Cosmics Are Fun - Thank You Devs

riverocean · May 2016

Like everyone else I was sort of like.. ZOMG these new cosmics are too hard. Argggh.. make it stop..curse you DEVS...

But after a while fighting the Cosmics was actually fun. The Teliosaur is the hardest - it really requires an organized team. But I was on a late night team that zerged it...and won! As surprising as that sounds.

But the most exciting part- players were leaving Ren Cen. It's like a Christmas miracle - except it's in May.

There were still some things that seemed off. For a short bit my healer was getting nothing. Then suddenly that stopped. I'm going to just assume I hit a bad RNG streak. It annoyed me at first, but when I did start getting drops I felt a lot better.

Just get that daily fixed and I think we're gold. And yeah..and rewards that are actually worth the effort. All-in-all I like it. Though I'm sure there will be those that don't... but what can you do? Can't please everyone.

spinnytop · May 2016

Yay cosmics! \owo/ Fun content that isn't easy, whoda thought!

roughbearmattach · May 2016

Not my speed, but glad others like it.

yogid0nnie · May 2016

The only change I want to see is with the spawn points, they seem kind of far away from the action, especially Teleiosaur's. Can we get a fix on this?

biffsmackwell · May 2016

roughbearmattach said:
Not my speed, but glad others like it.

You were in for the worst one, man. Have you tried Kigatilik or Qwyjibo? They're much better.

Teleiosaurus is hard as hell if people don't listen, but if they do, it can go smooth.

guyhumual · May 2016

biffsmackwell said:

roughbearmattach said:
Not my speed, but glad others like it.
You were in for the worst one, man. Have you tried Kigatilik or Qwyjibo? They're much better.

Teleiosaurus is hard as hell if people don't listen, but if they do, it can go smooth.

Seems I was in the worst one as well. Anyways, poor rewards + wonky completion credit + ridiculous difficulty = an even that's not for me either.

For me this feels like cybermind, only with more traveling, more waiting, and more cursing as you fail to get credit despite wasting 10 minutes fighting fighting these things. I suppose there's the added "fun" of having to respawn and travel back to the fight every few minutes but overall this has little interest for me.

What I'd have prefered is if they'd just upped the re spawn rate for the cosmics and left them as is. I played CO for 4 years before I even saw Qwyjibo or Teleiosaurus on the map. I only got to see Kigatillic last year, I also managed to defeat him with the help of one other player. The only good side I see for this event is that at least people can see the cosmics outside of the crisis maps.

riverocean · May 2016

guyhumual said:

Seems I was in the worst one as well. sAnyways, poor rewards + wonky completion credit + ridiculous difficulty = an even that's not for me either. For me this feels like cybermind, only with more traveling, more waiting, and more cursing as you fail to get credit despite wasting 10 minutes fighting fighting these things. I suppose there's the added "fun" of having to respawn and travel back to the fight every few minutes but overall this has little interest for me.

Telio and Qwijobo are both difficult to rank enough damage for a significant reward. If you don't do enough before getting aoe'd/death smacked, you get nothing. I'm not sure how that can fixed in a way that doesn't encourage leeching. *Shrugs*
Kiga on the other hand, I get something every time - and being a Crowd Controller I actually feel useful. So hooray ancient elder-god of the frozen north.

Once the The daily is working correctly -- it will go a long way in making it worth it. Even if I don't get boss drops, getting GCR in something other than a TA is worth it for me.

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championshewolf · May 2016

gradii wrote: »

Actually kigatilik is usually the only one I ever get screwed for rewards on, and always on healers.

What a twist, my healer tends to do just fine in all of them, and I still get rewarded.

roughbearmattach · May 2016

championshewolf said:

gradii wrote: »

Actually kigatilik is usually the only one I ever get screwed for rewards on, and always on healers.

What a twist, my healer tends to do just fine in all of them, and I still get rewarded.

Do you get credit for mission completion and perks on a healer? I thought that was the issue folks were talking about, not the reward circle stuff.

spinnytop · May 2016

Now I know a lot of you are just going to respond to this by telling me that I'm just too amazing at the game, but the cosmics aren't as hard as you think they are.

For a minute there I too was like "how am I even supposed to survive this!?

