PVE: Boss Rush (2016-10-13 to 2016-10-17) - Anniversary

Cousin Simpson

Sitting on 2350 HP, I kind of wish MPQ were more like a Final Fantasy game where I can do a Gil Toss in Boss Rush.

Oh wait Gil Toss does work in Boss Rush, it just uses real money.

CT1888

VizMantis wrote:

sinnerjfl wrote:

Round 7, any idea on how to survive Banner? With 55k health, he will transform since he just floods the board with green...

Red Hulk? Anything else?

I 2nd the question. Maybe I've been unlucky, but it seems impossible. I had 3 shots at rd7 this evening and was wiped by turn 3 or 4 each time almost exclusively with match damage. Hulk spams green, which usually gives him a match or two, then he takes his turn, which usually causes a cascade. I tried winfinite first (gsbw down by turn 3, winfinite broken) and a couple rounds of my stronger 4* teams that had gotten me through previous rounds. One time I survived long enough for him to hulk out, which felt like an achievement. I'm at a loss as to how I could possibly proceed.

I did it with Red Hulk, Cho, XFW (all champed) with a Deceptive Tactics team up. He hulked up as I wasn't able to get purple fast enough, but I was able to get the board under 7 with the TU, with the 12 blue could hit the big damage (18k I think). Used black to heal and make charge tiles to boost green quicker, then punch out Surfer's cosmic tiles, then punching out count down tiles from Galactus. XFW yellow sustained him through the event, and managed to match one out for the damage.

Edit: of course, I wiped in the first round the next time....
Edit2: baw hair's width from beating Galactus with Cho, Kingpin and Cyclops. Just had to power through and match green and blue like crazy then punch him. I ended up using black for healing and charged tiles, and sacrificed Kingpin so that I could punch out cosmic and countdown tiles in rounds 2 & 3

Ctenko

Rulk TU
GSBW TU
IF TU

Hulkbuster
MoStorm
Someone to Hide MoStorm, who heals. XForceverine, Chulk, OML, Black Bolt? You won't actually have Purple, but you don't need it. I hear Chulk actually does well, because you can often take advantage of the green on the board with his passive.

Rush to get Two Team up matches, so you have Seven Attempt to stop Banner's transform late. (Luck dependent, but not stupidly so.)
Match Blue. All the Blue. The goal is to be using Hulkproof as often as you can. You can usually keep the board at under 10 tiles. Which is not bad. Also builds red, for you to use. If he ever turns into Hulk. Drain his ****, then use the Widow Team up to clear the board and gain a crazy amount of Green. You can either fuel your other abilities with MoStorm Green, or try for a kill shot with Chulk.

It is NOT as useful against Surfer, but if you (somehow?) manage to get to Big G with MoStorm and some black. (Not hard, you need to drop Buster's Black to make the Blue higher.) You can Spam out the board with Fists, and he can't really make tiles over them. Which really slows his Production.

It's Risky, but workable. Just... very TU dependent. Good Luck.

Megaturd

I just entered round 8 and it shows that the boss fight is worth 9000 points. Has anyone seen this error because I think it is supposed to be 90000.

Best team for round 7 was chulk, mostorm, and kk. Focus on only using storms yellow and green and kk's purple. I would use chulk's black and occasionally his green when I 30 green ap and greater than 12 blue ap. Worked very well once it got rolling.

Vhailorx

Peggy + Thing + Captain Marvel into Xpool + Quake + War Machine with a weak 2* essential is a brutal node, even at 200+.

Way to hike up that healthpack tax!

MPQ_Daywalker

Vhailorx wrote:

Peggy + Thing + Captain Marvel into Xpool + Quake + War Machine with a weak 2* essential is a brutal node, even at 200+.

Way to hike up that healthpack tax!

Agreed. I actually wiped on that one. I brought AOE damage dealers, which don't work well against XDP and Quake. Brought those two down, but WM finished me off.

For Round 7 using Kingpin and Red Hulk plus a random third I can usually get past Hulk and a little into Surfer. Haven't downed him yet. Best I've done is 24,000 points; this last time I barely damaged Surfer and got 17,000-something. By my estimates if I do this another 10 times or so I will clear Round 7. I highly doubt clearing Round 8 is in my future, even though my current 2/0/1 Peggy would love it.

