I hope we get some of these props as decorations! I also want a chef's hat.

 

Challenge Dish: Ultimate Galactic Sampler:

This one took a few goes to learn the ingredients! I really like it. I do think that the chef droid lacks a bit of personality though. If we could get an alien to shout at you when you muck up, I think it'd be a hoot! ^.^

 

Cantina Rush: Lunch Rush (Easy):

It took a reset to get me in the right area, but the mission itself was fun! When I hit 25/25 waited tables, the mission didn't complete though. I then deliberately let down 5 customers and the mission didn't fail either?

 

Cantina Rush: Dinner Rush (Hard):

Unfortunately, the mission did not complete when I waited 25 tables. However, it did allow to let down 5 customers and fail the mission. I was expecting it to be a bit more difficult compared to Easy mode. I didn't feel like I was too rushed, so I think there's wiggle room there with customer patience timers.

 

Pre Work: Sour Bellfruit:

Not much to say! It's straight-forward and I appreciate an excuse to nip over somewhere to fetch something!

Cooking Minigame

- Did you enjoy the cooking minigame Missions?

Yep! I felt utterly lost and behaved like I would in a real chef's kitchen. That is, I ran about like a headless chicken the first 2-3x.

- Were you able to understand the objectives? If not, what was unclear?

It made perfect sense. Some ingredients took me a while to find, but that's the point!

- Did the difficulty of challenge dishes feel appropriate?

I thought that the amount of time you were given for each task was fair. You just had to be observant.

- Did you prefer the timed challenge dish (Ultimate Galactic Sampler) or the untimed challenge dish (Spicy Nexu Supreme) mission?

The untimed one was good for getting used to the concept. The timed one felt more appropriate and relevant to the theme of serving customers. I thoroughly enjoyed that one.

- Would you like to see both types of challenge mission in the live version?

I'd prefer to see both types, for the reasons above.

- Did you have difficulty interacting with any of the ingredients? If so, which ones?

No difficulty interacting with anything, just noticing them on the first time and that's not a bad thing.

- What did you enjoy the most? The least?

I thought that there was a missed opportunity here to introduce us to a recurring character reminiscent of Dex that we could associate with the event, who yells at or praises us in a creative fashion while we work.

Cantina Rush Minigame

- Did you enjoy the cantina rush minigame Missions?

I thought that it was a fun concept! The only thing that I'd change is that I'd make the sounds of the patrons unique to their race. For example, the Jawas could exclaim "Utini!" or something, rather than have us hear that generic cheering.

- Do you think it needs to be harder in the hard mode?

Yes. I think that you could comfortably reduce the time it takes for patrons to get impatient by a small margin.

- What did you enjoy the most? The least?

I enjoyed the opportunity to experience gameplay away from the norm - finding and beating up enemies. The event is building on the culture of the galaxy and I appreciate that. It makes it feel lived in.

Prep Work Daily Missions

- Did any of these missions take too long to complete?

No. It didn't take long to travel to the location and if I'd had a group handy to engage the world boss, that would have been conveniently placed.

- Did you have any difficulty completing world boss missions while in a group?

N/A

- Were the objectives for all prep work missions clear?

Yup! Crystal.

First Impressions;

I skipped the story as I want to do that on live (so no feedback on that end).

I do think there could be more ornamentation around fleet and NS in general, not just the event area itself.

I tried the missions a few times, here is the result;

The Server Droid (lunch rush?)

• I thought this was nifty - took me a moment to realize I had new abilities; was trying to click the big symbols
  
• The droid bugs out, sometimes dropping you outside the kitchen as the server droid (+/- invisibility)
  
• The serving mission seems bug'd altogether; I can do it for a LOOOOONG time and nothing happens; it stops being fun after a while, so I'm fairly certain whatever the 'countdown to finish' method is malfunctions (tried it a few times), forcing you into an endless loop.
  
• I wish the droid was faster but with tighter checks... though maybe that's in the hard mode/dinner rush? I want more zoomies, less RP walking
  
• I wish we were doing it, not the droid. I kiiinda get why a droid makes more sense (and is easier), but it'd be fun if it stuck us in there, in a server's uniform that we could later buy/earn instead.
  

The cooking game

• I actually really like this!
  
