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vonqball
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So, 4 gears per alert, with 200-300 gear costs for the costume pieces. Am I supposed to be running this long-**** alert 50 times to get one prize?
Makes me want to not bother at all.
Makes me want to not bother at all.
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This is actually one of the best race-themed minigames I've seen. Also since you seem to be one of those people who has not yet mastered it:
don't blink! blink and you'll faceplant on the side of a building!
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He said, while playing video games...
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That pretty much sums up how they implemented vehicles in CO, as a whole..... SWTOR vehicle mounts.
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And even still I run into walls. I have issues with straight line shots. I lose 80% of the time at the last ring or two.
I don’t like this event at all.
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so that people who were struggling with it could "git gud" and learn to complete the event on their own.
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But the best option is the jet pack or jet boots flight power at rank three. Fast enough to finish with time to spare, with full maneuverability. (Why those two? Because they're faster than regular flight powers. And jet pack is my go-to flight power anyway; it's theme-neutral and has good in-combat speed.)
Glad you guys like it... but I'm just not seeing what it is that you see.
Some people like it, some people don't, just like everything else in the universe. Doesn't mean it needs to change.
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1: PvE ice race: memorize the course or you'll fail. The first year I did it I was barely able to finish the race. Now I can practically do it in my sleep.
2: PvP Ice race, has no checkpoints whatsoever. which turned out to be hilariously exploitable. Also memorize the course or you'll go out of bounds accidentally and get a DQ.
3: Flying high: no fail mechanic other than "you didn't do it fast enough" which is actually rather generous. doesn't really take any skill since you're literally racing a timer and nothing else. Also you're following a ribbon that marks the course.
4: surfboard race: this has several annoying wrinkles, most notably the ramps. But also there's the possibility of getting a DQ because you messed up a turn.
5: biathlon: first part is the same as the surfboard race, second is similar to flying High, except with no ribbon, also the transition from surfing to flying is irritating because you can get a DQ for changing too soon. honestly the flying part is much the same as the red course in CM but the rings are a lot closer together.
The biggest thing for me is the fail mechanic. In CM you fail if the buff you get for going through a ring expires. Each time you go through a ring it refreshes the buff. In the ice running and surfing it's leaving the course... which is super fickle.
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You see the track, and skill comes from being good at timing your turns early enough to maximize your movement and minimize slip recovery. So yes, both of these are better than CM in that regard. Plus, they're both actual races--granted, you have to really mess up to let the NPC pass you on the PvE track.
A ribbon marking the course is what makes Flying High superior in terms of being a proper racetrack. I mean, most of the time, you're supposed to know where the racetrack is, not guessing if the next hoop is behind some **** building as you squint to find the absurdly faint and sparse dots.
I won't argue about the fail mechanic because that's just a matter of personal opinion (I find it more relaxing, even if it is boring) however what's nice about it is that you can get right back in and try again if you do fail (probably because you went afk and forgot). In CM, you have to sit and wait if you screw up, which is...irritating, to say the least.
The ramps actually make it kind of fun. That said, it's easier to DQ by accident in CM than it is in the surfboard race.
(I won't comment on Biathlon because I've literally never done it. I keep meaning to, but I keep missing the start time and now I have to wait until next year.)
Honestly, I never had a problem with leaving the course on those. With ice racing especially, it seems pretty generous actually. I've had several "oh my god oh my god I went out!" moments, only to realize that I haven't been disqualified. Every time I have been disqualified:
1) It's hard to argue why. I either ran too far up a hill, or hopelessly too far onto the frozen lake.
2) You can go right back to the NPC and try again without having to sit and stare at an event timer. And that right there is the big one for me.
Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
IMO, instead of a 10 second buff, the rings should just give a plain stackable buff, and going through the last ring consumes that buff and your score and amount of malvanum gears is determined by amount of time left + number of ring buffs you got.
1: the tiki torches at the top have collision. And it's not as simple as "I bumped into it and slowed down", hit it fast enough and at a glancing angle and it can pinball you wildly off-course.
2: the shape of the ramp is weird. It's not a smooth slope and actually has a sort of hook at the top. so you actually slow down at the top.
3: some ramp locations are weird. One of them is actually a bit sideways.
4: hitting multiple ramps in quick succession can launch you high enough that you go outside the part of the map where you're allowed to use the hoverboard. Sounds like you're talking exclusively about the PvE ice race here. The PvP ice race has the infamous "lemming drop" which is something most players who've never done the race before will do by accident, and will DQ you, at least in the current version.
Only true of the PvE ice race and flying high, the other three are in-game events where if you fail you have to wait for the event to cycle back around... which might be 30+ minutes. Also in the surfing race, almost everyone gets DQed the first time because they haven't figured out how to stop at the goal. I really think that a decorative cargo net would have been a good choice to stop people from careening out of bounds.
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Epic Stronghold
Block timing explained
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Whoever you are, be that person one hundred percent. Don't compromise on your identity.
This actually sounds like a decent starting point to me. It would also make incorporating damaging hazards and enemies a bit less punishing.
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The prototype Hawkwings existing means this can never happen.
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Just nerf them.
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considering the number of those in use, I see no issue with it...
Me either, but that's because I don't do this event so I'm biased.
I support your call to nerf the Prototype Hawkwings. You should make a poll for it.
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I mean everything else does, why not
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1. Easy to get disqualified for stupid reasons? Check! (pvp ice race, surfboard race)
2. Wait to restart? Check! (pvp ice race, surfboard race)
3. Unclear racetrack? Check! (Unique to CO!)
As for the surfboard race specifically, how are you bumping into the torches? I've literally never done this. :O
Honestly, all they really need to do is make the racetrack more visible so it can be an actual race and not a guessing game or scout-the-track-several-times-to-memorize-it game.
2: rezone, they're not synced.
3: Oh this applies to STO too. You probably haven't had it pop up since you've already memorized all the STO races. Now it is a lesser issue with STO, BUT, since the STO races have less forgiving DQs one slip(literally in the ice race) means you failed and have to restart. Trying to find the rings for the flying part of the Biathlon is actually rather annoying... the first few times, then you've memorized it. And yes the flying part of the Biathlon is EXACTLY like the red course in CM! It even has trees to obscure the next ring.
Honestly the main thing in CM is that rings are hidden behind buildings and you need to memorize which building. but it DOES give you clues.
Not a map, just a demonstration, but the rings are angled towards the next ring. Thus even the red course points you in the direction of the next target.
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On another note. Am I the only one who thinks "Circus" Malvanum should have us fighting evil clowns, a circus master, knife thrower, strong man, bearded lady, etc. from a distant part of the galaxy? (Note: I do know what Circus means in this context, I'd just rather fight an Intergalactic Circus of Crime, rather than jump through hoops).
I just don't bother. If I wanted to play a race game, I'd play a race game, but I want to play a super-hero game. I do enjoy fighting in the Forum, but even I can't run it that many times. So, I just play it normally during the event, save up tokens forever and ever, and maybe sometime get something. But, basically, I just totally ignore this event.
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I being rather new to this, played for a few weeks a few years back, had no idea what this was and was actually actually looking forward to some creepy clown/carny bashing... racing through the sky... not so much.
I'm not even sure how to do this event. Is it level gated? I do have a Hawkwing from the nighthawk event... so I tried, but there doesn't appear to be any in game info to point my character towards the event.
2: it's high up in the air above the city. when it's active fly up to the helicopter hovering above ren cen.
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