I can't be the only one...
November 30, 2017 8:25PM
edited November 2017
So, I've gotten incredibly frustrated as of late with opponents that do things that literally cannot be done in the game...and they do it all the time. I had just assumed that people had hacked the game and were cheating, but it does not make it any less frustrating. I have spent way too much time and money on this game to just tolerate this without speaking up. Just in the last couple of weeks I've seen:
Character Battles
- Squads that are a lower level than mine (Mine is Lvl 85, 7 Star) kill my entire squad without a single one of my characters ever getting a single turn. This, of course, should be absolutely impossible. Yet it happens at least once a day.
- Characters that attack or counterattack far more than their maximum amount. Frequently a single opponent character will pick one of my squad and attack repeatedly until that character dies. As many as 7, 8, 9 times in a row without interruption. I just had Dooku counter 9 times in a row right before I logged on to write this. Pretty sure that isn't supposed to happen, right?
- Stunned characters who get hit, become unstunned, counterattack, then go back to being stunned. Seriously, you can't tell me this isn't cheating.
- Opponents who don't take damage. They just don't. I can wail away at them for turn after turn, doing tens of thousands of points of damage, and their health bar doesn't move.
- Health and/or Protection meters refilling completely after every hit. I'm not referring to zeta Savage here either.
Ship Battles
- Squads at a waaaaay lower level than me (Lvl 60-65 and 3-4 stars lower) killing in 1 hit. Your 3 star ship blows up my Lvl 85 6 star Asoka's or Jedi Consular Starfighter in 1 hit? HOW?
- Ships that GAIN protection from damage. Basically, the more damage you do to them, the more protection they gain.
- Nonexistant cooldowns. Abilities that have 3 turn cooldowns being done turn after turn. Not after using Master Plan, just all the time.
- The Endurance performing its ultimate "Convergence" ability on turn 3, and then every subsequent turn until you lose.
I've already started playing other games as a result of the frustration. If these things aren't fixed soon, I will absolutely take my time and money elsewhere.
Character Battles
- Squads that are a lower level than mine (Mine is Lvl 85, 7 Star) kill my entire squad without a single one of my characters ever getting a single turn. This, of course, should be absolutely impossible. Yet it happens at least once a day.
- Characters that attack or counterattack far more than their maximum amount. Frequently a single opponent character will pick one of my squad and attack repeatedly until that character dies. As many as 7, 8, 9 times in a row without interruption. I just had Dooku counter 9 times in a row right before I logged on to write this. Pretty sure that isn't supposed to happen, right?
- Stunned characters who get hit, become unstunned, counterattack, then go back to being stunned. Seriously, you can't tell me this isn't cheating.
- Opponents who don't take damage. They just don't. I can wail away at them for turn after turn, doing tens of thousands of points of damage, and their health bar doesn't move.
- Health and/or Protection meters refilling completely after every hit. I'm not referring to zeta Savage here either.
Ship Battles
- Squads at a waaaaay lower level than me (Lvl 60-65 and 3-4 stars lower) killing in 1 hit. Your 3 star ship blows up my Lvl 85 6 star Asoka's or Jedi Consular Starfighter in 1 hit? HOW?
- Ships that GAIN protection from damage. Basically, the more damage you do to them, the more protection they gain.
- Nonexistant cooldowns. Abilities that have 3 turn cooldowns being done turn after turn. Not after using Master Plan, just all the time.
- The Endurance performing its ultimate "Convergence" ability on turn 3, and then every subsequent turn until you lose.
I've already started playing other games as a result of the frustration. If these things aren't fixed soon, I will absolutely take my time and money elsewhere.
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Edit: oh and btw, you should get to know character abilities... dooku has 100% counter chance.
Resistance? Yes, if Finn is zeta'd and Poe goes first and gets some exposes, you're toast.
Dooku has 100% counter attack and he also has a multi-attack chance. Under a Darth Nihilus lead, he gains health steal. If you don't have someone who can daze, stun, or provide heal immunity he can be very tough.
Entirely possible under certain circumstances, especially if this character was Savage Oppress.
After you hit them or after they hit you? There are scenarios in which both can happen.
