[MEGATHREAD] Road Ahead: June 2022 - Datacrons

"DarthGrff;c-2365667" wrote:
What’s sad is I’m a 6 million player in kyber and in gac I’m gonna lose to a 2 million player cause he got good datacrons and I got crap

Nope.

They won't be able to get any decent datacrons until they hit the 4Mgp threshold to play hard mode in Conquest.

Too much! You still haven't addressed all the changes proposed in the state of the gear-lxy or the road ahead from sept/oct last year. I want to care about this but I just don't. Sorry everyone!

Grand Arena is by far my favorite mode. What’s fun about it is the consistency in squads. Knowing what will beat what and how consistently a squad will do that. Datacrons sound like they add a level of randomness to Grand Arena, when this mode should purely be about skill, not randomness. Grand Arena is the primary reason I play this game, and this systems sounds detrimental to the integrity of the mode

Can’t wait to see how many bugs come with this update.

"PrinceHotBod;c-2365680" wrote:
Grand Arena is by far my favorite mode. What’s fun about it is the consistency in squads. Knowing what will beat what and how consistently a squad will do that. Datacrons sound like they add a level of randomness to Grand Arena, when this mode should purely be about skill, not randomness. Grand Arena is the primary reason I play this game, and this systems sounds detrimental to the integrity of the mode

Yep, as I mentioned above, swgoh.gg counter info is about to be worthless. I don’t see how we will be able to be confident in any counter.

I see a few positives in the datacron info.

1. I was doing conquest anyway, so I'll get them for little effort. Sounds like they may conflict with keycard gathering though.
2. They only use resources specific to them, so not decreasing other progress.
3. The relic requirements max out at r7. That's pretty great.

But I see a bunch of negative too.

1. Figuring out how to beat teams will be a much bigger time sink, as you check the details of datacron bonuses, which bonus applies to who in each team, how your datacrons interact with your team. Headache starting already.
2. Counter guides and resources will become much less useful. You might see this as an advantage if you are a more skilled/knowledgeable player.
3. Random for each player. Groan.
4. TW rewards, I assume, will again scale to the size of guild. So like relic 9, the experience of different parts of the community may vary a whole lot.
5. Buffing JMK in the first run seems dumb and needless.

Overall, can't say I'm looking forward to it.

@CG_SBCrumb So with Datacrons being temporary, how much (% maybe?) of the resources we invest into upgrading and rolling disappear with the cycle? It says dismantled, but is it a 1:1 ratio?

Will we be able to see the datacrons equipped on the opponent’s team (like we can see mods, zetas, omicrons, etc) in GAC and TW? That would be important to know before taking the usual counter against it.

I would love to see CG post some positive feedback from the beta test about datacrons. Either it’s good and they’re terrible at describing it or it isn’t and they ignore us and their beta testers. I was in software development for 25 years and if I ever had a reaction to one of our beta tests like this we would have been horrified.

I literally don't even want to read the post. Datacrons don't even sound appealing. No interest in pursuing this new "feature", which seems more like a cash grab.
Outside of Omicrons, what new things have come out this year?
This feels like a bummer/letdown.