Will the NEW Hard Mode SAVE Clash of Clans Esports?! My thoughts…

[@austinrader3941]

As a lower th comp player for ths 5-13, I do not like this change. I personally thought hard mode was not hard enough, especially for a th like th16. I believe the percentages should’ve been 10% for defensive damage, 15% for hero health, 20% for hero damage. This would have translated across all townhalls to make things more balanced to how the game used to be, that way leagues aren’t forced to run so many caps and restrictions to make the game fun and balanced. The equipment idea I do believe is good but I do not see it making much of a difference at all, root riders and dragons will reign supreme with very little difficulty at worlds, and it is incredibly disappointing to see that it will be completely time based with primarily 2 attacks being used every single war. The downside of the equipment nerf is that it removes attacks like fireball rocket loons or more creative things, because the extra spell space required is simply not worth the effort for the attack. I would’ve much rather them adjust the hero equipment to something more appropriate with the nerfs and buffs, than to limit attacks to simply 2 armies because they insist on this meta being incredibly offense heavy, and therefore rather boring and lacking of skill. Those are my thoughts concerning this change. It is simply not enough to make th16 challenging for the players or alter the time based meta, and it is very much not helpful for low th competitive.

[@EricOneHive]

Lower THs will be very easy still even with hard mode since level caps won’t affect them at all. It’s definitely a strange implementation of hard mode but I guess we will try it out and at least lower TH tournaments can still put other restrictions as needed to adjust for now

[@IcyRedeemer]

Well sir you are right, but as for the fireball thing, I have a lvl 21 fireball and I'm at legends, thus I mostly attack th16s with mostly maxed bases. The only defenses I can't get with the same Fireball+ 2 quake combo is Eagle Artillery only as it remains with around 300 hp or something. And also Giant Arrow + Fireball + 2 earthquake doesn't take down townhall 16. Thus I think the hard mode is probably improved.

[@KaiserM3]

Remember that SC just want people to upgrade, the low ths have no purpose for them. Like they believe no one should stay there

[@simoresp]

@@EricOneHiveeric, please shout this out, at th12 with the incoming buff loons wont die to 6 red air bombs with a life gem, making impossible to kill loons basically, se need equipment cap at lower ths aswell (like lvl 9 for th12 would be good) because playing with a lot of restrictions IS NOT FUN

[@Lucy_595]

"Low th competitive player" lmao. You inferior low level players should know your place. The game revolves around th 16, you are worthless.

[@lyeduardo3326]

I hope with this Nerf to equipments and the adjust of hard mode , we could see a balanced meta and with variety of attacks not only one again and again and again

[@BottomGonTop]

Not really for Epic Eqs. Lv 21 and 28 is barely any different compared to lv 15 to 21.

[@Ruwin_Wickramanayake]

@@lyeduardo3326 they should buff defenses , this freaking developers completely destroyed OG lalo meta

[@sky.1505]

​​​@@BottomGonTopepic equipment already got nerf.. its power like 24..now.. so basically 21 level= level 18

[@lyeduardo3326]

@@Ruwin_Wickramanayake I agree , all this unbalanced meta started when supercell nerfed all defenses with the introduction of th16

[@Lucy_595]

​@@lyeduardo3326Defenses were nerfed before th 16

[@KingYang05]

To make it truly hard, defending heroes should have active static abilities (such as warden’s rage gem) and all activated hero abilities should trigger once they hit 50% HP.

[@bcsa8079]

I don’t think level cap on equipment is right, like it does basically nothing to the giant gauntlet but requires one or two more spells to go with fireball (Same with the reason they don’t increase defense hp in the hard mode, they don’t want to change interaction for fireball or zap quake. It just nerf specific strategy too much)

[@sky.1505]

Just calculate that way hoga puppet is already got nerf now it's level ability like level 15 from level 18 now in hard mode it's again 15 so it's power like level 12

[@KaiserM3]

The gauntlet also will receive a particular nerf but the fireball won't.

