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ilovepopcapgames
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2 years ago

[Resolved] Change the Mystery Portal Rotation, Please!

There are multiple achievements that are unobtainable at the moment (Check this post for more information about them)

There are 5 achievements tied to game modes you cannot play anymore. How you used to play these game modes is when they would go live in the Town Hall Mystery Portal for a limited time. In January back in 2020, the Mystery Portal was changed. PopCap stopped supporting Garden Warfare 2 to continue development on Battle for Neighborville. To avoid shutting down the Mystery Portal, they made the Mystery Portal automated by making it rotate game modes based off of a list of what to play dependent on what month.

The problem with this rotation is that they didn't include any live event game modes that have achievements tied to them. So at the moment, getting all GW2 achievements is actually impossible. (Check the post I linked above for what they are.)

Current Rotation:
- January: Lawn-A-Thon 1
- Febuary: Lawn-A-Thon 2
- March: Legends of the Brawl
- April: Capture the Taco
- May: Tactical Team Up
- June: To Heal or Not
- July: Rando's Rapid Revenge
- August: Lawn-A-Thon 1
- September: Lawn-A-Thon 2
- October: Legends of the Brawl
- November: To Heal or Not
- December: Rando's Rapid revenge

In my opinion, the most favorable option would be getting someone from the community to make a schedule everyone is happy with.

A different solution that's automated, and easier to do would be exchanging some of the game mode repeats in the list for game modes like Cats vs. Dinos and Boss Hunt. For example, you can replace the repeated August Lawn-A-Thon 1 with Cats vs. Dinos, and September's Lawn-A-Thon 2 with Boss Hunt.

All of the content with these game modes are in the game when you download it, so releasing an update that players need to download wouldn't be necessary.

The only problem I see with this is that Boss Hunt has 4 different playable hunts, Brothers Gnomus, Yeti King, Spooky Squash, and Sasquatch. You would have to pick one of these to put into the rotation, but I think implementing a system that makes the game randomly pick one of them when you enter the portal to play is the best choice instead of picking 1 and neglecting the other 3.

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  • PlopyTR's avatar
    PlopyTR
    2 years ago

    Please Please Please Please that if possible that has to be done

  • Iron_Guard8's avatar
    Iron_Guard8
    Legend
    2 years ago

    100% agreed. People need those achievements/trophies! And I'd love to see soil survivor and other modes back too. There's only so much lawn-a-thon one can take!

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
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    2 years ago

    Hey Everyone,

    Thank you for sending this feedback over. We appreciate the detailed info you listed here. We hear you, and I want to make sure you know we see this. We will forward this over to the team so that they can review this and continue to make changes for the players.

    Cheers!

  • stukapooka's avatar
    stukapooka
    Legend
    2 years ago

    Late to the party here but my ideal list would make one boss hunt available per season such as as sasquatch in summer, yeti in winter, and so on.

    Anything is better than a random mixed mode no one cares about.

  • EA_Shepard's avatar
    EA_Shepard
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    2 years ago
    @stukapooka wrote:

    Late to the party here but my ideal list would make one boss hunt available per season such as as sasquatch in summer, yeti in winter, and so on.

    Anything is better than a random mixed mode no one cares about.

    You are never late to this party! I can see the advantages of both. I do like the idea of one boss per season but it would have to be a good enough fight for the community that it doesn't get dull.

    So with that being said, how would you prevent a "one boss per season" event from getting tedious and helping players keep interest in that one boss fight?

  • stukapooka's avatar
    stukapooka
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    2 years ago

    @EA_ShepardWell per season i meant a specific month during them like october halloween timeframe for spooky squash or december/january for yeti king.

    Keep the rotation timeframe similar to how it is now of lasting roughly two weeks after the tuesday the events come on and then switch to another one such as soil survivors or cats vs dinos for the next month.

    Basically just make a rotation where every month has something unique about it that can include all the special gamemodes that have achievements and items related to them over the mixed modes we're getting now that players are sick of already.

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