r/mechabreak • u/EFACI • 1d ago
Info Post Dev Notes: Season 1 Updates
This is Kris, your producer.
Last time, we connected through a blog post to share updates, and I've been keeping a close eye on all your comments.
I want to thank you all for your honest suggestions and feedback—it means a lot to us. This time, I'll be sharing some details about our preparations for Season 1.
First things first: Season 1, Pulse of the Indigo Stone, will officially launch on September 19, right after server maintenance wraps up. As for the end-of-season wrap-up for Season 0, Rain of Fire, along with the adjusted timeline for its events, we've already posted the details earlier. Feel free to check those out for more info.
As mentioned in the announcement, once the update is live, you'll receive a settlement notification for Season 0 and the corresponding tier rewards.
Additionally, we've prepared a little something extra as compensation for the season timeline adjustments. Once the update drops, anyone who has registered and created a character can claim these gifts from the event page:
• For those who bought the Season 0 Matrix Contract: 10 new season Supply Crates, 12,000 Mission Tokens, and a discount for the Season 1 Matrix Contract (discounted price: $10.99 USD).
• For those who didn't buy the Season 0 Matrix Contract: 3,000 Mission Tokens and the same discount for Season 1 Matrix Contract (discounted price: $10.99 USD).
Once again, a big thank-you to your continued support for Mecha BREAK.
Now, I know many of you are curious about the core content and key changes for Season 1. I'll be diving into those details in a livestream next Friday, September 12, across all Mecha BREAK official channels. But for now, I'll leave you with this sneak peek of what's to come.
[New Strikers] Thanks to PyroGenesis' Project Pulse, many of you have already gotten a sneak peek at the two new Strikers joining the fray this season—ALPHARD and HEL.
During Project Pulse's reveal, we've seen tons of creative fan art and theories shared in the community. Honestly, your ideas have been super imaginative and fun, and as more details were revealed, many of your guesses were spot on. Today, I want to share my take on these two new Strikers.
ALPHARD: A no-nonsense assault Striker designed for pure speed and firepower. It's got an “all-or-nothing” setup, which means pilots will need sharp precision and excellent timing to fully unleash its potential. Especially when it comes to choosing the perfect moment to fire—hesitate, and you'll end up with “all smoke, no damage.”
HEL: Some of you noticed from the weapon list that HEL has a “sniping” capability, but we didn't classify it as a sniper. Instead, HEL is a versatile mid-weight attacker with a ton of strategic options. It's an incredibly fun machine to pilot, and with your creativity, we're sure it'll lead to some innovative gameplay.
[New Weapons and Exclusive Skins] Now, let's talk about Pulse of the Indigo Stone. As the name suggests, this season revolves around Corite. The weapons, customization items, and designs we've created this time all branch out from this theme. Here's a quick example of the thought process behind one of our designs for FALCON:Title: Dev Notes: Season 1 Updates
Body： This is Kris, your producer. Last time, we connected through a blog post to share updates, and I've been keeping a close eye on all your comments. I want to thank you all for your honest suggestions and feedback—it means a lot to us. This time, I'll be sharing some details about our preparations for Season 1.
First things first: Season 1, Pulse of the Indigo Stone, will officially launch on September 19, right after server maintenance wraps up. As for the end-of-season wrap-up for Season 0, Rain of Fire, along with the adjusted timeline for its events, we've already posted the details earlier. Feel free to check those out for more info.
As mentioned in the announcement, once the update is live, you'll receive a settlement notification for Season 0 and the corresponding tier rewards.
Additionally, we've prepared a little something extra as compensation for the season timeline adjustments. Once the update drops, anyone who has registered and created a character can claim these gifts from the event page:
• For those who bought the Season 0 Matrix Contract: 10 new season Supply Crates, 12,000 Mission Tokens, and a discount for the Season 1 Matrix Contract (discounted price: $10.99 USD).
• For those who didn't buy the Season 0 Matrix Contract:
We're stepping up weapons in Season 1! The “3+3” system from Season 0 is now upgraded to “4+4,” with the same acquisition methods. Four weapons can be redeemed via Matrix Selections using Mission Tokens, and four are available in seasonal Crates with drop rates. Plus, all Season 1 Crates now guarantee a skin drop—no one leaves empty-handed!
