The Cursed City is My Worst NIGHTMARE....but can Plarium Make it Into My Sweetest Dream?

[@jeffm9340]

The "game design" ship sailed a long time ago. Pretty much all the content added in the last year has been about extracting resources ($) from the player base. We'll just have to wait for them to add ever increasingly powerful champions to do the content, which again is an exercise in getting those resources out of their players ($). There are tons of QoL changes they could make to improve the game, but they just end up leaving a trail of dead systems behind them (market, token trader, 3x3 arena, bazaar, live arena, advanced/basic/clan quests etc).

[@SagaGuin]

I completely agree. I have decided to not move gear at all or build up bad champions for just 1 stage (I never build up rares for DT hard secret rooms too). And especially to not waste hours of my time to hope to the RNG to get stuns and perfect RNG to beat a stage (needing stun sets to beat a stage isn't good content). I am really frustrated on some stages where they purposely put nasty champions with bad affinity, which can easily destroy or screw you over. In the long run I may build some of the champions with some left over gear, but it will likely still not be possible to beat the hardest stages since my left over gear is not really good. And in all honesty, the rewards aren't that great either. I can do 85-90 stages and will take me a year to get the mythical, but I will still get it. Few more months, won't really change much for me and speeding it up is not worth the frustration, time and resources. And after that the rewards become kinda shit. Sure, there is nice gear you can get, but lots of rng with gear too. And aside from the gear, you can get what max 1 lego/myth book if you are lucky? (from the chests that will replace the champion). There are no shards. There are remnants which is nice, but since I can't complete all stages, there isn't much a difference if I beat 80 or 100 stages. And I hear they want to do one more difficulty... Like what it will be? One faction with one affinity with one rarity with one type (hp/support/attack/defense)? Or what beat those stages with just 1 champ? How about no. The new rotation for example. S8 is like "you can use legos", but the only lego fitting the description is Alsgor (and Maud), what a joke.

[@bartkorol611]

Amen.

[@g0rraxgames127]

I really like the map aspect, where if I can’t do a level then I can find another way around. Especially since some of the soul stages block me and honestly I’m okay with that. However, that all falls apart when they have a single stage blocking portions of the map. I’m totally fine with them limiting champions by factions or affinities for a given stage, but they need to play by their own rules and select champions from those limitations. That would prevent BS like trying to kill a tanky duchess with force affinity champs. All your other points I’m totally in agreement with you, the silver cost and RNG is just too much.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

I actually agree that the map is good and cool change. And I could see champ limits making sense if the limitations were smart ones that any sane player would make as you mentioned. Forcing me to throw Ukko against Mortu and Duchess is just stupid. There's potential in this if they actually take feedback and make improvements. Will that happen? Doubtful 😔

[@MalRabbit]

The map, while a good idea in theory let's itself down in practice due to the chokepoints like you said and the fact that it limits any sort of auto climb feature like DT. The idea of "chose your own path" only works if there are fundamental differences between paths and in this there are not. Doesn't matter when I clear a given stage or how I got there the stage will remain the same and the rewards are static. It's an illusion designed to make it feel bigger but let them put fewer resources into making it, this feels like it was made by AI not an intelligent human designer.

[@g0rraxgames127]

@@MalRabbit that’s an interesting take… I’m not sure what you mean by the lack of fundamental differences. If I can’t get past a given stage based on soul or champion limitations then taking an alternate path with different requirements gives me an option with fundamental differences?

[@MalRabbit]

@@g0rraxgames127 What I mean is that if you do that stage or not it won't affect the outcome of the run as a whole. It doesn't change anything further down the line, the only thing that particular choice did was limit what static content you could complete. The very first fork for example, If I can't do C3 and instead go C7 not only does it not stop me from doing C4 (just have to go around the other way) but when I get to S4 for example or the Boss nothing is different from me having "picked" C7. The rest of the map is unchanged by this seeming "choice." What I would love to see is either a rogue-like element where you could fail and have to start back over OR have the stages and rewards change based on unique path you chose this time around. Maybe even have paths open and close dynamically based on player decision. Right now it's all random and static and the choices don't matter at all. So why even try to make it non-linear? They just didn't want us to say it's a DT clone but in fact it's just a worse version of DT.

[@g0rraxgames127]

@@MalRabbit they are just giving us options, which is good imo. If stages and paths were dynamic then you’re adding another layer of RNG into it this would make it impossible to plan anything. I’ll take strategy over RNG any day, just my personal preference though.

