Energy_Aura

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I've heard 30-40 hours as an estimate.

Originally Posted by ShoeTattoo

Today I ran a 10 hour, 20 minute Posi task force. I would say it was “successful”, but it was soooooooo slow that I'm not certain it was. The “success” (ie: finishing it) was really a matter of being extremely stubborn, mixed together with an initial misunderstanding about how spawns are set and poor luck in PUG teammates.

We began with a full team for Posi in the morning. Four teammates quit fairly soon into the task force, for different reasons. Two who left were fairly skilled, but they eventually gave up because of problems caused by our two unskilled soloists. The two soloists also eventually logged out. But, ... some or perhaps all of those who logged out didn't quit the task force first.

For a while we were down to four of us. Still, having the two soloists leave was so helpful that the larger spawn size couldn't prevent us from progressing more quickly than before. Missions went quite smoothly with the four of us, even if a bit slowly overall because of the oversized spawns. We continued that way for a while, until two of the four remaining players needed to leave.

For the last several hours, there were two of us; my ice/fire blaster and a new person playing a claws / super reflexes scrapper. He seemed like an experienced gamer, but brand new to COH. His build was that of a newer player (no stamina), although he had a good eye for picking a balance of offense and defense in his powers. He had either no enhancements at all, or very few. He did, thankfully, have practiced brawler. Even more helpful, he was willing to listen.

And so, we worked our way through the last several missions one oversized spawn at a time; 2 bosses, 3 lieutenants, and many minions were the norm. There were also, of course, special spawns with other combinations. The good news is that my partner went from level 11 to 21 during the task force, and I made it from 15 to 22. The bad news is, well, you read the threat title already.

QOL suggestion ...

If the devs would put a 'Task Force Members” splashscreen into the GUI, usable for task forces, so that team leaders could access the list whether somebody was online or offline, and kick whoever had left, it would *really* be a nice QOL feature for task forces.

Originally Posted by melanie

wow they said until 11am cst and it's still down x_x i had to run to the store so at least i didn't miss anything.