Board Thread:Event Community Discussion/@comment-1915363-20160530025709/@comment-27330118-20160530154937

Sooo, where to start with all this mess ? Maps review ? Sure !

E-1 - Lalalala, piece of cake.... Wait, why there are Ru-class everywhere on the road to the boss ? Meh, since it's Hard mode, I can understand and... Oh hello CV Hime, nice to meet you... THE HELL ARE YOU DOING IN THE PRE-BOSS NODE ?! And why when it's not you, it's the abyssal Nagamon herself BB Hime ? Damn, there must be one hell of a reward at the boss node ! Daihatsu type 89 ? Meh, could hve been worse, let's do Easy and...


 * Looking at his arsenal. No Daihatsu in stock. Artillery Imp as E2 Boss *

Fine, let's do this on Hard, I have no choice if I want to have a chance on E-2 :/. My CA are getting rekt by CV Hime and BB Hime while they are still Lv80+ ?! OH COME ON ! What ? Shiplock ? ... Screw the shiplock, let's crush this map with 4 fBB 2CVL (Who were my bests) and some decent leveled DD... This map is very RNG in my opinion. Why ? Because sometimes, even with a Fleet Command Facility, it can end with a C-Rank on the boss Node, and sometimes with FAR WORSE CONDITIONS it can Clear Kill the boss :/.

Ah, I'm done with this map ! Wait, who can drop here ? Taigei (And Hayasui) ?! Ah I know now why there are 2 Top-tiers Himes in that Preboss node. Still a really bad map, especially for newcomers on Easy. I guess it's because Winter 16's E-1 was too easy on Hard.

E-2 - Sooo ! At the beginning of the Event, my initial plan was to do E1 > E4 Hard and then switch to easy for sanity preservation... Oh dear, I am such an idiot. Let me tell you something, I am the type of player who can stockpile up to 250k resources and 2,2k buckets just to farm like hell for a single shipgirl if I want her so bad. I also play this game with the ships that I like, not really the ships that I need. So, when I started E-2, I had only the Daihatsu Type 89 from the previous map's reward because I didn't want to do some quests, especially the 3-2's ones with Abukuma Kai 2 because mine is still Lv26, and I don't own the Ka-mi from a earlier quest. More funny things ? Satsuki was (And still is) the sole ship in my whole crew who can equip it. Fortunately, she was Kai ni before I start this map.

I remember the day when the Devs added the 6-4 map in the map and how people like DeathUsagi had a bad time to just kill the boss once. Now it's my turn to taste the salt. WG-42 can help ? AH. AH. AH ! Do I have to say that I've tried to find U-511 during Fall 15 more that 150 times and found 0 ? Oh she can drop in this Event... In E3 ! Well played Devs, now die please ! So you ask me to do E2 on Hard with only Satsuki Kai 2 and one single Type 89 Daihatsu ? Yeah, maybe I can do that since I have the resources... Did you forget there is still 5 maps after this one ? And seeing how several veterans players aren't enable to clear this Event on Hard, you except me to do the same ? NOPE. But Let's try Medium at least and... Damn, those Artillery Imps rekted my ships like they are Lv1 DD... OK, maybe it's RNG, let's try again and * 10 try later and only scratch damages done to the boss's gauge, even with my bests CA * You know what ? SCREW EVERYTHING ! It's only E2 and I'm feeling like I am already on a Last EO map ! Let's do it on EASY ! And even on Easy mode, I barely managed to clear this shitty map. It took me 51 RUNS, and several Mamiyas / Irakos to sparkle everyone to kill the Medium-only-DJ-Hime's-second-form- that-was-put-here-by-the-devs-because-they-don't-want-to-let-the players-easily-farm-U-511-or-just-clear-the-Event.

Is there only despair in this map ? NO ! It took me less than 50 runs on node F to find both Akizuki and Teruzuki !

E-3 - Oh dear, after such a nightmare, you want me to use the WORST thing the Devs have added to the Events ? The Transport Escort Fleet (And yes, even if I wasn't here when there was things such as the Regen bar, I think that Transport Escort Fleet in far worse than Regen Bar) ? The promise of fishing U-511 and Shioi in the earlier nodes was a nice compensation... But wait, there is no Ri-class Flagships on the road to the boss ? What ? Does the Devs finally found there was some bullshit with the previous maps who used this mecanic ? Fine, I'm good with this, so let's try Medium mode for it... Yeah I can only get A-ranks from the boss in order to clear the map... But farming nodes D anf F could be hard and bucket-expensive. So, in order to farm in a quiet way, let's clear this map on Easy, and finally it wasn't that bad. It was fair and balanced. It even improved my opinion on the Transport Escort Fleet in the end.

