Trial By Combat - July 4-6 - Season III

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  • j12601 wrote:
    Just did a playthrough of hard mode. Nothing overly ugly that caused me to lose more than one character except jugggy/sentry/ares. Was close on the first attempt as well.


    Second try I went "Oh, duh... it's desert."
    So brought out mstorm to play with daken and patch. That did the trick in style.

    As for the rest, 256 Daken, maxed Patch and 100 something Falcon have been running a train on those clowns. Been pretty fun so far.
    Wrong topic,lol
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Grazzt wrote:
    Has anyone noticed the match making change?
    Usually I only see 1* teams before I reach 400 pts, then maxed 2* teams before 700
    Now I'm seeing maxed 2* teams at 300ish, even some maxed 3* teams with 900+ score.
    Yeah, thresholds seem to be 100 points lower than what we're used to.
    300/600 instead of 400/700.
  • Grazzt wrote:
    j12601 wrote:
    Just did a playthrough of hard mode. Nothing overly ugly that caused me to lose more than one character except jugggy/sentry/ares. Was close on the first attempt as well.


    Second try I went "Oh, duh... it's desert."
    So brought out mstorm to play with daken and patch. That did the trick in style.

    As for the rest, 256 Daken, maxed Patch and 100 something Falcon have been running a train on those clowns. Been pretty fun so far.
    Wrong topic,lol


    Hah, just realized. Fixed and moved.
  • I'm shielded at 1043 for 8 hours, ran out of health pack, AGAIN!
    This pvp is soooo slow, thanks to shehulk's high hp
  • Bagman requests a continuance on the grounds that this PvP is too ridiculous. Maybe next time.
  • Shamsali - I hope you were shielded up by the time I got at you. Hit you twice since you were worth a ton. A bunch of the crazy point people fell into my nodes right about the same time. So it took me like 20 fights to climb back from the low 500s to 800+. And then maybe 5 fights to break 1k. Weird pvp.

    Shielded for a couple hours if you've got me.
  • HairyDave
    HairyDave Posts: 1,574
    I'm going to be brave and try to get by without shielding - for now anyway. I really don't want to shield for Loki covers icon_lol.gif

    Just over 550 points and amazingly just outside the top 10 in what has to be the laziest bracket I've ever been in. 1st is the only one over 700 points so I may be in for decent HP haul at the finish as long as I don't get mauled while I'm sleeping.
  • vudu3
    vudu3 Posts: 940 Critical Contributor
    j12601, could you possibly make your sig a tiny bit smaller? That's arktos level right there!
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    HairyDave wrote:
    I'm going to be brave and try to get by without shielding - for now anyway. I really don't want to shield for Loki covers icon_lol.gif

    Just over 550 points and amazingly just outside the top 10 in what has to be the laziest bracket I've ever been in. 1st is the only one over 700 points so I may be in for decent HP haul at the finish as long as I don't get mauled while I'm sleeping.
    Most of us aren't going for placement but for that shiny at 1100.
    Getting Loki covers is an unfortunate side-effect.
  • vudu3 wrote:
    j12601, could you possibly make your sig a tiny bit smaller? That's arktos level right there!

    I'll have you know I'm only hitting one of the two size restrictions imposed by the forums. icon_lol.gif
  • So sick of having to face Magneto every match. I've thrown my voice out from screaming at him cascading for 10+ AP in multiple colors every turn. And yet every team on my list is still Magneto/Patch or Magneto/Hulk. It's like I'm in some **** up MMR bucket of nothing but "**** you" teams. I just want to play the game; I don't even want Loki. I don't give a **** about the points or any of that. I just want this game to be fun again.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    So sick of having to face Magneto every match. I've thrown my voice out from screaming at him cascading for 10+ AP in multiple colors every turn. And yet every team on my list is still Magneto/Patch or Magneto/Hulk. It's like I'm in some tinykitty up MMR bucket of nothing but "tinykitty you" teams. I just want to play the game; I don't even want Loki. I don't give a tinykitty about the points or any of that. I just want this game to be fun again.
    Don't worry, past 1000 CMags is mostly gone.
    Of course, he's replaced with UDaken/Hood/Sentry which isn't much better.
  • So, when you go to the recruit heroes page for this event, they have a pic of she-hulk in her human form (forget her name). This feels like foreshadowing for another lazy 2* hero ala Johnny Storm.

    I love how they claim they have "new" characters coming that they've been working on instead of the many fixes and buffs/nerfs that are needed, then just rehash heroes with slightly different pictures that had to have taken about an hour to code. Especially when they're 2* versions of already tinykitty heroes that no one uses. They're just begging me to stop playing this game.
  • Unknown
    edited July 2014
    clagsmd wrote:
    So, when you go to the recruit heroes page for this event, they have a pic of she-hulk in her human form (forget her name). This feels like foreshadowing for another lazy 2* hero ala Johnny Storm.

    That's a good point. I saw the picture of Jennifer Walters in her human form on the store page, I thought that was intriguing, but didn't make that connection.

    I would find it odd personally that art assets would be created and then not applied in some manner beyond a simple storefront page. So, yes, I would agree that I would expect a 2** She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters) in the future.

    That said, I personally do not believe that this is necessarily a bad outcome.

    For Johnny Torch, his addition provides attack tile functionality via Inferno, which has been COMPLETELY MISSING from the 2** game. The same can be said with Flame Jet, which is a currently unique ability to his 3*** incarnation currently. Is he going to be a game changer? Who knows, as of yet? If these new 2**s are constructed in the same vein as 3***s as of late in terms of power creep, then he would be far and away the best 2** character. Ares was the last 2** character created and no one really disputes that he is among the top of the powerhouses in the 2** game.

    For Jennifer, granting a form of special tile dispel (which essentially what Settlement is), would be useful to add as this would begin to teach 2** players the concepts of special tile management, which is critical (and often a differentiating factor) in the 3*** game.

    If adding downgraded 2** characters helps teach new players the mechanics of what to expect when facing 3*** opponents, then I agree with filling in that very specific hole in the game's progression.

    Other 2** "downgrades" that I could see as viable in the future are: Psylocke, Black Panther, Falcon, and Hulk, as there are no 1* or 2** versions of them currently. (Also: Dishonorable mention: Daredevil, but WHY???)

    Fixes tend to come to the game through new characters, more so than corrections to old ones. I'm not thrilled with that, and I understand why, but that's the way Demiurge works.
  • Lyrian wrote:
    (Also: Dishonorable mention: Daredevil, but WHY???)

    Bagman's lonely.
  • Having the worst luck this PvP. Started hopping with just 1 target and I either wipe (Due to inability to get even one yellow or green match or losing my yellow sword in a cascade) or I win and magically get hit nearly everytime.

    Not making any progress so....

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  • When I saw Slobofix at #1 with 1709 points, I knew right then that #2 - 5 rank is the highest I'm going to get.
  • Got my 1100 yay -.-

    Going to play Skyrim I guess until its pve time.
  • Hit 1139 thanks to some lovely high point x-folks who I had queued up. Got the blue cover and I'm shielded out for the rest. Have a 200+ lead over 2nd in my bracket, 500+ over 10th. Methinks they've gentled up the gentle nudge finally.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    Arrogant, let me know when you shield, I have you queued up