"... but then I figured it out. And no, it had nothing to do with changing my build, or doing anything with my gear...since, you know, I didn't change any of my builds or any of my gear. It had more to do with paying attention to what's going on, doing some blocks, and occasionally moving around.

Now, despite how many of you worship me as some sort of god of gaming and you think I have skills so superhuman that they surpass anything any of you could ever hope to achieve, I assure you that I am at best an average player and that anything I can do you, you can do... probably better.

I'm already close to consistently surviving these events on my glass cannon character - not there just yet, some of the timing required is pretty demanding, but I'm getting there. Don't worry, you can too.

The devs have really done a great job in taking what was essentially abandoned content and turning it into an epic experience.

roughbearmattach · May 2016

biffsmackwell said:

You were in for the worst one, man. Have you tried Kigatilik or Qwyjibo? They're much better.

Teleiosaurus is hard as hell if people don't listen, but if they do, it can go smooth.

I will give the other two a shot, and expect that the chaos will die down a bit in time. Still, it's not a type of gameplay I like much. I prefer teams/partners/solo play.

That being said, I am very happy that the CO devs are adding in things like this. CO needs to have stuff for a variety of gamers, including mass battles like the new cosmics and hard mode team play like TA. I do not believe everything in the game needs to cater to every player, let alone myself.

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championshewolf · May 2016

gradii wrote: »

Trolling as always I see.

The irony of your statement is completely hilarious. But then again, you always hate facts if no one is bowing down worshipping the ground you walk on. But no, the fact is my healer gets rewards at Kigatilik. Several people that heal at Kigatilik get rewards. In fact the only time I've never gotten a reward is when my tank never bothered attacking Kigatilik because I was doing what I was asked to do and watching the dog I was tanking.

But in the end, it is sort of like that ten minute rant in local you gave about trying to tell everyone how there is no best tank in the game only good or bad since you claim there is no way to measure such a thing (because hysterically they weren't talking about you), then later turn around and puff out your chest when someone thinks you are good at something and start bragging for 20 minutes about your character and her origins., despite said person was indeed trolling you.

chaosdrgnz43 · May 2016

I have mixed feelings with the cosmics. It is great seeing people working together, but at the same time it is frustrating when some don't listen. It might be also good if threat gets boosted so dps/healers won't get aggro.

As for the rewards/credit, I hope it gets fixed soon. Because my healer and tank never once got credit in the daily mission, but did get rewards from the Open Mission. Probably because my healer doesn't deal good dmg and my tank is somewhat of a CC/DoT.

spinnytop · May 2016

roughbearmattach said:

Do you get credit for mission completion and perks on a healer? I thought that was the issue folks were talking about, not the reward circle stuff.

My healer gets rewards and perk credit each time. No mission credit, but devs are aware of that issue and a fix is coming. TBH, with how the rewards are currently buffed, mission credit isn't even a big deal atm.

supersharks · May 2016

"That being said, I am very happy that the CO devs are adding in things like this. CO needs to have stuff for a variety of gamers"

This is really the thing here.

There needs to be things for every type of gamer and those that like this sort of thing have been left out in the cold since on-alert trivialised the rest of the game with gear that was way stronger than any of the old mobs/bosses were designed for.

diggot · May 2016

It's not about the bosses being to hard, its about the reward doesn't match the effort... no way near.
Make them drop Heroics and Legion atleast.. Specific pieces for specific bosses, since there are 3 Cosmic bosses.

Also.. everyone making an effort to kill these bosses should be rewarded, it shouldn't be the "top 5" out of 20 players,
because that means as soon as things goes south, you die a few times and drop dps or heals.. you might as well quit the fight because you're not getting rewarded - hence no need to stay.

chaelk · May 2016

I finally noticed the green spikes that explode from dino. I was wondering what was killing me.

I was well down the list,(the second group I was practically off the screen) got 9GCR, about 15 SCR, Q, and even some odd mods.
no mission credit but you can't have everything.

I like it. Sure I die a lot, I've been farming on my silver acct but I look on it as doing the death perk , while trying to complete.

roughbearmattach · May 2016

Rewards are in no way related to placement on leader board. All get the same GCR/SCR/Q.
Random drops are random for all, the same as for event bosses like Clarence or Takofanes.

Rewards don't just go to the top five people. Though there have been some bugs, everyone (even like 100 people) can get the mission rewards.