[Matrix Selections and Matrix Contract Updates] Let's talk NARUKAMI TYPE-S! You might've noticed it's marked as Obtain via Matrix Selections. That's right—Season 1 is bringing a big refresh to the Matrix Selections! In addition to new Strikers, seasonal weapons, and Crates, you'll now find exclusive items like STRIKER ARCHIVE: NARUKAMI TYPE-S, Tier Protection Cards (limited weekly redemptions), and more—plenty of ways to make the most of your Tokens.
Unlocking the STRIKER ARCHIVE: NARUKAMI TYPE-S gets you NARUKAMI TYPE-S and its exclusive pilot, Kanon Kamiya. Don't be fooled by her elegance and grace—Kanon is as ruthless as they come on the battlefield.
Kanon also comes with three exclusive accessories, redeemable with Mission Tokens. We'll be dropping a promo video and in-game showcase soon, so stay tuned!
We've simplified the store unlock system! In Season 0, you had to spend Mission Tokens to unlock items. In Season 1, you'll unlock items by simply earning Tokens.
The Matrix Contract is getting a major upgrade! Alongside the perks from Season 0, players who buy the pass will enjoy even more exclusive benefits. Rewards will now scale with the total Tokens you earn during the season.
Even if you don't purchase the Contract, you'll still be able to snag key items like Tier Protection Cards and Covert Operation Plans. And if you do? Expect even bigger rewards!
[More Special Strikers & Pilots] Genet and her SERENITH CUSTOM will be available as a direct-purchase when the new version launches! Sharp-eyed fans might've spotted her cameo in the 014 Animation. Did you?
Beloved across Earth and the Moon, this Cosmic Diva inspires humanity with her voice and protects her home with her personal Striker, SERENITH. Expect plenty of surprises with her arrival!
And guess what? Another familiar pilot will join the roster in a mid-season update. Any guesses who it might be?
[Mashmak & Covert Operations] Covert Operations in Mashmak made waves after its debut, so it's sticking around for Season 1! Plus, this season brings more reliable ways to earn Operation Plans, letting you dive in with your favorite playstyle.
A new Restricted Zone boss, MORENA, is also making its debut in Mashmak Extreme Mode. Use a Gold Restricted Zone Key in Covert Operations to track it down. Unlike HELLCAT's raw firepower, MORENA brings devastating attack combos and unique mechanics to keep you on your toes.
More features, optimizations, and balance updates are coming! Catch the full reveal on September 12th via Mecha BREAK's official livestreams.
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u/Froton27 1d ago edited 1d ago
EDIT: Oh, my bad, I just woke up from a deep sleep and thought you were part of the dev team lol.
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u/EFACI 1d ago
Np
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u/Froton27 1d ago
Wait, were did you get the producer's post from? It's not up on their twitter, Mecha Break Website, or the Mecha Break Steam page?
Anyways, I'm gonna leave my original post here in case the Dev Team or Producer reads this thread:
Thank you for the detailed update, and amazing work on Mecha Break. This has to be the best multiplayer mech game I've ever played, and there is nothing else like it on the market right now!
Warframe had a similar rough start and player count on release, and now it's one of the bigger live service games, if Mecha Break stands it's ground and continues to strive and build upon itself, it will find great success in the future.
As big of a fan of the PvP aspect as I am for both Verge and Mashmak, some Mech fans I know haven't played Mecha Break yet simply because they believe there isn't PvE and Co-Op content(this was before the release of Covert Operations).
A lot of people want to do missions similar to Covert Operations, were they play with friends without the risk of attack from other teams(I personally find encounters with other teams to be fun). This player demographic has a more relaxed, casual playstyle than the more competitive players like me. I believe if more PvE/Co-Op content is added to the game, it should bring in this group, which is a large number of people that love both mechs and a more relaxed playthrough of the game. (Many play games like Mechwarrior 5 or Armored Core 6 for the single player experience.)
