First, it is your job to communicate the vision to us. You don’t make the vision. So nothing but love for you.
But omg this lycanthropy is just a hot mess. It feels like there is some desperate need to keep it. Which, is so weird. It really is. Like someone (not you… you are the communicator) is hanging their self worth on it or something.
I really think it’s a full blown clunker. But! If it actually behaved like normal transforms, meh, I could deal. Or… if the lycanthropy gems were not a thing? Meh, I could sorta deal.
The problem is that GoW is so great as a strategy game. We deal with randomness from boards and keys. But for the most part you can build teams to strategically win. Yay! Until this ish.
When you add this level of randomization to the actual battles? Might as well be playing a mobile slot game instead.
Again… not your fault. But I hope you pass this feedback on.
I think this is the most important part of this statement.
Thank God, lycanthrophy (which also sucks with classic transforming) will just be in the backround after this campaign (which has three Guild Wars with it ), but what will come next?
Please not the next weird RNG Booster…
Agree; remove it . Its egregious to sensible crafted thoughtful play which was once the draw card of this game. I cracked myself laughing, moving forward. What two steps back first. You can keep dressing mutton as lamb , but it remains mutton. What a mutton game. So sad; for it once had the potential to be lamb. Just wolves chasing bad gem deals and other nonsense packages for real money. Not worth a coin in any currency currently.
Even once/if they align the effect to be an actual debuff as per transform, a valuable lesson to be learnt/ignored by the devs ref. upcoming heroic gems (aside from ‘get a more competent/effective QA team/process’) would be: heroic gems should act like gems
This means we should be able to remove them without triggering them, convert them away without triggering them, and consideration should be given to whether/how they should trigger during explosions: as it stands right now, when a Lycan gem appears on the board, it’s just a matter of which player/side gets screwed by it.
Unless the intention was to screw players, surely the playerbase has made their feedback about this quite clear by now?
Just look at what it’s doing to you guys. The answer is simple. I’ve said it many times: quit the game. Instead you guys flood the forums with the same garbage day in and day out. You know why this forum exists? It gives people like you a false sense of ‘connecting’ with the developers on a personal level when what it’s really used for is one of those ‘we’re gonna do what we’re gonna do but let’s just give them a place to vent so they’ll actually think we care’. Personally, I couldn’t care less. I’m just here because I like watching people get smacked in the face repeatedly. Seriously, after all these complaints do you really think they’re going to get rid of it? If anything it might actually get worse. They’re not going to do anything about it (and they shouldn’t) until they actually start losing money. Your goal is to get rid of lycanthropy. It’s not going to happen until you give them a real reason to.
I saw that, yes. I should have indicated that somehow in my post, sorry. I’ll try to rephrase.
There are things that can be done with lycanthropy that can move it from intolerable to tolerable. And that’s definitely better than nothing for those of us who are, ummm not fans. It’s sad that we are now shooting for tolerable in game play, though.
My main point, however, was that the more randomness you add to the gameplay, the less it becomes about strategy and collecting.
Thank you for continuing to communicate on the issue, I’m sure it’s not fun.
Denthegod is obviously flame baiting. Regardless of whether they’re correct or not.
Also: repeatedly telling people to quit the game is really not that constructive. Belief that a feature is “awesome” because it makes people angry and divisive is also not constructive, nor a good reason to like or claim to like something.
I will publicly say I’ve flagged them for moderation. I don’t mind people knowing that I think this individual needs to be shut up. Deliberately stirring up people over a controversial issue suggests they need to find something better to do anyway. If the devs or anyone else disagrees with my assessment or my handling of it, I honestly don’t mind that either.
And they don’t get to try to toy with me, because I’m muting this thread and leaving it alone.
My thoughts on the topic of lycanthropy are already known and I don’t stand to learn anything useful in the thread anyway.
Is there any hope for either eliminating the random lycanthropy gem drops or greatly reducing it’s drop rate? If not, there at least needs to be a way to remove these gems without triggering them.
I prefer the removal of the random drop, because it doesn’t make sense plot wise. Sure this realm is weird and magical, but randomly getting lycanthropy and turning into a different beast turns this into a eldritch horror world.
Client updates are tremendously more difficult than server updates. It’s gonna be a bit before Lycanthropy is changed to the way it should of been released as.
If an actual QA existed. I’ve saw more evidence that Unicorns exist than any sort of QA from Gems of War actually existing.
Right, but I think they’ve stated that they’re able to change the skyfall mechanics on the fly. They could reduce or remove the naturally occurring gems and fix the broken mechanic later.
This says alot about the issue at hand imo. What use is there for a game mechanic whose purpose according to the devs is totally ignored in actual gameplay by the players who are instead going out of their way to avoid it completely (since there is no scenario in which the player ends up benefiting from it)?
Some suggestions:
Remove it completely (safe to say that’s not going to happen).
Drastically reduce its occurance rate (also lycanthropy trait proc frequency).
Lycanthropy trait should not be able to proc if there are already 1 or more gems on the board.
Have a limit of 1 or 2 gems on the board at any one time, and if more than that, then trigger debuff only if 2 or more lycan gems are matched together.
If more than one lyca gems are triggered at once, have it only debuff one troop.
Make it debuff the same target (first) so we can strategically counter it by at least placing something immune in that slot.
Have the gems not trigger when exploded/removed/converted (duh??).
Change the effect itself to transform the target to a set beast, or of a maximum rarity (Wulfgarok in Arena??).
Disable the gems occurance from some gamemodes (Arena, Delves) where it the RNG brings an unproportional amount of loss of control in combat and strategy.
This is by no means an exhaustive list of suggestions, just what I could pull on top of my head.
), but what will come next?
(You decided to use the word “awesome”, well done.)