Oscorp: Heroic Jan. 13-21

ZootSax

Has anyone else seem some pretty severe negative scaling in the past 12 hours or so or is it just my event grouping? The "Overwatch" node (Moonstone-Bullseye-Ares) node in the second subevent just had all the enemy levels drop by at least 150 or so over that time (for reference, my max character is level 92 and that node had the Dark Avengers at level 150 when I just played it this morning). It was nice not having every enemy ability one-shot a party member (or in the case of Ares , wipe out my whole team)...

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Vankysher wrote:

Mandorallen wrote:

Heroic huh? How's this for heroic? Some dude has three of the required covers for PVE, just THREE... and somehow he's been able to make up 12,000 point deficit to overtake me in first place. Tell m, how is that possible? Talk about spamming health packs... this guy must be into the devs for some SERIOUS coin. Nothing worse than grinding for first only to be overtaken by some **** with more money than me.

If he spent the money to get health packs, he deserves an advantage since this is a F2P game. He still has to clear the nodes and do it in an optimal fashion which at least doesn't make it P2W.

I do find it amusing that someone is spending $$$ to get Squirrel girl when detractors said she wasn't worth it XD

ZootSax wrote:

Has anyone else seem some pretty severe negative scaling in the past 12 hours or so or is it just my event grouping? The "Overwatch" node (Moonstone-Bullseye-Ares) node in the second subevent just had all the enemy levels drop by at least 150 or so over that time (for reference, my max character is level 92 and that node had the Dark Avengers at level 150 when I just played it this morning). It was nice not having every enemy ability one-shot a party member (or in the case of Ares , wipe out my whole team)...

Considering I haven't done that node because it'd kill me/drain my health packs too much, I could see this happening. My 2*Roster in this sub can't handle that node, at those levels. My 3*roster of are too underleveled to even think of taking it on. I assume many others are in a similar situation since Blade is extremely new, spidey is sucky, and Deadpool you have to commit a crime to get covers for

thanos8587

raisinbman wrote:

Vankysher wrote:

Mandorallen wrote:

Heroic huh? How's this for heroic? Some dude has three of the required covers for PVE, just THREE... and somehow he's been able to make up 12,000 point deficit to overtake me in first place. Tell m, how is that possible? Talk about spamming health packs... this guy must be into the devs for some SERIOUS coin. Nothing worse than grinding for first only to be overtaken by some **** with more money than me.

If he spent the money to get health packs, he deserves an advantage since this is a F2P game. He still has to clear the nodes and do it in an optimal fashion which at least doesn't make it P2W.

I do find it amusing that someone is spending $$$ to get Squirrel girl when detractors said she wasn't worth it XD

i think the detractors are upet by her being an obscure/cartoony/kiddie character rather than one of the more mainstay popular characters in the marvel universe. i dont think anyone can comment on her power level in game until they see how her covers scale. she might be quite good in game, but if youre looking for more fantastic four or xmen, then squirrel girl is not your cup of tea and a big disappointment.

many people will spend time and or money to get her just for completionist sake.

loroku

For people having difficulty in this event, generally speaking the best advice is to remember that well-covered characters are much more important than characters that are "good." I was limping along on a sub-optimal team just because those were the "better" characters but eventually I was forced to use my top three characters even though they aren't a particularly strong group - but the difference was immediately noticeable (in a positive way). 20-30 levels can really make a difference in match damage.

Dartmaster01

Anyone have info on third sub?

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Mandorallen wrote:

Heroic huh? How's this for heroic? Some dude has three of the required covers for PVE, just THREE... and somehow he's been able to make up 12,000 point deficit to overtake me in first place. Tell m, how is that possible? Talk about spamming health packs... this guy must be into the devs for some SERIOUS coin. Nothing worse than grinding for first only to be overtaken by some **** with more money than me.

Hi. I'm new here and happened to read this thread. Not sure if you are referring to me but I only have Human Torch, Iron Man and Black Widow only on the 2nd stage. I'm not doing anything special. I just play a lot right now. I time my runs and avoid the harder ones (so on and so fourth -insert strategy-). Maybe you higher level guys have it harder than newbies like us?