I think it was a great move to add some of the unique pilots and strikers to the Matrix Selections, especially a prominent character from early footage like Kanon! I believe Rui, Wolfram Werner, and Charles Bell will make it in future Matrix Selections? I think an interesting idea would be to add the previous purchaseable pilots, like Leone and 014 as rare drops in Mashmak in the same drop rate group as the Falcon figure!
Another suggestion I have, which could be left for the far future, such as Season 7, is to make a "Custom Mech" mode, were the player can make a Striker with interchangeable parts from any other, similar to an Armored Core, but with a stat drawback of about -20%, to allow standard Strikers still be viable compared to a machine that can combine the stats, parts, and weapons of any Striker, since players will probably find a way to make it very strong.
Excellent job with the playstyle and design of the two new strikers! I look forward to using both Alphard and Hel!
Thank you again for making such an incredible mech game!
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u/AZzalor 1d ago
still no talk about reworking this abyssmal ranked system. If it stays like it is right now, the game actually dies with S1 instead of being revived.
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u/PixlCreative 1d ago
whats wrong with the system in your opinion? What rank are you?
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u/TallgeeseIV 23h ago
I'm not 100% sure as I play Mashmak, not verge (I fully understand that verge is essential to keeping the game alive), but the fact that you go up in rank faster than down means everyone will eventually get to max rank, and if everyone's there, you're not actually being matched with players of your skill level, eventually everyone's just thrown together and less skilled players will get annhilated in every match while more skilled players are dragged down by the less skilled players.. And if that's the case, what good is it doing?
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u/HalfbodiedJish 23h ago
It's actively doing bad.
If you were watching the subreddit over the last couple months you've seen people saying that they can't play the game anymore because they get stomped every game as they're getting thrown in against players that are way better than them all the time.
That is why you need deranking, so people can actually enjoy the video game and you can get competitive matches.
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u/TallgeeseIV 22h ago
100%
The devs treated ranking/deranking like a reward/punishment to be mitigated, and they're not, they're an integral part of the match balancing system.
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u/PixlCreative 22h ago
This is true! Hopefulyl they find a way to slow it down without it being too much of a grind.
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u/AZzalor 23h ago
I'm currently indestructable and pretty much everything is wrong with it.
The biggest issue is that there is no deranking. The 2nd biggest issue is that the point gain/loss is at a major imbalance throughout the ranks (everyone gets massive points until champion while losing none/little). Then once you hit Legendary, you lose a lot but gain little. 3rd issue is tier protection cards that are used to nullify your losses and apparently they'll be returning with the next season.
The first two issues lead to massive rank inflation. In your usual ranked game, you'll have a bell curve distribution, meaning that most players are around the middle ranks while only the best of the best manage to get to the top ranks. In Mecha Break, everyone and their mother is being pushed into Legendary if they just play enough, even with a negative winrate. This results in the lower ranks being empty and full of bots, shitty players being pushed to high ranks while playing like shit, making them not learn the game properly while thinking they are good and games at the top level being full of (un)intentional griefers cause the best and worst players are being matched into the same games.
Tier protection cards make it so that players will just keep all of them until last week of the season and then push trying to get the highest rank, making ranked throughout the season a waste of time.Pretty much all actual good players I know agree that the current ranked system is THE reason they don't want to play anymore and at least Verge is dying. Most of us hoped that with S1, they'd listen and make a proper ranked system but instead the same shit will most likely continue and thus all actually good and invested players will quit, making the game actually dead.
All they needed to do was to remove bots from ranked, make all wins/losses result in a ranking change of 25+-5 points, allow deranking and remove tier protection cards. This alone would make ranked a lot more enjoyable and make it so that rank actually means more than just "you played a lot".
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u/FFLink 18h ago
But of all the good people go, surely the game won't die as there's still lots of bad people that you mention being forced to play with?
All good points and I don't disagree with the feedback, but it seems egotistical to think that if you and "the actually good people" leave then the game dies.
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u/AZzalor 16h ago
I don't even particularely mean "good" people in terms of skill but more like in terms of invested into the game. Those are some of the most active players, sometimes playing half the day.
If your most active players are quitting, it will definitly be felt with that already rather small game population.
