Who’s idea was it to have Ranked Blitz as “Pay to Win”? Seriously, it is a joke. I just reached rank 50, have bought 0 packs and haven’t missed a challenge since launch. My average units are 4-5 veteran (with a few 6-8), so I know these other players are for sure buying packs. You get completely wrecked by these players who pay money with their veteran 10-14 units. They can literally camp in your spawn zone and just wreck you. (This happens every single match, especially when you get groups with units at 10+ veteran).
I see it being fine for unranked, but for ranked? That’s messed up, they are just buying their ranks. Do you think they should/will change this in the future?
There is a soft cap at level 6, the gap you described is less than level 2 vs level 5 which is an advantage I’m sure you’ve had many times. It does make rank less meaningful since it influences many games, but it’s not unbeatable. Energy collection trumps all, and is more than enough to camp spawn without a card advantage.
And no I don’t think they will change anything significantly. It’s already there, people already paid money for it, the ship has sailed. It’d be nice if they could add a custom game toggle to normalize the cards though so you can at least set up a straight up match out of the system if you wanted to or if there were ever a tournament (which seems unlikely with the game not seeming to do very well) though. Maybe they will tweak the percentages a bit or give out some packs to help low level people get closer to the soft cap.
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> There is a soft cap at level 6, the gap you described is less than level 2 vs level 5 which is an advantage I’m sure you’ve had many times. It does make rank less meaningful since it influences many games, but it’s not unbeatable. Energy collection trumps all, and is more than enough to camp spawn without a card advantage.
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> And no I don’t think they will change anything significantly. It’s already there, people already paid money for it, the ship has sailed. It’d be nice if they could add a custom game toggle to normalize the cards though so you can at least set up a straight up match out of the system if you wanted to or if there were ever a tournament (which seems unlikely with the game not seeming to do very well) though. Maybe they will tweak the percentages a bit or give out some packs to help low level people get closer to the soft cap.
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> How do you know 6 is the soft cap?
It’s in the Prima Official Guide, as well as general numbers for the total level 1-6 upgrades. Those depend on the specific unit and role (normal/counter/hero/etc.), but the average was something like 65% attack and 25% health from level 1 to 6 total increase. Engineers healing goes up 50%, scouts increase 20% in speed and so on. Level 6 was said to be “tournament ready” and that the general upgrade from that point is 1% attack/defense per level.
Assuming that is all still accurate and they haven’t changed it since. Some of the stuff in the guide wasn’t even true at launch… but seems about right from what I’ve played.
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> Who’s idea was it to have Ranked Blitz as “Pay to Win”? Seriously, it is a joke. I just reached rank 50, have bought 0 packs and haven’t missed a challenge since launch. My average units are 4-5 veteran (with a few 6-8), so I know these other players are for sure buying packs. You get completely wrecked by these players who pay money with their veteran 10-14 units. They can literally camp in your spawn zone and just wreck you. (This happens every single match, especially when you get groups with units at 10+ veteran).
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> I see it being fine for unranked, but for ranked? That’s messed up, they are just buying their ranks. Do you think they should/will change this in the future?
that is why I do not play blitz ;), i only do it for quests
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> > Who’s idea was it to have Ranked Blitz as “Pay to Win”? Seriously, it is a joke. I just reached rank 50, have bought 0 packs and haven’t missed a challenge since launch. My average units are 4-5 veteran (with a few 6-8), so I know these other players are for sure buying packs. You get completely wrecked by these players who pay money with their veteran 10-14 units. They can literally camp in your spawn zone and just wreck you. (This happens every single match, especially when you get groups with units at 10+ veteran).
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> > I see it being fine for unranked, but for ranked? That’s messed up, they are just buying their ranks. Do you think they should/will change this in the future?
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> that is why I do not play blitz ;), i only do it for quests
Same here, only for the challenges. I actually liked the game mode during beta. Now it’s a shame