The Hunt (Jun.25th-Jun.29th, 2015)

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  • SangFroid
    SangFroid Posts: 177 Tile Toppler
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    I hadn't allocated enough time for the grind down for the first sub and finished it in ~11-12th place. So for the second sub, I opened up the HP floodgates and managed to win it (not that I got anything out of my tokens) and pulled into #2 overall. Plan on doing the same tonight, so if you're in my bracket and trying to pass me for top two, be forwarned: because I'm going to buy that second yellow if I don't earn it in the PVE, it's worth 2500 HP to me. Therefor, I'm willing to spend 2500 HP to get it, and that's more than twice what I needed to do to secure Florida. Chances are, 1000 HP should get it, and I probably won't need that much, since I was coming from behind last time and will be working from ahead here. In other words:

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    Challenge Accepted
  • spectator
    spectator Posts: 395 Mover and Shaker
    This wont end well
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    In this pve I saw clearly again, after a long time, why MPQ is a failure as a game. There is absolutely no satisfaction to be gained from playing the game, other than to satisfy a collector's desire. I have never felt more frustrated playing a game in the last couple of years. Playing against a 300+ Bullseye certainly doesn't help, as he slows the game to a crawl. A lucky cascade in the first 2 matches can give the opportunity to Ares to KO a valuable team member in and Daken/Moonstone/Venom can pick up the pieces. Even against goons I wiped several times. Having 3 goons who generate green means they put 1 green tile every 1-2 turns. A bad board means you MUST quit and try again because those Snipers can KO anyone with the 11-12k damage they deal. I really, really, doubt the devs are playing the same game as we do. Even the 10 health packs are barely enough for me to clear a sub in the current pvp. They either need to reduce the enemy level cap to below 300, or make it so retreating doesn't cause health loss. The game completely ridiculous as it is now.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Narkon wrote:
    In this pve I saw clearly again, after a long time, why MPQ is a failure as a game. There is absolutely no satisfaction to be gained from playing the game, other than to satisfy a collector's desire. I have never felt more frustrated playing a game in the last couple of years. Playing against a 300+ Bullseye certainly doesn't help, as he slows the game to a crawl. A lucky cascade in the first 2 matches can give the opportunity to Ares to KO a valuable team member in and Daken/Moonstone/Venom can pick up the pieces. Even against goons I wiped several times. Having 3 goons who generate green means they put 1 green tile every 1-2 turns. A bad board means you MUST quit and try again because those Snipers can KO anyone with the 11-12k damage they deal. I really, really, doubt the devs are playing the same game as we do. Even the 10 health packs are barely enough for me to clear a sub in the current pvp. They either need to reduce the enemy level cap to below 300, or make it so retreating doesn't cause health loss. The game completely ridiculous as it is now.
    they just announced no community scaling anymore
  • puppychow
    puppychow Posts: 1,453
    raisinbman wrote:
    Narkon wrote:
    In this pve I saw clearly again, after a long time, why MPQ is a failure as a game. There is absolutely no satisfaction to be gained from playing the game, other than to satisfy a collector's desire. I have never felt more frustrated playing a game in the last couple of years. Playing against a 300+ Bullseye certainly doesn't help, as he slows the game to a crawl. A lucky cascade in the first 2 matches can give the opportunity to Ares to KO a valuable team member in and Daken/Moonstone/Venom can pick up the pieces. Even against goons I wiped several times. Having 3 goons who generate green means they put 1 green tile every 1-2 turns. A bad board means you MUST quit and try again because those Snipers can KO anyone with the 11-12k damage they deal. I really, really, doubt the devs are playing the same game as we do. Even the 10 health packs are barely enough for me to clear a sub in the current pvp. They either need to reduce the enemy level cap to below 300, or make it so retreating doesn't cause health loss. The game completely ridiculous as it is now.
    they just announced no community scaling anymore

    You're ignoring the key point---AFTER The Hunt is over. Is anyone gonna care that Venom event won't have global scaling? icon_twisted.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    puppychow wrote:
    raisinbman wrote:
    Narkon wrote:
    In this pve I saw clearly again, after a long time, why MPQ is a failure as a game. There is absolutely no satisfaction to be gained from playing the game, other than to satisfy a collector's desire. I have never felt more frustrated playing a game in the last couple of years. Playing against a 300+ Bullseye certainly doesn't help, as he slows the game to a crawl. A lucky cascade in the first 2 matches can give the opportunity to Ares to KO a valuable team member in and Daken/Moonstone/Venom can pick up the pieces. Even against goons I wiped several times. Having 3 goons who generate green means they put 1 green tile every 1-2 turns. A bad board means you MUST quit and try again because those Snipers can KO anyone with the 11-12k damage they deal. I really, really, doubt the devs are playing the same game as we do. Even the 10 health packs are barely enough for me to clear a sub in the current pvp. They either need to reduce the enemy level cap to below 300, or make it so retreating doesn't cause health loss. The game completely ridiculous as it is now.
    they just announced no community scaling anymore

    You're ignoring the key point---AFTER The Hunt is over. Is anyone gonna care that Venom event won't have global scaling? icon_twisted.gif
    if they took it off during hunt midway there'd be more rage.

    but yeah, took 'em long enough icon_rolleyes.gif
  • morph3us
    morph3us Posts: 859 Critical Contributor
    SangFroid wrote:
    Challenge Accepted

    We're all holding our breath to see how this one goes. Somebody in their bracket, let us know!