[@Lint42]

1000% agree with you. I'm end game, have the champs to do most of the levels, and I just do any levels in Sintranos that I have champs geared for. I take the free rewards and move on. I don't bother with regearing champs for 1 level a month or spending hours of rng to pass a level. The best thing that Sintranos did was giving us free regear monthly for a few days (which I don't use for Sintranos).

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Agreed. The guaranteed free regear is the best part. Sad that's the case but it's true lol.

[@dodeath]

True. I also don't like Animus passive about skill reset being activated from mastery. Sets ok, but mastery. reset masteries every rotation.. its even more price. I cant swap one mastery, so have to pay even worse then gear silver

[@noahford3670]

How much more of this are we going to take? I can't believe I still play this game.

[@ShooterMcGavin__]

Sadly, it’s super end game and I am probably ~3ish years away from doing it. TBH I doubt I will still be here in that time so I don’t give it much thought. It’s designed as silver dump to clear out the coffers of older players from what I see. While the rewards are somewhat good, it’s not sustainable to do it every month unless gear swapping cost is removed. I could imagine being very new in this game seeing it and just know this is impossible from a restricted champ pool, blessing status, or just being silver broke which is every player not racking up miles on a credit card. New content was a big miss and two thumbs way down.👎🏼👎🏼

[@liamskelly7825]

I approach it as I am 2 years in, I don’t complete hard but I do what I can where I can WITHOUT regearing anyone. If I get stuck I move to normal and just let it go…

[@MalRabbit]

I'm just about 5 years into this game (April 2019) and I don't clear it, those levels in Soulcross are a farce and the content as a whole just takes too much time and resource and provides little back. You are right about the goal of the content being to drain players and it's just not right. This still could be a good game with the smallest changes but it has to come from the top and they are unwilling to budge on their profit first ideology.

[@mrgrinch2346]

Nobody said you had to complete it %100... Clear what you can with what you have, it's pretty simple and free rewards you were never getting before. Greed is a relentless force 🤫

[@mrgrinch2346]

​@@liamskelly7825this is the way 🤘😎🤘

[@guamTheFear]

Completely agree. I honestly don't even try most sintranos. There is already too much time spent in game. Let alone adding 3 hours to run 1 stage and get shit rewards foe the effort. Let alone the silver costs. I will not build champs out for sintranos. I will do levels I can based on where I have built already and that is it. I mean I am no kraken like you but I do have quite the roster filled out and would say I am end game. But too difficult

[@michaelhenry8091]

Man your thumbnail game is insane bro lmao

[@bonjouravecuns]

I agree!!

[@helstar_nl6875]

The real problem (as it always has been) as long as people keep spending, Plarium keeps screwing over. I know some people need to spend to keep up with platinum Arena, but the only way to hurt Plarium is in their wallet. They will never make a positive change to the game that helps their community, it's as simple as that. I love raid, I am glad that I never bought anything beside the montly gem pack for a few times, because if I was a Whale/Kraken like you are I would really feel screwed. Good to hear your side, love the down to Earth video and you make a great point! Just a little quiet for you even at 3 am :D (btw on a side note my 12 year old son wanted to try Raid and I let him. He stopped playing the moment he found out switching gear to try stuff out costs silver. Smart kid!)

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Yeah you're 100% right. Arena is definitely what drives spending. I've been better about not spending recently but that itch to win is what gets you haha. And smart kid indeed!

[@Nebuchadnezar1]

When you showed the stats of your “pretty good stun gear” on Ukko 🤯 😂 the community backs your thoughts on Sintranos

[@krismcdonald6422]

That Ukko was INSANE! lol I feel wildly better after only clearing 90 levels on hard now. I was never, ever gonna pass those last 11

[@dd_zzero6827]

I heard that Raid talked to CC's about the city and are open to changes. LOL! Yea, like we are on the 3rd rotation and still nothing has changed. They will get around to it in 3 years. Drock, I will build champions for the levels but I will not kill myself by regearing and other stuff. If I can't do it, oh well. I still haven't even beaten the boss because I think he is a pain in the ass.

[@mrrep2057]

I’ve been playing off and on for 3 years maybe close to 4 now , I have 12M player power a very good roster and I can only get about 75% of cursed city hard mode finished. You hit the nail on the head it’s artificially hard with these stupid limits. I find myself just getting frustrated like you said spending hours upon hours trying to beat these stupid levels. I’m absolutely finished with it idc I’ll get what rewards I can and forge the rest.

