3.1 - Patch Notes discussion!
Kaz
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Our content creators have announced it already, but we've added some more stuff there regarding Guild Wars rebalance/changes. 
https://forums.nextgames.com/walkingdead/discussion/38950/update-3-1-patch-notes/p1
https://forums.nextgames.com/walkingdead/discussion/38950/update-3-1-patch-notes/p1
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From what I understand the Whispers will only be in the new season missions.
(Maybe we'll see them in other places in the future.)
However, like @PigBenis , I am concerned by the reduction to 5 red gas in normal Distance. Is that a mistake/typo, and shouldn't it be 10 red gas in normal Distance, as it was before?
- We decreased the amount of gas available for casual/lower-level players because we want to prevent the scenario where they start stockpiling gas for not being able to spend all their gas due to the difficulty of the Guild Wars missions. We’ve seen that this is already happening, so now we want to reward a player based on their effort. Casual players will still get more gas than before (especially if they get to at least 1000 stars) including from Ads, season start and Guild Shop offers, so that should make up for the fact that they are not getting 10 per Normal Distance.
- You can sign out of the battle 6 minutes prior to the Battle start.
The situation in Season 1 was that the sign-up was working until the Battle starts, so it made the situation even worse - you could sign up for a Battle at the beginning of the War, and if the minimum required number of players was reached only at the end of the War, the battle would happen only then with everyone who signed up during that time, haha.
Now, this is reduced to 4 hours, so after 4 hours the player who signed up should be automatically signed out. The 4h timer is still pretty much open for reviewing, and can be reduced, if necessary, of course. So if the battle doesn't start in the next hour or two for you, you can sign out and make space for others (but not after the lock happens, though). We will see how it goes, and then decide if we need to adjust this!
- Players are getting more than double the amount of gas, so it means that this should already have an impact on what tier they reach. At the same time, we also decreased the number of VP needed to reach certain tiers. Not balancing the RP you get would mean that you would be able to buy all the offers available if you unlock them, which was never part of the design. Using all the gas you get, you will end up with more rewards unlocked and more Reward Points to use; we just ask the players to play more and go further in each battle instead with more gas available. The VP needed is decreased by around 10% for the top tiers. So it should be hard to get there still, but a lot more guilds should be able to reach it. We tripled (or multiplied by 2.7) the gas availability and we reduced the RP you get per mission by half.
@Deadheads
- Whisperers will be available only in Season Missions in this update. The plan is to redistribute them throughout the game in the future. The same goes for Metal Head Walkers. Maybe in a new challenge set, guild war missions or in old challenge sets that we haven't been using for a while.
@avelardez
- This is a big balance change and we increased the amount of gas everywhere in the game. Having more offers for TG was an option discussed, but we would really like to see how it goes first before going all berserk with free gas everywhere. As it's written on the patch notes, this is not permanent and we can still change if we feel that it's needed. Remember that you still get 5 extra gas after every battle you play. Also, more GW Gas will be available in the Guild Shop every war.
4x10 distance
1x10 gw shop (minimum)
6x5 given back at end of battle
1x20 for 12000tg
1x40 for 1500gold
+rnd from cinema
that is 180+ or 120 if you don't want to spend gold or tg
and more can come from guild shop
for me that will be enough I think, I will be buying the ones for tg but not for gold
- Joining during a Battle - In a few cases, guilds were removing members from their roster when signing up for a match in order to affect the matchmaking process, and then those members would rejoin and participate in the battle once it was underway. This is not how Guild Wars were intended to be played, and so from now on, players who join a Guild while a Battle is underway will need to wait for the next sign-up period before they can join the Guild Wars list.
A bit bummed about this. I know that in Legacy Eh, we'd sign up for battle with whoever was available. Sometimes that would only be 6-7 players at the start of the battle. We'd get matched up against Mavericks, Wild Squad, or other top guilds that also only start with 6-7 players, and then both of our guilds would put in a call for help and see battles fill up as we try to defend our honor. Other times we'd be matched up 7v10 but be able to add players and end up having a competitive match.
I hope the matchmaking process is rebalanced so that we won't have to add players mid-battle, now that it's impossible to do so.
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The rest I remain skeptical. We'll have to wait and see.
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Be on time, or wait until the next round.
My guys know this already, and I don't let people participate in a battle they aren't scheduled for. Should be a nice change for us that other guilds can't pile on after it starts.
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> Battle-joining Restrictions
> - Joining during a Battle - In a few cases, guilds were removing members from their roster when signing up for a match in order to affect the matchmaking process, and then those members would rejoin and participate in the battle once it was underway. This is not how Guild Wars were intended to be played, and so from now on, players who join a Guild while a Battle is underway will need to wait for the next sign-up period before they can join the Guild Wars list.
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> A bit bummed about this. I know that in Legacy Eh, we'd sign up for battle with whoever was available. Sometimes that would only be 6-7 players at the start of the battle. We'd get matched up against Mavericks, Wild Squad, or other top guilds that also only start with 6-7 players, and then both of our guilds would put in a call for help and see battles fill up as we try to defend our honor. Other times we'd be matched up 7v10 but be able to add players and end up having a competitive match.
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> I hope the matchmaking process is rebalanced so that we won't have to add players mid-battle, now that it's impossible to do so.
I think the restriction is for players that join the guild during the battle, if the players are already in the guild I think they can join and help the team and match that possible 10 vs 10
Am I right? @Kaz
I'm a little confused about this part exactly.
I read it two ways.
1) Guilds were banishing players (from the guild) before joining a battle. Then those players would rejoin the guild and then battle.
Now players that join a guild during a battle won't be able to join that battle and have to wait until the next battle.
2) Guilds were starting a battle with 6 players and then other players already in the guild would join.
So @Kaz
What exactly is all this? Guilds can still start a battle with 6 players and other players can still join? Just not players that join the guild during a battle.
Or is it now once a battle has begun no players can join the battle?
@Kaz Please tell me I understood something wrong.
You have to play more to get to the same place as before these changes. So once again in this game - The grind goes up. And the game's enjoyment invariably goes down for the players.
Tweaking the numbers doesn't take away from the basic idea here. NextGames will not survive if they continue to rely on grind in its games in order to make money, IMHO.
Videos and @kaz has already said that there will be more in GW shop than the 10 in the calculation. This will actually allow guilds to be tactical. If I had my way I would remove the ability to purchase any with real money to make it a level playing field. I know NG won't do that but it was horrible to come up against those guilds who you knew had whales in it who could just keep going and going. I was one of the few who could take on 33's so waited until sanc was unlocked and just worked on them. Will be nice to be able to help out with some of the easier maps this time.