THE HEADSHRINKERS FEUD CONTEST

I know I generally like to internally chastise people who post like this 2 hours into an event, but I mean. For this one, I can make an exception.

The setup for this weekend is just another slap in the face to section of this game who are actual grinders. Sliding in flash feud warscore rewards for a 20 hour feud is a very unwelcome change. After the horrendous showdown we had, followed by a midweek faction spend event and black friday, congrats, you managed to also strictly monetize feud this weekend! Like I know this is all completely setup like a flash feud but they decided to be lazy and make it a 20 hour, but it's just weekend after weekend this game seem to be more and more monetized and it would be nice to have an idea of if it's ever going to ease up.

Especially all this coupled with the cheeky "Hey I know we're not living up to expectations" and then you continue to dole out garbage after garbage.

But hey, at least all the 6ss tokens in the tours were nice!

Ok, for me at least this wasn't the worst feud set up. Starting early evening Satur@day night and ending early Sunday afternoon was the biggest problem and challenge I faced. I still don't understand why it isn't a full 24zHrs. A full 24 hours this time of the week would have given me plenty of time to not only hit my minimum but to max. Saturday nights are just impossible for me to feud.

Sunday mornings and afternoons are where I'm able to maintain an all out attempt to max the milestones.

I know this thread is for the feud, but it needs to be stated again how bad the Black Friday event was. A pure spending event with no gameplay, that threw off the cycle of Regular Feud - Flash Feud. So much so that the wrong login rewards were copy-pasted to the portal, with the steps appearing on day 2. This WAS fixed with a free step in the portal, but it doesn't reflect very well on you when you can't think ahead to make sure the order is correct before an event goes live.

Anyway, Samu looks good. Finally a feud character who's NOT a Striker!!! Praise the heavens, finally some Showboat 5-star tokens in rewards. I'm sure we'll be back to having another Striker in two weeks though. 

Tours were good although we got one less day of them since nothing happened on Friday. The Survivor tours gave VERY nice rewards, 6SB and 6SS tokens are very welcome! Please give out more rewards like this. However, it's completely baffling as to why these Survivor tours were gone after 24 hours. No mention of that was made on the blog, no individual tour timer was shown for them. Some of my faction mates reported not having a chance to play the tours because they focused on feud on Saturday, thinking the tours would be available on Sunday. Why did this happen? This is inexcusable.

I'm still not a fan of the new feud perks, and nobody else seems to be either. At least give us +1 MP with the new perks, that doesn't seem like too much to ask. And why have a line bonus that forces us to use a Striker when black moves/MP are nerfed? There are builds that can get around this (I used Zombie Damian with triple blue) but it's kinda confusing as to why the lines are set up this way. The only positive I can maybe see coming out of these perks is that I hope it forces a logical rotation of which moves are getting buffed, which means we'd get better variety in what classes the new feud characters are (and we don't get bombarded with more Strikers).

Adding in a premium plate reward for 100 million points is a bit much. Some of my faction mates were very displeased with their rewards because they got things like Boss Time and Tiara, but one of them got a Titan plate. Of course we'll never know the actual odds on what's in the bag. Like was said in another post, at least consider extending the feud to 24 hours instead of ending it at the day's reset. Boss Battles and Showdowns can go for a few hours on Sunday after reset, why not faction feud?

Rewards for factions at the end of the feud need a revamp. My faction was in top 25, and we get an Epic strap and four (4) Tier 3 medals. Why are Epic straps still being given out? Nobody in top 20 or top 30 needs an Epic strap. At least bump it up to Legendary, maybe on the off-chance somebody gets an Affiliation strap for somebody useful or something. How long have these rewards been copy-pasted?

Overall, an okay-ish feud, but a lot of people are angry about the Survivor tours being cut off with zeor warning. And still nobody's happy with the changes to feud perks. You're gonna have a lot to prove to us in December if you're serious about providing a "better experience" to players. Good luck.

The good:

Fued score rewards were better.

Got some random shards in bags

The bad:

Fued step being on the 2nd day of portal rewards where people can't get it was goofy.