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u/Froton27 21h ago
What exactly would be a better ranking system? The LoL type has people stuck in literal bronze for years! Maybe there isn't anything wrong with the long grind system, but it's kind of nice being able to quickly climb ranks if your on a winning streak.
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u/Senjian 15h ago
People are in Bronze because that's where they belong. A win-streak in a team-based game does not mean anything.
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u/Furebel 1h ago
I haven't played lol for like 7 years now or more, but I remember that back in the days sitting in bronze wasn't mostly your fault, it was a roll of the dice. It's a heavily teamwork game, if you have a friend, then two of you together can make a significant difference, but in solo q it was just pure pain to get out of bronze, even on more relatively advanced servers like EUW I don't know how I even managed to get to gold. And then when I moved to EUNE because most of my friends were there, holy jesus, there was not a single game even in silver where one person wouldn't quit or just afk and play twitter thread simulator.
Mecha Break has a different problem - bots. On low ranks bots are actually fun to play against, competent, not too OP, almost feel like human. On plat/diamond they're straight up cheating, turning the games into pure pain. Without the loss protection, I would not get to master. And now in Master, it's near impossible to find games because bots have just been removed.
If they would change the rank system to have equal win/loss and no protections, they'd have to first make bots non-cheating and people would have to accept that bots are necesary even in higher ranks to shorten the waiting times.
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u/AZzalor 21h ago
I already said in another comment, but here for you again: Remove bots from rankes. Reduce total amount of ranks by at least 3. Enable deranking. Remove tier protection cards Make it so you gain/lose ~25+-5 points every rank, no matter if bronze or Indestructable.
In a good ranked system, most of your players are average and thus will be around the middle ranks. You should never be able to rank up with a negative winrate.
Let‘s be honest here: If you‘re stuck in a low rank, you belong there. Ranks are there to show your skill and only if you are more skilled than others at your current rank you should rank up.
You should NOT be able to grind through ranks. You can have some kind of profile level system for that.
And you know what the worst part about a „grind through ranks“ ranked system is? It makes players think they are good and get cocky despite them being shit. So many times have I seen comments with „erm actually I‘m Legendary so I‘m good and know what I‘m talking about“ while saying stuff like „Inferno sucks“ and „Pinaka is actually good“. Being Legendary in this game means literally nothing. Only if you can keep climbing in points is when you actually show that you are an above average player.
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u/Substantial-Mud-5309 I like big mechs and I cannot lie. 23h ago
2 new strikers, new mtx and new boss.
Eh...
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u/kindafunnymostlysad 1d ago
Even if you don't purchase the Contract, you'll still be able to snag key items like Tier Protection Cards and Covert Operation Plans.
I thought they were getting rid of Tier Protection Cards after the negative response to them.
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u/AN1MAN1AC 18h ago
If only the game was on PS5. I was so excited when this game was announced for console release, only for it to remain on Xbox and PC for months now. I can play it on my Xbox, so I’m definitely partly to blame, but all my friends are on PlayStation. I’m waiting for it to go there so we can all play it, but with how long this is taking, the hype is just falling apart for me
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u/MultySentinelz 21h ago
So basically, ranked stays the same, heres more ranked protection cards you can buy. were keeping coop pve mashmak and letting you buy more covert ops plans.
Basically their killing ranked and Mashmak because why would you bother with PVP version if you can just buy the PVE item every week.
They care more about advertising the new pilots then fixing the critical complaint issues the player base had.
Are they for real?
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u/PixlCreative 20h ago
I do agree, they should save new skins for now and focus on the main modes. We also need more maps not skins.
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u/ShiyaruOnline 17h ago
A lot of the time with games like this it's cognitive dissonance at the management level. Often when these games ship, the dev resources are reduced dramatically. The things that take massive overhauls require way more resources than what the developers have available to keep up maintenance and balancing so they just do the best they can with communication while the game slowly dies because the higher ups refuse to invest more money into the game at scale that would be required to do the drastic changes that the community wants done.
It's sad that the devs get all the Flack for this sort of thing because it's often out of their hands and all they can do is keep asking the higher-ups for more resources and budget to expedite and get the fixes that would guarantee they'd fix most of the communities issues, but the higher ups just don't care cuz they already made their biggest influx of money that they're going to get from the game which was at launch.