P.S. There are still problems with the daily mission, as the devs and others have noted.

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championshewolf · May 2016

gradii wrote: »

For all of silverspars preening and prancing and lecturing, this is the truth in the end.

There is a bug preventing some people from getting the rewards which affects healers the most.

Silverspar claims she's not an arrogant elitist, yet her every post on these forums proves her wrong.

As for me, I know my characters are among the best, and I don't give 2 cents if some arrogant tool says otherwise.

I find it hilarious how much of a pot you are in your posts, and the only person who has made up any feud between us is you. I could care less what you do, and as far as arrogance is concerned, well, as I said, the pot calling the kettle black here is always the most amusing things about everything you say.

The most hysterical stuff comes from the simple fact, I really don't even pay attention or care about you until you decide to make yourself a nuisance and rather insulting and harassing at every turn you take. I get more tells a day from people telling me about the latest thing you've said in some channel that you are ranting in about me even though I hardly even say a word to you.

But you've made it clear at every turn, that even when I am not talking about you, I am talking about you, and evidently you make believe I go around telling people how great I am, yet here you are claiming to be amongst the best. I am almost reminded of that episode in Super Hero Squad when Egghead calls himself the smartest man in the world, then Doc Doom comes around except for myself, Reid Richards, Tony Stark, Hank Pym, and continues listing off heroes.

Gradii, the only person that continues this false bravado feud of your's is you. I don't care, and I never have. The only time I even respond is when you are being an insufferable, whiny little prick because people don't instantly call you the best of the best. And sorry you think me not agreeing with you means I am being a jerk, but it's high time you accept that not everyone is going to agree with you, and I am sorry you think other people asking for me to do get one of my characters (such as my tank) is some how me jumping around preening or prancing.

But then again, you also believe I was making alt accounts to harass you which is hilarious since why would I waste my time, or the fact I am the reason you go to therapy or need medication. I mean seriously you say I have an ego but good gravy, DaZee the irony of you calling the kettle black is just hilarious. Multiple people have told you things that contradict your stories, and every single one of them you've called a liar because, who the hell knows.

It's almost like you are programmed to be an insufferable, insulting person the moment someone isn't agreeing with you and worshiping you as the crem de la crem.

And the most hilarious thing, for someone who says "the best cannot be measured" you sure are one big hypocrite trying to claim yourself to be one of the best. Arrogance much?

theravenforce · May 2016

*sips tea*

In my opinion the revamped cosmics are sort of a welcome change in that it is in some respects forcing people to work together. When cosmics are surrounded by competent people, you have to feel sorry for them but when incompetence and lack of listening skills rears its head...cosmics will own you.

So far I am enjoying the rewards all round. I've been meaning to try on my healers actually as I've only tried it on...2 or three characters.

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championshewolf · May 2016

gradii wrote: »

If that's really the case you'll apologize for the attacks you've made on me and how rude you've been to me, and we can forget about it.

However every post you've made regarding me has been full of attitude and sarcasm, whether you realize it or not. You're as abrasive and rude as you call me and you wonder why I don't like you.

There's been no attacks or rudeness. Again, you are the only one who has made up this feud. So please, just quit trying. I only respond to you when you make it personal, and you always make it personal because you can never stand hearing someone say otherwise.

chaosdrgnz43 · May 2016

Getting back on topic,

Are the devs aware of the AoRP bug? You know, like having more than one stack bugs your all dmg resistance when blocking. Not sure if it's the same when not blocking though. I hope they extend the Cosmic Event for another week when they find a fix for the daily cred bug.

championshewolf · May 2016

chaosdrgnz43 wrote: »

Getting back on topic,

Are the devs aware of the AoRP bug? You know, like having more than one stack bugs your all dmg resistance when blocking. Not sure if it's the same when not blocking though. I hope they extend the Cosmic Event for another week when they find a fix for the daily cred bug.

Yes, been stated multiple times, and Kais has said several times on channel she's aware of it and a fix is being looked at.

deadman20 · May 2016

Lookit all these fools thinking Supports can't score well... Anatari made it to 4th place. You just gotta believe!

legendarylycan · May 2016

you say that like people know who anatari is

chaosdrgnz43 · May 2016

deadman20 said:

Lookit all these fools thinking Supports can't score well... Anatari made it to 4th place. You just gotta believe!

