Is it just me who might just opt out of Cosmic Horror?

Ercarret

How do you feel about the Cosmic Horror part of this month's sidequest? I completed my first run a while back, but now that my Lil Steve is A Bit Bigger Steve I figured I'd go in and try my hands at a second run. It all went fairly well until the second Agent Venom where I took some hits. I survived and managed to heal back some on Symbiote Supreme, but then I died against Knull and I just felt...nah. I'm not doing this again, and especially not again and again and again. I'm not enjoying having to run a gauntlet of the same exact fights, especially not since I've already fought these guys countless times in Cosmic Eclipse.

What do you guys think? How far are you going to take it? Will you go for the last run for those 10K 6* shards? Because right now, I just really don't feel like it.

The_Sentry06

It's a bit too difficult for me. I'm opting out too.

Fluffy_paws

I dunno. I want the shards but I'd end up pulling someone disappointing and then regretting it. Also might not be able to r5 the lil symbiote bc i desperately needed t4cc to save 4 expiring cats and did a bunch of runs in epic for ONE mutant t4cc lol. Also i hate having to redo each path each time, that sucks so much.

te_dua_shum

Honestly i don't think it's that bad if you carefully activate your pre-fights: I have done the first three paths and I've used items only for errors on my side (and because the third AV didn't want to throw heavies :grr: ) and only for my third run with a rank 3 symbiote, so a R4 might be enough for the fourth path and a R5 maybe even overpowered, it depends how he will scale.
The regen is incredibly good and you have three champions to heal against: Venom, VP and Symbiote Supreme; the damage is here, with 15 furies he is hitting really hard for a champion with the base strength of a maxed four star, he looked like my 5* R5 venom; power control and tenacity are really good once you understand how to use them to your advantage; not to mention that there are two more ranks available with two more abilities to unlock. I will surely go for the fourth path, even though it seems really scary right now ^_^

Sundance_2099

I haven't even done one route yet because I am waiting to get the cats for Gnasher.

Crcrcrc

It’s way way overtuned against the sym imo, even just path 2 was painful

DrZola

I’ve done two runs and wound up using four L1 revives on Knull #2 (twice due to controls issues and twice due to dumb play on my part).

I didn’t watch anyone’s videos and honestly just went in and activated all my prefights. I also didn’t plan for Knull at all, which would have saved me items.

I will probably wait for R4 Sym to hit the third path (tomorrow, I believe). I would hope the difficulty of the final, four path run and boss will be moderate at best. As the OP noted above, this has been a long and circuitous path to here and comprises a design I would hope is never repeated again. If the payoff isn’t just terrific, that would be the equivalent of a rotten cherry on top.

Challenges are fun, but I suspect many would have preferred a tour of duty in the salt mines to this event.

Dr. Zola

Jaded

Waiting till my sym is maxed out.

Will3808

Jaded said:

Waiting till my sym is maxed out.

Same here

Fluffy_paws

DrZola said:

I’ve done two runs and wound up using four L1 revives on Knull #2 (twice due to controls issues and twice due to dumb play on my part).

I didn’t watch anyone’s videos and honestly just went in and activated all my prefights. I also didn’t plan for Knull at all, which would have saved me items.

I will probably wait for R4 Sym to hit the third path (tomorrow, I believe). I would hope the difficulty of the final, four path run and boss will be moderate at best. As the OP noted above, this has been a long and circuitous path to here and comprises a design I would hope is never repeated again. If the payoff isn’t just terrific, that would be the equivalent of a rotten cherry on top.

Challenges are fun, but I suspect many would have preferred a tour of duty in the salt mines to this event.

Dr. Zola

Thing is, I have no idea how to fight Knull haha. In the EQ I threw Archangel at him and blocked his specials and he died pretty easily. I doubt I can do that with lil Symbiote. There's always unit man but do I really wanna use unit man for a sig 80 IF... Nah.

I don't usually complain about difficulty, but for a 2 month EQ this event is too difficult (not just fight wise but the 60 million hoops you have to jump through). And the best thing about it is the symbiote (i named mine gary) but we don't even get to use him that much and the poor dude has to slog through all those paths all alone. It was pretty hyped up and just fell very flat

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LordPSN

To be honest, I really don't care much about it. I am just doing the keys one for 500 6star shards.
The 2 month (SQ) was so much overhyped that ot fall at the 1st day itself.
I am happy that I'm getting sometime to relax and not grinding in the game...

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2StarKing

I have plenty of time to max my Steve. The whole quest can be done in a single setting. I''ll wait for r5 Steve.

odishika123

Been focusing on the 4 star shards
Don't regret it

TheLegend27

2 months of truly awful event design and nothing especially spectacular in terms of rewards IMO. I'm waiting until the summoned symbiote is max level before going in, but I'll be disappointed if he isn't truly OP in that content. I'm not even all that excited about going into Cosmic Horror thanks to how boring and tedious the other part of this month's side quest has turned out to be.

