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

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Thanos wrote:

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....

This.. is a fantastic idea. Challenge of the week is a pure winner. Players would spend healthpacks, boosts, and in some cases money for a solid reward (Rotating 3* cover, 5k iso, etc) and enjoy doing so.

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Thanos wrote:

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....

This is a great idea! (So long as they don't make it a competition...)

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Phantron wrote:

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.

Was it from me that you got this stratedgy or did you too figire it out?

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Dudes! Don't help the devs! Make them bang their heads against the wall off the full event times like we do?

noobprime

Phantron wrote:

6. Pray for something good to happen.

shouldn't that be step 1

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noobprime wrote:

Phantron wrote:

6. Pray for something good to happen.

shouldn't that be step 1

Can't use up your miracle too early.

Nonce Equitaur 2

Since time has expired, here's how I did it. Patch / MN Mags / Capt America. Boosts for 6 green, 6 purple, 6 blue, 3 of all else.

1. Focus on Ares
2. Get purple to 9, and green to 9.
3. Use Mags purple to erase all purple from the board. And collect blue.
4. Use Berserker Rage. No enemy strike tiles.
5. Use Peacemaker to stunlock Ares. Also remove errant strike tiles.
6. If 9 more purple becomes available, erase blue from the board to help maintain stunlocks. Deny blue.
7. Use Caps red if it's available but red is scarce, otherwise go for Best there is.
8. When Ares is down, stunlock and take down Yelena. Sacrifice Mags if a big attack isn't stoppable.
9. Stunlock and take down Daken to close.

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Sound strategy sir.

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Let's see you put up big reward for developers....the app has been having problems over a long period this morning....next time...can you pull the reward until after they get the app fixed?

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Phantron wrote:

noobprime wrote:

Phantron wrote:

6. Pray for something good to happen.

shouldn't that be step 1

Can't use up your miracle too early.

Nonce Equitaur 2

stephen43084 wrote:

Let's see you put up big reward for developers....the app has been having problems over a long period this morning....next time...can you pull the reward until after they get the app fixed?

Sorry. I posted the challenge last night. I didn't know it would break the game in the morning.

scottee

Nonce Equitaur 2 wrote:

stephen43084 wrote:

Let's see you put up big reward for developers....the app has been having problems over a long period this morning....next time...can you pull the reward until after they get the app fixed?

Sorry. I posted the challenge last night. I didn't know it would break the game in the morning.

Yeah, all the Devs are too busy trying to beat 395 Daken and they haven't gotten to the Os rewards yet.

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You really shouldn't be afraid to trade Berserker Rage with the enemy against ultra high levels because once they use their AP moves you're already 100% dead and a complete stunlock is not feasible with the roster available. The AI does have their 'hot dog moment' which means you'll usually come out ahead in a trade. Sure things can easily go very bad once Berserker Rage is on, but you're probably not surviving a level 395 so if they're one match away you should take the chance. Of course that's where you need the 'something good to happen', but nothing good can possibly happen if they do have enough for a major move like Sunder.

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scottee wrote:

Nonce Equitaur 2 wrote:

stephen43084 wrote:

Let's see you put up big reward for developers....the app has been having problems over a long period this morning....next time...can you pull the reward until after they get the app fixed?

Sorry. I posted the challenge last night. I didn't know it would break the game in the morning.

Yeah, all the Devs are too busy trying to beat 395 Daken and they haven't gotten to the Os rewards yet.

I'm a tad confused about the challenge as a whole. You're challenging the devs to do something you've already done? How is that a challenge? Or did your strategy not work? The wording implies that it did.

Nonce Equitaur 2

I was lucky and determined. I wanted to prove I could get that cover no matter how ridiculously impossible they tried to make it.

It seems that SolidQ hit level 395 much earlier than I did.

IceIX wrote:

morgh wrote:

Is the scaling of some people (right now me and SolidQ) of around 150-241 and up to 395 in SolidQ's case really working as intended?

I don't know what SolidQ's in-game name is so I can't check into rating there. Looking at yours, your previous PVE rating from prior Events and your current looks in-line with the intended reductions, so in pure mathematical terms, your reduction is working as intended.

The problem being that your both are so far along the curve that is PVE scaling that something like a 40% decrease on rating still puts you pretty high on the numeric scale as a result. We did a much larger reduction for this Event than we do for normal Events to account for the restricted rosters, but even with that there are still some outliers. It appears that this is the case with you and SolidQ. From previous investigations into this, there's little our tools can do to immediately fix the issue for just your particular case without affecting a bunch of other users as well, or alternatively, restarting the Event. Neither are really tenable. We've improved our tools and will continue to do so but I don't believe that there's a magic bullet that we can fire with this particular Event to get you in-line.

Since I'm scaled into the ridiculous levels, and since even IceIX can't fix this error, for anybody, it seems that seeing 395 may be the games equivalent of a kiss of death.

Spoit

Nonce Equitaur 2 wrote:

I was lucky and determined. I wanted to prove I could get that cover no matter how ridiculously impossible they tried to make it.

It seems that SolidQ hit level 395 much earlier than I did.

IceIX wrote:

morgh wrote:

Is the scaling of some people (right now me and SolidQ) of around 150-241 and up to 395 in SolidQ's case really working as intended?

I don't know what SolidQ's in-game name is so I can't check into rating there. Looking at yours, your previous PVE rating from prior Events and your current looks in-line with the intended reductions, so in pure mathematical terms, your reduction is working as intended.

The problem being that your both are so far along the curve that is PVE scaling that something like a 40% decrease on rating still puts you pretty high on the numeric scale as a result. We did a much larger reduction for this Event than we do for normal Events to account for the restricted rosters, but even with that there are still some outliers. It appears that this is the case with you and SolidQ. From previous investigations into this, there's little our tools can do to immediately fix the issue for just your particular case without affecting a bunch of other users as well, or alternatively, restarting the Event. Neither are really tenable. We've improved our tools and will continue to do so but I don't believe that there's a magic bullet that we can fire with this particular Event to get you in-line.

Since I'm scaled into the ridiculous levels, and since even IceIX can't fix this error, for anybody, it seems that seeing 395 may be the games equivalent of a kiss of death.

I thogught he did fix it, for a couple people. But not the ones who had just a smidge less Scaling then them

SolidQ

Classic Daken 395 lvl has 2x150+ strike tiles and that get easier than was before old daken 2x200+ strike tiles

i'm tried first time fight vs 395 lvl Ares\C.Daken\Belova and win

http://i.imgur.com/VNfGY0M.jpg

Tourney was hard for me from start, when my enemy all time was 395 lvl and some enemy going to 270-300 lvl(much dying), except more harder nodes which stays always 395 lvl.

Nonce Equitaur 2

SolidQ wrote:

Classic Daken 395 lvl has 2x150+ strike tiles and that get easier than was before old daken 2x200+ strike tiles

i'm tried first time fight vs 395 lvl Ares\C.Daken\Belova and win

http://i.imgur.com/VNfGY0M.jpg

Tourney was hard for me from start, when my enemy all time was 395 lvl and some enemy going to 270-300 lvl(much dying), except more harder nodes which stays always 395 lvl.

Okay, you win the "most determined player" award. I thought I had it bad, but you had level 395 opponents for a lot longer than I did.

SolidQ

Nonce Equitaur 2 wrote:

but you had level 395 opponents for a lot longer than I did.

Yeah and that was boring for me, and thank to enemies 395 lvl not winning for me any C.Daken cover

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There were Heroic boosts (the rainbow +50% damage one at least). If you had any left over from previous events, you could use them in this one. Sorry if that's been said already. I skimmed.