Spooky Squash Boss Hunt for May
We miss the Spooky Squash boss hunt, almost half year since we had that.
Can we bring back Spooky Squash boss hunt for May?
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It's satisfying when you able to guide newbie and successfully beat the boss hunt 🙂
What is "RandoHunt" in Boss Hunt? Close your eyes then roll your stick down so you pick a character randomly?
I'm fine with that since all of them are master 🙂
@dwooten77 wrote:
Anybody on tonight (6/28)? If so what time?
I might be. We're going out of town tomorrow, so I'm not sure.
Need help also for Crazy Mode of Squash Hunt.
We almost got the Boss in Crazy. The Best Team will comprise of 3 scientist and Toxic Brainz. They were high ranked players.
Just when he had about 1 more round of sugar rush left, the game crashed. I was pissed.
Anyways, that combination, for sure works as long as the healers know what they are doing and the Anchor team also knows how to defend and understand that when the Squash is on top of the platform, you dont have to anchor the posts immediately. You can let the squash leave the area, and then, go up the anchor post.
Anyways, experienced players only.
Xbox - namertag - JoeC2475
@asukojo wrote:It's satisfying when you able to guide newbie and successfully beat the boss hunt 🙂
What is "RandoHunt" in Boss Hunt? Close your eyes then roll your stick down so you pick a character randomly?
I'm fine with that since all of them are master 🙂
Lol no. Its simply to jump into the portal and hope for the best.
But i am done with this bs anyways. Popcap simply cannot make this franchise into something useful.
Getting camped by the Squash up top or have the Champion Sunflowers tail the Squash to heal him. Easy to fix for competent developers. But not for Popcap.
The entire hunt is pure luck and randomness.
That is not a defect, it works as per design to make the game more challenging and unpredictable and rewarding as well.
@asukojo wrote:That is not a defect, it works as per design to make the game more challenging and unpredictable and rewarding as well.
This simply cannot be true. Simply because it would proof (albeit once again) that Popcap is incompetent at game design. It simply looks like they overlooked the sunflowers behavior of healing hurt allied units. Unaware of her own importance, without any specific scripting about the champion status.
It is not challenging. It is broken. Is adds a high chance of the team being wiped out by the carrier being blown to pieces, the team being demolished by the Squash' fire splash or the stun in combination with fire and weeds, or simply by running out of time because the boss blocks all the shots at the sunflower. Last scenario either means to go around and lose time, most likely even the carrier. Or lose time again because the Squash is blocking the target. And since the team will most likely stick together for Heal Bombs and to swarm the champion, the Squash will have an easy time just bombing the entire team. You end up dead or run out of time.
i still Need help and a good Team for crazy boss hunt….
i want the scrumptious spooky Squash hat
so if anyone wants to try...
i'm on XBOX, same name
So here is the playlist of my successful Rando Hunt. Meaning Random players and adaptive character pick.
If you wonder why its all on Normal difficulty its because the like 2 on Crazy and 3 on Hard all failed with randoms. And i can assure you it was not because of my performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3bmsDB79fc&index=1&list=PLWUcsiKJWG5b4QVQu1SuD8SbbEGKIxO3d
Couple really weird things happened like a mid-aid goatify or a last second save on the Guardian phase. Along plenty of bugs and issues that should have been resolved by now. With plenty of abilities that do not benefit from the damage buff during Sugar Rush. Which shows how much of all of that Popcap missed to modify for this event.
With the focus on wins in that playlist i also thought about a focus on losses in another list. Which would be a really sad list with all the people leaving, eating the candy, going after the Squash, not attacking the guardian and so on... Not sure if its worth all the editing.
I watched your video and you pretty much carried your team. Great job on anchoring the right post.
Did you ready my tips and suggestions for Squash boss hunt? Simple pointers but I think can help you
Just my thoughts on this Squash Boss Hunt:
- if you think about it, its really not a fair game mode because of many factors:
a) Squash going up the platform and breaks the cycle, there should be some specific times when it can go up, but not all the time.
b) the champion healing the squash and using squash as cover, this happened to me 3x over the weekend and we got crushed when Squash's health almost gone during epic hunt.
c) random newbie players that finds out the game is too hard and quits during halfway thru the game, leaving 2 players behind. There should be some limitation of some sort.
d) no method of teaming up with equal skill level or balanced skill sets.
So there is sort of LUCK involved in being successful.
Overall, I had fun this weekend. I returned the favor and was able to help out few newb's getting the gem/diamond hat (2x) and the epic crazy hunt (2x)
I'm beat and tired. No more of this boss hunt for a while. I think the "heal" (LT) button of my controller got so worked up that I think it got loose from pressing too much.🤭
I still think and feel that the Yeti Boss Hunt in Crazy mode is waaaaaaaay HARDER! I've only done it successfully once.
In one of my documented hunts you will see that a group of 3 maxed players teamed with a lower ranked one. And despite things looking good that player left us. So we ended up with 2 Toxic Brains and a Hockey Star with no healer.
The game in general has lots of problems. Everything is flawed. Boss Hunt perfectly demonstrates that even the scripting is poorly done. I've already talked about the sunflowers and their dumb behavior. But there is also things like the dual champion bug. Where all of a sudden there is two champions but only one of them drops the candy. I even once had 2 Guardians.
And the Yeti is the most unfair one. Not hard - unfair. The aimbot freeze-snipes of the Yeti and the Soldiers in combination with the bombers is too much. Its even worse that the freeze effect bypasses the immunity during a revive animation which cannot be controlled. So the moment you stand again you are frozen.