PS: Currently spent ZERO $$$ on this game

thanos8587

wph888 wrote:

Mandorallen wrote:

Heroic huh? How's this for heroic? Some dude has three of the required covers for PVE, just THREE... and somehow he's been able to make up 12,000 point deficit to overtake me in first place. Tell m, how is that possible? Talk about spamming health packs... this guy must be into the devs for some SERIOUS coin. Nothing worse than grinding for first only to be overtaken by some **** with more money than me.

Hi. I'm new here and happened to read this thread. Not sure if you are referring to me but I only have Human Torch, Iron Man and Black Widow only on the 2nd stage. I'm not doing anything special. I just play a lot right now. I time my runs and avoid the harder ones (so on and so fourth -insert strategy-). Maybe you higher level guys have it harder than newbies like us?

PS: Currently spent ZERO $$$ on this game

i would guess the odds are pretty low that you are being referred to specifically, but a newer player with a 1 star or beginning 2 star roster has much lower scaling than a mature roster. on top of that your guys heal much faster. this lets new players actually score as high or higher in PVEs than long timers as long as you grind effectively from start to finish. enjoy your early successes as the advantage will disappear quickly as you develop your 2 star characters. and have fun, it can get frustrating when it feels so easy to start and then the difficulty stiffens.

fmftint

Dartmaster01 wrote:

Anyone have info on third sub?

9 nodes
3 goon noodes
4 villain/goon/goon nodes
2 dark avenger nodes Moonstone/Yelena/Daken Ares/Daken/Yelena

Usable heroes in:
Daredevil
Falcon
Storm Classic
Hawkeye Classic

Usable heroes out:
Deadpool
Storm Mohawk
Captain America Modern
Black Widow Modern

simonsez

fmftint wrote:

4 villain/goon/goon nodes

Are they bullsht feeder nodes (eg Juggs and two snipers)?

fmftint

simonsez wrote:

fmftint wrote:

4 villain/goon/goon nodes

Are they bullsht feeder nodes (eg Juggs and two snipers)?

Yelena/Assassin/Spy
Venom/Grenadier/Grenadier
Daken/Grenadier/Grenadier
Bullseye/Pyro/Pyro

Scoregasms

Last sub isn't terrible scaling wise, early on at least. Last node is a bit of a pain with Lazy Daken/Ares/Yelena, thankfully no Goon AP pump. After two clears, already thinking I am gonna start skipping that last one, lol. Total of 5040 points (non-rubberband) and of course Rocket Man in Main still open for 200.

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Mandorallen wrote:

Heroic huh? How's this for heroic? Some dude has three of the required covers for PVE, just THREE... and somehow he's been able to make up 12,000 point deficit to overtake me in first place. Tell m, how is that possible? Talk about spamming health packs... this guy must be into the devs for some SERIOUS coin. Nothing worse than grinding for first only to be overtaken by some **** with more money than me.

I expected no less from the bastard of Vo Mandor.

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lukewin wrote:

I am one of those 7. I only plan on getting Top 10 overall, already got 5 Fury Blues. I wish I could say my sub has it easier. I lost to 2nd, last minute snipe by 46 pts. Cost me a token, which would've been my 3rd 2* anyway, so no big loss. I didn't grind at the end as much as I could because I was busy running into the 166 wall in PVP. Didn't plan well enough and chose the PVP that ended an hr after the sub ended. Any luck with your 3 tokens? I did like the 100 HP, as opposed to the 50 HP though.

I got a load of old junk. Top two going to in interesting as Bytok looked like they hit every refresh in the second sub scoring nearly 60K for it - finished second some 13K back so someone else scored even higher that sub. Assuming they do that again this sub they going to climb quickly. I will see where I am in 36 hours time but I think I just going to ignore this sub and just get top 50 as I have a busy week at work again and so cannot play during the day.

Spoit

loroku wrote:

For people having difficulty in this event, generally speaking the best advice is to remember that well-covered characters are much more important than characters that are "good." I was limping along on a sub-optimal team just because those were the "better" characters but eventually I was forced to use my top three characters even though they aren't a particularly strong group - but the difference was immediately noticeable (in a positive way). 20-30 levels can really make a difference in match damage.

