Welcome to the new and "improved" DDQ

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  • markucsb
    markucsb Posts: 2 Just Dropped In
    Personally, the DDQ was the last bastion of fun I had been having in this game due to the scaling issues. This was the one thing I could do after being frustrated with the rest of the game that would relax me and remind me that this game at its core is still enjoyable. Now it has just gotten annoying and with that they have taken away the last reliably fun thing in the game for me. So I've officially decided to not spend any more money on this game. I encourage everyone else that is frustrated to do the same until they get back to realizing that all this focus on higher end play is wrecking the game for developing and casual players.
  • jobob
    jobob Posts: 680 Critical Contributor
    tinykitty this new DDQ. 4 waves, none of which were goons... Symbiotes in the 1*...

    It kills me how D3 looked at the one thing they got most right and said, "dang... We really need to kitty this up."


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    JJ
  • pheregas
    pheregas Posts: 1,721 Chairperson of the Boards
    Anyone else find it interesting that the devs took it upon themselves to change DDQ due to lack of diversity and stale gameplay, yet now an Ultron goon node (or two) is now in almost every enchilada?
  • rafaelagp0
    rafaelagp0 Posts: 34
    no more big enchilada for 2* -> 3* transitioners.
    since they've changed it, i've only been able to do it once.
    they really screwed it up big time.
  • Inarius
    Inarius Posts: 141 Tile Toppler
    the icon_ultron.png sentries/fliers were bad enough, but they still went ahead and added those damn gunners, who like to spam their crit tiles ALL over the damn place.

    after the core meltdown ability triggered, the AI made a match which started a cascade which left my icon_thor.png with 2k HP from ~11k icon_lol.gif

    and forget matching them since they spawn in so many random places...but good god D3, do you expect players with 2* to be able to handle this sudden raise in difficulty?

    sure, to most of us with a roster of maxed out 3* transitioning to 4* will seem like a breeze, but what were they thinking when they made this change?

    DDQ was supposed to be a quick pit-stop for a 3* cover and ~4k ISO, not a slugfest with an AI who unlike players, doesn't care how many times it dies cause it always starts at full health.
  • Sm0keyJ0e
    Sm0keyJ0e Posts: 730 Critical Contributor
    Haha, TWO Deadpools in the final node? Whom to hit first??

    I guess this is random even though it's breaking the rules of their own game. I sure would like to run two DP's...
  • SnowcaTT
    SnowcaTT Posts: 3,487 Chairperson of the Boards
    Round 1 Cage
    Round 2 Ultron bots
    Round 3 Thing
    Round 4 Double DP (that sounds about as dirty as it is)

    WOW, I thought I'd seen some trolling by D3 in these nodes before this....

    I had no troubles with it, but can't imagine being a 3* transitioner trying that on. Ouch.

    Still dreaming of a day in DDQ without Ultron bots. Are they 1/3rd of all nodes just to make sure we "randomly" get them every day?
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    SnowcaTT wrote:
    Round 1 Cage
    Round 2 Ultron bots
    Round 3 Thing
    Round 4 Double DP (that sounds about as dirty as it is)

    WOW, I thought I'd seen some trolling by D3 in these nodes before this....

    I had no troubles with it, but can't imagine being a 3* transitioner trying that on. Ouch.

    Still dreaming of a day in DDQ without Ultron bots. Are they 1/3rd of all nodes just to make sure we "randomly" get them every day?
    Yeah that was some hardcore trolling today.

    It's nice that they're doing another balance pass, but it'd be nice to get the reason for why this changed to loonie in the first place.
  • thanos8587
    thanos8587 Posts: 653
    Bowgentle wrote:

    It's nice that they're doing another balance pass, but it'd be nice to get the reason for why this changed to loonie in the first place.