CyborgNinja135

te_dua_shum said:

Honestly i don't think it's that bad if you carefully activate your pre-fights: I have done the first three paths and I've used items only for errors on my side (and because the third AV didn't want to throw heavies :grr: ) and only for my third run with a rank 3 symbiote, so a R4 might be enough for the fourth path and a R5 maybe even overpowered, it depends how he will scale.
The regen is incredibly good and you have three champions to heal against: Venom, VP and Symbiote Supreme; the damage is here, with 15 furies he is hitting really hard for a champion with the base strength of a maxed four star, he looked like my 5* R5 venom; power control and tenacity are really good once you understand how to use them to your advantage; not to mention that there are two more ranks available with two more abilities to unlock. I will surely go for the fourth path, even though it seems really scary right now ^_^

This. If you wait for your symbiote to get stronger and carefully plan which prefights to activate it's not too difficult. Especially once you activate the Leech evolution since the need to bait specials is non existent at that point

The_Sentry06

odishika123 said:

Been focusing on the 4 star shards
Don't regret it

Yep once I realised how difficult the quest, I moved my focus to the 4 star shards. The iso is unbelievably helpful. Sucks that I can't max out Steve but whatever, he's trophy champ with not much impact on my account and I'll still use him for lower difficulty MEQ and stuff.

Bugmat78

Waiting on a maxed summoned steve and some guides as the prefights I havent even looked into properly. Too much going on now with too many bugs to concentrate lol.

Wicket329

The original Summoner Symbiote event was an additional difficulty to the Monthly Event Quest with nodes designed to be extremely difficult for any champion but the Summoner Symbiote (who had specific boosts in a special store that you could use to empower him for particular challenges).

It was a blast to figure out which boost to use for each fight in order to just cheese through it. It was more of a test of problem solving skills than of gameplay mechanics, and the rewards were exceptional for the time. It never felt like a grind because it was a whole EQ with all of the variety that brings.

This event does not seem to reach the bar set by that one, unfortunately. At least not in terms of enjoyment.

AverageDesi

Just wait till he rank 5

Malreck04

Knull is the biggest problem honestly

Malreck04

The rest you can get the hang of as long as you don’t mess up on some dexes

LeNoirFaineant

Not sure why people are doing it with a low Sym. If it's too hard with a maxed out Sym fair enough. I'll probably test it tomorrow when he gets to R4 but no plans to try to finish it until he is fully maxed.

te_dua_shum

Malreck04 said:

Knull is the biggest problem honestly

Use the "Leech" pre-fight to your advantage: with 3/3 leech you will drain almost a full bar of power with each dash back and purify X debuffs (i'm not sure how many, in my language the ability's description says 4 per activated leech but the pre-fight screen says only 1 per pre-fight), removing almost everything hard in that fight ^_^

Wayntos

Good concept but execution fell flat (poor use of Lil Steve). To mundane will opt out on this one.

Crcrcrc

TheLegend27 said:

2 months of truly awful event design and nothing especially spectacular in terms of rewards IMO. I'm waiting until the summoned symbiote is max level before going in, but I'll be disappointed if he isn't truly OP in that content. I'm not even all that excited about going into Cosmic Horror thanks to how boring and tedious the other part of this month's side quest has turned out to be.

He’s absolutely ridiculous in it with even just the prefights from r3, you won’t be disappointed

Searmenis

It's disappointing that we have to get through hell to get him to r5, something that I stopped hoping for, and doing only the Epic paths in SQ. And the result is, a 5* crystal? Since I don't think I ll be able to complete the horror's last path with a r4 Steve..

SHIELD4AGENT

te_dua_shum said:

Honestly i don't think it's that bad if you carefully activate your pre-fights: I have done the first three paths and I've used items only for errors on my side (and because the third AV didn't want to throw heavies :grr: ) and only for my third run with a rank 3 symbiote, so a R4 might be enough for the fourth path and a R5 maybe even overpowered, it depends how he will scale.
The regen is incredibly good and you have three champions to heal against: Venom, VP and Symbiote Supreme; the damage is here, with 15 furies he is hitting really hard for a champion with the base strength of a maxed four star, he looked like my 5* R5 venom; power control and tenacity are really good once you understand how to use them to your advantage; not to mention that there are two more ranks available with two more abilities to unlock. I will surely go for the fourth path, even though it seems really scary right now ^_^

I agree with this one as I also completed path 3 with r3 Symbioid, you just have to manage your pre-fights carefully in the early fights and adjust your combos depending on who you are facing.
Cause with 3x Leech, 1 sp1 and it is all in your control. Just dash back after every sp to power steal. MM for Furies, LLLL for Nullify and Heal. Heavies for Poison to shutdown evade. It's all in there, just have to read and plan ahead.
Will try path 4 once Symbioid is r5.

Ercarret

LeNoirFaineant said:

Not sure why people are doing it with a low Sym. If it's too hard with a maxed out Sym fair enough. I'll probably test it tomorrow when he gets to R4 but no plans to try to finish it until he is fully maxed.

I haven't tried to finish the whole quest but I do try one lane per rank-up of Steve. I doubt the last lane is going to be easier with an r5 than the second one is with an r3 (or the first one was with an r2), so I do feel like I have a good understanding of the quest's difficulty level and the amount of grind you have to do to complete it fully.

Rap

I am not feeling the entire event. Difficult material is difficult enough! But with the "data leak" or whatever, the laggy unreliable nature of the game, having to sign out, force stop the game, clear the cache and the phone ram for 10 or 15 minutes of lag free play??? Just not feeling it! Struggling through those two challenges combined just doesn't feel worth it!