The Simulator - Nov 11th-18th

GrumpySmurf1002

Vankysher wrote:

Essential Node 10 on Hard was too much for my Hulk/Hood/Thor.
Hood tanking was essentially one-shot by a Surgical Strike.
After downing Sentry, Thor was killed by a Technopathic Strke with a wonderful cascade.
One move later, another Surgical Strike and Hulk was down.

Anyone have relatively good success with particular combos?

I've been going with 144 FatThor (3/5/5) and 134 LCap (4/5/3). Kill XForce first, ideally by denying red and green while you do it. Then worry about Sentry, and finally Doom.

I haven't gotten through it yet without Hood dying, but between DA and Cap's blue, it can slow them down enough to get the big damage abilities (Cap's red, CoTS) out. If the AI cascades 8 green early, just quit and start over.

Trisul

Vankysher wrote:

Essential Node 10 on Hard was too much for my Hulk/Hood/Thor.
Hood tanking was essentially one-shot by a Surgical Strike.
After downing Sentry, Thor was killed by a Technopathic Strke with a wonderful cascade.
One move later, another Surgical Strike and Hulk was down.

Anyone have relatively good success with particular combos?

My go-to on that node has been 3* Cap, 1-yellow IM40, Hood with red/yellow boost. One yellow match and you accelerate red AP to throw shields around. I kill XF first.

Unknown

I'm looking at higher full point caps on my easy essential nodes than I have on my hard ones. Illogical but more than welcome. I'd rather farm points with my b rate squids than get my **** kicked with my best guys HAR HAR HAR!

I may reach that hooker mystique after all,

GrumpySmurf1002

tuscan panty raider wrote:

I'm looking at higher full point caps on my easy essential nodes than I have on my hard ones. Illogical but more than welcome.

The hard sim is so difficult that it's likely scores are more bunched, which means less rubberband, which means less available points above base. Everyone's probably said f-it and just gave up on the hard and is grinding the tinykitty out of the easy. Can't say I blame them.

Unknown

I'm doing like two nodes per clear in the hard and I'm staying in consistent position (around 5th-7th) in my bracket. I think I"m getting more points from the easy one.

Bowgentle

Ben Grimm wrote:

I'm doing like two nodes per clear in the hard and I'm staying in consistent position (around 5th-7th) in my bracket. I think I"m getting more points from the easy one.

Yes, hopefully people are grinding normal enough that I can RB to about 50K.
I'll probably get about 25-30k from hard, not more.

anamosity

I'm at 20 in my bracket, so I'm not slacking in grinding nodes, but I've just cleared 120k. With hard destroying my team, I've only really got ~4-5 nodes giving me less than 1000 each points every 2 hours. Unless rubber banding kicks into overdrive that mystique cover looks really far away unless I forgo sleeping.

Unknown

I;m in pretty much that same boat. Top 20ish in my bracket. Grinding the heck out of nodes with Hulk being the only Essential I had and just cracked 120K. I MIGHT hit 160K for a single Mystique cover, but its going to be really close. Only reason I made it this far, and the only reason I might stand a chance is I've been sick and not sleeping well...lol yay common cold!

GrimSkald

anamosity wrote:

I'm at 20 in my bracket, so I'm not slacking in grinding nodes, but I've just cleared 120k. With hard destroying my team, I've only really got ~4-5 nodes giving me less than 1000 each points every 2 hours. Unless rubber banding kicks into overdrive that mystique cover looks really far away unless I forgo sleeping.

I've just cleared 130K - I started today just under 100K so that does mean I got 30K today. We have one more day - it closes tomorrow at midnight EST - I suspect you'll be all right.

Edit - I definitely find that Normal is better for points - the point values on the nodes are only slightly less and they're a lot easier. Also, don't forget you can go back to the 1000/2000 Iso award node and grind it for points - it actually gives a decent amount.

Unknown

GrimSkald wrote:

anamosity wrote:

I'm at 20 in my bracket, so I'm not slacking in grinding nodes, but I've just cleared 120k. With hard destroying my team, I've only really got ~4-5 nodes giving me less than 1000 each points every 2 hours. Unless rubber banding kicks into overdrive that mystique cover looks really far away unless I forgo sleeping.

I've just cleared 130K - I started today just under 100K so that does mean I got 30K today. We have one more day - it closes tomorrow at midnight EST - I suspect you'll be all right.

Yeah, I've been getting loads of points today (20k about) with doing all essentials + 1 other in hard. Did this 3times so far

wymtime

Trisul wrote:

Vankysher wrote:

Essential Node 10 on Hard was too much for my Hulk/Hood/Thor.
Hood tanking was essentially one-shot by a Surgical Strike.
After downing Sentry, Thor was killed by a Technopathic Strke with a wonderful cascade.
One move later, another Surgical Strike and Hulk was down.

