Guild War Mechanics - Getting Started?

Kwansa

What happens to toons that are in the hospital when the war starts? Can't they get used or is it like the distance where you can use every one of your roster even if they are injured in "real" life? Thanks everybody.

Jaden

Kwansa said:

What happens to toons that are in the hospital when the war starts? Can't they get used or is it like the distance where you can use every one of your roster even if they are injured in "real" life? Thanks everybody.

It's not separate. If your survivors are in hospital, you need to either use different ones or heal the others with gold.

Kwansa

Thank you @Jaden
And all of you a great time in the war

rustynail

I am in a guild of two. Can’t participate in GW. In future could there be a way to have small guilds to fight in GW?

DLH

You are missing out on the beauty of guilds my friend. Time to join a new group and start reaping some benefits. Let me know if I can help

tdiddy

can a future update give us the option of hiding guild wars bars/shop etc....
0 interest in gw, would rather hide all that stuff if possible

haydenfisher

lower the damn guild member requirement....its way to freaking high....

Steeboon

Frankly speaking I think whoever owns more GW gas will likely win the battle.

@haydenfisher if they lowered the minimum, they have to lower the maximum too. As I mentioned earlier, the more gas you have, the more likely you will win the battle so you won’t want to start a battle with 2,3 players against the current max of 10.
Not much strategies involved other than finding the common path as a team.

haydenfisher

Steeboon said:

Frankly speaking I think whoever owns more GW gas will likely win the battle.



@haydenfisher if they lowered the minimum, they have to lower the maximum too. As I mentioned earlier, the more gas you have, the more likely you will win the battle so you won’t want to start a battle with 2,3 players against the current max of 10.

Not much strategies involved other than finding the common path as a team.

I just want to play...I need to see data....I feel like a portion of the player base cant play due to issues I brought up. How is that good? Why make a section of the game where a group cant join....

SleeperyJeem

How are the walker levels assigned? Most of the time I’m up against 28/29 walkers, when I have mostly 22 (two 23) survivors. Maybe it’s because most of the rest of my guild is more maxed out, but yeah, way to make it impossible for me to finish more than a couple maps before running out of unwounded survivors.

As a suggestion, no persistent wounds across zones, and allow using outpost survivors.

Jenng

Umm. @Kaz I know you’re slammed with questions and fixing important stuff but is the gas available in the Guild shop all the gas available for 51 days?


I’m trying to plan on how liberally I can kickass. Lol

Steeboon

I don’t think so @Jenng
I purchased once but the same deal is still there after my second round of battle.

Edit: After my second purchase, the option is no longer there. Not sure if it’s working as intended or it was a bug for my first purchase.

Jenng

Fantastic @Steeboon !!! Thank you!

Steeboon

@Jenng this is my third battle and after buying the gas before the battle, the option to buy is no longer around! Hope I am in time to inform you 😓

Jenng

Uh oh!!!

It’s gone!!!! At least we learned something @Steeboon lol damn!!

Kaz

Jenng said:

Umm. @Kaz I know you’re slammed with questions and fixing important stuff but is the gas available in the Guild shop all the gas available for 51 days?

I’m trying to plan on how liberally I can kickass. Lol

it's 1 gas offer per season and 1 per war (weekend), so 5 times in total by the end of the season. So as soon as the other war starts (another weekend) you will get another offer like that. Feels weird thought that the offer has disappeared in less than 24h. I'll ask if this is intended or not.

Thanks for reaching out!

sligoem

Sorry if this has been asked and answered. Just played first battle and some of us scored and some of us did not. We’re a bit confused regarding the basic mechanics. Is it up to luck to find the enemies? I cleared multiple boards multiple times, yet didn’t score and still have my key. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thx!

Steeboon

Hi @Kaz I noticed that for the later stages of GW, the walker levels are higher. Are the human enemies also stronger?

As in the strongest survivors in the guild will be selected and placed in the later stages?

Steeboon

Does anyone know how the guild wars scoring works?

We clear the stage by killing the opposing human team missions ASAP. Will that be counter productive as we get less VP from attempting less normal missions?