[@sebastianlucas704]

Giant arrow, also can't kill air defenses anymore.

[@KaiserM3]

@@sebastianlucas704 huge change there too. This update will make legends league worthless for all the pro players and for every player who wants to play at high level.

[@trollandroidx]

while I can't speak a lot about the hard mode meta, this change surely will be beneficial for the player's wallets saving them 3 levels of common equipment and 6 whole levels of epic? what a deal (hope this at least makes it easier for more players to test equipments, tho with the equipment nerfs idk how stuff will shape up)

[@EricOneHive]

That is very true. Will feel weird to only push equipment to 21 and then stop for tournament players, I guess we will see what people decide to do

[@MistiDonaldo]

They will just make it a -6 instead of a lv 21 cap ;-)

[@MRxNep]

@@EricOneHivethe thing is you can get ores for free from star bonuses . So you will eventually have required Amount of ores to max out your equipment so i dont think it will Be issue for esports player by that much . Good For Normal Players Cuz they get to enjoy the equipments in war , legend league and Normal Attacks

[@bambostarla6259]

I thought the same! Pros can invest in more epics without maxing them, which was also a problem because the team with the biggest budget could get the maxed epic super easily, and teams with a limited budget were at a huge disadvantage

[@jaznlova]

Determining the meta of equipments for casuals watching Esports will be difficult due to the drastic differences in levels

[@EricOneHive]

Yeah that’s the biggest problem, we want attacks done on hard mode to translate to how a normal player trying to replicate it should do it, but that won’t work without adjustments anymore. I’ll do my best to communicate that to people when we watch the esports wars but at least they will be more entertaining to watch more variety in attacks

[@KaiserM3]

All the players should play in the same level, this is insane. All players in the same level helps them to realize how good they are compared with pros and maybe trying to start a career in sports, with this gap that won't happen casually.

[@KaiserM3]

@@MRxNephahaha nope is not the same at all and I can see that you never played a high level before 😂. All players trained in legends league for wars, now legend league means nothing because that's not the real level of those wars... Maybe you should upgrade your th first. I know that you love the free 3 stars, but that's not the point of this game.

[@KaiserM3]

@@MRxNep If they don't like the challenge in a strategy war game then they should play Super Mario or something like that. You are just trying to gaslight here. As I said before all the pro players and every player who wants to play tournaments try themselves first in legends league and see their level. Everyone could use the league to push to be the best and to train at the same time. Now is impossible. So no, having a friendly challenge is not the same at all. Your arguments are really bad. Than mentality is really mediocre. So "if I don't have the same HR that Klaus has I don't want to play this game"? Is silly, the best have to win. Having all double perfect war all the time is really bad. If anyone wants to play at very easy level in this game, then they should stay in th9 or something.

[@KaiserM3]

@@MRxNep you are the one who doesn't read pal, I just put you in your place for your original poor reply. "It won't be an issue right?". And I proved the issue. I understand that you love your free 3 star, but you are in the wrong side right now. Maybe if clash of clans starts to be decent again and get a good level like th15, there fyi could ask for a noob level, after all is what some people did that year. I don't have a problem, random war for noobs and normal random wars

[@sheepy6766]

If supercell doesnt give you the challenge you want, drop the RR spam meta and make a challenge for yourself. Use weird armies, try new or even old ones. Im currently trying an army using an RC/Spirit Fox, invis/recall spell to grab a few tucked in defenses while setting a small funnel. It would be awesome to see hard mode enter the game fully though. I wonder if SC is just testing new ideas around hard mode to see what balances should be made before they fully release it to the game for everyone. Thats atleast my hope for the long term plan.

