Feud Salvation

Overall, the changes were a step forward and the event design was a positive change to feuds. I still think there needs to be more incentive for feuding almost the entire weekend, and spending also needs to provide more value to players.

THE GOOD:

• SIMPLIFIED CONTEST DESIGN - Events that are clear and simple are better for players. I don't understand why most events have so many contests, sub-contests, side-contests and multiple currencies. I also like having the contest loaded in game early in the week so players can understand exactly what they need to do.
• CSS - Both the feud contest and tours allowed players to use premium or freebie characters depending on their roster. Everyone had an opportunity to grind the feud contest.
• FEUD TIMES - I was able to feud at my leisure when I had free time over the weekend. I didn't feel under pressure to wake up at unreasonable hours or grind CSS in a short window. This was great for playing casually.
• NEW SKILL PLATE - Having a new skill plate available at 7 medallions was very reasonable. The plate is of course not very powerful, but good to see it made available nonetheless.
• MEDALS - Having so many Fury 2 and Takedown 2 medals in rewards was nice. It does make me slightly suspicious of a strap/medal overhaul but for now it's definitely helpful to many players.

THE BAD:

• DOMINATION CHESTS - These desperately need updating. When first released, these were exciting due to the availability of moment and plates that were previously hard to earn. Now, players are tired of getting the same duplicate items multiple times every month.
• SHARD BAGS - On paper these looked good, but getting Zelina shards from 90% of the bags and 0 shards of characters I don't have was a real disappointment. It seems there has been a change recently from equal odds shard bags to weighted bags.
• FACTION LEADERBOARD REWARDS - I like the idea of promoting warscore importance, but the new chests were massively disappointing. From the blog, the bags looked good but in reality, 99% of players were disappointed with their rewards. Asking players to feud for 18 hours twice in a weekend for these lackluster rewards is insulting to be honest. This also applies to the solo leaderboard. The rewards for players who feud for 36 hours need to be a lot better.
• VALUE FOR MONEY - Yet again, the rewards for spending on a contest are really poor. Even multiple mega pulls doesn't come anywhere close to recruiting Nikki or any other notable reward. When I compare this to other games that I have started to play, I can get very significant rewards for a $5, $10, $20 spend or I can simply progress by grinding. To be honest, the massive price tag on every single contest and character is really tiresome at this point.
• FEUD STEPS - Despite TH communication saying this was intended, I still hope this was just an oversight. It's really frustrating when the devs make choices that only serve to punish players.

SUGGESTIONS:

• Update the feud domination chests with new moments and plates.
• Make Solo contest bonus rewards more rewarding. They are completely out of balance with the current meta and other contests.
• Extend the gold, silver, and bronze faction bags to the top 100 factions and award more bags to the top feuding factions. The odds for the better items in the bags are not good enough for these bags to be considered a fair reward for the effort put into the contest.
• Add more bonus milestones for warscore to earn more prizewall medallions. Especially without access through the ruby market, medallions are too difficult (expensive) to earn, so other methods of earning them should be available.

It was one fo the toughest event so far, from feud throughout 2 days and css requirements in tours were to much to handle. Loot was also not giving much anything worthy to the spenders. Feud domination chest were for only top 20, other got shity rewards compare to them. Simply a week for the spenders and for big whales only. New playes or low roster suffers alot. Some css were easy to obtain but hard to beat 6sg with them in hell mode.

Best part was feud css with different class and era. Thats it nothing good other than them.

2 days feud was bad decision with sloppy rewards. Best rewards for top 20 faction only. Others were falling behind for sure

Simply 1 star event.

