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FC.31.20220202.10 - New Dark Power
kaiserin
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New Power: Shadow Scheme
New Power: Shadow Scheme
- Available in the Champion Recognition Store
- Darkness Framework
- 30 Second Recharge
- Creates a sigil every 2 seconds at a random location within 20ft of your target's initial location until 5 have been created. They explode a second after being created.
- Each Sigil can either Knock Back, Up, Towards or Down a target.
- Additionally, targets can also either be Rooted, Stunned, Paralyzed, Confused or debuffed with Devoid.
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Give this power a restoration advantage because its cooldown is 30 seconds.
There's nothing new with some powers being sold in the Rec vendor store, Onslaught vendor store or in lockboxes. New powers have been freely added to powersets as well. It's a mix and it's been that way for years. I just bought the fire lunge and it was cheaper than I expected. I thought it would cost gold rec as well as silver. For 150 silver, I really don't see that as a massive grind wall.
It costs: 350 SCR, 175 GCR, & 100,000 Q.
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"Okay, you're DEAD, what do you do NEXT?"
You know it's not over "just one thing". It's all of the piling on, as he was describing. One thing... one more thing ... one more thing ... etc. That the Dev(s) don't listen to feedback about.
This is not new nor should it be dismissed out of hand, as some of you are doing.
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"Okay, you're DEAD, what do you do NEXT?"
For Scorching Impact, It's 350 Silver and 50,000 Q and no Gcr. My bad, I should have double-checked the price to make sure I remembered it correctly. Still happy with my purchase, don't see this as a massive grind wall and don't think all new powers will be put into the Rec store.
Sure, expcept the complaints above leading to quitting were not specific except for having to buy the power with not real money.
FC.31.20220202.11
Minor Update:
Hydra
- Fixed an issue where this power was considered a melee ability for damage scaling.
- Lowered overall damage of the Hydra attacks, but increased the frequency that they attack. (3 sec to 1.5 sec). Overall DPS remains the same.
- Fixed a bug where the Clinging Flames caused by the Hydras did not count as the player's.
- Lowered activation time (1.5 to 1)
- Visual updates.
To be fair, I do understand the gripe of this, where you lock things behind a Grind (or paywall), but I had the same mindset when I looked at the OV powers, in this case (Lance Rain) I hated how it was locked behind a Grind, but I decided (with enough talking from a friend) to get off my lazy butt and do it and here I am, farmed it and it wasn't terrible either.
Sure, Sliver and Gold Rec, is a bit of a pain, as you need to do High End content, but IIRC, the powers only cost Sliver, not Gold
Edit: Also, it's a single power, that by looks of things, is a reskin of Arcane Runes, but with different effects added on, so not sure what the fuss is about?. It's not like it's a new power set.
Comments stating things without research don't help.
The recent Fire lunge cost 350 SCR and 50k Q, on Live.
The power in this thread costs 350 SCR, 175 GCR, and 100k Q, so far, from the PTS.
The only reason I nitpick is when players say things like "it doesn't cost THAT much" and then post an incorrectly low cost.
Additionally, players that are maxed on SCR/GCR find the purchasing of these powers "super easy, barely an inconvenience". While most newer players do not. But, that's a different discussion.
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"Okay, you're DEAD, what do you do NEXT?"
When powers only cost GCR/SCR and Q it says to me "this costs playing the game for awhile". I really see this as best case scenario
I honnestly think there should be more emphasis on playing the content that is already in game, theres thousands of missions people ignore lots of signature villains people never take down, yes we have a perks list but i think perk points should be used in a way that lets us purchase milestone items to encourage players to play through missions similarly to how adventure packs work. also more pvp rewards to encourage pvp play. but let us pay for what we want with ingame currency.
The only thing i disagree with is deleting our event currencies at the end of the year... some of us can only save up for the next event due to lack of real world time to play the game... thats what i did, then when i lost it all it really sucked and i felt it wasnt explained in good time or visibly enough otherwise i would have spent what I had.
The above is a misnomer.
The game survives because players BUY/SPEND REAL MONEY to buy Zen and the Lifetime Sub.
The company doesn't make money if you trade Q for Zen, nor building up in-game currency that can be acquired in-game.
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"Okay, you're DEAD, what do you do NEXT?"
We get powers/devices via in-game currency AND through real-money-transaction to purchase KEYS to open lockboxes. And, the Devs have created free, new powers.
So, technically, I would not call this "best case scenario".
And I wouldn't call it bad, either. Cost in time and effort to acquire is a factor. As several have mentioned, if it just takes doing stuff in-game and grinding a while, then that is fine. Everyone differs on this, of course. As some have limited time and are very happy when they get new stuff for free or little effort. What you call "little effort" will surely be different for someone else.
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"Okay, you're DEAD, what do you do NEXT?"
That's not entirely true. A player seeing other players playing the game builds community and makes people stick around (and maybe spend money). If the game was just empty then nobody would be around to buy keys.
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It is completely true.
A game full of players, whether old and/or new are not generating a cash flow by just playing the game. Unless they or others are BUYING ZEN and/or the LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION or somehow still have an unlapsed, legacy subscription.
Your comment is a hope that is encouraging players to stay, play, enjoy, etc. But, until someone spends real-money, they are not generating any real-money cash flow to the game. This point cannot be argued as "not entirely true".
I don't mean to derail the main part of this thread. If you'd care to discuss the finance part in a different thread, I'd be happy to join it.
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"Okay, you're DEAD, what do you do NEXT?"
> It is completely true.
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> A game full of players, whether old and/or new are not generating a cash flow by just playing the game. Unless they or others are BUYING ZEN and/or the LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION or somehow still have an unlapsed, legacy subscription.
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> Your comment is a hope that is encouraging players to stay, play, enjoy, etc. But, until someone spends real-money, they are not generating any real-money cash flow to the game. This point cannot be argued as "not entirely true".
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> I don't mean to derail the main part of this thread. If you'd care to discuss the finance part in a different thread, I'd be happy to join it.
I think the point that's being made is that, while yes, it's technically true that they don't make money off of recog rewards, those rewards are still important to the health of the game. A lot of players have already earned a lot of the rewards they want from the recog store, myself included. This content encourages those players, many of whom spend money on stuff like keys, to continue playing the game for the reward of these powers.
Of course, we'd all love to get these powers for free, but admittedly if that happened, it would mean less to work towards, and less to play for. No, this doesn't really apply to all players, but it's important to a lot of them to have some motivation to keep playing.
Darkness has like a ton of stuff
Did they add something challenging to the game in the last year or so?
I agree with what you're saying here btw, I just saw the word challenge and it caught my interest cause I'm always hopeful that they will add some challenging content that actually leads to some neat rewards.
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
More feedback the Devs won't listen to: Sell all that in game currency everyone needs to grind for in the Zen shop!
But they like lockboxes...
So make a currency lockbox that's all currency boxes as rewards. We already have Drifter and Q-Nite boxes dropping in nearly every current lockbox as it is. Make a new box with GCR, SCR, Until, Nemesis, OV, the Rampage tokens... all the main ones that can be annoying to grind for.
Or, the Defender leveling event coming up, make the gold reward item a +1 level-up and the other drops a box of currency...
Make some money! Last I checked money was good for business... especially for a "new" studio...