[@EricOneHive]

You are partially right, but it’s frustrating for players who purposely don’t use the broken things while their opponent will still use it and most likely win as a result, effectively purposely putting yourself at a disadvantage. Can be fun still to mess around but better to have something built into the game to keep variety and fairness at the same tjme

[@sheepy6766]

You are right cause I do not go positive to often using one off armies I come up with💀 but this meta has been the best to try new things cause the equipment can sometimes carry the army

[@Rikka_V1]

What is your current ranking now in legends?

[@antagonist2983]

This is what other players are doing, The problem is that SC is making indirect nerfs rather than the actual nerf of meta troops that affect the will balance strategies.

[@sheepy6766]

@Rikka_V1 somewhere between 5600-5700 right now

[@MRxNep]

i think this hard mode should be Available In Legend League and War league Along with Friendly Wars and Challenges . Cuz adding this feature to every part of game will kill the Point of maxing out your equipments . For normal war and below legend leagues There should be no hard mode .

[@Lucy_595]

I thought the community was already angered that equipment are getting nerfed. Do you have any idea what a major nerf it is to use low level equipments in th 16?

[@MRxNep]

@@Lucy_595 to be fair they should have increased the hitpoints and damage of defences that way there would be no need to Nerf and cap those equipments . SuperCell Are messing up in each and every Update

[@Lucy_595]

@@MRxNep They already buffed the defenses in hard mode. And supercell is doing very well currently. Why are you so worried about hard mode anyway, you are just another random that glazes Klaus instead of competing yourself. Lets be honest hard mode should be none of your conern.

[@MRxNep]

@@Lucy_595 tf you talking about dude people r clearing out base under 43 sec and you think thats normal 😂 . I can say thay hard modes not for you so you better stay out of hard mode enjoy playing on multiplayer mode Easy 3 star hurray . But for me as a Esports Viewer and A Player I want more changes to the hard mode Without caping the Equipments that way both attack and defence stays relevant

[@Lucy_595]

@MRxNep I am currently top 20k (around 5600) and my own attacks and experience in the game matter more than what those pros think. Their well-being is none of my concern and shouldn't be yours either.

[@kylesooknanan9010]

Definitely will make it more interesting with the equipment nerf. Excited to see what the future holds because coc is too easy right now

[@idgon09]

I don’t think the nerf on equipment is the best way to make things more difficult because people like watching and seeing what they could implement into their armies, but not seeing the equipment in action may make players not want to watch

[@EricOneHive]

I had the same thoughts about it, it will definitely make things harder. Maybe we will need a mix of normal mode and hard mode community tournaments. I actually run into this issue a lot when I try to cover lower level TH tournaments, there ends up being so many bans in place to make things challenging that it makes it difficult for players trying to learn their TH level to know what to use since all the best stuff is banned

[@tysonmusser]

It’s just going to get even worse with this update. Cause now at TH lvls 12 and under hard mode is becoming drastically easier for the competitive scene at lower TH levels. Sad to see the state of the game now for the lower TH competitive communities.

[@MistiDonaldo]

Would be so easy to make hard mode hard. Just increase the defense to the point it’s hard enough… Capping equipment, nerfing equipment … those you put down much effort and money in. Just keep the equipment alone or give us a respec if you change one

[@giruomaru929]

Eric I really hope you see this message I wanted to ask your thoughs on builder base, on how hard it is to grind and how you get no value except 6th builder, where clan capital, clan wars and clan games are on a good spot. In my opinion they should make it so same as legends league top clan get gems, they should do it with builder base, with a new legends league type of league on buider base, because being on the top of the leaderboard in builder base means nothing. Add a resource or anything, truly anything that helps with the home village more than the 6th builder, like clan games, cwl and clan capital does. As well forgot to add make it so its easier to gather loot, it feels way to grindy and no reward. What are your thoughs on Builder Base current state?

