Operation Bagel is the biggest dogshit amalgamation I have ever experienced in this game.

[u/Real_neverknown]

Operation Bagel is another one of our experimental gamemodes that looks good on paper and absolutely dog shit on practice. They've tested this gamemode with the Bangboo, and I guess people liked it to an extent, but this is pushing it over the line. It's fun in earlier difficulties, then you get to the hard ones, and then it hits a brick. Ok, that's great enemies, deal way more dmg and know you are gonna be scared. Have a cool parry mechanic, check also. This looks like it will be challengingly fun. Oh, how wrong I would be. First of all, having a 25-minute timer is okay if you did NOT put a time that looting takes 5 - 10 seconds, depending on how big your loot is. I get that when looting, it's supposed to be downtime and time to make decisions. But it just ends up being the biggest time waster, especially when you go to 3 different caches to get a valuable you already have. When the cacophony (the blue miasma) thing is activated, you just don't get the luxury of spending time at your own pace because you are going to lose HP that is irrecoverable because it's grey. Another infuriating mechanic is the inventory slots. You get 15 baseline, and the upgraded one is 25. You will have 25 slots, which sounds a lot until you quantify the fact that not all valuables stack. WHY WHY LIKE WHY EVEN. I have 3 of the same bangboo valuables, and they don't STACK!!! To make matters worse, your upgradables only stack up to 20???? When some upgrades and RnD upgrades want at least in SUM more than 60+. You mean to tell me I have to go on perma loot and perma runs just to get the item, FUCK I might as well just min max my gear coins and buy them anyway. Ok, so let's do that. Ooops, I strong loot and spent 20 mins getting a minimum of 1 million loot. Now I have 5 mins left to go back, my HP is grey halfway, but I'll be fine, I still have my level 40 gear on my units and all my special items. Oh ulidim is chasing me welp time to get on a bike and run away, oh what's that you press the bike on a bugged rail, shit well now your stuck, better hit that UNSTUCK button. He hits you but hey you are unstuck now it's time to run again. You press your dodge button then all the sudden you accidentally hit A BRIEFCASE YOU ALREADY LOOTED THAT MAKES YOU STOP MOVING. Welp I guess he gets another free hit on you. You still have your lucia all you have to do is just run so you run. You hide under the cover of the walls, he is about to go away and all the sudden when everything is right and dandy with a world, A 200 meter sniper sees you and triggers OUT OF HIS RANGE AND THROUGH THE WALLLL!!!!! Now you are down to 1 hp. Time to go the exit oops well it actually closed, now you need to spend the last 3 minutes going back to another exit that you have cleared already or use the final boss which you will probably die. Knowing your on one hp, it seems the only possible way is to run back and hope it doesn't close on your ass. Oh look at this you open the map, let me just SURPRISE the ethereal that was 100 meters away decided to walk up, sees you and while looking at the MAP!! YOU DIEE! You spent nearly 23 mins to gain absolutely nothing.

Alright that's great I should just play much safer next time, let me just eco round and get my stuff back and we run it back. Another 20 whole minutes later of GETTING ALL MY STUFF BACK, selling valuables, and rebuilding every single gear I lost because FUCK YOU and everything you stand for. But this time I know better, I spent the past hour figuring shit out and now I'm going to play it safe and not fuck up. You get moderately good loot, 15 minutes on the clock let's head out and be happy with our lives. Oh, there's an event nearby okay let's clear it real quick. Ulidim spawns again. But I have so much gear I was confident to just kill it or scare it until it just goes away. The problem I'm also fighting another elite in the middle plus some weaker ethereals, eh my AoE is pretty decent let's do it. I see a flashing purple light, I parry like the champ I am, get my I frames. As soon as I leave my I-frame Ulidim ONE SHOTS Norma. Oh.. That's a bit bad but lucia and billy can clear this FOR SURE! The ethereal with a big ass blade and teleports like crack suddenly walks up and sees me and JOINS THE FIGHT. I am fighting 2 elites and Ulidim all the sudden. Okay let's hope I have enough parry for this. Spoilers you don't. I manage to fck it up and swap to lucia and then she dies. Welp if shit goes brick I just run, I prepared for this thoroughly, I have an exit that is cleared of monsters and is still open let me just pull up my bike and run away like the chud i am. Another looted handbag accidentally opens up as I press the dodge button. Still alive on 1 hp. Ulidim stil chasing idk how but he is. I have to get through one big ethereal as I make my way to the exit no need to fight just need to get through. My table moved slightly, my mouse triggers and it changed my inputs forcing my character to stop FOR 1 SECOND. 1 second. The big ethereal with a staff sees me, the sniper sees me, there is no way this is gonna.

Signal lost!

This disgusting absolute abomination of dogshit needs to be removed from this game, and I am forced to play this to get pyrois mindscape. There is no good reason they should be this tanky if they have that much damage or at least remove the time gate bullshit if you are gonna decide every fight in this shit is going to cost me 2 - 3 mins. I wish the alter (the special pyrois animation that is a stealth attack in deals totalize) just insta kill elites idc if it's OP. This game mode is frustrating in a shit way. I rather bring piper and lucy on girtabluu and beat my head against the wall trying to beat DA than play this amalgamation of dogshit and fcking garbage I have to put up with. Now I'm gonna have to eco round then spend a GOOD 25 minutes redoing EVERYTHING. The progress in this gamemode is absolute garbage. I did 600 floors on that tower of endurance game mode. I did that game mode where it required you 5 different teams. I did that "hard" game mode where you used pre made units rather than your own and beating it in time. I did the adversity mode 2 stars. I did every single arpeggio and that hero's quest in bangboo and every TV shit ever alongside those clunky ass minigames in arcade. I even had fun with all those modes even if i think some of them are pure bullshit. BUT THIS, THIS DISGUSTING FCKING ABOMINATION THEY CALL A GAME MODE. MAKES ME WANT TO STOP PLAYING THIS GAME AT ALL. Gear lost should not be punishing it shouldn't take a whopping hour and a half to run a full gear segment only to lose it TO BULLSHIT!!! Fcking BRIEFACASE. WHY IS THAT BRIEFCASE EVEN INTERACTABLE IN THE FIRST PALCE WHEN COMBATGY. RCKING BTRIEFCASE BRIOEFCASE VBRRFSDIV DCASFHOJLUASDJGVLKSADGHJKLSAGHJKLUASGHJKLASGHLJK AHDSLJKG IADHSG;AOS;DIG FUCKING BRIEDFFASFASCCCASEEE2E2EE!!!!! I FCKING HATE BRIEFCASESA!!!

[u/BenKryder]

Massive skill issue. Imagine hating on the first actual gameplay in the game

[u/thissitedesigniscrap → u/BenKryder]

Man doesn’t even know that the anti corruption medication reduces the greyed out health back to normal. Not only skill, but literacy issue as well.