The Gauntlet: Oct. 30 - Nov. 4

fmftint

SunCrusher wrote:

It feels like the game is really mad at me for escaping out of Simulation 37 with only 100 HP remaining on Ares.

On 38, twice in a row, my board has started with one and only one bad move to make from the get-go. Bad as in, it will allow the AI to make a match-4 or match-5 (but the AI will likely match-4).

Third time produces a slightly better but very Purple-deficient board, but I tinykitty it up by matching a vertical match-4... which drops a tile that will allow the AI to make a horizontal match-4. The AI matches it, of course... and the entire top row that drops in has no fewer than 5 Green tiles in a row.

Triggers critical which is already bad, but even worse, it auto-matches more Green below.

I can't steal yet but we all know what's going to happen next.

Sentry World Ruptures and my entire board is covered in an X fashion with WR tiles.

... I retreated.

Edit: Hoping to collect Essential Marvel to finish Alpine for Daken and to finish Domination for Black Panther. Already have a single Daken cover and no Panthers so really trying to finish.

Does anyone remember the order of Essentials in Domination in the first series of Essential nodes? I can see Blade's but I don't know who comes after?

Thanks in advance!

Essential 13
Bagman
Essential 14
40
Essential 15
patch
Essential 16
mowhawk
Essential 17

Essential 18
, , Ragnarok

SunCrusher

Thank you very much.

Pwuz_

Essential 18


I would have really rather seen this node feature


I just think it would have been funnier...Even if it would have been harder since buffed to 200+ is a far more dangerous foe than

SunCrusher

Thor, Thor, and MORE Thor?

*inches away from that node in case it should ever appear*



... Actually, on second thought, there would be AP conflict for them so who would use what? Would the AI with the fewest needed APs go first or would the AI with the higher AP hoard AP and then go? Or a mix?

So I collected Marvel's cover and Daken's cover, but no Black Panther. Needed an extra day for the Domination sub so decided to be happy just collecting my Marvel and Daken. Stopped playing with the last 2 nodes to go on Domination and the 3 last Essentials.

Pwuz_

SunCrusher wrote:

:shock:

Thor, Thor, and MORE Thor?

*inches away from that node in case it should ever appear*



... Actually, on second thought, there would be AP conflict for them so who would use what? Would the AI with the fewest needed APs go first or would the AI with the higher AP hoard AP and then go? Or a mix?

So I collected Marvel's cover and Daken's cover, but no Black Panther. Needed an extra day for the Domination sub so decided to be happy just collecting my Marvel and Daken. Stopped playing with the last 2 nodes to go on Domination and the 3 last Essentials.

Which ever one the AI spins the bottle to, same as how it determines all it's AP conflicts.

It does favor in the real node, so by focusing on , takes away their outlet, then removes their outlet. Deny , it honestly was a pretty easy node.

TazFTW

Beat everything except Sim 42 and Essential 18. I came closest on beating Essential 18 with downing the Thors but then Rags spammed me to death. I didn't even down anyone once on Sim 42. I would target Thor first but Fury or DareDevil Team-Up would lay their traps and game over.

dr tinykittylove

TazFTW wrote:

Beat everything except Sim 42 and Essential 18. I came closest on beating Essential 18 with downing the Thors but then Rags spammed me to death. I didn't even down anyone once on Sim 42. I would target Thor first but Fury or DareDevil Team-Up would lay their traps and game over.

Gauntlet is over, but when there are 3 dangerous enemies, it's usually a good idea to drop the lowest health one first (in this case Fury). One less enemy's abilities to guard against is always better.

For Thoreen/Thor/Rags I dropped Thoreen first because she has an additional colour and lower cost dangerous powers, then Rags because his cheap powers are spammable and have a good chance of generating ap. Thor is the least troublesome with his high cost abilities - as long as you have an ap stealer he's fairly harmless.

Vankysher

SunCrusher wrote:

So I collected Marvel's cover and Daken's cover, but no Black Panther. Needed an extra day for the Domination sub so decided to be happy just collecting my Marvel and Daken. Stopped playing with the last 2 nodes to go on Domination and the 3 last Essentials.

I stopped much earlier due to RL commitments and picked it back up with a little over 2 hours to go. I wiped on nodes 37 and 38 but barely got through them which of course used up all my health packs. With 50 minutes left in the event my run was over so no for me.

Unknown

I didn't bother with the last node or the last few essentials. I figured the time would be better spent on Lightning Rounds, which paid off pretty well. But I liked having it, and would have liked it more if they had handed out more event tokens.

SunCrusher

Vankysher wrote:

SunCrusher wrote:

So I collected Marvel's cover and Daken's cover, but no Black Panther. Needed an extra day for the Domination sub so decided to be happy just collecting my Marvel and Daken. Stopped playing with the last 2 nodes to go on Domination and the 3 last Essentials.

I stopped much earlier due to RL commitments and picked it back up with a little over 2 hours to go. I wiped on nodes 37 and 38 but barely got through them which of course used up all my health packs. With 50 minutes left in the event my run was over so no for me.

Given everything, I think we did pretty good regardless.

Next time, I'll see if I can crank in a little more time; I think I could have made it if I had given myself a little extra time.