Those neutral countdowns not only are annoying with their function, but their animations drag each match out. I will take Venom Bomb any day of the week.
I find Wakanda more interesting than Venom due to the different tiles in each sub. It involves more strategic gameplay compared to Venom Bomb. Neither are infuriating.
The Guard Dogs are irritating but I usually use characters with true heal to tank their passive ability. I think many players are angry with using more healthpacks in Wakanda. That’s one of the most common reasons I’ve seen so far. And that makes me wonder what’s the obsession with using as little healthpack as possible?
I will reserve my judgment until a run of Fight for Wakanda when I don’t have the essential fivestar maxed. With a level 550 Black Panther (and before that, Thor), it’s not that difficult to blow through the nodes.
I’ve already voted but after this 4th node, and the horribly long matches that come with it, I never want to see this event again. Ever. I’d rather play Venom Bomb five times in a row.
I don’t understand the hate for Venom Bomb, are goons really that hard to deal with these days? And they nerfed Carnage in the later subs, so what’s the big deal?
Wakanda…I really like the concept. I have to go off autopilot, and with the tweaks to the hazards for this run I successfully went ahead and took on scl9 with my 4* roster. The new hazards are really annoying, so I had to come up with some new strategies, which isn’t a bad thing.
Neither are high on my list, but I don’t hate either as much as I do Simulator (I like the challenge of the matchups; I hate having to grind them for progression) or the Florida Sub of The Hunt (yes, it’s not as bad now, but I still hate it for what it was back when it was run at the same time as Alaska & Savage Lands and had under 3hr refreshes). Venom Bomb is a better event than Wakanda, if only because it introduced new goons (and has a few humorous pieces of dialogue for those that read that), but I’m guessing that once Wakanda enters the regular rotation and isn’t only seen as a new character release event, people will accept it more…like with Venom Bomb, actually…
I never hated an event before. Sure, Simulator can be a real pain, but it is at least a bit interesting. But Wakanda is bad. Wakanda is really, really, totally bad. Dark Avengers, Hazard Tiles, combination of essentials that sucks with the event’s required gameplay, and those freaking annoying Sentry goons that are already the worst in DDQ.
Both Venom Bomb (particularly after the symbiote nerf and the Carnage losing his Red in certain nodes) and Wakanda I find to be interesting challenges where other characters shine.
This is a bit nitpicky, but Wakanda actually delivered a disappointingly low level of plot. At least with Venom Bomb the plot has something of a real progression, FFW just kind of when plegh. Very little dialogue, some really odd situations (the “Astral plane” thing kind of came out of nowhere and made no sense. I don’t mind the actual variety of villain, but they could have explained it better.) Yeah, honestly, it looked kind of phoned in to me.
I know, I know, who cares about the plot, but I do like to read it the first time through at least. That, and the hazard tiles are infinitely more annoying than “Honor Among Thieves.”