Update from Pixonic after protests

nice that what I call slapping players with sugar coated hands .. good job pixo

But I am the red team

Sure there is. It's just a matter if will at Pix. I can give my terms to them:

1. Gimme a reasoable way to get all the new stuff by playing (max 3 months of playing 3 wins/day, like top Au bots are now), and I'll pay for premium to have silver for upgrading it. This was the case until WW bots, even until Dashes.

2. Make just some of less good the new stuff available, and I'll keep being content for the whales to shoot at, but will probably not pay for premium.

3. Make essentially none of the new stuff available (Jesse and Doc are kinda available but grind cost is ridiculous for their value), and I'll find new games. This is the situation now.

Now it's up to them if they agree, or if I just go away. And while 1 player doesn't matter anything, I think my sentiment is shared by enough players that it matters.

Let's be honest, in EVERY battle there are at least 30~40 Tarans and Orkans, and only 3~10 Trebuchets, the most.

Pretty often (Valley, DeadCity) there are even 0 Trebuchets.

That's exactly the sign of one weapon being OP and another being underwhelming.

But when two fury trebs dominant a whole map, it's OP!

Just like in FPS games, not many people use sniper rifles but they are pretty strong.
The treb isn't underwhelming or weak, just not many people prefer sitting back and firing from 1100m.

I don't understand this... does it mean "per promotion" or 20% increase after 12 promotions?

Translation please

Arakos

I guess it's just a bad player, if he gets dominated by a Trebuchet Fury (or two). Usually, you just need a shield, and you can press all the campers back to spawn (Expert league team).



Every weapon needs its time to shine. Right now Trebuchet can dominate on a few maps, and ONLY if it's backed up by some tough cannon fodder. 

It's the same with Hydra. Feels OP when my Jesse is being hit by one, but in Carnage it's not a big problem really.

To be well-balanced weapon need to strike fear _in right conditions_

As an example I can ask you: which weapon is best - Orkan or Taran? The answer is not clear. It depends on player, map, bot, the enemy team and even time of the battle (I prefer Orkans late in the battle, and Tarans as an opening gun).

However, if a new player asks you: What should I get 2xTaran or a Trebuchet, what would you recommend?

And that's what makes weapon imbalanced. It's when 80% of players can use it in 80% of maps\bots and achieve good results;

While Trebuchet is really situational.

$225 for a Korean bot.

Are they on crack?

First Gold and Silver.
Then WSP.
Then IP.
Now components...They need to get their 「dookie」 together. I think if I could convert 10,000 WSP to 5,000 Components and a 1:1 ratio for gold it would be better. Still double the cost of a Lancelot or Fury but at least some conversion.

Speaking as a relativly new player, but one that has spent fair bit on this game in order to ' catch up' and be competative - (yes i am impatient)
It feels like Pix have deliberatly devalued gold and is hanging on waiting for everyone with stockpiles to spend it on upgrades/skins etc. before they drop any way of converting gold to components

Cite, please. The whales in CoC were often from oil-rich countries and were in national clans (personal observation only). Where are the data collected by mental health professionals on the proportion of ill people spending on mobile games?

If you get crushed by trebs it doesn't mean that you're a Bad player, not all players use Bulgasaris and Lancelots.
And it's true that it can be good only in some maps but that doesn't change the fact that you can deal up to 73k damage from somewhere you cannot be touched in two seconds. 
Same goes for the hydra, a Hydra Fujin can do over 40k damage with a single salvo from up to 600m, its even worse than trebuchet because you can barely hide from it if you don't have ancile shield!

And I don't agree with the 80% usage makes the unbalance, it means that the specific bot or weapon is effective, people don't use the Griffin because it's OP as the Inquisitor but because it's good, people use tarans more than orkans because they're affordable in early game and pretty effective.

However I can pretty much say that everything in the game is now overpowered due to the constant buffing to weapons.

I've posted links to multiple articles on here before.  They aren't that hard to find.  Google is your friend.  Also, I've worked in healthcare for 25 years and I have actually seen and talked with these folks...  Call it personal observation in a professional setting.  

If Pix wanted to fix it, they would've already fixed it.

They themselves admit they've taken "unprecedented" flak for their recent moves. Okay; why is this a surprise to them? Isn't that what they employ market analysts for? Aren't those analysis what they base their marketing strategy off of?

So we're all supposed to believe, like the good little sheeple we are, that Poor Old Pixonic made a boo-boo. That, my friends, is sheer and utter CROCK. If it were true, the management at this business is so bad, they'd have gone bankrupt years ago. No; they did exactly what they intended, and they figured everyone was stupid enough to just go along with it. Except, then it blew up and they wound up with a bunch of poopla on their faces. And realized, "crap, we stepped too far and they hate us."

So now, their empty promise to "fix" their game is meaningless unless and until it becomes an actuality. Sure, they may roll out some changes that make things a little better. But what, precisely, would it entail to truly "fix" this game?

The Dash bots are broken. The MM is broken. The currency system is broken.

If you want to fix the Dash bots, remove one Dash charge and 10% HP. Easy. (Oh wait, except they'd piss off every whale who spent six gazillion dollars building a Dash hangar. Well, sorry Pix...you kinda shot yourself in the foot here.)

If you want to fix the MM, go back to a gear-based system that matches you up based on the highest two items (weapons and mechs) in your hangar. If your highest two are both L9, you'll be up against L9 gear. If your highest two are L12 and L8, you'll be matched against L10 gear, even if the rest of your stuff is L5. Under this system Tanking becomes nonexistent, and Clubbing becomes virtually impossible.

If you want to fix the currency system...well, that one is a royal mess. There's no simple fix. This mess, however, is also of Pixonic's own making. So, tough!

Now, if Pix wanted to make this right, if they truly gave a Rat's Hinder Parts about their player base...

We'd already have seen a patch for the 3.2 update. If the Components aren't ready, they should've just pulled them entirely until they are. There's any number of small fixes they could make that would show their intentions. Instead their offended reaction to the uproar they've caused indicates they are under the "this is our game and we'll do whatever the F we want with it and screw you" attitude.

So, is Pixonic being run by a bunch of morons who don't know how to run a business, and make well-intentioned mistakes on an epic scale? Or are they being run by a bunch of morons who think their players are too stupid to get pissed off when Pix humps the pooch?

Neither scenario is good. Words from Pix have become meaningless. I'd like to be able to give Pix the benefit of the doubt, but they had that before and they lost it.

Point of all this? Not a rant, though it may partly sound like one. All I'm doing is pointing out the obvious: there are simple fixes to this game, and Pixonic has lost their right to being considered innocent until proven guilty.

The real sign that trebs and gekkos are OP, imo, is that where a year ago you might see one or two treb bots on your team on Yama, which seems about right, now you sometimes see FIVE treb or gekko bots and the start of the match. Treb was probably slightly underpowered a year ago, but imo it's now probably slightly too strong but not horrbily OP. Its power is balanced fairly well by the long charge time between full-power shots, which gives opponents a chance to reposition and time movements. I personally think the gekkos are more OP. You used to hardly ever see them, which was a good sign they were underpowered. But imo, the repeated buffs and the change in dynamic so that they now do full damage from the start instead of requiring time on target to "heat up", has made them pretty devastating for anything without a physical shield. Heck, even with a physical shield. I've had my Lancelot shield destroyed pretty darn quickly by two gekko bots targeting me simultaneously.

I also think tarans and orkans have been buffed too much too. Tarans can almost eat through shields like butter now. And speed and jumping both used to be defenses against orkans, but now neither is because of the changes to the orkan dynamics.