So we are about to be able to just sim through GW...
GW has been the topic of many a discussion over the span of this game.
People complained for a long tome that it was too hard... it was adjusted and people complained more.
“I can’t beat it and it takes too much time” was the typical complaint....
So now it’s been made ridiculously easy... just click auto and win for most players who have invested any effort into the game. Thats great and all (always fun to try out different things vs teams you don’t often see) but it’s lost any fun or challenge and is pretty much a cakewalk now...
So now we will just be able to sim through it...
I would have much preferred to bring back the challenge it once held but to ramp up the rewards accordingly....
Make it super tough but give better rewards that reward the player for making in through the battles!
Sim’s for GW seems lame to me... it was one of the things that took a little investment and was fun for experimenting with different teams...
Now it will just be the click of a button and you’re done... that’s not really fun
What do you think?
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If I want to try new teams I just won’t sim it.
No one will actually do this though... do you manually do “challenges” any more? Or cantina battles or hard nodes or whatever for whoever you’re farming?
Nope...
Takes the gameplay element out of the game... GW was fun and required at least some actual gameplay
In my opinion at least
Now, I won't waste my time using my strongest toons on anything in the game that I have already 3 starred. But there are plenty of times when I have used toons that I am currently leveling that I want to test out against an appropriate challenge, so I don't sim in those situations.
I do as well and will continue to do GW manually whenever I'm in the mood. Having options, meaning not mandatory, is good.
If you're everyone else, you get to sim it so you don't have to waste time picking your team, clicking auto, putting your phone down, picking it back up a minute later, claiming your rewards, then doing the same thing for 12 annoying nodes.
As for making it super tough, I don't think it could have been much tougher than it was for some of us. Even then, most of us geared up our Resistance teams and still dominated with ease, which made it a similar experience to what it is now, just without the additional annoying effort of running your Resistance squad in exactly the same way everyday to pull off the victory.
In my opinion, simming GW is long overdue, especially with two different flavors of TB and a third raid on the horizon. There are plenty of options for game play these days, and those options are more rewarding than GW ever was.
I'll probably continue to auto it; I just don't have the stockpile of tickets that a lot of other people have (I've only recently started farming a 20 energy hard node; spend most my energy on gear).
This is a well spoken response... and it makes sense.
I still contend that GW has long been a necessary contribution to the game... yeah it’s true that most days it’s a chore...
...But there has been many times when it was truly fun and challenging
I personally enjoyed it much more when I had to “battle through it” rather then just being able to breeze through it without any real concern...
My understanding is that is was supposed to be a real challenge for your repitoire and a challenge to complete...
Being able to sim it is lame
Then you can do as your heart desires.
In fact, I've been hearing that in terms of difficulty, it's harder for newer players now than it was for veteran players before the alterations.
I imagine those reports are probably accurate if for no other reason than lower level accounts have fewer options than us long time players. When we started to struggle with GW, we just popped a Zeta on Finn and geared up Resistance. If you're level 70 and struggling, you don't have that option.
That said, GW is still going to be a big part of this game for everyone going forward, and for those of us who can go ahead and sim it? We've done our time.
I’ve always liked arena more myself.
That being said, I took a break for a couple of months from the game.
Coming back, I was hoping to be able to test my squads against some of the JTR teams.
Lo and behold, GW is a joke now and doesn’t even represent past meta’s, let alone the current ones.
The game overall is better than it has ever been so I can’t complain too much, but it would be REALLY NICE to be able to choose a hard mode for GW.
In any case, I have over 8,000 SIM tickets so unless they improve the difficulty on that holo table, then I will just SIM the nodes.
It s still a challenge to newer players... and older players have new game modes (tb, tw)...
I'm lucky if I can clear the first half (six nodes) before I run into a team that is all purple gear toons with 10+ levels higher than me. I have had to, on several occasions, use several different teams simply to get to node 8 or 9, as my toons just got slaughtered.
Well when you get to lvl 85 it’s a joke... your resistance team will cruise though it easily
#makeGWtough(again)
I will say that I can agree with you on them adding a "hard mode" option for veterans who do want a challenge (because you aren't the first player that I've seen refer to the current GW as a cake walk).
So you are against simming, but you will sim instead of doing it manually. Very coherent.
New players may suffer until they hit lvl 85 and rub out 150 wins or go blind trying.
All hail our new GW Simming overlords!
Good or bad, how you want to play, that's up to you.
Do not take away.
The latest adjustment that made GW a cakewalk completely ruined it for me. GW used to be my favourite game mode. Sure, i can still use very underdeveloped characters to make it somewhat challenging, but lets not pretent that's the same thing.
Since it's not challenge at all anymore i'm totally fine with GW becomming sim-able, it's a real time safer. Who wants to auto 12 nodes? not me, that's for sure.
If they bring back the old difficulty, or make it even more challenging, i would definately play it again eventhough i could just as easily sim it. Obviously i will use the sim button aswell from time to time, but i would be awesome if i could also play vs challenging teams if i wanted to.
Also I hope they run more tw and tb after making gw simable. Giving us more gameplay rather than less.
heck no! That's the thing that made GW the most enjoyable mode ingame !