Thread: "New" upcoming game: Armor Blitz

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So where is everybody so far on the bounties?

7 Cornucopias. Bought bounty 2 with drumsticks reserved. I make stage 8 easily enough, but I'm not wasting time pushing past that. Wreck my tanks for a near zero chance of return.

10 cornucopias. One battle (not tile, battle) left for this reset. So that means 132 drumsticks, 15214 feathers, and 10 cornucopias right now.

Definitely not getting the corns. RNG's broke.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Definitely not getting the corns. RNG's broke.

Nah, some people are, some people aren't. RNG is working as RNG does.

RNG just happens to be a dumb way of doing something like this. Game Dev 201: Only use RNG for something that you don't expect/want players to get. Because some players won't.

That is pretty much the definition of "broke" that I'm using, "broke" as in bad design. :P

Has anyone been able to actually engage with the devs on Discord about this? Every time I go there it's just random garbage about emblems people found or upgraded, sprinkled with a few 'nope, no Cornucopia this round' comments.

I suppose we're going to have to redefine 'cornucopia' from 'horn of plenty' to 'horn of not enough.'

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Has anyone been able to actually engage with the devs on Discord about this? Every time I go there it's just random garbage about emblems people found or upgraded, sprinkled with a few 'nope, no Cornucopia this round' comments.

I suppose we're going to have to redefine 'cornucopia' from 'horn of plenty' to 'horn of not enough.'

I doubt they're unaware of it, but they won't acknowledging it as a problem. At least not yet. The point of the event from their perspective is to get people to purchase baskets from the exchange. See, we keep referring to cornucopias as if they're part of the event, but they're not. The event is the bounties. That's the hook for the SALE. The SALE is the exchange shop and the cornucopias are like coupons for the exchange shop you get as random event drops. Coupons exist to make people buy things they otherwise wouldn't because hey, they've got a coupon.

That aside, I wish I could re-run PoC maps where you accidentally kill too quickly and wreck your score with a low battle bonus.

Ugh. Game cheats like a motherfucker. Enemy starts with a picket of bunkers more durable than your commander and then drops four goddamn Jagdtigers behind it. Their range is just nuts and they can kill anything in one or two shots while hiding behind the picket. Your arty's can't reach, because they're all distracted poking some enemy bunker off to the side. Game puts you in traction every loss and the enemy's cheesing it like Chester fuckin' Cheetah.

Originally Posted by TreadNaught

I doubt they're unaware of it, but they won't acknowledging it as a problem. At least not yet. The point of the event from their perspective is to get people to purchase baskets from the exchange. See, we keep referring to cornucopias as if they're part of the event, but they're not. The event is the bounties. That's the hook for the SALE. The SALE is the exchange shop and the cornucopias are like coupons for the exchange shop you get as random event drops. Coupons exist to make people buy things they otherwise wouldn't because hey, they've got a coupon.

The problem with this logic is that events are the only way to reliably get an Elite 5* tank. By making the ONLY use for corns to be the 3rd copy, you put RNG into getting the elite tank. If I want RNG in my Elite 5*, I'll go pull in store.

Even worse is the fact that the shop option for corns is randomized, for even more RNG, which is a huge turn-off in itself.

All in all, IMO they need to make it clear whether events are meant to give a "free" (or almost free) Elite 5* or expect to pay for a perfect 5*. Right now it seems more to pay, except in this case a couple lucky people will get one for free.

And before anyways says that guaranteed Elite 5* is not the big draw of events, I'd like to point out that we get a free 5* every month by default for login bonuses so it's not just getting a 5* that makes events special, it's getting an Elite 5*


Personally, I think the last two tiles should guarantee a corn on the last map of the tile so those who can full clear don't STILL end up with 0 corns for the run. Guaranteeing you'll be at least half way there if you full clear every time seems like it would encourage a lot more spenders (since otherwise it's mostly the whales or the really lucky that will dump cores in)