Thick as Thieves

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    ROFL...

    1 45-minute run in Anderson, and I won my sub with 914 points...

    /hides the Rubberband of Everlasting Elasticity +5

    And it does appear the closing rating of mob levels from Anderson carry over to the mob levels in Scotland Yard... icon_rolleyes.gif

    ...which completely validates my suspicions on this event is working and how to effectively address this issue.

    Will have to see, for science, if my strategy again is super effective tomorrow in winning my next sub.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Jozier were you able to finish the 4th refresh last time?
  • KaioShinDE
    KaioShinDE Posts: 265 Mover and Shaker
    I won a sub event for the first time. \o/

    Still, I hope that tomorrow the devs will be back and will comment on the enemy scaling. I think there is a complete concensus among the players that the current form at least is not good. They should think about proper reset mechanics, level caps, slower scaling or something, as long as suiciding pointlessly for half an hour does not become required to get a high tournament placement.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Lyrian wrote:
    ROFL...

    1 45-minute run in Anderson, and I won my sub with 914 points...

    /hides the Rubberband of Everlasting Elasticity +5

    And it does appear the closing rating of mob levels from Anderson carry over to the mob levels in Scotland Yard... icon_rolleyes.gif

    ...which completely validates my suspicions on this event is working and how to effectively address this issue.

    Will have to see, for science, if my strategy again is super effective tomorrow in winning my next sub.

    I think I ended with the same amount of points for first in mine, maybe it was 912, took me an hour using Patch/OBW/Hood against DAs and Patch/OBW/Loki against maggia muscle.

    Fun stuff. I'm especially excited not to be relying on Spidey.
  • Kelbris
    Kelbris Posts: 1,051
    It's nice to know that I can bring down the enemy levels by throwing all of my covers that I never use (Hawkeye/Bullseye/IM35/Venom/Yelena/etc) to the wolves.

    What's the refresh timer? It seemed to be 9-10. Wasn't 8 for me, but I had new stacks before 11 hours.

    I just got 1st in my bracket so I'm close to finishing my Patch, and after that I'm just gonna coast most likely.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Daedelus wrote:
    Jozier were you able to finish the 4th refresh last time?

    Nah I timed it for 3 refreshes instead. I don't have time to go for 4.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Oversoul wrote:
    beezer37_84 wrote:
    Spoit wrote:
    I doubt they'd ban for using mechanics in the actual game

    yeah, I would have been banned for tanking pvp a long time ago if that was the case icon_e_biggrin.gif

    More like half of the forums, to be honest.

    Who should be banned is the dev (designer) who thought it up this way and the whole QA department passing it. I'm sure my tester guy would flame me straight to hell half hour in testing session and demand the stuff I was smoking.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    How are other brackets doing?

    We're at 43,300,000+, Colognoisseur with 2476 at the top.
  • Kelbris
    Kelbris Posts: 1,051
    beezer37_84 wrote:
    How are other brackets doing?

    We're at 43,300,000+, Colognoisseur with 2476 at the top.

    Intel is global 43M

    Bracket leader has 2264
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Set 1 finished. Hopefully I can manage 4 this time. icon_e_smile.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I think I finished first and when I received my rewards, I lost connection in the middle of it, so I got only a yellow cover. I was first and far ahead, but perhaps people got ahead of me, there's no way to tell since there's no logs of anything in this game. Anyways, not a big deal since yellow is probably the only cover I care about right now.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    There's a discussion about Patch in the character forum but anyone have ideas on ideal builds? It's really hard to decide and I have a red/yellow burning a hole in my cache with a 3/3/3 Patch.
  • Kelbris
    Kelbris Posts: 1,051
    jozier wrote:
    There's a discussion about Patch in the character forum but anyone have ideas on ideal builds? It's really hard to decide and I have a red/yellow burning a hole in my cache with a 3/3/3 Patch.

    Max Yellow. Undecided on 5/3/5 or 4/4/5.

    The guaranteed regen is a life saver if your healer dies. It worked with Astonishing, and I'm sure it'll be the same with Patch.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Kelbris wrote:
    It's nice to know that I can bring down the enemy levels by throwing all of my covers that I never use (Hawkeye/Bullseye/IM35/Venom/Yelena/etc) to the wolves.

    What's the refresh timer? It seemed to be 9-10. Wasn't 8 for me, but I had new stacks before 11 hours.