[@adamurban6315]

For me the cursed city looks like this: after the reset I just see how far I can go in hard difficulty. When I'm stuck I go to normal and do the same. When I'm stuck I just wait for the reset. Content is boring and annoying when they tell you that you have to use for example spirit epics and rares against magic legendaries... I'm late game I would say and in some stages I literally had available total of 6 champions, 4 unique as 2 were dupes. How am I supposed to beat that?

[@gregprice8025]

Hi BPD, this is my first time watching your content and I have to say that I fully agree with everything you are saying. I am 1 year into my account and I have spent money and have a decent account, that being said I cannot clear 100 stages and have just put it in my head that my goal for hard is to hit 50 cleared stages, 6 awakened stages, and potentially work on beating Amius, that will give me 40 points towards Karnage a month. I have just realized that it is unrealistic for players like yourself, Saph at HH, Hell Hades, Ash, etc. etc. to have a tough time to beat these that us common players will never get. Currently I have only beaten Amius on Normal on Rotation 1 so I am only currently getting 15 candles per rotation toward Karnage, if I cannot beat Amius then it will take me roughly 3 years to get Karnage! You are correct that is a problem. I think another way they could "fix" this is to acquire champs from normal to be able to help beat the hard content. They failed with this in Doom Tower, they have an opportunity to actually make it progression content. Beat Normal, get a champ that helps you in Deadrise, Once all content on hard has been achieved for a section get a champ that helps you in the next section. I believe you are correct in thinking it can be fixed, here is a thought towards a solution.

[@--AoS--]

100% agree with you… I love the Amius mechanics, it’s a clever boss. I also understand gear removal cost early and mid-game. An easy fix would be that when you get Lydia or beat Amius or both, or Ramantu, you also unlock free gear removal. An easy fix for the ridiculousness of Soulcross would be, you have 4 slots with the current restrictions and 1 slot free pick from your roster. Just some thoughts…. As it stands now, I pick up the rewards I can with the champs I have and don’t look at it for the rest of the month… I’m not going to get past S8… I have the gear, I have the champs, but only 3 at 60 and I’m not gonna build otherwise useless champs just for this. Shame really… another bridge into Soulcross and it would feel much more fair.

[@somegoodideas707]

Can we get a vote on making Drock CEO of Plarium for one f*cking week, al least xD

[@aaronschmitt3159]

I absolutely agree with you! The RNG stun fest that was the secret rooms was not enjoyable. You miss one stun and you get killed so you have to run stages until you get good RNG. I was so happy to finish collecting all my champs and to never have to do them again. Then they bring Sintranos in and its back with a vengeance. Also the silver issue is so out of control, I dropped 50 million the first rotation on like 2 or 3 stages just switching gear. Not to mention I switched blessings for a few of the boss fights. I finished 96 stages in rotation one then 91 in rotation 2. I just refuse to switch to stun sets and RNG stun set floors. I dont do Live arena so if it takes an extra month to get the mythical Ill gladly wait to not have to do those stun fest stages. Worst thing is that they take a time and silver issue and make them even worse. Im on the verge of quitting depending on how they gate the new faction champs.

[@stephenbonaduce7852]

Good content, BigPoppa! But if I may: NEVER ask, "Can you get more greedy?" Because down at Plarium, they'll be like, "Hold my beer."

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Hahaha very good point! Don't want to "encourage" them to do anything worse 😂

[@jgarrison1309]

Now you know how it feels if you try Sand Devil without Ninja, or attempting any Turn Attack Tournament without Seer.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Indeed I have felt the pain of the F2P life. One of us! One of us! 😂

[@aizatramlan2991]

It’s funny how they introduce so many new gears but at the end the only thing that can help you complete sintranos(also DT secret room) is only stun set. My stun set drops is the worst, I don’t even have enough good stun set artifacts to use. By the time I get Karnage I won’t even bother trying to complete anything in cursed city, beating amius just for the accessories then forget about it. Plarium can make the stages even harder or impossible and 99% of player base won’t care.

[@jovan9989]

Very concise and logical video. I agree 100% with everything said. This game is just not fun, but it's not because they want it balanced (that word is not in their dictionary) it is just because they want us to sink even more resources. Fundamentally Sintranos is an awful content that was probably made in less than a month because players were upset that we had no new content for more than half a year at that point. You earned insane amounts of money and you still do and still will, let us have some fun...

[@failedsupernova9575]

Last rotation I got blocked so hard I couldn't even leave first area, I checked all stages nad I would get almost all stages in area on the right. But I didn't had any champion for stage in between so nothing for me

[@NC.Chris.]