    "youre supposed to lose." tm

    honestly though i really think they do things and no one there actually plays the game to see the real effect of their changes. wouldnt be so bad if sentries were in waves 3 and 4 only, or 2 and 4 if they went back to the old goon/character/goon/character format. having them in wave one is the real killer.
  • madok
    madok Posts: 905 Critical Contributor
    Wow that was just stupid. My champed Patch/KK/BP were destroyed today. Patch was the only one left alive going into the last round and spiderman perma-stunned him until he died. Healing factor does absolutely squat when Spiderman spams a stun every freaking turn for 5 turns.

    Bravo D3 for making me break out winfinite to beat TBE. Because all 3* transitioners have that combo ready to go.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Todays big E is filthy.

    cage, ultron bots, thing and to finish it off two dps which isn't even legal all for one single solitary 3* cover for a sub par character.

    what a tinykitty load of tinykitties.
  • an1979
    an1979 Posts: 463 Mover and Shaker
    WHINERS. icon_lol.gif

    My 2* team (a few extra levels from championig each):
    2*OBW + 2*Magneto +2* Storm
    as always steamrolled over AI.

    Steal pink with OBW, feed the Storm, go from one wave to another with Magneto's red.
  • Edith09
    Edith09 Posts: 48
    Today was quite hard, managed to beat it with Lazy Thor, 2 star.png Mags and Storm (both champions on level 130 and 117) but it was tight in 4th wave.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Dear D3,

    I was thinking about dropping some cash to the game and continue playing; now I think I'll just scale back my playing and not drop the cash. Change it back.
  • Tryke
    Tryke Posts: 320 Mover and Shaker
    Edith09 wrote:
    Today was quite hard, managed to beat it with Lazy Thor, 2 star.png Mags and Storm (both champions on level 130 and 117) but it was tight in 4th wave.
    Another win for the op wave team!
  • IFORANI
    IFORANI Posts: 91
    I have no complaints about the changes personally. However, I can understand those that do.

    Was this their attempt at breaking the the laws. I liked it, was very Deadpoolish. Just wish I understood how they can change some things without an update an others not. I feel like Rocky in Creed "What cloud?". Getting old it sucks.
  • yamilonewolf
    yamilonewolf Posts: 6
    I believe that dpd has gotten insane my team could win it as long as i payed attention, (with some difficulty on ninjas or magia) but now a cage in round one, (effectiviely nullifying my match damage) followed by ultron's goons and then honestly i dont remember who the third wave was, but it basically finished me off, just in time to see 2dp and a spiderman grinning at me as they finished me.

    Big E was one of my main ways of getting 3*s and now i'm either going to need to spend alot of healing packs or get luckier either way I'm fairly sure this new "random" format has had ultrons goons on it every day, if you're listening this is really hurting me as a newer player. I'm close to the three star tranisition, buti cant make the leap with out more covers.
  • eddidit
    eddidit Posts: 86 Match Maker
    Some people have rosters that make TBE easy. Some people get lucky with their boards.

    Then there is the rest of us who don't have the rosters or the luck of the board to get through 4 waves of increasing difficulty, only to get (or not get) one 3* cover.

    Today is one of those days for me. To get to the 4th wave, to be constantly stunned by Spidey, fight 2 deadpools, and then wipe after whales hit me. I went through all my health packs, and even used boosts. Still could not beat it due to having a **** board each time.

    At least the old way us players who were trying to transition to better rosters had a chance of getting more 3* covers.

    Seems like a few different games I play are punishing new players by increasing difficulty. I don't mind a challenge, but we have pvp and pve for that.
  • DFiPL
    DFiPL Posts: 2,405 Chairperson of the Boards
    yamilonewolf wrote:
    either way I'm fairly sure this new "random" format has had ultrons goons on it every day

    yeah, seriously. Even Ninja **** had the courtesy to only ruin one day in five.
  • udonomefoo
    udonomefoo Posts: 1,630 Chairperson of the Boards
    Today I learned: bringing carnage to a ultron goon fight = crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit crit

    I still made it, but that was unexpected. I still like this random format, but I totally understand the 2-3 transitioners who aren't happy. They're changing it soon at least.

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