Spooky Squash Nerf
I don't know if other people agree with me, but I feel like the Spooky Squash elite boss fight is way too hard. I play Ops a decent amount, and I have only managed to beat the boss with my squad twic...
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Aye, the worst part is trying to get some people to cooperate. I've had pretty good luck overall, seeing new people catch on quickly is always nice, but just like boss hunts in GW2, some people either don't pay attention, don't care, or are intentionally sinking it. I've not seen the intentional one more than a couple of times thankfully (as far as I can tell anyway), but lots of the not paying attention one.
Just last week we had an elite Disco Zombie boss and 3 of the 4 of us went right to the gramophone almost immediately whereas our 4th player was all over the place until finally catching on. To be sure, I appreciate those that may not know what to do but eventually get it and help. When I used to run lots of group content in MMOs it could get pretty nasty to new people which I find counterproductive. How are they supposed to catch on or even care if you just berate them? I have no such sympathy for those that intentionally cause us to fail, but a lot for those that are earnestly trying. In a game that has to have a community to thrive, I don't want to scare people off!
@Iron_Guard8 I had an Elite Disco Zombie boss the other week with a team of newer players.
All three continued attacking him after he panicked and gained invulnerability and I repeatedly flashed “Follow Me” to try to lead them to the gramophone but they were to involved in the attack.
Thankfully there no time limit for the Elite Disco boss so I just casually made my way to the gramophone, vanquishing the spawns of zombies which popped up and sat at the gramophone using “follow me” and waiting patiently.
One player caught on and sprinted over and we waited for the other two to notice they were by themselves and eventually they caught on and figured out where we were and were obviously trying to make their way over so I met them halfway and helped lead the Boss.
After that everyone got on board with the mechanic pretty quickly when they recognized it repeating and we got through it just fine.
I wish we had the luxury of waiting for people to catch on with the Squash and Yeti but the mobs and the timer on both of those makes it really hard to teach- especially since other players can’t hear voice chat unless that have a headset themselves. They need more expressions which we can use as instructions for game mechanics.
All three continued attacking him after he panicked and gained invulnerability and I repeatedly flashed “Follow Me” to try to lead them to the gramophone but they were to involved in the attack.
Thankfully there no time limit for the Elite Disco boss so I just casually made my way to the gramophone, vanquishing the spawns of zombies which popped up and sat at the gramophone using “follow me” and waiting patiently.
One player caught on and sprinted over and we waited for the other two to notice they were by themselves and eventually they caught on and figured out where we were and were obviously trying to make their way over so I met them halfway and helped lead the Boss.
After that everyone got on board with the mechanic pretty quickly when they recognized it repeating and we got through it just fine.
I wish we had the luxury of waiting for people to catch on with the Squash and Yeti but the mobs and the timer on both of those makes it really hard to teach- especially since other players can’t hear voice chat unless that have a headset themselves. They need more expressions which we can use as instructions for game mechanics.
- @realitysquared I completely agree. It would be great if players could express what they want to their teammates. I would make time limit bosses and other aspects of the game much better.
@realitysquared It's always good to see people catch on and win. That's part of the issue with Yeti and Squash just as you point out, they're more difficult to deal with in the first place and learning them on the fly almost guarantees a loss to these 2 elite bosses. I've found squash to be slightly easier than yeti, but both have been the vast majority of my Ops failures, which are pretty rare.
