What's going on with Galactic War??
March 5, 2021 2:21AM
edited May 2023
Battles were at least challenging near the end before and I maybe missed two or three wars because of difficult teams, but since Conquest update, the difficulty went up massively, to the point where my heroes can get one shotted even before the sixth battle by some ludicrous opponents...
Is this how things are supposed to go or what? What's up with that?
Is this how things are supposed to go or what? What's up with that?
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This, but I believe that caps at level 85, but I would have to go back and look at the post about this change back on the day.
Once upon a time, there were NO SIMS
GW difficulty used to scale according to the Stat power of your top 5 characters. I believe it still does which would mean that if you upgrade your top team the difficulty increases. If you only have that one strong separatist team you may have trouble with some types of enemy teams - especially since separatists (other than geos) lack healing abilities (apart from the odd self-healing).
This, I hit 50 wins around lvl 80, only to find out that I'll have to do it for another month at least. I've hit hard teams on nodes 3 and 6 before, but not hard enough to end my run. Here's a trick, if you attempt a stun and it doesn't land, restart the fight but rearrange the order of your lineup and you'll find a position from which the stun lands.
Hmm I really don't think the position of your character in your team affects the probability of your stun landing or not.
Restarting the fight gives you another shot at trying to land the stun, but changing the position of the character wouldn't change anything.
It does, don’t ask me why. If you just retreat and try again without changing anything you can literally repeat a battle perfectly move for move, debuff for debuff. But if you swap two characters positions it changes the results.
Here's the first battle on my GW, the first three I didn't change anything and just retreated and started the battle again after the enemy did their attacks (Wicket went before them and did his aoe then basic on Vader). As you can see everything other than the background is identical from the debuffs that landed to the amount of damage done. The fourth one I switched everyone other than Chirpa around and you can see the results changed
GW is a particular case.
If you dont change anything, and take the same actions it will repeat. It was built that way, to give players an upper hand and the ability to retreat and improve, vs just being random each time.
Once you make a change, things are different, probably because it will use a different seed on the RNG calculations, not necessarily directly related to what you changed, e.g. - positions of characters
You hit a real wall as you enter the 70's since Omegas/Zetas are not part of the GP Calculations.
If an opponent team has a lot of those Lvl-8 abilities & you don't they will be a LOT tougher than your thinking they should be.
I found investing in my own Omega/Zeta abilities allowed me to push through much easier.
Newly added abilities from enemy groups happened about at the same time, indeed! And I suppose that being at the brink of level 8 abilities but unable to enjoy them yet can't help the issue at all as well. lol
I will pay attention to how things evolve and post an update here later on. Since I'm in the middle of it all, it's the perfect opportunity to notice minute changes as I level up and if it can help others with similar questions as mines, it's a win in my book.
I use to see a difficult team once a week but a few weeks after lvl 80 never lost again.
Maybe I'll get used to it, but since we have "Territory War" it feels like "War" on its own is inherently ambiguous. I suppose I could say "Galactic Battles: War" but I'll probably end up abbreviating that GBW rather than either using "War" which can be confused with TW or writing it all out, which would be accurate and clear, but tedious.
I do the same. It's how I learned to use Mon Mothma squads to their best ability before I had a chance to gear up MM or any Rebel Fighters.
Also true, but that's what GB:War is for.
I know this is going to sound like "You get better results if you sim in small batches" superstition but, no joke, it actually, factually, does matter what slot your characters are in.
The nearest I can tell is do you remember Civ4? If you played that game you could lock the RNG seed meaning that every die roll was pre-determined at the start of the game, it's just what order those rolls are used and for what purpose that would change. For less determinism, what they did (so I was told) is tie the RNG to each square in the game, so that if you attacked a Barbarian to the left of you and reloaded and attacked again, the result would always be the same because of the locked RNG. But if you attacked a different Barbarian unit to the right of you, and everything else was the same, the result would be different because it was using the RNG from a different square.
I think Galactic War is the same way. So if your first action is to have Finn stun the enemy Phasma and his attack is dodged, you can choose a different target (which will have their own RNG) or move him to another slot (and use his own different RNG) and get a different result. That said, that degree of micromanaging was too hard. It's usually better to just use a different attack, because seemingly even THOSE have different RNGs.
tl;dr on Galactic War: Everything is predetermined, but changing ANYTHING changes EVERYTHING.