State of the Game: September 2021

[Agent_mater]

Broom emojy is hinting on owl house

[Filadae_Djaq]

@LetsGetDangerousBro

Broom emoji next to “new IPs.” Hmmm…

Hocus Pocus or Broomsticks and Bedknobs

[Ozi_swag]

Maybe the broom emoji is just giving us a. Hint that characters from the Owl house probably gonna come

[Rinoxer0nte]

@Filadae_Djaq

Hocus Pocus

I was thinking more about this one

[The_Real_Numi]

@Loutre

We have a great lineup of characters planned for the rest of the year that will introduce new IPs into the game

If broom is anything to go from, it´s Cinderella (as evidenced by Fairy Godmother + Polaris mentioning in one of the previous SotGs stuff about princesses coming in 2021).

@Loutre

We’ve heard your feedback on hero refreshes so we’re planning to do some smaller stat buffs.

Thank god.

@Loutre

For example: You must use Baymax, You can’t use Blue Heroes, At least 1 Support hero must be used.

Let´s see how that goes. Not quite interested in it yet. I don´t know rewards from them (maybe the non-trial badge bits?)

@Loutre

We’re starting some deeper analysis of our game system and economies to ensure they’re healthy and we keep them growing at a balanced rate.

Megabits scaling hopefully soon then. It´s awful now.

@Loutre

We’re in early brainstorming for expanding cosmetics in a new direction and a possible scavenger hunt system

WHAT!? (reference to Y6 badge, too)

@Loutre

As we plan for the long term, we’ll be asking again for your feedback and areas where we can make quality of life improvements.

Me like that

@Yunno

One thing I would love to share is the insane cost of red skills. Above is how many red skill chips and hero chips needed to max (currently at lv 265). It is simply too much and it can’t keep increasing indefinitely like this

About this - it would be good to give more RS Crates or just rebalance Skill Chips in CW again. It´s pretty bad that while we need 150 in current raise on old servers, the CW we are doing only gives 95. Should be those 150 instead.

[PawpsicleSticks]

@Loutre

We’re currently putting the final polish on Trial Events. […] team rules. For example: You must use Baymax, You can’t use Blue Heroes, At least 1 Support hero must be used. Then you’ll progress through waves of enemies to collect rewards. This system will give us the flexibility to make fun and unique events focused on heroes, which are the core of the game.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but it sounds like the plan is for the challenge to come from restrictions to the player’s choices? That seems bland on its own, so I’d like to bring up an old favorite suggestion topic for something similar:

@Rin_the_Hateful

where you’d fight teams that would never be encountered anywhere else, with rules that will make you smack yourself in the head. I don’t care about the prizes, there probably should be some but that’s not my point.

Example challenges that I thought of:

• Two Ralphs, two EVEs with one star Calhoun disks. Rule: enemies can’t gain Energy. All enemies are given 100 Energy per second. Literal hell breaking out every 10 seconds!
• Hercules, Rex, Violet, Tia Dalma, Kevin Flynn. Rules: enemies have cooldown reduced on knockback abilities. Enemies are kept alive as long as Kevin Flynn is on the battlefield. Can you get to him in the backline with everyone else in the way?
• Any team. Every 15 seconds all units on the battlefield gain Charmed status for 5 seconds. Can you manage this chaos?

So yeah, there would likely be a lot more room for creative fights if there was more focus on enemy lineups, and you reused parts of Challengers rules. Hopefully PB will consider this, if they haven’t already?

[Musketeer]

@The_Real_Numi

If broom is anything to go from, it´s Cinderella

It’s not a new IP…

It’s The Owl House (hopefully) or Hocus Pocus.
Fits with the trend of badge → hero from the IP.

[Loutre]

@PawpsicleSticks

Hopefully PB will consider this, if they haven’t already?

Already the plan!

[Sra_Malevola]

Who will be ?

[Wilde_Times]

@Loutre

We have a great lineup of characters planned for the rest of the year that will introduce new IPs into the game , and expand some existing groups .

The broomstick could be Hocus Pocus, but I’m not too sure. The muscle to me might be Hercules. I’m betting we may be getting either Phil, or Pain & Panic

[Pipsqueak]

Thanks for the post!

I do have a quick question, the bulk of which might be better answered in the Q&A (please log it if so!) but might be able to be addressed briefly here.

Do the team record/review usage logs of features like the filter system, red skill slider and power promotions?

I remember a celebration post from @Polaris years ago that featured some quite specific and detailed numbers on various game aspects, so I assume data on the usage of these features to be at least possible to collect if it isn’t already.

I ask as it often seems that an enormous amount of dev time is spent on things like this, that to the average player seem almost entirely pointless and hardly ever actually used, thus inconsequential to the playing experience. We wonder why resources are allocated to these things, when there appear to be far more pressing ‘issues’ that need resolving (eg. war matchmaking, guild progression, the mystery of The Codebase) or even fresh ideas that could be brought to enhance the game.

That would be my main gripe with the progress since the previous State Of The Game and indeed previous to that; time being spent on features hardly anyone wants or needs, when other areas of the game desperately need attention. Most of the listed additions in the post fall under this banner.

Glad to hear that more regular hero buffs are being considered, as this definitely will improve most people’s playing experience.

The Trial Events also sound interesting, but please make them genuinely difficult. The Fozzie Trial was boring as it really made no difference what heroes we selected, we could complete it regardless. We’re all capable of pressing buttons

[Loutre]

Monitoring data on specific parts of the game is a specific job so someone who monitors that would not also be working on resolving war matchmaking or guild progression.

[Pipsqueak]

I mean the time allocated to producing features in the first place hence wondering if their success/usage was monitored

[Ozi_swag]

Well I would like to see some new hero collection like one for Big hero 6

[Filadae_Djaq]

That’s coming soon

[Ozi_swag]

I’ll keep that in mind

[Jonthegamer0117]

@Loutre that dug gif is that a hint dug is coming soon

[Musketeer]

@Jonthegamer0117

dug

He is already in game.

[Jonthegamer0117]

Did I miss something lol either its been a while or they did a secret update and did not realize a dog was in game now lol

[Loutre]

Yes! We do monitor that!