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
If they nerf this, and don't refund, that is really nearing fraud. not just shady practices, but actual legit rug pull.
Doubt it could actually win in court, but hot dang, that is chilling.
I'm so disappointed in you CG. As a community we forgive a LOT of practices that are profit focused because we know the game needs to make money, but this is a step WAY over the line.
If this is nerfed, and refunds aren't given I'll be reporting it to the FTC. You are better than this CG. Do better.
Like others I just don't understand how CG said that the ship is supposed to help Executor perform better against all fleets except Levi, and then it whoops Levi lol. You'd think it would have been tested vs Levi to see how it performed if that was their intention. Now I don't know if i should get some crystal packs for it or not. Will it be nerfed? Who knows
Yeah, either way, you and everyone else is boned. You can buy packs and get to 5-7* quickly and see your new ship nerfed. Or you can hold off from spend any Money/Crystals and then weeks late CG decides NOT to nerf it , meaning that now you need to go through the soul numbing chore that is Ship farming on hard nodes with out the boost you might have got if you whaled a little to get a boost. Which is what I did before this post came out .
I don't understand.
Executor can beat EVERYTHING pretty easily except Leviathan. If it beating the one thing it can't is an issue, then what's the point of the new ship?
P1 was meant to help Executor against CS like The Profundity, Finalizer and a few more mid card/upper mid card Capital Ships, mainly on defence . It was never meant to lift Executor to beat the the massive top meta ship that needs you to farm not only Legendary toons, but Conquest toons and ships too.
It’s a ship to fix skill issues… executor can easily combat all fleets but Levi, and even with lucky RNG beat Levi. So any boost was going to make matches trivial and give a decent chance at Levi 🤷♀️. But guess they still over-shot it to the point a 5 star exec can beat 7 star meta fleets which either is massive Crystal investment or takes along time to slow farm. Not great for promoting investment in fleets.
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.
How on Earth or Geonosis or Coruscant could it NOT be the fault of the QA team? We all know how cheap CG&EA are so I have no problem believing they don’t allocate enough resources for extensive or even adequate testing. I think the continuous train of bugs that’s been rolling for years is evidence of that. However, and this is a pretty big however, even the big desks at game companies understand they lose money when things fail and failures are prevented by testing. I absolutely cannot and will not believe that CG was prevented from doing any testing by policy. Apathy or incompetence? Sure, that I can believe. So they either chose not to test at all or they decided to only test it against the fleet it was designed to counter while completely ignoring the current meta.
It's not the fault of the QA team because there isn't a QA team. I don't know how you can draw any other conclusion.
The real question, to the dev team, is "did you guys even unit test??"
How are you not embarrassed to work here? It's truly mind-boggling how terrible CG is at this stuff.
I feel a full refund is well in order for anyone who spent to 7* You released a kit reveal clearly showing how powerful it was and now you want to take that away? People won't tolerate this BS
They do this so often, surely there’s a legal angle to this, and every other situation, where people have paid for something in this game and it’s promptly been changed or nerfed. Someone with a legal background should put together a class action lawsuit.
For God sake. Just leave it! I just 7* it and now you want to nerf it? The Leviathan has had its day. What the point of this ship then?
Wow, thanks for the update. I almost spent a bunch of money! Let me know when the investigation is concluded, so I know if I want to spend money on whatever the ship will be in the end.
I'll warn everyone on discord.
I was a web developer in the 90s and we never went live without testing thoroughly. But nowadays even Microsoft and big numeric companies don't seem to have that in deep feeling anymore