Positives:

• Feud was very stable technically
• I liked the updated warscore system and rewards. It gave people plenty of chances to max out while encouraging using different characters without being overly restrictive
• The CSS seemed like a fair update to work into the Solo scores
• The 2 feuds at standard times was a nice update. Gave players from all timezones a chance to compete

Cons:

• Somewhat lackluster prize wall for the rewards medals / tokens
• The chests seemed to always reward the same shards, not very random

Overall a good event with a lot of improvements. Thanks and keep it up

Feud Salvation Dual Feud Weekend

Honestly wasn’t sure what to expect going into a third Feud for the month but can say that I liked the format and felt like it gave everyone a chance to grind and reach higher milestones. Overall,not a horrible weekend event to wrap up the MLC and prep us for the new December MLC. Here is my overview of the weekend’s Feud Salvation event:

Feud: Dropped the Ball & Issues (The Bad)

As a whole there was not a ton to complain about for the weekend with only a few issues noticed on my end as well as one that Scopley just dropped the ball on. The big one from the weekend was a dual Feud contest, however the free steps on the Webportal was not available till Saturday for the second portion of the event. While this may have not been a huge deal for everyone, for others the decision to put the steps in on day two cost points that could have potentially cost players higher rewards. That was the case for me as I missed the next milestone by minimal points. In addition, this could have deterred players from electing to purchase a third step after acquiring the free one from the tour.

From an issue side still seeing issues after completing one feud and going into a second feud. After completing the first feud, the game allows us to go into the next feud however, it will not allow you to select who you are going up against. You mustclose out the game, and reenter, slowing down the entire process of feuding which is designed for speed to reach higher levels. I also noticed a few times the characters froze in the middle of their match and would not allow me to continue. No messages or errors popped up, this led to closing out the match, losing all the health for that character, and restarting. 

Feud: Characters, Feud Contest, & Feud (The Good)

Love the dual format as a whole including the longer Feud times that allowed more grinding for everyone while ensuring different time zones had a bulk of time during most people awake time. In addition, loved the wide range of reward options available to collect rewards during feuding for each class and ERA. In addition, also greatly appreciated the emphasis of the increased TP, coins, strap parts, and medal bits to help everyone’s roster out. 

Feud character requirements were inline for everyone, while bigger players benefitted more, the focus to include characters in the mid-tier that are available to be chased during the stipulation tour daily/weekly, allows everyone an opportunity to fill at least the bottom row and/or second row if they take the time to grind to earn those characters. 

Overall, one of the better feuds based on the event, time frame, and rewards offered. 

Solo Contest & Tour

No major complaints from the solo contest and tour. Have seen improvements overall on the rewards from the tour over the past few contests which shows signs of life on their end. While improvements can still be made including a second tour on the Sunday refresh and better overall rewards on Hell mode in comparison to normal mode, no major issues were present.

Gauntlet Blitz & Rewards

The Blitz is my least favorite of the events however I like the ability to grind during the event, get tickets and reach for the next milestone. In addition, feel like the odds of landing a faction feud medallion was higher which in past events I have only seen 1 or 2 at max from 11 – 15 blitz entries.

Abby the Witch Shards

Over the month had many of us worried about the SuperShard contest but closing it out with an event but around Abby the Witch was solid. The number of shards I felt was strong for both F2P player as well as the big-time players and whales who play the game.

Feud Prize Wall

The prize wall was solid again with a wide range of items available for everyone to help increase/improve their overall rosters. This includes ensuring the seven loot coin for seven tokens was available. For F2P players and players who can’t spend like the whales, feel like this is added value to grind and play the game. Continue to like to see the plates and straps being offered while also mixing up the characters shards offered. My only suggestion, however, comes with the new reworked or entourage upgraded character in this case the Undertake “The Phenom”, feel like for 7 loot tokens, offering him at 6SB would be more enticing to select him and gives new players a chance to reach 6-star status with a character faster without all the resources needed overall.

overall I think the new structure for the contest worked better than flash feuds, you would probably of seen that in the time players spent playing the game over the weekend.

There were technical issues with having to reboot game after each match which were frustrating as it’s the first time in a long time I’ve experienced this but if they were ironed out it would have been a very successful weekend.

few things that need changing though feud steps needed to be available Friday not Saturday

Loot - there should be howdy shards in that loot as well as Nikki, I personally would have spent more if there were his shards available and not just the poster.

Lastly the blitz having 18 tickets, would of been better being 20 so you could do 4 of the premium blitz.

Overall though I enjoyed the new format hopefully that could replace flash feuds to allow more people to participate.

