It's Not About the Difficulty, It's About the Surprise
Lots of people are now complaining about Galactic War, and I've been one of them. But I should clarify, because many people have taken the complaining to mean that they don't want any difficulty in the Galactic War.
For me, nothing could be further from the truth. I like difficulty, and I really enjoyed having to strategize to find ways to win the GW "campaign". Now, however, there is no strategy at all, because out of nowhere, I'm facing people almost ten levels higher than the highest I faced the day before. There was no scaling of the difficulty, and thus no opportunity for me and others to gradually adjust my meta-strategy to account for this difficulty.
There was merely an extreme jump in the quality of opponents that I'm facing, and I take from all the other posts that I'm reading that I am not alone in this.
Please do not reply to this with GW strategy tips.
For me, nothing could be further from the truth. I like difficulty, and I really enjoyed having to strategize to find ways to win the GW "campaign". Now, however, there is no strategy at all, because out of nowhere, I'm facing people almost ten levels higher than the highest I faced the day before. There was no scaling of the difficulty, and thus no opportunity for me and others to gradually adjust my meta-strategy to account for this difficulty.
There was merely an extreme jump in the quality of opponents that I'm facing, and I take from all the other posts that I'm reading that I am not alone in this.
Please do not reply to this with GW strategy tips.
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You are not alone. And I also agree I like some level of difficulty. For example I'm F2P and only have three 7* toons. So I like the challenge of facing a full geared 7* team that requires some retreats and strategy to beat. But i've been having this happen to me as early at battle 4. Having this for eight battles in a row i very difficult, yesterday was the first day in some time i wasn't able to beat GW. And the days before that toon at least twice the time to beat compared to normal. At that point there is no different strategies to figure out. It's simply moving characters around and a whole lot of retreating to finally come away with a win.
I would like seeing the challenge build up to the last 3 battles being this hard but no more.
I'm not a fan of this method as I think it's not really a strategy but I have use it once recently when facing a fully geared team that was just taking out everything I threw at them. Like what you described above, the only way I was able to retreat was by Force Closing the game when 4 of 5 of my toons died before being able to go.
Try using a suicide lead team. They have to be close enough in level so one AOE doesn't wipe them all out and strong enough to force at least 4 of the opposing team to move and use their big attacks. Then come back in with your primary team. The other team will still go first but they should only have their standard attacks and, hopefully, you can survive that attack and heal.
As I said, I've only had to use it once but it is an option if you are facing a completely overpowering speed team.