Patch Notes - R72 (03/09/15)

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  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    ark123 wrote:
    You realize that you can now pool every xforce in an alliance to one guy and basically fill up a guy every 24h with xforce tus? How many tus could someone use in a pvp hopping after that first shield around 900?
    If you're hopping, aren't you already using up all your slots for AP boosts?
  • stowaway
    stowaway Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    edited March 2015
    I'm not going to be getting many X-Force teamups from my alliance. But I'm looking forward to having a full slate of 2* Storm teamups. A Lightning Storm that doesn't actually cost green AP? That's the stuff!

    Edit: to remove bad reading of patch notes.
  • sc0ville
    sc0ville Posts: 115 Tile Toppler
    stowaway wrote:
    I'm not going to be getting many X-Force teamups from my alliance. But I'm looking forward to having a full slate of 2* Storm teamups. A Lightning Storm that doesn't actually cost green AP? A Wind Storm scaled to my highest-level characters? That's the stuff!

    Wind Storm will still only max out at level 94.

    per the announcement post: "The max level of a Team-Up is limited to the max level that character could have if they were in your roster when scaled up."
  • Unknown
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    MikeHock wrote:
    dearbluey wrote:
    orbitalint wrote:
    Overall, like the changes to team ups but equipping a random team up seems like a attempt to use some of our more valuable ones accidentally. I don't need one every match. Maybe a 4th team up only slot in the future?

    I save those suckers for high need matches and don't want to accidentally burn my 395 call the storm because it was randomly equipped on a start of a PvP or something.

    I'd like to think we use at least a small spark of our brains and notice when this happens. You'll have two main chances - one, when the team up is first randomly chosen for you and two, when you see the team up flashing and you go to it to see if it'll help in the battle. I know we play the game on autopilot sometimes, but it should be okay.

    It'll be ok until you use that 395-level team up on a seed team.

    So, pay a glimmer of attention? It doesn't take much, honestly.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    stowaway wrote:
    A Lightning Storm that doesn't actually cost green AP?
    It doesn't cost green AP, but you still need green AP to cast it, which makes it a pretty weak teamup. Way better off with the 1* or 3* version
  • Unknown
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    dearbluey wrote:
    MikeHock wrote:
    dearbluey wrote:
    orbitalint wrote:
    Overall, like the changes to team ups but equipping a random team up seems like a attempt to use some of our more valuable ones accidentally. I don't need one every match. Maybe a 4th team up only slot in the future?

    I save those suckers for high need matches and don't want to accidentally burn my 395 call the storm because it was randomly equipped on a start of a PvP or something.

    I'd like to think we use at least a small spark of our brains and notice when this happens. You'll have two main chances - one, when the team up is first randomly chosen for you and two, when you see the team up flashing and you go to it to see if it'll help in the battle. I know we play the game on autopilot sometimes, but it should be okay.

    It'll be ok until you use that 395-level team up on a seed team.

    So, pay a glimmer of attention? It doesn't take much, honestly.

    You are right, of course and I totally understand, but let's not act as if most of the player base hasn't zoomed past the "choose your team up" page and jumped into a battle with or without the team ups/boosts you did or did not want.
  • Demiurge_Will
    Demiurge_Will Posts: 346 Mover and Shaker
    GrumpySmurf1002 wrote:
    I don't see this so I'll ask, feel free to quote the answer if it's already there. (Edit: re-read the notes, but still want clarification on this)

    If you boost +3 B/G, +3All, and +3TU (using all slots where TUs would go), are you given random TUs? Or is it only if your boost/TU slots are empty?

    Only if your boost/Team-Up slots are empty.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    MikeHock wrote:
    You are right, of course and I totally understand, but let's not act as if most of the player base hasn't zoomed past the "choose your team up" page and jumped into a battle with or without the team ups/boosts you did or did not want.
    There's a wide jump from that to actually using a TU you didn't intend to equip in the first place.
  • turul
    turul Posts: 1,622 Chairperson of the Boards
    Can we have autoloaded (old)enviromental abilities too?

    I miss those...
  • Unknown
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    MikeHock wrote:
    dearbluey wrote:
    MikeHock wrote:
    dearbluey wrote:

    I'd like to think we use at least a small spark of our brains and notice when this happens. You'll have two main chances - one, when the team up is first randomly chosen for you and two, when you see the team up flashing and you go to it to see if it'll help in the battle. I know we play the game on autopilot sometimes, but it should be okay.

    It'll be ok until you use that 395-level team up on a seed team.

    So, pay a glimmer of attention? It doesn't take much, honestly.

