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There's a glowing object hidden in the map. Each player can interact with it once per run of the queued event. Interacting with the object grants the player the recipe. There is no competition with your teammates for the resources you want to pick up.
We are led to believe that every member of the team will be able to get the recipe. Currently that is not true, only the first one gets it.
Is it a bug or by design?
Oh and sometime I see a system message that I found the recipe but I get nothing in my inventory.
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if it was not tied to an accolade, i actually would not care, but since it is, in its current form its going to be a nightmare to get them all. i hope they fix/change it soon.
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My understanding is that recipes are on the map to be found, not as rewards from boss drops.
The only way I can see anyone getting the accolade much less just getting a recipe from the event is to do it in a premade team and take turns on who collects it so everyone gets one, but 2.5 hours of keeping the team together to do that would be nearly impossible.
@Cryptic, Please make it where everyone in the event can get one. Tie it into the optionals or a 50% chance of it being there... Anything but this greed to get get one. And from now on DO NOT make events where first come gets the prize regardless of actualy helping Pink balls in Dyson battlezone as an example.
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My last winter invasion run went like this:
full team of 5 at the start, 3 people with snowblowers and two people picking up snowballs (no winter guns).
At the start, Myself and two others sprinted right through all the spawning snowmen and headed right for the green circle on the map (about half way through). Skidding and sliding we raced for the present at the top of the stairs and, smashing F repeatedly, one of us got the recipe (not me again), leaving the two guys with only snowballs back at the start to fight off 50 or so evil snowmen.
Quote: "WTH are you guys doing!!! we are getting (insert expletive) slaughtered back here!".
This really needs to be fixed to either a Need/Greed system or a one per run per person system Cryptic.
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Here's a quote on the issue from Branflakes yesterday:
I didnt know the green big circle is the present spot... never realized that. I just search the map at the same time i advance xD.
Merry Christmas from Cryptic.
Basicly yup, ive been In 3 teams where 1 player has blown past the snowdudes, got the pressie and ran off, very uncool
Just seems out of synch for STO to have a cooperative STF, for a holiday event yet, where only one gets the present. If nothing else treating it as drop we could roll for?
Anyway really loving the event. Just this one thing seemed incongruous.
The present at the end of the mission? Along with the standard commodities? I've gotten it every time I run the mission... so unless I'm REALLY lucky, it's not a 1-person thing.
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The winter invasion needs to be moved into the item reward section of the pve queue though as it has never given a fleet mark award.
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Ah, sorry then. I was unawares. I keep seeing a message pop up saying "YourCharacter@YourHandle" (insert names there) obtained the present. But I never did any such thing... so I guess it's bugged as usual.
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If you click the hidden recipe gift box at the same time then you each can have it. You have to do it simultaneously. I thought Branflakes said in another thread that this was something each player was supposed to be able to claim and they were looking into it. Anyhow, if you do it together, you can all claim it.
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Ok, so it respawns, but the respawn of the present is broken, Thereby creating a race for the present out of the shoot out.
No, he's taking about the optional "Find the present"
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I will understand that with 30 snowman throwing iceballs at you, its logical to think u can be freezed, but only because its supossed a TEAM is fighting all those snowmen, not only you.
Honestly, this event is pathetic, i only hope it ends fast, because of course i dont see cryptic modyfing things.
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I thought I recall reading that each person on the team can get the special present found on the map but it seems to only go to one person who first clicks it. Which way is it supposed to work? I have found that if two people click at about the same time they can both get the present/recipe.
Can the developers please clarify the way the "present" is supposed to act? If it only the first person it pretty much sucks, folks have been not contributing much running to recipe leaving others out of luck. Generally, most think of Christmas/holidays as a time of sharing and with only one person getting the "present/recipe" promotes greed.
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