The Reckoning Feud Contest

What Grade Did I give the Reckoning Feud Event? See below

The Good,  The Bad, the Event Grade

The Good: A grade for New Premium Chest with 5SB guaranteed characters in Rewards and for the new Flash Market on the website which has been surprisingly better stocked for ruby spending players. Kudos to that and hopefully, that stays. And an event within an event – Judgement Day event with multiple characters? I am intrigued not gonna lie.

The new chest was a welcome change, and I was very excited to have the possibility to get a new card from that list of characters. For months we have only had a single chest with shards at the end of feuds, and everyone in the top 100 got it. And of course,  mostly just random shards of some character I already had. Only twice did I get shards from those chests and recruit a character – Keith Lee and DX Army Shawn – in all the months of feuds. So when this came out in the blog, you better believe I was excited.

And that’s why this chest is also in the Section for the Bad for this event.

I joked with my faction mates that I was destined to get Acro Rey, AJ, and trickster Edge in all my chests this weekend, and boy that turned out to be a prophecy rather than a joke. I opened 3 Rey’s to be exact, and one AJ and edge as well. And when I did a poll of champion players on Facebook and discord, roughly 88% of players received these 3 very common cards, and some like me, exclusively these 3 cards (about 250 votes). Now I get that this is a small sample of the overall large # of players in the game, but from those that I messaged, I was not the only one dissatisfied with the result. I wanted this to be a positive new development, and not a repeat of the Epic Shards Chests we get 2 times a month filled with Acro Rey and Velveteen Bron Breakker shards.

So the change is welcome, I just fear this might be a repeat of the feud shard chests they replaced. My advice for you Scopely is to do this again. I love the idea. It’s just the mechanics that need fixing. Please rotate the 5sb characters each feud so that we don’t all get 5 chests of Acro Rey each feud, and loosen the strings a little on the % that get good cards here. We all like to feel that the weekend grind was worth it. Overall, an A idea with a C execution. If 90% get characters that have been free and given out for a long time, then it’s not a premium chest.

The Feud – The Good was that it was, for most, working and working fine. Several in my faction had difficulties with having to constantly restart after each match and after engaging an opponent. I am in favor of the addition of warscore and individual CSS contests and having them separate of one another. Both of these make feuds more than just a simple grind. And the rewards in them were better -more TP and coins and tokens. Bravo. It was necessary to up those rewards.

The bad of this feud was limitations on rows and requirements, and the CSS for the individual contest was also really hard to fill. Many players, myself included, were unable to fill the middle row.  I understand the need to have and make requirements here so that’s not in question – and of course, the top row should be for the premium player if you’re lucky to get him or her. My suggestion to Scopely is to first, add more points for the individual contest for wins as 5000 Is too low, and impossible to get to the next milestone – I cannot do that many trickster-only matches in a feud. The second is to open up the rows more and make them less restrictive. Make the bonuses more enticing and let us go at it. If feud is supposed to be my best roster against others, then let me throw my best out there, give me some ridiculously good perks for bottom and middle row, and let us have fun with it. That’s the point, right? This gets a B+ from me. It worked, it had achievable goals, and the rewards are way better all around. It’s the restrictions that need to be worked on.

The Event Tours – Here is a tough one to grade. Because on the one hand, we want to breeze through and get our rewards, but we also want a challenge, right? That’s why we like feuds, the challenge of beating opponents with your best roster against players that have customized and worked on making their players hard to beat. Tours are no different. That the requirements were open enough that everyone could at least attempt them was great, even if you only had Tech AJ. I appreciate and enjoy that the game is leveling up as well. The hell mode Is now hell and that brings a lot of frustration, which I'll get to in a second. But with the advent of 6s characters it was only a matter of time before the hell mode nodes of events were 6s maxed characters. I liked the two challenge tours, lots of points and opportunities in the solo tours.

The bad is something that has affected me in previous events and really irritated players I polled in my faction and on Facebook groups. The addition of plates to these computer characters made them very, very difficult to beat, if you could beat them at all. For example, Dominik has the La Familia plate. I think if the reward is worth the effort, this is less of an issue. But with players not hitting big on the new feud chests for 5sb characters, many expressed a feeling of dissatisfaction – for many the effort to beat them, only to get the chest full of Acro Rey shards was a waste of time and did not entice.

My advice for Scopely here is to choose an angle – either make the chest guaranteed with rare cards or rare shard, and therefore should be hard to get, or do the opposite – make them easier to get and we all just live with the Tech AJ posters. I think the combination of them was what made people angry the most.

