Save your Badge Fragments and Components - Balance Update is coming!

Kaz

Hey everyone!

We are currently working on a balance update that will probably be applied in the game in the next couple of weeks. One of the things that we have already defined is that if you use all Legendary components, you will have 100% chance of getting a Legendary badge. Of course, we are also decreasing the number of components and badge fragments you normally find after missions. But we are still going to have components events and those will be the best time to get them.

Anyway, there's a lot more stuff to come (including player's requests) and we are still testing some of the changes, but I'll be sharing the details with our content creators so it can be shared with you guys before the actual update. One thing that I can also tell you (because I believe it'll be the following question) is that we are NOT going to have a council upgrade together with this balance update.

But long story short is... save your components for now!

Thanks for reading!

I_Am_Psycho

Did you say decreasing the amount of components and fragments? How is that needed to balance the game? They aren't THAT frequently occuring.

And also ... I've just been crafting like crazy to try to further complete some sets ... waaaaaaah

Edit: But I didn't use those 2 Leg frags though. No components to put them with yet.

msapaev

At the last component event, the chances of getting badge fragments and components from gold after mission crates were the same as usual (have not been increased). @Kaz, are you going to balance that?

Jaden

I don't think there actually is a need to decrease fragtments to be honest. Components, maybe - I guess we can safely say that we all have too many compared to the amount of fragments.

100% guaranteed legendary if all legendary parts sound awesome, though. Just hope it will not be even harder to find those all legendary parts needed (because it is already damn hard as is).

WellyLuga

This is a welcome change! The chances of finding a legendary frag is rare as it is but if it has to be lowered to guarantee a legendary badge I'd be happy to take the hit.

pirate1125

If they decrease the chance of fragments any lower you will only get them from the distance

capibara

Hey! Where is my wally wally??

Narnia

So I am hearing this:
Fewer drops, 100% 5* badge results from all 5* stuff. Just less likely to find it.
Then I think, well, I'll have fewer 4* results, so I'll wind up with maybe the same amount of 5* badges / month, but less 4* badges per month.
@Kaz is that what your intention is for this change? If so, I would like to vote against changing it at all. Or post a poll. That sounds like a bad idea.

JayZ

Thanks for the heads up @Kaz. Honestly, as someone who finishes the Distance twice a week, I have too many components and fragments and am much happier with better odds of higher rarity badges rather than more chances at crafting badges.

I REALLY hope the UI gets updated so it's easier to manage and scrap our badges, but I doubt that's going to get changed, so it might just be wishful thinking on my part.

Guapo

@Kaz thank you for telling us this ahead of time! That's a welcome surprise to give out that kind of info so we can take advantage of hoarding before the change! I'm sure the reduction in drops will make it where we end up with the same amount of badges coming in, but I'll be happier knowing I'm not wasting the ones I get.

Narnia

I just hope that the results don't wind up being less for everyone than what current state provides. I'll take 1 chance a month for 50/50% chance at leg badge or epic badge before I take 1 chance every two months to craft one legendary. The course of one year, I could have 6 guaranteed legendary, or 6 legendary, 6 epic (roughly)

But yeah, the heads up is nice, for sure. No council update is also nice to hear!

WhereisHeath

Please DONT decrease the number of badge fragments. I dont get any fragment since months, its so unbalanced regarding how much i play this game, like how many missions I've played without getting at least 1 epic fragment even with the "badge event".
I don't know if is just my bad luck or what but the hope of getting badge fragments decrease from 1 to 0% to me.

Pain Walker

So basically the Super Component Crate might not be that useless at all now...

bladgier

That's a very good news! Well done!

Bit bummed about rebalancing drops of items but I'm hoping that 100% legendary from legendary should make up for it!

Don't go to crazy with drops nerf though 🙏

Dodkong

@Kaz

Is the 100% chance of success only for the Legendary frags\comps or at all levels?

Drunken

Haha this is just freaking funny, the rarest thing in game to get will be even more rare, but its okay cause now when you have enough after 500 hours of play you are guaranteed to get a legendary badge, but don't worry if you spend money I am sure you will get more

Basically what they want is for you to spend the what 5k gold to buy the special crates to get the legendary frag, but then you have to wait forever to get the matching components, Another NG update where they twist what they are doing to make the consumer feel better. This is the stupid shit and the reason the company is struggling

https://www.investegate.co.uk/article.aspx?id=20180720060015H6244

Its okay twist the 9m deficit in revenue compared to last year please

bladgier

@Pain_Walker do you think this change is for the better? 😆

anniesprinkles

@Kaz

I don't know what you could possibly lower it too except 0.00%.

