Hi, everyone!

As you know, we will be releasing Friendly battles on April 11th, however, we have already activated them for some countries to check the stability.
So, some players are already trying it out.

Anybody here already has them and would like to share the feedback?
Make sure to have version 8.0.

I don't have them but the information is "clear as mud" as we say in the Southern USA!

Wildly addictive. Wasted a load of time being slaughtered by my much stronger team mates and then miraculously getting a win after 2 of their attacks missed.
Friendly battles in war prep was a great addition, really helped us get a better handle on setting up for the team wars. This is the same but for PVP, and it's great getting instant reaction when you pull a win out against better opposition.
One thing I definitely think is a good idea is not showing the opposition monsters beforehand. Adds a little bit more to the tactics.
The novelty will wear off I'm sure but I'm heading back to the game very soon to do more. Thumbs up so far

I don't like the warming up of best moves and think its a pointless addition. If I pick my monsters they should have the skillset that I have picked straight away

Works very well!
A bit confusing in the beginning (needing to set the skills for monsters used in Tournament), but it does not take much time to learn.
I think it gives a unique oppertunity to test PvP defense teams.
I am sure some things are planned for "Tournament"?

Just one thing: being pinged for a friendly battle while in Team Wars is very disturbing - after all: each of us prepare for, and go into, battle for our entire team, so if it is possible to turn "Friendly Battles" off while in Team Wars that would be great.

@tom6969 thats only in tournament mode

I only managed to get 1 fight in so far but I did not notice a way to speed up the animation. Are live battles stuck at 1x caterpillar speed only? I always run at 4x speed so it fells like live battles are happening under water, and not in the Aquaman way

Yes, theeeeeeeyyyyyy aaaarrrreeee sooooooooo slooooooooww.....

.... I am so used to do things quickly that I rarely do live battles as I often just don't have the time. If a battle then drags on a bit, you end up fighting 10-15 minutes!

@tom6969 said in Live Friendly Battles - Feedback:

I don't like the warming up of best moves and think its a pointless addition. If I pick my monsters they should have the skillset that I have picked straight away

Agree here.

I can't figure out the point of the warm up of best moves? In my last battle, a couple of my monsters had only one attack choice for the first turn--their weakest attack. I had no idea which monsters were going to be nerfed for the early turns until I tried them out. Some monsters lose more attacks than others. Again, why?

I see real time friendly battles as a way to test monsters for other aspects of the game like PVP or the dungeons. But with the warming-up-of-best-moves feature, it's now worthless for testing because you can't compare apples to apples.

@grnxnham

Maybe I misunderstood, but in case I didn't, you can see the "warm-up" of each skill in the skill selection screen. Specifically, make sure you're looking at the tournament set, not the standard.
You'll notice a new icon next the the CD icon. That icon will have a number which informs you of the "warm-up" period.

Warm up is great. It balances out some of the completely OP Monsters. I actually think Tournament mode is the best thing about the live battles. It's a new challenge and far more tactical than just loading SX runes onto Thalassa and Sherezar

@armorgaming

I haven't played tournament mode--only standard.

And I still have warm up of certain abilities.

The bad thing about Tournament mode is that I always forgot to change the skills

I like to battle with anyone that I came across. It's a good portal to have an interact with other unknown players. In a long run eventually every player will get to know one another. Game play wise will improve players skill tremendously.