[@KNOCK289]

Especially esports players need to grind hard from now on

[@tevvvs6400]

royal gem and haste vial might end up being the move if not using shield n rocket spear

[@fundomk1]

It's interesting that with the now capped equipment levels, it also affects the heroes' stat boosts.. like, a lv27 spiky ball gives about a 1000 extra HP to the king compared to a LV21 spiky ball. That's a massive difference along with the already 5% base stat nerfs for the heroes. I like to see how the meta now will shift.. all the root riders and dragon spams are boring. No hard mode in legends league does suck, but there isn't good matchmaking in the legends league either, like if you're a TH14 in the legends league, you hardly find other TH14s in your matchmaking for the day, so much so that you gotta stick to the "fake legends"... but if that's the case then the fake legends league might also have the hard mode on by default??? idk, but at least i'm happy Supercell is listening to the community

[@sanjitsuman9702]

Supercell did a L on hog puppet first the nerf , then the hard mode cap , practically useless equip for the pros now

[@KaiserM3]

The ideal should be to have this mode regularly in the game, not only friendly. At least in some parts of the game. Just putting an example. Yatta said before that his training was playing Legend Leagues.... So for all of them that mode is useless now. I mean if you want to make a war in the hard mode you need to adapt yourself out of nothing, just friendlly stuff. And rfor the people who wants to use Legends ti test their skill and tey to play in tournaments, is worthless too. Now Legends means nothing, and random wars is even worse.

[@mightyblaze9911]

There are fc clans for training

[@Ben-zr5ib]

They could just increase damge output of all defences, 15% should make it pretty hard to get 3star

[@sebastianlucas704]

That would make less tanky troops useless.

[@Ben-zr5ib]

@@sebastianlucas704 not useless, just less tanky

[@joebro7280]

@@Ben-zr5ibI don’t understand why they try everything but make the defenses stronger. Any game you play with difficulty level either the damage u take increases or the speed of the game is increased or the reaction and speed they attack u with increases, they dont cap the damage u do or take away ur weapons and give u a stick. This makes no sense to be capping equipment.

[@Ben-zr5ib]

@@joebro7280 exactly what i was thinking, just boost all defences till getting a 3star becomes a feat. Simple as that imo

[@tarifulnafees5981]

Equipment cap is a ridiculous change considering it changes a lot of interactions

[@Puffydaddy123]

An idea: supercell can have 2 different modes coexisting in game. The old hard mode remains its stat changes and is implemented in 5500+ legend league and maybe cwl (etc.), while the new revamped hard mode is called as Pro Mode, where tournaments can use it as their war format

[@thomasvanderhaeghe6106]

the concept of hard mode in itself isn't good but by caping equipement lvl you expend the gap between normal play and the pro scene... thwy try to fix a burn with a mother's kiss at this point, if they wan't to preserv consistancy between the two mode, make defance stronger like 20% dmg boost , add an other defance, like a 3rd spell tower, this would make the game mutch harder for both classic and hard mode and it could help to reshape the meta and keep the two mode closser together with consistancy

[@thomasvanderhaeghe6106]

also having 3 spells towers would completly shift the base building meta, let player have to possibility to run each speel at the same time, add layers of complexity in base design and it will fuck up dragons and root ridders like never before

[@sayantansen6732]

I think its a good adjustment to hard mode.. It was very p2w in hardmode with max level equipments tilll now...and not everyone can pay that much for those equipments.. 21 is very realistic to obtain for anyone who is actively playing the game... Good change (intention wise), but will it be enough to completely balance the pro scenario .. that needs to be seen!!

[@prussianblueppt]

At this point they should just drop th17 and buff the defense buildings. Make it like th15 when a 3 star is rare.

[@taqwinhalid2674]

Buff defenses should be first! ⚠️

[@wess3426]

Why not just make Hard Mode a simple blanket defensive rage over the entire base

[@Recommendations-Library]

Having a cap is gonna backfire Super Cell Money Pockets Let Me Explain So When a New Epic Equipment Comes Every PRO Buy Events pass and shop ore offers to max equipment as fast as possible to try and use them on hard mode Now They Don't Need to Buy them because they Just Need Epic at 21 .Which can be upgrade Easily considering their ores are mostly over flowing 😂

[@EricOneHive]

I think the pro players are a very tiny part of the money they make, they probably won’t even notice a difference honestly

[@cinnamontoast9642]

Frozen arrow really didn't need a nerf

[@grantdull7266]

On the WR attack-- I paused the video when the archer dropped. I think it's actually 44 seconds unless I've misunderstood something.