That works up to a certain point. But there's only so much you can do with a C-team when they can only take like 10 hits of match damage each before folding

The scaling is so kittied up. I completely tanked the last 3 pve events, and am skipping at least half the refreshes, and it's still out of control

Unknown

I find the difficulty on this event to be all over the place even amongst the same nodes. Sometime you'd go through a fight against level 300 guys relatively unscathed and wondering why people are dying so badly, and then the next time you try the same node you blinked on the wrong time and everyone is already dead.

Vladdy

Sumilea wrote:

lukewin wrote:

I am one of those 7. I only plan on getting Top 10 overall, already got 5 Fury Blues. I wish I could say my sub has it easier. I lost to 2nd, last minute snipe by 46 pts. Cost me a token, which would've been my 3rd 2* anyway, so no big loss. I didn't grind at the end as much as I could because I was busy running into the 166 wall in PVP. Didn't plan well enough and chose the PVP that ended an hr after the sub ended. Any luck with your 3 tokens? I did like the 100 HP, as opposed to the 50 HP though.

I got a load of old junk. Top two going to in interesting as Bytok looked like they hit every refresh in the second sub scoring nearly 60K for it - finished second some 13K back so someone else scored even higher that sub. Assuming they do that again this sub they going to climb quickly. I will see where I am in 36 hours time but I think I just going to ignore this sub and just get top 50 as I have a busy week at work again and so cannot play during the day.

Yes, Sumilea, please ignore the third sub (one person with more points than me less in my bracket) .

Unknown

This is probably the least bad heroic they've run in ages - maybe the least bad heroic ever - but it's still bad. The villains are way, way too monotonous, and Juggernaut on all the high-level nodes means every match is a crapshoot.

The game needs to do something to expand the number of villains in the game. Making some PVE only villains is a perfectly good start, even if they're only copying existing characters. It's just that so many of the PVEs are these boring, boring battles against the same handful of Dark Avengers plus HAMMER agents over and over again and they're dull.

Marty17

thanos8587 wrote:

many people will spend time and or money to get her just for completionist sake.

Guilty.

I was a bit sceptical with the new sub, as I've been struggling with this event throughout & was hoping that it'll give a better selection of my roster. I figured isn't gonna help that much & my isn't levelled enough BUT surprisingly, I'm faring a bit better.

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Ben Grimm wrote:

This is probably the least bad heroic they've run in ages - maybe the least bad heroic ever - but it's still bad. The villains are way, way too monotonous, and Juggernaut on all the high-level nodes means every match is a crapshoot.

The game needs to do something to expand the number of villains in the game. Making some PVE only villains is a perfectly good start, even if they're only copying existing characters. It's just that so many of the PVEs are these boring, boring battles against the same handful of Dark Avengers plus HAMMER agents over and over again and they're dull.

I agree - It's because we always fight the "dark avengers" 99% of the time. We really need more villains in game, or even skrulls-pretending-to-be-heroes or life-model-decoys-of-heroes-gone-haywire or mind-controlled(because comics LOVE mind control)-heroes or hell do a low-effort civil war event and have us pick sides blah blah. I know releasing characters is important but It'd be cool to see something other than 'get the dark avengers to 0 hp over and over again'. It's why Deadpool vs MPQ is cool - he's neutral so he fights EVERYONE. But then again, that'd require D3 to think about nodes(lol) and the characters they place on them. They can't just use their copy-paste script of 'fight juggernaut'.

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Gorgon worked out quite well as an enemy only character. I assume the fact that we have Squirrel Girl instead of Gorgon is a sign that we're not supposed to be able to play as him, and it makes sense because his stats are way too good to be playable, but if he was meant to be overpowered from the beginning this actually works out better from a design point of view. That is, Gorgon's moves are all awesome but you don't have any weird things like Juggernaut at 395 or even OBW dropping a 4K Espionage that just makes you wonder what the heck are you supposed to do. Something like Awaken the Hand is pure beatdown, sure, but at least it's a consistent level of beatdown at all levels.