Boss Turf Takeover; A Little Bit Broken
Not sure if my more extensive thoughts on this weekly challenge merit a separate thread of not since there's one already discussing the topic but I'll leave them here anyway since my focus is a littl...
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Yep, would be great fun to play with you two again, hopefully we will all be online at the same time again soon 😃🤞
I was thinking last night " wow, I really hate this mode." But then I realized I really don't. It's fun when I'm not being steamrolled or steamrolling the other team. More players would help it out and it could be reworked a bit as mentioned in other areas of the thread but it isn't an awful concept.
Turns out I HATE the challenges and that's bleeding out into frustration at the mode. I am so frustrated at spending so much time, energy, and focus on them when they (at least the first two) aren't important to winning the game and rely so much on some teamwork to do a side goal that often has no effect on how the game goes or doesn't even come up if the steamrolling is really going strong. I finally got the first one done with absurd luck. I played 10 more games and never had a chance at finishing a boss because it all moved too fast to get a boss or to keep a boss long enough to vanquish. All the problems with 8v8 are amplified drastically trying to complete this week's map.
So I have changed my general thoughts about this. Mode = could be great with tweeks. Challenges = that brown emoji people are so fond of in game.
@TLEsquire
hahahaha "the brown emoji"... laughed at it last time you said it and I'm laughing again 😃
Added: and yes I agree about the mode.So wraps up the first week I simply could not do the challenges. Could not get passed vanquishing a boss. Bosses rarely spawned and if they did they were only available for seconds. Never saw my team or the other team vanquish one. Total fail on challenges this week. I honestly think 8v8 broke this completely. Bummed to miss rainbow stars for the first time after putting in all that frustration. Time for a BfN break.
- @TLEsquire Yes, I didn't get any further than either - gave up trying before I found myself having a toddler-style tantrum! 😭🤣
- @ToastedSarnie At least you stopped BEFORE it happened 🤣😋
- @TLEsquire Oh dear! 😬😂🤣
- @TLEsquire I was doing some thinking the other day about how this mode could be fixed and I also came to the conclusion that the primary issue is the challenges- mostly the first one "Open a Boss Chest".
That challenge is the only one I can think of which not only puts you in conflict with the opposing team but also with members of your own team and I'm pretty certain that a significant percentage of players never made it past this first challenge.
As for the second challenge "Vanquish a Boss"- that's only even possible on Turning Point and Loggy Acres because those are the only maps where bosses really have any chance to be spawned and be spawned under conditions where you can potentially vanquish them because those maps have a couple of sections each where the attackers push a payload.
Stationary objectives often don't allow enough time for a Boss to be spawned and circumstances favor the attackers spawning the Boss late in the capturing process so good luck vanquishing that boss as a defender when the entire enemy team is escorting it and the rest of your team have retreated or respawned a whole map section away.
It's be better if the first challenge involved spawning a Boss for your team by anyone on your team instead of you having to do it personally- that would remove a lot of frustration and get people into the second challenge of vanquishing a Boss early enough to be able to do that one and the last challenge before the end of the week because both are possible to get done just by playing enough games but not if it takes you 5 or 6 of the 7 days just to get past that first challenge. @realitysquaredGreat analysis of why those challenges weren't working and possible ways to make it much better. It took forever (and luck) to get that first challenge and I also imagine many didn't get passed it. After that frustration, I only had a few days for the second & third challenge and just could not manage the luck to get the second one. Since I saw literally no bosses vanquished in the games I played after getting the first goal (I wasn't paying attention to them before the goal so I'm not sure if some where done then), a lot of people must have ended up stuck on that one too. Your suggestion for the first challenge was actually what I was thinking of as a good solution for the second one (having your team vanquish a boss, instead of having to do whatever percentage is needed individually) but it still doesn't get around the fact that bosses spend almost no time in the game with how fast it moves in 8v8.
Edit - funnily enough, I just kept wishing I was on the "hard" star challenge. Just playing the game trying to get the other goals I won many many more games than needed. Maybe the goals could run simultaneously (like character challenges) so we have a better shot of finishing them.
- @TLEsquire That first one is just very frustrating. On my account I was luckily able to complete it on my second play through the mode but when trying to assist my son on his account it took hours and hours of play and I finally got it done with a day and a half left and immediately ran a marathon to get the final two challenges done for him.
I'm really not looking forward to the third rotation of this mode if it's not adjusted in some fashion. @realitysquaredAgreed. Here's hoping they at least look at the completion numbers and make adjustments even if they don't consider our thoughts here.
Edit - if we are lucky, people on Reddit and Twitter are also expressing concerns. Those avenues appear to be persuasive at the moment to devs.
- @TLEsquire Twitter has a "direct line" so to speak 😔
@ToastedSarnie @TLEsquire
Oh lawdy.... sorry to hear that rainbow stars being a rare thing ☹️
I managed to get mine with some help from the gods or some other miracle....
but might make you both feel better to know... this weeks mode... I don't think I got them last time this was here.
Jeez this sux 😞- @asabaida I think I did do it last time - think it was the one I got so annoyed I threw the controller at my son & he managed it for me, but then I had to do it again anyway for his account as he refused to try again . . . 🤔😬😭🤣
I'm trying to psych myself up for trying tonight, but pfff! I am so off PvP . . .
Will see how it goes but if after a few games I'm raging, think I'll end up taking a BFN break until the new map comes out. Wait Im confused... didnt the new map come with last nights update?
- @asabaida No - new prize map 3rd Feb. A nice short month for it! 🙁
Ah yes of course, Im easily confused 🤨 😃