I do want to add a caveat here. The game has moved to 6star and plates are a thing. I see no problem with the computer having them or for making players work to achieve victories. Just as Boss Battle leveled up recently, so did the tours. It is a wake-up call to many of us that we need to work on our rosters, myself included. But that level-up of competition needs a level-up of rewards. This feud's rewards were better than last. Keep tweaking that balance.

Lastly – Rewards.

This was a swing and a miss for many but in fact, it was also better in some ways than previous feuds. I’ve already mentioned my problem with the new premium chest, but the rewards in general were lacking. Several people I know, myself included, we discouraged from spending because it didn’t get you either enough or close enough to recruiting Priest – he was the hardest weekend chase character in a long time, so much so that many that made the leaderboard had a hard time recruiting. And this had to do with the fact that many of the characters were too rare for the contest, even among some of the biggest lineups in my and other factions. I did like the addition of a mini-kickback tour for those that pulled Priest with some moments and other rare goodies. But there was no prizewall unless you spent on the portal. So, does this mean 3 more weeks of this type of game action? I’ll put it another way. This is the Anniversary contest month, we were promised lots of giveaways and rewards and prizes, and there’s no prize wall for this feud, and only if we are lucky enough to get one of the Judgement Day characters. I hope not and I am hoping that this changes.

The event gets a B-/C+. Better than previous feuds, but room for improvement.

Balance the challenge in all 3 challenge matches! Normal should mot be against a 5 stars gold. Do 5SB or 4 SG so it allows the chance for everyone to make it.

On hell mode tour, it's hard enough when we face top characters but having escape artist and other perks is a real pain.

You made it way too hard for casual players to enjoy the game!

Final 2 opponents on hell were setup too crazy.

Just give more free goodies.

Excuse me if I think that if I spend a $200 I should at least get ONE character I do not have instead of 80 pos that I've had since I started...the boss battle are insane the ghost battles and connection issues are still the same and have not been addressed..there's no way to sort your belts...I have a 5ss edge and could not beat Dom or priest and u put a plate on him...been playing over a year and don't have the 1st plate or God character ND I've spent a small fortune.. tired of this bullshit. If we spend hard earned money make so we get something for it or f off

i to be honest really liked the new chest, both shard one and the guarantee poster, i hope you guys continue with it, in regards to the contest it was an okay one, the hell mode was fun a challenging but using AJ tech for hell was just horrible, he couldnt get passed hard mode... i assume if you could keep a better CSS or an open like Modern era/ or like a open class i.e Trickster or something, since you are introducing tough opponents this would be a way to go... i don't like the idea of restrictions on CSS with tough opponents...

overall i will give it a 6/10

Where to Begin?

ok Let's go over Limited Time Tours, they were pretty good except for the Few that made me want to pull my hair out, like having escape artist on a 6 star, or a honky tonk plate on a Hard Mode Liv, and then the 6 star at the end of that tour was a nightmare. but all-around Tours were fun and engaging.

Faction Feud: ok i understand you think everyone should have Rey or Dominick at 6 star because of free shards but remember not everyone can obtain the 6 star tokens for these characters/posters/cards. The bottom-line bonus has 2 spots for tricksters, 1 showboat and then 1 Arco, the middle lane was Tech/6Star and Damian Priest Tech, NOT THE SHOWBOAT BUT THE HARD TO OBTAIN TECH!, and the top was a nice free slot since most other than our "whale" Community or players who somehow get the luck of the Irish. but I digress. we needed more open spots because sometimes it's harder for people to complete line bonuses where it has to be a specific poster/card/character most of us maybe haven't worked on. Also giving away 2 steps for people instead of allowing people to earn all the steps for feud which would encourage people to put forth more effort for their factions instead of looking at scores and being like "what the hell this is a grind, but it feels like I'm not scoring the points I should be.