Lastly I’m think when you changed the format of the mlc and released all the characters at the start it worked better, people knew what they were chasing, now releasing 2 superstars halfway through the event, for example Abby and howdy were, seems more like old world where a new character came out every week and what it appeared you were stepping away from.

Again positive weekend

The last weekend for this MLC contest; I have a mix opinion on this one. Tbh there’s alot of factors that needs to be considered to determine whether this new daul feud experiment run is worthwhile or just another thing that will go off the shelf. Here are my thoughts on this and i hope it will help you in some way;

FEUD SALVATION : I know that for some people, feuding is enjoyable, so it doesn't feel like a chore; I was time restricted for the first feud but did cover up in the next feud and still walk out with ranked 14 but tbh taking away an entire weekend from the people, that's really something that i wouldn’t sure about going ahead. There are poeple who already didn't like the feud grind after a certain point because it literally doesn’t make any sense go all out, before having to do it twice in two days. I honestly feel like i’d just quit feuding if they implement this as a permanent thing.

Don't get me wrong, it's nice that feud leaderboards have been updated, but equally, it's too long overdue, and mixing in the addition of a double 18 hour feud, is taking too much.

SOLO CONTEST: Really like this approach of not having a faction contest alongside with the solo event; that makes it easier to track and worth maxing, but going beyond that, I saw very little return. Also i feel like the feud chests and the rewards are little lacklustre to those who are putting all their time and efforts into these contest and still disheartened by the return. Honestly, I feel like this actually least benefits ranks 4-10. Top 3 obviously get a lot from it, and you can argue that in their cases, yeah, probably just about worth it.

FEUD CSS ND TOURS: First of all, the feud lineups were pretty good and seems like everyone has most of them. Which rapidly increases the engagement level, which is what makes it more effective. The CSS were also very accessible for most people including both the feud nd tours. A good mix of premium and free cards, specially the class and era ones were totally fire and helped everyone to claim the top 500Mil much easily. Overall the rewards were great with lot of rss, token cases, event bags, domination chests, medal bits, strap parts and obviously the PW medallions. It would be great if you add some more or revamp some of the milestones and make it much more valuable to those who really grind hard for almost the entire event because are completely out of their league and feels bit pointless.

POST FEUD BLITZ: I still think this idea is by far the best thing that could happen. Coming from a long hauling 36hr feuding, this really blends nicely with the amount of time it takes to finish up. Giving the people both way either pick the one at a time run or just rack through them with champion runs. The rewards may vary from player to player depending on their RNG luck but i’d keep it this way just to remain a surprise element.

PRIZE WALL ND LOOT OFFERS: The prize wall offers wide range of shards and variety of options this time. With some rare items and genuine price tags. I ended up getting additional medallions thanks to the bliztes (Got 4 out of 29) but i still feel like you should add more medallions in the reward section. So, the players could get a fair chance at their desirable collectibles.
The loot contains some rare characters and every wyatt six member which is an absolutely banger. I did mentioned it couple times, that the step offers would make more sense if you could add a option to see what are we getting along the way rather than just keep it hidden from the people when they literally pay for these services, they have every possible reason to do so. I personally tried couple 7 pulls and unfortunately didn’t get anything excited which leads me to this point that wouldn’t it be better if you could add some of shards for the weekend featured characters in the common section. That will encourage people to take more chances and long term will help them to get their hands on these superstars sooner.

CONCLUSION: I glad you guys took a different path this time than the usual similar approach but this is not fun at all as a player point of view, we all have a live outside champions and these type of events really makes it hard to maintain a good yet competitive atmosphere for most people. Like i said earlier though, For people who really enjoy doing feuding like me and literally went wire to wire, I personally felt very sad because we can’t really get a breath out of this while some in our groups just feud for an average time period and call it quits if they want. I really hope you take this all in a positive light tone and make further changes while we are standing at the edge and waiting for the next MLC contest to hit. Atlast; as a sign of respect and appreciation love these new formats and the context. Thank you to the team for all the support nd help you provide for all of us.