In version 31.2 and in an effort to further reduce match times, EPIC lowered the health of all Towers, Inhibitors and the Core. While I admire their continued attempts at creating shorter matches, it was relatively evident - for anyone experience with the game - that the change would have a detrimental effect on the game. Combined with the improvements to minions, defences feel like they're made of paper and die near instantly. A single minion wave can almost kill them, resulting in a horrendous amount of tower diving from Greystone and Rampage. Fortunately for us, EPIC have seen the light and are reverting the change.

TL;DR - We are reverting v.32.1 changes to Tier Two towers, inhibitors and cores after we observed a negative impact on game experience. During Open Beta we are committed to experimenting, but we will revert when changes don't make sense or have unintended effects on player enjoyment.

Heya folks,

We recently made a change in v.32.1 to health on Tier Two towers, inhibitors and cores. These were part of the initiative to drive down match times, alongside these changes we stated that if we observed negative impacts on gameplay and game satisfaction we would address the changes. We are committed to experimenting when and where it makes sense during Open Beta. We’ll revert changes when they don’t make sense, but we won't hesitate to experiment with changes that can help us learn how to improve Paragon.

We did observe a positive interaction in driving down the outliers in terms of match length (e.g. 60+ minute matches), dropping 20 minutes off the outlier match times with the initial (v.32) and follow-up changes. We have seen further small reductions in AFKs and surrenders in v.32.1.

However, after taking the time to observe the data over the first few days of 32.1 gameplay, we noticed a decrease in satisfaction surrounding the changes. To us this means we did accomplish the first goal, but it lead to a clearly negative gameplay experience for players. Due to this, we will be reverting the v.32.1 tower/inhib/core changes effective now.

Thank you for bearing with us as we tried these changes, the end goal is to always provide the best game experience.