darkmagearcanis wrote: Don't get me wrong, I love getting new characters. But back to back is too much. Couldn't they have just given out Beast covers for this event instead so that I could rest for a week. What happened to the every other week character release thing. I will likely go for progression and if in the process I am top 50 I will be happy. Only because KP will be the essential character for the next pve. Which if the next pve releases another new character that is a usable 3* that over shadows 4* again, KP will likely get the boot after the event.
Ben Grimm wrote: If they were going to do back-to-back character releases, there were ways to do it without irritating 90% of the forum: 1. Not run hyper-grindy events. ISO Brotherhood is exhausting - I figured out how much I was doing, and it was something like 55-60 nodes every 12 hours. And that got me top ten, not top 2 or anything. I could have lightened up a little bit, but not much, and gotten all three covers. Thick as Thieves is running for 6.5 days - about as long as events run - and has, with maybe one exception, always had major problems. If one of the events was Marvel vs. MPQ, and the other something shortish and not grindy, we'd be less annoyed by this. 2. Tell us ahead of time. If I had known that the last one was going to be followed by a new character release, especially a new 4* release, I would have taken it a little easier. Maybe settled for top 50. I thought I'd be able to take it easy and recharge in the next PVE. But the Devs don't seem to believe in giving advance warning when something is going to be unpopular, which adds to the annoyance. 3. Open up the 4* reward structure. Would it really be that big a problem for a 10-50-150 reward structure for 4*s? Does an extra 10% of the gaming base getting a SINGLE COVER really upset things that much? The limitation on 4* covers is just stupid. I don't even see how it helps them. Are there people out there still stupid enough to buy cover packs nowadays? It's not just that they did a bad thing, it's that they did in in the worst manner possible.
darkmagearcanis wrote: Does anyone else feel that playing these PVEs is like reading a comic book series backwards and then since you can't find the issue before the one your reading you just jump that issue to the next one back?
SnowcaTT wrote: Just in case the Devs skip "general" and pop in here - this event is just the worst. No one wants T50 reward structure. No one wants 7 day events. No one wants new character releases over holiday weekends. No one wants back-to-back character releases. No one wants two 4*'s released in three weeks. Releases of characters have been speeding up, and now every week? 4*'s were speeding up, and now every other week? This can't bode well for the longevity of this game.
rbdragon wrote: Top 100 alliances now get Kingpin...
ZootSax wrote: Strange scaling on this event. "Family Reunion I" starts at level 27 for me and it ramps up to level 94 by "Family Reunion VI", but then VII jumps to level 304. Apparently I did too well last event? Who knows?
JVReal wrote: Yeah, I was just reminded of the problem I had with this event last time... Family Reunion VII... ouch! Don feeding Classic Mags Yellow and Blue. Coersive Field, Magnetized Projectiles, and Coersive Field again... took me 4 times to beat this one... my Captain Marvel isn't covered enough to be effective against his tiles 4/0/2. Had to wait for the AI to screw up and Don used the yellow AP instead of Mags, giving me the chance to kill him, used a meat shield to take a Ultra-Freon Beam, then finished the battle. After wiping out with my boosted characters, failed Stormneto, etc, finally beat it with my unboosted 2* team of Thor, OBW and Wolverine... lol.
raisinbman wrote: darkmagearcanis wrote: Don't get me wrong, I love getting new characters. But back to back is too much. Couldn't they have just given out Beast covers for this event instead so that I could rest for a week. What happened to the every other week character release thing. I will likely go for progression and if in the process I am top 50 I will be happy. Only because KP will be the essential character for the next pve. Which if the next pve releases another new character that is a usable 3* that over shadows 4* again, KP will likely get the boot after the event. D3 says: Daredevil is coming out soon, start grinding nodes for us, slave
ynglink wrote: As annoying as this last node for sub 1 has been in the past, I'm not having any issues with it this time around. Maybe it's because my scaling is messed up from the past couple of events? I've been jumping in last minute slices when a new bracket opens and I don't know how much that affects your scaling either. Upside of this one though compared to The Hunt, I can sit down, clear out the full sub in 15 min. then go back to life. Pretty nice overall. That being said, I do think it's really bad for the characters to be Back to back. At least make it so not all the essentials are for . Event though I have her, she isn't covered very well (only 2 covers) and I know this makes it super unfair for a lot of the other players who were unable to get her.
Scoregasms wrote: Anybody else think 65k seems a bit high for top progression? I think I'll have around 30k by end of sub 2 if I'm lucky with scaling, maybe sub 3 has 20k worth and finally hitting it in the last sub? I'm not playing like I normally do for a PVE and I'm gonna assume they don't open up Scottland Yard early for free points like last time (lol), but maybe my estimates are off and this is in line with previous events? I do have KK and if you don't have her and just trying to hit the progression, it seems a bit steep to me.
Scoregasms wrote: Yeah, I scored 197k the last time and got the top progression fairly early iirc, just checked the previous TaT thread and for 3 hour refreshes, top progression was 60k, now I definitely think this is an error (if intentional, that would seem odd without some sort of explanation ahead of time). Gdamn Starlord reward, you worthless son of a ...