Player1575

an1979 wrote:

OK anyone also had/seen strange points counting?
In round 7 full clear should be +45000
But it looks like I've got two times only ~20000-30000 (next time I'm noting numbers )
Like I would get credit only for 1/2 or maybe the same points I got in round 6...

I was using Hulkfinite*, maybe servers don't like 0,5h (and up!) rounds?

*Incredibly slow and boring.

Same here. Had 59k to go to complete round 6 with a boss clear being worth 30k.
2 clears + 3 sub missions (about 69k points total) later and I still had 2k points to go for round 7.

an1979

an1979 wrote:

OK anyone also had/seen strange points counting?
In round 7 full clear should be +45000
But it looks like I've got two times only ~20000-30000 (next time I'm noting numbers )
Like I would get credit only for 1/2 or maybe the same points I got in round 6...

I was using Hulkfinite*, maybe servers don't like 0,5h (and up!) rounds?

*Incredibly slow and boring.

And here's a proof of this TinyKitty bug in this TinykiTTy event

Using Hulkfinite.

I got 30.000 (or maybe even 15.000) in round 7 for at least 3 times instead of 45.000
One (or two) boss was not counted.
It seems that if you manage to make "no moves given to boss" you might get a fat NOTHING!

Before boss: 73.739


All 3 bosses killed +45.000
As it is counting down it should be: 73.739 - 45.000 = 28.739
However only 30.000 is deducted: 73.739 - 30.000 = 43.739


After boss ("outside): 43.739 where it should be 28.739


In the end I had to do about 4 more clears in round 7!

Do yourself a favour and do a screenshots BEFORE and AFTER boss fight.
And better maybe allow boss one move near the end when you have ~30AP to immediately clean after him.

Zyrook

I beat round 7 once with Kingpin Cho 4Clyps, but that's because I got lucky in round 1. In another round Bruce took my Clops from full to 0 on turn one with a lucky cascade. If there was some way to predict the tiles he makes, like "Converts X black tiles green" or something it'd be something people could play around, but random puts you entirely at the mercy of the RNG.

seraphiel

I'm 3 subnodes into round 6 and not really hurrying through this painful, tedious slog of an event. It's fairly anti-fun.

Charlie's Angels (with Charlie's fortunately maxed) and a tiny bit of luck in the first few turns is the only strategy that has any hope of working for me on the boss nodes. Any other team I have can't survive the high-damage matches plus the cheap, massive-damage powers.

And for the most part it has worked, despite being a 10-minute grind every time.

The subnodes are mostly ok. Annoying, but that's because winning a subnode means I have to go deal with the boss thing again.

Also I have noticed that my flow has plummeted during this event. So that sucks.

Edit:
Cleared round 6 and I'm done.
There's nothing I can reliably do against Banner as the starting boss. By turn 2 or 3 he's spawning critical tiles and mauling the whole team, so it's pointless to attempt anything further.

VizMantis

Another member of my alliance said winfinite was working for him in rd7, so I gave it another shot. With +2 purple ap boost, I managed to win a couple times. But it's basically completely reliant on starting with a 5match or lots of purple on the board, as banner matches you to death in 3 turns.

The sw component of winfinite may not be necessary, since there's not enough time for her blue to go off anyhow. Not sure what a good substitute would be though. Maybe someone like Thing or 3* dp, to buy gsbw a couple more turns to get going?

That being said, I see blue peg is the progression reward for the next pve. I've already got 4 blue, so no reason to continue with Boss Rush. No way I'm slogging through round 8, much as my 5/0/4 Peggy would like me to.

Marty17

I have 1/3 success rate with: / / but the other 2 losses the board was rather unfavourable, dominating with

dingao666

i beat round 5 with sentry/groot/IM40
groot strike tiles + world rupture works great

of course a little luck with OML helps too, his green skill is really annoying

an1979

I have to stand corrected - giving a boss one round does not secure your points in this buggy TinyKiTTy.
You still get NOTHING from some bosses.

Round 8

Before boss: 384.607


All 3 bosses killed +90.000
As it is counting down it should be:
384.607 - 90.000 = 294.607
However this time only 60.000 is deducted:
384.607 - 60.000 = 324.607


After boss ("outside): 324.607 where it should be 294.607

Player1575

Just got to round 8.

I need 680k points to clear the round...