Is Anatari a full-healer support? Because Support role isn't just for healers, there are players who are in support role for the energy benefit.

championshewolf · May 2016

chaosdrgnz43 wrote: »

Is Anatari a full-healer support? Because Support role isn't just for healers, there are players who are in support role for the energy benefit.

My healer, Diabolique, is full heal support and I placed number 1 on that chart before. She is usually in the top 8 average. Kigatilik is when I am generally down, if I am a dog healer. But even then I still get a reward circle on my healer.

roughbearmattach · May 2016

championshewolf said:

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My healer, Diabolique, is full heal support and I placed number 1 on that chart before. She is usually in the top 8 average. Kigatilik is when I am generally down, if I am a dog healer. But even then I still get a reward circle on my healer.

Again, it's both mission credit and perk credit that is bugged.
Folks that aren't getting on the board or getting a reward circle are likely overstating their participation. It requires more than event bosses like Takofanes.

deadman20 · May 2016

chaosdrgnz43 wrote: »

Lookit all these fools thinking Supports can't score well... Anatari made it to 4th place. You just gotta believe!

Is Anatari a full-healer support? Because Support role isn't just for healers, there are players who are in support role for the energy benefit.

Yes, Anatari is a pure-bred Support. Stands around with her own Aura of choice and heals with 749+ Presence.

darqaura2 · May 2016

supersharks said:
"That being said, I am very happy that the CO devs are adding in things like this. CO needs to have stuff for a variety of gamers"

This is really the thing here.

There needs to be things for every type of gamer and those that like this sort of thing have been left out in the cold since on-alert trivialised the rest of the game with gear that was way stronger than any of the old mobs/bosses were designed for.

To be honest content in general was left out in the cold due to the lack of resources. Glad to see that's glacially changing. But it is changing.

darqaura2 · May 2016

theravenforce said:
*sips tea*

In my opinion the revamped cosmics are sort of a welcome change in that it is in some respects forcing people to work together. When cosmics are surrounded by competent people, you have to feel sorry for them but when incompetence and lack of listening skills rears its head...cosmics will own you.

So far I am enjoying the rewards all round. I've been meaning to try on my healers actually as I've only tried it on...2 or three characters.

I actually prefer facing Kig and the Ape, versus the dino for everything you state. I'm at the point now that I will only face the dino when I know competent leaders are on or just wait until a week later when the people who won't listen stop coming.

darqaura2 · May 2016

championshewolf said:

chaosdrgnz43 wrote: »

Getting back on topic,

Are the devs aware of the AoRP bug? You know, like having more than one stack bugs your all dmg resistance when blocking. Not sure if it's the same when not blocking though. I hope they extend the Cosmic Event for another week when they find a fix for the daily cred bug.

Yes, been stated multiple times, and Kais has said several times on channel she's aware of it and a fix is being looked at.

But the second half of his point was missed.

If the content was released with that bug, I'd argue it would be NICE to have it extended for another week. Nice but not necessary.

pantagruel01 · May 2016

roughbearmattach said:
Rewards are in no way related to placement on leader board. All get the same GCR/SCR/Q.

The reward circle has a minimum point score that is probably around 100k; if you don't hit that you get a random green. Also, you can't get gcr/scr rewards from it more than 3x/day.

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kamokami · May 2016

The cosmics are AWESOME!!!!!! Can't agree with the OP enough. Their difficulty makes success that much more rewarding. The most fun one is definitely the Dino!

Qwy and Kiga are not even that crazy anymore.

Thanks devs for a great job reworking these fights and making them worthwhile. It's great to see people working together in large groups and doing things other than alerts.

Really enjoying the fights a lot right now. HUZZAH!

championshewolf · May 2016

roughbearmattach wrote: »

Again, it's both mission credit and perk credit that is bugged.
Folks that aren't getting on the board or getting a reward circle are likely overstating their participation. It requires more than event bosses like Takofanes.

I have gotten the perk, it's just the mission credit I don't get and that isn't a big issue to me.

chaosdrgnz43 · May 2016

deadman20 said:

chaosdrgnz43 wrote: »

Lookit all these fools thinking Supports can't score well... Anatari made it to 4th place. You just gotta believe!

