Cold Wave Event Discussion Thread

So you are Ufe , but you still say that a person who is not even fe is noob if it can't complete the easy gate ? The gate is full of lags and to kill hundreed of icy's it takes some time without kamikaze. The easy gate is the easier gate but for pretty new players is still hard .

 

Hardest gg ever i seen ....

I tried about 7-10 times and nothing ******* noobs!!!!

 

Please fix the damn Cold wave GG!!! it impossible to pass it, the damn skoll is just Unbeatable... it keeps spamming those damn Icy's... i tryed many tactics but its just annoying...

Man! Its much much more annying than the Wave of 30 Kristallions on the ALPLHA gate...

BP! before implenting something, Test it, to make sure its Beatable/balanced, not what we have now, that skoll a.k.a Stroll that keep freezing you and sending those annoying Icy's non-stop...

the first wave and second wave are fun indeed, but but it becames a living hell at the 3rd wave (where the skoll appears)

i play the easy version of the skoll gate, its just nightmare and annoying, who say its a "challenge" its not, its just Brain stroming gate with alot of pain.

Yes, i want challenege, but heck like this? NO THANKS.

Challnge i mean that its a Challenge to beat it, NOT WHERE YOU HAVE TO SIT IN THE DAMNED GATE OVER 9 HOURS ON THE DAY NON-STOP.

FIX THIS.

 

Cold Wave Event.

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I agree thre Icy's did come out for an entire day, however I still believe that making them available more often during the event 3 hours on and 3 hours off would benefit the community and Bigpoint all at the same time.

As for the Gates - The Easy gate was an extremely fun gate and gave me something new to experience. The Hard gate - I completed the first 2 waves which I enjoyed as it was a good challenge that any player with basic ship skills and equipment can manage to complete. As for the 3rd wave. I have yet to complete it, but it is possible. Several Non - UFE members of my clan have attempted and completed the entire gate.

I woud say that in the past Dark Orbit Winter/ Birthday events have been far to easy to complete giving players very little challenge. So this time they have put out something that really tests a players in-game skills. So for me, this gate even if I don't get it completed was extemely FUN!

Witchway

 

The Skoll is time consuming and somewhat difficult but isn't impossible as some make it out to be. My tactic for beating it (on the hard gate) was to send everything except it to the corners, shoot it until it pops Icys, send said Icys to corner and repair and repeat, I did this with kami and x1s. It took awhile but was cheap and easy . I'm basic FE to..lol.

 

Hmm, the Cold wave was rather fun. I must say, the easy gate did put me off, seeing how easy it was. However, tthe hard gate was something else, especially the last wave. Even harder, when you'e running 1 suicide config...anyway, my tactic was:
2 speed cons, 1 with hercs, 1 suicide with havocs ( the hercs con is for running and repping)...anyway, on suicde, use x4/rsb on skoll...and whenever it spawns icys, pull back to drag them away from skoll, then go back to skoll, and circle it...as you circle it, the icys will follow you in the direction you're going, meaning that they're not hitting you. But yeah, simple method, took me about 10 mins.

 

Exactly what I like about this event!

Only. now I wanna know if you can complete the gate quest to get the gate some other time, like Saturday. (If ice meteriods are even on)

 

I would like to thank DO for creating the first birthday mission (Cold Wave HARD)that cannot be completed by normal ships, employing normal tactics. All it has done for me so far is drain my resources; which is most likely the point. Sending everything to the corner does not work as the SKOLL has time to regenerate. Lets admit it the final waive will only be enjoyable by a few. It is sad that DO continues to eliminate the diversity of ships and styles of play. This used to be a game about skill and cunning, not just brute strength.

 

I did it with x1 ammo and kami... Legit all you need is a vengie (or goli) with 100k shields and Lv3 kami and you're fine.


First you kill off all the shrapnel around Skoll before sending him PERMENANTLY to the bottom right corner.

When Skoll drops to below 90% shields, it will fly to bottom right and sit there to rep its shields. Therefore, if you can hit it once every 20 seconds or so you can stop it from regenerating it's shields. This means that you can circle around the corner and come in at Skoll every 20 seconds. Thanks to the cooldown on Kami, you can Kami Skoll every 2 runs in. This means you can also sit directly on Skoll, waiting for the Icys to come in and crowd around you (they hit about 20k with this method) before using kami.

Skoll releases new icys every 5% hp you take from it, or so, so your job is really to keep hitting with a few light X1 shots it every 20 seconds and eventually kill it with kami (Incidentally, Kami Lv3 does nearly 2% HP damage, which coincides with the 3 kamis needed to send icys to the corner).

One thing to look out for is the Target Marker, which should affect you when you're near Skoll every 3 Kamis, since it preludes you being simultaneously Frozen and Skoll releasing more Icys. You can avoid being Frozen by flying away from Skoll as fast as possible (It has a max range). (You can then circle around to attack again within 20 seconds).