    You are right, of course and I totally understand, but let's not act as if most of the player base hasn't zoomed past the "choose your team up" page and jumped into a battle with or without the team ups/boosts you did or did not want.

    Right but what this is, Mike, is a double attention check. I mentioned that - not only do you get the chance before the match starts, but also during it as well. If a person misses it the first time, that's most likely pretty common. I've done it myself with boosts. But to actually click it and use the team up? Probably fairly rare and if that happens...well, oops.
  • stowaway
    stowaway Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    sc0ville wrote:

    Wind Storm will still only max out at level 94.

    per the announcement post: "The max level of a Team-Up is limited to the max level that character could have if they were in your roster when scaled up."

    I missed that, thanks! I'm sure that's for the best!
  • Dartmaster01
    Dartmaster01 Posts: 634 Critical Contributor
    Looks like all cyclops yellow and IF pink TUs for me. I'm going to love non-stop surgical smiting you all! And yes, I think this feature is broken but that's not going to stop me icon_lol.gificon_lol.gificon_lol.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    "David wrote:
    Moore"]Hello everyone,
    - Roster Slot prices through slot 25 have been lowered and the first few weeks of Daily Rewards have been re-tuned.

    Will we be getting credit for those first 25 roster slots if we are already well beyond this point in roster slot purchases? icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Jorit
    Jorit Posts: 33 Just Dropped In
    Zigram wrote:
    "David wrote:
    Moore"]Hello everyone,
    - Roster Slot prices through slot 25 have been lowered and the first few weeks of Daily Rewards have been re-tuned.

    Will we be getting credit for those first 25 roster slots if we are already well beyond this point in roster slot purchases? icon_e_biggrin.gif

    That is what I want to know.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Jorit wrote:
    Zigram wrote:
    "David wrote:
    Moore"]Hello everyone,
    - Roster Slot prices through slot 25 have been lowered and the first few weeks of Daily Rewards have been re-tuned.

    Will we be getting credit for those first 25 roster slots if we are already well beyond this point in roster slot purchases? icon_e_biggrin.gif

    That is what I want to know.

    Me too! ::crosses fingers::
  • Katai
    Katai Posts: 278 Mover and Shaker
    I've had an inventory full of high level X-Force and Thor covers for ages (when you're fighting nothing for X-Force and 4Thor for 6 months). They are NOT useful for any sort of hopping. AP boosters will trump Teamups every time.
  • rednailz
    rednailz Posts: 559
    Katai wrote:
    I've had an inventory full of high level X-Force and Thor covers for ages (when you're fighting nothing for X-Force and 4Thor for 6 months). They are NOT useful for any sort of hopping. AP boosters will trump Teamups every time.

    Yeah, I agree, I've never been one for TU unless the situation is dire and I'm out of +3 all or +20% match damage TU. If I'm using 3 boost slots it's usually for AP and I want to use my AP abilities, not a 1 time shot. I could see them being useful for mid-level fights....but I horde and collect TU's for kicks and I'm not using a lvl 166+ TU for an "average" match, nor would I use it for a hop.
  • Unknown
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    While I'm sure someone will think of something crazy to do with the TUs, it hardly seems like an important issue compared to how broken balance is in general so if people spend all their time figuring out how to load up X Force TUs instead of just using X Force, that still didn't make the problem any worse compared to before. Heading straight to TU is still not a good idea because TU is pretty much almost always your opponent's weak color so just because you have 20 copies of X Force there doesn't mean it's a good idea to head down a color that your opponent doesn't need at all.
  • JVReal
    JVReal Posts: 1,884 Chairperson of the Boards
    Like all the changes except for auto-loading teamups.

    I seldom use them or boosts unless i have to. Because I use them so infrequently, I don't stop at that screen to look at my empty slots, I move on past. I think it makes absolutely no sense to auto-load items you have no intention of using.

    I also would like clarification on when a TU is considered used up. I feel like I've experienced it where if you fill up the TU AP (intentionally or accidentally) enough to activate the ability but don't use it, it disappears after the battle... is this correct? I could swear it has happened to me before. It is with this understanding that I am against automatically loading TU's.

    If this is not the case, and TU don't get used up as long as you don't actually select the power, then I don't have a problem with it, it's nice to have an emergency backup it things get hairy.
  • Unknown
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    simonsez wrote:
    ark123 wrote:
    You realize that you can now pool every xforce in an alliance to one guy and basically fill up a guy every 24h with xforce tus? How many tus could someone use in a pvp hopping after that first shield around 900?
    If you're hopping, aren't you already using up all your slots for AP boosts?
    I hop with loki goddess, I have a free slot every match

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