Super Lightning Rounds! *Updated

Moon Roach

Jarvind wrote:

I look forward to doing the same thing I always do with Lightning Rounds, which is mostly not play them because I'm at work! Woooo!

Do what I do (assuming you're not on Steam), take a "comfort break" with 5 minutes to go and win a single battle. Take your chances on joining / starting a new bracket.

Hendross

Tickle my sides, this is great!

Felonius

I see LR periodically, but (as others have mentioned), I'm usually at work, so never give them much thought... just play them occasionally when I happen to see them...

But if they're doing a special event, I'd like to find a way to participate...

What time(s) will these SLR be running throughout the day?

Maybe I can arrange my breaks to jump in a couple or three...

Vhailorx

As everyone else has said, 20-player brackets are a ton of fun. The only "downside" to this announcement is that it is at least 1 year late.

mohio

aesthetocyst wrote:

Felonius wrote:

I see LR periodically, but (as others have mentioned), I'm usually at work, so never give them much thought... just play them occasionally when I happen to see them...

But if they're doing a special event, I'd like to find a way to participate...

What time(s) will these SLR be running throughout the day?

Maybe I can arrange my breaks to jump in a couple or three...

Every 2hrs for 90min starting noon eastern.

Lately it's been starting at 1pm Tuesdays and they run for 48 hours (they even changed to keep it same from normal/daylight savings, so I think that is the preferred time)

okay, technically 47.5 hours

Brigby

Great questions everyone. I sent a few over to Demiurge, and this is what they said:

bigsmooth wrote:

Will the brackets include players from all SHIELD Clearance Levels? I assume they will if they function like normal LRs.

They will function like normal Lightning Rounds. There aren't any restrictions to who you are competing against in a leaderboard.

Chipster22 wrote:

Will we need to pay an HP entry fee to join? If memory serves, that was how it worked years ago.

Nope! Free for anyone to participate

Quest34 wrote:

Does anyone remember the rewards breakdown?

Progression Rewards

• Score 25 - 140 Iso-8 • Score 50 - Standard Token • Score 100 - 250 Iso-8 • Score 250 - Standard Token • Score 500 - 500 Iso-8

Placement Rewards

• Rank 1 - 2 Fight and Flight Tokens, 1,000 Iso-8 • Rank 2 - 1 Fight and Flight Token, 500 Iso-8 • Rank 3-5 - Elite Token, 500 Iso-8 • Rank 6-8 - Elite Token, 250 Iso-8 • Rank 9-13 - 200 Iso-8 • Rank 14-18 - 140 Iso-8 • Rank 19-20 - 70 Iso-8

stochasticism wrote:

What will the boosted list for these look like? Just c4rol, normal LR boosted. Weekly boosted? Something else?

4-Star Captain Marvel is the only boosted character.

Punisher5784

Brigby wrote:

Placement Rewards

• Rank 1 - 2 Fight and Flight Tokens, 1,000 Iso-8 • Rank 2 - 1 Fight and Flight Token, 500 Iso-8 • Rank 3-5 - Elite Token, 500 Iso-8 • Rank 6-8 - Elite Token, 250 Iso-8 • Rank 9-13 - 200 Iso-8 • Rank 14-18 - 140 Iso-8 • Rank 19-20 - 70 Iso-8

The downside is I would hate to fight to place rank 1-2, only to open the same 2-3* I would have opened from the Elite. Is there any discussion about Legendary Lightning Rounds such as Black Panther with a chance to win 'Hail the King' tokens? That would be.. wait for it.. legendary.

JHawkInc

aesthetocyst wrote:

Brigby wrote:

4-Star Captain Marvel is the only boosted character.

Only 1 buff? for every LR in the cycle? 24 Carol LRs in a row?

Just asking to confirm that. Thanks!

And hey, at least the elites showed up in placement. Yay.

