Fight for the LIVing Dead

One of the worst weekend events we ever had. Everything felt terribly balanced and planned.

For the solo part i was unable to even get to the wanted poster. I even did some spending but even the amount spent meant nothing. All tours maxed with CSS, backstage claim, portal claims...pointless this weekend.

For the CSS Showdown event i had all but zBecky and Iyo and still wasn't close at all from the final "free" milestone. So in order to have a shot at all

The Showdown itself requirements were also terrible. It's one thing to have these kind of restrictions (class + era) on male events but for the female event we have a way shorter pool so requirements need to be more friendly, aka focus on just one class rather than class and era. Or just era.

Faction event was the only contest that "worked" but it's also a copy and paste from all previous faction events we have. Every faction event during weekends are TU and more TU, playing the game is not actually required and this idea is really bad.

Okay, so...I've finished everything I could. I got the Wanted Poster and even a little more. I got more than 90% of people probably. This is not sour grapes. But I'm speaking for people less lucky than me (and that's what it was, dumb luck that I have gotten zBianca, zBecky, and Raquel all within the last couple of weeks, somehow without spending).

This contest was awful. The CSS were brutally rare. The class requirements were brutal. Modern Female PH is probably one of the weakest classes in the game. The class requirements, not for bonus but for mere PARTICIPATION are absolutely terrible and brutally difficult. The extra points in the last tour WOULD have been okay if the CSS weren't so brutally awful. Also, the number of prize wall medallions were absolutely insane, There should have been way more available, or the prices on the prize wall should've been way cheaper.

To call this contest a misfire would be overly generous. Please be WAY more thoughtful about the rarity of CSS's and think about the brutal difficulty hikes of Showdown in the future. Truly disappointing. And before now, I'd have said this month was actually pretty good! This weekend was just awful.

Overall this weekend left a poor taste in plenty of folks mouth.

Let's start with the SD event itself. The rarity of the css, combined with the energy barricade, made reaching the last "free" milestone in the SD event impossible for most players. I was missing 3 css, and after completing everything else I would have needed to grind 100+ matches to reach the last "free" milestone. At a refresh rate of 2 energy per hour it was not possible to grind without spending for extra energy . Nothing free about that.

Then the solo event. The tours were fine and what they always are generally. The problem was in the scoring. It should not have taken wildly adjusting the scoring for the final tour AND sending out 1 mil free points for people to hit the Wanted poster. I appreciate that you did that, but the event was poorly designed since it took that to happen.

I'm not a big spender, so I have no expectation of getting a new card on release weekend. However, I do want to play the game and earn my milestones fairly based on my effort. If I can max the free milestones and maybe hit a bonus or 2 if I choose to spend a bit then great. Please design these events so that we can do that. I've never been a fan of the energy restriction in showdown and this weekend is a perfect example of why.

I was pretty unhappy with this event. Despite doing the following:

I did most of the tours (116/135, no zLiv)

I did a LOT of SD battles (got to the top tier and used the only bonus CSS I had 3 wins, Alexa)

I missed the last 3 milestones before the "bonus" milestones.

My suggestion: since this is far from the first showdown competition this has happened in, what is classified as non bonus milestones needs to be adjusted so that people have a more realistic understanding of what milestones you will need the CSS for.

Also if you're going to require characters that are really outdated (zBrock and zCharlotte) and therefore are very weak, please give them a temporary boost so that you can at least one star the first or second hell nodes w/ 5ss characters.

One additional improvement I'd like to suggest is: when plates come out that are required to make new characters hit close to their full potential, at least make them somewhat grindable without having previously spent hundreds/thousands of dollars after 4-6 months. That way the people who spend large amounts get the headstart in rewards, milestones, etc these plates provide while being fair to the people who don't have very good luck when it comes to pulls/can't spend hundreds/thousands a month.

Thank you!

As many others have said, this event was really disappointing.

I didn't mind the special SD as it just replaced a tour or at least that was the original reason I heard but then today you dropped a LIV only tour.

I've given my feedback on SD before and it's only gotten worse since then so I'm not going to bother repeating myself.

My biggest issue was that even with maxing all the tours, getting to the top level of SD, winning all 80 SD matches with Zombies, and having you gift us a million points - I'm still going to be about 400k short of the wanted poster because Bianca was the only bonus character I have.

I don't chose to play games like this to jump through hoops, I play to relax and do something fun. There are plenty of things I can do that require jumping through hoops and they involve people paying me, not the other way around.

Clear no possibility of any loot coin i get to grab a chance of 6 star superstar not even once its too bad that the game didn't gave me a luck to have an 5 or 6 star superstar to play premium show down event 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think of quitting this game because there is no use of playing without any good rewards 🙏

Not even a better 4 four star superstars

So you sent out 1m points for the solo event. Unfortunately, that achieved exactly NOTHING for me, as I still fell short of the poster, mainly because of all the points locked behind the final milestone. This despite spending over US$50 on pulls and the collection pack.