There is no thought process man idk who runs this company but they should be ashamed. 5 people in my clan just quit the game and I’m talking about super end game every day big spenders who loved this game and put A LOT into just think about what makes someone like that quit. The last month + has been nothing but a backhanded joke to the player base.

[@enjuno]

I was one of the people to get that survey and when I saw that question I went in on them. Cursed city does not need to be harder, it needs to be doable by the majority of the player base. At this point I am sure the devs are incompetent and have no idea have to make good content. After the first rotation I refuse to change gear on my champs to beat a stage. I either beat it or I don't

[@rolandallgeier1631]

Who are your top spenders? It's not the casual players, but the Krakens. How do you keep them engaged? It's through power creep. By introducing harder or even impossible content that demands players spend more money in acquiring better champions and ridiculous gear. Its a vicious cycle. The game becomes increasingly difficult with each new addition of content. Greed-that's the crux of the problem.

[@bluedragon895]

Great content BPD! Just an FYI on your comment at the end of the video, the audio was definitely hard for me to hear. I had to crank my volume all the way up just to hear you at a normal level.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Thanks Blue! I'll see what I can do about the volume on my side!

[@dasuniversum5875]

i think it would be a step forward when they half the cost of removing gear.. even that would be amazing.. instead of 100k silver, they could make it just 50k or 25k cost for change.. i would LOVE that

[@SiIkyJohnson]

It’s also sad that there is no incentive to push levels unless you beat every stage. I wish you got like one candle per stage in addition to the ones earned from missions. Or don’t have the missions reset.

[@horridfuture3835]

Heavily champion locked. Some stages you just aren’t getting without a certain champ or multiple of a certain champ.

[@tonymoore4374]

Firstly, I think your microphone is too quiet as I had to turn the volume up a lot for your normal videos. I agree that Soulcross is too difficult, but I like the limits on champions as it makes it more interesting to pull out an old champion or one that I've never used. However, those stun set only levels need to be reworked to be achievable for a much larger portion of the player base...if only 10% (or less!) of the player base can complete all stages, then that's just too hard. Thanks for sharing your frustration with us.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Yeah a couple of people have said the mic is too quiet. Not sure what the issue is because it's the same setting as before. Only thing I can guess is I'm not as loud as I was when recording haha. And the stun set stuff kills me! Hate having to have six thousand stun sets to beat anything.

[@jfgrenier972]

Yup we need 100% free regear 100% of the time. What they seem to not understand is, giving us this feature will not make people cheese their way to end game with 15 sets split between all their champions. I hate regearing, even for free. I gear someone for something, then i move to the next person. Gearing your champions correctly is already a PITA, trust me, i aint gonna go swap and reswap my 15-20 best gear sets between 200+ champions. In other words, their excuse to make it costly so we have to keep farming more gear is BS.

[@gkar9757]

I delayed getting Lydia as I never moved gear for FW, I don't move gear for DT and I don't do it for Sintranos. I completely don't being unable to beat stages and frankly I don't even push to get into Soulcross. I do believe that mixing champ affinities etc + restrictions can be fun. It shouldn't be a walk in the park. New mechanics? Trying to go against your odds is a mechanic and I think many players are frustrated because it's not easy and it's a challenge. e.g. 1st wave nightmare but the other two, 30"each.

[@Aireez24]

Dang dude….couldn’t have said it better!!! I completely concur with EVERY single word you said!! And perfect delivery!!! 👍🏼👍🏼👊🏼

[@bigu1874]

I don't mind that I can't finish Sintranos, what I mind is that some stages are compulsory, like S8 to enter Soulcross. You can't pass that stage and you're done. Is Sintranos too hard? That is difficult to answer tbh. Soulcross is really tough and I can't do much there. The other three quarters however are a slight touch too easy. The content would be more interesting (at least for me) if the three first three quarters would be a little bit harder and Soulcross a little bit easier. To say the city is too hard is definitely not true, to say it is too easy isn't either.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

I could get on board with the other stages getting a small difficulty bump but Soulcross is definitely too hard. If an account like mine is struggling to finish it and only around 30-50 people in the world can beat it every month, that to me is the definition of too hard. That and it's just not fun when the difficulty is entirely RNG based like it is now.

