July 2020
I remember seeing info on Berry Brigade and then Iceberg Lettuce and am interested in both but now I see we're getting a playable wildflower and TV zombie in September instead of one of these 2 or the other upcoming characters we heard about? I'm definitely interested in more characters, even while we need some serious balancing for what we currently have, but we don't have a lot of info on these two barring what the AI versions do. I'm curious about why we're not seeing characters that looked like they had a ton of work done already but are getting these instead?
July 2020
July 2020
@stukapooka wrote:
@Iron_Guard8I don't wanna sound like a pessimist but it feels like these characters were chosen because popcap needs characters to rush out to keep the player base around which why they chose two ai who were the closer to actual characters because the games peak was apparently around wizard but weve been falling since.
Honestly, this is what it looks like to me too. I would have thought that either Berry Brigade or Iceberg Lettuce was close to being done by now, so we should be getting one of them in August/September instead of these 2, but apparently they aren't ready yet so we're getting these 2 NPCs as playable characters instead. It comes off like they know we need more in game to do but they're behind so we're getting these 2 characters to fill the gap. With no update to Ops, the issues with tourist trap island, and the balance issues, it has felt like spinning our wheels lately. There's so much that we've heard about planned for the game existing in the data and discussed for the future, but the lack of communication and concrete plans is disconcerting. I've been especially interested in Berry Brigade too.
July 2020
July 2020
July 2020
@Shadowphinx101 I'm largely indifferent to datamining to be honest. As a PC player, I've seen actual hacks in GW1 and 2, and never approve of getting an unfair advantage in PvP by using the same methods that dataminers use to find stuff out, but I do like to see what's coming for the game too. A game like this needs a constant influx of new content (maps, characters, abilities, and so on) and prize maps aren't terrible but also not the most engaging thing either.
That being said, Berry Brigade looked really cool from what I saw and Iceberg Lettuce too. Ops need to be more engaging and exciting than they are right now, so seeing datamining of a lot of really interesting stuff coming keeps me playing when the dev team has been so quiet for so long. I'd rather have the devs post about this stuff than have it mined by outside people, but a lot of us need something to keep that spark alive, and dataminers actually help in that regard.
July 2020
July 2020
@stukapooka wrote:
@Iron_Guard8I would argue that prize maps aren't horrible just incredibly boring with no real reason to grind them because its a bunch of worthless cosmetics in a paid game where it takes time to grind an entire board which feels more like a job and isn't fun.
Exactly. I don't hate them, I don't mind them being there, just that too much of what we get is just unexciting. They reduced XP per bulb to 4k which is nice and I've been done and capped at 50 for next month for almost a week now so haven't been playing all that much till the new map comes. I think my biggest issues with the prize maps are that they feel odd to have while coins are worthless, too much of what we get feels pointless, and once you finish the current map and cap bulbs out there's a feeling that you're wasting XP if you keep playing that month. I'd like to see the whole system reworked so none of this is true.
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@Iron_Guard8Yeah now that we no longer have to buy spawnables, variant pieces, or revives anymore. cosmetics were the only thing left so they jacked the price up to 30,000 coins for 1 thing and then we ran out of the reward o tron and prize maps are about 50/50 with half of the objects being good and some being sunflower but blue or final prize but gold instead of silver which isnt really interesting and popcap hasnt confirmed if they will come back outside of rux leading to a scarcity scam which is the idea of "get it now or it will be gone forever/harder to get".
I really hope they change or rework the system so coins dont completely fall into obscurity and I womder how they will add two characters to a map in September.
July 2020