I think this i20 screwed up the game

But you see a lot of players are already saying - I am not a hamster and I won't run on your wheel.

I refuse to grind the same nonsense and farm, farm, farm. You see people doing 6-10 trials a DAY - how long will they do that?

You think I am going to farm for all of my level 50's? I think the new style of "reward" will be the thing that makes me walk away from this game after so long. I am ignoring it for now but if this direction continues - I will not.

Naw. Game is fine. I played it last night.

To the OP, first day the new stuff dropped was brutal. Since then I have run probably 60 + BAF's and a dozen or so Lambda's. People on Freedom, in my opinion, generally have this new stuff down. You may run into a less than optimal leader from time to time, but nothing and no one is saying you have to team with them. Pocket D, RWZ, and Cim is where most of this stuff is being formed, with Pocket D being the most popular. I used the que system a few times, and I will keep my opinions to myself regardign the quality of teamingo be had in that manner.

Just go to Pocket D and look for a Prophet of Supremacy (shameless SG plug ) and get on one of their teams/leagues, generally always successful, regardless of trial.

I play on freedom as well and I only failed each about 2 times the first night, after that I have ran it a ton of times and haven't failed.

I have even ran master runs on the BAF several times, I think I also had about 6 runs in a row letting none escape.

The only thing so far thats been hard is trying to convince league leaders to not have only 1 team on the ambush. They need to have 2 from each team on the ambush, that way each team gets xp and drops.

To the OP just come to pocket D broadcast your looking or ask for a invite when they are filling a team. Just listen to the leader or just follow everyone else.

The trials are easy now. Last BAF was done in around 15 min. Even got the no prisoners escaped message (I think I got a badge for that).

Never failed a Lambda, but only done 3 and the teams were awesome each time.

Failed BAF once due to not killing AVs within 10 sec of each other (although, I swear that we were the unfortunate victims of server lag) and the leader said, "lets go for AV kills" which everyone was happy with.

The only bad stuff I noticed was a bait and switch on the trial. I broadcasted for a lambda, got an invite and the leader said this is BAF btw, oh well, just ran with it.

Just imagine in real life, you hear, out of absolutely nowhere at all,

"Gofornogotsinger targetted and ready!"

and then this gigantic flashing red circle appears under your feet...

Are you going to stand around and ask what a Gofornogotsinger is?

The Trials are two completely different worlds if you get on a pre-created League or if you go through the Turnstile LFG system. Not even in the same solar system different worlds. Unfortunately, most of the players of COH will be using the LFG system.

I have witnessed what the OP has stated and more on LFG PUGs as I have made a point of running them this past week. Most LFG Pugs will Fail, flat out (this is on Virtue) -- out of 30 LFG PUG runs I have done only 4 have succeeded. These teams start with nearly the base minimum for the Trial (12 on BAF and 8 on Lambda) with most people not knowing what to do. Not a recipe for success.

Additionally, the vitriol has been getting worse actually as we head into the second week. Last night was particularly bad. There is a growing scenario of players who know what to expect but have little patience for those that do not and express themselves in a very hostile manner.

Before you dismiss this, use the LFG system only and run 5 or 6 Trials. It may be different on different servers. I can only speak to Virtue.

The whole LFG system being introduced without any instructions are a big cockup in itself.

This has been one of the biggest failings of CoX IMHO because documentation has always been sketchy in this game, which seems to stem from the way the game has been developed.

This means that bugs that have been squashed can come back, patch notes can be scarce, the game manual has never been revised since launch and new features and changes are supposed to be absorbed by osmosis. The help screens themselves can be hit or miss too.

The devs should state full out whether players are required to come to the forums or website for information and updates because I doubt a significant percentage of them do.

I never even noticed the tiny LFG part of my chat screen until someone pointed it out to me, and even then there wasn't any indication that that's where and how you start a league, join one and start a trial. I just thought it meant "Looking for Group."

Did they introduce any new pop help for the LFG stuff?

Heck, I still don't know what the colours mean in the searching for teammates screen since they changed it up.

I have yet to see anyone become upset at the trial, or the developers. But I know of a few people (myself included) to express grief that even with def and res numbers through the roof, we can still watch our hit points drop in an instant. I was initially a bit upset with this as I was spending so much time going to the hospital, and so little time actually fighting. This happened even after I took 3 large purples and 3 large oranges. But no one acted like the OP describes. In fact, I've never seen that behavior on Protector at all. Different attitudes on different servers I guess?

I have run enough of each trial to have tier 2 on all 4 slots on 2 toons so far. The first day or two were the most stressful (for lack of a better word), since we were used to being able to plow through any content relatively easy. The new trials definitely knocked out egos down a notch.

Now, after a week, I find that I die less, and it is rare to fail a trial. The combination of leaders who have a bit of experience using newly established tactics and most participants having opened and slotted at least a few powers has turned the tide from wondering-if-we-will-beat-it to expecting-to-beat-it.

So other than the fact I am neglecting most of my toons to give i20 power candy to a select few, no complaints here.

Not failed a single one, but then not on Freedom.

Bad teams are bad.

That seems to be whats up with you, I've been running pug basically and think i failed 1st 3 Lambda's ive done and a few BAFs otherwise i havent failed very often.

Of course, lots of crashs and bugs right now. Which i expect will be fixed soon.

Ran Lambda a few times with a team of 8. If anything it was easier than with 16. Granted, we were all Lambda vets, each having probably 30 or more under our belts, and several of us are regulars in the TF circuit on Protector, so that probably has something to do with it.


Intrinsic: You might already know this, but you can just hold your cursor over Marauder's health bar for a few seconds (maybe doing this in the heat of battle isn't the best time) and it should give you his hit points. I was shocked to find several AV's in the trials have something like 105,000 HP. Imagine if we could get that many!