Our Feedback to Datacrons
- far too powerful - buffing the top Level team / GL doesn't make sense in the current meta. Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness
- not managable in TW's - imagine there is a 50teams zone with various datacrons for each team. How can guild officers with an acceptable effort to command the right counters and btw is still a tremendous effort to do this in only 24h...
- temporary effect - please extends the periods for each datacron set.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/vmykx6/our_feedback_to_datacrons/
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I’m pretty sure that’s the point. They said in the launch post that the system was built around the idea of having three sets active at once, so they were accelerating the first few sets to roll them all out as soon as possible. That’s why they’re one month each.
If the plan was for them to all only ever last for one month, why would they need to specifically call that out?
Doesn’t make sense?
The current implementation of this stuff is a blatant lie to what CashGrab has written in their „road ahead announcement“. Giving super powers to GLs directly (JMK,Rey) or indirectly (LV…I say only „health steal“) will definitely not be helpful to non-meta teams.
So if you want a pretty frank feedback about Datacrons: Epic Fail !
The best thing would be to get rid of this stuff immediately and whoever had this brilliant idea should be treated just like Mrs. Kennedy by Disney…just get outta here and never come back.
Is there still the bug that crashes the game when an opponent attacks SK on defence?
If yes, then it was not because of your DC
As I read CG's intent, they want datacrons to lift unused parts of our roster (or at least underutilised parts) so that we can get more joy from building up all our toons. I like this notion in essence.
The issue I have with datacrons are that right now I see them mainly attached to already meta GL teams to make them even more meta.
E.g. get the LS bonus that you regen 10% health/prot on stun and daze, then get the GR mechanic that for every special you will stun your target opponent and everyone want to slap that on a JMK team and stick it on defense.
Doesn't add anything to less used teams, just buff the meta.
This is the use case I've seen so far and most of the chatter I've seen around datacrons as well, so I suspect that this is the most accepted general use case.
One possibility would be to exclude teams with GLs from datacron bonuses, if CG really want to boost less used teams/factions. I suspect CG don't want to do this, as the current implementation put even more emphasis on getting GL's, which I suspect drive revenue, but it's the only viable path I see to actually spreading out datacron usage.
The other gripe I have is the sheer cost of getting datacrons to a usable level. I have about 15 datacrons at level 0 (actually I don't since, I dismantled most of them for their 1 piece of mkI acumen), and not nearly enough mats to take more than 1-2 to any sort of mild utility.
This might be the intent, and it's fair in that case, however it further emphasise that you will have very few datacrons to play around with and will tend to stick those on your best teams to lift them above the usual counters.
Whaling will of course get your more datacrons, but for all those not shelling out a ton of cash I don't see most having more than 6 higher level datacrons at any given time = one good datacron for each GL team...
And of course you want the one that buffs you legend.
It's a toxic way to make all things even more unbalanced.
And it's a mechanic that nobody asked on the start, despite the very bad acceptance it got since the leak, so saying doesn't make sense to removing it at this moment, that it's the nonsense.
Look at this:
Whoever designed this one, and moreover the guy agreeing to the roll-out of something like this, is simply just nuts.
It’s completely rushed without thinking or ignoring what consequences it has. Thus perfectly in line with what we have seen over the last couple of months.
I forgot to use my best datacron on my JMK to attack and almost timed out vs a squad with a ‘cron.
Echoing the TW comments for leadership and even the poor guild member trying to counter something that is normally an overkill but suddenly has different characteristics like 218% health steal.
If only any other game out there had a SW license.
If you want to throw shade on our guild that is fine but at least use facts. We did not have more datacrons than our opponent. Besides that datacrons where not the main reason we lost the last TW either.
As mentioned by the op.
1. It adds a lot more stress on tw officers.
2. Instead of buffing B-C teams and making a more diverse meta it strenghtens GLs even more.
3. Imo it lowers the value of certain mod types and secondaries. (eg potency and tenacity)
Actually that was on my mind too. Does SK benefit from data trash?
For instance with the above mentioned galactic republic one with both the stun ability and the ignore protection ability. It's obvious that my current opponent in GAC tried to take my lvl 9 datacron JMK team down with a JMK mirror team without the datacron, and he only managed to kill my GK (with CATs annihilate) - leaving the rest of my team with almost full HP and protection. That feels a bit too much.
Is that really what you intended, CG? That the gap between datacron and non-datacron teams should be this huge?
They have no intention of balancing anything about datacrons after they have been released. The idea is, if it's broken it will naturally cycle out when the set expires.
I agree that lack of materials is a problem.
People would probably be more receptive if they rolled Datacons out in addition to positive news, like the gear economy changes or QOL updates, but instead they’re simply taking the path of least resistance while blatantly disregarding customer feedback.
I don’t think they’ll ever give up on this game while it continues to make money, but it’s becoming apparent that their priorities are shifting elsewhere (LOTR?).
The sad thing they are seemingly not realizing is if they continue to disregard customer feedback, and instead keep releasing blatant money grabs like Datacons, people will get sick of spending and they’ll kill the golden goose.