Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_casino_city_b7c_adv_gamblers_paradise_tycoon-1694699077.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Pass w/ changes (2/3)

Team Lineup:

• Cariles (Spy)
  
• Royal (Engineer)
  
• totalnoob (Pyro)
  
• Mince (Scout)
  
• B855 (Heavy)

• There was a sizeable number of smg snipers left over after the other mainwave bots were gone, I think you could cut their totalcount by 15 and/or make them support limited.

• Remove 2 giant pyro squads from the ending subwave.

• The boss's support felt very insufficent. I know in previous runs the support was much too overbearing, so while I suggest buffing the support wavespawn totalcounts I'll also say weighting the rng in some fashion to achieve more consistent balance would be helpful for fixing the difficulty pendulum swing.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_oilrig_rc5_adv_enchanted_metal-1694301758.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike.

Team Lineup:

• Cariles (Scout)
  
• Lemonee (Engineer)
  
• Soggy Flaps (Demo)
  
• Whurr (Spy)
  
• Sergeant Table (Soldier) -> StardustSpy (Sniper)

• Timewise, each wave is quite short, even with the team often getting pushed to hatch.
  
• At the same time, some bot choices are underwhelming relative to the amount of money: this may be a map problem because of the open-ness of the front.

• Even for the beginning of the mission, 3 hard ai detonator spammer giants are not particularly threatening.

• Not sure what the sandstorm effect/necromancer demoknights do?
  
• This is a reccuring theme of this mission: giving robots sfx that ends up being confusing rather than clarifying what they do.

• 4 Bowmen straggle at the end.
  
• The previous run suggested adding some additional stuff: the Giant Heavies did push us hard, but the wave remains slightly shorter than average.

• Permacrit flare pyros are questionable in strength at this stage, but the giant rapid fire plus crit med pocket that they were supporting felt sufficiently challenging.

• The yellow sparkles are another case of a very unclear indication.

• The floating danger circle above the common heavies are not exactly clear either (they will taunt kill/melee instakill you?).
  
• They work fine as a boss telegraph (though at the high money we are given, and the boss's current damage potential, he is not a very threatening robot to begin with)
  
• If the flame attack were threatening, it would likely be very annoying, since the hitbox is unclear and the effect can blind players.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_shiverpeak_rc3_adv_bytes_and_blizzards_j-1694298814.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Cariles (Scout)
  
• Lemonee (Soldier)
  
• Soggy Flaps (Sniper)
  
• Whurr (Pyro)
  
• darinsky (Engineer)

• The giant shield shotgun heavy at the end of wave 1 feels much too difficult for this stage of the mission, shield just buffs his difficulty exponentially because he becomes essentially invulnerable half the time unless you get close to strafe the shield which happens to be the range in which he can one shot.

• Wave was fine other than the fact that the final subwave softlocked due to some maybe faulty relays/fixup shenanigans(?).

• The boss's shield is broken due to the spawning method.
  
• Even if the shield wasn't broken it would still be an issue as I feel it would make the wave too difficult for those certain teams who were only barely able to stop the meds from reaching the boss. If you really like the shield idea you might could have it break after taking a certain amount of damage.
  
• Boss is very susceptible to airblast and short circuit to the point where his damage output can be completely shut down for the majority of the fight.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_sequoia_rc4_adv_collision_point-1693774721.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Strike

Team Lineup:

• Cariles (Scout)
  
• Lemonee (Pyro)
  
• darinsky (Demoman)
  
• Say Please I switch to Med/Engi (Engineer - I asked him nicely :>)
  
• Hell-met (Medic)

• In the future I recommend hosting public tests in the potato discord before updating this submission, it's got the trappings of an inexperienced mission maker and the regulars in the discord are usually more than happy to point out where things are going wrong and help people improve their mission making skills.
  
• Very inconsistent difficulty and pacing between waves.

• Super scouts with no support is a very dry opener. Try sending in some support commons ahead of/with them. (Also max bot speed is capped so your super scouts don't actually move any faster than default ones. Which is good because 800% move speed is absurdly high!)
  
• The rapidfire giant soldiers are much too deadly this early on, try replacing them with less deadly bots (T_TFBot_Giant_Soldier, for instance).
  
• The final subwave with 60 crit bat scouts is wayyy too drawn out. I don't like the idea of attempting to make that subwave work personally but it would probably be more effective if the bat scouts' totalcount was just 20 and they used WaitForAllSpawned (instead of WaitForAllDead) with a value of somewhere from 30-40.

• Initial subwave is much weaker than anything wave 1 threw at us.
  
• Giving the GDeflectors kritz meds results in a far more difficult subwave than the cash amount would call for. Replace them with something like T_TFBot_Medic_BigHeal.
  
• Similar to the previous subwave's complaint, the rocket jumping soldiers are far too difficult a challenge for this stage of the mission.

• Spawn the gas pyros in smaller bursts than 10, it's uncalled for to force people's PCs to render 10 gas cloud particles at once.
  
• The giant soldiers are all stacked making the subwave easy pickings for aoe classes. Stagger their spawns so they don't all arrive at once.

• The first subwave has far too many bots are spawning at once making it a bit ridiculous to deal with. Following this up immediately with a large burst of crit DH soldiers resulted in a bit of a deathball.
  