    I just got 1st in my bracket so I'm close to finishing my Patch, and after that I'm just gonna coast most likely.
    Grats, what can I say. We were in same bracket - I finished my last stack with 30 minutes left and on 2 place, but ended on 6th place.
  • Kelbris
    Kelbris Posts: 1,051
    Microtom wrote:
    I think I finished first and when I received my rewards, I lost connection in the middle of it, so I got only a yellow cover. I was first and far ahead, but perhaps people got ahead of me, there's no way to tell since there's no logs of anything in this game. Anyways, not a big deal since yellow is probably the only cover I care about right now.

    Should have said at the top of your reward popup where you placed.
  • Eddiemon
    Eddiemon Posts: 1,470 Chairperson of the Boards
    jozier wrote:
    There's a discussion about Patch in the character forum but anyone have ideas on ideal builds? It's really hard to decide and I have a red/yellow burning a hole in my cache with a 3/3/3 Patch.

    I am going 5/3/5.

    I don't know how well red scales, but it feels too pricey. At 3 covers you are already getting the strike tiles. Whereas auto yellow regen is always paying off

    And the step up from 4 strikes to 6 in green is massive. If you're not in the market for strike tiles you wouldn't be fielding Patch so anything less is a felony.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Eddiemon wrote:
    jozier wrote:
    There's a discussion about Patch in the character forum but anyone have ideas on ideal builds? It's really hard to decide and I have a red/yellow burning a hole in my cache with a 3/3/3 Patch.

    I am going 5/3/5.

    I don't know how well red scales, but it feels too pricey. At 3 covers you are already getting the strike tiles. Whereas auto yellow regen is always paying off

    And the step up from 4 strikes to 6 in green is massive. If you're not in the market for strike tiles you wouldn't be fielding Patch so anything less is a felony.

    Yeah I guess I'm just nervous about giving 6 to the other team. I don't find myself using red a ton but on occasion. But I won't need the damage scale up most likely. Hm.

    I think I'll probably go 5/3/5 and wince every time the enemy team makes a match in the future when they fix him.
  • Kelbris
    Kelbris Posts: 1,051
    jozier wrote:
    Eddiemon wrote:
    jozier wrote:
    There's a discussion about Patch in the character forum but anyone have ideas on ideal builds? It's really hard to decide and I have a red/yellow burning a hole in my cache with a 3/3/3 Patch.

    I am going 5/3/5.

    I don't know how well red scales, but it feels too pricey. At 3 covers you are already getting the strike tiles. Whereas auto yellow regen is always paying off

    And the step up from 4 strikes to 6 in green is massive. If you're not in the market for strike tiles you wouldn't be fielding Patch so anything less is a felony.

    Yeah I guess I'm just nervous about giving 6 to the other team. I don't find myself using red a ton but on occasion. But I won't need the damage scale up most likely. Hm.

    I think I'll probably go 5/3/5 and wince every time the enemy team makes a match in the future when they fix him.

    You can always just make sure there aren't 6 purples on the board.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Yeah I figure I'm okay (still getting smacked hard in Army of One) but the reward just took forever to came in.

    There really isn't much to do with rubberbanding on this round given how little points there are to begin with. If you won with a low score, you had an easy bracket. My sub bracket's top score was like 1103 and I just had the misfortune of being in that one (I had 1100). I was #2 on the overall bracket after the end of the 2 sub brackets, but I didn't win any sub bracket, and lost them by a considerable margin (5 points is a huge margin when every mission is 1). I must have had some really bad luck. icon_e_sad.gif

    This round I didn't start tanking (seemed to time consuming) and just play it straight up. I think they really should have the middle missions settle at around 150 or so instead of going to 230. I know technically that doesn't change anything on the goon missions, but looking at guys with 9999 HP that can one shot you is just really scary. I find that on the goon missions I just immediately retreat if they get any damage abilities off (because those are almost certain one hit kill). I get 4 chances to beat them and as long as I can beat them, Spiderman can get all my guys back to full health even if I started the fight with just 1 HP.
  • Nemek
    Nemek Posts: 1,511
    Yeah, I think the strategy around using his green at lvl 5 will be more about timing it correctly with either very few purple tiles on the board or with some easy match-4s or match-3s ready to be matched after you trigger it.

    Obviously Loki will do just fine with that, too.

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