There is something seriously wrong when the final "free" milestone is still unachievable despite my clearing the ENTIRE TOUR WITH BONUSES(excluding the Liv-exclusive one), AND having done 16 pulls(which, by all accounts, should be putting me into the BONUS milestones).

0.3/5 stars.

Although I already have Liv, I still wanted to give feedback on this event as it may affect future showdown events.

I actually enjoyed the showdown with Liv for those that were able to recruit her day 1. Just like the tour that requires her, I understand if I didn't recruit her, I wouldn't have the opportunity to play that day. The only problem that I have with it is that in order to max the showdown event, you had to recruit several hours before the end of the 24 hour period in order to have enough showdown energy to use without purchasing more. Also, it was disappointing that an additional 5 pulls had to be purchased in order to get the guaranteed 6 star zombie from the related loot.

Now onto the actual showdown tournament. I felt like I was doing great despite not having 3 of the css but before I knew it, I came to the realization that I had no chance of finishing the "free" portion due to not having the showdown promoters that only the VIPs or people that purchased that weekend have. It seems like this was corrected with the bonus that was given last night BUT I hope that future "free" milestones are not blocked behind the new promoters as this would officially make the event pay to play. Even if I had all of the css, I would've been short and that is a shame. I'm hoping that this was just a calculation error and not intended for where the game is headed in the future.

The tours were great. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

The prizewall was great too. Having seemingly low priced skill plates along with one high priced valuable skill plate made me happy to hit the prizewall. Even the loot coins to that disappointing shard loot felt like a good deal. I missed the typically shards for older showdown characters but it is fine since we had that earlier this month.

The faction event was fine. I miss the days when talenting up a 6 star moves counted for something.

Overall, the event was decent but hopefully the showdown portion of the event was an error in calculating the "free" total and not a sign of things to come.

The lack of non premium CSS in this contest was a huge issue. I have yet to do a showdown since the change was made in March/April that i didn't at least hit the silver chest. Not only is this the first one where I didn't hit it, but i wasnt even anywhere close. Nearly 200k away. That's not grindable.

Usually each showdown has at least 2 common CSS that everyone has. This one had zero, and the F2P community was greatly hurt this weekend.

Personally I had a resonable time during this event.

It felt rather sluggish compared to others in the past, mostly due to my lack of contest superstars. I felt slightly at odds with it. I could understand needing a large selection of premium/rare characters for the contest points, but then also have an extra showdown the day before for people who got the new Character early, and then another tour afterwards felt rather disheartening.

Faction Competition: This faction comp was very good for factions. The talent up was nice being modern era powerhouse it gave everyone a chance to get to the 1% they need to for their faction. I always enjoy the faction talent up component when its based around traits of the chase character.

Tours: Were good, all tour required superstars for the bonus werent ro difficult to attain and made the tours challenging but enjoyable. The survival matches were doable with the contest required superstars but were challenging which is nice that all players were able to atleast participate. Also thank you for the extra rewards in the final tour.

Poster art & character model: LIv looked fantastic as a zombie, her poster art is well designed and fits the character. Her name is a great play on words and is well done to the team coming up with the creative zombie names this month. The in game model looks great and her animations from what I've seen from youtube are smooth and look great.

Premium "Liv" Showdown: I did not have a problem with the extra showdown for the weekend for pay to win players or players who got lucky from the bags and able to participate to gain additional rewards i think these players should get rewarded and have an incentive to chase. However my only downside is that i would hope that the focus of this tour was not the reason why the actual showdown competition failed. Otherwise this is a good concept for these players and gives them something to do on a day where there is not much to do. I would like to see this continue in future as it doesnt directly effect free to play players as long as the rewards are strictly better resources or changes at 5 star characters like this one was. The 5 star charcter loot tokens was a nice new idea i would like to see a random future pull where you could buy 5 star character only loots and it would be nice if a one off we could have a 6sb pull where paying $100 gets you a guaranteed 6sb it would help those who dont have one. Its an ides for a one off a bit like the amazing players choicd loot.

Showdown: Unfortunately this is the part of the event where it gets all its harsh crtic and reviews. The showdown was very challenging for free to play players. Powerhouse is a very weak field in the womens roster however modern era powerhouse is dominated by pay to play premium options. A lot of free to play players were forced to use a zCharlotte or a Nia Jax to get through their matches. The contest required superstars were very restrictive and made it extremely difficult for free to play players to get even to the silver chest. The showdown was very much a grind for little reward, i personally was forced to use a 4sb zCharlotte and it was extremely difficult content to get through to get to the highest league and still not get a silver chest and miss out on the wanted liv poster just because i didnt have the contest superstars. I think what can happen to fix this issue moving forward is we really need a decent free womens powerhouse to be released that players can invest in for some reward to avoid this clash in future and help with these requirements and for the showdown to be rewarding for players that grind however extra rewarding if you have the premium superstars. At a bare minimum the wanted poster should of been achievable for free to play players willing to grind.

