Feb 28 - Mar 2 Fresh Cut: The Not-As-Fresh Sequel

dingao666

more cap covers

in last 3/4 events for rank 75+ reward are cap cover

is there a event with M. Hawkeye covers?

itstime1234

pulled a red psylocke today. Def happy since last 10 special event tokens were cap or 2^ mags

Puritas

I've tanked down from 450 to 250 and back up again three times this tournament
and still seeing people with level 100+ rosters
****

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pasa_ wrote:

Btw does the team follows train-up? Since entering my psylocke grew, when someone attacks does he play the improved version automatically or the last one is locked in the state as of last play?

My guess would be state as of last play, but I have no idea. Good question, though, I'd like to know the answer too.

Unknown

I've found that since whoever you attack is likely to lose a lot of points from inactivity, you actually don't discourage an inactive player from attacking back at all. That is, say you've 500 points and you attack someone with 600 points, and you think that's relatively safe, but it's not because by the time that 600 point guy comes back from his inactivity, he'd be down to 400 and then your 500 points looks like a juicy retaliation.

Right now my strategy is just climb and attack pretty much anyone that looks remotely reasonable, walk away for a while, and then clear out all my retaliations. You want to clear out your retaliation at around midnight, 7h left to tournament, and 2h left in tournament because that's the most likely time your opponent will be shielded. I actually want to have a lot of outstanding retaliation so I have better chances of finding shielded guys when I'm clearing them out, as this gives me a better head start to climb since you don't have to worry about having any 'debts', so to speak, when you retaliate a shielded opponent.

Unknown

The Ladder, how could You!

TWICE!!!

I will get You! one day...

reckless442

I'm sitting in second place in my bracket and wondering how it is possible that the leader of my bracket doesn't even have a Psylocke cover, and numbers two through four have her at level 15 to 18 with no more than two colors (and the rest of the rosters are low-level). Who could they possibly be beating in their matches? I'm facing maxed out opponents and can't carry a dead-weight Psylocke, so I've has no choice but to build her up.

reckless442

Actually, I just looked at then other rosters in the top 10 of my bracket. I'm the only player with any character over level 85. Four players have no Pyslocke at all and only one has more than one cover, at level 18. The rest are one-cover, level 15s.

Obviously, with the MMR, I have no chance of being matched against anyone actually in the top 10 of my bracket. Meanwhile, my MMR opponents are mostly all level 100+ and include the high-health Hulk, which means longer battles if I unshield. I understand that d3p wants newbies to do well in PVP events, but experienced players should have a fair chance to win tourneys, especially when the prizes are the new character covers, i.e., one of the things we don't have yet.

Unknown

I suspect, with the difficulty and inaccessibility of the latest PvE nodes in Brotherhood, this particular PvE is going to be a bit of a bun fight. Cue the carnage!

Unknown

Ouch got hit a ton last night, including by multiple forum goers. I got hit on theladder's climb as wrll.

People seem way more active this tourney than normal

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entropic01 wrote:

Ouch got hit a ton last night, including by multiple forum goers. I got hit on theladder's climb as wrll.

People seem way more active this tourney than normal

I think it was walkyourpath that mentioned a while back that the days of not hitting forum posters would not last forever. The trouble you have now is that you are essentially paying to skip them, and often times are foregoing the best point scores available. It's a guilty feeling, but one that regrettably is necessary if you want to hit decent tallies these days.

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The Ladder wrote:

entropic01 wrote:

Ouch got hit a ton last night, including by multiple forum goers. I got hit on theladder's climb as wrll.

People seem way more active this tourney than normal

I think it was walkyourpath that mentioned a while back that the days of not hitting forum posters would not last forever. The trouble you have now is that you are essentially paying to skip them, and often times are foregoing the best point scores available. It's a guilty feeling, but one that regrettably is necessary if you want to hit decent tallies these days.

Yeah its gonna happen now, no worries. There are so many forum goers now that half the time I don't even realize they are forum goers. Are you shielded? Might as well wait to use up the retal when you are.

Unknown

I am shielded, yes.