[@anguta216]

the first few stages in cobble are so easy that the first reaction of many was is this even hard difficulty and i kinda agree its early no so easy that it feels to easy but later on it turn into a pure nightmare in difficulty

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Yeah they definitely faked us out. The later stages are just totally too hard. It needs some real rebalancing

[@alschirjaev9213]

once again youre spot on for your analysis and video. you might be a kraken but you have the same opinions as others because youre a gamer. you want to have fun in your game like the f2p/low spend as well. Theres nothing fun about loading up with wrong affinity rares and epics vs top tier void legendaries. thats not difficult thats just poor game design, relying on stun set rng for hours at a time isnt fun and the reward isnt there either. you want me to spend 6M silver moving all the best stun set gear over to my 5 characters for s20 and then move it back for s21 as an example? like get out of here plarium. raid is a very old game and it shows its age poorly every time you go to do anything. everything takes forever, theres zero QOL like newer games and plarium doesnt seem to like its player base at all. Then you go and play other similar hero collectors and theyve got auto complete, background farming, mass promotion of heroes. its all very standard nowadays.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Yeah Raid has definitely fallen behind the times for sure. It's a shame they aren't putting effort into improving Quality of Life across the board. And the RNG filled Sintranos just flat out sucks. They need to redo it big time.

[@liamskelly7825]

Raid has had such potential it just has never reached to be honest and the underlying sentiment behind it all is the greed factor. I have no problem on being separated from krakens, I’ve played enough Free to Download mobile games at this point but Plarium are pushing it to levels I’ve only seen once or twice… they just don’t get maintaining player base and growing organically as a business model. Heavily considering dragonheir at this point…

[@sonic_marsh5342]

we need shards and books in there all types of shards n not just 1 r 2 about 20 overall

[@unomeriko]

I have to be honest.. Idk how I feel about the green screen 😭 And i remember that you said that you will not be able to scream anymore but i didn't think that it will be that much 😅 Good video Drock! Always hits the spot with your opinions. I really think that this content is too hard (Even tho it meant to be End-Game and not necessarily the end-game that we have now. In the futures those levels will be a cake walk like DT now) Idk.. I do the easy levels on Hard and i do not bother to swap gear as much.

[@boZo420_]

F Plarium bro-- i'm done with 'em

[@blabivix]

They need a silver drain like cursed city to further incentivize players to buy silver or energy packs to farm silver. if they can drain more resources, then they will keep selling more. I don’t feel like they will ever completely remove the silver cost for gear removal, but I would be happy to be proven wrong

[@wreckitnick5464]

I'm so happy that instead of purchasing something in Raid, I now purchase a game itself in ea/epic games or steam. Games I got were much more enjoyable and made me less worry about Fomo on raid. I even purchased an old game that I used to play before. C&C generals zero hour.

[@idreamofglitches8733]

City of SINtranos is just a rehash of Faction Wars mixed with Doom Tower copium. Too many of you had already finished Faction Wars and Lydia so they need a new way to gate and restrict your champions, in addition to Factions, now affinities and required Souls , an extremely expensive also RNG based ascension system. When a CC like you is saying its bad DRock... they better take a freaking clue its bad.

[@TimDickson1]

Think about no krackens feel lol

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Oh I know it's brutal for non krakens. It's just way way too difficult. They need to reduce the challenge big time.

[@bethourekt6361]

It's so bad I basically ignore it. There's no balance to the difficulty. You either steamroll rooms or spend 3 hours on it, and neither of those is particularly exciting.

[@michaelhenry8091]

I agree with you but at the same time I know how stubborn and tone-deaf raid is so I just do what I can and move on. I don't spend anymore because I know they took a beautiful game and refuse to make it actually good, its like having a beautiful sparkling swimming pool and taking a dump in it.

[@Mr.Silverleaf]

Other than picking up some easy energy or items, I just pretend it doesn’t exist. It’s not fun, so I just do other content. Feels more like work 😂

[@luk1ek]

Agree 100% I refuse to spend silver and break all my champs to build them for 1 stage based on rng. I just do what I can with what iv got built and ignore the rest its to stupid to get involved in

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Yep that's the way. I won't be spending lots of silver either myself.

[@CAP240.]

I agree, the silver re-gear cost needs to go. It makes Cursed City feel stale because you're forced right back to old content to grind silver, to clear City rooms that are on a rotational schedule.

[@CGAPU]

The cost of gear removal would be easy to fix: just add free regear removal banners as rewards, in the same way they do with xp banners.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

I think they need to just take removal cost away entirely. It would encourage more play time in the game by having people build champions freely. All of their competition like Watcher of Realms has free gear removal now too.

