Feedback from a foreign high rank player (lv 21/Esquire 4)

[catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca]

First I'd like to thank you guys from codebrush for this game, it's good, even in beta with tons of bugs, I can see potential to become a Major E-Sport. So I've been playing for the last 2 weeks and here what I've found out about the game.

-The base is too unsafe, and this become a bigger problem in UnderSiege, where the other team can just sit there and kill whoever respawns there. In SteamCanal there's Gaspar putting mines on the entrance. My suggestion would be make the base on a higher place like in NetherDale. And for AFK players, an auto-kick after x minutes not playing.

-I'm the host of the one of the biggest Brazilian servers, and there's a big problem not having an kick option. It's a problem when toxic players or afk players stay there and make the game boring and stressing for everyone. Also there are lots of players who can't see the servers they host, and even if you all hints they still can't see them. It's a major bug that you should fix, it's happening with a lot of people.

-The training mode is good for training (duh) combos and learn new characters, but it's a problem when you want to test combos and the cpu just changes its character, there should be an option to choose your opponent, and not randomly respawn one.

-And about damage, it's really frustrating when you pick something for the first time like Sewon, go to help to learn and see that shift is "Vraja Form". What does this even mean? You should explain abilities better, like what they do and HOW MUCH they do. Ok, Renny G's F freezes and do damage, that's nice. But for how much time the enemy keeps frozen? How much damage? If you want to make this game competitive there should be at least an Advanced mode with numbers. Also, details like how much armor each character has, how much they block, how much life/ap they have, etc.

-This is something in NetherDale. When the enemy gets a pylon and it starts turning on their color, if your team is too late, even if your team is capturing it again the pylon will just become enemies' color. Some people doesn't even notice it since they are capturing they guess it become their color, but then you have to capture again. I don't know if I made this point right though, since english is not my main language. I shall make a video about this someday.

-Matchmaking should be nice, not just matchmaking but an option to hosts to set their servers to just "x rank or lower" or "x rank or higher". A lot of people give up on this game because they play against high rank people when they are just learning the basics, and it's not fun have your ass kicked this way. And it's not fun for me, I want to improve my mechanics, playing with new comers it's not fun.

-There's the in game currency that you guys are saying that will implement, I just want to ask you nicely to not give this money rating kills/assists, since supports will receive less even if they help their team a lot.

-In some characters there's no way to determine if you used a Power Attack (using alt) or not, there's no visual response. Okay, you can see your RP bar, but there should be a visual difference on the attack, the only one I know I used Power Attack is Elika when LLR.

-I didn't tested in all the maps, but there's a lot of gaps in NetherDale and SteamCanal that make characters like Elrath, Gaspar and ♥♥♥♥ pretty much invencible, since they are the only who can reach most of them and have ranged skills to kill whoever tries to get there.

-Wards and bombs. It's pretty unfair that you can put them inside "solid objects" like walls or boxes, they become invisible for the opponent and bring an unfair disavantage, since the enemy can't break them or see where they are, while your team has vision/traps everywhere. Also there should be a limit of wards/mines on the ground at the same time, and they shouldn't stack, but that would be a point in a balance thread.

Well, by now it's what I've got from playing at least 5 hours/day. Hope this help you guys improve your game even more, I really loved it!

Cheers,
Stars | bou

[Candy Cultist]

Listen to this guy he knows what he is talking about.
Only reason I stick around the forums is that I really liek the game too and hope it will have success.

About servers:
the game needs a lot more. And better ones.
I noticed that when I go to the network, tell it to display only playable / with players / not full, and then sort by ping I only get an absolute maximum of 10 Servers.... Thats weak to say at least.

[catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca]

I need to host my own server to play with low ping. And there are like 2~3 servers for my country, the player base is much bigger and they are always full. I wish they could fix the host tool soon so there will be more servers around the world.

[Lvl4Goblin]

Some good points in there. About the NetherDale pylon issue. I have noticed that if you are trying to reclaim a pylon and the time for it to fully convert to the opposing team is less than the time it takes for your bar to fill your attempt to defend the pylon will fail midway often tricking inattentive players. I don't know if this is what you're talking about, but it's an issue for people unfamiliar with it. As you suggested, a more detailed tutorial or in game help guide would alleviate some of these issues.

[catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca]

Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to say. Thank you. :3

Another point, not too important but, the only way I can see a character's bio is by the shop, and the shop's interface is kind of messy. There should be something to learn about the characters' stories and even abilities. And would be nice if you could read the name of the character before you select. It's pretty annoying the most of the people don't know half of the characters' names just because they didn't play them.

[MarkyX]

A lot of good points here, although I think Steamcanal needs a facelift overall.

[Jnx86]

Solutions that i know:
1. Do not reward baserape. You kill in enemy base, you get no points.
2.Make more servers. For those who are new and for those who are more experienced.

Great points you got there.

[Something_Good]

For Netherdale I think to fix the problem is to just have the timer stop when recapturing a pylon. As long as there is a person trying to recapture the pylon then it shouldn't be able to go to the team just because the person got there late.