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11 hours ago, DieToPlay said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no reward in playing any faction except fire for BG 10's, unless you go for a shadow start with support from team for early resource boosters.
Ofc there will be some situations where you might need the occasional nature player for a random MOTK or some cheese roots tactic, but overall this is quite rare based on my experience in BG speedruns.
See it exactly the same!
Fire lets you work together over the 4 starting positions and no other color comes close to that. Yeah Shadow rewards with early RB, what is a HUGE advantage if executed correctly, but that is rather a speedrunners topic imo. Even more as it helps vastly to know the map to utilize the Shadow start perfectly.
Also I share your inventory on Nature starts, yes they can be helpful in very certain situations, but here you also have a big advantage to know the map in advance (and utilize that as a team). Plus this comes with the downside that either the Nature starter needs to be bombed through with the help of Fire players or is way slower in a scenario where time is pressing even if you are not speedrunning at all. Plus you have less firepower for the other 3 fire-starters. Just to mention that.
That is the reason why all solid 10 players usually choose a Fire start for random matches. As soon as we are speaking about motm/speedrun things may change ofc.
One more reason for fire starts: Even if you have 4 really good players, every few matches one of them will missplay slightly and need some help, there's so many things that can go wrong in a BG10 T1 phase. Happens to all of us. Here you need fire starters or the player that made a mistake is blown from the map.
And just to stress this out once again: Of course any color is viable, even more in perfect teams. Kybaka for example plays sometimes an excellent frost start. Seen Treim starting with any colour or a group around Donaar and Gameover played 10s even with a pure frost setup over the whole team. That is totally possible, but for above reasons nothing that is ever suiting in a random group.
Same goes by the way for the rest of the deck ^^ Yeah ofc you can play almost any faction (with small exceptions) in 4 player 10s. But it will lower your win-rate drastically as certain situations are not possible when not some quite meta decks are around.
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For sub 12 you can run buffed Batas, pure Fire or Bandit Decks with either 2/2 orbs or 3 shadow 1 fire, driven by BH and Emberstrikes.
Even "classical" BH Decks should be very fine. Not sure about Banzais, they are super strong, but perhaps too slow, idk.
If you want to do sub10 things get quite special. You need a team of very experienced players, good coordination and a suiting map. Then probably you want to have a certain mix of above or all going Bandit. 1-2 Players having Plauge may help, tons of spells, most early SoW and more.
I share this perhaps, even if I perform SUUUUUUPER bad, this is a showcase of a sub10 run (quite at the beginning)Metagross31 likes this -
3 minutes ago, Fundus said:
How do you beat a lost souls map where you get insta attacked by Lost Vigils at t1
Very good 10 random groups just skip any LS with air-T2 immediately. This is so out of line in balancing, that you only play this as motm if you have a sane mind 😄
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30 minutes ago, DieToPlay said:
If fire t1 is the only faction to clear 10's reliably, aren't the other factions supposed to be buffed?
I'm curious since I was told that the game is being balanced around casual play 🙂
1. Ofc it is doable with any color. But you should know it is a bit more complicated why fire is commonly asked for.
2. 10s are not casual content at all?
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Doing again a lot 10s lately. Yeah doing a lot of gate keeping - and sometimes you get some most pleasant groups, but it is crazy how many people I offend because I kick them.
Still I hear often that they are driven by that boosters. And today I had a rank 20 who needed a longer explaination why wheels are a kinda super bad idea in 10s where everybody usually should play a better buff via spells.
I know it probably is senseless to dig this out, but I need to share my feelings somewhere to keep my patience ingame.
And ofc always even before the achievement there were a lot people comming that did not understand how big the step up from 9s to 10s is. But it is really crazy this days.
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3 hours ago, nukie said:
As it happens they are now going to be streamed by Ultralord and Volin!
I will update the information 🙂
I'll open the party at 18:00 CET on my channel with a bigger opening (+100) and we will raid to Ultralord at 19:00 CET then
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1 hour ago, GOLDENSKY said:
Hi,
I cant loggin. show this.
User: GOLDENSKY
Perhaps just read the text there 😉
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Boss immunity
3 hours ago, Oathbreaker said:everything in rpve. Im not gaining any health
Yes i know that it must be in area I was casting this on solo boss to be sure -
+ while the layouts can be quite unfair in 1pl they time limit if very forgiving
When I did my first 10s in open beta with Stonekin decks I often needed 30-40mins for that. This was a good challenge, enjoying and I learned a lot - but that was a complete different gameplay as my first 4player 10
I remember those, a group around Treim was looking for a Nature starter for their pos4 and he asked me to join for that. My job was just some heal support, not to touch T3 and waiting for Treim to bail me out.
It was a blast when we finally hit T4, often with less then 5-6min left and all those guys started with their Batas and BHs. In the first matches I often thought "damn we can't win it anymore" but still won as their decks were fast enough to deal with it.
4pl and 1pl are so different that they are very hard to compare
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55 minutes ago, Xamos said:
Because 4p is easier than 1p
yes and no.
