Fatal Attraction - S1 Daken event May 16 - May 19

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He has a level 212 Daken (not with 5 in the green however, which I find weird), 141 Thor, and 141 Magneto. I'm just running Patch/Mags/119 Daken (3/1/4) with no boosts for now, although I'll probably toss in red/blue/all boosts when I do for a pretty quick kill (use Best There Is to instakill Thor, match damage down Magneto, and then blow a few abilities to whip Daken down). Took me about 5 minutes on my first kill since I couldn't get 5 blue, probably 3 minutes second, even less now that I'll be running boosts.

Also I'd appreciate it if people held off on smacking me if you see me - just wait 10-15 minutes before hitting me, as I'd like to crank out these two high point matches and reshield.. and well there's a chance they may go on longer than expected. If this prevents even one point of loss it was worth it. :v

Edited because I meant 5 in the green instead of 4 in the green.

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That's Beee done for event. Happy hunting guys

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Holy ****. Came out of the match to give me 1018 just now for -111!!! Literally the worst I have ever seen coming out of a match. This is crazy! I managed back up to 986 and got scared so threw up a shield. so if you guys have me on retal please get it over with! lol Gonna have to do some crazy hops now. Was hoping for 1050 then shield.

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Kamahl_FoK wrote:

Just gonna keep hitting Slobofix until I'm at 1100, currently at 988 and have hit him twice, have him queued up for a third along with some other people. Hopefully can hop to 1100 in two pushes, looks that way right now (45 points first match, probably 35-40 second, shield, repeat in a few hours).

Ah yes the tried and true strategy of hopping off of the guys who throw money at getting 1400 scores every PvP. Good luck on 1100. It feels like 800+ in this event is just a giant danger zone. I feel like klaxons sound every time I unshield.

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Pretty brutal getting to 1100. I got to 1080 and tried to win one more match when I should have just shielded then hopped up 3 hours later.

1045..... had to shield. have been hit around 15 times in the last 30 minutes... haha. Try to make my jump in 2.5 hours. PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE

qq.

OzarkBoatswain

Might just be RNG R-ness, but I am getting a ton of 2* covers from PvP today.

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Watching bloodwars fall is kind of insane! he was at one point over 900 but he didn't want to shield I guess.

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SynGen wrote:

Ah yes the tried and true strategy of hopping off of the guys who throw money at getting 1400 scores every PvP. Good luck on 1100. It feels like 800+ in this event is just a giant danger zone. I feel like klaxons sound every time I unshield.

Thanks mate, I won't fight you for first in this PvP - I don't need any X-force covers, best of luck holding first, shouldn't be too hard given how much more volatile this PvP is becoming with every passing hour. I just need to win one more 30 point match and I'll have that sweet Daken at 4/1/4, which will translate to me just needing 1250 HP and one more Daken reward set to finish him off. I actually could probably have it now, I finished Slobo and then Reckless within 5 minutes and started panicking (988 to 1074 with 2 matches, stressful!), and just now got attacked, and.. they lost. Huh. 1083 now, I guess Psylocke/Daken/LThor is harder to beat than I thought (this is the team I climbed with, not the team I push with, too slow but I'd imagine it's a nightmare to attack with the synergy everywhere).

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beemand2g wrote:

That's Beee done for event. Happy hunting guys

well played Beee - don't think I'll catch your score, was brutal today!

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Hhhh just dropped another 100 points. Its never gonna end

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mikeydollar7 wrote:

beemand2g wrote:

That's Beee done for event. Happy hunting guys

well played Beee - don't think I'll catch your score, was brutal today!

Still plenty time for you I just wanted to relax before bed. It has been brutal to many people want the covers. Looks like your alliance is set for another top 2 placement. You guys are performing well, you and slobofix really improved the alliance scores.

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locked wrote:

I mean the tourney started with 2x 141 and even 3x 141 sometimes (and I'm bull-headed enough to hit maxed LDs if they are worth good points), then today I climbed to 600 or so, and as if an invisible switch was hit, suddenly 2x 85 teams everywhere, even some with mStorm and oBW. I only hit a couple that had better points, then it was mostly 2x 141 teams again closer to 900. Still seeing a 2* here and there I believe.

