I’m a relatively new player, been at it for three or four months now. I mostly play solo so I’m figuring things out on my own and sometimes it’s slow going; I resort to googling things quite often because I don’t quite understand what’s going on. I’ve gotten up to MR14. Been unable to beat the MR15 test so far as I’m pretty bad at interceptions.
I finally decided to buckle down and do the New War quest over the weekend and I really enjoyed it. I liked all the different perspectives and switches to game play style, plus the lore and plot line were amazing. I finally understand what’s going on in the game. But there were a few places I got stuck so I looked things up and saw how many posts there were by people complaining about the quest line and hating on it.
I found it to be pretty forgiving of an old(er) person whose reflexes, reaction time and visual processing are going to shit. The boss fights weren’t that bad, really. Since I solo and haven’t gotten anywhere near the kind of strength I see the Steel Path folks putting out when I’m grouped with them during Circuit, the purported tediousness folks were complaining about was just par for the course for how I usually do boss fights: run around like a chicken on fire and get off a shot or two occasionally until it’s over. The four hours the quest is supposed to take was more like nine hours for me but all in all it wasn’t too bad and I was able to finish it in time for Circuit.
Then I hopped into Kahl’s Garrison and the first mission I got was Sneaky Sabotage and that was a bit of a slog because I didn’t know WTF was going on and the deacons were everywhere. I did finish it, barely. I did the next one yesterday night and did much better. I like the different game mode and having to adapt to different rules of play. But again, I saw tons of people complaining about it during various web searches. I didn’t see anyone talking about how they enjoyed either of those scenarios.
Surely there are other people out there that like some or all of this content? Or am I just the weirdo who’s about to be downvoted to oblivion?
New War was great. I guess people didn’t like the sudden pivot to a survival horror power curve?
As for KahlQuest, they’re a fun novelty, for a bit, but after running them weekly for a few months, I had to stop. The tilesets aren’t designed for Kahl’s movement. If you’re doing side objectives it can take 20 minutes or more. A lot of those minutes are fun because they’re full of things to do, but I found the minutes that are just Kahl’s laboured jogging to be torture. Sneaky Sabotage is also miserable the first time because the game insinuates to you that there’s a lot more risk involved than there actually is.
Exactly! I was so worried about the deacons because of how strong they were in New War that it took me halfway through the mission to realize I could run and hide from them as Kahl.
There’s also a grace period where you can just throw the veilbreaker shock thingy to stun them if they spot you!