I would assume it's because it's a test run. Running the same character for every LR gives a much larger sample size of data for them to study and see if it needs any tweaks or not, you know? Running more characters means more variables.

stochasticism

aesthetocyst wrote:

JHawkInc wrote:

aesthetocyst wrote:

Brigby wrote:

4-Star Captain Marvel is the only boosted character.

Only 1 buff? for every LR in the cycle? 24 Carol LRs in a row?

Just asking to confirm that. Thanks!

And hey, at least the elites showed up in placement. Yay.

I would assume it's because it's a test run. Running the same character for every LR gives a much larger sample size of data for them to study and see if it needs any tweaks or not, you know? Running more characters means more variables.

"More variables" never stopped them before

My guess is it's a way to really feature a character and give players another way to chase them, via that character's pvp token.

Sure seems like a great way to deal with 4* drop rate dilution and help people cover newly released 4*.

udonomefoo

Dang. I ran out of time on the sim and didn't get that

stowaway

And where is the Carol Danvers vault to help you monetize this potentially interesting experiment?

stochasticism

stowaway wrote:

And where is the Carol Danvers vault to help you monetize this potentially interesting experiment?

The Carol Danvers tokens will have 6% draw rate for her on 10 or 40 packs. That's a much better draw rate than you would ever see on a vault for her.

JHawkInc

stochasticism wrote:

stowaway wrote:

And where is the Carol Danvers vault to help you monetize this potentially interesting experiment?

The Carol Danvers tokens will have 6% draw rate for her on 10 or 40 packs. That's a much better dra rate than you would ever see on a vault for her.

It's a lightning round, where'd they say you'll be able to buy 10/40 packs?

stowaway

stochasticism wrote:

stowaway wrote:

And where is the Carol Danvers vault to help you monetize this potentially interesting experiment?

The Carol Danvers tokens will have 6% draw rate for her on 10 or 40 packs. That's a much better dra rate than you would ever see on a vault for her.

You're right! I somehow read that as 3* "Fly, fight win" tokens, for no reason other than my brain getting confused. Variants get tough to keep track of -- especially since both pvps were quite recent.

Nellobee

Next fix: please have LR on weekends.

Felonius

aesthetocyst wrote:

Felonius wrote:

I see LR periodically, but (as others have mentioned), I'm usually at work, so never give them much thought... just play them occasionally when I happen to see them...

But if they're doing a special event, I'd like to find a way to participate...

What time(s) will these SLR be running throughout the day?

Maybe I can arrange my breaks to jump in a couple or three...

Every 2hrs for 90min starting noon [central]. EDITED —typing on autopilot. D'oh!

Thank you, Aesthetocyst.

pheregas

I faced one champed and boosted C4rol during her PVP... Did 3k aoe for every 3-match. I didn't last long.

Prepare to not get first if someone in your bracket does have one.

mohio

pheregas wrote:

I faced one champed and boosted C4rol during her PVP... Did 3k aoe for every 3-match. I didn't last long.

Prepare to not get first if someone in your bracket does have one.

The tricky thing about LRs is it's all about the timing. The guy with the max Carol might start 30 minutes in and play for an hour but he's getting hit by all the other guys with max carol and big 5* after he gets around 200, so maybe he only finishes with 250-300 points. You could load all the seeds, do your first match 30 minutes in and then wait...with 15 minutes left you can clear all the seeds (~240 points) and hit 2 fights to finish 300+ and beat him out

edit: sure you need to get a bit lucky to beat someone in these events with better rosters than you. But I see 4* rosters in the top 25 all the time where I might have a "better" roster, but I get beat down by guys with bigger 5s to the point I can't earn points fast enough to catch up. My point is with a little cagey-ness you can beat out players with better rosters (to an extent).

zodiac339

Sounds very promising. My only #1 in Lightning Round (or any PVP) was when Electra was released. I was still relying on my 2 stars back then. Hope this event is fun as that was, but considering all the heavy Epic reliance people use, I can't help a little apprehension.

wymtime

Can we make super LR all LR going forward! Each week a different buffed 4*. Just make sure they are not in the weekly buff list.