Hi Holotable Heroes,
We are aware that Executor fleets with Punishing One are beating Leviathans in their respective Fleet shards. We are investigating and keeping an eye on this to see if further action is needed.
Capital Games Team
Instead of nerfing the PO you should just add exclusions to it affecting the ship itself so a soft nerf or buff Levi in regards to this, or else nerfing this means it may fall below the Negotiator and be worse off.
Should we hold off on buying packs to level our Punishing One? I have already spent over $100 to get it to 6 star when I heard about this post. It would be disappointing to have the power of the ship decreased.
I'd like to shoutout CG_Meathead for keeping us updated and engaging with the community. Whatever you're getting paid, CG should pay you more for having the foresight to watch test streams on top of everything else you do.
I dunno what the answer should be for Punishing One. But I do have thoughts about the release quality decline over the last few years.
I'm not talking about things like the ROLO nerf. SWGOH is (mechanically speaking) a pretty complex game. So there are bound to be unintended interactions, and that most likely only increases over time.
I've worked in tech for well over a decade, and it seems improbable to me that this is the fault of the QA team. IMO, it's far more probable that CG or EA leadership has mandated reductions in resource allocation, affecting both time spent testing and the number of people doing it. Firstly, this isn't an isolated incident, it's a pattern that has repeated over and over again with increasing frequency. Secondly, EA is notoriously relentless about minimizing their investment while maximizing their gain. How many botched games have they released? Honestly, it might be easier to count the games that dropped without problems.
I spend money fairly regularly on this game. So, to EA/CG leadership, as a paying customer, I'm asking you to please do better. Invest into your people. Invest more into QA. End of the day, this is a company that makes games, and games should be fun. When poorly vetted content gets released, your player base gets understandably frustrated, the game gets less fun, and it comes off as disingenuous.
It turns out that people laugh when they are speechless.
The Naboo N1-Starfighter wouldn't have this issue....#MakeMaceCapShipGreatAgain
*marauder does not count since Negotiator stole the ship intendedfor Endurance
Agreed. I probably would have whaled for this ship, almost pulled the trigger before I saw this. But now I don’t even know what I’d be investing in so no thanks.