• some of the time checks are tight, but that's GOOD! Make me actually pay attention ^_^
  
• Hopefully there's different recipes? If it's the same one over and over it'll get old, really fast
  
• I got confused by the spices at the end, though maybe that was just me rushing.
  

I think both of these hopefully come with a chef/server outfits; great for RP'ers, and a nifty event-appropriate prize to grind (rep)?

I found the cooking mini game to be quite enjoyable and fun, had a little bit of an issue finding the ingredients at first but nothing too hard. As far as the serving mini-game its also kind of fun but I find the cooking one more enjoyable, mostly because the serving mini-game kind of confuses me when it comes to the requests by the clients.

While I'm getting better at discerning the shape of what they're ordering the outer circle makes me confused whether or not its the blue dish, or the red dish, I understand it was made in order to see how long you have until the clients get "impatient" but I do find it slightly confusing that the circle is one color and the dish is another.

The prep work honestly seems to be my least favorite because its just a fetch quest, go here, kill enemies, get ingredients, the one thing I'll say its a neat idea to integrate world bosses into them because it gives us an extra reason to do them which brings me to my next point. Haven't been able to properly test that worldboss quest yet since I was the only person in Belsavis:rak_01:

I've done the cooking quest and the Dining Dash quest. I preferred the cooking game but I suspect the dining dash game was bugged. It just kept going and going and going . . . and going. If that's by design it really needs to be shortened. Like I said, I believe it was bugged, i never did come to an end point. After what was close to a half hour I just left the banquet hall.

I'd also like to know what the rewards are. That will go a long way in determining how much repeat appeal this event has. Though I am FAR more likely to do this one repeatedly than I am the Swoop races. I tried those once and have no real interest in doing them again. I do like that there seems to be a decent variety of activities.

I'm going to try some other things today.

Cantina Dash appears broken to me. I click the door, become the droid, but am still outside with nothing to interact with. Tried on 3 different characters.

That has happened to me every time I try to do it. However, if I leave and come back, then click the door again I can get in the banquet hall. But, it seems that at that point the minigame is just stuck on a never ending loop. Unless they intended players to keep serving tables for over 20 minutes. Last night I did it for 30 minutes before I finally just stopped. If it isn't bugged for me and I just need to stay in there longer then I have no clue how long I'm supposed to stay in there carting plates of food around. It's a fun little game, but not really interesting enough to do for an extended period of time.

That has happened to me every time I try to do it. However, if I leave and come back, then click the door again I can get in the banquet hall. But, it seems that at that point the minigame is just stuck on a never ending loop. Unless they intended players to keep serving tables for over 20 minutes. Last night I did it for 30 minutes before I finally just stopped. If it isn't bugged for me and I just need to stay in there longer then I have no clue how long I'm supposed to stay in there carting plates of food around. It's a fun little game, but not really interesting enough to do for an extended period of time.

When I became the droid, there was nothing clickable for me. So I just rolled around lol. I love the story and the new setup is nice too.

Cooking Minigame

- Did you enjoy the cooking minigame Missions?

Yes.

- Were you able to understand the objectives? If not, what was unclear?

Yes. Took me a second but it was fun.

- Did the difficulty of challenge dishes feel appropriate?

Yes. Like the first one is easy second one is hard.

- Did you prefer the timed challenge dish (Ultimate Galactic Sampler) or the untimed challenge dish (Spicy Nexu Supreme) mission?

I liked the hard one after doing the easy one. I got a different challenge though. Glowshroom and Ultimate Galactic Sampler.

- Would you like to see both types of challenge mission in the live version?

Yes. Looking forward to doing the easy then hard different dishes every day.

- Did you have difficulty interacting with any of the ingredients? If so, which ones?

The ice crystals sometimes didn't click but it was fine.

- What did you enjoy the most? The least?

I liked throwing the food lol.

Cantina Rush Minigame

- Did you enjoy the cooking minigame Missions?

Cantina rush I did not find very fun.

1) I picked up the story mission and it did not put me inside the banquet hall which was very confusing.

2) I picked up the hard mission and it was trying to go on infinitely even after I'd served many many many dishes lol. I eventually just forced failure to end it. Please have it give a better indication when you can be done serving.

3) The hard version did not feel hard.

- Do you think it needs to be harder in the hard mode?

Yes.

- What did you enjoy the most? The least?

