...no Winterfest? D:

Most useful patch of 2013!

Winterfest has come December 12th every year thus far.

First was on Monday, the next on Wednesday. This one will be Thursday if the pattern continues.

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Thank you so much for fixing that auto target/chat bug! It was so irritating!

And less important, clicking on the battle sprite HUD portrait opens the character window? Also yay! :D

Interesting update. I'm not sure of the logic behind the boost pickups though. Is this to make the game easier for new players to pick up and add more speed to grinding for current-endgame players?

What did these pickups replace in the drop table? Are we going to be seeing less coins and heat?

More useless pickups to take the place of crowns and lessen the pay out. *thumbs up*

"Spiral HQ has located the Grinchlin base of operations on Mount Krampus"

:O

A surface mission? *Tears of joy*

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I'm very hopeful these new boost drops didn't replace crowns and heat. They better have replaced useless vials.
Tweeter And Friends are gonna go off on me, but I'm still looking for that bullet point that mentions the radiant drought.

THANKS! Was wondering. Also Ugh. 150 razor ribbons. That's a lot.

let's see:
more pickups: now with moar MOAR speed! only that makes me happy. alas, I don't have MSI VH yet. for the others, meh. I hope that the defense buff is not as high as the iron heart attack. I know you OOO...
winterfest: yay, killing gremlins in missions AND sabotaging their operation center! that's the way to counter someone (and to add more prestige missions to make me play, kudos OOO)

Leaf: pics or I will find it out myself. I will actually find it out myself anyway.

Now I have use for my 2k Shinings crystals. Time to turn my ASI High Flourish into a candy cane of death and stuff!

/happy

OMG this is the greatest update at all!

My one complaint is that its wayyy too well done to be a cruddy event. Like seriously, this needs to be a thing at all times. Not just for a few weeks. That'd make my day.

But seriously, this is wonderful and I might just buy some CE because of how much I like it the content.

Do we get bonus CE from CE purchases? Cuz When I went to the buy CE page it didn't say I would get bonus CE.

Please nerf the Grinchlin material requirements to make stuff from that crafting machine o_o

To be honest, the only thing i dislike on the mission is the boss, and the stupid amount of shadowmanes.

Every other part of the mission i like, good tough enemys and great combos, layout is great too. It's more of a much bigger arena gauntlet, but the shadowmanes and the boss? No, just no.

There are FAR too many shadowmanes to deal with, if you go solo on this, you will be marked for death constantly which i find completely unfair. Even in a party, i seen the WHOLE party get marked for death non-stop, not fun in my opinion. It would be if you made it like only one shadowmane per wave instead of sending like 4 at a time in our faces. they also have way too much health, this needs to be reduced a little, or do the former and less the amount of them per wave.

The boss in it's current state is far too overpowered and unfair, it's due to everything in it RESPAWNS. Combined with the insane amount of health the enemys have, such as shadowmanes, and you have a room of death. Even now, i only beaten it once, just once. Because we spammed SoL and nuked the boss. 2 rocket puppys, 2 shadowmanes, 1 greaver, 1 mender and 2 grinchlins that all respawn. Not fun. Sure i said i want harder content, but NOT this hard. I feel like this is some boss from WoW that has an insane amount of adds, but in 3D and top down.

Don't just think of going like "Hue, you suck! learn to play!" "Bring CC you moron.". No, i will say it now, Shut your big fat month and get a life, you just say that to taunt people or just play sucky bloodthristy LD. See for your god dam self.

Other then that, i am completely fine with this event, sad you didn't add anything new to save winterfest at all. I know this because i was here last year.

This first screenshot is a group of prizes boxes you get upon quitting after the first arena room in the Grinchlin Assault danger mission. These latter two screenshots display the prizes you get from completing both floors without quitting.

I’m curious as to which is more cost and time effective. It seems that if you’re able to blow through the mission with no Spark revives on Elite, go for the summit. It yields a combined total of 116 boxes, as opposed to quitting after the first room. Quitting after the first room is faster and is less risky, but you only get 12 boxes.

Now, my opinion of the mission? I was skeptical at first, because I didn’t know what to expect. I was excited and afraid at the same time, given OOO’s track record of making any sort of Danger mission a piece of garbage that’s either too easy, or too difficult without actual challenge. This time seems to be a fun balance of both.

What enemies should you expect? A bit of everything. Gremlin Menders, Gremlin Thwackers, Gremlin Scorchers, Ghostmane Stalkers, Slush Puppies, Red Rovers, Retrodes, Gremlin Demos, Lumbers, Trojans, Greavers, Glop Drops, Gremlin Mortafires (Hate those buggers), Oilers, Gremlin Knockers, Ice Cubes, Battlepods, FSC wheels.

In addition to the above, we are greeted with a new status; Slow. Slow functions similarly to stun, for the fact that it impedes your movement upon touching it. However, unlike stun, your Attack Speed is unaffected. Stun and Slow can stack, so be careful breaking the snow blocks around Greavers and Lumbers. Slow is a common stage hazard littering the arenas and the passageways in between.

My verdict is that this level is a solid event, giving the right balance of challenge and difficulty. You’re punished for being greedy, as you notice the arenas get more and more grueling as you press on. But you’re rewarded if you’re skillful (or blow enough sparks) to reach the summit. Many people don't seem to grasp the concept that this is meant to punish you for being greedy and playing past your skill cap, or what 'artificial difficulty' actually is. You want that? Go play Compound 42 in full Mad Bomber. People also seem to be blaming graphical lag or frameskips. I don't see much of those, and I'm running on a cruddy laptop.

I am a bit annoyed you need hundreds of the event materials, but given the long time frame, I’ll be certain to pick up the Candy Cane of Doom and the Egg Nog Artery Clogger. I loved the weapon reskins the moment I saw them. Even if they are just reskins, they're cleverly designed, and I think they'd make decent additions to my collection of shiny toys.

Take my -100 for a new mission.

Anyone seen any of those new trinkets that have a chance of being in the boxes?

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Wow. I am thoroughly suprised no one has even mentioned the fact that there's a new wolver set even if it's a costume. @Whims If there's gonna be glop drops, I think I'll pass. Those beasts are hell, even my vanguard friend agrees they're annoying.

400 tokens for a box. :(