Last But not "freakin" least, Rewards from Contests and Chest.... What the heck were you thinking when you put in the most basic 5 star bronze people, Tech AJ, Trickster Edge, and Acro Rey, Like Jesus Christ why would we want to keep getting the same shards over and over again you gave us over 100k shards for edge and Rey, Tech AJ is only useful as a Trainer, and most don't even think about his shards at all, out of 5 shard 5 Bronze Chest, I GOT 5 FREAKIN TRICKSTER EDGE! NOT 1, NOT 2, NOT 3, NOT 4, BUT 5 TRICKSTER EDGES. There was no variety at all from any of the chests I kept getting. Those Boxes made me feel as a player that my scores and my hard work is for nought because it doesn't matter how much I farm or progress, I won't be getting a big chance at the posters that would help my roster and possibly my faction later down the road for say maybe Faction Boss or Blitz. Also, whoever though 50 shards of Hall of Fame Randy Savage was a "nice touch" made me feel like they were like "heh let's watch them see only 50 shards of this character" even though in most feuds you would see anywhere from 200-250 shards of a poster in the milestones. Also, the Training Points from the Milestones were very nice and allowed me to recoup a lot of the Training points i have spent over the past 2-month MLC we just had.

In Ending, I feel that a lot of this could be solved by looking back at things that have been said in the past by players and streamers and content creators. Tours shouldn't be a smack in the face with Plates that are a pain to work around, Rewards should be looked at before posting or at least checking the % of what is given from the boxes from rewards/tours. Faction Feud possibly needs tested before putting out to see exactly what could fit and be accessible to most in the Free to Play Community. Alot of "whales" will have the Posters but not a lot of players who are just starting out or maybe a returning player who is trying to get back into the game.

I have said my peace, and this is how I feel toward this last event and some ways that could help later down the road to help. Thank you for Reading this and have a wonderful day and Week.

the events are great, you can earn a lot 
but find in the bags there should be a higher chance that you get the character 
that the event is about and not always just get fragmentsand would also like it better if 
the 40 million milestone in the feud in the warscore event contained old skillplates that 
new players don't have, for example the all heart or headgame skillplate

There was some glitch in event which prevent me from playing for two hours otherwise great event done 40 m score

After thinking about this event as a whole, most of it was good in theory, and horrible execution.

Feud itself had little to no technical issues. I did not enjoy having a very limited open slots in the feud line up. Having tech Damien for middle line was horrible....while the deals on the portal and ruby market were refreshing (and obtained me tech priest via the 150 shard deals on the portal and 1 lavish 200 priest shards in the ruby market i was able to obtain him.

The tours also were annoying to do. Saturday's tour seemed the appropriate difficulty. Friday's tour felt like it should have been put into the challenge tour node as opposed to the regular tour. As others have stated, it's a cheap move by the developers, and it turns new players and old alike off to wanting to continue playing the game.

As others have said about the poster chests were a good idea but bad execution. It was a nice idea, but as others have said, only the common posters were obtained. I got 5 chests, got only Rey, AJ, and Edge. Anyone that has been league 16 or higher have oodles of shards of Edge and Rey from the giveaways from November. I also had Aj already. It would be nice to have a higher chance for the better posters in that as I agree with some other posters saying that my time was not worth the effort for the reward offered.

Another poster mentioned multiple lobbies or a way to get in with a feud partner that one might run with all the time instead of the off chance even entering the same time you get paired up with someone else as somehow that other person entered before you. I run with my husband most of the time and I have mentioned in past feedback that I'd love to have a way to where we could queue up as a team or a way that it gets you the partner you want.

The warscore competition rewards were better with training points which everyone needs with the talent ups that are in game every weekend for faction events. keep up with the better training point rewards.

Overall, this event had the potential to be decent, just some tweaks to what was done to this could make another one with this format to be decent.

A very good event for paying players.

The new character is so weak that I even had to give a die to break painful ones) The wall of prizes is not clear at all for whom it was made, if it is almost impossible to get prizes from it.

The feud lagged a lot in the middle and at the end. Bonus characters, almost all paid, and if not paid, then useless. But there are still some positive developments.

For example: finally you can buy a whole character and not shards. Well, they thought of doing a clan feud event with the ability to get 90% of the points by playing pure feud.

I liked the new bags but the odds of getting some one other than tech AJ and Rey Acro is stupid. You think you will get something good but then you get the same guy three times like I did. Also in the tours the bonus guys need to be more common. Other than these reasons this was a good event

I definitely saw the good and bad in this contest, the most annoying part being the escape artist skill plate being applied, which for me was my first sub turn on pretty much every occasion, although the added difficulty was fun to try and work around without just defaulting back to a sub guy.

The grind was expected as usual and with more time to play I could have done a lot better, but some of the more general required feud contest superstars meant that you could always be earning points, which for someone that didn’t have as much time to feud, was a nice touch.

Got a lot more tokens, coins and tp as per usual, although it would be nice to see some more 6 star tokens become more readily available soon during the future contests, but looking forward to it nonetheless.

An okay contest, but signs are good 👍