E-4 - I have mixed feelings about this map. Somehow it's the easiest map of this Event and yet she have the WORST BGM ever made for an Event map in Kantai Collection. Come on, it's an "All-Out War", it's about one of the most infamous battle in the WW2 history, there are some serious challengers on the abyssal side, so why did you put a fucking CIRCUS-LIKE BGM for the regulars battles ?! Ah, how I miss Summer 15 and his epic BGM for regular battles in E6 and E7. That was a really easy map but... I cleared E3 on Easy, so I could only do E-4 in Medium.

E-5 - Well, this is it. If E2 is the first BIG Wall, this map was supposed to be the second BIG Wall, the gate who lead to Hell. Oh wait, all my bests CA/V are tagged with the Green tag for the shiplock and there is NO WAY I'll try the North route. And I want to preserve my remaining sanity, so let's do it on Easy and... It wasn't THAT bad for me. Okay maybe I used some of my best DD and CAV for the job, but still, even the pretty Lycorice Hime was a worthy opponent. Still we needed to use Supports and all, but it was... Fair, at least in my opinion.

E-6 - Come on, everyone knows that Fall 13's IBS and Summer 15's E7 were the worst maps ever made in Kancolle history. Well they have now a real challenger, because this E6 is Installation-Festival, at least on Hard. It could have been the WORST map ever made if there wasn't that Egusa-Nuke thing. Well, where is the fun to One-shot the boss in the aerial opening and not fight it in the regular way ? And why there is still that crappy Circus-like BGM on the regular battles ?! The map BGM is fine and the Boss BGM is also fine, so WHY ?! Beside that, I went Easy for obvious reasons and even with "crappy" DD such as Mutsuki-class, I managed to clear it quickly, the Egusa-Nuke happened twice on the regular kills, and even if it took most of the boss's health in the Last Kill, I had to kill it in the regular way, and with only 1 WG42 !

E-7 - Welcome to the Hime-Fest ! You know what ? Clear E7 is like going for the Genocide route in Undertale : Kill every Hime in your way to reach  that poor injured Central Hime and Kill her once and for all, because we are merciless opponents who only look for that crappy Iowa. I'm not even talking about the shitty rewards for this map. You want the E-peen Medal ? Well, roll a 100-sided dice and pray to find the only one number where the RNG will finally let you win on Hard. So Easy again because sorry, when I see veterans who start with 300k resources and still can't kill the boss after reaching 50k (Spending more than 100k only in this Last Dance), it's a big NOPE. In my case the battle was luck-based because most of my ships managed to attack Central Hime during the Yasen and not another Hime.

Verdict : Terrible ! Summer 15 was fun, Fall 15 was awful, Winter 16 was good, but this Spring 16 in the worst of the 4 Events in which I participate.

So, for Summer 16, it gonna be ALL HIME EVERYWHERE I guess ? :/.

Other complaints :

- SHADDUP OOYODO !

- Land-Based bases are just regulars base ! The abyssals ones are pretty girls !

- The solution to clear E2 is in E3 !!

- Shitty rewards for Last Map

- Devs, why the fuck do you think that freaking Ryuusei 601 is so OP that us poor players who started AFTER the Spring 15 Event can't have Katsuragi ?!

- Make those damn WG-42 craftables with only german ships as flagship if you want, but make them more accessible to new players or people who can't farm like crazy.

Wishlist :

[X] Akizuki : Came really quickly <3

[?!] Teruzuki : Wait what ?! The ULTIMATE Prize of the saltiest Event of all times is a regular drop in E2 and not even on the Boss node ?! It's worse than Kazagumo :/ Still managed to find one, so now all of the Zuzukis sisters are reunited in my base and that's good.

[] Katsuragi and Katsuragi#2 : See above and my 2 Unryuus and 2 Amagis are still waiting for their little sisters to come !

[X] U-511 : The first one came pretty quickly and that's nice. The second took 180 runs and that's bad ! Hence why I cleared E3 on Easy.

[...] I-401 : Well, at least it's nice to find her easily. Now I wonder if it's good to have such many Shiois...

[X] Taigei : Damn, that AV Hime didn't want to let me find her easily :/, but at least now the great whale is here and she has a lot of Subs to take care.

[X] Harukaze : Didn't find her while clearing E7. Didn't want to farm her at the boss node. She came at the 2nd attempt to find her because I wanted to try a few times so... OK, fine with me, and stop call yourself an old granny please.

[X] Oyashio : She is funny enough and seems to be lesbian for Kuroshio. Worth the trouble  of Fighting AV Hime enough to find her.