Impressions after about 3wks of play
So, I'm a mostly free player. What I mean by that is if I play a free game and enjoy it, I throw in a little money here and there to help pay for what I'm enjoying. For example, after a couple weeks, I bought a $5 crystal delivery thing because I'm having fun. I'll never be spending $100, $50, or even $20 a pop because I'm married with 3 young kids, and we're trying to save up for a new house. I just can't afford that on this type of game. Also, buying things like the heroine pack or TFA Ultimate pack or whatever pack kind of defeats the purpose for me. I want to play the game and feel like I'm making progress. I don't want it to be over quickly. I don't begrudge those who do. It's their choice. Go spend and have fun. It's just not for me and takes away from my game experience. I'll take slow, steady progress. So far, that's what I've been getting.
Here's 4 things that I've been frustrated with, however.
1. I got a 4 star Barriss from a bronze pack. Don't care that she got nerfed. She was OP, and even after the nerf, I still use her. She's still hands down my best leader. But my point is, as soon as I got her and started getting into fights with other Barriss teams in the arena, about 50% of my battles ended in draws. My team was Barris, Chewie, Sidious, Luminara, and Talia. (2 healers, 2 attackers, 1 tank). One fight in particular annoyed me. I had 2 seconds left. I hit attack, hit and killed my last enemy, but time ran out while my toon was doing the attack animation and I was given a draw. All 5 of my toons were still alive and at near full health even. And it was a draw? Most of my draws end when I've got my opponent completely beaten. There's no question who's going to win when time just runs out. Now, I'm working on altering my team in ways that add more DPS to fix the issue and I think I'm on the right track. But still, one thing that eats up a lot of my time in fights is attack animations, especially when I go up against Dancing Dooku (that's what I call him). Beating him isn't the issue. But all his counter attack/bonus attack animations eat up TONS of time. I've looked for a way to speed up or even turn off animations in the options, but I can't find anything. Any chance that could be looked at? You could just add a minute to the time limit, and that would solve the problem too.
2. I'm curious how Galactic War match-ups get made. For example, today, my 3rd to last match with my level 50 squad was verses...52 3* Phasma, 50 4* Maul, 45 4* Barriss, 52 4* Vader, 52 4* Kylo Ren. That level 45 Barriss doesn't even matter. He could fight me with the other 4 toons and completely destroy me. He wouldn't even lose a single toon. It wouldn't even be close. I'm guessing the match-ups are based on total team value or something? If so, that 45 Barriss brings his total team value down but completely misrepresents the quality of his team. It's a fight I absolutely have no hope of winning if I throw every character I have at him. I got slaughtered.
3. Any chance of getting some kind of test arena so we can try out different team combinations without having to spend resources (energy/pvp tries/etc.)? Would make the game more fun to have a test ground to see how abilities and team members interact. Would also let me do something meaningful in the game when I'm out of resources. Maybe I could test my squad against the squads of those on my Allies list? Would make my Allies more meaningful rather than just random people I invited to reach the number I needed for the achievement.
4. I've only fought Kylo Ren once besides today's galactic war, but he really ruined me in the galactic war the day before as well and that one was lower level/gear quality (still 4* though). He seems like Sidious (heal immunity..but only 40% at first...bet that can be upgraded) and Dooku (100% counter attack for 1 turn after using Lash Out...at least, I think that's what Retribution is) with a 25% chance to refresh cooldowns every time he takes damage (bet that can be leveled up as well). And he's up for sale for $100. It really looks like a character that will end up getting nerfed, and it looks like another Barriss situation all over again. Is he the only toon with 4 abilities that can be used even if he is not the leader? He has 4 abilities but none of them are a leader ability. He seems very powerful when compared to other toons. However, as stated above, I'm not about to pay for him no matter how good he is, and I don't have him so I can't play with him. Maybe he's not as bad as he looks or my limited combat experience against him seems to suggest. But if he is, Kylo and Barriss are disturbing trends.
