We want your feedback on Rachel and her Quest!

kungflis

The event doesnt pop up for me! 😭 I tried to re-install the game, but that only erased all my saved up lollipops..... Why cant i play the event? 😥

Kajai

Sofia1992 said:

Don't worry @Foley1362 .
I read that after you complete the first part of this challenge which is completing the 10 special levels with Rachel, I will gonna go back in the main map and the Star Chase Event will appear and in order to get Rachel, I will need 45 stars in total right?

I didn't know that there are two parts! Must have overread it. That will be really, really hard for people above level 1000. Those 10 levels in Paris seem to be already very hard. Right now I am stuck on level 4 and level 2-3 were also not eady to pass. You must have either very, very much luck in a level, for example getting a color bomb next to a coloring candy, or you need pre-game and in-game boosters.

I guess from now on I need to be way more generous in my use of in-game boosters and make the most of my pre-game boosters to have a chance of getting Rachel.

seximrtoffee

Rachel Feedback

  {=^(    The current event is nearly  impossible without boosters. 

  [=^)     Rachel's innovative character design is a perfect addition to the Friends™️gang.

  \=^I     Rachel's unique rainbow candy ability has the potential to explode the Candy player King™️dom.  

This event is nearly impossible.

     Everyone has been eagerly anticipating the Rachel challenge ever since the first appearance of the countdown icon on the home screen. As the newest most groundbreaking chronicle in the franchise, Friends Saga™️ and its interactive companions keep player engagement high. Discovering new characters and their accompanying wardrobe options add a new dimension to the Candy Crush™️ world: now, players are invested in the avatar collection--the true fan's most valuable exercise in demonstrating their devotion to the game...The character collections bring a new layer of Fandom much like any classic fad or obsession.

That said, to instill this kind of infatuation and excitement around the unveiling of a new Friend will inevitably fuel the game's success OR it lays groundwork for disappointment. 

Essentially, you had us eating out of the palm of your hand, King™️, so why did you blow it?!

Basically, I regrettably spent 8 bucks, 3 hours, have died 90+ times and am only on level 3. Needless to say, I'm going to throw in the towel.

The games are super difficult, there's a learner's curve with new features like the exploding bubble gum AND I'm pretty sure I can attribute my distress over these levels to Rachel's "power". Im pretty sure she's not helping me win, but sometimes actually causing me to waste a move or color bomb by mixing it with the rainbow. 

Overall, the new character challenges are devastating set ups for failure.  

 Due to my last woe from the similar limited time Bubble Gum Troll Challenge to acquire him as a new avatar-- I'm not totally Gung-ho about the Rachel challenge. Last time, I embarrassingly spent over 8 painstakingly long hours winning all (to my knowledge) the levels to win my beloved Bubble Gum Troll (my favorite character). All this, I completed anxiously against a ticking clock.   Finally, on the edge of my seat, ear to ear grin, only to find a disheartening notification that said something to the effect of:  "Excellent job! Finish the next challenge before the timer runs out to lock in your new avatar." I was so bummed that I hadn't even come halfway to earning him. at this point I gave up entirely and returned to waking life, as usual, but now, with a slight chip on my shoulder. 

In my view, quasi-impossible and time-sensitive goal setting is an ineffectual form of negative-reinforcement. It instills a sense of failure amongst the player-community morale.

Rachel's innovative character  design is a perfect addition to the Friends™️gang.

    Rachel is a cute avatar, super creative. The animation choices such as the tail grab at 5 moves left and her dismissive cold shoulder once you fail the level -- all are the makings of a FRIEND built to last. 

The only slight downside is Rachel's unfamiliarity... I love seeing familiar faces from the original Candy Crush Saga, revamped, in 3D and layered with entertaining quirks. I don't remember her from anything whatsoever...

Rachel's unique rainbow candy ability has the potential to explode the Candy player King™️dom.  

Rachel's powerful rainbow candy is novel. Any veteran King player will relish and delight in experiencing any new candy booster. I wish we could see more new features like this one. 

   However, I'm honestly still trying to wrap my head around what exactly this candy does? When paired with other special candies, its effect differs radically with each one! After the rainbow candy is triggered or paired with another special candy, the directionality of the blast is totally dumbfounding. What exactly is going on here? There have been so many times that I have felt regretful after seeing what appears to be a waste of a move AND a waste of a hard-to-make special candy when I use her candy. 