The moral of the story is that there are a lot of complicated mechanics in play and understanding them all can be difficult (I still need to remind myself of Barris' obnoxious passive dispel). But learning them lets you compose effective squads that you can put to your own advantage.
Pilot level.
What *mod the pilot has
Level of the *mod
Pilot - special ship ability level
Pilots level of abilities
Pilot’s gear slots filled or empty
Are the ships individual abilities maxed out
Ship level
Star level of ship
"Why is that FO Tie Fighter using strafe every turn? It must be cheating!"
Literally everything you've described can be explained by a mechanic that exists within the game. Team taking multiple turns before you? Then your team is way too slow. Dooku countering multiple times? Guess what? He has a 100% counter chance AND a multi-attack chance. The way his counter works is, every hit he's countering has a chance to be a multi-hit counter. So if you hit him more than once in 1 turn, you're going to get hit back A LOT. Stunned characters immediately breaking out of stun to attack and then get stunned again? Probably a zSavage, who pulls his team's debuffs off and puts them on himself (in other words, you probably stunned him and someone else, he broke out of his stun, then pulled the other stun off the other character). Characters regaining health immediately after taking damage? Either you fought a zbarris team or you fought a chaze team and they had multiple HOTs stacked together from you doing damage to them.
Star count means virtually nothing when it comes to characters other than what events they can participate in. The difference in power between a 4-star and a 7-star is minimal at best. What matters is gear level, mods, synergy and what zetas are in play. If you have no mods, it doesn't matter if your characters are g12 and 7-star, you'll still be outclassed by a weaker team with better mods, synergy and the right zeta(s).
Maybe you should spend less time filling the forums with empty threats, and more time learning the multitude of mechanics that exist in this game so you can avoid these situations in the future.
Huh, I didn't know that, but it makes sense. So an increase on certain toon's stats?
As far as fleet goes, strategy plays a larger role than in the squad arena. That's probably why you're losing to fleets with lower power ratings. It happens to me all the time but that's because I'm using the ships I enjoy rather than the ones that would lock my spot.
Squad arena is a little different. I can agree that certain counters do get ridiculous and frustrating, especially when they are backed by some special ability or buff. However, they have only forced me to learn the more about the game and improve my squad. I'd suggest you do the same, cause you'll be laughing with joy when you start seeing your own toons doing the same thing to your enemy.
Probability: at least 85% chance.
One of the new guys, Marty from Des Moines, wasn't really skilled at 500. We think he had some memory issues due a head trauma he suffered when he ran into a tree while fetching a poorly thrown frisbee. At least the permanent lump and saggy eyelid were strong indicators that something was amiss with him. Anyways, as 500 is a game that strongly favors those with a fair amount of memory skills, Marty went 2-57 over a 6 week span. The two games he won were due to excessive drunkenness by his opponents. He was a proud fella, and didn't take to losing very well. At the beginning, he claimed he didn't understand the rules, and blamed us for not explaining them to his satisfaction. Then, when those excuses became stale and were no longer reasonable, he accused everyone of cheating. He thought we were conspiring together and playing footsies under the table to work against him. This angered a few us us, especially Biff, who one night had a few too many brews and decided to pop 'ol Marty once in the eye when he called him a cheat. Thankfully, Marty selected the non-saggy eye for his fist, so as not to cause 'ol Marty even greater damage to his misshapen noggin.
Sadly, this was the last game that Marty played with us. We all concluded that maybe this game just wasn't for him, and he was a better fit for the cooks in the mess tent who played checkers after their shifts ended.
PLEASE stop assuming we are all facing opponents and game modes that provide the same opportunities you, My critical compatriots , have enjoyed. If I could succeed in Building Materials Challenges and Fleet arena more often, I would have more Zetas and Credits to level up existing toons AND get the new superpower toons. I have studied the guides enough to know that it matters which Arena group of 3000 players you get assigned to. I wasn’t willing to quit and start over for a better chance to buy shards in the squad arena store. There is a lot of gambling and a lot of timing that we do not control in this game. The developers are somewhat responsive to the forums. That’s why a lot of us report dissatisfaction here. So let us do that, lucky or advanced players, and try not to be *****y egomaniac self boosters at the expense of the rest of us.
Useful information is welcome, put downs are not.
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