Ranald's Sparkling Gift is the pinnacle of Unfun

[TheMrCtulhu]

This week's CW event is a lot of hoax. The explosion that you cant control and bunch of rat bombers make this CW event unfun as hell.

Unpopular opinion: Make Sparkling Gift less obnoxious to face. There are literally way less lobbies when this modifier is around...

[Unknown Traveller]

Originally posted by TheMrCtulhu:

Make Sparkling Gift less obnoxious to face

No. Enough compromises. It should be completely remove «Ranald's Sparking Gift» and «(Critically) Unstable Breed»*** from the game once and for all. This abominable curses can't be tolerated!

*** Moreover, I remember a precedent: when Weaves was just starting, on one map in the final arena there was a constant spawn of Kamikaze Rats. It was terrible, because the arena is very small. Fatshark received a lot of complaints then and soon removed Kamikaze Rats from there. I don't see a reason not to remove them now.

[Evilsod]

There is nothing inherently wrong with Sparkling Gift's effect.

The problem is solely that the direction is completely random and there is ♥♥♥♥ all you can do if it decides to throw you towards instant death. Just do anything. Make it fixed, make the debuff show the direction, anything that actually gives the player a chance to play around it.

Apparently the devs are too far up their own arses to figure out that a mechanic that just kills the player with no counterplay is not fun to anyone. It's just another sign of how clueless they are.

[NeloDante]

It should be removed and only stay on twitch mode.

Critically unstable breed should stay BUT reduce the spawn rate, they shouldn't come CONSTANTLY as they are now.

Curse of Comradership should just be removed and only stay on twitch mode.

[Veliopag]

No chaotic random explosions and pushes should remain in the Chaos Wastes, because these maps are not designed for this. These maps consist mainly of rocks (and stones), cliffs, chasms and narrow bridges.

https://i.imgur.com/4CiPDPv.png

There are even two changes needed here: bots should be taught to interact with curses (now they can't do anything except commit suicide) and solo play shouldn't end with automatic defeat if the host player dies. There is a brilliant idea: if the host player dies, he switches to one of the bots, because bots are also MY property.

Originally posted by NeloDante:

Critically unstable breed should stay BUT reduce the spawn rate, they shouldn't come CONSTANTLY as they are now.

Also kamikaze rats spawn in completely random places, sometimes they materialize out of thin air right in front of you or behind your back, without a chance to shoot at them.
The damage from kamikaze rats is too much. Even on Veteran, one bunch of kamikaze rats just completely killed my ironbreaker bot.
And most importantly: CHANGE AAAAAAAAAAAAA! the sound that ruins my hearing and brain!

Originally posted by NeloDante:

Curse of Comradership should just be removed and only stay on twitch mode.

I can't say anything bad about Curse of Comradership as long as it doesn't affect bots in my solo games.