American Nightmare Returns

In the first turn of the first run of my faction boss sessions this weekend, I experienced a bug where all of my moves didn't run their animations, meaning I could rapidly get off moves and frantically place gems and do damage. It was an exciting, fast-paced change to prior faction battles and even normal gameplay. Then, on the next turn, everything went back to normal.

I somehow hate the mode more now that I got the briefest taste of a way more fun version of the mode.

• There was actually a lot of format changes in this event, so there's a lot of feedback to be had, but I think the big one is all of the above changes shouldn't have gone through at once, but I like the idea of them in isolation. The set of 24 hour challenges addresses my 'Why should I not play Clash of Champions in SuperCard after Day 1' concern I recently brought up, bringing something new each day, and the change to a 20 level system means that the boss actually scales a lot better, but the reduced time for boss battle meant that trying to choke through the new levels (not helped by the fact that the cap for the general mid-low roster member is still only about 7 or so, the boss damage ramped up quick and I saw a lot of dopes try to force themselves into a lobby only to get KO'd turn one) was a bit of a chore if you aren't in the top 50 and the fact that the blitz was determined solely by your faction's performance in day 1 (of my faction actually hit top 100, but I never got any tickets), to be blunt, phenomenally stupid. Guess I do have a day to spend in SuperCard actually earning a tangible reward for my time!
• Speaking of factions, man, this was overboard. Practically all of your progress this weekend was dictated by your faction, whether it be by event progress in the day 1 faction contest or blitz, or in terms of playing the main mode with boss battle. I cannot stress how frustrating it is to play boss battle in any situation outside of a dedicated discord call with top ~5% players, and the fact that the faction boss competition apparently wanted you to go up to like 17 or something for each character to get the 'free' rewards meant that missing out of this was even worse than prior battles. Give me the option to play with AIs or an adjusted solo version or something, because I've said it before, I'm not going to turn this game into a full-time job where I have to be plugged into a Line server or something all day just to get yelled at for not doing enough blitzes. Every other WWE mobile game lets you be successful without having to be tied to a team, and faction boss is always going to be a bottom-tier mode for me as long as I have to pray that I happen to be on whenever competent factionmates are for any modicum of progress.
• Cody himself as a faction boss was... actually pretty even keel, if I'm being real. He had a shield but it was pretty reasonable for one person to handle, meaning the others could be on DPS duty and it wasn't a constant pain in one's side. Boss breakers played a part in things and his other abilities weren't automatic game overs if you ended up in a boss battle without the appropriate breakers, but the breakers did help things out if you had them. Something's gotta be done about defensive characters, though - I still find that they offer little to nothing in terms of boss battle in terms of breakers and general character selection, and trying to get levels for them feels like you're sandbagging the rest of the team for your sake.
• Related to boss battle, but I regularly had matches where four people went in, but only three connected. There was even one where four went in and only two connected, meaning that things were compounded when someone serving a vital role (i.e. shieldbreaker) just didn't show up. Also didn't help my gripes about getting a good match and working your way up the new levels.
• Didn't like the second challenge tour that was basically 'Thanks for coughing up 500 bucks per character for the last month', could use for less of those, and I didn't like both the blitz and tours requiring 6-star characters only a few days before talent-up. Rewards were basically all contest points, so I hope you were able to do everything perfectly. And boss battle. And the faction contest. and Blitz. Also, hope everyone in your faction was able to do the same. For 1,000 Cody shards total.
• The shard loot was a travesty, and that's saying something considering I didn't see a single good pull from the normal loot all weekend. I heard someone say that key pulls would have been worth more, and I have to agree with them because 3SB posters of release characters hold no value to even newer players - key pulls and silver league loot would give them the same utility or in-ring power for less effort or money.

Very disappointing competition as last week's competition.

Solo Points were highly placed at milestones that were impossible for free players to reach.

I tried all month on coins, stipulations and TP events to chase but the last week has disappointed a lot of people.

Boss battle was heavily skewed towards top 5-10 factions and a lot of bonus points for the new characters almost nobody has. I am currently in top 3000 in weekend solo contest and only at milestone 11/20. The "free" milestones are not free. The mlc solo points that are desperately needed by many are buried behind a pay wall. As mentioned, it's a bit unfair to have the last event of the month so heavily dependent on your faction. At least in a feud I can max the war score and likely get all the "free" milestones. It makes no sense to drag this contest out until Tuesday with no content available today.

He is one of the best paid characters I have had chance he is will worth the money spend. He some great moves recycle fast and is dominant. Thank you for giving a chance at powerful character. Nothing like theory I wouldn't pay a dime for

This boss breaker was less fun than the last ones. The breaker itself was harder and if you hadn't a zombie seth or a KO in your team, level 12 or higher was almost impossible.

That's the weakest point in the game actually, a few characters beat everything, all others are just there. I don't play everyday showdown actually as all opponents are just Seth, KO, King Booker or the good street profit I even don't know the name.

As I got no blitz ticket, I skip this part. Tour was ok. This 10 loot coins for 3$ was not worth the money from my point of view, so many bad characters and no one in my faction pulled anything good. This makes the game less interesting at the moment, it's more about generating money than giving the players a good and valuable game experience.