Is Anatari a full-healer support? Because Support role isn't just for healers, there are players who are in support role for the energy benefit.

Yes, Anatari is a pure-bred Support. Stands around with her own Aura of choice and heals with 749+ Presence.

Wow, 749+ Presence. I wonder why other supports aren't getting much credit at the moment. I'd love to know because currently healers are extremely minimal right now. If we could get credit like Anatari, we won't mind being support in a raid of 80% dps. At least, I won't.

pantagruel01 · May 2016

chaosdrgnz43 said:
Wow, 749+ Presence. I wonder why other supports aren't getting much credit at the moment.

Typically because not healing enough. Spamming aoe healing gets the points pretty easily.

darqaura2 · May 2016

pantagruel01 said:

chaosdrgnz43 said:
Wow, 749+ Presence. I wonder why other supports aren't getting much credit at the moment.
Typically because not healing enough. Spamming aoe healing gets the points pretty easily.

So maybe I should only bring my healers and dps. Seriously considering it.

aesica · May 2016

chaosdrgnz43 said:

deadman20 said:

Lookit all these fools thinking Supports can't score well... Anatari made it to 4th place. You just gotta believe!
Is Anatari a full-healer support? Because Support role isn't just for healers, there are players who are in support role for the energy benefit.

Not only that, but also, passive buffs. While I mainly wanted the energy benefit, I figured I'd maximize the benefits of the role, so my support character brings in extra stats, damage mitigation, and passive healing just for standing around. Even though extra stats and damage mitigation definitely help, I don't think those have any way of being counted in terms of credit.

The participation threshold needs to go. As things stand now, I have little interest in even trying after remembering Clarence, and how I'd get screwed out of rewards if I wasn't there right at the spawn.

roughbearmattach · May 2016

Wowzers--so many glitches with Teleiosaurus and Qwijybo .
Their AoE and similar effects have a mismatch between actual damage/effect and on-screen animation/graphics. Really problematic.

As for rewards, playing DPS, I have gotten each of the following, from several runs of all three cosmics:

* mission credit, perk, reward circle
* perk, reward circle -- no mission credit
* mission credit, perk -- no reward circle
* reward circle -- no mission credit, no perk

This is super frustrating. Three dino fights with no credit or perk. despite getting reward circle.

EDIT: I have also seen a flickering reward circle twice now. I wasn't able to click "Take Items", and then the circle disappeared. It is called the "Loot Critter".

dr490nbr347hi · May 2016

We just did the dino and ape minutes ago, went to do Kiga, game crashed as soon as Canada loaded, and I didn't even bother starting it up again.

Spent 90% of the time making out with the ground. Nobody kills these fire hearts fast enough before they appear again. Getting killed outside the sphere isn't fun, and neither is missing out on daily credit.

roughbearmattach · May 2016

double post

spinnytop · May 2016

gradii said:
Silverspar claims she's not an arrogant elitist, yet her every post on these forums proves her wrong.

As for me, I know my characters are among the best, and I don't give 2 cents if some arrogant tool says otherwise.

Gradii.... do you know what irony is?

riverocean · May 2016

The only real issue that dissapoints me with the cosmics, is once again support folks have to work harder to get credit. The overall mechanics, I enjoy. Big events means more people to buff. I'm one of those weirdos who gets a kick out of buffing my team mates

Nothing makes me happier then looking at a team and seeing all the support aura buffs.

Right now AoED is my support aura of choice for the cosmics. It helps my personal dps and boosts team dps. Plus I get credit when the damage aura ticks each time a team mate crits. I have 540 PRE - so the boost to team dmg is significant.

However, the AoE's are tough on a healer not built with enough con or defense to withstand them. Which quite frankly is most healers. AoPM was ok.. but even with that.. I didn't live long enough to cast my heal enough to gain credit.

*shrugs*

I'm sure Kai has seen all of this and has reported it to her co-workers. So I'm not too worked up about it. Overall.. it's fun. People are teaming...chatting with one another, and using team-work. That's what I enjoy about a game and it's nice to see it happening in CO .

More of this please.

baelogventure · May 2016

deadman20 said:

I knew I placed 1st, I didn't know my score was that high though.

Cosmics Are Fun - Thank You Devs

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