Enough of the Galactic Challange difficulty

"cboath7;c-2227071" wrote:

"Kyno;c-2227058" wrote:

"cboath7;c-2227053" wrote:

"Ultra;c-2226714" wrote:

"Shadroth;c-2226709" wrote:
I agree, I’m just wingeing about the difficulty tuning ?‍♂️
Typical forum post, complain about the lack of content and then winge when I can’t beat the content

The difficulty is fine

The difficulty I don't think is the issue. The issue, at least for a lot of people, is that if you have a 7 tier event, you do expect it to get harder as it goes, but you don't expect to be able to do 1-4 with your eyes closed and then have T5 curb stomp you with impunity. That's the case frequently.

If you have people expecting to get through it with a bunch of toons at 10K power each, then yeah, they're just delusional. But when you have 6 Jedi R3 or better, you shouldn't be getting routed at T5. Now, they may have a reason for this, I mean, I can think of one, but they don't explain themselves the vast majority of the time. If the whole point is so that most people can get through 1-4 (and get something for their effort) and then 5-7 are the equivalent of challenge tiers, so be it, but when you don't say that, it comes across as very poor design. I'd just say, when you stagger tiers, if you want people to invest more in it, you've got to give them a reason. Getting curb stomped in T5 doesn't make the vast majority of people say, "if i just make these guys better, i can get through". It flat out doesn't. It makes them say "screw this". I know people in the 5M+ GP range who say this, so it's clearly not because they don't have the rosters for it.

Considering you do not have to do it tier by teir, it comes across odd to call out bad design, when your doing it "not how it was designed" to be done.

I also dont see the need for any "smooth curve design", maybe you can clarify why it would need to be that way, or even should be?

It's a puzzle, not a GP or even gear check. Giving up because you dont want to do the puzzle, has nothing to do with GP. Not everyone likes this kind of element, fine, but more often than not in each GC, gear has not been a hard requirement, strategy and moding the right way with a few key toons seems to be working out.

So, having 7 tiers, named 1-7 is NOT designed to be done in order? I get that you don't have to, and you can pick the ones you want, but still. If order isn't relevant, why not have 1 be the hardest sometimes, or 6 instead of always 7?

The mechanics they added where you complete everything below what you complete automatically, is what makes it pointless to start at 1 and move up. If anything it makes more sense to start at the top and move down to find where your strategy meets your gear level.

Either way, these events are not meant to be brute forced, they require looking at each feat and devising a strategy, based on all the factors.