Definitely closer to how I imagined Battle Beacons would work, though 9 minutes of play followed by an hour lockout seems pretty quick. If you're holding a local event, then your options are either to find new Portals for each round or wait the hour to play again.
This seems like it could be good in larger communities and for First Saturday etc.
For me, as the only local green, with a few blues that come by from time to time (sometimes followed by the known blue multi-accounter) I won’t get too much use out of them right now.
Holding my judgement until I actually use them, but feeling kinda meh about these.
The winner gets boosted output in a game already overflowing with gear, though I suppose it makes sense seeing as you probably burned up some gear doing these BBs.
I guess I just don't see the point, especially with a game struggling with latency/lag issues. The world is also locking back down and covid is back on the rise, so lets release a new feature that promotes "MeetingYouOutThere." Meanwhile, we've been begging for a real drone layer and nothing but continued silence.
The image you shared comparing the RBBs from the VRBBs is helpful in deciding whether to avail the RBBs or not. I believe it is worth waiting for the VRBBs to become available to me considering that we have lag issues as well. Thanks!
we've been complaining for years about color contrast (see also WCAG guidelines) and not being able to see what's on the screen. i'd much prefer to see that get fixed over this junk.
This is me giving my opinion from a lone agent perspective: Basically a lame, cheaper version of something they've released for quite some time. Could be fun for community events, but outside of that scenario, there is not really much use for it. I'd rather spend 16K worth of CMU on 3 VRBBs, which I can use to grind massive AP, rather than this new thing.
VRBBs are helpful because you can field, let it flip, ****, reclaim, throw the same fields, let it flip, etc. And get MASSIVE AP.
IMO it's absolutely fine that the RBB has limited use outside of xfac events. They'll make events more exciting! Something to look forward to, whenever we can get back together for First Saturday, NL-1331 (Niantic's van), Mission Day, Anomalies.
I wonder if RBBs will increase the existing profile stat: "Battle Beacon Combatant".
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Definitely closer to how I imagined Battle Beacons would work, though 9 minutes of play followed by an hour lockout seems pretty quick. If you're holding a local event, then your options are either to find new Portals for each round or wait the hour to play again.
The timing you describe is almost exactly how cluster battles in anomalies worked many years ago.
(I also found those cluster battles to the most boring aspect of an anomaly, by far, but that's another topic.)
Seems like it could be fun for First Saturdays and maybe anomalies, but pretty useless outside of that.
This seems like it could be good in larger communities and for First Saturday etc.
For me, as the only local green, with a few blues that come by from time to time (sometimes followed by the known blue multi-accounter) I won’t get too much use out of them right now.
they need fix the lag tho... cant be fun play with those when its lagging so badly once fs@home goes back to normal...
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Holding my judgement until I actually use them, but feeling kinda meh about these.
The winner gets boosted output in a game already overflowing with gear, though I suppose it makes sense seeing as you probably burned up some gear doing these BBs.
I guess I just don't see the point, especially with a game struggling with latency/lag issues. The world is also locking back down and covid is back on the rise, so lets release a new feature that promotes "MeetingYouOutThere." Meanwhile, we've been begging for a real drone layer and nothing but continued silence.
infographic version, like I do
It’s new to me that Very Rare Battle Beacon has Portal Immunity. How much is its duration? Does it work anytime in 15 minutes-window?
The image you shared comparing the RBBs from the VRBBs is helpful in deciding whether to avail the RBBs or not. I believe it is worth waiting for the VRBBs to become available to me considering that we have lag issues as well. Thanks!
yet another new feature we didn't ask for.
we've been complaining for years about color contrast (see also WCAG guidelines) and not being able to see what's on the screen. i'd much prefer to see that get fixed over this junk.
This is me giving my opinion from a lone agent perspective: Basically a lame, cheaper version of something they've released for quite some time. Could be fun for community events, but outside of that scenario, there is not really much use for it. I'd rather spend 16K worth of CMU on 3 VRBBs, which I can use to grind massive AP, rather than this new thing.
VRBBs are helpful because you can field, let it flip, ****, reclaim, throw the same fields, let it flip, etc. And get MASSIVE AP.
IMO it's absolutely fine that the RBB has limited use outside of xfac events. They'll make events more exciting! Something to look forward to, whenever we can get back together for First Saturday, NL-1331 (Niantic's van), Mission Day, Anomalies.
I wonder if RBBs will increase the existing profile stat: "Battle Beacon Combatant".