That's it. Having fun. Looking forward to more fun.
Krey
P.S. One more thing I just thought of. Any way to change my name? One of my kids was trying to get my attention when I first started playing, and I just clicked through and took the default. Serves me right for not paying attention, but if there was a way to spend 50 or 100 crystals to allow me to change my name, that would be cool. Of course, free would be better, but I'm willing to accept some penalty for not paying attention.
Here's 4 things that I've been frustrated with, however.
1. I got a 4 star Barriss from a bronze pack. Don't care that she got nerfed. She was OP, and even after the nerf, I still use her. She's still hands down my best leader. But my point is, as soon as I got her and started getting into fights with other Barriss teams in the arena, about 50% of my battles ended in draws. My team was Barris, Chewie, Sidious, Luminara, and Talia. (2 healers, 2 attackers, 1 tank). One fight in particular annoyed me. I had 2 seconds left. I hit attack, hit and killed my last enemy, but time ran out while my toon was doing the attack animation and I was given a draw. All 5 of my toons were still alive and at near full health even. And it was a draw? Most of my draws end when I've got my opponent completely beaten. There's no question who's going to win when time just runs out. Now, I'm working on altering my team in ways that add more DPS to fix the issue and I think I'm on the right track. But still, one thing that eats up a lot of my time in fights is attack animations, especially when I go up against Dancing Dooku (that's what I call him). Beating him isn't the issue. But all his counter attack/bonus attack animations eat up TONS of time. I've looked for a way to speed up or even turn off animations in the options, but I can't find anything. Any chance that could be looked at? You could just add a minute to the time limit, and that would solve the problem too.
2. I'm curious how Galactic War match-ups get made. For example, today, my 3rd to last match with my level 50 squad was verses...52 3* Phasma, 50 4* Maul, 45 4* Barriss, 52 4* Vader, 52 4* Kylo Ren. That level 45 Barriss doesn't even matter. He could fight me with the other 4 toons and completely destroy me. He wouldn't even lose a single toon. It wouldn't even be close. I'm guessing the match-ups are based on total team value or something? If so, that 45 Barriss brings his total team value down but completely misrepresents the quality of his team. It's a fight I absolutely have no hope of winning if I throw every character I have at him. I got slaughtered.
3. Any chance of getting some kind of test arena so we can try out different team combinations without having to spend resources (energy/pvp tries/etc.)? Would make the game more fun to have a test ground to see how abilities and team members interact. Would also let me do something meaningful in the game when I'm out of resources. Maybe I could test my squad against the squads of those on my Allies list? Would make my Allies more meaningful rather than just random people I invited to reach the number I needed for the achievement.
4. I've only fought Kylo Ren once besides today's galactic war, but he really ruined me in the galactic war the day before as well and that one was lower level/gear quality (still 4* though). He seems like Sidious (heal immunity..but only 40% at first...bet that can be upgraded) and Dooku (100% counter attack for 1 turn after using Lash Out...at least, I think that's what Retribution is) with a 25% chance to refresh cooldowns every time he takes damage (bet that can be leveled up as well). And he's up for sale for $100. It really looks like a character that will end up getting nerfed, and it looks like another Barriss situation all over again. Is he the only toon with 4 abilities that can be used even if he is not the leader? He has 4 abilities but none of them are a leader ability. He seems very powerful when compared to other toons. However, as stated above, I'm not about to pay for him no matter how good he is, and I don't have him so I can't play with him. Maybe he's not as bad as he looks or my limited combat experience against him seems to suggest. But if he is, Kylo and Barriss are disturbing trends.
That's it. Having fun. Looking forward to more fun.
Krey
P.S. One more thing I just thought of. Any way to change my name? One of my kids was trying to get my attention when I first started playing, and I just clicked through and took the default. Serves me right for not paying attention, but if there was a way to spend 50 or 100 crystals to allow me to change my name, that would be cool. Of course, free would be better, but I'm willing to accept some penalty for not paying attention.
