Guild Wars 2

I really enjoy the Toypocalypse mini game, and I wish it lasted longer and got more difficult. I have a couple of suggestions for an update to this mini game, and feel free to share your own ideas.

• More waves of enemies of increasing difficulty.
• Stronger enemy types with later waves.
• Multiple bosses at the same time in later waves.
• Large increase in rewards depending on how many Dolyaks survive each round. Later rounds reward more gifts per Dolyak.
• New bosses with special abilities that specifically counter popular strategies. Bosses that charge through walls, or fire a beam that must be blocked with walls. Reward good use of blockades.
• Make the defensive options more unique. Give the snowman, catapult and ballista a unique purpose.
• Power ups perhaps?
• Randomized lay out of the center fort. Right now the choke points are always in the same spot.

It was more difficult last year but got nerfed since some people had problems.

Great suggestions! I too found 10 waves just a tad too short as well!

Something else I wouldn’t mind seeing is an added bonus for perfect health dolyaks at the end of each round. “Flawless Victory!”

Ten waves without variation ends up being tedious just running all over the map breaking things, collecting things, building things, over and over. If they keep it unvaried as it is, I’d prefer they knocked it down to five waves.

I think if they added variance per wave, then it wouldn’t end up feeling so tedious and monotonous to play through. Last year not many pick-up groups could complete it and this year everyone could complete it.

Toypocalypse is so far my favorite Wintersday mini game, so I totally vouch for the idea. It does get redundant after you’ve set up all the necessary defenses, but increased difficulty would make up for it.

/sign

i postet a thread a few days ago on this thread, but it seems not many people care about toypocalypse

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/wintersday2013/Please-improve-Toypocalypse

They need to add Scarlet and her minions to the Toypocalypse. That would make things interesting.

toypocalypse is fun, but it is long. 10 waves is around 40 mins long. it doesnt need to be longer. it should be shorter.

I do agree that we should get more rewards each wave if all 5 Dolyaks are still alive.

pho.9412:

toypocalypse is fun, but it is long. 10 waves is around 40 mins long. it doesnt need to be longer. it should be shorter.

Well I was thinking about a system or mode where you can continue playing for as long as you want. So it would keep spawning harder waves until eventually you lose. That’s how a lot of tower defense games work, eventually you are always overwhelmed.

As Ayrilana mentioned, last year it was much more difficult . . . at first. But people complained hardcore until it was nerfed into what you’re seeing now. Back then, if you didn’t know what you were doing, it was all-but-impossible to keep five alive.

Now, it’s all but a cakewalk. And I don’t expect it to change back given its history.

I noticed there’s what seems to be a difficulty indicator in the top right corner near where it counts the waves, but mine is always at 1/2. Any idea what that is?

Yeah I’m not sure if that is working as intended. Shouldn’t it get incrementally more difficult?

Yes it’s supposed to but it’s essentially just 40 minutes of boredom now.

As I thought. Shame, cuz I really expected the difficulty to ramp up for waves 5-10. It didn’t.

Then I thought after completing 10/10 “wow, that took a while. Now here comes hard mode……………..hard mo…har…..um…..nope, I guess we’re done”

I’d love it if the toys made their own long range weapons in some waves. Force players out into the open to destroy them or risk having the dolyaks attacked through a method that by passes all our defences

That’s a really good idea. Allow toys to set up siege equipment, so players are forced to engage them.

I have to agree: I find it quite tedious after the first round. Once you get enough siege set up, the whole rest of the encounter is trivialized, and it feels long, drawn out, and boring. It would be nice if it ramped up each round.

With that said, I must come clean and say that I have guildies who seem to enjoy it tremendously as-is.

It is a lot of fun. But the difficulty needs to increase as it progresses. I still like it, but it’d be better if toys attacked while Toxx attacks, or there are 2 Toxx simultaneously at higher levels, or the size of the groups of toys increased, or the spawn frequency quickened. Ah well, still fun.