[@viosavvy]

It's not even one percent of the players base beating this content, which would be bad enough. It's literally like .001 percent. It's way too difficult obviously Plarium, what are they smoking right now? And while we're at it, I had pretty decent leggo champs for Amius this rotation on normal and still couldn't beat it without having Rotos/Siphi/Morrigane. That's ridiculous. Like almost everyone else, I'm not rebuilding a bunch of champs in builds I will never use again afterwards to beat one stage.

[@ollieg6951]

Agree with everything you said! I won’t try to beat the last few stages next time. I’ll just skip em.

[@ckat9983]

I 100% agree. It feels just bad to do the same, BUT this time with your arms handcuffed. THAT'S BRAND NEW CONTENT! Doing somthing with the worst S#'### there is, is not fun at all.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Haha exactly. It's like dude let me use the damn champions I want! Not the crappy champions you pick for me 😔

[@JulianGMID1]

If a cthulu as you say that is difficult, imagine it for a f2p as me 😢 they went too far with the difficulty, is mental and you're totally right on your pov the RNG factor and the super tight roaster just sucks

[@nickgamrat85]

Is new content a "good" thing? Sometimes, no it is not. I do not think the rewards are very good. Also - Why are we getting 5-star gear in Hard mode? Does Plarium think we still need 5-star gear - for the end-game content? Well, no, we don't need 5-star gear. I agree with you on your key points. I do not have fun in the Cursed City - I am late-game I would say. I am working towards BaSantha in hard doom tower, to give you some context. I agree about the restrictions and hard mode, RNG heavy content. I agree that there should not be a gear swap cost. Thanks for the video. I enjoy your videos. I discovered you through Hell Hades FTP challange.

[@BlueGwapes]

Dear Drock, loving the vids.

[@boxerrobert4005]

Really good video. It's sad that plarium doesn't want a good player developer relationship and community. The game could be so much more if they just wanted it.

[@migueliriarte9824]

I will also like to add , wth is wrong with the boss on normal? Is the same hard as in hard mode and also what if they add team presets on the bosses floors?

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Yeah he's surprisingly tough on normal. The whole mode needs a major rework. There's potential there but it's lost in translation.

[@aaroncorbett4125]

Me and A lot of my clan mates all thought we were end game level accounts, sintranos with its artificial difficulty has sorta changed our minds, we don’t have the gear to fill everyone, I don’t silver to do it, and the stages are often times ridiculous in the champs they let us use for who have to face

[@maetze1539]

I agree with everything you were saying. I find it so boring that it's the same as everything in the game as in 3 stages with 5 champs. I already didn't find that appealing anywhere else and it's even worse here. Most of the good rewards are hidden behind very hard stages and for some levels in hard I got like 4 or 5 champs in total to beat it from which one is lvl 60 and build^^ and even after playing two years and spending some money it's still very difficult or impossible. not a fan at all and the rewards I don't like since in my opinion it's not exciting to get currency from other parts of the game just to keep playing. And the 5 Star gear drops are instant sell most of the time anyway.

[@MoneyDad]

Absolutely agree. 3 years as a low spender and I can’t sniff soul cross.

[@jasonschall5214]

The way I see it, they took the easiest route possible to making content krakens couldn't beat immediately.

[@moneyninja3852]

The whole city after the very beginning is WAAAYYYY too difficult and costs silver, so we just don't do it. On NORMAL that is. Hard is impossible.

[@MalRabbit]

From day 1 I could not see why anyone was liking this garbage! Nice to see someone has the same issues I have with it. I agree with all the complaints you have about it and that just scratches the surface. The whole thing was designed to make us spend more time in the game and use more resources be it silver to regear or shards/soulstones to improve champions but the rewards just arn't there. Even when accounts like yours can 100% farm this content it's still slow (doesn't save teams, no auto climb, no presets) and RNG heavy instead of having any strategy whatsoever. I started in April of 2019 so just about 5 years here, and I so badly wanted this to be their big comeback but it was just another let down and even more so now because of all the (undeserved, in my opinion) Hype it's been getting from other CC's and people in my clan.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Yeah they botched this one for sure. I was excited for it but it's absolutely designed to suck out your resources. It's really bad in its current iteration and needs major work.

[@Nanu4god]

They really must change sintranos soulcross its ridiculous hard and i am not willing too spend all my silver for gear removal or time waste days too completing only 1 stage. Its just not fun - only frustrating

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Yeah they need to nerf it. It's completely ridiculous in its current state.

[@Ragnell123]

I consider myself to be a late game player. I can do all the Hydra difficulties and all the hard dungeons. I can't even get into soulcross though because my champion pool is just not that big. I also hate how Amius punishes masteries, I'm not spending gems to reset all my champs, but that's another discussion.

