Straight Edge Showdown

There are not much good pg era superstars. Punk will be great

I just looked at the characters needed to get points in the cm punk showdown competition and saw that there is only 2! I fail to understand why there is only 2 when every other time there’s multiple characters so you have more ways of getting higher in the contest. I understand that you are a company and need to make money but you are taking all the fun out of the game. Like today there was only two (unless you got punk) normally there’s more than this, I hope you can take this into account and remember that we come here to have fun and play your game so we can escape what’s going on in our real lives and when we see changes like these it’s really disappointing and disheartening when the weekend contest has so little for us players to actually take part in. Thx

Honestly, why do you keep asking for constructive criticism when you barely listen to the player base anyways.

That being said: STEEL CAGE IS THE MOST WORTHLESS ADDITION TO THE GAME

So you create things like belts, medals, trainers, and all these things that makes some characters actually playable then steel cage gives the players a nice crotch chop to that

The developer who came up with this idea should be thrown into an active volcano

ALSO: PLEASE POST THE BLOG POST FOR THESE COPY AND PASTE EVENTS WITJ A DIFFERENT COAT OF PAINT AT THE SAME TIME AS YOU HAVE SOMEONE OVERANALYZE AND TAKE FIVE TIMES AS LONG TO READ THE SAME M’FING THING!

steel cage is fine…..just not every event thats the issue

the event is great. Love the cage rules, it makes you think. I would though like to see more solo missions on Saturday (during showdowns) to help get more energy. Maybe use superstars from the previous month,using the recap idea to give those that earned those superstars a chance for more energy. If you are in a smaller faction this would help reach the gold chest if you are not a big spender.

This showdown is a straight edge disaster

Looks like You guys miss calculate the points for non bonus solo context milestone

Base on my calculation, a lot of players will miss the non bonus final milestone by 50k/60k . And that includes been part of top 600 to 2000 in showdown. You own everyone about 50k/60k.

I really like having a new cm punk in the game. I really don’t like the steel cage showdowns and the batteries/charges so limited on how many matches you can complete. I have always loved the unlimited showdown matches and if it was going back to unlimited every showdown medallions after completing matches go towards solo contests because right now the requirements to get enough points is impossible to get 700,000 solo points toward solo contest. Another thing, agents shouldn’t be encouraging you to spend money on batteries/charges on all these showdown contests as for years they were unlimited matches.

What I enjoyed about this contest:

Engaging Gameplay The Steel Cage rules always brings a dynamic that required a different approach to matches, making it more skill-based and to utilize more things you have to get a win making it challenging.

Love the variety of plates on the prize wall

What I didn’t like:

Lack of solo contest points without heavy spending. Which results in lack of prize wall medallions to obtain those wonderful items that were offered.

Lack of showdown CSS for showdown tasks minimizing players without showdown promoter coins can obtain that milestone to get the additional 700k solo points. Requiring additional spending on energy.

CM Punk in loot was only offered with gear so immediately you knew when you spun the loot if you got him or not that is very devastating a turn off. I typically would have given it more opportunities but for that reason only I decided to steer away and save money

Lack of tours on Friday again for the people that didn’t get lucky in getting CM Punk.

What I would change:

in my honest opinion I felt like the first MLC showdown for dirty Dom structure was just right. The prize wall rewards+medallions were grindable enough to not spend extremely heavy and the rewards were decent so I’d go back to that format.

Also that structure in the dirty Dom showdown contest of obtaining the 700k for the solo contest points from the show down tasks via CSS were much better aligned with not having buy packs of energy I’d love to see that more accessible.

Loot results were extremely difficult to obtain CM Punk. If it’s going to be that rare give the people not lucky more tours to do on Friday like you have done in the past giving us a little bit more resources/medallions and solo contest points

while the rewards choices were nice I’d like to see shards more premium how they were last feud. That was a very nice selection.

Final Thoughts:

The Straight Edge Showdown Competition with Steel Cage Rules was decent , but With slight refinements in obtaining solo contest points and making it a less spending for the energy could become an even more enjoyable and widely appreciated contest in the future. I felt like I spent the same amount of money in energy than loot pulls. It hardly made a difference at the end. The solo contest points were just so difficult if you didn’t have Punk or Hornswoggle. Why not throw in some more CSS like utilize all the MLC new posters like it’s implemented in flash feud. And I don’t mind spending money on loot pulls even if I don’t get anything in the loot but at least let me progress better in the contest.

