Attack of the Hydra Feedback Thread

[Baudin Toolan]

On Monday the Attack of the Hydra event returns and will run until the 20th. Please feel free to post any questions or feedback about the event in this thread.

 

[curadh]

What is the end reward, as it doesn't say either in your post or in the wiki?

 

[Buffysara]

Reward for all 6 hydroheads - 3 x 100 land expansion

 

[DeletedUser54192]

@Baudin Toolan, do you know (or could you find out) why Attack of the Hydra appears to have permanently replaced Hades' Portal?

• Attack of the Hydra was initially explained as a reskin or slight rework of the Hades' Portal event. For the majority of other events where multiple "skins" exist (recipe events, wheel events, Slinger/Assassins events, etc.) we still see both versions in use.
• From what I remember, there was a significant quantity of negative feedback around the changes made from Hades' Portal to Attack of the Hydra:
  • The event completion reward for Attack of the Hydra is half what it was for Hades' Portal: 3x +100 Land Expansions instead of 6x. (Which turned out to be part of a heavily-disliked move to time the event with purchase packages full of Land Expansions.)
  • The event is overall much more difficult to complete and actually achieve that end reward:
    • Missions take significantly longer.
    • Missions have a significantly reduced chance of successfully finding the objective.
    • Missions have a significantly increased chance of your troops dying.
    • Missions require more troops.
    • The increased event duration does not compensate for these difficulty increases.
  • The favour and resource rewards appear to approximately scale with the mission time increase, which on its own seems alright, however this doesn't take into account the increased troop costs and likelihood of dying.
• Given that this format is one of only two zero-gold events and therefore difficulty increases won't increase gold usage or profits outside of any package releases (which only target a very small portion of the community), I can't quite see the reason for the permanent replacement.

 

[Selectron1]

Reward for all 6 hydroheads - 3 x 100 land expansion

In the tutorial, it shows the reward is 3 Double BP tokens. Which is it? Three land expansions doesn't seem worth all the trouble to get them.

 

[Hydna]

In the tutorial, it shows the reward is 3 Double BP tokens. Which is it? Three land expansions doesn't seem worth all the trouble to get them.

Apologies the reward is 3 land expansions. We will update the tutorial.

 

[Reimu Hakurei]

after you get 6 first heads, there is no more event? I assumed that the hydras will be looping until end of event with different rewards... talk about underwhelming.

 

[Aicy]

Why are the travel times so long? Feels a bit silly that my soldiers take 4 hours to travel to the hydra which is just outside my city

 

[Yossarian234]

bruh this is the worst event I have ever seen on this game kek

 

[Dareld]

Disappointing event - too long for poor rewards

 

[Van Helsing]

I killed the Hydra once and then forgot all about it -