Played for hours. I don’t consider myself really good, but I can get first or second without much difficulty if I’m trying to place. Maybe this has all been said before. If not, or if anyone is listening, here’s my take on the Crab Toss activity:
Laggy as heck, even during offpeak hours. Not my system or net connection – get little to no lag everywhere else, WvW with large zergs, SPvP, no problems. Only in Crab Toss.
Controls are very unresponsive – this might be lag, might not be. I feel I’m more fighting against the game than playing it. Skills are slow to activate or don’t work all the time. Seems to be a slight delay in dodging as well.
Regularly get knocked down multiple times in a row, even when I’m supposedly immune and haven’t activated a skill.
Not sure if it is intended, but the big karka are extremely slow to react to the crab carrier changing direction. Also, I play as an Asura – either my hit box for getting rolled over is larger than in PvE, or their range for crushing people extends noticeably outside of their graphic.
Too much going on – visual overload and too much to keep track of.
Same complaint on all activities (especially the limited time event ones), just magnified to ridiculous levels with this one. I want to play with friends, so please overhaul the entire activity system to allow us to get into the same map. Perhaps a browser system like in SPvP where we could choose a specific match to join.
Crabtacular Achievement – something rally needs to be done about this
-Entirely luck to get this legitimately. You have to depend on everyone else playing to fail to dodge after playing badly by running after you. More people in your match makes this harder.
-Impossible if there’s a random person standing off to the side – so someone can prevent others from getting this by not playing.
-Impossible if anyone else in the match is halfway smart and doesn’t mindlessly run after the person with the crab spamming 1.
-Like it or not, Achievements are a competitive thing with the leaderboards now. I’m very close to 8k and almost in the top 100, so missing this is not an option for me. Which means either endlessly grinding until I’m super lucky, or convincing/bribing some strangers to cooperate, which I’m guessing is against the spirit of the thing.
Things that need to be fixed to make this fun:
-Lag, obviously. And control response if that’s not a lag thing.
-Picking the crab up needs priority on the F key over breaking crates or picking up bundles.
-Some buffs and bonuses might be slipping through from PvE.
-Limit the game to 5 people per match.
-Since I can’t do anything to them, don’t let me target the hatchlings. And tone them down just a bit – we’re not in PvE where we can kill them or have run speed to avoid.
-Crab can get stuck up on the referee platform.