[@EricOneHive]

You’ll notice that attacks end after the timers sit at zero longer than it should, the in game timer is purposely off by about a second so people can get more excited about getting the triple on the buzzer. The records are based off three in game API data which showed 43 seconds. We have esports websites and bots that automatically draw those stats

[@grantdull7266]

@@EricOneHive Heard on that! Appreciate the reply!

[@frogarmyno1]

supercell really thought they did something after people asked for a th15 hard mode and they increased hero stats to make sure that 15-15 keeps happening 😂😂😂

[@builderphill1361]

They really shouldn't have messed with the attacking troops/heroes. Only defenses, this will make esports compared to the regular game very offputting

[@michaelbritz5981]

we cant copy pros now because normal mode compare to hard mode you need to invest certain spells etc now both are different. so confusing

[@Carlitos_66]

So the giant arrow won't even destroy max level air defenses, also the hog puppet will be even worse lol

[@EricOneHive]

Pretty much, it will definitely meet the goal of making things more difficult tho. Just not the method we were expecting them to implement it. I definitely have mixed feelings about it

[@Mike-we3rb]

They need to nerf e sports until Klaus can’t 3 star a max th16 as a th15 with only mass healer or wb attack. That’ll be a good level

[@Otingocni]

I welcomed hard mode as it would afford the option to satisfy the best players need for a challenge balanced with the average players ability or lack thereof. Unfortunately they threw away that opportunity and once again are catering to thethe top players at the expense of the average player.

[@gernizzle]

this means theyll never implement it into legends league as theyd lose drive to upgrade equipment to the higher levels and therefore monetary gain. games gone

[@donaldswitzer1766]

No way Shakari King??!!!

[@youre_washed_fam5813]

Supercell now working in the right direction!!

[@abd17343]

ERIC IF SOMEONE HAS EQUIPMNT OF LVL 21 AND ATACKS ON HM THEN IT WILL BE OF SAME LEVEL ?

[@sky.1505]

Its really hard..hog puppet is already nerf two time so it's equal to level 15 now in hard mode its again level 15= equal to level 12 hog puppet am i calculate right?

[@Bow_down_jorel]

I don’t understand why not just buff defense

[@tantanobina4688]

Lalo would be back in tournaments

[@emanswat]

This player just hit world record for fastest attack but sadly i can't pronounce his name 😂

[@mazdaxc90]

Bro shikari king got bribed by the other team

[@KC-oi4xh]

when r you doing different games eric?

[@venzungaii9126]

Hard mode buff wouldn't make a big difference.

[@williamli7928]

Eric low key jacked 🔥🔥

[@artimesium]

L hard mode changes, we need defenses to do more damage, equip nerfs was nice for th16, but how will this affect low TH competitive?

[@Christopher-ye3yk]

L opinion. The reason the meta is easy is because of equipments and RR spam, and they nerfed it.

[@Ruwin_Wickramanayake]

Yeah we played in gcc , th13/12 modern . Those were only time battles

[@austinrader3941]

@@Christopher-ye3ykthat isn’t quite enough I’m afraid. With my not max heroes and equipment I can still push to top 20k legends league using rr. And his opinion is completely correct.

[@austinrader3941]

And that was a first time push, not like I’m experienced or cares to tryhard

[@Christopher-ye3yk]

@@austinrader3941 yall act like the update already dropped. Test it out when it comes out and tell me if you can 3 star easily like in normal mode. Nerfing the equipment and the troops used around RR is not an L update to hard mode. It can be improved on, but not an L update like OP said.

