Winter Event Test ~ Official Feedback thread

Did anybody poke around Galaxy to see if it was spawning the right level of presents? Last year, it was spawning level 6-10, as opposed to level 1-5 snowmen.

Does the selection from
Candy Keeper include the halo and flaming halos from previous winter events? I need those costume parts for some of my characters recently created!

This is what I thought I read.

Quote:

Originally Posted by GadgetDon he's probably got an undead freespec

I should prolly go to sleep soon, but damn that was funny.

Being in Australia and so usually playing 'off-peak' I only managed to do the banner event on a couple of my characters, as after the first weekend there were not enough interested people online to form even a single team of 8 (and that was blueside) so if this needs 3 teams it's just going to be a non-event as far as I'm concerned.

But I do really enjoy these zone-wide events when I can get on a team, so it would be good if it could be fixed to allow a single team of 8 a reasonable chance. I know it's a difficult balancing act, it was annoying that one of the few times I was on a team for the banner event the GM was defeated before any of my team got to his location.

De-toggling also sounds a really annoying feature, it's bad enough that the de-toggling on entry/exit to missions seems to be happening again on a regular basis.

Cardiff_Giant, I think you are on to something here. What if these new multi-team zone-wide events are an attempt to woo players from 'other' games where this sort of thing is commonplace? If so, I personaly think it will be a failure. Especially since, as others have said, this is a niche game, and many of those players would not do well in COH.

I also believe that someone has looked at the Rikti and Zombie events and tried to "make them better". The problem is that those events are better because they are scalable to the zone population at the given time they are on.

IMHO, good quality content and stable playability will win the day, not any "Oooo...look, we have a nicer shiny than that game over there." attitude. (Unfortunately, there will always have to be some of the latter to deal with a segment of the general gamer playerbase.)

Wow i´m glad i stocked up on canes now. 20 canes and 6 merits for that? i´ll just get it on my corr while its new and shiny will prbably be harder to get it later.

I really enjoyed last years xmas event, and was looking forward to it again.

These change distract from that enjoyment.

It seems the reward for the xmas event is minor to prvent farming, but the cost of the respec and other candy cane purchases are based on reward times due to grinding lots of candy canes.

Feedback:

For the play test that I was on tonight, in my opinion, the present rate needs to be raised. With the small amount of villains present in Cap, I spent quite a while looking, I can only imagine that this will be worse during peak live times.

The timer on entering the winter lord realm is a little long, but I guess that is to allow no travel power lowbies to cross a zone if needed. I got quite a workout doing push-ups

Low pop servers are going to have a bit of trouble in the winter Lords realm during non peak times.

I liked it!

"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho

Several of us were kicked back well outside the map of Steel when the WL zone timed out. My location: 2468.2 -2000.0 1500.3. /bugged in-game for extra info if needed; I don't believe I moved (well, other than falling at first).

Take 2, with raptor pack pre-fired for accurate 3D location: 2275.5 87.8 1343.8. I started in the far SE corner of the WL domain, on the tiny sliver of ice lake right up against the SE corner.

Take 3, raptored, far NW corner, starting pos 2719.0 92.3 945.0, exit pos 2312.8 32.7 1235.5. Starting facing about NW, exit facing about SW.

As requested, the location where I fell through the map once the timer ran down and threw us out of Lord Winter's realm: 2009.9 -2000.0 1955.9

I fell underneath the steel canyon city map after i was kicked out of lord winters realm at location 2020.3 -2000.0 1954.9
I filed a bug report under graphical issues

On the test event for 11-18-2009 in trying to get to the second WinterLord Domain instance the only portal that showed for me was the Magic Portal not the Winterlord Domain portal. I also had TWO "Build Snowbeast Power" rewards form clicking presents.

Is the ability to travel from Winter Lord Realm 1 to Realm 2 intended? It allowed many of us to enter the realm and fight a second Lord Winter, scoring the additional rewards for doing so.

Two things to /bug, then comments/thoughts. I filed a less detailed bug report in game about each of these, but providing more detail here.

1. I was the team leader on my blaster and received a tell asking for an invite. I sent an invite but got a message " You cannot make a co-op team unless all teammates are on the same map." I thought possibly it was someone that hadn't yet zoned in from Steel Canyon, so waited a bit and sent again but got the same message. I sent a reply tell of the error I was getting and they said they were on the map attacking Lord Winter. I sent the invite again with the same results, so asked what AT they were on and was told MM. They could see my comment about how much room was on the team in broadcast which is how they got my name to send me the initial tell asking for an invite. If we are going to be fighting the same Lord Winter in the same zone, shouldn't we be able to invite players of the opposing faction to our team?

2. We stayed in the second instance fighting the Snow Beasts, Frostlings, etc after defeating LW the second time, and the timer ran out. Once it got to 0 it started counting up. I saw it reach 8 seconds when it zoned me out. That is where the problems hit. I was zoned to a location under the map. My mini-map showed I was in Steel Canyon, but I was hovering under the map. Those that didn't have hover on were falling. My /loc at the time was 2460.4 2.8 1494.3 and I am bolding and coloring this to make it easy to spot for Ghost Falcon or whoever to find it.

Now, for the comments/thoughts.

I loved the comment on the Admin channel from Evil Falcon and got a bit of a chuckle from it. Those that saw it know what it was, but I'm not sayin'.

I was a bit late getting in and the present was already on the map. The blue dot marker made it very easy to find, and I had plenty of time to fly across Steel Canyon to get to the present from the Yellow line. The present was just below the Green line, so that meant I covered most of the length of the map. Once I got there, I still had plenty of time before the present was click-able to enter LW's Realm.

I didn't get de-toggled during either fight with LW, which was a pleasant surprise. I was also able to stay alive the entire fight and wasn't constantly getting agro coming from the mobs between the Guardian fights and back to LW.

Since I was late, I'm not sure if a change was made that we needed to defeat LW twice to get the badge, but I didn't see a message after defeating him in the first instance, so I'm just assuming this is one of the changes.

It seemed as if this would have been easier on a lower level character than the previous test, but since I don't have anything very low level on the test server it's hard to tell. It may also be easier on the lower population servers, but the only way to really test that will be to have a single team try it, then have two teams try it, then three teams try it, etc. until we get enough hard data to find out for certain how smaller numbers of players fare against it.

Unfortunately, I have previously made plans for the evening, so can't stick around for more testing to try it with lower numbers of players.

One other oddity, now that I'm thinking about it. I saw someone mention this during the fight in the second LWR instance, and almost forgot about it. During the fight in the first instance of the zone, I didn't get the FOG effect when LWR called the Guardian, but did get it during the second instance. This was each time he called the Guardian, not just a single time. Was it supposed to call in the FOG during both instances? If it was, I and some others didn't see it during the first instance.

Overall, this seemed to flow much smoother than the previous test.