The MMR system is completely borked.... or working as intended.... depending on your point of view.

Players may be still gaining MMR points on wins, but depending on how many points a given players possesses in a tourney, that player's MMR simply doesn't matter anymore.

For the first 500 points, a player is matched up against players with their own MMR (previous working theory). The primary issue here is that because most players can no longer tank, their MMR keeps increasing to eventually see 3x 141s from the start, which just happens to be the MMR range at the top of the food chain. Thus, 45+ point attacks from new entrants to events as everyone is being shepherded into this single MMR range. Coupled with what appears to be intentional coding to pick out players that would yield high points scores (got to catch up quickly if you start late!), compounds this issue.

Next, is the implementation of MMR floors. No matter how low your MMR is, once you cross certain point thresholds, the scanning window for available opponents is drastically narrowed and redefined. At 500 (used to be 400 until about 2 events ago), a floor of 2x 85s is immediately placed under the player. From that point forward, MMR really doesn't matter anymore, as the scanning window matches players within very strict ranges. At around 800, 3*** teams start being phased in, although 2** teams that are playing above their range are still visible.

A new working theory that I am suspicious about, but am not 100% sold on (90%ish at the moment), is that MMR may simply not exist anymore in a PvP sense. Instead, a player's "MMR" that indicates what level players are first seen may simply be the highest "floor" that was successfully passed (meaning that a player successfully completed a fight against a higher tier opponent; fighting lower tier opponents on other pins once the floor is passed does not count - verified as true numerous times myself). The 2x85 floor is 500 points, the 2x transition team I **think** is 900 points (haven't scored high enough lately to verify - I tend to cap in the 800s because of health pack issues), and I'm totally unsure what the 2x141 floor is. Additional data could help on this one from someone who is scoring highly on events.

-- An additional theory on the R53 patch is that the "lag" time from dropping shields to appearing on other's queues is now gone, with possibly immediately red-flagging the player for appearance in others' queues. Also, I believe from observations working up the Simulator ladder post patch, that the algorithms to seek out high-pointed unshielded players has been greatly fine tuned and are **much** more accurate and responsive in finding and queuing high-pointed players for immediate attack in considerably lower-pointed players' queues. There is considerable anecdotal evidence from this thread, and personally I have had no remote shortage at all of finding 40+ targets and 45+ points targets if I skipped around a bit all the way up to near 2000ish points.

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i hit 1100 earlier in the day and have shielded for the duration.

have at it fellas. and GL to those still pushing...things look to be heating up out there.

marc

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beemand2g wrote:

mikeydollar7 wrote:

beemand2g wrote:

That's Beee done for event. Happy hunting guys

well played Beee - don't think I'll catch your score, was brutal today!

Still plenty time for you I just wanted to relax before bed. It has been brutal to many people want the covers. Looks like your alliance is set for another top 2 placement. You guys are performing well, you and slobofix really improved the alliance scores.

thanks - slobo and I both European time so will be done soon too

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Didn't know you and slobofix was euro time even more props to you guys know how hard it is to compete with these crazy event times. Looking forward to the next PVE

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Mikeydollar, I had you in a node from earlier. Din know you unshielded too when I was shield hopping. Saw you drop from 1400+ to 1300+. Sorry to be part of the problem, didn't mean it.

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laoahpeh wrote:

Mikeydollar, I had you in a node from earlier. Din know you unshielded too when I was shield hopping. Saw you drop from 1400+ to 1300+. Sorry to be part of the problem, didn't mean it.

No problem, tried 2 hops too close together to hit kakko (he leads my S1 bracket). Won 1 fight for 27 and came out to -137 on 3 losses. Yours was actually after i had shielded again

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Glad to hear that. I had both kakko and you. Good thing I hit him first before you then or else you would have lost more pts. Lol

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whew! Got it just barely thanks to a shield hop and walkyourpath and soenottelling. hope both you guys were shielded! I really hope every new cover tourney is not like this! I miss my tanking!

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blah. i just made a small push. got scared and shielded again. got up to 1051 if anyone wants to retreat to me so i can get up to 1100 i'd love it.
im gonna try again in 3 hours. hopefully i can get the 49 i need.