First off, I haven’t tried BL in the Borderlands yet, so I won’t comment on it.
Some updates are better than others, some are worse than others. However I don’t think I’ve outright wished that a patch hadn’t happened until now. There I said it. I wish we had never gotten this patch. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE the idea behind the whole thing. I just think it was all gone about very poorly.
1. I’m sorry, but NO event in the open world should require people to use an outside program to cooperate just so it can succeed! Why should I have to change my build to participate? What happened to making EVERYONE viable? I’m sorry, but making an event that does not scale to smaller numbers of participation is a problem. If some new player sees this and goes cool, my first dragon, there is a good chance they will never want to fight another one. Not only will they be discouraged by what will probably be defeat, but they will be yelled at all the time, not knowing what they are doing. Say someone dies and a turret is open and they run up and use it going oh so cool. That screws the event…for EVERYONE, and it’s not really his fault! This is a bad bad bad mechanic to use.
2. Bosses in general. You made them so they aren’t exactly like loot pinata’s. GREAT. Except well, they ARE still loot pinata’s. Instead of being made of paper, they are now made of adobe. Whack a while and they crack just like before. The only difference now is that small dedicated groups are going to have a lot harder time doing it. Once again excluding small groups. Did I mention the glitched ones? IoJ had the Fire Elemental glitch up. The event started, we followed it through, the golem exploded then Rooba thanked us for helping her kill the Elemental! Wait…elemental, did we miss it? Oh, no IT DIDN’T SPAWN. It just skipped right back to the beginning of the event! Someone told me they went to do Shatterer (diff server) and they were all ready for him, and he flew in, then flew away, didn’t even land….WOOT WE BEAT THE SHATTERER…wait nvm. Maybe he just went to help Tequatl, after all he knows Teq is now having all the fun beating us repeatedly till we want to yell at someone, usually ANet devs.
3. Twisted Clockwork. I was waiting around for Teq, hoping maybe I’d get a winning a group this time and see if he is really easy and I’m just an idiot, when Scarlet message popped up, so off I go. We finish the first wave, then we get to the second wave…no wait, I remember this from notes. They are alternating waves now. This means the waves should go faster right….since we still have the same amount of time? OFC Not, that would be logical! Now instead we are going to make it harder to beat AND harder to farm. Lovely, oh well, I can stick it out maybe we will at least reach the second wave of non twisted mobs? NVM not happening…and we didn’t even farm the 1st! At least I’ll get some rewards. 1 bag, and 1 box….that’s it? I just spent 3/4 of an hour slaughtering mobs so that Scarlet can’t take over the world, I forgo champs in an attempt to win the event, and I get 2 ITEMS!!!! Your kidding me right? I’m sorry but in what world is 45 minutes of work equal to killing 2 champs? Champs with a full group generally take 5 minutes or less but your going to give me 2 bags?!!?!?!
4. You removed karma for fail events. Great. That gives players more incentive to win. But now you add in events that are almost impossible to win??! Make it so fails give jack, and make it so 90% of the time or more we fail. Does that sound like a winning plan to you? On top of that, you didn’t increase the karma for winning! I saw a winning reward for Teq in a screenie. 300 karma? ARE YOU SERIOUS?! I just spent 9 hours in one day trying Teq repeatedly and failing, and your telling me that when I do FINALLY beat him 20 tries and 48 hours of waiting down the road I’m going to get 300 karma!!!!!! Yeah, that makes a LOT of sense. Seriously! Make the karma boosted for winning events, and the harder the event, the higher the karma!
5. LFG option. OMG something positive incoming. Awesome idea. My only complaint here is that it can’t be tested if no one is using it….hint hint people!
I am unhappy overall with this patch. Like I said at the beginning I love the premise. However I think it’s being gone about in the wrong way. I sincerely hope that the next patch is redeeming. If patches like this keep up, I will stop playing until you fix it.