Well I guess I just got my first taste of what everyone seems to be complaining about.
I unshielded at rank 12, just won a couple of fights to get to rank 6…and now I’m only getting matched up against people with crap teams in the 40’s. All my matches are worth 1 through 0 points. I just spent 10 minutes pressing ‘skip’ and no luck.
Devs, I have been a very good supporter of the game and spent an embarrassing amount of money…
As a former game designer for a pack-busting CCG, this is super disappointing!
Wait, what? If skipping were on, it’d be 10 Iso. Can you double check that this is the case and you’re not just seeing the 140 Iso reward? I just tried on the newest Live build on two different devices plus a PC, not seeing this. Current data should be 175039.
This is pretty much how ELO based matchmaking works in any game. There is a soft cap ceiling where beyond that point the losses will far out way the gains so it becomes not viable to play. This isn’t something new that’s just a problem for this game. Shields do kind of exasperate the problem but I don’t really see any good solution to that.
Ops, my bad. The skip button is there, but i got ahead of myself. I´m upping the screen grad, and you´ll see why. Sorry, dude. I´m pissed off enough about the changes that did happen, without badmouthing the ones that didn´t
I don’t see what you’re getting at here. The skip tax was announced a while back by Will on the forums. It’s not new information. The fact that it’s not enabled in the patch (but the mechanics are for switch flipping purposes) and someone is seeing it is a bigger issue. Especially since it’s showing up for that person at 14x the cost. What information am I somehow just now volunteering? I’m not trying to be combative, I’m honestly confused.
Various people were seeing the skip tax implemented in-game. Radio silence from Devs until someone incorrectly said it cost 140 instead of 10. Now the 10 iso cost is gone again, so you have the opportunity to write up a proper Dev note on them before they are actually rolled out - this is how communicating with your playerbase is supposed to work.
I´ll side with you on this one. It was my mistake. The UI changed, I saw the skip button, and to the right of it 140 ISO. Since I´m shielded, I just left the screen and came here to rant. Sorry for stirring up more stuff.
Also, the pay to skip thing was already announced. I don´t think it´s a bad idea (especially if it´s only 10 iso), but an improvement to the matchmaking should come as well. I´m sitting at 600 points, why would I be matched with 400 points teams? If I attack them, I´m just setting myself up for a retaliation. I don´t pick and choose opponents, but I don´t want to keep being matched with teams that would not be worth my while (i beat them for 12 points, they retaliate for 28)