I'm not sure what to say about this event that hasn't already been said. I can only add to the whining about the Shortened timed events and and the connectivity problems are caused.

I was also disappointed with shard loot pulls. The odds there are just as great as they are with the key pulls. And we all know there's no real winning there.

I also am not a fan of The limited amount of characters that can be used to advance in some of these events. I understand that you do not want the entire world running to these events and advancing. But the odds of getting some of the characters needed for these events are so small, That it's almost cruel that you create these events.

I've played this game every day since it was released. And I will probably continue for a little while longer. However I am becoming increasingly disappointed with how challenging it is becoming. It seems like the game is now geared towards the top 10 factions, and those who are willing to spend big money.

Worst faction boss.

Ridiculous low cost pulls.

Strange reward system in faction boss battle.

Worst solution last challenge requires 6 stars superstar.

I can't anderstend, why Rey in this event?

It doesn't make sense.

Imbalance new characters-like always.

But other roads can sacess all players and this good idea

Faction Boss

• Maybe its a lack of understanding on how it works on my part, but Raise the Roof was very underwhelming to me. There is a few great Boss Breakers and (at least so far) a lot of underwhelming ones. Maybe having videos in the blog where you highlight the usage of the Boss Breakers so people aren't as underwhelmed with them, or understand how they work to get the most out of them.
• New 20 level system seems better and allows more people feel like they are accomplishing more.
• Overall I did not like the 24 hour time limit versus the normal 48. It is fair to say that the lower time limit benefits more organized factions and players, and maybe that is the intention.
• Boss Contest Bonuses at level 9 and level 13 for specific characters seemed very fair to me. I like that it wasn't level 15+ which I would typically expect.

Solo Contest and Tours

• Tours and contest seemed pretty standard. I'm sure there will be a lot of complaints on the 6 star Req. for the Challenge mode. With it being just one match in Challenge mode it helps to allow the Challenge mode to live up to its name.
• The cheaper Evo to 6SB for Cody was a neat touch and encourages people to level their new characters versus sitting on them unleveled for an extended period of time. I don't mind this being the norm. There is a huge resource investment for people to take advantage of it.

Faction Frenzy Contest

• I was very concerned about this contest but its one of the reasons we should play and experience the events prior to freaking out. I feel like factions could progress if they worked for it. In some case it may be using a 5SG Evo sooner than you would like, or working up a lot in the Legends Era. There was multiple avenues to push this event. It seemed like there was a normal level of factions that max'ed the event so it turned out to be a standard faction event.

Blitz and Shard Loot

• I think the 6 star in Challenge mode is acceptable, I thought the 6 Star req for the Blitz was a bit much. When you also are requiring a 5-Star Rey, Dusty, and Randy it seemed overly restrictive I would like this scaled back in the future.
• Trade in tickets in the store for the shards pulls was a good save system for those that couldn't participate. I didn't get anything worthwhile but overall its something I wouldn't mind seeing with the shard ecosystem in the state its in. Complete Faction events earn bulk shard pulls.
• Enabling the loot pulls at 100 coin increments would feel better for players. Lowest available pull at the time of this post is 10x1000. Leaving me with 600 coins is not a great feeling as a player.

The major problems with boss battles are moves taking too long on the animation side, move effects not firing at the end of a turn, connectivity issues (loss of connection and being left in the lobby when a battle starts), lag, lack of replay-ability. What did you change this time out? Added more boss levels, rescaled them, limited the event to 24hrs.

You warn us that we won't get the full payout if team members don't stay connected and then you put in an idle timer so that the first person knocked out might get nothing while they waited. Hello?

These were not improvements. If anything they made the enjoyment factor go down.

Requiring a 6star character for any game mode at this point is asinine.

Other than those unique factors this is just the same boring, poorly designed events you've run all year. Bring back last years format and leave it there. It was far more enjoyable.

The day 1 only faction tour is a terrible way to do weekend events.

Special ticket blitzes while our regular blitz tickets sit and collect dust because you're not willing to design those properly is as foolish an idea as the silver hangers no one can use when they pull duplicate gear. You have too much going on such that no one thing ever gets proper attention.

Overall i would consider this an okay event, not great but not the worst.

Positives-

The ability to cheaply make a 6s is a bonus for both the player and for scopely. This allows us to get benefit from an early recruit and allows you to make more from shard/resource sales at the same time. This is a win/win situation.

The shard loot was very interesting for resources and fuses but i did not like that ending with 300 currency meant i could not make a 3 pull.

Boss was okay and seemed to allow for lower level rosters to participate which is a plus.

Negatives

The tours were extremely restrictive. requiring a high amount of relatively new cards was a poor choice. The worst choice though was requiring a 6s modern. Actively punishing people for choosing a different era or a female wasn't the best choice of restrictions.

The blog listing faction shard max under the free shards gave a more positive picture of available shards then the actual event would allow for 99% of the player base.

Shardless main loot and extremely limited shards in the shard loot were not a good combination.

This event had a solid foundation but appeared to lack in the big picture for alot of people. I would like to see future releases allow 6s in the first 5-6 days. I would also like slightly less restrictive tours. This event structure can be grown upon and made better for sure though.

This is awesome! I needed a good striker in my roster! Thank you!