Episode 4: Iso-8 Brotherhood Discussion

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Spider-Man wrote:

8 assault tokens and 1 psylock is the only 3 star to show for it. How could you possibly justify spending hp on single packs?

I got the kinda expected 0 psylocks from more than 8 of those tokens -- last round one sub finished with 3 standards, that 300 looks better than 125 I got from the better going one.

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Got 2 blue Psylocke so far, at 1/2/1 now. But since the tournament time shifted, my progress has slowed down considerably.

kensterr

I got lucky the 2nd and 3rd time with Doom and his bots. It was Daredevil/Storm/Modern Magneto. 2nd time the damage taken wasn't so bad, 3rd time DD was last one standing with less than 500 hitpoints. Really depends on the luck of the board

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Spider-Man wrote:

8 assault tokens and 1 psylock is the only 3 star to show for it. How could you possibly justify spending hp on single packs?

Your ratio ***/ token is better than mine. So far I have placed top 5 in all subs which means I got 22 Assault tokens? What did I get? 1 Daredevil and 1 Psylocke which leads me to believe we have ~10% to draw a ***. For me the Assault are much worse than the Heroic tokens which cost half the HP. Definitely not worth purchacing.

Does anyone know which of the heroes are considered Powered-Up? I play for 2 months and I still don't know so I decided to ask. I don't see something that identifies these heroes. One of the most annoying faults of the game is the extremely poor explanation of some aspects of the heroes. The worst I have seen in any released title. No consistency on abilities wordings, abilities that don't show the strength of tiles while others do, boosts (the old ones) that targets specific groups without writing somewhere on the heroes/goons in what group they belong. This part of the game gives the impression it was done by a 10 year old or someone who just didn't care. Definitely not by someone with experience in the gaming industry. At least the abilities of heroes we get lately are more consistent, so there is definitely an improvement.

Bacon Pants

I finally beat Dr. Doom and his jagoffs. One of the electric punches triggered Daredevils butt attack which downed Doom. Punisher is not feeling well as he took multiple Summon Demons to the face...

On to Hood and the fat guys that kept beating me up last night.

I'll be happy if I can reach 70K. My 4-0-5 Punisher could use at least 1 green cover.

ZeiramMR

Crazyeyeskiller wrote:

****?!? My last five Assault Team tokens (two last night and three just now) have all been Marvel Now Magneto?!? That has to be bugged or something, unless it's like winning the worst fracking lottery of all time. What an utter JOKE

The other day I received a Cap and then 3 Purple Marvel Now Magneto in a row. That would suck for most people but since I only had 1 purple cover, it was pretty helpful. Now if I could only pull a Psylocke!

Phaserhawk

Yeah, I don't know why they even bother giving us packs for the daily prizes. Just say we are going to get a Captain America, Magneto MN, or Storm Classic

mytisbrewin

Riggy wrote:

mytisbrewin wrote:

If nothing else then I will remember this tournament for letting Doom out of stunlock when I had a four red match available with all four tiles having an ambush trap set on them. 11,000 ish health to none in one move.

I had the reverse happen. Frustrating board, ran into a blue drought, and Doom eventually got out of stunlock. Immediately fired off 2 summon demons. 10 attack tiles x 200 damage = dead team very quickly.

So many matches get to the point that if they ever get out of stunlock then you know one or more of your heroes is going down. It does become rote fighting teams of 3x230 one after the other.

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Riggy wrote:

mytisbrewin wrote:

If nothing else then I will remember this tournament for letting Doom out of stunlock when I had a four red match available with all four tiles having an ambush trap set on them. 11,000 ish health to none in one move.

I had the reverse happen. Frustrating board, ran into a blue drought, and Doom eventually got out of stunlock. Immediately fired off 2 summon demons. 10 attack tiles x 200 damage = dead team very quickly.

I was playing with the MN Mags + Classic Storm combo, and everyone on my team was below 50% when he fired off Summon Demons. The demons killed two of my guys and Doom's entire team

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mytisbrewin wrote:

Riggy wrote:

mytisbrewin wrote:

If nothing else then I will remember this tournament for letting Doom out of stunlock when I had a four red match available with all four tiles having an ambush trap set on them. 11,000 ish health to none in one move.

I had the reverse happen. Frustrating board, ran into a blue drought, and Doom eventually got out of stunlock. Immediately fired off 2 summon demons. 10 attack tiles x 200 damage = dead team very quickly.

