Shadows Of Evil – bad design

Let’s talk about Shadows of evil…….

Highest round so far is 22 with 4 players.  Group came from reddit trying to help me to complete the easter egg together.   Majority of my time played with random public players [ZOMG how can you do that!].   Enjoy trying to keep people alive and survival element of zombies.  In the past been able to get to high rounds 35+ on most maps with random players and even groups I know are decent.  Just find it rather boring playing solo or groups decent players apart from getting easter eggs.

Enjoy Shadows of evil but do find map rather frustrating when playing with random players.  Bad design is to blame firmly at pack a punch.

Pack a punch – Not fan of the design behind opening of pack a punch.  Need to collect 4 pieces, complete rituial avoiding any zombies during the process, open up rift and open up the door.   Trying to complete these steps with random players quite challenge very quickly becomes rather hard to complete.  From my experience just not worth trying to complete until players are dead.

Would like to see Treyarch change how rituials work so they are not required to open up pack a punch.  Could always rework the pricing of the doors required that is another option on the table.

Do like the map but loads of frustrating parts which become no go zones and rather hard to keep players up.  Result most people go into death cycle and quit.  Need pack a punch in order to get pass the group of zombies who killed your teammate at certain rounds.  Far easier to let players die over revive them. Due to how the map is designed can’t loop around to pick up teammates.  Loads of tight areas which force you into the zombies, even at rounds 10-15 that can be death sentence. Players often get into death cycle with no way of getting out of it.  Throw in zombie health increases per round upgraded weapon becomes required at certain level.

Map requires you to think is it worth the risk to revive that player most of the time 60% not worth it.

Would be nice if was given more tools to help revive players and more options to get out of the death cycle.  Say free weapon after certain round or gobble gum.