G2 Preview is up in game

TxMoose

just a PSA/FYI

Linkster79

Starting in 1 hour? Just great seeing as in an hour I am heading off out for a 13 hour shift with no WiFi. Looks like I get to miss the first 3 rounds. It's been the 15/10 for the last 16 hours for crying out loud!

On the plus side I get to miss all the server crashes

fmftint

Legendary Token now @950000

Der_Lex

****, Hulk really is buffed.

Really weak list of buffed characters overall, although buffed Cage might help in the later nodes.

Unknown

Who's receiving boosts (cant access game right now)?

Are essentials posted?

acescracked

Buh bye servers! You'll be crashing soon.

Der_Lex

Buffed:

4*:

Cyclops
Mr Fantastic

3*:

Panther
Steve Rogers
Gamora
Hulk
Cage
Squirrel Girl
Storm

2*:

Steve Rogers
Hawkeye
Storm

1*:
Hawkeye
Storm

Unknown

Are we supposed to assume that the game stayed the same in terms of refresh rate and galactus' strategy?

If so, is the best strategy to get rewards for every round to play against galactus once on round 1, once or twice on round 2, and remaining play on round 3 to maximize participation in multiple rounds rather than being locked out????

killerkoala

When i think about fighting galactus, i feel like curling up and saying " mommy make the bad man stop hurting us"

TxMoose

Der_Lex wrote:

****, Hulk really is buffed.

Really weak list of buffed characters overall, although buffed Cage might help in the later nodes.

not sure if i agree - cage, panther, and cap are not weak. looks like fist will be used many times with panther and cage boosted, and might break out witch/mnmags/cap for some action too.

Phillipes

I just hope it wont be such a disaster like G1.

Unknown

Stupid question: Can I make a 1 man alliance just to try and farm this for progression?

PorkBelly

Not much in the way of board shakers

Der_Lex

TxMoose wrote:

Der_Lex wrote:

****, Hulk really is buffed.

Really weak list of buffed characters overall, although buffed Cage might help in the later nodes.

not sure if i agree - cage, panther, and cap are not weak. looks like fist will be used many times with panther and cage boosted, and might break out witch/mnmags/cap for some action too.

Those will all be great in the nodes, but for the later rounds of Galactus, Cap and Cage are too slow and Panther's strongest power does team damage, so it won't be of much use. Likewise, we've gone from a buffed 4* with a big damage power to Mr Fantastic, who is utterly useless since Galactus can't be stunned.

It really seems like the devs have done what they could to nip last round's strategies in the bud. No boosted GSBW or SW means no Charlie's Angels, and no buffed Captain Marvel and buffed Hulk make any strategies in later rounds that have them taking damage to fuel other powers a lot harder if not impossible as well.

SnowcaTT

I should pour one out for the hamster now.

GrumpySmurf1002

Of course Hulk is buffed. Of course he is.

ZeiramMR

Great... the buff order lists Cyclops (Classic), Black Panther, THEN Mr. Fantastic. With that 4/3/4... ordering, that looks to confirm Cyclops is replacing the "always Jean Grey" node.

RWTDBurn

Der_Lex wrote:

TxMoose wrote:

Der_Lex wrote:

****, Hulk really is buffed.

Really weak list of buffed characters overall, although buffed Cage might help in the later nodes.

not sure if i agree - cage, panther, and cap are not weak. looks like fist will be used many times with panther and cage boosted, and might break out witch/mnmags/cap for some action too.

Those will all be great in the nodes, but for the later rounds of Galactus, Cap and Cage are too slow and Panther's strongest power does team damage, so it won't be of much use. Likewise, we've gone from a buffed 4* with a big damage power to Mr Fantastic, who is utterly useless since Galactus can't be stunned.

It really seems like the devs have done what they could to nip last round's strategies in the bud. No boosted GSBW or SW means no Charlie's Angels, and no buffed Captain Marvel and buffed Hulk make any strategies in later rounds that have them taking damage to fuel other powers a lot harder if not impossible as well.

Sad but true. With all of the complaining about the first run not being fun and chewying through everyone's resources, the devs then went in and reviewed what teams were effective and made sure to neuter them for this one. I guess they didn't meet their heath pack sales quota on the last run.

TxMoose

there was talk about balancing it to where multiple strategies would work. maybe they adjusted cds/ap gain/health to where other, non-broken, strategies might be viable?

i know pie in the sky... can only hope for the best, expect the worst.

Ebolamonkey84

Haetron wrote:

Stupid question: Can I make a 1 man alliance just to try and farm this for progression?

You can try, but you probably won't hit the progression. Galactus has less health per node in the early rounds, and you can only fight him 5-6 times per 8 hour period. In round 8, you could get 32,000*6 every 8 hours. In round 1, you could only get 8000*6 in that same window.

vudu3

There are no strong red or black users so that effectively **** the Marvel strategy used in Round 8 of the last Galactus run.

No one but whales have 4* Cyclops ready to use. Panther has a great black but not so hot against a single target. Steve Rogers and Mohawk are too slow to go against Galactus.

We're in trouble.