Season 8 is a dead season

[XJ9]

Been playing it for the past 2 days, and I gotta say, this game has NO players. They are all separated so the already small playerbase cannot get games fast.

I have to queue for 30 minutes total, and go through 3 connection failed once we get 8/8, to finally get a game. The game is then someone who either dc's or senzu bean feeds, or a very low level lobby that do not know how to fight together at any point of the game. 1v7 game but apparently fighting as a team is a concept that people still do not understand.

Those are my survivor games, total crap shows. I think I only won 1 game in the past 2 days, out of 15-20 games, against a broly who obviously was a kid or something because they did not know what they were doing.

My raider games? Oh, I vs level 200-300 players who get all the keys in 2-3 minutes. I won all my raider games, but it is funny that when I get raider I vs these people, meanwhile on my team I do not get them. It leads to my having to sweat every raider game when I do not want to.

I also think the resistance nerf was fine, but raiders do WAAAAAAAY too much damage. You level 3 d change and if you get melee'd 2 times you are just instantly dead. Or just die to ki blast spam.

I also am sorry to say this, but there is no way they made the balance like this and think it's ok. They are expecting people to buy the exclusive tickets for a chance to get flying nimbus, the new OP ability that they purposely overtuned to get money out of players after nerfing the meta. The game is currently balanced MoB, nimbus, vehicle speed + item recovery, and that 1 passive that gives you D change after your D change ends. What was the point of nerfing MoB if you can get more D change back through gacha skills? I also dislike the soda nerf, The soda nerf targets the base survivors, instead of just nerfing MoB to 10% d change. This is annoying as you have to remember different numbers that are quite off for MoB. The nerf to 1 tick drinking sodas was fine.

I've been playing since late season 5, and this season is the most dead season I've ever seen this match making (west coast btw). I am better off playing marvel rivals or league of legends instead of this game. Which is sad, because I actually really enjoy the core concept of this game, but the obvious cash grab balance decisions along with this company never removing region/coastal lock despite twitter/reddit/discord all complaining about it, is staggering.

Season 7 was great @ the start, all they had to do to the gammas was make killing magenta just "incapacitate" him for 15-20 seconds, and then he teleports to the lab and activates cell max. No, instead we decided ti was a great decision to just make him spawn next to a lab and activate cell max instantly. And sadly, tons of players go "well, they had to do something, gammas were unplayable". No, they were actually 80% fine, it's just the magenta phase was messed up. Gammas got buffed, and I have never experienced such a broken concept of breakers, where you need to not engage the raider at all levels to win, and wait until 6-7 minutes are left of the match to activate STM. Ever since that stupid Season 6 change that made it so supplies do not drop if the raider is 2, was anti game play. You are encouraging the survivors not to do the objective of the game.

Frieza also didn't get thier death ball super attack buffed, to be fast. Instead, we got an area destruction buff, which is a "win more" button, as you will only get the opportunity to do this if you are already winning.

So yep. Guess no more breakers for me unless changes happen/next season. Biggest reason, again, is because I cannot even play the game. "get a vpn" uh how about no? I watch other streams, even japan, and they take 6+ minutes to get a game too, and it breaks. This game is done. Worst season and I hope the devs see this crap.

[JeebusCrumbs]

I'd say i'll miss the low level players when the game halves in playerbase again when the "new season hype" (if you can even call it that) dies down but I've gotten my one raider game per season in therefore never again
Crazy how their newest season featured Frieza going from bottom 1 to bottom 1
Gammas were so silly they gaslit me into thinking this game was on the rise for a bit

[Sandra Crimson]

yeah ... this season is well here but the players not so much.

[Gredric]

I’m pretty sure based on their roadmap they’ve said next season won’t have a new raider or a new rework as well, so unless they finally address region lock I don’t see a bump happening until season 10.

Remember when three transpheres were the norm with the new raider? With a new map and three new survivors as well? I know the dev team and budget is probably super cut for this but it’s still a really bad look for its future.

[Dragotech]

And I have to ask, why would I come back to this game? Every time I read the patch notes in hopes of seeing something positive, I find more changes that I don't like.

[BortekThePigeon]

Im only waiting for Demon King Piccolo as a raider but otherwise gave up playing the game due to the awful gacha and horrible wait times, will only come back if they fix these issues or DKP does get added.

[maDEMOman]

Originally posted by Gredric:

I’m pretty sure based on their roadmap they’ve said next season won’t have a new raider or a new rework as well, so unless they finally address region lock I don’t see a bump happening until season 10.

Remember when three transpheres were the norm with the new raider? With a new map and three new survivors as well? I know the dev team and budget is probably super cut for this but it’s still a really bad look for its future.

the roadmap is a new raider + 2 reworks next season.
Next season doesnt start in April. it starts in like 3+ months lol.

The gap in the roadmap is for "2nd balance adjustments" which are happening a bit after ranked starts.
Likely to adjust most of the supers. OR we're finally getting the fabled EF nerf.

Edit: Now that im relooking at it. its wierd how the 1st balance readjustment was labeled "Mostly transpheres" when it really wasnt.
makes me think how drastically these 2nd adjustments are gonna be.

