Order 66 Bad Batch

You assume they care at all about your time, effort, and resources. This game is absolute joke now.

Probably not in all honesty 

I understand that with larger factions you can have squads that can't max the raid tier that their relics qualify them for. I get it. The goal there is to 7* and relic the best toons from that faction. 

And I understand that BB has 10 members. If they were all eligible for the raid, then having nuBB perform well and oldBB perform poorly would be fine. 

But this is the new faction that they're pushing and OG BB aren't even eligible. There is no sub-par team comp because there are only 5 toons. It's one team. They're either capable or they aren't. 

And even with that it would be okay for them to underperform if they were some old squad like Jawas or even a mix of really old and later era but still old toons, like the Tuskens. 

But this is the new featured squad. The DS clones aren't a squad on their own. They rely on Tarkin in the raid and LV outside of it. Jedi Vanguard aren't a squad on their own, but Kelleran Beq + one new toon (Jocasta Nu) crushes it. 

Why in the world would they take the only new squad, with only five eligible characters in the faction, and give them a modifier that doesn't allow them to complete the raid at the difficulty tier intended for their relics? We're supposed to take 5 toons to r9 to get r7 or r5 rewards? 

Please. 

If the toons can't perform, that's because CG's modifier is badly crafted. Get it together, CG. 

My Bad Batch are all r7. They still got 1.8m after the update, so why should resources be returned? 

They've proven time and time again that they don't test stuff. It amazes me the amount of people who blindly sink a ton of resources and irl money into the brand new shiny stuff only to see cg nerf it/or realize that the new stuff doesn't work. Buyer be ware.

They met your complaint with $20 packs for 30 shards, level 50 and gear 5 per toon.  It’s just a matter of time before the shards are consolidated and severs shut down.  CG will be boarded up and they’ll be begging Google and Facebook for janitor jobs. 

USAFmedic129 wrote:

It’s just a matter of time before the shards are consolidated and severs shut down.  CG will be boarded up and they’ll be begging Google and Facebook for janitor jobs. 

Game has been dying since day 1, try again 🙄

This is one of the rare instances I'm not sure they owe compensation.  This isn't an example of them missing on the balance, then "fixing" it in a way that hurts the player.  This is a clear bug that was giving unintended buffs to the player, which they're simply correcting.  They also informed us very early on that this bug was present (might have even been the day it launched?) and that they'd be fixing it.  Did you miss that notice?

You could argue they should notify the player in-game of this stuff, though.  Not everyone peruses the forum, YouTube videos or Discord SWGoH news.

Yeah, me too. I want the refund the materials and gear. 663589713 ALLY CODE for the refund  CG CG_Meathead​ 

I just watched the Egnards video on this. I had lucky timing, I guess? We started a new raid a night or two before the fix and I had already run BB when the fix went up, so I haven't played it yet. Egnards says that it's possible with r7 and Darjelo says the same in this thread. Both of these people are credible to me and I believe both. 

That said!

Egnard also details how the core mechanics of BB don't work at all in the raid below r9 unless you're playing the most basic 300k tier. Target practice doesn't work because marking enemies causes them to stealth, so you can't focus fire to burn one enemy down, picking up Target Practice along the way OR you can't use specials from Hunter & Batcher which are core to making the team function. Target Practice is also effectively reset each round. Now this TP reset between rounds bothers me less since the core difficulty changes when you eliminate Fox & Appo, so a new round is going to be easier than the first round, and you did that without any starting Target Practice. Even so, it's important to acknowledge that TP and Marked are core to how BB function, and hanging on to TP between rounds becomes much more important if Marked isn't working so it's already a nightmare to build TP stacks and to keep them going. 

No Marked and no Target Practice ruins nuBadBatch. 

This is part of a negative philosophy of game design where characters are given cool things that they can do, and then the important challenges for your characters are given their difficulty NOT by giving the enemy cool things that they can do, but by preventing the player from using any of the cool things they can normally do.

This philosophy sets up challenges for teams that rely on spreading debuffs by giving the enemy +1000% tenacity - meaning that the core mechanic of the squad simply doesn't function. It challenges teams that rely on dodge by giving the enemy can't-miss attacks. 

This is wrong.

I don't care about a challenge being difficult. That's why it's called a challenge. But we save ability materials for a reason. People complain about not finding enough zetas for a reason. The reason is that we want our characters to be able to do the cool things that they were designed to do. 

To tell BB players that they can only use BB if they give up Marked & Target Practice is to tell players that BB is no longer allowed to be cool.

EVEN WHEN OUR TEAMS ARE GETTING DESTROYED BY POWERFUL ENEMIES, we still want them to be cool and do cool things.

This is bad game design. CG is deliberately and purposefully killing the cool. And if they're doing that, why play the game anyway?