Halloween Event 2015 - Feedback Thread

As to not waste my time typing right now, I'll keep it short, I'm ufe and the gate stinks!

Agree with all the complaints so far.

Too tedious.

The rewards stink.

The pumpkin boxes stink. Fireworks? Really? No UBR, really?

The candy cane cargo design stinks.

This event is laziness to the nth power, and stinks.

Refund please.

EDIT : I like that boxes are in the bmaps, kudos on that.

 

Having now seen the npc list (here) am thinking a good split for this event gate would be as follows:

Easy, maps 1&2, Med, 3-4, Hard, 5,6,7, Uber/Insane 8&9

Easy maps 1&2, Med, 3-4-5, Hard, 6,7,8&9

Add in the ports back to 2-1 map or possibly 2-4 bottom port area for convenience would be a nice improvement in my humble opinion as I think it would allow lowers levels a chance to bash them without disappointment at later failure not to mention giving players a much needed break in between waves etc.

 

Knock the lives down to 20 and I'll be happy. Then I can have a meaningful amount to try and complete the gate with, but not so many that it's a grind to manually reset the gate so I'm not stuck with 6 Drone Designs as opposed to UFEs who can and probably will obtain over 80.

 

^^ one solution....

 

hahah i ust realized this bro im laughing so hard right now hahah i was in a rush this morning for work so i didnt shoot them just died.

i found out the easy way. lol im still laughing at my post. i was in a rush for work and thought id get one wave in but i saw them and said nvm and just died

 

Well the gate was insane, but no complaints. Eats away at your ammo and seprom at an atrocious rate. It is like a free Hades/LoW gate - not easy, but it can be done by yourself instead of a/in group.

 

Please make gate easier to reset! i have to go die 100 times to reset gate will take me hours! Just add a reset button! 4+ hours of flying/jumping to x-4 map to die so i can reset gate is just as insane as waves 66-70

 

yep, even with promied vengie, it takes hours really, but less hours to die 100 times than killing 20 ubersibelons

 

Sort of a specious argument in the highlighted part. If you'd like a challenge put a hangar together with a smaller ship. Remove some guns. Remove some shields. Empty some drones. Heck, do a gamma gate with a peanut using only credit rockets and a single mp-1. A lack of challenge is more indicative of a lack of imagination.

The problem with taking a few days to complete the gate is that the demon drones, while useless to players with havoks and hercs, are most attractive to the very players which will most struggle to complete the gate. With luck and a lot of time some could complete it over the course of days, and with luck might even get the eight covers they probably need. Key words being with luck. What of the player who struggles mightily to complete the gate as many times as they can over the course of the event only to come up short?

It strikes me that the dev team is further and further removed from the game and have no real concept of what goes on anymore. I'm dreading future updates and fear they will be more of the same.

 

Ummm...I'm reasonably good at math but something's not adding up. I had posted a couple pages back on how to find the 2 Demon drones to kill in the "From Another Universe" mission. Was told that the Demons were in the gate, to add the mission, start the gate, kill the 2 Demons, then go get the next mission (kill 8 Demons) and after the 8th drone kill, grab the Complete the Gate mission and finish out the gate. Great, I thank the poster then go skipping off to get this done.

So I'm looking at the gate maps/waves and only see 8 total Demon drones. Between the 2 Demon missions I need to kill 10! Is it intended that you have to work through the gate TWICE or am I missing something/getting bad intell?

 

Yes twice a shocker. Unless you just die 100 times...Goodluck with that. Or just do the 8 drones quest first and then do the two, but you still have another quest to do. There are three that require the Halloween Gate.

 

Only way I see to get the 8 drones AND the gate completion missions in one pass through the gate would depend on when the 8th drone is awarded. At the beginning (as all the others are) of map 9 or after the gate is complete? If at the beginning of map 9, run the 8-drone mission and when you get the 8th, die off, go accept the gate completion then go back and finish the gate.

The 2-drone mission can then be entered and just have to work through to wave 17 to get the remaining 2, die again and be done.

Of course if the 8th drone isn't awarded until the end of the gate, you're boned.

I'm boned anyways cause I was stupid and did the 2-drone one first. Now I'm getting ready to enter map 7 with 5 drones left to get and only 3 are available. If I kill the quest and switch to the gate completion I'll still have to go through the entire gate again to complete the 8-drone mission.

Wow. And I was looking forward to a FUN event. This sucks on so many levels (crappy Pumpkin rewards, making the gate so hard for anyone below FE and TEDIOUS for the rest, having 2 Demon missions that total more than the 8 that are in the gate and Demons are ONLY in the gate).