My faction fued experience was just awful. Bad match making. Please don't match me against 6ss when I only have 5sg in my lineup. Constant bugs and crashes

the rewards from fued loot coins seems a tad too low. 25tp a pull is kinda low

Will update this some more when I get a few minutes

I love the look of Samu and the video I saw on him by the Professor he looks like a great superstar added to the game. I was really hoping to pull him from the bags. The feud itself was fun like they always are and the bonus solo superstars it was a good balance of most everyone have to premium ones. The tours were pretty fun and had a lot of great 6 star resources. I also loved the fact they were survival tours so everyone can get the rewards from it because those aren't as difficult as trying to put down an elite superstar. The milestone rewards not even sure how I pulled it off but I was able to get to the Samu turkey for the first time ever and I got Lita from the milestones which I've been wanting a great showboat male and female for a long time. I can check 1 of those off now. Hoping to get a showboat male from this foru contest. I would say the milestone rewards from the feud I would like to see the good plates in a lower tier. 100 million is a high number to try to hit for a lot myself included. I have noticed an increase though in ways to obtain plates like maybe if we could add the good plates where the defensive plate chest is it would let more players have fun with getting plates. I want the plate distribution to get a little bit better but definitely seeing an improvement on it. The prizewall had some great stuff and the medallions weren't completely out of people's reach. I myself was able to obtain 4 and picked up a fury 2 medal (my first ever). I'm seeing a lot of improvements in the game now vs just a few months ago so thank you to your whole team for that because it has made the game a lot more fun for myself and I'm hearing from others it is for them as well. I hope I win this I been wanting a great showboat male and Samu I absolutely love from the video I've seen. Looking forward to what's next for this game. Thanks for a fun weekend!

Let's take a closer look at this feud event:

Good:

1. Time of the feud. (Again, it’s convenient that it lasted the whole day).
2. New characters have a very good ability (the ability to charge two whole characters + give them damage is very strong).
3. A good change to additional quests for feuds. (It’s very good that they now give points first and only then additional resources, coins, etc.).
4. Roads for additional resources (the idea of ​​roads is very good, especially for 6ss tokens, and the fact that this is a survival mode creates the opportunity for weak players to pass these roads much easier)
5. The minimum value of warscore points in a feud (yes, it seems that it is 100k, in fact it is 50k, then there are generally useless lootcoins and a chest with plates)

Bad:

1. Oddly enough, these are numerous bugs both in the feud mode and on the game website. It was also noticed that the survival modes disappeared after the first day, but then they were returned.
2. The prize wall in the feud event is extremely bad (for 100 shards of characters not of the first freshness (I’m talking about Cross), you also need to pay extra to get it, the rest is mostly useless, belts are only 50%, in the recent event they gave +100%, the only thing more or less useful - 6ss tokens).
3. A very difficult faction event. (I understand that the calculation was for the pools that players opened as a free event on Thanksgiving Day, but still this is a lot of feuds and stars to spend, considering that the feud itself gives only 900k points, taking into account the fact that I scored it's worth 100 million).
4. A box with plaques. (Yes, there are a lot of good plaques in this box, but there is one disgusting one (which I got) that physically does not suit anyone, it could have been removed and something newer added).
5. Once again the character, Showboat, is once again paid (I have already accumulated a lot of tokens for yellow characters that have absolutely nowhere to spend, the same situation is with strikers. What I mean is that very often, as a reward for feuds, it is tokens for Showboat and strakers. I need this tradition.)
6. Requirements of two characters in tours for a new character. (As for me, this is very unfair, if you managed to get a new character for free, then by some logic you simply have to buy a second one. If they wanted to make roads, they would have made them separately).
7. Useless lootcoins for a feud from 60 million to 100 million. (The chance of getting something useful is very minimal, you need to whiten at least more shards for the characters or increase the chance of resource drops, otherwise it looks like a very bad waste of time.).

Let's summarize: The event looks like it's not bad in terms of new roads, characters and, to some extent, rewards, but on the other hand, the most difficult rewards to obtain are mediocre for the most part and do not require such grinding. It’s good, of course, what do you think about players with a weak roster, but you shouldn’t forget about old players, personally, I didn’t get anything useful from the last event and this disappoints me. I give the event 6/10.

Yeah finally a good review

The tours were perfect do that every time maybe add one more

I love how you did the horror score it was annoying not getting the step from the stamp on time but it was great

I do not like how you guys do the CSS please allow some way to grind points because those of us that are killing it in your score should be able to get points and CSS for doing so

Awesome prize wall I think the food loot coin should be a little more character heavy

My complaints are

one weekend event Superstars that game points should have something to do with the main Superstar of the weekend why does judgment Day matter with the head shrinkers I mean come on we have enough Legends and New Gen and attitude to make that make sense more so than a whole bunch of modern guys

Do I can't stand how CSS is done

That being said after the disappointments of the last few events I'm going to give this one an a minus please keep moving in this direction

Overall one of the better weekends this month. Didn't run into any issues. Tours were fine. I liked the addition of a premium skill plate chest for the 100 million war score competition so it gave some incentive to feud. Only real issue i had was the event didn't start until Saturday so Friday there was nothing to do in game.

