Players thought process while Bosshunting?
This was my 4th Bosshunt and I don't even want to know the time I wasted on leaving/joining teams pre-game. I have no problem playing with new people as 75%+ aren't even rank 1 but what really irri...
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To get past normal on this one, I think verbal communication is pretty much a must. Many split second decisions must be made, as well as rapid changes of strategy to react to what's happening. At the very least, the players must be able to agree on a team composition and basic strategy to start with.
My friend and I already had all the hats from the 1st time they did this hunt so we were just working on rainbow stars. It can be maddeningly difficult even with a good team if you get unlucky for fool placement relative to where the king is or a yeti decides he just has to get in your face and use his aoe freeze right as your rainbow flower despawned is on that brief cooldown before you can place it again.
I admit we never use in game chat, we use discord to communicate with each other but never use the in game chat. If we had a couple more dedicated people that wanted to work on this on PC we could invite them to the discord server though.
The 2 worst things about this boss hunt, and to a lesser extent the others, is the lack of explanation and the randomness of the boss behavior. Having the boss constantly move around objects we can't shoot around lost us tons of DPS with the yeti king. With the squash the biggest issue I encountered was when he came up top during the anchor phase and would vanquish an anchoring player. This kind of thing can get really frustrating and can turn people off of the events.
I like boss hunts overall, they remind me of MMO raiding which I used to do often, but while I like them requiring teamwork and being challenging, making them less frustrating when you spend 20 minutes just to fail at the end and getting only a paltry amount of stars for a run of bad luck or uncooperative teammates is certainly going to make people less interested in the events which is unproductive to be sure.
You can watch some videos on these hunts, there's a few youtubers that have them but people have to know they're out there and including at least a basic instruction in game when the boss hunt is active would save hours of frustration and some of the ill will that failure on these events can create in the community.
