The Kings Day Out: A Tutorial
The Kings Day Out is a Boss Hunt in which the Players operate as a team of Plants against a horde of Zombies, Ice Variant Zombie Heroes and Yeti Variants. The game mode relies heavily on coordinated ...
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I appreciate the time you took into creating such a wonderful detailed guide, but unfortunately I will NEVER be able to complete this Boss Hunt as long as people keep insisting on picking chompers and other obvious class choices that would be poor for Boss Hunt...
I need to vent for a bit (please forgive me). My experiences last night and this morning include, but not limited to: CHOMPERS... Petrified Cactus (No.. just no), the Sunflower Twins who refused to use healbeam, and let's not forget about that awesome Citron who grabbed the slushie/ and rushed right into the Yeti King's face (No, you can't facetank things in this game. It's not that kind of game). The ONE time my random group was surely to succeed the King's Fool died and his slushie appeared... guess where? Hovering in the air, off the edge toward that giant beaver's dam in the background. Completely unobtainable so we lost as there were only three minutes left and not enough time to cycle through another King's Fool. Sorry... rant over.
I'll keep trying, though. Wish me luck.
I feel your pain.
I've been on teams with Chompers who wouldn't respawn as something else regardless of how much I told them it was a bad choice, a team with 2 Cactus who were able to keep themselves alive easily but who wouldn't budge from their little fort to help hunt the Popsicles during the Yeti King's Dance and there've been a ton of Sunflowers not dropping their Heal Flowers or using their Heal Beams to good effect even though I'm giving clear direction over my mic.
Boss Hunts are hard enough with random groups made of average or casual players but there's so many newbies still under Rank 200 who still barely know how to use their characters that this time around is really frustrating. I have a regular Group which I try to Boss Hunt with but we're in different time zones so we can't always group up.
So far only the first Group I got put with just after the event opened managed to get past the first Super Sunshine Power buff, but didn't make it to the second one and then the group broke up and it's been all brand new players ever since for me.
I don't have many friends that play GW2 on my platform (Xbox One), so I am constantly forced to play with strangers I meet through in the portal, and I can confirm...
It's not fun!😠
Level 10's and lower, the constant Chomper players, the Sunflowers that don't know how to heal, the Camo Cactus I came across, and every other problem a team's composition can have... sorry about that. What I meant to say was: I can see why you think you cannot complete this Boss Hunt. I feel your pain, m8.
The guide is great Realitysquared. I used it so my friend and I could get it done but thanks to the vagaries of the King's movements and the random people we had to team with, along with the glitch where you had to unlock the diamond hat before getting the gem hat in hard mode, despite getting the scrumptious hat from the very first crazy mode, this event took all weekend to get the hats and my friend has seriously considered quitting over this thing.
I don't mind difficult challenges at all but when you have to deal with so many variables on top of that difficulty and it can take you roughly 1/2 hour and still fail, it was not much fun despite me liking the overall setup and concept.
I played hours and hours of this Boss Hunt because my regular group couldn't get our schedules to line up to do more than a game or two together and that meant having to take whatever I was given in random games. I managed to only get up to the Diamond Yeti Crown and that was literally at the last session on the last day of the Hunt.
What I've noticed more than anything else is that your team mates had a huge impact on how "easy" or "hard" this particular Boss Hunt seemed to be while you played. A group of good players who knew how to use their characters, especially and preferably the two Stuffy Sunflower players, and Normal difficulty was essentially a paint-by-number walk through. The time restraint was tight on this one so messing up even one Spring's Radiance when you had the Super Sunshine Power would be enough delay for you to run out of time and I had a couple of Hard difficulty games messed up by Peashooters or Citrons drinking the slurpie and then rocketing off with their Hyper movement boost to get killed in seconds.
The thing which tripped up most of the teams I randomly got assigned to was simple inexperience due to brand new players, many of which were children, who were experiencing Boss Hunt for the very first time and many of which were probably facing off against what is essentially a Yeti Super Boss Wave for the first time as well.
It was definitely a tough one, but in my opinion more due to the make up of the teams more than what was required in the Hunt.
Feel your pain. Corn guy who drink slurpee suddenly doing husk hop while we're doing sun beam and pea gattling, leave us dumb founded. Total idiot.
Another time, the slurpee fall into the beaver lake, and when we jump to drink it, we died.
I tried all kind of Rose. It is good in survival on ice environment. But for some reason, her primary weapon (charged or regular attack) was struggling to knock down the snow man quickly. Is this a defect?
@asukojo wrote:
Another time, the slurpee fall into the beaver lake, and when we jump to drink it, we died.
I kept wondering if that was going to happen, or even if the king's fool might fall off into it himself. He sure seemed to like chilling out there, as far away from the yeti king as possible. People reported the Sasquatch falling off the map for an instant win.
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