Discussion: The Deadly Apocalypse is upon us!

The best strategy to do this event without the zone crashing or being unable to reach the GM in time seems to be... ignore the first announcement.

The event was announced in Galaxy and everybody rushed there. Thirty seconds later, it was announced in Founders. The Galaxy instance crashed from too many people overloading it, while Founders was pretty empty. My team went there but we were too late, due to the zone crash and the characters being unable to log back in.

The next announcement was on PI, but my team noticed that Croatoa had it going a few minutes later. We headed to Croatoa instead. While PI was full and crashing, our teams in Croatoa completed the event with no lag at all. Around 50 people in the zone seem to be ideal, and one controller was enough to cover everything that was spawning in the green banner, while a full team was on purple, a full team of red, and three people on blue.

So: if your zone has near 100 people in it, and the event is going in another zone... head there instead. It'll be much better that way.

Craptastic Lag!! Making the event unplayable.

Boo! to the inner Arena doors not ToT'ing. Was the best place to be to counter lag last year plus buy sell insperations as needed.

Just not as fun as last year. Will try again tomorrow with the hope that some of this is fixed.

Whats sounds more fun then killing a sticks with flags.

Somebody prob said this already but WTF is up with this new event.

It seems yall are just getting lazy or did states take all the juice with him.

So thumbs down on the new event, and thanks for for failing again CoH.

Co is looking better and better everyday.

I know the devs like to do these outdoor events, but my preference is for a new arc for each holiday (with the possibility of also doing the arcs from previous years).

For example, last year it would have been nice to have an arc explaining the Zombie invasion event.

Oh, and ... no Snaptooth, please.

Played about 3 hours without any sign of an event. They seem disappointingly infrequent.

Frankly... this event is a disappointment. I was going to say it sucks, but that might be unwarrantedly harsh. Regardless, I've seen a Deadly Apocalypse event by pure chance once upon logging in this morning. The banners went down so fast that I missed getting one of them. Since then, nothing.

And that's just on one character.

So yeah, seems like the entire design of the event has been snafu-ed, and it's been a big yawn so far.

Remembering from previous years, the event spawns will get closer together as it gets closer to Halloween.

So expect them to be happening more often soon.

Just hope lag doesn't hit across when they are happening.

So, what happens when Zombies hit the Apocalypse at the same time in the same zone?

MAYHEM!!!!

Remember that the lag and problems of too many people destroying the banners too quickly should be a bit less in a day or two, once the frenzy of the badge hunters has calmed down a bit

Aya, hopefully that will also reduce the 'getting locked out of a character for 15 minutes' as well as the 'managing to log back in, only to find your character rolled back to 20 minutes earlier.'

I have been having a blast!

Logged in about 1am eastern and played til about 8, no problems here.

Actually my one problem was not enough people bothering to take down the banner. I was at one the whole time, most by myself, and I think 5 showed up last minute when too late

so try using off hours, try playing the game and looking at events as bonuses. And all in all chill out. If things are REALLY that bad there are alternatives...

Ah well, I'm still a newb so maybe I'm just not jaded yet but I am willing to take a few problems in exchange for much added fun...

Thanks Devs!

Defeating any foe that can drop level 50 enhancements anywhere will have the chance to drop purples.

and the bosses at any level have a chance to drop rare pool C recipes.

Some more feedback on the actual ToT-ing.

Presumably, there are now more "tricks" than "treats" because now the tricks are what supply us with costume salvage. However, that makes looking for the costume badges incredibly tedious. I am experiencing something like an 8- or 10-to-1 ratio of tricks to treats. That's a lot of door clicks to get to 50 costumes - especially when every treat doesn't actually seem to give a costume. (Yes, I know nothing happens if you get one you already had, but I am watching my badge progress bar, too.)

At least there's a badge progress bar these days.

I'm really enjoying the participation and the fun of this event.

Good stuff!!!!

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

The event itself is fun. As this is my first Halloween, I am getting to see it all fresh and new. ToT is fun but challenging and those bosses are a lot harder on my squishy than on my scrapper but Dj now has her extra costume slot and I'm moving down the character list. It took me 3 D.Apoc events to get all the badges and accolade. That doesn't seem unreasonable. Hunted GMs with a good group for a while.

So far my only issue is the increased frequency of my game locking up and rebooting my PC. From 5pm to 12am last night I had 13 crashes. That bugs me since I bought this computer last week so that I could get away from the crashes my old PC was having. (hijack and helper logs posted elsewhere). Without those crashes, last night would have been a TON of unmitigated fun.

One of the things that drove me nuts last night was the congestion at the Oro portal. There were times when I would come out and step forward, turn around to go back through only to find 20 people standing right on it and no little blue hand appearing because they effectively boxed out the portal itself. It really made me wish that the incoming and outgoing locations were physically separate from each other. It's not usually an issue, but with whole teams rushing from zone to zone with greater frequency, it got a bit bothersome last night.

I know what my villains would be doing during the chaos of a deadly apocalypse and it probably isn't repelling them like a hero. Some of my villains might help like a wannabe hero, but others would be in there like a dirty shirt taking advantage of the destruction.

Decent enough halloween event blueside though.

I too suffered the Croatoa mass-dc and subsequent inability to log that alt back in! After getting over the heartache of not only not getting all the badges, but losing the 2 I had already gained was then added to when I eventually got back in and after some ToT fun joined another event in IP...

Defeated all 4 banners, got badges, defeated GM only to find I couldn't accept reward and actually only had one badge for Fiend banner.

After several tears and petitions I logged in a couple of hours later did the event for a third time in the Hollows, very little lag and got all 6 badges.

It took some doing but in the end it was worth it and it was a nicely enjoyable different event. Much as some people complain it isnt what they would like or how it could have been done differently it has got the benefit of getting people working together for a new goal.

Good work devs!

Funny... On champion (The dead server ) I just ran into three simultaneous Zombie apocalypses and deadly apocalypses in a row and got the badge set of three diff people. And for some reason the doors don;t have a timer really on champion...I clicked the door thre times and got three treats. How come we never get a badge for killing the Fir Bolg?!



I wonder if they can use the mechanics for these events do other things?! I personally want Easter rabbit mayhem.