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kapkarrot
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7 years ago

PvE in Neighborville is grindy and "unfun"

I was looking forward to the open-world maps in Neighborville the most, which is why I am disappointed in the results.  Each area starts out fun and exciting.  Indeed, I enjoyed the 4 main story quests for each zone.  However, there are too many spikes in difficulty once you finish the story.  After losing six straight times to Mimic Gnight (costing 300 badges), I feel certain PvE issues need to be addressed:

- Costs for gnome monoliths are much too high

- All forms of currency payouts are very low

- Solo Ops, Battle Chests, Gnome bosses and battles are broken (too difficult)

- AI is very aggressive and never seem to miss a moving target (to the point I wonder if they are bugged)

For reference, I am a max level Garden Warfare 2 player, having completed all of the trophies, and conquered Infinity Time and the Trials of Gnomus.  I've played GW2 more than any MMO, RPG, or shooter.  Even though there was plenty of negative feedback about the gnome areas of GW2, it appears that PopCap has doubled down on the difficulty of the single-player(?) content.

If I could describe the late game areas of Neighborville, it would be "unfun".  With PvP unbalanced and PvE too grindy, I am losing the desire to play a game that is less than a month old.

19 Replies

  • voidlistener's avatar
    voidlistener
    Traveler
    7 years ago

    Gnomolith costs are reduced and battle chests are nerfed in October patch. Gnome boss fights are ok ( could use less gnomes in weirding woods, though). I agree about ops, they should be nerfed, mostly zombie ones.

  • Iron_Guard8's avatar
    Iron_Guard8
    Legend
    7 years ago

    I'm enjoying these zones a lot but I also agree with many of your points. They are making several changes that should help with most/all of this.

  • Koochi-Q's avatar
    Koochi-Q
    Not applicable
    7 years ago
    I really should play before the patch but I’ll likely not do so. I wanna see why everyone is stating the AI difficulty as one of the reasons of the PvE being that the game is ‘broken’ and such.

    I did the Plant section already right when it came out. Only actual issue was with the third platinum gnome (the battle one). Only that was hard. The Ops and battle chest had almost no difficulty with it even tho the last one was that I won with luck (my AI teammates sucked while the enemy AI was damn near impeccable to the point that I said ‘I wish these were my actual teammates cause online players suck’ XD).

    Is weirding woods similar in difficulty?
  • arit0824's avatar
    arit0824
    Not applicable
    7 years ago
    @Koochi-Q Weirding woods battle chest #5 right now is really hard, because your ai teammates suck and the ai enemy are super smart and all champions. Plus the ai enemy revive each other, while the ai teammates will revive at first, but then leave midway to attack an enemy. This will be fixed by early October patch.
  • Screion's avatar
    Screion
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    Biggest problem is Battle Chest 5 for zombies and now the 2 random spawns on flats and in the cave. Everything else i managed to do solo.

    Ops could definitely use some AI allies to get more depth. I don't enjoy that much attention from all the aim-botting enemies.

  • Koochi-Q's avatar
    Koochi-Q
    Not applicable
    7 years ago
    @arit0824 & @Screion thanks for the replies. Well people also found the battle chests of the plants PvE zone (I totally forgot the name XD) difficult or unmanagable alone. Specifically Chest 4, but some also had difficulty with #5.

    I know that in #4/5 the plants hardly ever survived me :P they stopped halfway through as well

    So my real question about weirding is: is #5 as difficult as you can remember as the Plants battle Chest #4.
  • Screion's avatar
    Screion
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    4 on plants is too hard but i managed to power through with a close win of 50-48. 5 on zombies is just impossible alone. The best i managed is 28-50. No matter what i try the champions just double it.

    Battle Chest 5 on zombies is also an interesting case study of damage output and aim-botting. Pea Shooter and Acorns are the worst offenders. I don't even think Peas have a projectile. They just hit you out of thin air no matter what.

  • kapkarrot's avatar
    kapkarrot
    Not applicable
    7 years ago

    Thank you.  Yes, I was glad to see some of the issues addressed.  While it is good they are reducing the cost of gnome monoliths, I just don't think there should be a cost involved.  It just comes across as unnecessary gatekeeping to having fun.  If there is a cost, then there needs to be a significant increase to resource drops from enemies.

    In addition to the difficulty tuning of Battle Chests, they need to review Solo Ops and gnome boss battles.  The AI is outrageously aggressive and never seem to miss.

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