(theres also 3rd and 4th adjustments for next season)

[CelkyN6]

I still consistently find matches in around 10 mins (US East).

[FLYxMILE$$$]

Originally posted by XJ9:

Been playing it for the past 2 days, and I gotta say, this game has NO players. They are all separated so the already small playerbase cannot get games fast.

I have to queue for 30 minutes total, and go through 3 connection failed once we get 8/8, to finally get a game. The game is then someone who either dc's or senzu bean feeds, or a very low level lobby that do not know how to fight together at any point of the game. 1v7 game but apparently fighting as a team is a concept that people still do not understand.

Those are my survivor games, total crap shows. I think I only won 1 game in the past 2 days, out of 15-20 games, against a broly who obviously was a kid or something because they did not know what they were doing.

My raider games? Oh, I vs level 200-300 players who get all the keys in 2-3 minutes. I won all my raider games, but it is funny that when I get raider I vs these people, meanwhile on my team I do not get them. It leads to my having to sweat every raider game when I do not want to.

I also think the resistance nerf was fine, but raiders do WAAAAAAAY too much damage. You level 3 d change and if you get melee'd 2 times you are just instantly dead. Or just die to ki blast spam.

I also am sorry to say this, but there is no way they made the balance like this and think it's ok. They are expecting people to buy the exclusive tickets for a chance to get flying nimbus, the new OP ability that they purposely overtuned to get money out of players after nerfing the meta. The game is currently balanced MoB, nimbus, vehicle speed + item recovery, and that 1 passive that gives you D change after your D change ends. What was the point of nerfing MoB if you can get more D change back through gacha skills? I also dislike the soda nerf, The soda nerf targets the base survivors, instead of just nerfing MoB to 10% d change. This is annoying as you have to remember different numbers that are quite off for MoB. The nerf to 1 tick drinking sodas was fine.

I've been playing since late season 5, and this season is the most dead season I've ever seen this match making (west coast btw). I am better off playing marvel rivals or league of legends instead of this game. Which is sad, because I actually really enjoy the core concept of this game, but the obvious cash grab balance decisions along with this company never removing region/coastal lock despite twitter/reddit/discord all complaining about it, is staggering.

Season 7 was great @ the start, all they had to do to the gammas was make killing magenta just "incapacitate" him for 15-20 seconds, and then he teleports to the lab and activates cell max. No, instead we decided ti was a great decision to just make him spawn next to a lab and activate cell max instantly. And sadly, tons of players go "well, they had to do something, gammas were unplayable". No, they were actually 80% fine, it's just the magenta phase was messed up. Gammas got buffed, and I have never experienced such a broken concept of breakers, where you need to not engage the raider at all levels to win, and wait until 6-7 minutes are left of the match to activate STM. Ever since that stupid Season 6 change that made it so supplies do not drop if the raider is 2, was anti game play. You are encouraging the survivors not to do the objective of the game.

Frieza also didn't get thier death ball super attack buffed, to be fast. Instead, we got an area destruction buff, which is a "win more" button, as you will only get the opportunity to do this if you are already winning.

So yep. Guess no more breakers for me unless changes happen/next season. Biggest reason, again, is because I cannot even play the game. "get a vpn" uh how about no? I watch other streams, even japan, and they take 6+ minutes to get a game too, and it breaks. This game is done. Worst season and I hope the devs see this crap.

THEY waiting for rank

[icantsee]

I dont get why they havent change it to f2p, game is so dead whats the point?

[iC0RE_ESP]

Always has been. Enjoy the last day of X2 Zeni

[Sandra Crimson]

I'm sad ... now tomorrow the new event will go live .... but no more boosts ...

[SgtStank]

What I don't understand, is that it always says estimated wait time of 1 minute. I let it go for an hour yesterday. When i backed out of that 7/8 lobby, the next wait was like 2 minutes. Why can't a lobby fill one at a time?

[4Dname]

Originally posted by SgtStank:

What I don't understand, is that it always says estimated wait time of 1 minute. I let it go for an hour yesterday. When i backed out of that 7/8 lobby, the next wait was like 2 minutes. Why can't a lobby fill one at a time?

I suspect at some point it just stops trying to connect or updating the connection status of other players despite saying it still is searching. I got to almost 1005 minutes before it disconnected me one time. All while claiming at least 4 other people where waiting with me the whole time.

Proof.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3438639338
Also same result for me after it disconnected I started getting matches in 2-10 minutes again.

I would be interested in knowing what the highest minute count anyone has ever gotten a match to connect at.

[maDEMOman]

Originally posted by icantsee:

I dont get why they havent change it to f2p, game is so dead whats the point?

if you want to play it, Buy it.
no1 who actively plays this game wants it to go F2P. because unpunishable cheaters will arise.

[Buzzsaw]

Originally posted by maDEMOman:

Originally posted by icantsee:

I dont get why they havent change it to f2p, game is so dead whats the point?

if you want to play it, Buy it.
no1 who actively plays this game wants it to go F2P. because unpunishable cheaters will arise.

DEMO discovered an infinite points glitch