Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9890645-20130922190810/@comment-9890645-20130924130540

My original email to Mobage:

I was in a PVP combat with an opponent in the ninth round of a streak earlier, when the following happened. (The screenshots were captured on a replay of the combat.)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/tj15xpw0zv5f5tg/Photo%20Sep%2022%2C%202%2039%2046%20PM.png

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m5uu249bn5xhdv6/Photo%20Sep%2022%2C%202%2039%2049%20PM.png

(I tried to attach both pictures but I don't think it worked.)

As you can see, my opponent's first two attacks were critical hits by the same Thundercracker.

I'll be honest, I can totally accept the back to back critical hits; I understand it's RNG and it happens. What I cannot accept is the consecutive attacks by the same character, especially as the first two hits of the combat.

If this is the way it is, fine, but could we at least get some honesty about how PVP combat actually works BEFORE we play an event in which it is the main focus?

There are enough other problems with PVP in this game, and they need to be fixed, but this is not how combat should work, and I think most players would not expect that this is something that should happen for or against them. Please, either correct this issue or publicly inform the player base exactly how PVP combat is determined.

Thank you.

--

Their response:

Hello xxxxxxxx, thanks so much for writing in about Transformers:Legends.

This new event is highly focused around weapons.

The player probably had some awesome weapons.

This is not a PVP event.

The lower cards with good weapons will beat those higher cards with not-so-good weapons.

If you have any other questions, please just email back.

Thanks so much,

Patti.

My response:

Patti,

Indeed, I have more questions.

1. Was your response a form letter? I'm going to assume that it is, for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that it's written as if talking to a child. It also contains a blatant falsehood - that "This is not a PVP event." Really? The game's splash page says different. Please look at this screen capture of that splash page. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qq3t39gh61jebyg/Photo%20Sep%2023%2C%207%2014%2020%20PM.png It states in THREE places that this is a PVP event. So... Is this a PVP event or not?

2. Did you look at the two screenshots I sent? I believe the answer is NO. I don't even think you looked at my account. Had you done either, you would recognize that I am a seven-time top prize winner with a deck full of those top prizes with their correct weapons, some of which are the top weapons in the game. Your argument of "The player probably had some awesome weapons" may be correct, but the argument you later insinuate, that my weapons were not as good as his, is, again, a blatant falsehood. All nine of my bots run their signature weapons, and those weapons are categorically among the best in the game.

A few comments:

I know what the strength of my deck is. I have cracked the formula the game uses when calculating damage (and it has held up across multiple episodes). I know that, statistically, the signature weapon for a bot is normally the best option, and I have spreadsheets set up to calculate all of these values.

The weapons in this game have visible abilities. These abilities do not vary except across rarity - all the R4 weapons have the same abilities (Critical hit and Convergence), as do all R3, R2, and R1. There is NO weapon ability that allows a bot to hit in consecutive attacks!

All of the following leads me to the following conclusions... Either the weapons have secret abilities that only the developers know about, or the developers changed the standard PVP system for the episode without informing the players how the system works... or both. Neither of those are remotely fair to the players.

In closing, I highly recommend you forward this email, and my previous one, to the developers or someone above you who can reply to me with something that is not a brush-off form letter written at a fourth-grade reading level. Your response was inaccurate and did not address my concerns one bit.

Thank you.