Conclusion: Unfortunately this showdown event is the worse weekend event so far in the zombie month by far. As stated before a solution needs to be provided down the line of a free to play powerhouse womens character as there are far to many premium female powerhouse options that most players dont have on their roster to avoid this era clash in future events.

This weekend event is the first event of zombie month where i won't be able to get the wanted poster. The wanted poster is meant to be achievable by players and even with your assistance with the final tour and mailbox gift it wasnt enough points to drag myself or others over the line because the showdown contest superstar requirements were so challenging and very premium pay to win options which impacted players not being able to get the silver or gold chest in the showdown competition which means they missed out on the wanted poster which is extremely disappointing.

This event felt very pay to win from the start and unfortunately fell very short which is upsetting as this month was going so well to date until this event and liv is a charcter that should be celebrated as its was an excellent design from the team and she looks great.

I'm not opposed to tweaks in the game to keep things fresh or interesting, or trying new things. However, this showdown has been a big letdown with the miscalculation on overall solo points to the point you had to adjust the final tour and send out an extra million in everyone's inbox after. And even then many people still missed out on the final one or two "free" milestones for the silver and gold chest and Liv wanted poster. A quick review of the bonus characters for the showdown should've been identified in testing as it was way more restrictive with mostly paywalled characters that that limited a vast majority of the player base from getting the free milestones that ultimately would get the Liv wanted poster. Limiting the grinding aspect even more so will affect players long term. I would think you'd want players engaged with the game more, not less. Get them excited and want to stay in the game to reach some of those bonus milestones. And who knows maybe some people would be more enticed to spend some after a while when they know what effort it would take to grind some of those bonuses.

The one pro I do like lately is making some of the more rare skill plates available in the prizewall. I will question the valuation somel but at least getting better access and somewhat obtainable to the older ones more often is a slight improvement if you won't be adding them to the monthly plate picker prizewall.

I thought we was past this dumb class n era stuff for showdowns but nope you revert back to making it all about whales, showdown was the only place lower people could use there top characters n have fun cause bb n feuds they get killed in, just doesn't make any sense that you make the game tedious instead of fun what kinda clowns you got working there?

This event was a pretty miserable experience. It legitimately seems like you don't want people to actually play the game. Making the Showdown CSS all premium posters was so disheartening. I had none of them. None. I didn't have a single CSS to use during the Showdown. It made the event absolutely useless because I knew there was no way to progress pass a certain point. You've got to stop forcing players to disengage. Most of us WANT to play, but you give us little reason to do so. If it weren't for the tours (which were fine), I would've had literally nothing to do or strive for the whole event.

Fitting for zombie month, you lot have really sucked the life out of the game with an event like this. And the worst part is you know you're screwing us. You just don't care. You ask us for feedback and proceed to ignore most of it. Stop making us lose the will to keep playing.

Feedback for zLiv SD Event

Positives

• The new Zombie Liv was fun during the trial, all I remember was seeing 1 moveset that looked like it works and auto-play all of her tour. Didn't bother testing because I am sure I won't be getting any new zombies until Spring Break next year.
• I think the layout and format of this SD was interesting to the point that it's possible to actually recruit zLiv without over-spending but again I'm not a heavy spender so happy to have spent to get me around 9000 medallions which mean I could grab an additional 200 zLiv shards from the Prizewall. For a heavy spender, it appears $200 could have recruited zLiv so long as you completed all CSS tours and gotten to milestone 18, I think.
• I despised the reduced number of Energy but I've come to accept this isn't going to increase so happy to do what I can, that meant less amount of time playing the SD and getting what I can and calling it. This has in fact freed up my weekend so happy with that.
• CSS Solo tours were fine as I had all the CSS. Completing the Hell tour with a 5SS Tech Rhea was a fun challenge I had the pleasure of completing.
• Liked the fact that the prizewall offered a number of zLiv shards to recruit her along with some rare-ish plates that are within reach for non-heavy spenders.

Negatives

• Showdown CSS was a ridiculous requirement, where most of them are paywalled including zBecky which was only released last week....
• Just want to say I found it strange that Acro Liv was not in any of the CSS tours considering the new Liv is still quite rare.
• Not sure if I like the introduction of too many Shard Loot Pulls rather than picking what I want from the prize wall. I am close to recruiting Raquel and I'm pretty sure those loot pulls isn't going to allow me to recruit her that easily as I'm sure the odds of me pulling the rest of her 70 shards are quite slim.

Needing a PH Modern Era requirement for SD means we need to start working on certain areas of our roster to ensure we have reach for any requirements you throw at us. I don't mind this but would be good to know in advance so we know what to work on because with the way the meta is right now, we'd need to be careful who to take up.