First Reactions to February Release Notes
February 4, 2016 1:30AM
edited February 2016
Please note this is posted about 20 minutes after the "February Release Notes" were posted. So apologies if my first reactions prove misguided.
Smart Business with Events System Now the only way to get [Yoda] will be to have five (typo on the seven?) fully starred Jedis. Start cranking with the shards!
Arena will be a totally new and better experience. The fact that you see the entire squad (and their stats) ahead of time will allow you to plan battles (mixing up toons) and avoid battles with low likelihood of winning. Much more strategy and thoughtfulness required. Couple that with a better sniping system and should be a lot of fun.
Shard Shop seems thoughtful. Makes a lot of sense and look forward to see detailed workings!
Energy windows = easy way to add content. Good move. Frankly, now I need to plan my days in more detail. LOL.
Effective mini-nerf to Phasma. She's my lead, as is the case with three quarters of the top 50 in my server, so makes sense to nerf. Reducing the ally assist is a soft nerf that makes her less necessary for meta. Gut math is that she continues to be lead for most, but lets reserve judgement. A bunch of my attacks are non-attacks (taunt, turn meter manipulation, heal, you name it). So yeah, effectively less damage to the opposing team.
Poe Nerfed? Reducing the expose % by 15 will move the needle. That's an average of one less toon exposed at the beginning, or so. Reduced tenacity reduces his heal too.
Leia finally does not always 100% crit. Only fair.
Those are my initial major needle-moving headlines. I'm sure more will be digested soon. Great job @EA_Jesse , @CG_JohnSalera and the rest of the devs!
Smart Business with Events System Now the only way to get [Yoda] will be to have five (typo on the seven?) fully starred Jedis. Start cranking with the shards!
Arena will be a totally new and better experience. The fact that you see the entire squad (and their stats) ahead of time will allow you to plan battles (mixing up toons) and avoid battles with low likelihood of winning. Much more strategy and thoughtfulness required. Couple that with a better sniping system and should be a lot of fun.
Shard Shop seems thoughtful. Makes a lot of sense and look forward to see detailed workings!
Energy windows = easy way to add content. Good move. Frankly, now I need to plan my days in more detail. LOL.
Effective mini-nerf to Phasma. She's my lead, as is the case with three quarters of the top 50 in my server, so makes sense to nerf. Reducing the ally assist is a soft nerf that makes her less necessary for meta. Gut math is that she continues to be lead for most, but lets reserve judgement. A bunch of my attacks are non-attacks (taunt, turn meter manipulation, heal, you name it). So yeah, effectively less damage to the opposing team.
Poe Nerfed? Reducing the expose % by 15 will move the needle. That's an average of one less toon exposed at the beginning, or so. Reduced tenacity reduces his heal too.
Leia finally does not always 100% crit. Only fair.
Those are my initial major needle-moving headlines. I'm sure more will be digested soon. Great job @EA_Jesse , @CG_JohnSalera and the rest of the devs!
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Brienne of Tarth is not amused
Fixed! Sorry. At least give me credit that I was correct on the the rest of that section with the pronouns...
"hhmmm, lemme see...*refresh* Poe, Phasma, Sid, Dooku, Poggle
*refresh*
Poe, Sid, Phasma, Lumi, Genosian soldier
*refresh*
Poe, First order Tie Pilot, Sid, Phasma, Lumi
*refresh*
Poe, QGJ, Sid, First order Tie Pilot, Poggle
ect. ect. ect.....
I'm going to get destroyed.
Bye bye sub 100 rewards.
You know, a natural extension of this is to be able to set up your defense team (maybe after your 5 battles?). I'f i'm going to adjust my team to fight a specific player, I'll want to finish my last battle with my basic A-Team or a defense team, you know what I mean?
Every new player starts on a relatively new server
thanks
Thank you. This made me laugh out loud.
Yeah, I realized once looking over the top ranks in arena and such. I just like making redundant statements
The DoT can't kill anyone... DoT goes first then the heal.
Yeah, I do. But that won't happen any time soon.
And even if that does happen that means I only get four decent shots at winning in Arena.
I expect to drop below 200 to be honest, especially as lower ranks reach the level cap.
missing offense/defense adjustments
missing rework of detonators
missing bugged targeting of stealth units(not including full stealthed team)
These may be addressed in the Q&A
-overall very happy, to me this amount of work just shows intent, and care put into their baby. Everything takes time to be balanced and I appeciate all the hard work great job CG!
If there were faction bonuses, you'd be set!
But alternative teams are frowned upon now. Only cookie cutters are allowed to compete in Arena.
(Yes, I'm salty)
Please release Star Wars Rogue One teaser trailer asap to make up for this....
LOL, pretty much. Except that, as per @EA_Jesse :
The Home button is now available in the upper right. The Refresh opponent list button has been moved.