Just different
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Just read on discord that pausing the forge ("K") may probably works as a workaround here to reduce lags
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27 minutes ago, UltDragon said:
By at least rank 10, you get players with a certain level of experience.
There are always exceptions, but the rank reflects how much time you played.
Now, the achievement requires preparation, how much are you willing to invest on instructing, every time a random player joins?
Some maps require certain combination of cards, like Bad Harvest pos 3.
Yeah sure, I get your point. Still you get mine also I guess. Btw don't get me wrong here, I'm a perfect example for overestimated ranks. I have rank19 and cry when I get most expert maps as quests ^^
My request if this should be tied to rank would be: Make it not visible before 15-17 then. Gold ranks are gotten pretty fast by just hanging around in the game. -
Said a few days ago on Discord: Seen more then one ember rank (what is that, 17?) that had not much clue about deckbuilding and spawn mechanichs while also played a few weeks ago with a sliver rank with perfect nomad micro, spawn trapping and other signs of deep understanding of game mechanics.
My father always says: Not all older people are wise, some just get old.
I had not much hope when creating this thread, even more as the lead designer had this topic on the table before this, and rejected.
But the shoulder I cried out today told me to open up a discussion here
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As the title says.
It just gets more and more nuts.No changes, just delete it.
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5 hours ago, SatamaN said:
in fact yesterday I played for almost two hours without ALT+TAB and nothing of wrong happened. Thanks for the suggestions and help, I consider the topic is closed.
I tab out very often, and have therefore often issues. But at least for me it helps just to tab out and in again when I see my hotkeys don't work. May that helps you too
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8 hours ago, narsegan said:
I played this map for the first time, and on expert as well as solo, and personally I would say a big problem with this map is the instant fail in the form of the final objective, it's essentially a cheap death, which would happen on all difficulties.
The final objective shows up when you claimed the final elemental tower, several waves spawn and they will march towards the shard, however the problem is that at no point in the game does it make you aware that you actually need to defend the shard, this resulted in me losing the game as my army was at the top left of the map and I of course did not have enough card charges to stave off that absolute massive wave of enemies as I only had a single charge left on all of my cards, this is in my eyes a surprise instant fail objective and bad game design, since the only way to know about this, is to die to it first, this is one of the ''sins'' of video games, as this takes away the skill of the players and forces them to die to a ''cheap death'' and only then they would know how to avoid the cheap death next time.
As players naturally you play to complete the objectives you're given, yet if you do exactly as the objective says you will find yourself losing the first time as it does not give enough time to move your army to the shard in order to defend it. This can be solved by either making the player more aware of this happening, as it can be easy to forget about if you haven't played the map in a while or have been playing on the map for nearly an hour and when you're playing for that long you tend to only focus on the objectives. Or by including a countdown timer, you have x minutes to get back to the shard and set up defences. Though I believe it is better to make the player aware of it during the game as that way they have more time to setup their defences. Furthermore I would also find it counter intuitive that the best way to play the map is to ignore the objectives for a certain amount of time, though you would of course only know to ignore the sole objective of the map if you have already played and lost to it before.
The other map I can think of that has a surprise mega wave like that is Crusade, however the important difference there is that you already have defences setup as that is naturally part of the objective, not the case with nightmare's end. I therefore wonder if perhaps another way to encourage players to setup defences around it is to just make it similar to the previous mission and have the shard give power(description says it gives power on nightmare's end but I'm not noticing it) and send enemies at it now and then. This will encourage players to defend it as they gain bonus power from it. Or alternatively if that wouldn't fit in with the lore place power wells there.
A player should never be punished for doing what the game tells them to do, nor should they have to die first to know how to avoid that death., theoretically if one is skilled enough they could avoid any death, yet this could never be this case with this mechanic as it completely surprises the player. One could argue I wouldn't have lost if I tried the map on standard first, however the problem still persists on standard, no matter what difficulty you play it on for the first time there will be a very large surprise monster wave at the end which you will lose to if you're not aware of it, be it on standard, advanced or expert. At the end of the day this will be a problem for everyone who plays the map for the first time, or everyone who hasn't played the map in so long that they forget about it.
There were some rather rude people on Discord not open to discussion, so I will simply leave my feedback here and leave this forum, do with it what you want.
I agree with the most people from the discord discussion:
If you played it in a team on standard you would have had no problems at all.
You decide to go solo and expert for your first try, no point in blaming the game design or even the people from that discord conversation.
In the time you were now complaining about this map you could have played it on all 3 difficulties
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52 minutes ago, Sacriefice said:
This is really just semantics
Not even that. 3x the exact same icon with the exact same wording are per definition a duplicate. But who even cares.🥱
As you say it is a redundant non-information and has nothing to do at all with knowing what the card does.
If I have 1x, 2x, 3x or 4x the info to hover that a kill gives me 15% void return has no value on the information. I dare to say it is even the opposite, it is additional non-info that only may confuse.
@WindHunter Can you clarify if this is really a intended design decision or has other reasons we may not see, as it seems to be no technical limitation?
