🧪 Early Information on Path of Giants challenge changes [Part of The Beta Beat V60]

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This thread is to provide early insights and discussion on the Path of Giants changes.

:warning: This was not mentioned in Beta build notes we have just noticed it in the Beta application game. So there is no guarantee that this will arrive to the live game.


Don’t get too attached

Details from Beta, especially brand-new Beta content, don’t tend to be very reliable for actual release.

It’s incredibly common that features are changed during Beta testing, or sometimes even after testing but before release. That is, after all, the purpose of Beta testing.

So I wouldn’t get too attached to any of this — it’s not unheard of for entire portions of features to be removed or reworked, or for radical changes to functionality to be made.


Path of Giants changes

The reward points for the Daily challenges is increased to 100 from 90.

List of challenge changes

Challenge Old version New version
Defeat (specified element) monsters in Season 2/3/4/5 Defeat 15 monsters Defeat 10 monsters
Defeat X (specified class) enemies in Raids Defeat 5 heroes from the specified class Defeat 3 heroes from the specified class
Defeat X (specified element) enemies in Raids Defeat 5 heroes from the specified element Defeat 3 heroes from the specified element
Heal in Raid Heal 10K in raids Heal 6K in raids
Summon heroes / troops Summon 3 heroes/troops Summon 2 heroes/troops
Train heroes in Training Camp Train 20 heroes Train 10 heroes.
Win raids with 3 heroes Alive Win 3 Raids Win 2 raids
Win Raids with using (specified speed) specials 2 times Win 3 raids Win 2 raids
Win Raids with Epic heroes in the team Win 2 raids Win 1 raid
Win Raids with (specified class) heroes in the team Win 3 raids Win 1 raid
Win Raids with 1 costumes in the team Win 3 raids Win 2 raids
Win Raids with 3 costumes in the team Win 2 raids Win 1 raid

Other seen chalenges and weekly challenges seems to be unchanged.


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These are welcome changes, @PlayForFun . Thanks for the update.

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I was afraid that they will remove free AA or something but this is actually very nice.

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wow, very positive so far.

I especially like the reduction in X monsters of Y element for Season Z, should now be more likely to do those in one stage rather than two

same for the raid ones - while they were generally easy, they were also time consuming

train heroes in TC as well, I always run one Tc2, so whether 10 or 20 it does not matter

and reduction in summon - great, helps conserve silver coins

NOW for the big ones… any plans I wonder to remove the “do hard stages without special” ones? :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue:

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Yes, these can make you finish the challenges easier.
I hope these will made their way to the live game. We will see.

I have not seen any in Beta, but it does not mean anything.
In the last few days I have not seen them in the live game either.

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Happy to see this change.

Challenge Old version New version
Defeat X (specified class) enemies in Raids Defeat 5 heroes from the specified class Defeat 3 heroes from the specified class

Used so much food trying to find teams with the right class.

:smiley:

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Good idea to make this less time consuming. Although it was a challenge to try and outfit a raid team with 3 costumed heroes, 1 druid, 1 epic and 2 average mana heroes it was doable. But it does take significant time to get it all finished. Bravo!

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Makes sense. Some were very time consuming, and honestly they just want people buying the Giants Pass.

Less time is a good thing…next up Towers Please!!!

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Hey guys, we should celebrate. Indeed, take a moment to contemplate the very positive reaction in this beta beta thread. That’s a once-in-a-decade event and something we should congratulate Small Giants for :heart_eyes: It’s good to care about the game and pin-point and get mad at all the bugs, hiccups and generally bad design and UI, but we also need to note it when things move in the right direction :smile: A fine moment in a troubled sea.

As @Oxide said, it’s rather time, and food, consuming to sometimes find the right opponent in raids to defeat heroes of the requested class(es) so 3 instead of 5 is great. 5 heroes of a single element was nice since the elements are distributed a lot better among the available heroes and the actual raid defenses, but I will still take it and enjoy defeating only 3.

@sleepyhead for the no loot ticket and no SS hard mode stage in season X province Y challenge, I think it has been disabled :wink: For now at least… But I wouldn’t be surprised if it was the daily challenge with lowest completion rate.

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This is something I skipped every time. I was gonna skip this next pass because its just way too time consuming. I dont think they did it for the quality of the game but to see if they can get more people to buy the pass. Its a smart move as I was done because of the time consumption

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All of these challenges are currently doable but this makes it easier. I’d trade all of these changes to remove the “no special skills” challenges.

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Well the changes certainly look good to me … nice job.

In my opinion, although the challenges are doable - Currently doing the two “paths” consecutively is really time consuming which impacts on the fun

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None of the raid challenges ever bothered me, but now they can be done in fewer raids than before, so why not?

The stupid challenges that I skip are the hard stages without skills, because it is simply a waste of my time and I don´t much like the ones that cost me World energy in general, as that is a limited resource. At least some of them will now be 1 hit instead of 2, so that´s an improvement.

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POV challenges were quietly nerfed too. For awhile war was always a requirement. Then Zynga realised that not everyone does war and would have a harder time to reach Tier 28 or 29. So they introduced points for events to make it easier for more to reach those tiers.

Zynga also introduced POVs that excluded war.

These were done to get more players to buy the basic POV Pass, and thereby increase regular revenue.

Zynga is now going the same route for POG to get more regular revenue.

Yeah it’s great for the active players who bother to complete either or both Paths. Never forget that Zynga only cares about money.

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yay! this is wonderful news for sure @Elioty33 :slight_smile:

and your hunch was right, at least based on /as of this update re Giant passes :slight_smile:

Continuing the discussion from Giant Passes are coming to the E&P Store!:

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I didn’t mention it but surely the motive behind those changes is for more people to buy the PoG’s passes. However, both F2P and P2W players will benefit from those changes and if more people buy the pass, it means that they see it as a better value than before. To me it’s a win-win situation and we need to keep in mind that Zynga is a company and has costs and employees to afford to run the game. They are pretty greedy at times but in this instance, even if the ulterior motive is money, they are doing a sane change, for once.

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I am lucky, my main raiding team does this easily: cYunan (first costume), c2Magni (second costume), Heimdall, Iris, Melendor(Average+Epic+Druid) or cMelendor(Average+Epic+third costume).
You don’t need two Average heroes in your team, it is enough to fire one such hero twice.
A bit harder when you need a Rare hero in your team, Nordri in place of Magni or Iris has hard time to survive.

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I would prefer the term “practical” rather than sane. They need money, and they need more players to spend regularly.

This move is a practical move to realign their business interests to current game environment.

2nd quarter results will be announced 8 August 2023. Early news is : didn’t meet forecast. Let’s see how bad is bad.

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a step in the right direction. Now if we can have the price for the Path of Giants lowered to a more reasonable price…

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Shocking exactly no one with two brain cells to rub together. Good riddance to that garbage!

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