[@ninjazzrhythm400]

Its the soul reason i wouldn't spend any money because they took you away as their paid creator.

[@melchichoumelchichou3415]

This is a terrible change because it will just buff the spam attacks and the fireball or spiky ball attacks will be nerfed

[@elohimalves]

now games will be more interesting to watch

[@prasanthp9159]

What a twist ending 🤣

[@rhishikeshwankhede8607]

Is code Eric back?

[@Natureszilla]

Why you didn’t showed in developer mode ? Plz show in that …it will be helpful

[@kenrickhk]

He's now in friendly terms with Supercell

[@adrieljordan6600]

​@@kenrickhkhe is anything but being friendly 😂

[@adrieljordan6600]

but did Eric ever get access to developer build?

[@marcorossi1486]

Short answer: no, not at all

[@jeremya2911]

How is this a nerf? If you don’t like it don’t play hard mode, there no more nerf!

[@alessandrobuzzin7982]

SC needs go back to the basis: - Double damage (or more) by double giant bombs on Root Riders - Double damage (or more) by Teslas on Electro Titans etc etc etc What do you think?

[@louisstone7902]

Or they don't care about it as much

[@munnashaik5381]

What is the World Record Of The Normal Mode?

[@louisstone7902]

I feel like COC is dying out

[@AngelKurivoh]

Queen Druid Charge with Frozen Arrow and Mirror is going to be crazy!

[@fritzfischer1959]

funny how Itzu said the number of the clueless, who are whining about the hog puppet nerf , just sucks.

[@PatrickHille-j9y]

What? You lot were all crying about how the game is too easy. You literally asked for this. Now enjoy it. You got what you wanted. LOL 🤣🤣🤣

[@nvo_beejay]

Supercell doesn’t like Eric 😭 ,,, well we don’t like Supercell. Literally just want code Eric back… all these other content creators ain’t it tbh.

[@HowlPendragon2012]

Still sour after all this time :) Get over it!

[@itsmeahmedlukman]

First

[@nathanieljones8043]

you attacked them shut up dude you accused them of breaking the law if they wanted to they could have sued you for libel

[@EricOneHive]

I never said they broke any laws, I said they abused a legal process to unjustifiably copyright a creator over a personal grudge and the reason the strikes were issues were for general use of Supercell IP which includes everything associated with the game. Therefore they could then also “legally” put strikes on any random channel they wanted to if they had any supercell IP displayed since Finland doesn’t have fair use laws like most other countries do. They hide a thing in their ToS when you download the game that every player agrees to them being able to do this to them the moment you start playing. No one ever expects that any company would actually do it but supercell proved that wrong

[@ukrand9204]

You are on KZbin , who the hell are you to stop him from making videos or sharing his opinion

[@daboss4318]

How does the multibillion corpos boot taste? Hope you like it, because with people like you they will take the world

[@ramondewilde05]

Yet an other nerf to queen charge and suï hero's🫠 Yayy even more spam.. Base stats arent rlly that high regardless so these equipment nerfs are gonna slow it down even more i think

[@EricOneHive]

I think queen charge is benefit from everything getting more difficult while not directly making queen charges more difficult like the other version of hard mode did. If the time meta finally stops, I’d expect that we start seeing a lot more people using queen charges again

[@ramondewilde05]

@@EricOneHive i honestly hope so but it really doesnt feel good to just take away progression like this Like i would say just put a % nerf on specifically equipments to get the same effect but have it not feel like upgrading past lvl 21 and 15 doesnt do anything (hopefully it'll be added to cwl and legends that way maybe even a seperate hardmode cue for normal clanwars that would be awesome🙏)

[@Lucy_595]

Do you have a brain? They literally buffed the heroes meaning queen charge will be more effective than spam.

[@ramondewilde05]

@@Lucy_595 u do realise that equipments effect the hero's base stats too right?

[@KNOCK289]

I miss your commentary in worlds eric 🥲