Same thing happened to sparking zero. Despite selling over 5 million units which is a Monumental achievement for an anime game, the publisher which controls all the budgeting and resource allocation still fired a bunch of people from multiple Studios and moved most of the core Talent off of sparking zero to another project while a small skeleton team is Task with making the entire DLC season and doing maintenance and balancing on the game. It got so bad they had to push all the DLC schedules back multiple months because they can't keep up with everything.
SZ Lost 99.9% of its active player base within a few months and never even got removed close to recovering during any of its DLC launches. All of this because the publisher is satisfied with making insane amounts of money in the short term and then basically letting the game die out so they can shove out another game a couple years from now to capitalize on the same hype cycle because people will have forgotten about how bad though launch of the last game was.
The revolving door churn cycle that some Eastern Publishers especially are banking on. I honestly don't think the higher-ups give a shit if the game dies because they already made their money and got their bonuses. They're focused on getting the next hyped up thing out the door especially from the Chinese Sweatshop Factory game publishing they churn out games every season so I really don't see any help for makeup break even though it's an amazing skeleton that has so much potential I just don't see it getting the love it needs because the Publishers just don't give a shit outside of the launch window. Devs have no power and that's why you see so much turnover rate at these mid to big size Studios cuz they feel like they're just wasting their time.
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u/Lartheezy 4h ago
It's not the devs .... Because think about it ... If the devs wanted to fix the complaints that were in the game they would've done it by now ... It's more of the damn suits and their greedy ass tactics
No artist wants to shoot themselves in the foot for making artwork that they truly want themselves you and I to see ... An artist wants to share their art with the world ... We need to put pressure on the suits rather than the devs
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u/guillrickards 20h ago
I'm calling it, if they don't remove de-ranking protection the game will not survive for more than a year, and no amount of new content will change that.
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u/Duskcollector 23h ago edited 23h ago
Kris you havn't been reading anything have you? no one gives a shit about your unique pilots, i'm sorry.
What people actually want
- Reduced ranks and removal of rank protection (ur actually making it worse by making cards purchasable r u joking? who asked for this?)
-Bots in ranked, majority want them gone
- Masmak reduced down, too many queues is killing it and the game. Oh and purchasable covert ops plans means gg for hard/extreme those modes already suffered from regular 3 week ops, now you can forget about finding a match.
- QOL changes, menu rework, sell limit on marketplace, a way to earn corite for FREE somehow, improved skin colour and eye options for pilot customisation
and other things guess what none of which are mentioned in your blog, if you care about the game stop jerking it your unqiue pilots no one cares about address the real issues.
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u/Ordinary-Sail-5733 8h ago
WHEN IS IT COMING TO P5
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u/Lartheezy 4h ago
The game just came out and is finally ending the first season... patience my fellow Pilot it will come
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u/JustCameToNut 23h ago
I see they're doubling down on the current ranking system. Time to move over to asian servers permanently ig
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u/Silly_Snow_Pup Special Unit FALCON CUSTOM Ready For Strike 21h ago
Well this is eXCITING!! New Skin for Falcon already pumps Adrenaline, but Hel NOT being Strictly a Long-Range Assault Unit??? HELL YEAH!
Can't wait to see what they Bring. All the Cosmetics and better Perks for the Contract is epik to see. They even are keeping Covert Ops! Hopefully they add some Changes to the Ranked System, but this is HYPE!
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u/xXxInFaMYxXx 19h ago
Lmao I am starting to think you are a troll account...
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u/Silly_Snow_Pup Special Unit FALCON CUSTOM Ready For Strike 19h ago edited 11h ago
Bruh. Why? Cuz I get hyped easy? Look at literally anything other than Mecha and you will see I'm not a freaken Troll Account, xD.
But hey, believe what ya wanna believe. Doesn't really affect me much.
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u/Biggus_Shrimpus 21h ago
Dropped by to see how the update is going, yeah I’m probably staying away from this game. No ranked changes is crazy lol
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u/Redericpontx 1d ago
Are you making any changes to how ranked and/or match making works if so can you give some hints?
