again. I get the whales don’t care, but without other players the whales will stop spending. TBH: I think 40% of whales are paid developers that promote the game from within. So that forces the active grinders to spend. I for one will no longer be spending. Even it it means lots of normal blitz for next MLC. Need more events/ that reward players not take there money!!

what’s the point of purchasing or earning high bonus straps and level 5 medals, which take both time & money, if someone who does none of these can purchase a 80% kick out and neutralize all your hard work? This belittles our efforts, please don’t change the feuds, it’s one of the few aspects of the game that are actually enjoyable.

Now that the feud is over, and we've "experienced it before complaining about it" this has to absolutely be one of the worst times I've had, feuding in this game in years. These perks absolutely ruin this game mode, and leave no desire for me as a competitive player to keep on playing.

Its bad enough the warscore boost "perks" exist for money, because now the grinders who play 20 hours are forced to buy them if they want a chance at leaderboards. The remainder of the community can hit milestones they were not previously able to achieve. So a massive job well done to you in regards to creating a market that didnt exist, for a perk that was never once required before, but now is monetized in order to give people about the same rewards as a result.

Outside of this "score" perk essentially turning EVERY game mode in this game into a "paid" game mode in order to compete, the "kickout" perks which is what I will refer to the "warscore boost" as in this post, has essentially ruined feuding on a competitive level.

Not only are players now required to spend $50 as an entry fee to the feud competition in order to get the new card, (the same price of a new video game) but they are also now being destroyed by the opposing end of said $50 perk, which is the kickout. ON TOP OF THAT, the playerbase who hasn't even purchased these perks in order to chase leaderboard scores? Are now being punished and suffering at the hands of those players who HAVE purchased those perks. Hitting these obscene FOURTY MILLION warscore milestones (for rewards which aren't even worthwhile, but thats a whole different issue for another time) withOUT a score perk, is not only something that's not obtainable for the masses, but difficult at best for even the handful that CAN, and decide to do that climb.

These perks? Are horrendous... no two ways about it. The fact the kickout "perk" exists is disgusting. If you have an issue, do not penalize your playerbase by charging them $50 to play the game for the weekend so they can be even with their opposition because YOU didn't know how to scale your game...

I said this before in my earlier post but I'll elaborate here. There's many ways around making kickout stronger, or health matter, without monetizing it, ruining the entire feud game mode, and making the player base as a whole, pissed off!

First and foremost, when I brought it up in the prior post, did you think about RE-scaling the kickout % for when people are pinned? And its a multiplier based on how much remaining health out of max health? Maybe turn up the multiplier on that from x6 to x8? Maybe change the health pool to instead of starting at 60%-100% have it be 60-80% and 80-90% and 90-100%? Maybe change THAT scaling...

Maybe make straps with kickout bonuses on them? Maybe make medal sets that have kickout damage instead of fury and armor... maybe a lot of things! But DEFINITELY NOT CHARGING THE PLAYERBASE MONEY BECAUSE YOUR DEVELOPMENT TEAM DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO SCALE THE GAME PROPERLY.

Please, from now on, ask for assistance from your players. Your gamers. Your true die hard community. People who top the leaderboards consistently. People who spend their hard earned money with you. Listen to them. Give them opportunities to help you with solutions, just like this one, instead of monetizing almost every single thing possible...

I really looked forward to a day this game would become fantastic... But at this rate I'm slowly counting the days I'm struggling to hang on for, and its getting drastically tough to keep hanging on.

Sincerely,

From a long time player, top player, top 10 faction leader, and a once die-hard champs player,

2bob

I don't know how valuable this comment is, but I can say that I alter my feud roster to limit my exposure to people who buy steps.

I really like the perk changes other than the kickout, and would love to go all-in on a feud roster and just rock stuff, but I end up going in small to not deal with the frustration of steps. It kind of bums me out because I feel like I don't want to use all the characters I want to try and avoid steps.

Time to relaunch the Brock Mega.

Pretty much this. If the idea is to balance the 5sg meta, I'm sorry but we are very far away.

All the kickout boosts so far have been atrocious for the vast majority of players. Maybe some extended beta tests would be better than making life miserable for us.

While 40% extra kickout is more manageable than 80% (on paper), after doing 2 brawls this first flash feud I felt like we are back to square one with this "perk" which noone asked for. 40% kickout, coupled with some ridiculous gem damage boosts ended up exactly where we were a few weeks ago. Better yet, this time round EVERYONE was given for free the perk that everyone seems to want to go away. So much for constructive feedback.

On to the actual feud. All of my first 10 matches took 2-4 turns, even when I was hitting my opponents for 90% of their total health on the first turn. Only after downsizing my roster talent by quite a bit was I able to reduce the time spent in brawls to something reasonable. But obviously at the cost of sacrificing my best superstars for lower talent ones. Not sure if that's what we are trying to achieve?

As things stand, the perk swings the pendulum from one extreme to the other.

Simple example from the recent female feuds: my 5ss Naomi vs. another 5ss Naomi. I used double armor, Honky Tonk Man, Kalisto and EQ, on top of a 200% extra yellow move medal.

End result was a 400k + finisher, which also left 4 protect gems of 26k each. My opponents Naomi (also using double armor), with the maxed kick out perk managed to (fairly easily, at most on the 2 count) stand up 3 times from that finisher and minefield of protect gems on the board. 3 TIMES. It took the 4th finisher, when my opponent was down to 10% health to finally, and still barely keep her down.

Can't see how what I described above resembles "balanced".

Hoping next month we can put all the kickout boost perks behind us. Forever. If the goal is to increase chance of kickouts at 5sg, maybe tweaking the kickout scaling would be a better solution (e.g. make extend the multiplier to x8, or x9 and then go down relative to max health). But, whichever new solution is chosen, please, PLEASE test it via other means than on your global player base come feud weekends. Test it internally (e.g. do a BETA) and roll it out once it's working.