I have waited for so long for something new from this game and when it came I did not play it. I have no idea what survival mode is and I am not curious about it. I stopped playing after my T10 alliance missed the Elektra cover the last hours of the event because of new alliances being created to flood that T50.
I play other games on my phone, including the new Marvel Contest of Champions, and I have to say I have never seen a game that does not offer you any other way in obtaining something other than competing with an exponentially increasing crowd of players. Things are changing too fast and ranks have become so fragile with the latest changes that it is just not worth the ball breaking. Especially having to deal with ranks in PVE is what kicks many of us right in the nuts.
All this gets multiplied by the number of characters that exist in this game, which is increasing at an overwhelming rate for the amount of game play they offer. I will compare this game to the Marvel Conest of Champions only for the sake of saying that PVE in CoC is worth playing. I cannot go over the mechanics because they are two different game approaches, but they sure do offer you enough chapters to grind through with rewards that no one can steal and a “Coming Soon” label at the end which gives makes me know that there is more PVE stories coming. I do not know the reason why PVE is treated as it is in MPQ. Instead of having many new chapters for a year long game that are permanent and re-playable, we get this repeated old chapters that not only have ranks, but they run for 7 days too. You really expect someone to bust his ass playing this game for 1+ hour, every 3 hours, every day, for 7 days? And this is not a one time thing, this is the way they release new chars too, so it is considered “normal” around here.
I see a product that sustains itself by adding new characters while it lacks game depth. There is always new chars coming in and no actual reason to level them since they have no special bonuses, no class bonuses with other characters and no direct synergy with anyone else whatsoever. There is no depth in building your roster and new characters add nothing to it other than spending your HP for slots and covers.
Recent news from the dev’s Q&A point out that they are planning to introduce many other 4* characters. What worries me is that they did not mention any new way of introducing them, because getting 4* characters is a pain and it should be since they are rare. But, if they start flooding the game and become essential characters in various events, it would really suck. Also, they did not mention anything else coming apart from competitive PVE (This sounds silly, but it exists in this game). This game has a serious lack of an actual PVE mode. If you want a reward you will be competing with everyone else 90% of the time.
Frankly I have been very skeptic over the past year of playing this game and I still am. I think I have waited enough for the game to shift towards something better. While there have been many improvements, they have always been accompanied with bugs and the devs saying “Oops” almost every event they run. The biggest change they have brought is end time selection, but that has brought up a lot of side effects to ranks, brackets and in general the way the game rewards you. Not to mention that they introduced it as beta testing and we have no information whatsoever to how long they are going to be testing it or if it works as intended.
Overall, this game is really fun to play up until you have maxed several 2* characters. After that there is a big brick wall build ahead of you which you have to bring down with a plastic spoon while they keep adding more bricks to it. Money does help but like any other F2P game it is way too overpriced and not worth it.