So many matches get to the point that if they ever get out of stunlock then you know one or more of your heroes is going down. It does become rote fighting teams of 3x230 one after the other.

It's interesting that the devs response to stunlock has been blue denial. Doom and Hood as opponents has made it much harder to stunlock. There's also been a couple of purple-denying mechanisms in this event which makes building to your stuns or damaging attacks much more difficult.

I actually like seeing it this way, despite how maddening an unexpected loss is, because it makes it challenging without insane enemy buffs. Even at 150, those mechanics make the enemy very dangerous. I need more surgical tile removal on my team.

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Riggy wrote:

I need more surgical tile removal on my team.

"YES HELLO" *a million captain america covers converge on your house*

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Narkon wrote:

Does anyone know which of the heroes are considered Powered-Up? I play for 2 months and I still don't know so I decided to ask. I don't see something that identifies these heroes.

The Powered Up Heroes are the ones with the pink gem in the top right of their picture on the team selection screen inside the tournament. They differ from tourney to tourney, usually there will be one hero with a larger gem if there is that hero is powered up/boosted more than the others.

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Badlands wrote:

The Powered Up Heroes are the ones with the pink gem in the top right of their picture on the team selection screen inside the tournament. They differ from tourney to tourney, usually there will be one hero with a larger gem if there is that hero is powered up/boosted more than the others.

Wow, I completely missed that. I usually refer to them as buffed heroes and never made the connection even though in the notes page for each event it shows them as Powered UP. Thanks for opening my eyes.

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Doom + bots is definitely the most frustrating match to date, went through a lot of boosts and combinations and nobody even came close because I have to use stupid DD, and the match is far over by the time I can get an ability off from anyone. Apparently all doom needs is 2x max level and 4 free blue a turn to be broken! Either of his abilities is game over, and the bots place at least 1 1HKO tile per turn. UGH

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Waggon wrote:

Doom + bots is definitely the most frustrating match to date, went through a lot of boosts and combinations and nobody even came close because I have to use stupid DD, and the match is far over by the time I can get an ability off from anyone. Apparently all doom needs is 2x max level and 4 free blue a turn to be broken! Either of his abilities is game over, and the bots place at least 1 1HKO tile per turn. UGH

Lost a node for first time in long time, twice on that doom node this morning. Got throught it with Punisher, DD, and OBW and only after a favorable blue cascade loaded up Anti-Gravity.

I hope people chill in my sub bracket... don't feel like grinding that one anymore than I have to.

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kensterr wrote:

Can someone help me out here? Which buffed characters should I use against Doom and his Doombots? Daredevil and ???

Got wiped out during the first try.

I use 5/5/3 Mstorm with 3/5/5 OBW with 3 blue/purple, 100% critical boost. Try match 2 red to fire Mstorm skill first and clean the board, then keep using OBW purple and Mstorm green.
Wiped out at first time, but win 2 times after.

Doom has no way to summon.

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I find the Doom + 2 doombot to be pretty easy because there's only one person you've to stun. Obviously, if he converts those blue before you can get them, then you're pretty screwed.

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I still haven't started with the subs (going for a 1 run strategy) but I checked right now and the levels for checker in Colombia have plummeted. Doom and Bots are lv60 and Hood, Venom and Monstone are lv66. On the other hand, the levels in Canada went up the last 5 hours. The 3 bots are 150 and climbing. I am sitting at 8 health packs hoping they will be enough, but if the levels go higher I think I will waste too much ISO on this.

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Just hit 100K this morning with a refresh left to go tonight. Things are looking good for the 8K ISO reward at this rate with two more subs left to go. Prog rewards were really well tuned for this one.

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Narkon wrote:

I still haven't started with the subs (going for a 1 run strategy) but I checked right now and the levels for checker in Colombia have plummeted. Doom and Bots are lv60 and Hood, Venom and Monstone are lv66. On the other hand, the levels in Canada went up the last 5 hours. The 3 bots are 150 and climbing. I am sitting at 8 health packs hoping they will be enough, but if the levels go higher I think I will waste too much ISO on this.

How is your 1 run strategy going? How many points do you have in the main bracket. Just curious for comparisons sake.

Personally, I've been using a 2 clear strategy other than the first clear which was 1 run since I wanted to join the main bracket really late. I don't do full clears and one clear i missed due to work, but I try to get as many missions done that are over 100points. I've been top 5 in every sub bracket except 1 and have yet to see extra psylocke's (mandatory tangential whine . But i'm in the 96k range is what i'm trying to say.