[@jessicamacallister9272]

Honestly I am mid game and I lost interest in the first month. Roster locking is not design. The normal rewards are insulting and the only reason I can't get WAY further in hard is roster locking with a roster nowhere near where you are. Honestly I am fine with hard....I am fine to see tiny progress. I am not fine when the game says I can't and that is all the Roster Locked City is.

[@Leadfoot70]

New location -- big poppa turned into little poppa! Size yourself up, brother. :)

[@RoccooRaccoon]

One word. F*** Plarium. My three start up friends quit the game because of Silver... Thinking about it as well.. It's not fun at all. Why spend time on something that is so annoying...

[@mikeburr7104]

Hey drock love ur content. I think the easy fix for this content is just remove the faction restriction they can keep epic only hp only and etc.. it would give us a way bigger champ pull to pick from. Sure the rng of some stages suck but I still feel like it would be alot easier wout faction restriction and yes silver cost needs to go for all content not just this. Much love keep doing your thing man!

[@Kverkele]

Been playing since the launch and silver cost is the most annoying thing in the game. Everything cost way too much. Like you said i refuse to swap gear for 1 stage in Sintranos and try stage 3 hours, then swap the gear back to original champ. Its just retarded... Edit: and free gear removal is active only few days when the new rotation starts. Pointless..

[@MykhayloMaksymchuk]

I'm early mid game and I do like this content. Can't complete a lot of stuff, but I like that challenge. But I do agree with some issues you have with it.

[@alexanderjd7315]

I’m super endgame I can get 90% of it done and bro the sheer absurdity they throw at you just makes me if I can’t beat it within 30 mins I don’t bother doing it. I don’t want to spend 2 days doing one section

[@Its_The_Griz]

I absolutely hate cursed city. I am ok with some restrictions, but the amount of them is the problem. They have 3-4 restrictions on these stages where 2 or less should exist. I have heard people say they have tested this to make sure people can do it, but there is no way they did.

[@SSuser-go7jm]

I think it’s super fun… except those ridiculous soulcross floors that require 5 champs in stun sets or one specific legendary. I also hate Amius, that boss is just bullshit, and the silver cost for Sintranos is way too expensive.

[@dj8398]

Sounds super fun lol

[@cedriclee7110]

i beat all of sintranos last rotation, the rewards are nice but soulcross sucks. there's no need to jump that high in difficulty from the other areas of sintranos. the hardest stages arent innovative or interesting. instead of making good content, they just put restrictions on whom you can use and they made sure it's negative affinity. you're still just fighting the same 3 waves as you normally do everywhere else except they added 1450% more bullshit into those waves.

[@mrbeantm]

New setup looks good, but your sound is kinda low.

[@thebboy2432]

True

[@robertram945]

Mother Cybele has better speed aura :D

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Accurate 😁

[@kogamanjitani6733]

I'm playing Raid since nearly 4 years.. 100% F2P.. and to be honest.. all arena, SD, FS and sintranos.. I'm not even bothering trying to get it done.. it's just a total failure from the developers..

[@arifhifzioglu2291]

City Hateranos is definitely that last straw for Raid.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

It's pretty bad, I can't lie. There's potential but it's just not good in its current format.

[@pbdeadcrew948]

Cool thumbnail And you are completly right

[@gypsymike2355]

I have a gripe about normal level Sintranos. Im level 95 P.P 10 million Normal doom tower was a progression and to teach you how to transition into hard as your account progressed Normal Sintranos is none of that. There’s almost no noticeable difference between Both Amius’s. the rewards are pathetic for normal. At least let the candles work towards a legendary champ or even a PVE mythical champ. 100 candles here’s your pathetic chest with 10 brews. What a fail

[@mahliz]

First the scaling is insane, I am a rather new player, and I can do cobble market on hard, where I one shot every wave with any 60 dps. I ran out of any usuable champions after cobble market really, and if I have a champion that is 60, or even 50 with gear etc I can do the stage (very few that is possible one). On normal I can't do the boss, and I can't for the life of me get 15 awakend points to do those awakend stages in soulcross. I run into the same problem as you do in hard on the same levels. These champions are just to good, if you don't have the level of accuracy or resist needed you can't do anything. And relying on stun sets is a nightmare as even with fearsome pressence it is a joke. Seing how so many points are given out from doing all stages... Why not give points for completing a section instead. Second. I personally agree with you Drock they should for sure make sure that we have to rely ALOT LESS on rng. And here I am going to agree with what I heard from some other cc's. Make the super hard content into a ONE TIME only with a nice reward for completing it all(skin or profile picture, and lots of silver along the way). That way if you want to regear all you champs you don't have to do it each month and you can get something out of it. There will always be things out of reach for newer players specially if they are F2P as they will usually have less(unless they are really good). It is something needed to keep the late game accounts still doing content. Personally I would say limiting us to epics and rares is not so bad for newer players as normally they don't have a lot of legendarys anyway (I feel like it is more a limitations on krakens), and it requires us to have a bigger champion selection something I am okay it. And not being able to complete something if I don't have the cmapion is okay for me, I can wait until I pull some, I am used to that already, BUT having to swap my very few stun sets around and pray for rnjesus is insane. Just what I feel like and ty for the video.