Governator

@Kaz. The lack of gas is certainly an issue. I played the Hard Distance twice, cashed in my GW Shop gas purchases, got the free gas, and I'm nearly out after 4 battles. And with the lack of gas, that means fewer Reward Points. And that means I have no hope of ever reaching the amount needed to get a Chainsaw or unlock Huntsman Daryl. Am I missing something here?

Belgarath

Fairly obvious they want you to spend real $$$ to buy more gas... Hope they tone their greed down a bit, so we get a bit more gas for free. Don't mind if the best rewards are pay to win only, but as it is now you can only do 2-3 battles each weekend with the available gas... Interested to see how much we can earn in the challenge...

NerfZone187

can somebody enlighten me on how you accumulate/maximize red pts? i only have 1172 while others have 2x as many in my guild. I've used a ton of gas yet i don't score close to the same amount.

haydenfisher

I got to try get once....just once. I want to be able to play when I can and not be forced to log on at random times to enjoy content

rustynail

Some games have open battle arena option where you can play as a team with random players. Could this be an GW option so small guilds can participate and not have to disband their guild? Don’t care about leaderboard but would be fun to be able to participate. I have earned GW gas rewards that i cannot use.

ATLAS-Z

I had one guy go through like 30 plus gas, blowing through missions, but his score was always Zero, big ol house egg 0.

He shared plenty of screen shots, and I saw his little blue dot in missions, but no score for him.

@shteevie

He said after every mission it said "out of time"

Nix

Our guild is fairly active and we keep 20 members. But we were unable to get 7 of us all on at the same time for a dedicated hour. At least 5 of us were trying and stayed in the game threshold..... as some gave up and signed off others joined but we were never able to obtain 7 at the same time. Then the guild jumping started..... smh.... some didn't even want to wait to see how it worked.

nico1933

just throw same of them out

justinc222

Like many people in this thread mentioned, getting 7 people together for a dedicated hour of playing when people in the guild live all over the world is very hard. My guild has 19 people and probably half of us get 200-250 challenge stars a week and the other half around 400-500 stars. So we're not supremely active players but we play a decent amount. However we only succeeded in getting into 3 battles after trying a ton of times over the weekend. Personally I never got in a battle because the 6-7 times I tried we didn't get enough people.

Trying to coordinate times was also hard because the guild chat was just flooded with those automated messages about people trying to join battles and then leaving when it failed. So most of the weekend you couldn't see much of the actual conversation that was happening in between those attempts.

Since I haven't been able to actually play in Guild Wars yet I can't say what having fewer people in each battle would do to the gameplay but I can say that letting smaller groups battle would allow for a ton more activity among players. It would also lessen a great amount of the frustration when people constantly fail with 4-6 members waiting near the top of the hour to see if they can play the game or not.

So could you add the option for the matchmaking to pair small battles with each other (like 4-6 people) and then large battles with each other (7-10 people)?

avelardez

> @Jenng said:
> Umm. @Kaz I know you’re slammed with questions and fixing important stuff but is the gas available in the Guild shop all the gas available for 51 days?
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> I’m trying to plan on how liberally I can kickass. Lol


I wonder if this was done intentionally to get data on how much money we would spend in the first War total?

Was reviewing some numbers. The Master tier of rewards unlocks at 475,000 VPs. That’s an avg of 118,750 VPs per guild each War (19,791 per battle based off 6 battles, but we had 10 battles ten wins anyone with the max battles we can do please post) since we have 4 upcoming Wars. So we all behind the power curve. Our guild was number #2 in the First GW with a final VP score or 64,676 so we came up 54k short to be on path to unlock the Master Level rewards.

There are 10 maps with 18 total missions in each. That’s 180 missions. That’s a gas value of 180-GWG. So each member needs 18GWG to complete the entire battle if no repeats or defeats. We get 3 keys a day for two days. 6 total battle keys with a gas value of 108 per player for the entire War. In the USA battle starts Saturday at 0500 and ends on Sunday at 2000. That’s 38 battles to organize with 7-10 players to play during the War. Any one got different info please post.

avelardez

Here is some real time game mechanics when we went live during GW for one of our battles. It was fun as heck but gas was a major issue. Get some coffee and have a gander. Posted under Nation Wars in error. Can’t change discussion tab. Like to hear feed back.

https://www.facebook.com/avelardez/videos/10155906180039249/