What We're Working On for Ultimatum

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Krashkraken wrote:

I am a long way from "end-game" but the risk/reward of the Ultimatums seem totally out of whack.

I am a miner so the mechanics of the Ultimatums is somewhat easier for me (can fill the screen before the mobs spawn -- can keep running whilst dropping mines and traps, etc) but even I find the encounters unreliable. Some are easy as pie and others are insta-deaths. I will do the first level of each Ultimatum because I can pre-fill the screen with mines, but after that it is just craziness. I cant imagine how much hell these Ultimatums must be for a Bow toon. You have to stop and fire at them???? That is death. Probably ok for a cyclone toon if you have nice rig (otherwise the lag would toast you).

Any toon who has to shoot/strike/cast in a directional manner to do damage is simply screwed. I thought Rituals for tough for them, but at least you had room to Dash and shoot. These are micro-zones of death with escalating skills that shrink the area with every level.

I hope they change these encounters soon. Without them the league is just a nerfed version of some past leagues (no loot, no maps, no fun).

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vio wrote:

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bauermayers wrote:

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vio wrote:

from my point of view they did a amazing job.

Sure, amazing job when you have a league start that looked like it was planned and executes by children and with streamers skipping queues on top of it.

Yeah, amazing job indeed.

beside their streamer priority issue which reasoning also escapes me, how could they have handled the league start better?

they did load tests with bots and everything before the league started and couldn't find the database shard size issue they ran into.

you think children can setup a postgreSQL database cluster to simultaniously serve millions of players?

could you do the job?

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Everything you say here is right i am already started with the league then get bored coz nothing to look up to

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Kulthanel wrote:

Returned to this thread to add some questions here that wont get answer but at least some players might start question themselves more about the state of this game..

How long do you think players are going to handle this abuse of constant nerfs and you asking for more money while you're already swimming in 50-70 million usd profits?

The league like last were both unrewarding when you "fail" the mechanic aka die or disconnects/crashes/server crashes you name it.
2 Leagues in a row with the same mechanic almost and this one is much much worse regarding risk vs reward philosophy you're trying to sell in every stream dev's show up talking about this league.

Map drops are bugged or nerfed? it's every league the same thing, ultimatum barely gives maps.. for example to get maps on delve = city and even so I'm not sure you have ever fixed the bug where it was giving t1-t9 maps when you were sitting at A9.

I'm sure this week or the next you will nerf the monsters as intented but also the reward will be nerfed as well because now that the mechanic is not super "threatening" players shouldnt get good things either.

The point here, you're nerfing every reward, everything almost decent fun or where players start clearing your game a bit fast every league.. it's gotten to the point that being a Tggg dev is like nerf the hell out of everything every 90 days without remorse but hey I like money so give pls.

Happy for those that still enjoy the game in general but currently between their decisions and nerfs and this launch clearly the direction of this game is not going into the fun direction, clearly. Sucking the fun/enjoy of a video game isnt what video games are all about in the end.. while this game may be edgy in their ways.. there's real people playing behind every screen.