8 years ago

This game is completely unreasonable

Been playing this game for about a month now, reached level 59 and I've gotten to the point where I think I'm going to stop. There are a multitude of issues I have with this game and I realize that this is pay-to-win and these things might be deemed acceptable due to the predatory business model that EA has chosen to employ but I just needed to air my grievances.

1. Squad Arena
This is more a complaint about the specious "power" statistic than anything, but this number is completely arbitrary. Realistically a squad with a higher number will be victorious more often than not, which has my experience. "Power" does not account for synergy in the cases of the Nightsisters teams and Phoenix squadron teams and grossly under rates certain characters. This is clearly detrimental to people who are looking for a moderate challenge only to be steam rolled by one attack cycle.

2. Galactic War
This is a mode that should become progressively more difficult, not be easy except for one or two roadblock teams that are 10 or 12 levels higher than you are. I have given up ever completing this mode again after my most recent run where the final node is 13 levels higher than I am. It seems like in a lot of these instances the game is designed to pit you against players who have invested much more than you in order to incentivize you to dump money into the game just to be competitive.

3. Character balance
Some of the characters in this game are still too good. Mother Talzin and Boba Fett are prime examples. Teams with Boba on them basically have 6 characters, the fact that his buff can even come back is too much. Execute is not nearly common enough to deal with this. Talzin is a case of being rewarded too heavily for synergy, the NS team just stacks the poison debuff on you much too quickly to be able to do anything.

Naturally I'm sure that the response to these problems is "well you just need to spend more money on the game in order to compete" and if that is really the only solution then I have found the answer I was looking for. If I've hit the wall then there is no more enjoyment to be had for me with this game and I will uninstall it.

tvsfrink
8 years ago
You just need to do some research and learn how you can overcome these hurdles as a F2P. Luckily you're in the right place to do exactly that.
heiligenborre
8 years ago
I give this post a generous 10 minutes to live before being eradicated by the forum police, but quickly a few points:
- After 1 month playing, I get it that you're overwhelmed, but at least there's a good challenge and something fun to do every day. The game is actually quite good at that stage, and for another few months. After, it gets more static and slows down to very slow & long waiting game.
- There's no need to buy anything if you have a bit of patience. I'm fully ftp, but I've started 2 years ago. I'm right there at the top, #1 in both Arenas with all characters unlocked. Follow Master Yoda's teaching: Patience!
NerdWannabe
8 years ago
Hey, i kinda know what you're talking about, since I was at the same point once. I was about 400+ in arena and 50+ in fleet, so I've started from scratch after my guild got me tons of advices. This Account now is rank 30-50 in arena and 1st in fleet since like lvl 60 or smth. 890k galactic power already and 500-550 crystals a day with f2p-account. Not entirely f2p, since I wanted to give smth back and bought 2 Bundles ages ago with toons i dont even use anymore :D gonna be a long post so wait for it ^^
masseffectchris
8 years ago
Time my friend. Just stick with it. Took me 2 years to get to where I am. Maybe 1 had I actually paid money.
adriancoolman
New Novice
8 years ago
lul he thinks boba fett is op

lmao
Stenun
8 years ago
Boba Fett isn't bad. I find you just have to concentrate all fire on him at once - preferably first or last.
If you take him out first then when he comes back hopefully none of your characters will be low on health so he won't bet able to get his Rez back so you can kill him again before he does.
If you leave him to last then it's slightly riskier because your characters could be low on health but if you've beaten all the other opponents then he isn't really much of a problem.

Haven't faced Talzin enough yet to formulate a strategy to reliably deal with her but I'm sure others can help!
Dretzle
8 years ago
No, money is not the only solution.

1) The power number they made more arbitrary, in part, because it is used for Galactic Power calculation for Territory Battles, which is a mode you're probably not up to yet. You've hit the nail on the head that you've got to start learning to look at the team composition you'll be fighting and their gear levels, rather than the power number. The power number represents amount invested into a character. Zeta abilities and star levels greatly add on to this power number, so sometimes it's a good indication without having to look deeper at how many zeta abilities a team has, but don't take it as a gauge on whether you might be able to beat the team or not.

2) First, the Galactic War difficulty is somewhat based on the power of your top 5 characters. You are encouraged to level and gear a few teams concurrently, rather than just one, so that (a) Galactic War doesn't get too difficult and (b) you have multiple teams to use on the difficult nodes.

Also if you get a Resistance team and put a zeta ability on Finn's leadership, Galactic War becomes much more beatable, even at low gear levels.

3) Boba Fett is not too good. He was finally made decent, but is easily beatable. Execute (Boba) and Annihilate (Nihilus) are two abilities that can make him never bounce back. And his health is actually relatively low compared to some other characters, so you're actually getting about 1.25 characters worth of health from him (unless you zeta his unique, then possibly a bit more), not 2. Also, have you thought about using the characters you consider "too good"?

There is one guy on my arena shard that completely built a nightsister squad, 7*, gear 12 Talzin, Zombie, Spirit. Really whaled it up on that one. And I admit, I lost the first battle against him. The Plagues and resurrects, though I thought I was trying to prevent them, really stacked up. Next battle, I beat him easily. It's really a matter of having the right tools and knowing how (and in what order) to use them.
PremierVenoth
8 years ago
Hasn't even reach the epic awesomeness that is Rey yet! The best is yet to come...
#nerfrey
Player_7ctrhms9
8 years ago
"Dementia55372;d-143117" wrote:
Naturally I'm sure that the response to these problems is "well you just need to spend more money on the game in order to compete"

No- to compete in this game you need to spend either money or time.You don't need to spend both, one will do.

If you want to do either of those things then fine. If you don't want to then that's fine as well - go and spend your time doing something you prefer. To be frank- your feelings are of concern only to you.
NerdWannabe
8 years ago
So first you have to understand the server/shard - system, which is ABSOLUTELY unfair and destroys new players. You will spend your time with the same ppl in arena and fleet forever, which means, if it's their second account and they know what they are doing they will get more crystals daily and let you behind after some weeks since crystals = more energy = more toons + more gear = even stronger teams = even more crystals :( so if you like this game you kinda need a plan. Let's say you want to get the strongest dude of them all -> commander luke skywalker. Lea, Ben, han and luke can be farmed, r2d2 can not. So you need a 7* empire team. The Best low level f2p empire always has emperor. Zo get him you need rebels first :D so let's say you will build a rebel team from the beginning. Since there is a credit heist every now and then you want them to participate in it. So Focus on lando and st han. 2 rebells for heist are there already. So the other 3 need to be usefull in smth else. Let's say fleet - akbar + biggs (carries me to 1st rank on daily basis) + wedge