Free playing areas
I wasn't sure what to title this one, but I was messing about in my Backyard Battelground just now, and decided to do a little tour for the memories. I went and saw Hot Rod Chicken's jalopy, Citron's...
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@Iron_Guard8The backyard felt like a living world with a war going on and giddy park just doesnt achieve that. Yeah playing with others is cool but what about those of us who don't want to at certain times? Then giddy park absolutely crumbles for solo play.
Also why were ai heros only availiable during bounties and not normally? It's far more interesting than the underwhelming and annoying tv heads and wildflowers. Especially when you're alone.
I like how once the soccer game ended in the backyard the spectators would start attacking each other (not too far off from real sports).
It could only be improved by ai teams popping up to support the game. Also wheres my soccer inspired all star, popcap?
If a healer or flag carrier got near you they would stick with you through the backyard like glue so I always treated them like little buddies while questing.
The flag of power was an extremely fast way to finish vanquish quests and see all the variants in action. Really dissapointed there was nothing like it in giddy park.
Jumping into the enemy base to see how long I could last was also fun or I can just watch the weeds gang up and beat up disco zombie.
You can tell popcap really went all in with designing backyard battleground to make up for the lack of solo pve stuff (zombies were only multiplayer characters in gw1, boo) from gw1.
We should have a public domain thats like an expanded giddy park but also a solo play hub world like the backyard thats been even further expanded with larger battles and areas.
More ways to customize not just the base but outside it as well would be a great improvement to the backyard.
@stukapookaAs someone who has played many MMOs, none of them, and I mean none, have felt anywhere near as alive and interesting as the Backyard Battleground. My one friend and I used to get quests there, see how many bosses we could get to spawn, and just play around when we had a little time to kill.
Giddy Park looks nice but it's a pale shadow of the Backyard Battleground and the spawn camping issue is awful. There was a time early on when I was on Space Cadet and was fighting there with a pretty full lobby, when the station I was part of decided to go camp the plant's landing zone so I left. That kind of thing ruins the experience, even when I want an some free wheeling PvP.
As someone who quests like mad, I love the flag of power. I use it a lot! I especially like it for 'vanquish 50 plants/zombies' quests. I lost a little ground when I was focusing on BfN when it first came out, but still 5th:
My friend there at 6 hasn't played in awhile unfortunately, we were much closer back then!
When I first got GW2, the Backyard Battleground blew me away. It's so amazing that I can't heap enough praise on it! The only downsides for me are that it could be bigger and could have more customizations, only 1 epic slot was always sad as I want to use them all!
Giddy Park isn't awful, but it's just not as good or interesting and due to the way the bases are setup it all feels so detached and the AI you fight get boring in a hurry as it's just the same ones over and over. Adding the chests and mini-games helped a little, but with coins being pointless, it just isn't that great. I switched mine to private with AI a long time ago.
This is a big part of why I want to have the 2 ideas; a main hub that's your personal playground and where you express yourself, and an open PvP area where you can just mess about whenever you like but maybe don't have time for a full match.
- @Iron_Guard8 My only complaint of the backyard was that I wanted more of it and when the players only wants more of what you've given them than you've succeeded with that system.
Last time I played bfn almost a year ago and the spawns and the park were dominated by branium bashers.@stukapookaI don't even enjoy using Brainium Basher, and hate how it's use so often and how it's so obnoxious. New players especially must be confused by what is even going on with this upgrade. That's one thing I don't want in the new game, or at the very least, make it less of a pain to deal with.
And yeah, I wanted more Backyard Battleground and was hoping for them to expand every time they announced more DLC! It's just that good.- @Iron_Guard8 Who decided that a character that could one shot half the roster and then two shot the rest with a follow up uppercut thats easy to use was a good idea?
Imagine being one shotted as a new player on peashooter just because someone held a button for a second, at least toxic brainz has to work for his legendary mode and can still be countered in 2.
Lets not forget the teasing of the portal with the gnome chatter and construction sounds.