[@brunobraga2871]

i agree drock

[@mortis106]

S8 will make a lot of players mad on the current rotation.

[@daveinsane7349]

if they d just not limit the affinity of our champs I d be happy. just those stupid constant forced weakhits sucks, rest is fine except the gear cost

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

Yeah that's the worst part by far. Like what raid player would ever knowingly choose the wrong affinity? It's just so stupid and the silver cost is unacceptable.

[@juresimovic3885]

if you ask me, the video is quite positive, let the plarium hear that it is bad

[@Sledgehuk]

I liked it for the first day then when I got to the stupid rng, regear, time drain, I now just do what I can do ill regear champs if they are not used for anything else but thats it, they took something that could be could and plariumed it, they have must have a cluster fuck cauldron of intent ...

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

That's exactly how I felt. Enjoyed it for the first couple days then came it immensely hate it. Shame to feel that way too. Hope they can make it better!

[@JrFreak300]

the ascension part pisses me off.. they need to make soul more available for f2p

[@wayneevans8712]

I would like to start by saying i love the content keep up the good work...I agree with most of what your saying especially the silver cost should be removed. But playing a bit of devil's advocate do you think you would enjoy sin city more if you were able to just finish all the content in 5 min..raid prolly spent a lot of time on this new area. Like when shogun, and sand devil came out all CC's finished it in the first hour. Maybe they just don't want some people to destroy the new content like its not challenging . I'm sure end gamers like yourself don't find PVE content hard in any way, except for live arena. As I said I agree with you most of everything you said, but this is what us little guys feel like all the time LOL. again love your content not trying to start anything. Good luck in the new place goodnight

[@madman4649]

After 8 hours yesterday and another 6 hours tonight, just finished the stupid boss. What and RNG fest after so much time and in-game resources. That'll be the last of that for sure. 90% is just moving Regen or Stun gear around. I got the stupid survey, not even a response, so not sure what the point was in the first place.

[@kaizawolf5293]

If Raid gives free gear removal I'll come back to the game.

[@1923825]

This stupid and lazy design should go into Game Design textbooks, as a negative example.

[@Swollen_Goat]

Remove champion restrictions except from special stages IMO like DT secret rooms and I'd come back. The fact that you are forced to do the hard mode to work towards the mythical is just BS. I have a strong account and I can't even leave the first area.

[@milemile4813]

Im lvl 85 with 6 mil player power and im not even thinking about beating even the boss in Sintranos. I go as far as i can go and thats that for me. I couldn't care less about Sintranos, its BS

[@denny1122000]

This is the communities fault, myself included. We continue to spend especially when Plarium consistently does bad actor implements in the game. Sintranos was a poor desine on launch but plarium has been such a poor manager of this game we have become complacent when anything drops and we hope it's something good. I do only what I can in sintranos and I refuse, REFUSE to strip my champs anymore. I did it when it dropped just to see what the content was like and I immediately saw what a shit show it really is. RNG in this game has become so abhorrent it is really pushing me towards quitting after 4 years and thousands spent. I see the potential of this game and what it can become, with most of the community being the true positives of this game. I despise plarium because they have a gold mine and are abusing and wasting this gem of a game with unabashed greed. It's like they are starving to get EVERY penny they can cause the BILLIONS they got already isn't enough.

[@bigpoppadrockrsl]

You are correct. It is indeed our fault that Plarium refuses to change. But I'm with you. I'm not regearing anything for this. Too much silver. Too much time. Too much of a pain in the ass. And I feel you. I think a lot of people are on the verge of quitting.

[@JrFreak300]

i do what i can do with what champs are built. I don't swap gear. I just don't have the desire. Plariscam sucks the desire right out of ya.

[@Warchin007]

I agree with you. This is a great game but they really know how to drain your wallet.🙃