The Fields of Glory (Shatter)

[Kyani]

It's not about crystals being worth it or not - it's the non-random nature of spawns leading to situations where you will never be the advantaged team on a node in the late game. This is something that's only possible because the game eliminates possibilities as the match goes on.

Unmitigated RNG is bad. Knowing you never had a shot to mitigate it in the first place is worse.

[TiaHariberux3]

It's not about crystals being worth it or not - it's the non-random nature of spawns leading to situations where you will never be the advantaged team on a node in the late game. This is something that's only possible because the game eliminates possibilities as the match goes on.

Unmitigated RNG is bad. Knowing you never had a shot to mitigate it in the first place is worse.

Wait what? Non random spawns are less rng and make it easier to follow a certain strat meanwhile in Seize you could get fked all game lol. The fact that ppl complain about rng cause they lost is just meh. There is always something called like killing that u can do to get back.

[Kyani]

Wait what? Non random spawns are less rng and make it easier to follow a certain strat meanwhile in Seize you could get fked all game lol. The fact that ppl complain about rng cause they lost is just meh. There is always something called like killing that u can do to get back.

You'd think non-random spawns would be less RNG, but in reality? They play out to be worse!

When spawns are fully random, each team is playing with the same deck and can make decisions based off of their path to victory. When spawns are semi-random,however, the decks become uneven - you have to make choices based off of what the RNG allows, rather than ones that will win you the game. And the RNG doesn't always think you deserve a shot to win.

In Seal Rock, you could outplay RNG, either by outmaneuvering people to stack the odds in your favor, or simply by killing them. Shatter.. the jury is still deliberating, but right now? Not so much.

[TiaHariberux3]

You'd think non-random spawns would be less RNG, but in reality? They play out to be worse!

When spawns are fully random, each team is playing with the same deck and can make decisions based off of their path to victory. When spawns are semi-random,however, the decks become uneven - you have to make choices based off of what the RNG allows, rather than ones that will win you the game. And the RNG doesn't always think you deserve a shot to win.

In Seal Rock, you could outplay RNG, either by outmaneuvering people to stack the odds in your favor, or simply by killing them. Shatter.. the jury is still deliberating, but right now? Not so much.

Ehm you can outplay/killing/outmaneuvering ppl in shatter too. Since you can predict a bit more than in sr its way easier to outplay other teams. Thats just my impression after 20+ games. Also there is more fighting than in most ppl think in my opinion and from what I saw in 72.