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Arena AI difficulty levels and problems
MrFeathers84
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I am a season MCOC arena grinder, arena grinding is a very important part of this type of game and I wanted to raise some concern for an issue that I'm noticing already. The main thing that the developers need to understand about arena is that it is a repetitive process that is on going. It does not need to be extremely difficult and it does not need to have varying difficulties especially when a streak has already been achieved. I fully understand the need to have a type of "road block" system in place to stop folks from keeping a 3X multiplier in arena while using a team of unranked characters. It should be a requirement to rank your bots before being able to fully use them for arena grinds. I do disagree with the idea of having various AI difficulties in arena once you have already got past the "Hard" matches. Every few matches I run into a bot or two that have "God like" skill every projectile they dodge and every attack and special they evade without flaw. I am a pretty good fighter and have had 50+ hit streaks in story quests in act II. There should be no reason for me to be forced into losing my arena streak because the AI decides to go full Rambo on me. This is aggravating and un-enjoyable for me and many other arena players. I do believe there is a bug that needs fixing in arena. I plan on becoming a permanent grinder here and would like this issue addressed, thank you.
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Still this is the wrong approach. Making arena punishing forcing people to lose streak is not the way. If they really want to slow down arena point grinders then they need to change the arena refresh times to 3 or 4 hours instead of two. That will lower arena scores without screwing the grinders over, punishing us for no reason. We are playing your game, why ruin an integral part of the game with this unnecessary level of difficulty?
Also whilst we are on this subject, the system to match up your opponent seems to be extremely unfair after just a couple of win streaks into the Grind, I'm finding that the opponent is at least a couple hundred power above my current bots. How's that a match?!
In the real world, in a professional fight, you wouldn't expect to pit a featherweight against a heavy weight in order to advance in a tournament.
Anyway, whilst I do think it's an unfair system, it's my choice to grind, I can choose not to, and not get the rewards. But I would like a little balance brought back into the game.
(P.s. excuse the rambling, and if it doesn't make sense, then that could be because I'm tired, and the grind is wearing me down, physically and mentally.)
Oh on a different note, how about adding some additional event type missions, give us ways to earn ore-13 and tier 2, 3 basic spark in addition to the spark quests.
Tezz
Also theres the streak killer bug that causes you to lose the first match, the devs have yet to fix this
I have no idea what the combination of ranks to use to get passed 15 but highest I've gotten is 11 so far and they start getting squirrely as HELL on me already.
I am very skilled, that's not the issue. The problem that a very skilled player like me is dying. I haven't lost streak yet but I need to focus way too hard to maintain streak which makes the experience slower and unenjoyable. I'm using several 2/20 teams as well. The matchups are fair but the AI is not. The hard matches (6-15) are sufficient challenge bro, no need for arena to be a completely difficult part of the game. If you want a challenge that bad then lose your streak and do it again but don't throw that on the player base most folks cannot survive these fights. I only do cause I'm a SAVAGE!!!
I agree that getting harder as your streak gets longer helps you fight better. Ramping up to impossible to beat does not make you better. It just makes you mad.
There is a difference between hard but fair and god mode. They need to keep the increasing difficulty in the hard but fair range.
My Bumblebee: Evades like twice in a match at most
AI Bumblebee: Evade, Evade, Evade, Evade, Evade, Evade
Obnoxious haha.
I know, any bot with an evade buff becomes basically untouchable while it's active. And apparently the computer is the only one that gets to make Mirage's Special 2 Unblockable.
Why would l lose my streak Lol. I enjoy the AI being hard, because it means something. If you are skill player like you say. You would not be complaining how hard the AI is. Lol
Proof??? Explain
I'm just proving a point that in story mode I can wreck enemies flawlessly but in arena the AI is erratic ad overpowered at times... not all the time but tuning in general needs to be done. If I am losing fights then I know many including myself will be losing streak from time to time & of no fault of our own. I agree that having a harder enemy to fight and train with is a good thing fellas. I just disagree that those hard fights can be found in arena where you lose points and potentially a streak which I feel is unacceptable.
Sometimes you just can't bait out the S1 or S2 it seems like and with enough power rating difference those S3's will really hurt.