The Hulk Event Discussion Thread

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I wonder if the lvl drop was an an accident (since its the weekend..I don't think they tend to be around) or if they saw in thier data that playing had dropped significantly. I moved from 4-5k day one to 600 by today..just doing the same exact thing as before...so either ppl aren't playing as much, or I am not giving myself enough credit.

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Based on the overall rate of point acquisition, I think the Hulk unlock should happen sometime towards the middle/end of this set of subs. It would be awesome if the Heroic Token rewards became Gamma Bomb tokens at that point....

sinnerjfl

At least we won't be fighting Hulk anymore... Was getting tiresome.

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I'm counting about 20 guys in my sub brackets that have a score higher than doing every mission on the last refresh put together, that is these guys did that and some more prior to the last refresh. I don't think this is a good idea. The point of the scaling is supposed to be that you avoid the 'grind everything down to 1, and then some' problem.

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Long subs, I am actually hovering at 200 by doing the main nodes and joining a late sub with time for only 1 refresh. At 2 days probably not viable to keep up my standings.

And it feels like the regular heroics were the same as the special tokens heh, x2 Hawkeye 1 wolverine.

mouser

In 11th place in the main bracket after the last sub ended. Haven't been able to crack top 10, but have been sitting 11-20 after each of the sub events.

Have been doing 2 runs of each sub (1 refresh). Haven't come anywhere close to doing a full clear each refresh and have even skipped some of the nastier battles completely. Just trying to metagame for maximum rubberbanding to get the most points for a reasonable amount of matches. Any of the nodes I can get through quickly enough I'll do a full or close to full clear.

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Chimaera wrote:

And it feels like the regular heroics were the same as the special tokens heh, x2 Hawkeye 1 wolverine.

For what it's worth, my two tokens were a 2* Wolvie (green, I think; not that it matters, since mine is maxed) and a blue Daredevil (3/2/1 now, wooo).

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Vairelome wrote:

Chimaera wrote:

And it feels like the regular heroics were the same as the special tokens heh, x2 Hawkeye 1 wolverine.

For what it's worth, my two tokens were a 2* Wolvie (green, I think; not that it matters, since mine is maxed) and a blue Daredevil (3/2/1 now, wooo).

1 Modern Hawkeye, 2 OBWs, and 1 MN Magneto... whee!

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mouser wrote:

In 11th place in the main bracket after the last sub ended. Haven't been able to crack top 10, but have been sitting 11-20 after each of the sub events.

Have been doing 2 runs of each sub (1 refresh). Haven't come anywhere close to doing a full clear each refresh and have even skipped some of the nastier battles completely. Just trying to metagame for maximum rubberbanding to get the most points for a reasonable amount of matches. Any of the nodes I can get through quickly enough I'll do a full or close to full clear.

Same, I've been placing in the teens, which is more than fine for me. Outside of a total disaster/collapse, top 200 should be trivial at this point. The refreshing nodes on the main map have been extremely helpful in making up lost points by only completing two partial clears of each sub.

HailMary

Chimaera wrote:

And it feels like the regular heroics were the same as the special tokens heh, x2 Hawkeye 1 wolverine.

I was pleasantly surprised by my newest Heroics: 1 MHawkeye, 1 Ares, 1 blue Hood.

Apparently, there's a possibility that unredeemed Heroics might be upgraded to Gamma Bomb tokens after we unlock Hulk, though...?

Unknown

Once again the heroic tokens from the subs gave trash, but thankfully a Standard token gave black Hulk. So far it was fine with the 1d subs. I was able to enter in the last 2-3 hours and still place top 5-20 while closing in to the top 1000 in main. Now with the 2d subs I have to make a choice. Either let the main go and try to get the sub tokens by entering late again or grind the next 2 days and ignore the tokens. I will probably take a day off from the event and focus on other activities. Too bad the Unholy Outlaw doesn't start tomorrow for us who won't be too involved in the subs this time.

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HailMary wrote:

Apparently, there's a possibility that unredeemed Heroics might be upgraded to Gamma Bomb tokens after we unlock Hulk, though...?

I would doubt this, as some players do not open their 1* and 2* tokens immediately, but save them up for when a new character is added to the tokens. The tokens, once awarded, probably don't have a "memory" of where they came from, so it wouldn't make sense to globally convert the token types after the fact.

I hope that the tokens awarded *after* the Hulk unlock would be Gamma Bomb, though.

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Although people at the top seems to have an insurmountable lead in the main bracket, keep in mind that you get about 5000 points in the main bracket missions every 8 hours at the 10X modifier, and that's with missions at 100 points base. If there are some very large main bracket missions opening up at the end, a 5000 point lead suddenly wouldn't be very much if a main story mission is worth 2000/1600/1200/800/400.

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sinnerjfl wrote:

At least we won't be fighting Hulk anymore... Was getting tiresome.

I'm actually more tired of battling high level bullseye and daken combinations.

Hulk is at least manageable.

Unknown

Man yet again another sub event that both require black panther. Geez

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Phantron wrote:

I'm counting about 20 guys in my sub brackets that have a score higher than doing every mission on the last refresh put together, that is these guys did that and some more prior to the last refresh. I don't think this is a good idea. The point of the scaling is supposed to be that you avoid the 'grind everything down to 1, and then some' problem.

Depends on whether people are chasing down the nodes rewards. I find after five goes at a node, I have 1-2 rewards max, so there's still plenty to go after.

Unknown

I guess the rewards will switch to Gamma Bomb tokens once we hit the global target. Which I'm sure we did by this point the first time we had the Hulk event. The story blurb certainly makes more sense if we'd hit the target.

HailMary

Vairelome wrote:

The tokens, once awarded, probably don't have a "memory" of where they came from, so it wouldn't make sense to globally convert the token types after the fact.

Yeah, I figured that, but I assumed that veterans speculating about it knew more than I.

davecazz wrote:

I'm actually more tired of battling high level bullseye and daken combinations.

Hulk is at least manageable.

+1

Fighting RamboHulk is just about green/red denial and stocking up on heavy-hitter powers for a finishing triple/quad/quintuple-whammy.

Higher-level Bullseye/Daken is the special-tile, constant-animation attrition tag team from Hell.

mouser

I'd rather fight a level 230 Hulk then a level 120-150. Safer to grind them down without triggering Anger.

On the higher level Hulks you can put some Punisher strike tiles out without worrying about triggering Anger. Can make the grind down go pretty fast.

Unknown

Damn heroic tokens and people slacking off. I blame rubberbanding and level scaling.