What is up with the game the last 2 days.

Uthgarprime

Is it just me or is anyone else having a cascade problem. The AI has been getting a ridiculous number of 10 plus cascades in the same game. My 134 lvl team is getting mopped up in 1 or 2 turns regularly by lvl 74 AI teams. I get 3 turns and 2 charactors are dead from just the cascades. It has happened several times in the last 2 days.

Unknown

Not the past two days, but about a fortnight ago I went through a couple of days where the AI was just getting insane cascades upto and beyond 8 plus matches... But recently been quiet on that front but two night ago at the end of the rocket/groot event I did get an insane cascade of my own which wiped out Mysique from the mystique/doom/goon combo lvl 180. but not seen anything like that in a while

Unknown

The ai dropped 90+ tiles in one turn on me recently...I just laughed and spread the cheeks.

scottee

Sample size.

Unknown

I never seem to notice when I'm given insane cascades, or a freebie 5-tile match right from the start, and other nice goodies of that ilk, but I sure as hell always remember when the game gives me a bit of bad luck here and there.

Unknown

i feel it. she hulk keep match 12 red in straight ....match 3 red drop 3 again again and again...

is it possible?

Unknown

I never seem to notice when I'm given insane cascades, or a freebie 5-tile match right from the start, and other nice goodies of that ilk, but I sure as hell always remember when the game gives me a bit of bad luck here and there.

I think it's also the case that you know you didn't plan a lucky cascade, but can't easily know that the game didn't (though I don't think it does).

Oldboy

I find that it's actually common for the AI to get 20+ to 50+ AP in one round from cascades. Whether it' starts from a match or from board shake, i expect it to happen in most of the non goon nodes in PVE and non-seed teams in PVP

Arctic_One

Why do the devs never seem to respond to this question? I dont mean with some "blah blah blah-dee-blah blah" faq run-around but, with a solid answer that makes sense? It is happening. I am getting way too many games where I have 5-10 turns in a row with a single 3 tile match (some i don't need and some are the only match on the board) while the AI is doing minimum 3 moves per turn. In gauntlet i had lost 3 straight "Easy" games because AI took out a 4000+ character on first turn. Do i get big cascades occasionally? Yes. But one in 5+ games. AI is multiple times per game. Just a clear explanation would go a long way. And please show me ALL the opposing teams TeamUps. Nothing worse than thinking your in the drivers seat for a win and AI throws a lvl5 Yellow Hood team up at you.

Oldboy

Arctic_One wrote:

Why do the devs never seem to respond to this question? I dont mean with some "blah blah blah-dee-blah blah" faq run-around but, with a solid answer that makes sense? It is happening. I am getting way too many games where I have 5-10 turns in a row with a single 3 tile match (some i don't need and some are the only match on the board) while the AI is doing minimum 3 moves per turn. In gauntlet i had lost 3 straight "Easy" games because AI took out a 4000+ character on first turn. Do i get big cascades occasionally? Yes. But one in 5+ games. AI is multiple times per game. Just a clear explanation would go a long way. And please show me ALL the opposing teams TeamUps. Nothing worse than thinking your in the drivers seat for a win and AI throws a lvl5 Yellow Hood team up at you.

You can see the enemy Team Up in the screen where you select your team ups/boosts just before entering the battle

Unknown

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have noticed this. I have lost battles against minions half my level because of cascades that lasted a full minute. I know that whenever I get a series of cascades I often think, "This is no fun." I mean the game does have a good deal of strategy involved, what's the fun in row after row of un-mixed gems falling down?

It's even worse when the AI gets it since it directly affects how much I can play the game. It really does feel like something has changed recently as I'm getting far more frustrated with the game in recent days than I ever have before.

Vinmarc43

Same here, cascade galore for the last week and also very annoying is the AI uses team up 90% of the time, even when they have teamups with 15-19ap.
This game is like a slot machine, maybe they change the ratio on us once and a while....

Spencer75

Oh you guys didn't hear?!

They upped AI cascades this week because they thought YOU were winning too many battles!

These are the dumbest threads...

Unknown

Someone else or perhaps many others have probably done this before, but just to try to gain some perspective I tried to calculate some statistical probability (corrections welcome).

chances of getting two consecutive draws of any color = 14.28571% or 1/7 = 7*(1/7)^2
chances of getting three consecutive draws of any color = 2.04082% or 1/49 = 7*(1/7)^3
chances of getting four consecutive draws of any color = 0.29155% or 1/343 = ...
chances of getting five consecutive draws of any color = 0.04165% or 1/2401
chances of getting six consecutive draws of any color = 0.00595% or 1/16807
chances of getting seven consecutive draws of any color = 0.00085% or 1/117649

If you play on average 50 matches versus the AI per day with 12 moves per match (12 for you, 12 for the AI for a total of 24 moves per match), you should observe

a random match-3, 24.5 times/day
a random match-4, 3.4 times/day
a random match-5, 0.5 times/day, once every couple days.
a random match-6, 0.071 times/day, once every two weeks.
a random match-7, 0.01 times/day, once every 98 days.

If you observe these events at a frequency significantly higher, statistically speaking, than the above, skepticism is warranted. However, these figures would only account for situations where the matched tiles fell directly from the top of the screen. It wouldn't account for AI or user induced matches, which would be more frequent since it's deliberately not random. So frequencies significantly above these rates are very likely to be observed.

I did have a "7-banger" fall from the top of the screen the other day, so my mean time between events (seeing that again) should be in about 3 months if I play at the specified rate.

Baddkitty

yesterday i almost threw my phone...i watched 5k points go down the drain in one turn. During that cascade, i saw the top ROW clear 3 times....yes....the NEW single row of tiles that fell...were ALREADY matched at 4... THREE DAMN TIMES!!! I couldn't manager one combo over 2....and i got oliterated by a team 30lvls below me. after the insane combo that timed my 30 second screen shutoff, i watched as they emptied all their shiny new AP all over my face to finish off my team. STUPID !!!!! I've never been gangbanged so hard in a video game.

but of course, the VERY next match i won EASILY. Hmmm....seems like i was being "punished" for barely having been touched in the 5 matches before it.

smoq84

I haven't ever noticed anything unusual with enemy team cascades. It is just a luck - sometimes it's on your side, sometimes on the enemy's

Druss

Had brilliant AI cascade on turn 1 in gauntlet node - wiped out my DD (wasn't on full health - about 3k - I think) & Patch outright - had to retreat as Ldaken wasn't gonna win on his own.

AI had after this 1 cascade:

22 Red
13 Blue
19 Green
30 Yellow
26 Purple
30 TU's

Great stuff - even better that it happened in the gauntlet as no damage done except waiting for DD (essential) to heal

I think that is the biggest cascade I've seen, this was a one off though - not noticed any trend except in last PvE vs Lv 180 Mystique where I killed her 1st turn twice on the trot only leaving the goons.

Unknown

I rarely get these monster cascades from the Ai that everyone here complains about.

Plus I use Loki 90% of the time. 99 problems but a cascade ain't one.

Unknown

i guess some of us are just "unlucky". the only cascades i get going for me are the ones that cascade after the enemy has been defeated already.

Trisul

Random is random, peoples. You guys just happen to be the unlucky ones.

As stated by Switchman, Loki is a great equalizer.

Azoic

I have been experiencing the same problems with the gauntlet...the ai will take out 2 chars in one go