IRON SHEIK “HALL OF FAME” DEBUT + Giveaway

Average showdown. Rewards are average and things went smoothly.

The portal event is ok as well. Every single time you make a portal event where we don't finish it makes the game look bad and makes newer players leave as the game is dying. Make rewards easier and more frequent.

Pretty standard SD event, not really anything stand out either way tbh. New skill plate looks very strong, but obviously paywalled. But picked up a few resources in the milestones I could hit and didn't have to spend hours playing.

This is improved over the previous showdown event in that I was able to hit more milestones than the previous event. Grindable components should be part of every contest. People willing to put in the time should not get caught at a paywall.

I'm not sure why the showdown coin points a) did not go live until the showdown portion went live and b) were only worth 10 points each. I didn't really like either of those components but the point value is less important than the total number of points needed. So maybe they were worth fewer points but maybe it was proportionally the same. I honestly don't know.

It was nice to see HOF tokens in the milestones. That should have been going on all month since this was a HOF focused month in general.

Tours were alright this time out. I always dislike the "use the character ti wins shards of the character" approach so needing Sheik to earn Sheik shards on the final tour is insulting to people trying to chase him in the first place. And the level to which he has to be raised up to in order to claim the hell mode shards likely makes those shards less desirable. I'm not saying you have to just give them away. I'm saying when you consider what needs to be done to earn those rewards it should be obvious to anyone playing the game that they're all but useless at that point. You used to do this all the time. Then you got away from it presumably because we all saw what foolishness it was. That's not something to bring back.

Overall, its a step in a better direction from the last few showdowns. They still are not as good as they were prior to the 1000 point notoriety threshold coming in.

I'm not sure how to take the hasty buffing of Sheik after the previews. Were you trying to see how little you could get passed us? Its interesting that this outcry generates instant action when other incredibly unpopular changes get ignored or must be endured because of your "roadmap". What made this occasion worthy of action but you took no responsibility for what was done with Wolfpac Sting?

Contest was good,matches were fair

First off it was fun. Until I didn't have the superstars to complete the extra bonuses in the tour as well as the Showdown requirements. Would love if you opened it up more to wrestlers that players might actually have even if you lowered the prize value. Over all is all the same as the ones before.

This event wasn't inspiring and felt like a bunch of work for marginal rewards. Despite being able to possibly do 5 bonus matches at once, having to go 100 of any kind was high. Accomplishing the tasks doesn't give you the max milestone so ultimately it is just time spent getting whatever prizes the game wants to give for free. The tours were fine.

I did enjoy the m/f showdown weekend and the bonus characters to get more points for solo on par with the theme of the month which is hall of fame. The tours were also good with the CSS being no problem for me to get the remaining 2 bazookas I need for either Lee or zRhea.

But all good feelings ends with those two things. The solo event is now a paywall event where you do what you can free and forget it. You could before grind your way to the top, and while that should be an option even with the pay for loot milestones described in the blog, the pay part should be only to progress the event faster as a second option.

The community event’s prizes were totally underwhelming. It feels ever since the community got a free 4sb Goldberg (which sucks, especially in the game’s current meta), the prizes feel cheap and should be boosted to entice the community to work together better. Perhaps put the rest of the shards needed to obtain the weekend’s superstar if you max the solo in the last community milestone.

Just feel like the weekends whether it’s feud or SD events, is either take what you can get free and help the faction max the event and be done for the weekend.

This event was in my opinion the best midweek event this mlc. Definitely not the best midweek event ever but still quite good. Without spending, I and many others got to a decent milestone.

I think every midweek event ought to be this good if not better.

The tours were alright

I was shocked to realize that iron sheik hof did not drop much for people from bags. I was hoping that he would drop a lot for people over the weekend.

The showdown characters were alright I guess.

Definitely room for improvements but this event was one of the better midweek events we have had in a while

I really enjoy events I can grind out. But doing everything I can by 9am Sunday morning gets boring.

please randomly send me sheik.

