2009 Halloween Event Bugs and Feedback

In the event I participated in Talos, I never saw any kind of barrier despite hopping as fast as I could to the different flag things. I did see some kind of glowing rune on the ground, but people were attacking the flag anyway.

With all the people testing, the flag went down nigh-instantly. I'd say sub-10 second.

One thing that I haven't seen mentioned is this: once the banners are down, does the event timer still apply to the GM that is spawned? We took about 11:50 in a Cap run to defeat all 4 banners, and spent 10-15 minutes looking for the GM. Is there another timer for defeating the GM, or is it the same timer? Is the GM vulnerable to the drones?

Also, it's my understanding from reading the above that the costume salvage is awarded on defeating door spawns, not simply opening a door. Probably incentive to not knock and run...

If we really must have an NPC contact for this event to give people backstory as well as the rules, then give DJ Zero in Pocket D the job. He doesn't do much except when it's Valentine time. Anyone should be able to get to Pocket D, either by Base Teleporter, Pocket D VIP or just zone to a Pocket D entrance.

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the event was ok, i played for abut 30 mins with lvl 50 tankin PI,my biggest complaint,was that no longer do arena doors allow TOT.if a team of players wanted to do door "farming"
what is the difference from doing it inside the arena,or outside?yes i know we willnot
be involved in the other zone events but that should be our choice.and why do personaly diff not apply? i was set to group of 4 and normal lvls, just got what seemed like the
1 person spawns, do have a queston, is jack and pumpkin king not going to spawn this event?or if they will was it tested? would hate for the new events to mess up getting the
other badges for GM spawns,also hope ther is at least 1 more test of it with all turned on,last year there was similar testing then for the real event a bug or tweowas discovered , and not fixed

I gotta say, cool new event, but is it going to be too much?

I saw the new Apocalypse event, Eochai, and ToTing all going on in the same zone. I never saw it, but will the Zombie attacks also occur during this? If so, it may be too overwhelming to figure out what to do, especially for badgers trying to get all the badges!

That said, at least Snaptooth is nowhere to be found.

I know this is going to be an echo of other posts but heres my two cents on the new event.

1 The new event brings me back to the nostalgic lag days of early Hamidon raids. And no this is not seen as a good thing. There definitely is a serious lag issue with the event.

2 The banners and the magic sigil around it looks awesome. the guardians of the banners? its a grab bag of random rehash. please tell us these are place holders and this isnt going to become "City of Recyclables".
Even if you just change the colors of them to make them feel like they are there for a reason.

3 There definitely needs some form of story behind this part of the event. While I never knew they story behind the Zombie Apocalypse (was there one?) the event was pretty clear; zombies are attacking on Halloween. KILL 'EM. The premise behind that felt more on the common knowledge that Halloween and zombies fit together and it was simple enough to just take it at face value.
This new event however is not a natural tie into Halloween and feels off with out a back story in some form, even if its the Bannor Defenders dialog durring the fight.

4 The GM needs an indicator on the map, even if it only pops up the first time its attacked so the rest of us know. I was on a team looking for it all over the zone and by the time we found it another team who never said anything had it down to 1/4 health and our team couldnt get the badge.

My guess is that the banners/sigils are to summon the GMs - but who is doing it and why is a mystery

The zombie event won't run at the same time as the new event within the same zone though. It will be one zone event or the other running.

Something else I think really should be changed - the title of the "Malleus" badge - it's in very bad taste, and is being trivial about a seriously evil thing - it could be called something like maybe "Spellbreaker" or "Disenchanted" instead.

I know they changed the "Untouchable" badge art from the Italian flag to a brick wall instead after it was pointed out it was in bad taste, so I hope they could also change this one.