Look in my eyes, what do you see more steel cage rules for free.
Yeah it’s a lot having this for everything now. I get the challenge aspect but I keep thinking about the newer players that must be struggling a lot. Less frequent please.

Showdown contest was another copy / paste. That 1800000 milestone while I understand it’s a stretch, the 700k contest points would be nice to get one day. Too many hard css, I play all weekend and always fall short. Even making an old superstar that we are forced to take up would be better so more csn get there. Very few have Howdy.

Prizewall again too high. It shouldn’t be a paywall, we get that spenders deserve stuff but chuck a bone to the grinders too. If you want good word of the game spread to increase the player base, price more in the range of the low spenders/ftp more range of shards etc.

As it stands I’m not sure how many promoters the game has, we’re all hooked for sure, but I can’t recommend the game for too many reasons.

That face of Punk too, looks nothing like him. Still would take him in my roster of course but maybe get the team to spend more time getting him to look right. Great add pg though. Maybe an mlc of PG based stars/reworks too? PG Cena should be OP.

Faction

The Faction-based Showdown contests are excellent when you’re in a good faction. It allows each player to contribute by breaking specific gems, while not punishing the individual player for not having every required character like in the Solo contests. As someone with none of the required characters for this Showdown, I enjoyed feeling that my efforts are impactful to the faction’s progress in the faction contest. It also made me use characters I normally wouldn’t.

Solo

The Solo contest was solid, with pretty friendly character requirements. I wasn’t punished for lacking a CM Punk, which was a pleasant surprise.

The Solo side of the Showdown contest was also pretty friendly with requiring only certain tags/links for doing damage (Wyatt Sicks, etc.) instead of only requiring specific characters. I really liked that. It led me to using characters I normally don’t, and all of those contest requirements felt very achievable.

Milestones

The Gold Chest milestone continues to feel like an achievable goal, which is nice. The first couple of milestones beyond it generally don’t feel great, though. The majority of prizewall tokens are locked behind those highest milestones, which is a bummer.

Steel Cage

The first few attempts at the Steel Cage restrictions were rough and felt very not fun. This most recent attempt with the Showdown surprised me. It felt a lot better than they had previously. Providing damage bonuses and limiting the restrictions to only Entourage and Title Medals made the mode feel much less punishing. It also helped nudge me towards using characters who benefit from the month’s Showdown perks (+MP to Black and Purple) or characters still holding the +99 MP from last month (Radical Seth Rollins carried most of the Showdown for me once I hit all of the other required contest goals). This felt like a definite step in the right direction for Steel Cage as a mode. I would prefer it if it only came up once per month though. It’s still a bit too restrictive, so it feels more punishing than rewarding.

Technical Issues

The recent patches significantly cleaned up my experience all-around, with one major exception – Faction Chat. It definitely is still busted and has been for at least one month by looking at my Faction’s chat history. I run the game on an iPhone 16.

The only other issue I see is the new CM Punk’s face. The Voice of the Voiceless card art looks phenomenal, the gear all looks right, but the character model’s face just doesn’t look like Punk. 

Prizewall

The CM Punk prizewall has been fine. I still feel like tokens are far too scarce to really make the prizewalls rewarding, though. I was hoping to finally unlock tech CM Punk, but I could only get his shards once, so that was a bummer.

The current zombie prizewall has felt much better and more rewarding, since tokens are more readily available and achievable. The prizes also seem more achievable with their costs.

Conclusion

The only bottleneck left for me lately is shards for evolution. Since each character requires color AND style-specific shards, I’ve been so crunched on certain characters that they’ve been stuck at certain levels since I just can’t get enough shards. Providing more avenues to specific shards would be a fantastic boon. The coin bottleneck and TP bottlenecks feel resolved through the Showdown token store, which was really nice. Both are also regularly rewarded at really nice levels, smoothing out the overall game experience. 

I really liked making the previous month’s MLC chases requirements for the following month, especially in Faction contests. It makes the chase feel more rewarding with the knowledge they will be immediately important for future progress. Making them more of a requirement in Faction-specific content is also a nice touch, since not everyone will get them. It feels good to not be punished for not getting the high-tier chases (S and S+ characters), though I wish their shards were available in higher amounts in the following months. Taking away the extra month of +99 MP is a bummer though. It takes away some of the reward for chasing the monthly characters.