Unknown

So i had 1 guy that was at 17 points in the top circle. I came back, he hit me 3x for about 96 points. In the bottom left, I can see him for a retaliation. 31 points. The top circle is the same guy but still at 17 points. I do the retaliation and then it disappears, I can't retaliate anymore which i think is normal. The top circle doesn't update, it still says 17 points. I do that and only get 17 points rather than the 20+ or even 31.

I'm not going for first, but still kind of disappointing.

over_clocked

^ that's why we need the option to never see attackers' names. Seriously distracting. Forum goers attack you, you can't help but feel slightly bad.
Because clearly devs won't fix the matchmaking anytime soon, so that people could stop attacking one and the same dude 2-3x in a row.

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Roya PQ wrote:

So i had 1 guy that was at 17 points in the top circle. I came back, he hit me 3x for about 96 points. In the bottom left, I can see him for a retaliation. 31 points. The top circle is the same guy but still at 17 points. I do the retaliation and then it disappears, I can't retaliate anymore which i think is normal. The top circle doesn't update, it still says 17 points. I do that and only get 17 points rather than the 20+ or even 31.

I'm not going for first, but still kind of disappointing.

Are you positive you got 17? Coming out of battle it will say +17 but if you check your actual score it will be different. For example, it will say +17 and your score is now 641 but after you go back to the nodes your real score will be 650.

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entropic01 wrote:

Roya PQ wrote:

So i had 1 guy that was at 17 points in the top circle. I came back, he hit me 3x for about 96 points. In the bottom left, I can see him for a retaliation. 31 points. The top circle is the same guy but still at 17 points. I do the retaliation and then it disappears, I can't retaliate anymore which i think is normal. The top circle doesn't update, it still says 17 points. I do that and only get 17 points rather than the 20+ or even 31.

I'm not going for first, but still kind of disappointing.

Are you positive you got 17? Coming out of battle it will say +17 but if you check your actual score it will be different. For example, it will say +17 and your score is now 641 but after you go back to the nodes your real score will be 650.

Hmm I think you're right, I only fought those two battles and it seems higher than I would have expected.

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Roya PQ wrote:

entropic01 wrote:

Roya PQ wrote:

So i had 1 guy that was at 17 points in the top circle. I came back, he hit me 3x for about 96 points. In the bottom left, I can see him for a retaliation. 31 points. The top circle is the same guy but still at 17 points. I do the retaliation and then it disappears, I can't retaliate anymore which i think is normal. The top circle doesn't update, it still says 17 points. I do that and only get 17 points rather than the 20+ or even 31.

I'm not going for first, but still kind of disappointing.

Are you positive you got 17? Coming out of battle it will say +17 but if you check your actual score it will be different. For example, it will say +17 and your score is now 641 but after you go back to the nodes your real score will be 650.

Hmm I think you're right, I only fought those two battles and it seems higher than I would have expected.

This is correct. The matchup and points values you see on the fight select screen are only what the fight was worth at the time it reached the top of the queue and appeared on one of the three nodes. If you let the fight sit there for any significant length of time, the actual point value of the fight could be better or worse that what the screen shows as the game does not update the point rating of the opponent (on your screen) over time. What appears to be a 500 rating fight may end up being as low as 300 or as high as 600 or more by the time you get around to winning the fight.

NorthernPolarity

Argh, due to placing highly in the last tournament, my MMR is highish right now such that I'm getting attacked constantly. My current offensive team is 50 Psylocke / 141 Punisher / 100 Mags, and I have 90k iso in the bank saved up. I'm considering just maxing out Mags, but with nerfs coming in 1-2 weeks, the time that he will still be useful is limited. I was going to dump all the iso into BP, but having a 141 mags might be intimidating enough to be worth dumping all the iso on him righ tnow... his purple is going to be his main ability in the future anyways so they can't nerf that too much. What do you guys think? I have pretty much max covers in all characters except Psylocke/4*s, but the only highly leveled 3*s I have are Hulk/Punisher/Mags. My current goal is to max out a character that is good with Punisher on both offense and defense: BP is better on defense, but Mags is a lot better on offense (at least for a week).

over_clocked

^ Why do you think the Mags/Spidey nerfs come as soon as in 1-2 weeks? There's just no saying yet, non?