The bugs made it very unfun.

Prep Work Daily Missions

- Did any of these missions take too long to complete?

I did the ice crystal one. Was fine timing.

- Did you have any difficulty completing world boss missions while in a group?

Couldn't find a group on pts.

- Were the objectives for all prep work missions clear?

The ice crystals mission was clear.

When I became the droid, there was nothing clickable for me. So I just rolled around lol. I love the story and the new setup is nice too.

Oh, by leaving I meant I had to try to go to a stronghold, lol. Sorry, I didn't word that clearly, my bad. when I attempted to go toa stronghold it just popped me out of droid mode but did not take me to a stronghold for some reason.

I did enjoy a few minutes of Cantina Dash, but it's not really something that appeals to me for longer than ten to fifteen minutes tops.

I enjoyed the cooking games and would like to see both of them included in the actual event. The first easy one is very useful in helping the player know where the on and off switches are, and how the game in general is meant to work. I viewed it as a kind of tutorial for the harder timed game.

I've not tried the gathering missions or anything else because I have limited time to play the game and didn't want to spend all of that time on the test server.

Cooking Minigame

Very fun, finding all the stuff was clear although the first time it obviously took a bit. Maybe add arrows on easy mode. I liked the hectic nature of it. Maybe add an even harder mode.

Cantina Rush Minigame

Kinda meh, maybe add some more flavour, something more to do like an overdrive where the guests are really really hungry and you have to use a speed boost on your quickbar but if you use it too often you explode or guests get too drunk and dance on the table and you have to stun them to calm them down.

Also add an Ootini jawa sound when you deliver the order to the jawas.

Oh and please in the name of the emperor add strafe to all of those transform into a droid things. Every self respecting MMO player unbinds those spin to win keys and replaces them with strafe. I get animation wise it can look weird though.

Prep Work Daily Missions

I like the fact that you reincentivise people doing world bosses again. I did not clear any bosses due to lack of players but the gather X quests seem to coincide with the world bosses pretty nicely, just be sure to add enough nodes or make them clickable by all without cooldown cause you can be 100% sure those worldbosses will be farmed by big groups. I'm also worried about respawn times on bosses but there is always that silver lining of making it special and making it an easy spamable thing to do.

Cooking Minigame

- Did you enjoy the cooking minigame Missions?

Yes

- Were you able to understand the objectives? If not, what was unclear?

Objectives were clear

- Did the difficulty of challenge dishes feel appropriate?

Yes, for a once a year fun event it felt like players new and old could complete their missions.

- Did you prefer the timed challenge dish (Ultimate Galactic Sampler) or the untimed challenge dish (Spicy Nexu Supreme) mission?

Both were enjoyable.

- Would you like to see both types of challenge mission in the live version?

Yes, More variety is always preferred.

- Did you have difficulty interacting with any of the ingredients? If so, which ones?

No, but the target area for the mouse-over text for some of the smaller items like the vinegar could be increased to make it clearer that it is an ingredient and not just part of the background detail.

- What did you enjoy the most? The least?

I like that they were short, fun mini games. I think having more than one chance to play the mini game each day would be nice. The re-plays wouldn't need to give a big reward maybe just a few credits or a title for lots of play throughs over the event.

Cantina Rush Minigame

- Did you enjoy the Cantina Rush Minigame Missions?

Yes, with a caveat. I found that the mission was bugged for me every time I attempted it. I would enter the dining area, take command of the droid, but the mission would never finish. I could see that the counter in the kitchen was advancing however when it would hit 25 the mission would not complete.

- Do you think it needs to be harder in the hard mode?

I can not tell as the mission for me did not play correctly.

- What did you enjoy the most? The least?

I liked the general concept of the mini game. The droid tends to hang up on objects like chairs and table corners without them being directly in it's path.

Prep Work Daily Missions

- Did any of these missions take too long to complete?

I have only tried one so far but the time to complete was about right. The item re-spawn was a good speed for the number of people on the test server but may need to be tweaked for large groups on the live server.

- Did you have any difficulty completing world boss missions while in a group?

NA not enough people on when I could test.

- Were the objectives for all prep work missions clear?

Yes

Let us know your thoughts!

A few of my thoughts are:

The conversations with the Hutts need to be fixed. It is rude of them to turn their back to you while in conversation .