Finally, one fun thing I noticed when finishing Skoll off, it appears to release the final Icys at about 1% HP, or so, just in time for a Kami, so you can have these new icys hitting you for 15k while you carefully get lock on the Icys in the corner from the corner of your screen to activate kami on them (This will lag you out for a few seconds).

EDIT: When circling around (without being shot since the wide 20 second circles let you avoid Icys on your speed config) you will regenerate your shields, but also, during the second run around (prior to a kami drop) you will also be repping HP if you haven't been hit (Skoll won't be able to hit you anyway)

EDIT 2: Honestly, if you haven't made the investment in Lv3 Kami yet then you seriously deserve not to get the Hard Mode gate done.

 

The Skoll regenerated as soon as you started sending the baby icy's to the corners as you said and it turned around and spit them out again. This went on and on and on is this a glitch or did you get this too ?.

 

The secret is to never stop shooting Skoll, so it can't regen shields past 90%, since when its shields are below that it seems to sit in bottom right and stops shooting you - trying to rep its shields instead.

EDIT: Although it can still release Icys while freezing you every 5% hp, so look out for the target marker and run away when it activates so you don't get frozen.

 

Calling people stupid because they make an observation about a DO event is inappropriate.

 

If I start a new game then I'm a noob in that game, nothing wrong with that.
but this dude...

...he points out that he's not new to the game and seems to know some stuff about the game after all he's been playing for years and even uses the best ammo available...and no jurjstyle, there are no where near 100 icies in the easy gate.



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My apology if my behaviour was inapropriate, I found it necessary to be said...

 

Only the shields regenerated. It took awhile but I got it down thanks to my Aegis and kami .

 

the icy metriod
takes very long to come back ( every 3 hours) which is a dissapointment to those who are doing event missions

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The cold wave GG easy gate, was no problem for me, the NPCs just have 1/5 of his true strength so it was no problem for me took less than an hour to complete it with credits ammo, easy gate was made for noobies.

However the hard GG cold wave.... damn even a UFE would find it challenging or annoying if someone does not have kamikaze.

The 2 first waves, no problem, but the skroll becomes REALLY annoying here, had to use moth formation + kamikaze to deal with icys
NOTE: dont let icys stack too much on corners or they might pop you as soon you are spotted by them they are 5 times more icys than on easy gate..

 

I had around 500 icy on the map including corners and when skoll run to corner i was happy!! he had left 50k hp :=))) 1 kami would kill him and the icy and guess what hepent...my game freeze and i die!!! after i spent 10k uri on kamikaze (dont have premium right now) for insta send from skylab i also spent 2500 uri and what hepends my game frezes... and that got me so mad i couldnt belive!

 

Hello all,

First i would like to start by saying i am at level 15 non-fe goliath without kami (pet only at level 7)

I have been doing the winter quests and although they are nice i feel they are somewhat too quick and too short.
I compare the easy quest and the hard one and they feel somewhat too easy, i would like to see a bump on both time and difficulty (we do not have to do them on a specific day so they could require more effort)

The boxes.
I like them, i also like the fact they are not on everyday, i dislike the fact that on pvp the normal ones are better.

Now to the gate
I think this gate suffers from the fact that Kami is too strong. It is the only attack in game that deals area of damage (not counting chain impulse which is rather useless) and for 75k. This makes it the best skill for npc farming especially if u can gather a cluster of them.
That why i think this gate has 2 difficulty levels which aren't the easy or hard gate but whether or not you have kami.

I will give my own experience on the easy gate.

For the first and 2nd wave all you really need is speed, at least 480, to out run icy's, send them to a corner and focus on the ice and super ice, and then clean corners, this was rather fun.

Now for the infamous 3rd wave. i started by cleaning the icy's and leaving only the boss, then hit the boss as soon as he targeted me i would move away from him until the sight became blue, kill icy's and repeat. i could tell considering the damage i was giving to the boss it would take some time, so i let the icy's stack i focused on the boss. Once the icy's damage reached around 80k i cleaned them up and focus the boss again.
I eventually managed to get the boss on a corner and then i gave up. The amount of icy's i had on corners plus the horde i had to kill meant would be there for another 4 hours. I had been on this gate for 5, I do not know the reward for killing skol but i'm pretty sure i wouldn't have any kind of profit from the gate, i was already losing 2M credits and i decided to cut my losses.

I doubt this gate is worth doing for anyone without kami, the time/reward ratio is pretty bad.

I enjoyed the boss frozen skill and hope to see more npc's with similar attacks i think the game could use the variety.

 

I agree with you it shouldn't be this hard. This gate is bias to premium players (so kami is free) and therefore leaves non-premium players struggling to get it finished. I wasted a lot of ammo and im going to jump into hard skoll. However I dont think i will be able to kill it and that frustrates me because there is a reward in the end for doing all hard event missions.

 

You're such a noob. I did both gates with x2, Promerium upgrade on lasers and Moth formation.