Besides the amount of Sheik shards available, this was an enjoyable event. Regular resources and progress in MLC solo/faction events were all pretty considerable.

Only negative feeling I had was seeing Honky Tonk Man as the alternate bonus character for the Sunday tour. Still a pretty rare character. Not getting access to those extra shards I'm sure keeps a lot of players well away from possibly recruiting Sheik from shards. Let us get a little closer and a lot of people would be willing to spend a bit to finish off a shard recruit.

Some minor steps towards the right direction, like being able to reach milestone 14/16 with just a little help from the wallet and being able to get faction points in more than a way, even if a player could not take advantage of "early bird gets the worm" scoring methods.

Besides that, you've created a coach that will create new standards all of a sudden...not a good move, especially since his counter-coach is the one that everyone received but only a few were able to evolve.

Also consider reducing the amount of bonus matches and increasing the rewards...it's not like every single weekend has to be sacrificed...

Mostly happy with the event. My guild isn’t high up but we still got 4 of milestones. Got pretty deep on the showdown event.

Agree that there shouldn’t be a bonus solely for nabbing the special characters day 1. If you get lucky get the bonus is fair.

little disappointed we didn’t get more points with the 3rd day tour.

still not a fan of the 20k tour node.

Agree that SD points should be open all weekend not just for the sd event.

I like how spread out the MLC chase character shards were in the milestones. I feel like you have nailed the balance between MLC being maxable with the shards needed to recruit the chase character at 5sb. The only gripe was with last months MLC (Sami chase) the shards were only available in the upper level milestones of the weekend contests.

HOF Iron Sheik Debut Contest Feedback

Wow, so much to unpack with this contest. As with any contest within an MLC, there's going to be good and bad. I will take this opportunity to share my thoughts on this platform.

The Card

HOF Iron Sheik seemed a little bit underwhelming at first glance during the initial character previews from the official Scopely Content Creators. However, kudos to the Scopely Dev Team for adjusting the moves and damage buffs to be more in line with today's standards in the current meta (I do believe a similar adjustment had been done to one of the JBL cards in the past year, if I recall correctly). Zero complaints here. I feel like this year's crop of HOF cards are far superior to their predecessor cards.

The Tours

It was nice to see that the new LT tours included CSS that were for the most part obtainable. The only minor exception being the Technicians tour which required either HOF Iron Sheik himself or HOF Honky Tonk Man (super rare card that only a handful of players had already obtained). That being said, the tours themselves were still doable even if bonus characters were missing from your roster. The rewards were fair and obtainable if you were willing to put in the efforts for the hell mode nodes.

The SD Contest

Despite the minor issue with SD coins collected from the previous week not counting towards the milestone rewards at the start of the event, those who were patient enough and waited were able to redeem the SD coins for the appropriate points in the contest. Unfortunately, I was one of those that didn't have HOF Andre or any Chyna in my roster to ensure obtaining enough points to max the solo contest with minimal spending on loot coin pulls over the course of the weekend. Alternatively, I really appreciate that having two HOF technician cards allowed you to double dip and complete the 100 matches for each requirement during the event. I truly feel setting the 100 match cap is good enough of a challenge for players to grind and obtain a result equating to a positive gaming experience. Some have complained that the rewards were underwhelming and the higher milestones were unobtainable. I disagree. I am never going to complain about getting free stuff especially when the milestone rewards included valuable resources such as coins, tokens and TP (all very useful for kick-off Talent Up as well as coin and TP contests throughout the MLC).

Community Event

It was really good to see a community event on the portal after a seemingly lengthy hiatus. Although at the time of my post the final milestone had not been unlocked it was a great effort by the entire Champions community for participating.

Another solid event to start off the last week of the MLC. Bugs and other technical issues were minimal and even the paid loot spins were quite decent (I managed to acquire HOF Sgt. Slaughter by spinning the loot just 1 of 3 times over this past weekend). Overall, I'd say this event was a win!

IGN: Howie Potter

Needs more cowbell! I enjoyed what I could play of it. Being fairly new I don't have many SS that qualify though. Right seems to have it out for me.