Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171207155334/@comment-460323-20180102045739

AnimeFreak40K wrote: ...was it really that bad?

I mean, it was my first full event, I had very few K2 ships, very little in the way of 'cool' equipment and I cleared the event on Easy and I didn't use any damecons.

Now, I admit I equipped some about midway through when I was feeling extra-salty, but the ships but nobody took anything more than scratch damage until the boss, so they didn't get used...and after reconfiguring my fleet a bit, I didn't use any on the last few runs, farming or Last Dance...but still, I'm not exactly sure what the problem folks were having with it... It is. Large scale events are always insanely difficult on Hard relative to Easy.

First you have the sub hime node where there's 2x chance your boss killers are gimped if not outright Taiha-ed.

Then you have to deal with the 2~3 BB hime node where there's 6~9x chance of your ships getting rekt. There's also 3~4 imps to screw with you because why not.

The boss itself isn't as crazy hard as Spring 2016 but the road there is just bloody. You can really feel the difference married ships and expansion slots can make.

You can, of course, clear it without paid items, but that would meant pouring more hours into the game. It could take 2~3 hours to fully sparkle 24 ships for 3~4 failed run that last ~30 minutes. The first few runs are fine, but your sanity starts to crumble at ~20 runs and feels miserable after days of failed runs. Then you start slapping damecons at everyone but get trolled at sub node or have 3~4 of your ships rekt at BB nodes.

Then Fall 2017 came about and practically bitch slap you for not buying slots / scrap your ships months in advance to make slot for the Nishimura ships.