And completing the boss round gives me 9,000. I guess I should just stop now since it'll be impossible to finish?

imgur.com/kTsDJWT

imgur.com/FV7T0p1

Don't know how to link on here, sorry. Pictures speak for themselves though.

greengiant33

TO THE DEVS:

Here is a post I did a year ago:
Re: Pull the plug on the anniversary events.
by greengiant33 » Fri Oct 09, 2015 12:55 pm

One word to Dev's and game overall.......

ANNOYED

Greengiant33

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Yet again as my third year with this game you make an event which is ridiculous. Once again I am ANNOYED. I had fun fighting a boss (OML) in rd6 to get a whopping 187 pts. WOW that was fun. I have really good players on my team yet nothing is working well for me. This is not called fun... IT IS ANNOYING and the reason I stopped giving you money 2 yrs ago and the reason why I have lost so many friends that loved playing this game. I see no future in money coming from me but with some of the changes I was starting to think you had won me back. I wanted to try in this event but you changed the Round progression reward to be personal instead of alliance progression as your team made each round. Then you make the teams you fight against scale way to high then you make the bosses be impossible. If I tried to get to Round 7 which I am sure I could I see no point as it is no fun at round 6. Why are you guys (devs) so **** and not test play your game. If any one of you would have grinded for hours and hours to make little progress you would have seen a horrible idea in the making. I would love to say that this anniversary was great but you guys jacked it up again. To celebrate your possible games success you would think that making it fun and enjoyable with some challenge would make sense.

Greengiant33

ZeiramMR

Player1575 wrote:

Just got to round 8.

I need 680k points to clear the round...

And completing the boss round gives me 9,000. I guess I should just stop now since it'll be impossible to finish?

imgur.com/kTsDJWT

imgur.com/FV7T0p1

Don't know how to link on here, sorry. Pictures speak for themselves though.

It says 9,000; it is actually 90,000 if you can get the whole way through.

Another bug with the event.

Magglios

I read your post an1979 and I think you are right that if a boss doesn't attack you it doesn't give you credit. After seeing what you wrote I paid attention in rd 7, but didn't let ss in the middle fight ever attack me. With cascades he was done and I immediately thought if he attacked me. Let galactus hit me a few times and won, and only got 30k of the 45, no screenshots tho. Definite bug there.

Fwiw- I'm thru rd 7 and been using kk, xf wolvie, and 4 clops, all champed. Had some trouble in rd 6 w jeans red in wave 2, but only lost once. Lost one in rd 7 against bb when he was able to turn. Stockpile and jump on them, almost been a winfinite from there w cascades.

Gonna take my first cracks at rd 8 now to see if it's possible to get last Peggy cover, and thanks for that heads up on the bug!!! It's so difficult it's super counterintuitive strategy- when you get control, let them hit you. Yeah, great plan rocky!

peteer01

Wow. This is the least fun event I have played in MPQ.

Maybe it's just the result of +2 years of putting hours into this game daily, but between bugs, poor support and an event like this that leave me disinterested regardless of how good the prizes are...I'm just disappointed.

I have championed every 2* and 3*. I'm sitting on and IW and two Ant-Man covers wondering if I want to waste the ISO I'm sitting on championing either of them. I've got 5 championed 4*s, and yet the recent changes and events have made me feel less competitive, with less to gain.

It's surprising how unenjoyable and poorly conceived this Boss Rush is. Maybe it's fun for those few people who really want a challenge figuring out how to leverage their amazing roster against a buggy boss mode that doesn't always award full points even if you do win...but most people likely resemble the chat room in my alliance talking about it being unfun and giving up.

sambrookjm

peteer01 wrote:

It's surprising how unenjoyable and poorly conceived this Boss Rush is. Maybe it's fun for those few people who really want a challenge figuring out how to leverage their amazing roster against a buggy boss mode that doesn't always award full points even if you do win...but most people likely resemble the chat room in my alliance talking about it being unfun and giving up.

I wrote just that in my alliance chat room last night. Had there been any sort of cover award for Alliances (other than placement), I might have kept going. As it is, I just wrote "I'm done with Boss Rush. Have fun, everyone!" Storm is my highest LVL 3-star anyway (LVL 199) so her cover isn't worth the frustration of having to go through 15 health packs just to finish up the round.

Even though everyone (myself included) is piling on the devs for this one, I would like to give them a "Thank You" for including individual awards for placement within the Alliance. That is a very nice addition to an otherwise pretty horrible event.