This could have been an Earth-shattering introduction of a new magic candy! This feels like a lost opportunity to me...

Final Words on New Character Challenges:
      As a teacher, one of my most consistent tenets is providing my students with appropriate challenges, expectations and benchmarks. If faced with too many unattainable and Herculean goals, the student does not benefit and furthermore, she experiences failure--laying detriment to her intrinsic motivation and willingness towards problem-solving. In some extreme cases of excessive disappointment, the student will fear making mistakes, leading them to avoid any attempts or initiations towards new tasks. 

  Lastly, the ticking timer until the new avatar disappears is unnecessarily stressful. My review of this challenge would be fundamentally different if that countdown clock ceases to exist. Why would we want to see a new character vanish out of any realm of possibility? It's like feeding into a consumerist/corporate greed mentality typical of any "collector's edition" or other limited time edition of a rare aspect of any popular franchise brand with a loyal fanbase. 

Sofia1992

Oh god...How much right you have, my friend @seximrtoffee .
You just read my mind completely.
If you ask my opinion, I love this event (it's the first event that I play in this game) and the map and Rachel but those levels...those levels are pain. Real pain.
I'm in level 6 now and no matter what to do, I can't pass it.
I'm stuck completely in that level. Those levels are x10 times more hardcore than the original ones.

Why? Such a good event but still to be spoiled from hard levels plus from the other side, it's very unfair that many people don't have this event in their phones.
I might give up too and go back playing the original levels.

Oh and since this game has its first anniversary in few days, check what I wrote generally (and that includes and Rachel's event too) about what they must change in this game:
https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-friends-saga/discussion/267225/candy-crush-friends-saga-1rst-anniversary-and-some-changes-we-want-to-see-in-the-future#latest

Kajai

I have finished the 10 levels now and have a few stars for the star chase. I got myself two pre-game boosters with the daily rewards and quests while I had all five lives. Then I started playing the Rachel levels again and was relative generous with the use of in-game boosters so that I didn't get stuck on a level and run out of lives and pre-game boosters. I think you can't win them otherwise in a reasonable amount of time. They are simply too hard without pre- and in-game boosters. You need to be extremely lucky without any kind of boosters.

icee

Love Rachel! so cute! I do think the levels are hard. I've only made it to level 3 but hopefully I can get her added to my characters.

flew66

I just finished the part 2 45 Star Chaser and got the reward box. However, I was expecting something a bit different than the regular boosters. Don't get me wrong, it is nice to get 3 lollipop hammers from one box. But it was a bit underwhelmed as I was expecting a costume (like King Chewy for example) from the part 2 reward.

DroneDome

Wow, great feedback everyone. I planned on giving everyone individual responses but all your thoughts outgrew my time being able to do so!
I just want you guys to know we've been reading all and will continue to do so throughout the thread. All feedback is great, we hear you on the difficulty on the levels. Some events might have harder levels and some might be easier. Maybe some of these levels were a bit hard though....
Just know that we always test our levels to be completable without using any boosters. When we test them we never use any boosters ourselves, some might be harder, some might be easier but it's all for the balance of challenge, relief and variation.

Please keep the feedback coming, all kinds of feedback is very appreciated!  

seximrtoffee

Kajai said:

I have finished the 10 levels now and have a few stars for the star chase. I got myself two pre-game boosters with the daily rewards and quests while I had all five lives. Then I started playing the Rachel levels again and was relative generous with the use of in-game boosters so that I didn't get stuck on a level and run out of lives and pre-game boosters. I think you can't win them otherwise in a reasonable amount of time. They are simply too hard without pre- and in-game boosters. You need to be extremely lucky without any kind of boosters.

Aren't there more than just the 10 levels? The Rachel game begins with the intro: "....this two part event ". That's how I got stuck after the gum Troll -- I thought I had finished after the first ten. 

seximrtoffee

@DroneDome did you try playing the levels using the other characters? Maybe Rachel's abilities just take some getting used to. 

mikeyblanc

I am so glad everyone is enjoying Rachel! But I am not. Never got a chance. Don't have the octopus, bubblegum troll or Rachel. I don't think they should roll out anynew events until everyone can enjoy. Both my husband and son have Rachel. Been playing the game the longest and nothing......

