Devs! $1000 challenge. Beat the level 395 Daken/Ares

Nonce Equitaur 2

Devs .. Simple challenge for you. Post a video of one of you fairly beating the level 395 Daken Ares Yelena team before noon tomorrow. I didn't see any heroic boosts throughout the event, so you can't use those. You must use the limited characters available from the event. I'll look the video over along with others here, and if it seems legit, I'll send that dev a check for $1000.



That's all. Easy! You thought this was fair for me, after all.

Unknown

lol, the node name is coincidentally appropriate for this challenge.

"Time For Some Answers"

over_clocked

I'd watch that too. Bonus points for doing that mission with cHawkeye, mStorm and Captain**. (What?? Completely doable, rainbow coverage.)

Unknown

Awe man, devs..open up the event and give me 395 enemies on a new account....I love a challenge when the carrot is nice

I would go ...with...max patch (duh), max cap, max storm/Hawkeye/psy. +3 all, +3 all retired, and max + match damage (or maybe max +crit if Hawkeye). Also, im/patch/x works too. Actually, honestly I kinda liked the variety they gave. With patch, it made for finding interesting ways to take advantage of his berserker while mitigating self damage.

I am sure with enough tries ppl could do it with only some issue.

Unknown

I was beating the level 300 version with max boost so for $1000 I'm certainly willing to take a shot at it. My team was Storm/Thor/Patch, and my strategy goes like this:

1. Start with 6 red 6 green from boosts.
2. Make a beeline for red for 14r.
3. Use TBTI to kill Daken (with 5 in red you should do about 15K HP, that was enough to kill a level 300 Daken fine, but unsure about level 395. Daken at level 300 had 10K HP, and I think TBTI can do at least 15K damage easy so I'll assume it's enough).
4. Get 1g, 2r, 1black, and 2y matches.
5. Berserker Rage -> Thunder Strike -> Mistress of the Storm -> Hailstorm when you see a match 5 available on board, or at least 10 environmental tiles on board, or when Ares is about to kill you if you didn't kill him next turn (this is the most likely scenario).
6. Pray for something good to happen.
7. Mop up Yelena if something good happened in the previous step.

Unknown

Nonce Equitaur 2 wrote:

Devs .. Simple challenge for you. Post a video of one of you fairly beating the level 395 Daken Ares Yelena team before noon tomorrow. I didn't see any heroic boosts throughout the event, so you can't use those. You must use the limited characters available from the event. I'll look the video over along with others here, and if it seems legit, I'll send that dev a check for $1000.

That's all. Easy! You thought this was fair for me, after all.

You just invented a new genre: a "Pay4D3Win" game.

Jonny1Punch

I love this idea. We definitely need more creative stuff like this on the forum. Nice job!

Unknown

Just you wait, they'll take you up on the offer
I'd watch the hell out of that video.

Seriously though, scaling needs a cap and it needs to be not too far above the maximum possible level of player characters. I have no issues with fights starting easy and getting slightly harder, but this just makes no sense.

Unknown

There was at least one heroic boost you know...

Unknown

with thor and storm it's possible, though it does require some luck. then sub in patch/psy/mn mag as #3 depending on if you want board control or damage.

if i had unlimited healthpacks and access, i'd definitely take you up on it.

Unknown

And I thought when I saw the lvl 270 team was bad! This just takes the cake!

I would make the challenge harder and say you have to be able to beat them three times consecutively so that beat them isn't down to just pure luck of the board

WilsonFisk

I love this! Good job NE

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skydivearcher wrote:

And I thought when I saw the lvl 270 team was bad! This just takes the cake!

I would make the challenge harder and say you have to be able to beat them three times consecutively so that beat them isn't down to just pure luck of the board

yeah, but what if they get a lucky board? board rng is just such a big factor, as well as knowing when to retreat to save health packs... i mean if you open it up and there's like, 50% green tiles, you're probably not going to win and it'd be better to prologue heal the retreat and try again. a 395 ares does about 8k+ with any of his powers, so you've got to get help from the board.

Unknown

I went in with 2 heroic boosts, +3 all AP boost, and +3 yellow/red. Daken and Ares killed my Patch from full health to nothing turn 3, and they were only level 235.

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Kamahl_FoK wrote:

I went in with 2 heroic boosts, +3 all AP boost, and +3 yellow/red. Daken and Ares killed my Patch from full health to nothing turn 3, and they were only level 235.

Yep, got same treatment twice. starting minicascade with 2 greens and a blue, then pick blue and next turn shoot daken blue + Ares green, bye patchie from 9300 health.

Though with neutral board and 6 r/y boosts could defeat them 3 times. (fast recharge -> BTI 1-shot daken). At the end levels jumped to 257, I left that alone.

I recall the first game was a near miss, while I denied G&U and collected the red strike tiles plus yellows yelena got enough black to nuke my strike tiles also killing remains of patch in the process, fortunately I just gained the last blue for Cap to halt her.

Moral

Beat the level 200 twice using one heroic boost each. Both times Psylocke dropped and im40 recharged so patch had all tiles for best there is x2

Unknown

My levels capped around 280, I think, so far less than 395. I would use Patch, Storm, and either Psylocke or IM40. Storm's black does 1K damage per turn after a Rage and is harder to clear than Psy's black. Her red was invaluable for creating cascades. As long as I could clear off most of the purple in a turn or 2, I could burn them down before they burned me out. Daken's blue was almost helpful there, as he would smack IM40 or Storm with Chem Reaction and eat 2 purple strike tiles for me. Certainly not optimal, but by that point in the game, Storm was near death anyway from tanking black.

Unknown

Level 395...at least give them a chance....let them use bagman too.

Unknown

I would love to see them beat this too! My ares/daken battle was almost that high, it's impossible! I did beat them when they started at level 234, by fluke, but after that it scaled over 300 and didn't matter how lucky I got it was dead time every time!

Thanos

This is actually a great idea the dev's could implement. Have a once a week or whatever challenge where you have to beat super buffed enemies using only certain characters for a hefty reward. You could limit it to beating them just one time so there isn't too much loot getting put into the system. They could also mix it up by say, limiting how many times you can use special abilities or having to finish the match in under a certain amount of time. I think this would add a little spice to the game and its something i'd gladly play for hours while enjoying the challenge. Just a thought dev's, just a thought....

Unknown

I don't think heroic boosts would help much because it doesn't affect match damage and most of your damage is going to come from cascades. Unless you're sure you'll get 2 Berserker Rage off, most of the damage I did came from the strike tiles not the moves themselves, and TBTI can already kill Daken in one hit at level 5.