• The crit direct hit soldier subwave is very drawn out.
  
• I think it's advisable to give the giant persian demoknights the standard giant stats, as well as reducing their totalcount.

• Wave overall lacks sufficient difficulty for the given cash amount. The final subwave is the closest to its intended difficulty setting.
  
• Please have the bots on this wave drop money. Despite the fact that it is the final wave and there won't be a following between-round upgrade period, players expect to be able to earn cash for the individual kills they get all the same.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_humbridge_b9c_adv_hampton_helix_judge-1693863839.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Pass (3/3)

Team Lineup:

• Cariles [Spy (Waves 1-2) > Heavy (Waves 3-End)
  
• Sntr (Engineer)
  
• Lemonee (Pyro)
  
• Skin King (Scout)
  
• The One Of Wonders [Heavy (Waves 1-2) > Demoman (Waves 3-End)
  

• Mission is in a good state, though there were some complaints about players being forced to have their nose in tanks for a majority of a couple of the waves. Congratulations on pass number three!

Demo:
Full Run - https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_spybase_rc5_exp_waters_of_a_robot_regime-1693770521.zip
Rerun of waves 5 and 6 with different comp - https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_spybase_rc5_exp_waters_of_a_robot_regime-1693772971.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Pass w/ changes

Team Lineup:

• Sergeant Table (Scout)
  
• Mr. Luigi (Pyro)
  
• Cariles (Soldier)
  
• Hell-met (Demoman)
  
• territori64 (Heavy)
  
• Cargo O' Truth (Engineer)

• Lower the range on the boss's ground smash attack as it instakills from deceptively and unreasonably far away.
  
• Force the left route variation during this wave so that boss isn't hanging out right outside red spawn in an fairly awkward area for the latter half of the wave.

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_cliffside_b8_exp_technological_triumph_j-1693578037.dem

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Perscrutado (Demoman
  
• Sntr (Civilian)
  
• Cariles (Engineer)
  
• Dylan_is_legend (Pyro)
  
• Soldier (Clairessa)
  
• Sergeant Table (Scout)

• Much of the mission felt very much weaker than it should be with the expert difficulty label.
  
• Disable the custom canteen upgrading unless you're able to restrict it to only apply to your civilian class. It's confusing to players and can consume their credits before they understand that it's functionally similar to normal canteens.

• Tank should be moved to the penultimate subwave and followed up with/accompanied by the giant heavies.

• This wave could use an additional ending subwave, a single strong giant with support would do the trick.

• This wave felt lacking in substance at the end again similar to the previous one.

• The starting and ending subwaves of this wave are lacking in difficulty.

• This wave feels straight out of an advanced mission.

Posting on cactus's behalf (he sleeping)
Demo: https://eu.potato.tf:27020/demos/mvm_humbridge_b9c_adv_hampton_helix_judge-1693474433.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Pass w/ changes

Team Lineup:

• Dr. Cactus (Scout)
  
• Zeta (Demoman)
  
• Sntr (Engineer)
  
• Mudun (Sniper)
  
• Poland Satan (Soldier)

• Enforcer snipers felt a bit too powerful, some form of nerf would be appreciated.

• Tank HP should be reduced slightly.

• Either lightly increase the waitbetweenspawns on the GHeavies or lower their medics' uber duration.

Demo: https://eu.potato.tf:27020/demos/mvm_rottenburg_adv_munich_mugging-1693565444.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: Pass w/ changes (2/3)

Team Lineup:

• Sntr (Engineer)
  
• Sergeant Table (Scout)
  
• Cariles [(Sniper) Waves 1-5 -> (Pyro) Wave 6]
  
• MEGA SMASHER (Soldier)
  
• dareaperofsouls (Medic)

• Nerf speed for the boss's super phase to compensate for not being able to get close to him reliably.

• The boss' icons aren't appearing, I suggest putting _giant at the end of their ClassIcon key value (make a new .vmt using the _giant suffix if one doesn't already exist).

Demo: https://testing.potato.tf/demos/mvm_spybase_rc4_exp_waters_of_a_robot_regime-1693510617.zip

Strike, Pass, or No Strike?: No Strike

Team Lineup:

• Cariles (Scout)
  
• Skin King (Soldier)
  
• territori64 (Pyro)
  
• call-me-a-trash (Sniper)
  
• Soggy Flaps (Demoman)
  
• Sntr (Engineer)

• This mission is in a pretty decent state for this first session, with some tweaks I'm sure it'll be churning out pass runs in no time.

• Second to last subwave felt fairly weak comparative to the rest of the mission, this may have been due to the giant's support running out too early.

• The wave doesn't give you any space to breathe which culminates in a rough final subwwave in which seemingly all 9 giants can be active simultaneously in addition to continuous giant support. Please implement some compromises to reduce the final subwave's difficulty.

• Interesting boss, but I do have a few gripes.
  
• I personally find red team wipe to be fairly weak as a loss condition and feel the wave suffers for it.
  
• The phase when the 3 additional bosses spawn presents too large of an hp pool and simultaneously too little of a threat to be engaging.
  
• The boss's final phase doesn't really stand out in any capacity.