I liked the chance for a rare skill plate for hitting 100 million feud score, hopefully that stays for every feud. Good to see there are 6 Star silver tokens more achievable from tours.

Can we come up more something more than leveling up/ fusing a 6 star for faction contests points or raise the amount of points you get for it?

Alright, maybe I can type one of these for a change.

• Just gonna lump all of this in, lot of sloppiness in execution on this one. I get the steps were messy because Black Friday pushed the event a day back, but it should have been caught a lot sooner - especially since steps provide one with a lot more than just extra war score. There was also the survivor tours disappearing (thank god they came back) and I had at least one instance during feud where the game just suddenly soft-locked and cost me a lot of health packs as a result. I'll say now that this was a better event than prior weeks, but boy did the game try to hamper things.
• Tours were good in that I liked the presence of the Survivor tours (it helps that while the requirements on these were a bit tougher in terms of viable characters, you weren't locked out of 100+ shards for not meeting them) and the other tours were open enough to be more than fine. I would like to see more survivor tours, as long as there's ways to properly approach them other than 'just tank the damage', so definite include more control-based characters in the future like you did here.
• Feud was fine enough when it wasn't trying to rob me for health packs - requirements weren't insane or anything, and even though the 20-hour format can get a bit repetitive, it also means I can play at any time during that period - I don't have to wake up at 5 AM just to miss feud X from 4 AM to 10 AM or something like that. I don't like how it started while Survivor Series was on (just meant I lost a few hours because I can't properly focus on both at once) but I'll just chalk it up to more Black Friday stuff.
• I actually quite like this warscore contest format with the 50m main path and the 100m stretch goals - 125m was just too much, and while 100m is still too much it's at least a bit more manageable and for those who don't feel the plate gamble is worth it (the only worthwhile thing, feud loot continues to be worthless) can stop at a pretty breezy 50m. All thumbs up on this one.
• The feud superstar contest continues to be probably the worst of all of the events, but at least it was limited to two matches so I can get it over with in feud quickly and shift to a team I actually want to use. Would still like to be able to get that last million solo points without having a roster of 600 or something ridiculous like that.
• I... actually didn't hate this medallion wall entirely. I still think it's mostly full of crap nobody could ever care about, but you could also get 100 Kross or Melo shards while spending (relatively) little money so it's automatically head and shoulders above most of these feud medallion walls. I am still waiting on something worthwhile because aside from maybe shard bags, this ain't it.

Feedback for Headshrinkers Fued Contest

• For some reason these 2 superstars being somewhat new didn't really make anyone jump up and down. Possibly due to the lack of their popularity? I for sure only know one of them is a Rikishi but again not a big fan so if they get added to my roster then sure...
• Although steps was a bit of a mess, I'm glad Scopely was able to get onto this quick and get them added to the Portal
• I also liked the fact that you picked up on the Survival Tour disappearing and having them added later on. Would have been nice if a message or note went out so people are aware and not have to waste time sending tickets or asking around mindlessly what happened to the Survival tour and wondering why it was only up for 24 hours when it wasn't mentioned at all.
• This would usually be a Flash Fued but having this changed back to a normal fued was definitely a welcome for me as I'd much prefer the option of grinding at my own time than having to wake up at 3am just to get my score in.
• The Bonus milestone added was a great addition for those willing to make the extra grind to the premium skill plate. The loot pulls were ok considering you get a small fraction of shards which atleast helps in the long run but slowly... Plus good amount of resources so that's good with me.
• Prizewall this time was ok just because I could finally get enough shards to recruit Karrion Kross even though I had to spend a little but as long as it guarantees me a new superstar then sure I am happy to do so.
• Solo Tours were great with the CSS options as well so well rounded on that in my opinion.

For me personally, if regular fued is to stay and take over flash fued then I am all for it. As mentioned earlier I'd much rather fued on my time than on Scopely's decision for Flash Fued timings.

@JD Rayne did anyone win?