Capital Games Team
I never like to be negative on the forums but this is genuinely embarrassing.
It was mentioned that this probably wouldn't help with Executor vs Leviathan. There aren't many fleets in the game - it's not like characters where there are so many interactions that it's reasonable to expect some unexpected interactions to slip through.
I want to respect the developers and people behind the release here but:
That's not okay. I could understand it for characters but there's no excuse to not know how the ship will perform against the most common fleet at the top of fleet shards. I urge whoever is responsible for making the decision to leave the ship as is. People have already spent money. You had plenty of time to test this out and prevent this from happening, but it's too late now.
EDIT: If Meathead reads this, none of this is targeted at you (as you know), and I appreciate what you bring to the role of interacting with the community. It's whoever was responsible for testing and the person making the decision to potentially remove functionality that players paid for that I'm frustrated with.
100%. To change it AFTER people spent their hard earned money is a vile bait and switch tactic. You released the ship as intended, if you didn't test it, that's on you!
But you don’t have to buy it for it to beat leviathan. What are they bait and switching?
Because Punishing One is not even doing what it was advertised to do. Its not even stopping the counter from Finalizer. It is only a SLIGHT improvement to defense. If they nerf the ship to stop it from beating Leviathan it will probably become a defensive DOWNGRADE at that point. The ship was supposed to become a defensive anchor. It is not. But it surprisingly has become an offensive powerhouse. But you know CG.. if they nerf this.. they won't spend the time to alter the kit so that it does what it was advertised to do. They will just defang it.
This is a shady practice to get revenue.
There's a development team with PM's. QA, Developers, Dev ops, uiuix.
This is a repetead malpractice to get folks spending on something they know it will do what they said it shouldnt, they wont admit it though.
its just a quick money grab scheme.
Even for Meathead this has to be embarrassing, Leviathan has been the meta fleet for over a year now, you mean no one over there thought to playtest this new ship against it?
Fortunately I saw this post before spending on the packs, so I'm holding off for now.
Well, if they nerf it, they must refund the money to everyone that bought it.
The Punishing One is preaty good for the fleet health, executor can beat leviathan/profundity on offence and leviathan/profundity can beat executor easly on offence. now we may see some executors/profundity on top ranks, not just boring leviathan mirror matchs.
BTW leviathan can just change the starting line up to dagger to counter executor (more variety)
That's not true. If you don't take down Razor Crest in opening barrage, you get insta deathmark and fight is over so you need to be extremely lucky while Exec can beat Profundity on auto. Profundity sucks now. :)
My biggest issue is they made it a marquee costing more than a chase. If people spent on it. they shouldn't be nerfing it. Leviathan stomps most now so just leave it. I'm sure a new CS will come soon anyway
Oh yea, glad I saw this. I was thinking about dropping those $$ on this…. But now I’ll just hold tight. You almost got me CG!
Honestly this just goes to show that they either don’t have a quality assurance team, or they need more people for it. It’s atrocious. The fact that the Naboo Raid takes me over an hour to run through every week is insane. The ROTE CM’s likewise take forever. It’s just clear they don’t test the game extensively.
I can watch half the phantom menace in the time it takes me to run all my attempts and re-attempts for this raid. It’s ridiculous.
How the hell does the Naboo raid take you over an hour? I can run it on auto for all of my teams, get max score, and be done in 20 minutes while I'm at work!
I’m guessing that you’re running it at lower tiers? At tiers 6 & 7, there are only 2 out of 5 teams I can run on auto….the remaining require manual control and are RNG dependent. Sometimes they can be done in 20 minutes….but most times, like the OP said, an hour-ish
