PT: Challenger Mode #2

#42

highlight of this season
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#43

#44

Weird, maybe another visual bug? I died on purpose, had a red text under the fame i gained saying “You can create 3 more characters”, went back to the menu, i can create 4 more.

Also edit: Seems like that happened on just my first death.

#45

Also deca, pls fix.
pls%20fix

#46

please god don’t let keys be purchasable

#47

Had a lot of fun with challenger again, but man I’ll be disappointed if keys end up being purchasable in the game mode on prod. Every other purchasable nexus item is fine honestly but I think keys would truly ruin it.

#48

things I noticed during the second season:

  • pet food was abundant. maxed my pet easily without getting an uncommon egg in shorter time than in the previous season. didn’t get any uncommon eggs. perhaps their drop rate was lowered.
  • tiered rings felt a bit too rare too, especially exalted rings. I got one usable (def/hp) from the last O2 I did, but that’s all. fame-wise that means 2k base to get the first usable exa ring, and about 500 base to get a useful paramount ring (got 3hps,1def)
  • O2 doesn’t always go back to the center when the dance phase starts. if he does go back to the center after the dance phase, he’ll pull the anti-spectators on people inside the circle, which can easily kill a robe class with unmaxed hp (very common in this mode).
  • there were weird high jitter issues (200+ netjitter) throughout Saturday and Sunday. it seemed as though it was per connection: entered a portal and it went away - entered another and it came back again. jitter mostly stayed the same throughout a connection, so if you were unlucky, you had to do O2 with high jitter. it happened in the nexus and the realm as well. didn’t try any other servers. the issue was not present on prod. mtr showed negligible packet loss (<1%) to the server’s ip address.
#49

lmfao when you try to act smart but you have no idea what ur talking about.

packet loss is not possible in TCP which is the protocol that rotmg uses.

#50

I guess I’ll keep on acting smart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_tuning#Packet_loss

#51

People seem to be very adamantly against keys, but I doubt they’re gonna be fully removed. I think a good compromise would be to set a max on how many keys you can buy per season, maybe a max of 5 Tomb/Trench, and 10 of any other keys. Really love this mode though, cant wait for it to hit prod.

#52

The exp was lowered further from tomb and ot (10k to 4k for each tomb boss, 15k to 10k for thessal). And then the exp of events was increased and every set piece is 4k as well.

Good fix? Nah

#53

This seems like a good idea, except the pet part. I don’t like the pet part because it takes a shitload of RNG just to get a good pet with heal/mheal/???. I thought this would be a pre-kabam mode.

#54

I agree with the limitations on key purchasing. I don’t know where exactly the line should be drawn, but some sort of limitation should probably be in place. Given Discord servers are probably going to organize key pops en-masse, the limit doesn’t need to be very high either.
They can surely scrounge together enough players to each contribute a bit to the key pool, and if anything that’s at least more “well Realm is a co-op game” encouraging than having like 3 whales or something hard carry an entire server.

#55

Thing is that’s what’s going to happen if keys are available to be bought

#56

Yep. If there is a limit on key purchases, then whales can only fund so much for whichever Discord server they’re popping for (though they could still make mules or something to bypass it, but given they have to actually play on each one for a bit to make it eligible for challenger it probably wouldn’t be worth the time to attempt for most).

Ideally, there’d be no key purchases whatsoever. But if Deca insists on putting in keys, then I insist they put in a limit on key purchases to at least lessen the damage.

#57

Actually, considering I don’t think anyone actually bought a key on testing, wouldn’t they not be able to use it until they’re 10 stars?

#58

Nah they removed the 10 star cap it’s mentioned somewhere, implied below

and closed testers were buying hella keys in first challenger, that how most of us maxed life/mana lole

#59

How about making key prices rise with every key you buy?

#60

With this, I would just be afraid that someone wouldn’t notice the price going up when they buy keys, and they unintentionally end up spending more on less content.

#61

When will challenger mode get released to the public?