Anyone have relatively good success with particular combos?

My go-to on that node has been 3* Cap, 1-yellow IM40, Hood with red/yellow boost. One yellow match and you accelerate red AP to throw shields around. I kill XF first.

Good Team. I use LThor with Daken boosting R,Y,G. I normally take out Sentry then X-Force. I have only been hit by 1 X-force. LCap is my alternate to LThor so I don't use too many health packs.

Unknown

Hard nodes are pretty nasty. Took me the better part of 7 to do a full clear. Good thing those were my daily rewards today no?

Easy nodes however, are 50% less levels, and 50% more points. Interesting.

Unknown

I started the day at 120k and am nearly at 140 without too much effort. I'll try to get to 150 before bed so I guess I should get the top prize.

Nice to tie up some loose ends, completes my mystique colors, and maxes out my AIDS falcon covers to 13 total. I bed he can be a real pain in the **** to fight at times when he's maxed out.

hex706f726368

j12601 wrote:

Hard nodes are pretty nasty. Took me the better part of 7 to do a full clear. Good thing those were my daily rewards today no?

Easy nodes however, are 50% less levels, and 50% more points. Interesting.

The hard side of the simulator has been feeling more and more guantlet-ish to me every subsequent round. I wonder if they're trying to make it what separates the top finisher's in the main w/o having to grind every 2.5 hrs.

I wouldn't be too much against the easy side defining the progression reward and the hard side defining final placement (hope that makes sense).

Unknown

wymtime wrote:

Trisul wrote:

Vankysher wrote:

Essential Node 10 on Hard was too much for my Hulk/Hood/Thor.
Hood tanking was essentially one-shot by a Surgical Strike.
After downing Sentry, Thor was killed by a Technopathic Strke with a wonderful cascade.
One move later, another Surgical Strike and Hulk was down.

Anyone have relatively good success with particular combos?

My go-to on that node has been 3* Cap, 1-yellow IM40, Hood with red/yellow boost. One yellow match and you accelerate red AP to throw shields around. I kill XF first.

Good Team. I use LThor with Daken boosting R,Y,G. I normally take out Sentry then X-Force. I have only been hit by 1 X-force. LCap is my alternate to LThor so I don't use too many health packs.

Try hood, cStorm and mnMags. Use a blue/purple ap boost. Collect purple ap then use polarity shift then wind storm. Continue spamming until you win. Make sure to use your stub from wind storm on sentry or xforce. I can get out of this one with no health packs. All lvl200 sentry xforce and doom

Unknown

I only have about 50K points from R3 so far so I think hitting 100K is very unlikely (better have at least this much by now with only one day left). The hard mode is just totally owning everyone it seems. I see higher scores on the normal bracket compared to the hard bracket on average even though the hard bracket starts with double the base points. Nick Fury works well for the 2 'no Wolverine' nodes. If you don't have him... well, good luck finding someone to cover purple for The Hood that can actually contribute to winning, and having The Hood tank 5 out of 7 (his color, TU, purple) colors against the enemy you fight is like some kind of horror show.

danae

For the essential nodes, I've had success in using LCap and OBW, using +3 boosts to red/yellow and blue/purple. Where I can't use those guys, I use XForce and LThor. So far I have only needed to use at most 2 health packs every 2.5 hours while beating the six essential nodes. My simulator 10 in Hard has just scaled to 255 but so far still manageable. Hopefully, it doesn't go much more than that as the match damage might be enough to kill OBW in a few turns.

y2fitzy

have to say I've absolutely loved this Simulator. Normally I'm as impatient as a small child at Christmas, jumping into a new PVE as soon as it opens but managed to hold off for 12 hours on this one. As a result lucked into a bracket that, while competitive, I'm on track for my best ever finish (currently 7th and hopeful of top 10)

Up to 152k so Mystique is within touching distance and have also taken the chance to amass a few beastly TUs which will come in handy later. And both tokens for round 2 turned gold (haven't had a gold token in forever, so that made a nice change)

If Carlsberg made PVE events...

Unknown

Yesterday I made it from about 105 to about 145, and that was playing non-optimally.

Still just hitting two nodes per clear in in the hard (the two easier essentials), and my ranking has actually been going up - have a very good shot at top 5 in hard now, since I only dropped from 4 to 5 overnight. On the cusp of top 10 overall, but top 10 vs. top 20 is only 1000 ISO, so I'm not going to (literally) lose sleep over it.

Should hit 160k mid-day, and will probably keep grinding for (sub) placement.

ZeiramMR

Is anyone else seeing erroneous "Full Points in..." timers? I last played the PVE last night, and all my nodes are floating back and forth around 10 minutes remaining?

EDIT: Restarting my phone fixed the problem.