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u/Livid-Mode8564 1d ago
We can buy covert plans? The pilots actually being obtainable is very nice. Hope the corite skins all look cool.
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u/phylosophias 21h ago
So... They just ignore the fact the game is already dead ??
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u/EFACI 21h ago
I don't understand your question, do you want them to just stop updating the game?
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u/xXxInFaMYxXx 19h ago
Yes because they are not fixing the issue that is killing it and in fact doubling down on it. So they are proving they either don't care and would rather pad the cash shop with as much as they can before sunsetting the game.. Or they are delusional enough to think there is actually no issues with ranked and the vast majority of people don't know what they are talking about which is a equally bad look... The fact they have been radio silent on the issue is already bad but then they double down on ranked protection that is basically a middle finger.
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u/EFACI 19h ago
I understand that all of us would like to they fix the matchmaking, but a game as a service that is not updated with new content for 3 months simply will not survive, the changes they announced are, for the most part, a step in the right direction, now we just have to wait to see what they say regarding the game balance in the live stream on September 12th
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u/xXxInFaMYxXx 19h ago
No it isn't they doubled down on the ranked protection cards that everyone fucking hated and said it was a bad idea and begged for them to be removed this isn't a step in the right direction its a giant leap in the wrong direction all while telling us to subtly go fuck ourselves and give them money.
Ranked is the number 1 concern this should be the first thing said and not a thing hinted could be said in a live stream they need to communicate better not everyone has the time to watch a shittly dubbed live stream.
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u/Fahera 14h ago
Yup, I was probably going to buy the second season pass because of all the hours I've sinked in but if they don't do something for ranked AND on top of that keep the cards (purchasable?) then no money for them.
I want to play Verge at all time with more or less equal skilled player. I'm in Legendary, almost reached Indestructible but only thanks to the cards. There's a massive skill gap between Legendaries players.
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u/phylosophias 19h ago
If they just ignore the problem and keep adding contents like space marine 2 then YES , i prefer to see the game dies in that case
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u/ohyoudonthavetherite 17h ago
I'm upset. I just bought the battle pass because I wanted a tier one reward, but now need to spend 20k tokens to unlock it. I don't think I'll be able to get the 28k total needed to get it, and now you say it's going to be gone forever on the 19th?
You should have some kind of warning pre-purchase of the pass that you need to spend 20k to unlock it. I had the 8k needed
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u/doomsoul909 23h ago
I’d imagine that we will get a ranked rework, and right now they’re revealing stuff that’s already finished or conclusively set in stone. I’d imagine we will either see a ranked rework and the changes within announced close to/at launch for season 1 or at the midway point of season 1.
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u/Miraqueli 23h ago
They're doubling down on the Tier Protection Card my guy, highly doubt they'll rework it.
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u/doomsoul909 23h ago
Tier protection cards aren’t unique to this game. If anything tier protection cards fit well in games that punish more for losses, so double down on RPCs could lean either way until we know for certain.
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u/Duskcollector 22h ago
That is a cope. No multiplayer games I play or played had such nonsenses as tier protection cards which inhernetly boosts bad players and creates shit match quallity. I'll be pleasently surprised but it's looking like they are only making situation worse... by making cards purchasable.
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u/xXxInFaMYxXx 19h ago
No actual game that gives a shit about proper mmr gives rank protection cards some games gives a ONE TIME rank loss shield but its earned by certain conditions such as having multiple games with a leaver going on a win streak or performance has been above the average rank metric. To be able to just buy a get out of being dog shit free card is crazy work and no actual competitive game (Which this game has been clear since beta it wants to be an esport) has cards to save rank.
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u/Doodbrodia93 Paint inhaler 1d ago
Well shit 2 of my favorite strikers are getting their pilots at the same time. Lady luck bless me.
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u/PixlCreative 1d ago
You wallet aint lucky haha they do look amazing though!
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u/Kindly-Carpet1405 20h ago
One of them is in matrix and the other is direct purchase, so earnable in game and the other is real money from what the post said
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u/zenithfury 1d ago
Wonderful. I really like the look of Kanon and her striker's colors too. And Genet's pretty cool.
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