    I think Ben is the crowd favorite for this one (just because we've all watched him yearning for so long for the Thing to be released in game). Sorry, Sang.

    Having said that, everybody loves a good villain too icon_lol.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Forgot to post I just finished doing Florida subevent in my stream a while ago if anyone wants to see what's up - no real unfair nodes but scaling can kill you(which seems to be the theme of streamlined-The Hunt), doing a grind to 0 run now

    It feels good to actually try for a top 100 personal rating....it'll feel even better with no scaling
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Got my second place finish, but only 227 points ahead of third. That was a very tense ending, I have to say. Already got my Thing up to 2/4/1, waiting to see a few things before I take him any further. Sangfroid actually wasn't the guy in third, either, though he was close behind.
  • SangFroid
    SangFroid Posts: 177 Tile Toppler
    Final
    1 - TheRattlesnake 77,511
    2 - Ben Grimm 76,503
    3 - David888 76,276
    4 - SangFroid 76,062

    GG Ben

    Not sure how David888 found those points to make that last run win the sub by 600 I was down to 1's with no more than 140pts left on the board
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited June 2015
    if anyone wants to get a thing cover should go to alliance team paint, at least with 40000 points. need two more people.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    SangFroid wrote:
    Final
    1 - TheRattlesnake 77,511
    2 - Ben Grimm 76,503
    3 - David888 76,276
    4 - SangFroid 76,062

    GG Ben

    Not sure how David888 found those points to make that last run win the sub by 600 I was down to 1's with no more than 140pts left on the board

    Thanks. You definitely made me work for it. Not sure where his points came from either, he hadn't been on my radar.
  • mags1587
    mags1587 Posts: 1,020 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    Got my second place finish, but only 227 points ahead of third. That was a very tense ending, I have to say. Already got my Thing up to 2/4/1, waiting to see a few things before I take him any further. Sangfroid actually wasn't the guy in third, either, though he was close behind.

    Congrats, Ben! It was a tough bracket. I was worried about keeping top 10 for awhile but managed to stay in there.

    And now I'm going back to barely playing PvE because I can't take those end of sub grinds. So happy to be done.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Too funny!

    I just accidentally got T50 and a new 4* 1-cover trophy for my case!

    Late-started, pushing for T150 (no Spidey purpleflag.png s yet), and ended up at 48!

    Kind of bummed to notice that the 2 cards for T50 changed to 1 while I wasn't paying attention, but who am I kidding, he would have just been stuck at 2 instead of 1 forever anyway! icon_lol.gif

    DBC
  • ClydeFrog76
    ClydeFrog76 Posts: 1,350 Chairperson of the Boards
    How the hell do you guys grind stuff down to 1 point? I cannot comprehend the amount of tedium involved.
  • Vankysher
    Vankysher Posts: 324 Mover and Shaker
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    Got my second place finish, but only 227 points ahead of third. That was a very tense ending, I have to say. Already got my Thing up to 2/4/1, waiting to see a few things before I take him any further. Sangfroid actually wasn't the guy in third, either, though he was close behind.
    Grats Ben! I managed to climb into top 20 in the same bracket after seeing the 2nd cover for top 50 was pulled. Barely hung on myself but glad to see you got the extra cover!
  • Vankysher
    Vankysher Posts: 324 Mover and Shaker
    ClydeFrog76 wrote:
    How the hell do you guys grind stuff down to 1 point? I cannot comprehend the amount of tedium involved.
    I started 5 hours before the end of the sub by hitting the hard subs I knew that would eat health packs. And yes the tedium was frequently punctuated by cursing the AI for the constant multi-row matches that would guarantee lots of damage.
  • SnagglePuss
    SnagglePuss Posts: 702 Critical Contributor
    Vankysher wrote:
    ClydeFrog76 wrote:
    How the hell do you guys grind stuff down to 1 point? I cannot comprehend the amount of tedium involved.
    I started 5 hours before the end of the sub by hitting the hard subs I knew that would eat health packs. And yes the tedium was frequently punctuated by cursing the AI for the constant multi-row matches that would guarantee lots of damage.

    As above, grinding one means starting from at least 2 hours from the end of the sub. Did it twice for Carnage... should have just skipped him as Grim seems the more useful.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    ClydeFrog76 wrote:
    How the hell do you guys grind stuff down to 1 point? I cannot comprehend the amount of tedium involved.
    Forget the tedium. I don't have enough health packs to that.
  • dr tinykittylove
    dr tinykittylove Posts: 1,459 Chairperson of the Boards
    optimus2861 wrote:
    After being totally underwhelmed with my 5/3/2 Gamora's performance in this event, I completely slacked off on the weekend. I won't come close to that red Gamora progression and don't seem to care. She's going to be a bench-warmer for a long time, and likely won't get finished until a few DDQ cycles go by.

    Her green outright sucks, especially in comparison to 2* Storm's blue. More expensive, less damage, less useful stun. Despite being a higher * character and over 50 levels higher! Maybe Wind Storm is OP, I don't know, but the gap between the two skills is so huge that it's frankly hard to believe.

    You really need to have her black at 5. She's fantastic in her featured pvp and any events where she gets to tank.

    My Ultron team was Gamora, Iron Fist and Classic Hawkeye. Always kills Ultron before I notice.

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