 

well, i'll put it this way, they did a real good job of making that gate a NIGHTMARE. i have 12 lf4s right now, aegis, 9 drones 9 havocs and this gate was brutal especially twards the end.

i will admit, waves 40-60 were BANK, i loved the profit i made off those melters! but after 60, its just punishing, i got a little too close to the 20 uber sibs when i had moth and instapopped. TWICE. not to mention the 300k x2 i burned up and i used mostly x1 through it (a good bit of x4 on the uber sibs i got tired of those quick)

my suggestion is to add a seperately scaled gate for say level 17 and below. after level 17 people are generally UFE or getting close, the current lvl 14 cut off is too early, most are just getting to be fe at that point and cant be considered equal to those with 50+ lf4s.

also those event missions are a bit lazy, nicely rewarding, but collecting that man rocks is just tedious especially when my pet loves doing the opposite of what i intend. (i need terbium, it goes straight for endurium until i force drag it out of range) and for higher level players you should bring it up to uppers npcs, sibelonits instead of lordakia, lordakium instead of devos, and so on

thank you very much for making the event gate repeatable by the way! as punishing as it is i cant make that good uri that fast even using the same ammo in normal maps so i intend to be one of the crazies who lives in that gate long as its there, do that for future event gates please! best fix you could probly manage is giving a way to get our ammo back, possibly give the gate reward as say 300k x2 ammo, 100k x3 ammo and rockets ( x4 should stay a standard gate reward, makes it more valueable)

as for the event bonus boxes, id say theyre as pathetic as the have been the past few years, i mean really, its halloween and theres no wiz rockets?! that needs fixing! also no one wants xeno (we get plenty from gate spins trust me) so just trade those 2 out, that'll keep it simple. a little more pet fuel would be nice too so i make a profit instead of breaking even on it

for the next holiday event id say do different tiers of gates and make it generally shorter (but not significantly, basically remove the very end where the real terror is) and that would turn out a near perfect gate, add in the ammo reward so it doesnt drain us and you got some happy players! as for the quests next event, i say do it like the pet event, that was a lovely event, seperate npcs and great rewards from them. slap in those adjustments and you got yourself a very merry christmas for all your players! (HINT HINT)

 

I'm only level 13 but i've been grinding on the game lately just trying to have fun with it and get better and i was looking foward to the event because i thought it'd be something i could actually do and have fun with but now i'm just left bored...

 

Make the gate into a Clan gate the uri from the NPC gets divided up equally and the randon drone still stand this will benefit non ufe players it is a very hard gate even for a UFE player esp if one need the demon drones i did it 2 times already only have 7 demon drones so i am looking at a 3rd time
The no reward at the end is ok since it didnt cost me anything to build its like being in 4-5 shooting ubers you dont get back ammo just uri

 

Gate would be perfect without the wave with 20 uber sibelons. 5 is not too much in earlier waves but 20 is just not fun anymore. Change those into 20 Boss Kristallons and the wave will be much better since they have similar amounts of HP but they pay out more uri so it would not be complete waste of ammo anymore Peronally I do not feel like completing the gate past wave 69 since there is nothing really afterwards. Maybe I will just die 100 times to start from the beginning

 

You re wrong about that man... I'm level 21 and I have couple more LF4's than you + full havock's. Basically we are at same "level" even though I have more experience points. It's not about player level what makes the problem, but damage input.​

 

Any chance after completing the GG once that we can select multiple event missions, as it is I'm on event mission 4 but can't select it because I still have to kill 4 more demon 4/8 + my next gg is in 8hrs away......

 

Regards these Pumkpin quests, not impressed having to collect prometium etc, would have been much more appropriate to collect palladium even in lowers as am sure an invasion of pirate interceptors and suchilke could have been arranged to drop palladium allover lowers maps.

NO one has any use for any of these rocks! Fair enough collecting from destroyed ships but 450 rocks in 2-2 is just plain boring with little reward, atm am collecting boxes while my pet grabs the rocks in 2-2, collecting palladium would have at least given me some much appreciated GG spins.

 

Does anyone else have a problem with very increasing MEM? When I jump in tunnel, (press F to see FPS and mem) and my MEM slowly increases up to 1400 MB (of 4000 total) and then flash player crashes. FPS decreasing, MEM rising and only thing which helps is refresh - unusable, because after F5 my updates in shields and engines are gone