I know for a fact that I haven't gotten a gold fragment on my 2nd account in OVER three months since I now take screen shots of them and also write about the rare occurrence of receiving one in my diary. I also get over a thousand stars on that account and get to open quite a few crates.

Not happy with that part of the news at all. 😳😳😳

Schism

Why nerf something so hard and unusual to get already.
If u really care about the players and want to balance the game just set the 100% chances or increase the % to get legendary badge with all legendary components, its unfair be able to craft 1 badge like in 2 months and get a epic one.

With the nerf part, I don't see anything other than a strategy to sell more badge bundles to be honest. I'm not buying this "balance" thing.

Governator

Now, I would happy pay the 400 Gold to restart a Hard version of The Distance if there were Gold Components/Frags available. Plus, a gas booster would be needed... Think of the revenue!

anniesprinkles

In other words you are saying, "hey we still have badge event where you can BUY gold and get those 5k gold packs! That gives you 2 guaranteed gold pieces!!! Yay look how generous we are to you all"!

TransmuteJun

While you're making these changes, I don't suppose you could get rid of the Critical Damage badges and the +number badges? Both of those are pretty useless. I can just see myself crafting with all legendary and getting a +800 critical damage. Ugh.

Pain Walker

@bladgier Yes because Ng should see an increase in super component crate purchases. Players could get a few more leg badges too especially if they have been hoarding for a while so yeah... both parties should be happy

JayZ

TransmuteJun said:

While you're making these changes, I don't suppose you could get rid of the Critical Damage badges and the +number badges? Both of those are pretty useless. I can just see myself crafting with all legendary and getting a +800 critical damage. Ugh.

Agreed 100% about flat value badges. I hope all flat value badges get converted to % badges because the scaling gets worse the higher your player level.

I have to disagree about Critical Damage badges. How do you not find them useful? My Shooters hit 50k damage and can one-shot level 32 fatties because of badges.

anniesprinkles

I'd rather see a guaranteed legendary badge event occasionally then see the horrible drop rate of frag/components go down even more.

ShadowaceAz

Not to appear ungrateful for attempting to better something, but I have not crafted a badge since the last crafting event. This shows how many (or lack of) fragments I have collected. I do not do Hard Mode Distance every week, because I cannot make much progress & I've been trying to chase summer tokens, Ive done Hard Mode a couple times I must stress...

If the fragment drop goes down even further, it might as well go back to when I didn't have the level to even do crafting. At a minimum, could having the craftsmen building upgrade increase the drops more? It will be months at least before I get there, but it would be a light at the end of the tunnel.

Another though, just to throw pasta on the wall, let's get rid of Bullet Dodge which is honestly how useful, and make a scavenger badge that increases the chances of badge components?? I know, silly thought...

Thank you for the foreknowledge!!

ATLAS-Z

I'm betting this 100% guaranteed legend badge comes with a 90% chance of crafting flat rate crit damage badges. Pffft.

whitek111

So for the update gift can you give everyone a legendary fragment and 4 components. That shouldn't really break the bank.

Edit: just realized as soon as I posted that's not likely since you have to be a certain council level to get components oh well then

Kaz

msapaev said:

At the last component event, the chances of getting badge fragments and components from gold after mission crates were the same as usual (have not been increased). @Kaz, are you going to balance that?

Most likely not, so the event and the component boxes will become more valuable after that balance changes.

whitek111 said:

So for the update gift can you give everyone a legendary fragment and 4 components. That shouldn't really break the bank.



Edit: just realized as soon as I posted that's not likely since you have to be a certain council level to get components oh well then

It's possible to give a different gift to a player if they don't have the scavenger building in their camp, so that`s actually an interesting idea and we'll keep that in mind.

And I understand your concerns about the rare item becoming rarer, but don't worry. We'll keep monitoring it after the change to make sure it doesn't turn into a bad experience.

Drunken

@Kaz the company has been pretty bad at monitoring, maybe you all get the numbers, but you don't ever change things for the better, eventually players get used to the nerfs, then you all do some dumb shit like this. But I have no doubt some brain busting ideal will follow this to make players forget about this.

Danski_46

This is so see thru it's unbelievable! NG ceo must be short of funds for his new yacht. All this 'balancing' is aimed at is selling more gold for us to buy component crates. Well NG you can expect zilch from me. I have bought bundles regularly but now I am becoming ftp.
You treat your customers like a cash cow.