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2 minutes ago, DieToPlay said:
After patch = many people complain there is lags.
I personally have no issues, but I'm playing on quite a monster of PC currently.
But I would say it is quite obvious there's something going on, too many reports of the same issue.
I can even accept that it is currently not being fixed as the problem can't be identified yet. But I also read between the lines "problems must be from your end" and that is sad -
Not possible is just not possible, everybody can (or should) understand. As I said once to you, even "this is too much work" would be a good reason to reject a request.
But saying 4 times the same icon (with the exact same information and text) is "not duplicate" is just ... 🤐
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They all show the same information, but are no duplicates... yeah sure ^^
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21 hours ago, Kubik said:
There are no "duplicate" icons per say
Just saying. This goes for all Shrines btw.
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1 hour ago, Sacriefice said:
Every time someone places wheels in rpve my SoW activation suffers from it
Feel you. 2 or 4 yellow Inc Mo buffs but you can't see an Enlightenment or Shrine.
Or one of the 3 Wheel buffs shown multiple times...
Makes no sense to me either.
If there is technical limitations, k then we have to deal with that, but if temporary buffs like Shrines and global buffs from spells would have priority, or could at least be shown next to one Wheel or Inc Mo buff that would be great QoL
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40 minutes ago, KeyNeR said:
Where can I download the replay? I uploaded it to http://www.t1421.tk/, is that enough or is it needed somewhere else?
On 1/20/2023 at 5:20 PM, T1421 said:In conclusion:
Map: Treasure Fleet
Difficulty: Standard
Goal: Don’t lose any gold wagon and build all wells and orbs as fast as possible
Until when: 29.01.2023 23:59 CET
Winner Stream: 17.02.2023 19:00 CET via my Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/ultralord_t1421)
Replays: PM in the Forum @T1421 or DM via Discord Ultralord#9706
Replay name: BOT3_[Your Username].pmv
You can send in multiple replays, the last one which I receive will be used for the event.
Replays can be found in your Documents folder (C:\Users\xxx\Documents\BattleForge\replays\)Ultralord and Metagross31 like this
4p rpve Contest#2 - The Stonekin Hunt
in Events and Tournaments
Posted · Edited by Volin
Hello Skyladies, Skylords and other Skybeings,
Over a year has passed since our successful bandit hunt, but unfortunately we have to ask for your help once again.
It seems that some of the unopened gold chests have been taken away by some Stonekin scum, it is of utmost importance to secure them as quickly as possible.
So What is the Task?
It is almost like the bandit hunt – it was simple, it was fun – let’s do that once again:
How Can I Participate?
The contest is running from now on until the 26.03.2023 - 23:59 CET
You just have to send in your best replay, including the player names and the time, to @Volin either via PM or preferably via Discord (Volin#8101).
Please name your Replay in the format: Mins_seconds_Player1_Player2_Player3_Player4.pmv (Example: "13_37_Ultralord_nukie_Kapo_Volin.pmv")
If your team has a name for meme, or whatever reason, just let me know via PM. It is important that all members of the team agree!
It is enough that one player of the group sends me the replay!
How to find the replay on your PC
Battleforge automatically saves a replay file of the last match you play, named autosave.pmv. After playing the map, rename this file, so it doesn't get overwritten. You can find your replays here: Documents => Battleforge => replays.
Also it is possible to check "Save every replay" in the options menu, or to save the replay manually in the win-statistic window at the end of a match.
Sounds Fun, What Are the Prizes?
The prizes are per person, only your highest place will be rewarded:
1st Place: 8 general Boosters
2nd Place: 7 general Boosters
3rd Place: 6 general Boosters
4th-5th Place: 5 general Boosters
6th-10th Place: 3 general Boosters
11th-50%: 1 general Booster
All remaining boosters from the ranking rewards will go to a random draw, those ranked below the top 50% will be entered into the draw first! Once every player below the top 50% has won a booster EVERY participant will be entered into a booster draw for any remaining boosters.
@Bengel Sponsored 2.500 BFP. Those will be split into 5*500 BFP that will be drawn in the lower 50%.
In addition I will reward any contest related meme that is send to me with an additional booster if we think it is good enough to share it in the stream!
When Will The Winners Be Announced?
The winners will be announced via a Twitch stream co-hosted by Ultralord and me! The stream will include at least the fastest three runs, quiz questions (with prizes!) and some interesting data from the event.
Location: https://www.twitch.tv/ultralord_t1421
Date: 31.03.2023 19:00 CET
Future Events
If you are interested in helping with these kinds of events for the community, or want to host one yourself as I do it here, don't be afraid and simply reach out!
Send @nukie, @Metagross31, or @Minashigo Hiko a PM on the forum, or direct message via Discord (nukie#9354, Metagross31#1103, Minashigo Hiko#1126).
They are happy to assist you with upcoming events and with sponsoring towards your prize pool!
We hope you have a lot of fun with this event and are looking forward to seeing all your replays!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
FAQ:
- Can we also participate with a team of less then 4 players? -> Yes, of course you can, just stick to the rules as they are and you are fine!