Simulator - July 4 - 11

Abralicious

I never thought Moonstone would give me such a hard time but she somehow managed to have enough purple to cast gravity warp on me EVERY. SINGLE. TURN.

Seems legit!

pmorcs

I am #1 in all three right now with a comfortable lead (and have been for the last day mostly.) I'm not really sure -why-, but I'll take it! I totally identify with the dog/tennis ball video at this point.

I was trying to get the sentry cover in the first sub .. just to see if I could. Very close, but with 6 minutes left, it's not going to happen.

Unknown

Was trying to play a quick game to keep myself in the Top 5 of Normal, and ONCE AGAIN I get another one of those idiotic games where you can NEVER get the matches you actually need and the computer always does.

Unknown

Abralicious wrote:

I never thought Moonstone would give me such a hard time but she somehow managed to have enough purple to cast gravity warp on me EVERY. SINGLE. TURN.

Seems legit!

Was it the node where she was being fed purple by the lieutenant? That *might* explain it.

Unknown

pmorcs wrote:

I was trying to get the sentry cover in the first sub .. just to see if I could. Very close, but with 6 minutes left, it's not going to happen.

Same here. At least I'll get him just in time for the essential nodes in round 2.

HairyDave

Flo should be happy - Sentry is the required character on this pass.

I got one token so far and it was gold! But it was a yellow X-Farce

Abralicious

j12601 wrote:

Abralicious wrote:

I never thought Moonstone would give me such a hard time but she somehow managed to have enough purple to cast gravity warp on me EVERY. SINGLE. TURN.

Seems legit!

Was it the node where she was being fed purple by the lieutenant? That *might* explain it.

I think so... I don't really pay attention, I just get pissed off when I keep getting hit by gravity warp every turn and my buffed Ares gets DOWNED

My heroic tokens were good old Bullseye and Daken! So helpful -__________-

over_clocked

I got 3 golds from 5 placement tokens.

Patch, Hulk and Ragnarok.

*first world MPQ problems*

Glad that Sentry is now the mega-buffed one, my Daken only has 4 in purple while Sentry is 3-3-5 and is going to get another green soon. I just might max Sentry before Clawkid.

Unknown

Just opened my Simulator Token I got.

...2* Thor...

.....

dr tinykittylove

RichHurtz wrote:

Just opened my Simulator Token I got.

...2* Thor...

.....

I know, I know, you only wish you had my luck with pulls. Of 2 progression tokens and 2 sub event tokens, I got, count'em and weep, THREE 2** caps and one Moonstone. I am beside myself with joy and gratitude. And awe.

DD-The-Mighty

D3 designer of The Simulator wrote:

Lets put daken and Hood together with a high HP AP feeder like Maggia Don.

There is a fine line between Challenging and ****. And we have crossed it.

edit: and yes, i am aware that it "could be worse". but still. Feeder matches are pure, atrificial-difficulty, garbage.

Unknown

From 8 event tokens so far... 7 2*, and one 3* - Hood black, which I very much wanted. So I'm ok with that.

ZeiramMR

Yeah, my heroic+ tokens have been great these last two days. 8 simulator tokens gave me an unneeded Hulk, and the black Psylocke I had been waiting for to respec. The S3 10-pack gave me two Human Torch covers and an X-Force. It won't stay this good forever, but I'm glad to have hit rank 5 on a power for three characters in one day.

Unknown

DD-The-Mighty wrote:

D3 designer of The Simulator wrote:

Lets put daken and Hood together with a high HP AP feeder like Maggia Don.

There is a fine line between Challenging and ****. And we have crossed it.

edit: and yes, i am aware that it "could be worse". but still. Feeder matches are pure, atrificial-difficulty, garbage.

I'm pretty sure the worst node ever is still LThor + 2 green feeders. Or maybe that Loki + Patch + Green/Black goon. That's definitely worse than a goon who feeds AP to people who don't really have amazing skills.

Unknown

ZeiramMR wrote:

Yeah, my heroic+ tokens have been great these last two days. 8 simulator tokens gave me an unneeded Hulk, and the black Psylocke I had been waiting for to respec. The S3 10-pack gave me two Human Torch covers and an X-Force. It won't stay this good forever, but I'm glad to have hit rank 5 on a power for three characters in one day.

My luck continues 7 simulator tokens 7 2* covers sold for ISO. At least I get a green sentry when I start these subs about 12 hours before they end. But only need a couple of covers for most characters now so any 3* would probably be useless too.

I did splash out 600HP to have a spot for the AWESOME 2* HT.

Unknown

Speaking of feeder battles, I see they dredged up the HT + two green feeders from a few events ago. That'll be a joy when it moves over to the hard side. Flame jets for everyone! YOU get a flame jet, and YOU get a flame jet, and YOU get a...

Incidentally, I like the new format. Not having to do the exact same fights with some degree of level difference makes the whole affair seem way less stale. Probably just a side effect of True Healing. The game ran out of health packs so it had to use its roster diversity to make two different subs.

hurcules

Since the first set of subs have just ended, does it seem likely that some of us will get the 150k Lazy Daken cover?

Unknown

Someone pinch me...

The SImulation 4 ISO rewards are NOT nerfed after Round 1 in the first time.... ever? 1000 in Normal and 2000 on Hard.

That said, Sim 3 on Hard is going to be a doozy once that one scales up a bit. Hood/Doom/Mohawk Storm is surprisingly deadly if that team even gets a toehold in Black established either via a friendly cascade, Doom's Blue --> Black, or Hood stealing the black you are trying to deny them.

Attack tiles... attack tiles everywhere!

Unknown

hurcules wrote:

Since the first set of subs have just ended, does it seem likely that some of us will get the 150k Lazy Daken cover?

Hard to say at this point. Rather it depends on how hard players push as a community towards 150k points.

Logically speaking, with normal point progression, the trendline for 150k would be 40k + 50k + 60k = 150k. So, for a checkpoint, a player needed to be at 40k after Round 1, and likely needs to at 90k after Round 2 to have a realistic shot at the 150k purple.

After Round 1, the max totals seemed to be about in the 39-41k range, AFAIK, which is on-target. However, the sub was rather hard on most veteran rosters, and most are simply pushing to reach the Sentry at 42k before the event scales too crazily high. I'm unsure much the vets will push after today, when most of them will hit that Sentry cover. The balance of the community pushing is going to have to come from the newer accounts, which is potentially feasible. Someone, somewhere, is going to mindlessly push the bracket scores higher. That is an inevitability.

TL;DR: Too soon to tell. Grind hard at the end of each round and it **may** be possible.

Unknown

WolfmanX25 wrote:

DD-The-Mighty wrote:

D3 designer of The Simulator wrote:

Lets put daken and Hood together with a high HP AP feeder like Maggia Don.

There is a fine line between Challenging and ****. And we have crossed it.

edit: and yes, i am aware that it "could be worse". but still. Feeder matches are pure, atrificial-difficulty, garbage.

I'm pretty sure the worst node ever is still LThor + 2 green feeders. Or maybe that Loki + Patch + Green/Black goon. That's definitely worse than a goon who feeds AP to people who don't really have amazing skills.

The LThor node wasn't THAT bad because of buffed cStorm. For me the worst remains Hood/cMags/Doom from the first Simulator. Or MAYBE that Spidey/Devil Dino one