While I did see the event and weekly counters in the kitchen for the Cantina Rush Minigame It isn't obvious that it is there and could go to explain why people are complaining about having to work a real server's shift with no tips. Moving them to a more obvious place or adding a count to the mission like bonus missions have just to make sure everybody knows where they are in progress could help.

While I did enjoy the event I think adding a free play mode where you can re-play the minigames after getting your reward just to practice or as a race / challenge with friends would add to the re-play value of this event.

Finally got the Cantina Dash game to work properly. I was immediately put inside the banquet hall in droid mode and the game did not go on endlessly. It was fun, not too long, not too short. I have not tried the hard mode yet, but will do so soon. So far I'm enjoying the variety of activities that come with this event. It's likely something I will repeat each year, assuming there is a wide variety of prizes, rewards, etc. Without the prizes or a vendor selling goods it's difficult to say for sure how much time I'll actually put toward the event.

For example, I don't really care for the swoop races, but I'd do them if the vendors sold anything I was interested in buying (they don't, but to each their own). While I have found the games for Feast of Prosperity entertaining and different if the gain from those activities isn't interesting and varied I won't spend as much time repeating it.

Some things that I would enjoy seeing as prizes, or vendor items would be decos such as tables laden with food. Let me be specific though. I'm not talking about tables that look like the basic civilian table you can get from Felusia under piles of food. While you could certainly have some of those it would be nice to see something more opulent. This would go particularly well in Alderaan strongholds. The cooler, grill, serving droid from the dash game, and any number of other things would make great decos as well.

I'd also love to see some new rugs. The purple oval rug that's already listed in the decos but is unavailable in the game would be a fantastic option. A wide variety of decos in general will incentivize me to repeat this event.

More than one set of armor, mounts with both a machine and creature option. Weapons, perhaps even an event specific tuning that could be either earned or purchased. Again, I feel the need to be specific on this point. A tuning would be cool, but not something horrendous like a ronto grease tuning, lol. Greasy weapons in combat would be both gross and on an immersion level, insane.

Really, if there's a lot of variety in the items and prizes it will keep more people coming back to repeat missions.

ARE YOU GUYS SERIOUS?!

Did you really enjoy it? cooking? bringing food to the tables? what`s gonna be next event....SEWING?

ARE YOU GUYS SERIOUS?!

Did you really enjoy it? cooking? bringing food to the tables? what`s gonna be next event....SEWING?

Why not, could be fun:rak_02:

The intro videos were buggy and showed me the backside of hutts, but I'm sure that's a known thing.

I tried Cantina Rush. I tried clumsily delivering food to tables.

It was so un-fun and so buggy that I just couldn't find it in me to test the rest of it.

I normally love doing PTS demos!

The only things that would interest me enough to slog through it would be:

* More labels for strongholds. Maybe some nice holiday-themed ones.

* Decorations. I'll do my least favorite content if it earns me good (especially interactive and multi-hook) decos.

Yeah, that's about it.

I'm concerned it'll be a hot, buggy mess. The Swoop Rally still has a lot of bugs...

Ok, I've done two separate days on the PTS with the feast and I really enjoyed today's session. I've got a variety of opinions and requests, so I will try to break it up with spoiler tags. I'll answer the requested questions first and give my other thoughts after that.

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Main Feedback Answers

Cooking

Cantina Rush

Prep Work

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Cantina Rush Additional Thoughts

Cooking Additional Thoughts

Prep Work Additional Thoughts

Feast of Prosperity Token Vendor

Thoughts on Additional Rewards

Other Miscellaneous Feedback

Pictures of Things I Would Like to See Made Available as Rewards

As the poster above me said, if your going to have killing world bosses a part of this event, then Please reduce the respawn timer to like 5-10 minutes. With everyone going to be trying to do these we'll all be fighting over these. and the current respawn timer is way to long for that.

Edit: when I mean we'll be fighting over these I don't mean World PvP. I mean groups will be doing taunts to make the bosses evade on other groups so they can get the boss for themselves.

100% agreed on the world boss respawn timers. If Ossus WBs were able to be adjusted to 5minutes, all of the planetary WBs should be no more than 15 minutes (especially during this event that lasts 3 weeks ONCE a year).

If not, things will be a griefing *****how.