BARRAGE HAS BEGUN Contest Feedback

A very 'work more, get less' kind of week, all in all.

• The obligatory positive comment about the roster addition - Wade's a guy I wanted a new version of for a while and the Reality era has basically been a non-factor for years so it's generally a good pick, but Wade ended up super underwhelming even after the pre-release buffs and honestly is just going to become an excuse to throw awful Reality era tours at us. I didn't really feel a need to chase Wade because he'll likely become a lot more common due to his general quality (hopefully, there's a bunch of mediocre characters who are ungodly rare for some reason) and that already dampened things for this weekend.
• I only came away with 855 shards for Wade when it was all said and done, which seems pretty shockingly low for an event in general. I know 400 of the promised 1,400 free shards were for the top faction (as is about average at this point) but if the only way someone could break 1,000 shards without breaking the bank was to put up with all of the nonsense I'm gonna go into with tours, I don't see any need to chase Wade or his shards going forward, especially as half-baked as he is.
• Wow, tours suck for two weeks in a row? The Theory/Rey/Barrett tour was actually worse than I thought it was going to be going into it and as luck would have it, and the reality tour was basically a check to see if you have the KoK pass which is, believe it or not, not how I want to clear tours. Also, I've said it before, stop making me whittle down large expanses of health with SB Miz. It's not challenging, it's just boring.
• Superstar contest was about the same - 2-3 people most people won't have preventing one from reaching the last million points but thankfully it isn't strictly required to reach end of the free milestones, and the 5k per trickster match is about as useful as the auto-fill for feud lineups.
• Speaking of feud lineups, also not appreciating how the middle row bonus is apparently only for lucky dolphins now and has been for months now - everything else was about average but I'd actually like to be able to get a middle line bonus more than once every 6 months outside of flash feuds, thanks.
• You wanna really talk working more for less, though, let's talk this 75m war score - basically just took the shard rewards from 50m and pushed them and extra 25m war score down the line. This was pretty clear before but without the moment token bringing up the package it's just blatant. Combine this with no bonuses for beating a 6SS (I know it's early on and I only saw like one 6SS but you guys made this update far ahead of time - how was this not something you anticipated) made for an below-average feud that was below average for no exciting reasons - just a feud that felt like a bigger slog than normal due to having to play ever so much more feud with an underwhelming reward at the end.

Barrett was uber tough. The challenges on tour with tag team required special characters to complete is annoying. Can't afford to keep paying to unlock Barrett. It is nearly impossible to start each month with a new character and get him to 6 star naturally. There is not enough competition points to do it. He'll mode final battle to unlock reward give us a break.

Feedback for Barrett Barrage Fued Event

Positives

• A new Wade Barrett and a new addition to the Reality Era that was lacking in good characters. Hope to see more love for this Era.
• I like the fact that the tours this time wasn't entirely restrictive to just the required character but instead the whole Era, even though there's not that many great Reality Era anyway and it was a fricking struggle to beat the 6SB final Hell node with a 5SS TUF Seth.

Negatives

• I am going to start off by addressing the second fued steps. So you try and say on the blog that it's easily obtainable yet you keep moving the goal post by now putting it behind the free monthly character's tour (in this case Tech Theory) and you go and put it behind Hell mode, I recalled last year was in Hard mode. I mean even if I bought the starter pack I don't think I would have been able to clear it without props or cash revive. I mean... why? You move the Warscore max milestone to 75m yet you need to find other ways to make it harder and harder for us to get the most out of the event so long as you ensure we're spending... This is the aspect I really despise it's sort of like you're telling us.. You either spend to move ahead or don't spend and you suffer the grind.
• With the addition of 6 Star Silver you'd expect beating them should give you more points than 6SB but of course nothing of that aspect was planned ahead but instead I was getting more points beating a 6SB than a a 6SS... Go figure.
• So I mentioned this previously, I didn't mind doing 75m warscore for Flash Fued but on a normal fued it's starting to make it feel grindy again and that's the part that I despise when it comes to fueding...
• Again, you're moving the goal post further so... why not make the fued lines in the mid and last row something that boosts the fued and make it fast. I hate having to spend almost 5-6 hours having to grind out and max the warscore and the best part...
• Oh and guess what, when you reach the last milestone you get this amazing premium chest that gives you a 5SS B Tier Sheamus.. Whoop dee doo.. The only reason to try and get to the max was for the 100 BPP shards to help recruit him... but honestly it doesn't feel like the grind is even worth it at all... There needs to be more rewards at the end I mean... it's the last milestone after all surely all the grand prize has to be at the end...
• Can we somehow bring down the cash revives cost? I understand the higher the opponent rarity there's an increase in cost but the fact that it costs 400 cash for first revive is already ridiculous, it should just remain at that and not jump to 600 cash... Considering you don't even give out that many cash, it would be great if the cost wasn't going to be that high as well.
• Only premium prizewall for those who recruit Barrett.. Yea pointless for those who are non-spenders.
• It's obvious you're trying to get around players heavy defense by adding Santa Hogan for all Hell node superstars but can we stop adding Cody as well because the amount of HP he gives to superstars is just blatantly you all trying your hardest to ensure we don't get a win without forking up cash revives, it's just irritating.

