Unstable ISO-8 - July 18-24

HairyDave

j12601 wrote:

mohio wrote:

After reading this post it made me think that rather than a "test" it is a way for them to gather the data they need to show that cMags is OP (if they really need any more). When all the nodes scale beyond what all your "fair" characters can handle anyone with a viable cMags is going to generally have to turn to him to beat them. So then they can use their "metrics" to show that Mags is overused in PvE and needs his nerf asap. Maybe this is a cynical view on my part, but I've found myself turning to Mags already as these daken/bullseye teams are starting to scale out of control.

This is the first event I've ever really used CMags in. I just picked up the fifth blue a bit more than a week ago as the daily reward at day 135 or wherever it was. He's at level 90, and is 5/3/3. Paired up with Daken or Patch and he pretty much can solo the 200+ guys. It's crazy how overpowered he is. If I can't use Daken + Patch, I'll throw Hood in there and it's just not pretty.

I've been enjoying Cap/Falcon/Hood as well but that's also oppressively slow.

Assuming you get a board with enough blue to start up and keep it rolling - which is something I have yet to see on this set of nodes.

Every Daken match is covered with green, Bullseye attracts all the purple and I never see blue... it's like RNGesus hates me

Edit: And having said that I just made it through the hell node at L223 - lost Psyduck doing it but that's a trade I'll make any day.

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Dreylin wrote:

NorthernPolarity wrote:

I would argue that refactoring the heroics has significantly more impact on features down the road, since now all future heroics can have this design, which feels a lot more important than refactoring this single event.

Heroic Dark Avengers did, which was a new event; the re-run of Juggs did not. Since there are only 4 beginning Chapters (assuming they don't "Heroic" the start-up), there are limited "future Heroics" - even if they Heroic the Episodes, they have their own formats. Heroic Unstable ISO-8 anyone?

Doing this event with a limited roster of 8 characters? 2 of which are 1 stars??? Tinykitty NO!!!

acescracked

Lazy cap is a PvE monster once he gets rolling. Falcon just makes the goons impotent... 3 Viagra won't help those goons.

Ldaken,lcap,falcon...saaweeeet!

HairyDave

One of those rare times Loki actually gets useful:



I basically took no damage from that point

over_clocked

I've been running Patchoki (and oBW) against the Muscle/Bullseye/Daken node, too, and generally running different teams for the heck of it while scaling allows.
Yes, I joined the event, 2 passes gave me the red Cap prog (20k points). I expect to fully catch up with one-two more passes, but man, should have waited more I think.

Unknown

I dunno but I found the node title ironic given what I'm facing, but yea, I'm definately leaving Brazil... well alone!!!

simonsez

I feel like this event is dedicated to all the people who said, "I don't mind True Healing, now that PvE scaling is more reasonable"

HairyDave

Is this where I say I deliberately let my guys get banged up, knowing that they're all going to be healed in less than two hours and my scaling is actually fairly reasonable?

Cause it seems to be working well enough for me to have clawed my way up from 320th about 12 hours ago to 15th after three passes today.

dr tinykittylove

The highest of my new nodes is Hoarders, with 188 Bag Widow, Venom and Maggia don. Working on the assumption that they're all slow moving anyway, and that more health/match damage is always good, I dusted off my 135 IM40 to join punisher and cap.

Apparently the extra health isn't even needed.

I just really hate Maggia Muscles.

I'm sure they'll scale me to tinykitty again soon enough, but I'll enjoy this silly teamup while it lasts.

Unknown

This is definitely the worst scaling I've seen since the Falcon Hunt, 3 months or so ago.

Unknown

lvl 395 is pretty ugly. I'm not there yet.

I thought we would not face those anymore...

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arktos1971 wrote:

lvl 395 is pretty ugly. I'm not there yet.
I thought we would not face those anymore...

In the post-Spidey world, we really shouldn't. Once CMags gets his nerf-bat beatdown, we really, really shouldn't. In fact, after that they should probably just put the limit back to 230. Without those crutches to lean on heavily, anything more than that is pretty unreasonable.

And not to beat a dead horse (but I'm going to do it anyway), but this is just further proof this event badly needs to be updated to function better.

Unknown

To borrow from Anchorman, that escalated quickly.

Joined yesterday, made 18k in first 2 passes -feeling good. After that, everything but featured is hard, deadly or normal with ridiculous dark avenger/goon synergy. Ran out of usable characters/health packs getting squashed in 4 straight nodes.

I'm just running the featureds for the rest of the event.

Marty17

It's just bearable but not by much. In fact most nodes I've beaten once, I left it afterwards, equipping boosts seemingly a waste (even though you get significant points from it but I hate receiving 20iso's at the end of a tough battle).

danikalil

Here Hoarders level 395 .. 334 Leaving Brazil, ok I guess I'll only fight for 20 believe .. Worst scale already seen by me since I started playing .. I did not play much the nodules, about 2 times a day, one of morning and another night since the beginning .. I hope this ends soon pve ..

Unknown

So, I'm thinking it looks like this group of nodes will stay until 12 eastern tomorrow? Then the last set runs for the last 36 hours? Or will there be a flip back to a 12 or 24 hour cycle?

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SirPhobos wrote:

So, I'm thinking it looks like this group of nodes will stay until 12 eastern tomorrow? Then the last set runs for the last 36 hours? Or will there be a flip back to a 12 or 24 hour cycle?

We already did the 36 hour flip thing. I think we're on 24 hour cycles from here out, changing over at midnight eastern.

Unknown

That makes sense, would also avoid a node flip at the same time as First Avenger ends.

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Thugpatrol wrote:

SirPhobos wrote:

So, I'm thinking it looks like this group of nodes will stay until 12 eastern tomorrow? Then the last set runs for the last 36 hours? Or will there be a flip back to a 12 or 24 hour cycle?

We already did the 36 hour flip thing. I think we're on 24 hour cycles from here out, changing over at midnight eastern.

Unless something changed in this version of the event, the previous run of this event had ending node flips at 3.0 days and 1.5 days remaining, resulting in two 36-hour "subs" (if you call them that).

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Lyrian wrote:

Thugpatrol wrote:

SirPhobos wrote:

So, I'm thinking it looks like this group of nodes will stay until 12 eastern tomorrow? Then the last set runs for the last 36 hours? Or will there be a flip back to a 12 or 24 hour cycle?

We already did the 36 hour flip thing. I think we're on 24 hour cycles from here out, changing over at midnight eastern.

Unless something changed in this version of the event, the previous run of this event had ending node flips at 3.0 days and 1.5 days remaining, resulting in two 36-hour "subs" (if you call them that).

Wouldn't that make three 36 hour cycles in a row then? That's madness! Madness I say!

Also, is this event over yet? I've been taking it very easy and even I'm a little burned out on it. I feel for the grinders.