DroneDome

seximrtoffee said:

@DroneDome did you try playing the levels using the other characters? Maybe Rachel's abilities just take some getting used to. 

Yeah, we played Rachel quite a lot. We played her for a few months even before we had proper levels for the event, just to tune the ability and see what works and what doesn't.
I think we mainly played Rachel in the event levels, not sure about this though since I was on vacation at the time so don't quote me on it.

Elsa

Well it's now time for me to express my thoughts on this.  I didn't write before because I've spent all my time trying to clear those 10 levels.  I don't even think I'll get to the star chaser at all because I've never been able to do those in the past.  The levels for Rachel were difficult and some I had to spend a couple of days and so many tries trying to clear them.  I am still trying to figure out the rainbow candy that she throws on the board.  I was able to find out what happens when you get 2 next to each other - swipe them both and depending on the direction you swiped it the candies will go in both directions.  That was cool but doesn't happen too often.  I was able to match a wrapped candy with the rainbow and 4 candies turned into wrapped candies.  That is cool but it didn't help me clear the levels.  I had to buy extra moves and boosters for each of the levels.  If she wasn't so darn cute I would have given up.

@seximrtoffee, I read your entire message and I can totally understand where your head is at being a teacher and trying to help the students.  You wrote "If faced with too many unattainable and Herculean goals, the student does not benefit and furthermore, she experiences failure--laying detriment to her intrinsic motivation and willingness towards problem-solving. In some extreme cases of excessive disappointment, the student will fear making mistakes, leading them to avoid any attempts or initiations towards new tasks."

I can totally relate to it. I am only on level 574 and so many players are at the end waiting for new levels.  It does give me a bit of a complex thinking there has to be something wrong with me that I can't clear the levels as fast as others.  I have seen the beat the level contests posted here in the community and I could never participate because I hadn't made it to those levels yet.  Yes, failure is a word that comes to my mind and my heart and I thank you for writing that. 

If Rachel wasn't so darn cute I would have completely given up on this.  @DroneDome you can let the team know that the characters motivate me to write stories and I already have a story in mind for Rachel.  So I might not be good at the game, but I am loving the stories that I can create with the characters.

Kajai

seximrtoffee said:

Kajai said:

I have finished the 10 levels now and have a few stars for the star chase. I got myself two pre-game boosters with the daily rewards and quests while I had all five lives. Then I started playing the Rachel levels again and was relative generous with the use of in-game boosters so that I didn't get stuck on a level and run out of lives and pre-game boosters. I think you can't win them otherwise in a reasonable amount of time. They are simply too hard without pre- and in-game boosters. You need to be extremely lucky without any kind of boosters.

Aren't there more than just the 10 levels? The Rachel game begins with the intro: "....this two part event ". That's how I got stuck after the gum Troll -- I thought I had finished after the first ten. 

There are those 10 Macarons in Paris levels which you can only play with Rachel. The second part is getting 45 stars in normal levels. You need both for getting Rachel. You get 400 of 500 points for the scrapbook for beating the 10 Rachel levels. The last 100 points seemingly come from the Star Chase part, so I still need to beat a bunch of normal levels to get her.

Unfortunately the normal levels are not so much easier. I am at level 1425 right now. But I think I can beat them easily in time with a less often usage of in-game boosters than I used for the 10 Rachel levels. Rachel's ability is in my opinion not super strong. Fun and a nice diversion for sure, but compared to other characters not particular effective.

m_eo

Having read all the comments above I have to admit that partly I strongly disagree. I finished the second part of the challenge yesterday having used one lollipop at level 8 I think, and with so much time left, this should be doable for everyone. Those extra levels are supposed to be hard, or else it wouldn't be a challenge, would it?

But there seems to be a bug or is it? After having finished the challenge, Rachel disappeared out of my album. Yes, I also had 400 out of 500 points, so she wasn't safe. But I don't see any possibility to have gotten all the 500 points anyway. Should the challenge really have been in vain? This would REALLY be quite unfortunate! 

As to the other two characters mentioned above (Olivia and Bubblegum Troll) this was the first time I even heard about them. I would like to be given these events, I started playing the game 69 days ago, am on level 822 and I think having those characters is overdue! ;-)

Edit: After reading the Wiki I assume that the Troll will be the last undiscovered costume I have left, so that leaves only Olivia missing.