Message from the EP

"OTBCreator;303120" wrote:
Not having to grind was what made this game different than the others. It meant that it was easy for others to catch up and it was actually fun because everyday, you could progress, no matter what. Now it's much harder and many people obviously feel as though its not worth it. The biggest way for this game to grow and get more money was the word spread by those who already played and lover it, but now that you changed a lot in the game to please a few in arena, you have lost many clients EA

I would agree that's a valid point for many of us. Somebody else mentioned having a family, job, etc., as well and I think that's quite true. When we have time to play the game we want to get a little something for that time. I can't sit and grind for 10-hours straight like I did back when I played WOW and the energy accumulation doesn't allow for that anyway without copious amounts of crystals. I love putting energy into Arena, GW is challenging but still fun. Farming shards and gear at least you can SIM through that stuff. The change to the challenges was a little disappointing, not game-ending, because they are quite challenging now. For me it was nice to get some gear that was only semi useful really and throw it on auto while I was at my desk or while I was getting ready for work. I think most of us are excited about the guild raids that are coming, I am for sure, but that is something that will also take more time. If "Ship Battles" come out that will be very cool but also require more time. Many of us are in a position where we really have to pick and choose where we can allocate our time with this game, but unfortunately to be successful you really need to do everything. Things like the challenges... perhaps these could be dialed back a bit so you can at least auto it. I fully support having toons that are geared and capable of doing it, shouldn't be a push over, but I think it's okay to have some things in the game that are easy and some that are challenging. Worthwhile things like Arena, future Raiding, Ship Battles are the things that are fun, worthwhile, and should be challenging.

I like the update, I see the reasoning for many things; there are just some tweaks that still need to be made.

So my opinion of the PVP Arena changes so far is blah, ...instead of 1:30 to beat a team it now takes 3:30... So if that was the overall plan (extend battle) to make the Arena better it was a success. TIme will tell but I don't see that it changes things substantially. I do,feel that the extended battles is a far greater benefit to the attacker because. The AI is "willy-nilly" all over the place so it makes it much easier for the attacker to win through concentrated fire... So in respect to that it will be far less likely that the attacker will ever lose (against similar strength teams).

I do feel, that they really need to look at different options for GW, I finished today without too much problem but I can see how that could really become a nightmare when you come up against 2-3 "terror" teams in a row. We are already always starting at a disadvantage in the GW "arena" top that off with every new opposition having full protection... It could get real ugly real fast... IMO

"OTBCreator;303051" wrote:
@EA_Jesse I read through and I believe the large change that people don't like about the turning is that it is not consistent between every part in the game. The Arena is all fine because it createseems a need for new teams. However, the changes from the update have not been moved to the challenges. All challenges now are so much more difficult that it's hardly possible to beat them. Yesterday I couldn't beat tier 3 with my team that I have consistently beaten it with before. Today I only beat it once because I got really really lucky. Plus there is a glitch on today's challenge where savages health bar in the top right part of the screen doesn't move. Please rebalance the game in this and overall. Qui Gon was hit to hard in my opinion too because he as an individual is basically worthless.

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Lets put it this way...


To find out all the toons they fucked up...think of Starwars and think of the first 10 characters that come to mind.

They screwed them all up to the point of it not being worth using(except for dooku because his leader ability is currently fucked up in players' favour)

"Redvirusexe;303136" wrote:
Tried GW again and I managed to beat it with 2 teams without losing a single toon. 1st team: Baris lead, lumi, Jedi Counsular, Sid & clone wars chewie. 2nd team: dooku lead, RG, Daka, QJG and GS.
Took around less than an hour to beat GW.

I am going to guess all 7* and gear 8 plus right?

I'm completely f2p. Level 73. Have previously been maintaining rank 45 in arena and winning gw consistently. Playing since January.

I love this update. It's exactly what the game needed. Arena is SO much more fun now. It might need another minute added to the timer, though.

Gw is great. I can see that many more teams are viable. It does take a bit longer, but it's more fun now!

All in all great job. Continue to build off this skeleton and even the unhappy people will come around.

Tank challenge tier IV. Why the heck does each JC have more health than my RG? That speaks volumes.Do you know how annoying it is to take down three JCs with more than 20k hp each?It's VERY annoying when they heal each other. Spent more than 15 mins on a single challenge.Good job devs. Is this your first time developing a game?Why are your development decisions so bad?

My time is precious. Respect it,like how the devs on clash royale do.

As a FTP player, this is getting harder, and it demands more time. My experience so far, the highest tier in STR challenge is now impossible to finish (though I won once. ONCE. And it was by pure luck, I guess ) Then I managed to finish tier 4 AGI challenge with debuffers & stunner 7* phasma, *6 dooku, *6 poggle, 5* JC(for emergency heal) and 4* Talia. Then I think I'm gonna pass on INT challenge because I don't even have a 6* tank and none of my toons will use the reward items yet. For GW, it takes too much time now (and patience) I hope we can regen the protection bar. I have 5 max level (lvl73) toons whose protections are all gone, then the opponent's team is lvl 75 with full protection, high speed toons and with Dooku as leader...so..GG...I've sacrificed suicide squads just to take out damagers on the last 4 GW rounds...15 of my toons died in GW and I make sure their deaths will not be in vain. But I have won the GW. I have avenged them.

So far, I don't have much problem in Arena as of now. I'm fine with rank between 150 and 200.

The protection thinggy is kinda weird tho.

"SaintEaters;302963" wrote:
If by slow toons get damage increase you meant less than 100 speed then what was said is true, otherwise it was a lie. The biggest damage dealers that are fast got the least damage reductions while slower toons that already did low damage got bigger damage reductions. Magma barely did any damage before the update and now he isn't even usable. Why reduce Barris of all toons? Slow tanks got reduced, Anakin is dead, but Rey can still do 10k damage in one shot. Qui-gon can still remove positive and give offense up to whole team and do about the same damage as Mace can with his special, which doesn't give anything, bc his special damage was nerfed, and he is 1 of the slowest toons in the game.

The meta is still the same. I still see the same teams in arena bc they are still the best toons. It's like there was no real balancing, just an attempt to make games last longer and challenges harder. Why would it be said that these fast toons would see reductions in damage but then reduce almost every other toon more than them? I am truly stomped on this matter. Go to SWGOH.gg and look at what was done. The balance was reduced.

Agreed agreed ... I agree. Ea, just tell us which toons to buy. The arena is boring. I fight the same team over and over. Just the name of the player changes.
Still love gw, and appreciate more of a challenge in the chalenges. Before I would have just simmed them instead of auto option.
You nerfed the hell out of tie pilot. If I go for reya are you going to nerf her too?

"Snoochiebear;303242" wrote:

"Redvirusexe;303136" wrote:
Tried GW again and I managed to beat it with 2 teams without losing a single toon. 1st team: Baris lead, lumi, Jedi Counsular, Sid & clone wars chewie. 2nd team: dooku lead, RG, Daka, QJG and GS.
Took around less than an hour to beat GW.

I am going to guess all 7* and gear 8 plus right?

Dude I beat GW with 1 suicide squad today. GW difficulty is based off your highest Arena squad power. So yea...you kind of need a "deep bench". But mine consists of a handful of lvl 65 4* gear level 7 toons.
I have two 7* characters so no, you don't need a full roster of maxed out toons to beat it

In Ewan's Kenobi voice

" EA said, they would bring balance to the force.... not leave it in darkness"