My biggest complaint this month is with the Armory tokens. The Rhea Ripley rework has been phenomenal and made an unused character much more fun. But getting the Armory tokens to push further down this contest has been vague. Previously, having collection items for this type of contest (CSS balloons/VHS tapes, etc.) made it much easier to understand what needed to be done to max the contest by the end of the month. With these Armory tokens, I have no idea what to work towards to continue working on this contest. The Armory token spending itself also feels very unrewarding. The loot options for them seem incredibly poor.

I am personally enjoying where the game is at, and where it looks to be heading.

Have a nice day!

I'm going to keep harping on this: there is not enough stuff to do on Friday and Sunday for a showdown contest. Considering how far away it is to max the solo event without spending, I think it would be cool if there were opportunities to get more points without spending. Which you can do if you give more to do on Friday and Sunday.

overall, the showdown was enjoyable to play. I would like to make a couple of observations. First, though the steel cage rules make the game a bit more challenging, it seems tough to have spent all of the building up the superstar by using multiple resources. When resources and other items have been utilized to have advantages, it seems about the time a superstar has great advantages are suspended. Second, the showdown was challenging and competitive!

Great event overall, smooth gameplay and I experienced little to no bugs during my matches. I think the prizewall should be revisited. It's disheartening when you grind the event, get as high as you can and do not have enough currency to claim one of the better items on the prizewall. I'm not saying the newest plate needs to be available for free to play players but there's some plates on there (hard times plate for example) that a free to play player should be able to grind towards. Overall great event.

Overall this was a solid event, with reasonable requirements. Haven't been minding steel cage lately as the lack of entourage when we have mp buffs from showdown actually works quite well. But I do think the sheer amount of steel cage requirements we're getting is a bit much - in my opinion there should be a minimum of two weeks between steel cage requirements.

The prizewall is OK, but there's a lack of any goodies in between than 5 to 10k mark, you're limited to the lesser rewards. I wish there were some more staggered rewards.

Cheers and looking forward to seeing how the showdown changes play out!

The SD event with steel cage rules wasn’t as bad as the previous one’s because of the bonuses you added but i’d say lower level players or new comers still suffers a lot than a average player who have decent talent and multiple options to make the best decision.

For instance, the main highlights were the steel cage perks that comes without the mp reduction, entourage and strap bonuses. Majority of the people sets up MLC characters at defences who still have the 99MP intact and comes out fully loaded because there’s no MP reduction perks this time and top of that you can’t have the plates and entourages. These type of restrictions strictly affect a mediocre player and lead them to lose their chance in any futher tournaments. You could definitely argue that this time around it wasn’t kinda felt like the worst nightmare as it was last month still there are some major problems and issues that needs to be addressed and will refined this node to the greater extent possible.

The character design for the new CM PUNK was kinda underwhelming the fact that we already have an existing poster which looks way more realistic and has better facial recognition. Even though the art team did his best work but could’ve been more creative with the facial details. Would love to get my hands on him since there’s not many viable options in the PG era for now.

CSS list is somewhat more accessible this time but still there’s a no chance that you could reach to the 700K milestone in the solo event. Lack of CSS options which are massively paywalled characters are making it even more difficult to come closer to that certain level where it makes sense for rewards/medallions but it feels totally worthless to push yourself into the grind. It hardly made a difference at the end. The solo contest points were just so difficult if you didn’t have Punk or Hornswoggle. Why not throw in some more CSS like utilize all the MLC new posters like it’s implemented in flash feud. Everything else is basically gets sidetracked simply because when you have bigger things to deal with.

LTT were great as usual. The CSS selection was pretty fine. It’s nice to have some varieties in the tours for everyone to get decent solo and faction points.

Personally, i’d say this showdown competition with steel cage rules was decent but the quantity needs to be balanced. So far, this whole mlc was designed solely for the steel cage rules. Once a month or even twice would make it much more efficient and less stressful. If it continues to be that way it’s just a matter of time before people start to fed up with these events and soon they won’t even care about it. which will fuming the situation even worse than this. So, i really hope you guys take some serious steps in maintaining the trajectory for upcoming events and build some trust towards the community because from onto it’s just not going to work out the way you did in the past. 
Personally i’d give steel cage rules another shot to possibly make sure the best experience and potential it offers for the future. Overall a decent kinda weekend event for sure atleast for me. The steel cage holds a great value and potential if you just keep it straight with slight adjustments it would be more enjoyable and widely appreciated among players, i’d rate this as a solid 7/10.