ImLemonized

Hello folks, I have some questions regarding the game, especially from F2P perspective.

Firstly, how P2W is the game? I know about the series 1-5 cards and that after 500 collection level or so the progress slows down and the card collection depends on RNG.

How is meta? Diverse? Dominated by end-game cards hidden behind RNG in caches? Is the game balanced?

I actually played the game for a little while almost 2 years ago (account is gone), just when spotlight caches came out. Is the game in the better state than in 2023/2024?

How hard is it to obtain currency? Gold, collector's tokens.. is there anything else?

Overall, would you say it's a good idea to start the game now?

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I've already heard about at least one theory that wasn't really confirmed but significant part of the playerbase believed it to be actually how SNAP works (sorry, forgot which one but it was discussed on this Subreddit more than once). There are also some which probability feels very close to 0.

There are one (or two) things that I observed during my snap adventure (I'm around 4600 CL atm)

1. When you get a rare location that you haven't seen for quite a long time (The Peak for example), there's a very high probability it will reappear in the very next game. I've witnessed this so many times already that I think you can't prove me otherwise :D
2. Tokens from collector reserves - Some time

We face more cheaters than ever before. Not much is done to prevent that. Most of them are swiftly banned but they probably are creating new accounts. Does GG implement IP ban or something of this sort?

I'm not even getting my points back after losing to a cheater... I'm not getting my winrate fixed... It's totally demotivating to play competitive at the moment. You lose everything you gained to a random cheater and you don't even get compensation.

Instead we get some weird ass avatars no one asked for.

I just don't know if there is any reason to keep this game mode in what is supposed to be a competitive mode. I lost to googlers in the final so many times it's not funny anymore. What is the outcome? They get away with it, I lose precious points.

And yes I'm sure they are googling as they (mostly under 700 ELO) rarely get countries during rounds without "clues in writing".

It's frustrating to say the least, no one will give me those points back.

I've just seen highlights from men's doubles' final...

I can't believe what I witnessed. When did crowds start behaving like a bunch of apes? ALL-AUSSIE final, iconic moment and they are only booing (siuuing, i don't care, it's even dumber) instead of cheering. Even after match point I barely heard any cheering - unreal.

There were very tough crowds on RG, US Open and Wimby before, but I always found AO last bastion of normality - until this year.

I guess as a side effect the pandemic highlighted and enhanced negative traits of the population.

By no means do I expect the crowd to wear tuxedos, be 100% quiet between rallies and drink glasses of champagne, but Jesus Christ, tennis has alwa

I feel like it's the only average game mode in this brilliant game:

1. How about all players spawn in exactly same places from start to the finish? Gonna love it when you are stuck in the middle of nowhere in crucial rounds when other players comfortably pass you with spawns saying "CITY NAME" in front of their eyes.
2. I've also noticed some strange things happening while guessing. Many times I clicked correct city and it cost me a life (game recorded a totally different "dot"). I kept clicking on the correct city and couldn't even select it afterwards (i'm using space to guess if it matters).

I bought Geralt's journey many months ago. Unfortunately I wasn't able to complete all journey quests in time. I am stuck on 34/36 quests in both standard and premium journeys. How awful is that?

1. Didn't finish 3 contracts (finish all standard quests, all premium quests + all combined)
2. Missed on 40 Reward Points in total + Raróg Trophy

What is the problem with allowing to catch up after journey is ended? I bought it.

This started with the ending of winter event. Anyone else has constant lag spikes that begin somewhere around 9 pm, where the player's peak is achieved?
I made sure nothing's wrong on my side - ethernet, updated drivers, everything. (Game goes smoothly until evening).

Even my ping constantly shows 30-50 but at evening the green dot lights up that indicates lag.