I decided I was going to max warscore because I didn't see why I couldn't or shouldn't. It was only disappointing having to grind for so long that the reward in the last milestone was ridiculous that it almost felt pointless. I would suggest we bring it back down a notch and make normal fued max warscore at around 60m instead of 75m.

Many elements of this event were overly challenging.

The feud was fun to participate in but took far to much time to max out the warscore competition even with a huge roster and many top tier characters. I think points could use an adjustment. During the 20 hour feud I had to spend nearly 15 hours playing just to get the max milestone. This feels like far to much grinding.

The special characters needed to be used during feud is always fun but I think the amount of times that they have to be used should be reduced. Many times these characters aren't in the current meta meaning most have them at 3-4 star. This causes tons of players to run lower level rosters and greatly affects the balancing of feud. It also takes loads of time to get 5 matches done with each individual character when I could be earning even more score with my top level guys thus making feud seem more fun and less of a grind.

The tours were all fine except for the pg Era. I think it should have been a bit lower in difficulty given the limited number of top tier characters in that Era.

I'd also love to see some more resources handed out during these and really all events. With 6ss in the game we need loads of coin and tp for our rosters so rewarding more is always a plus!

Still a fun and engaging event despite all of these elements!

Better than previous events we have had in the past few weeks.

As a fellow Brit, loved the inclusion of a useable Wade Barrett in the game now, I really hope that you release a bonus gear with his Nexus gear, that would be so awesome!

I worked hard getting Theory when he was released, so huge benefit for the tours, was able to pick up a lot of points and get the bonus premium chests.

HHH KOK was able to smash through the Reality Era tour no problem, even was able to take down the 6 star Brock for another premium chest and points. For anyone that has HHH KOK, I would really recommend the Red Jug generate move, Yellow Sub and Red move that generates yellows, the sub was what won me the match.

Feud was decent for me also, by me having Theory I was able to fill the middle line for the bonuses and do all contest characters accept for Scott Steiner “Big Poppa Pump”, Randy Orton “The Apex Predator” & Wade Barrett “Barrett Barrage”.

Had some real luck with the premium chests, getting Trickster Sami twice and The Miz “AWESOME”! The Miz came in clutch just in time before the feud ended to get the bonus points.

A few laggy moments during feud where it was a bit slow or it took me back to the main screen not the lobby after a win, would say 95% stable though.

I enjoy the grind so the 75 mil was fine for me, 100 shards for Steiner and Wade plus the Miz for rewards was well worth the grind.

 Suggestions

-      The Nexus gear for Wade

-      Add in 6 star silver tokens for the 75 mil milestone

-      Increased scores for taking down 6 star silvers

-      One thing I would love to see in the game is something that features in SuperCard, for current champions, increased stats are applied for Tours, Showdown & Feud. So for this feud Theory being United States Champion could have had “Boosted Stats”

Overall decent number of shards for Wade with only doing a handful of pulls, finished in top 1000 for superstar competition and warscore. 75 mil warscore milestone reached. 2 new S Tier characters from the Premium Chests. Had fun with my teammates. Solid event 9/10.

Thanks

I really did not enjoy this feud. This is normally my most enjoyable part of the game, however this one felt such a grind.

I eventually managed to get to the 75 million 10 minutes before it ended but I wish I hadn’t. Please make the reward something worth it if it’s going to be a long slog. An acro Sami Zayne felt like a huge let down.

Please also take a look at the points system. Like I said this is usually my favourite part of them game and I hope the next flash feud in the next 2 weeks is back to normal. Thank you.