Prototype XJ-1 (Gang War of Echovald) "Get behind something!"

[Ashen.2907]

5 hours ago, thugjudge.3240 said:

acknowledge that there is a reason this is still happening

Yes, player unwillingness to do more than stand there and take a hit.

[Cyninja.2954]

12 hours ago, thugjudge.3240 said:

So the community just happens to be bad at this one mechanic, specifically?  For no reason?  An effect without a cause, how interesting.  

Correction: the vast majority of players are bad on any mechanic.

Any encounter where there is an attack which needs paying attention to and which results in significant impact, you will see a ton of players bite the dust.

Most recent example: public Umbriel convergence as example.

The "tells" for this one are rather simple:

1. The boss slams the ground and debris appears

2. The boss raises his fist, white safety zones appear behind every debris

All it takes is some minor situaitonal awareness.

Also cudos to the brilliant necro.

[RoseofGilead.8907]

12 hours ago, thugjudge.3240 said:

So the community just happens to be bad at this one mechanic, specifically?  For no reason?  An effect without a cause, how interesting.  

Go do the Dragon's End meta sometime to see how many people still get downed or die to Soo-won's initial attack. Or go do Tequatl (much older content) and see how many people still get downed/die to the various AOEs around his feet because they just don't move. It's not a UI problem. It's the same old problem of people just not paying attention.

[Gehenna.3625]

18 hours ago, thugjudge.3240 said:

So the community just happens to be bad at this one mechanic, specifically?  For no reason?  An effect without a cause, how interesting.  

There is a reason: there are a lot of new players getting to this meta recently. There's an uptick in players dying of this mechanic. The meta doesn't fail just the same, at least from my experience, so there's nothing to fix and something to learn for new players.

[AliamRationem.5172]

On 8/24/2024 at 7:01 AM, thugjudge.3240 said:

Ressing this thread to point out the crux of the problem is bad UI.  Can you "git gud" and work around it?  Yes.  Does that make it good UI?  No.  Chat call-outs are more immediately noticeable than the fight mechanics.  That's stupid. 

It's 2 years later and this event still sees lots of people die every time this attack goes off.  So you can continue being ignorant or you can acknowledge that there is a reason this is still happening. 

There would be nothing wrong with a UI warning in time to get to safety, but you're saying this like it's somehow difficult to see a gigantic robotic arm slam down across an entire section of the field.  I get it if you're new to the fight.  Maybe you don't immediately realize that this telegraph is the boss providing you with the counter to his own insta-kill attack.  But once you've seen it a few times it should start to register, right?