Prodigal Sun, Episode 4.5

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  • Unknown
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    Huh. It's seeming like I should be able to get 20K points by the end of this sub event. If it keeps up like this, maybe I would have a shot at hitting that Daken reward at the end. The scaling will probably get ridiculous long before that, but still. icon_razz.gif
  • Arogntbastrd
    Arogntbastrd Posts: 1,009 Chairperson of the Boards
    It seems to be based on the main, atleast that's what makes sense given what I'm seeing. I'm doing my run right now, first in my sub has a pretty healthy lead on me I have no chance of making up (I just cracked top 50) but I'm top 10 in my main

    So all in all wonky Rubberbanding *shouldn't* affect final standings so I don't really care

    I'm actually quite enjoying this pve. Not super crunk about sentry but I like the nice short subs. Gives the illusion of less grindy. Meanwhile I haven't touched psyducks pvp yet cause I'm just not feelin it
  • DirigiblePilot
    DirigiblePilot Posts: 392 Mover and Shaker
    edited May 2014
    Anyone know how to post a Steam screenshot? I have something odd that needs sharing.
    http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=262280792

    EDIT: That'll have to do (though I'd still like to know how to make the image right in this message.) It's a link to a steam picture. The icon is a recruit token, but it says 250 iso. Anyone know why?

    (Please don't ask me why the page is in (German?) I am most definitely American.)
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    DirigiblePilot wrote:
    Anyone know how to post a Steam screenshot? I have something odd that needs sharing.
    http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=262280792

    EDIT: That'll have to do. It's a link to a steam picture. The icon is a recruit token, but it says 250 iso. Anyone know why?

    (Please don't ask me why the page is in (German?) I am most definitely American.)

    ... That's weird. I don't think mine did that, nor was anything odd about my other progression rewards, including the 15,000 one.

    What did you actually get, the ISO or token?
  • DirigiblePilot
    DirigiblePilot Posts: 392 Mover and Shaker
    Amanda1983 wrote:
    DirigiblePilot wrote:
    Anyone know how to post a Steam screenshot? I have something odd that needs sharing.
    http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=262280792

    EDIT: That'll have to do. It's a link to a steam picture. The icon is a recruit token, but it says 250 iso. Anyone know why?

    (Please don't ask me why the page is in (German?) I am most definitely American.)

    ... That's weird. I don't think mine did that, nor was anything odd about my other progression rewards, including the 15,000 one.

    What did you actually get, the ISO or token?

    That's actually the "Next Reward" popup, so I haven't gotten anything yet. (I missed the last refresh of the first bracket...)
    But on the actual progression awards page, it has listed a recruit token with everything normal. I'll be sure to tell what I get once I do.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Well, just cracked 20k points. Ranked 35th in my brackets. I'll call it a night and see if maybe I can get close to 25k points before this sub event ends tomorrow. I wonder how many of them we'll get before it's just nodes on the main Prodigal Sun board. Would be pleased if I managed to get over halfway to the Daken cover with 6 days left to do.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    RichHurtz wrote:
    Well, just cracked 20k points. Ranked 35th in my brackets. I'll call it a night and see if maybe I can get close to 25k points before this sub event ends tomorrow. I wonder how many of them we'll get before it's just nodes on the main Prodigal Sun board. Would be pleased if I managed to get over halfway to the Daken cover with 6 days left to do.
    It's on 8 hour refreshes then?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    It makes no sense how I have played as optimally as possible yet the leader in my sub bracket has almost 4000 more points than I do.

    Anyone know how this happens
  • Shadow
    Shadow Posts: 155
    colebavery21 wrote:
    It makes no sense how I have played as optimally as possible yet the leader in my sub bracket has almost 4000 more points than I do.

    Anyone know how this happens

    If your sub leader didn't do well in the first sub in comparison to you, rubberbanding off the main bracket would have given him a lot of points.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    So basically rubberbanding was changed on the fly for another event, and now we have to grind almost every mission into dust if we want to win.
    Yeah, that'll help with scaling.

    Why do we keep getting changes that _worsen_ the existing problems with the game?

    Yes, that's another rhetorical question.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Ah come on, ****. Just came to this thread because the rubber banding behaved suddenly strange. Another event right after the other debacle where it's stealth changed ?! This is just sad.
  • NighteyesGrisu
    NighteyesGrisu Posts: 563 Critical Contributor
    yeah, it certainly feels a lot harder catching up than in previous events....I waited till this morning to start the sub, expecting high points so I can catch up fast...instead I had to grind every node to dust just to get into the top50 of that sub - and the leader is still more then 2k ahead.

    Which is doubly infuriating since this didn't appear to be the case in the first sub where I couldn't play the last 5h of the game and dropped from top 10 to 260 or so in those last few hours.
  • daveomite
    daveomite Posts: 1,331 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yeah...rubberbanding is screwed in this one, perfect.

    As D3 said..."This too shall pass". Whatever.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Every PvE event feels like a game of Calvinball.
  • daveomite
    daveomite Posts: 1,331 Chairperson of the Boards
    for some reason, in the last 10-15 minutes - my node values spiked. I don't mean a ton - but I mean, last I checked about 10 minutes ago, Daken vs. Yelena was sub 200 still, and Coercive Force was 287 I think. Now, it is showing 399 for D vs Y, and 348 for CF.

    Considering between 8 hours ago and now, they barely creeped up at all... now they just jumped 100 points or so in 10 minutes. Weird.
  • NighteyesGrisu
    NighteyesGrisu Posts: 563 Critical Contributor
    daveomite wrote:
    for some reason, in the last 10-15 minutes - my node values spiked. I don't mean a ton - but I mean, last I checked about 10 minutes ago, Daken vs. Yelena was sub 200 still, and Coercive Force was 287 I think. Now, it is showing 399 for D vs Y, and 348 for CF.

    Considering between 8 hours ago and now, they barely creeped up at all... now they just jumped 100 points or so in 10 minutes. Weird.

    that always happens shortly before a similar 100 point spike to the opponent levels happens icon_e_wink.gif
  • daveomite
    daveomite Posts: 1,331 Chairperson of the Boards
    NighteyesGrisu wrote:
    daveomite wrote:
    for some reason, in the last 10-15 minutes - my node values spiked. I don't mean a ton - but I mean, last I checked about 10 minutes ago, Daken vs. Yelena was sub 200 still, and Coercive Force was 287 I think. Now, it is showing 399 for D vs Y, and 348 for CF.

    Considering between 8 hours ago and now, they barely creeped up at all... now they just jumped 100 points or so in 10 minutes. Weird.

    that always happens shortly before a similar 100 point spike to the opponent levels happens icon_e_wink.gif

    Ahh... I see. More points - More scaling! Wheee....
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I think they deliberately tweak how rubberbanding works every event so it's a moving target. I don't think they like the metagame, and I think they want to make it as hard for us to figure it out as possible.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    I think they deliberately tweak how rubberbanding works every event so it's a moving target. I don't think they like the metagame, and I think they want to make it as hard for us to figure it out as possible.
    Well so far they only tweaked when we were in danger of reaching some worthwile progression rewards.
    I haven't seen them tweak anything in our favour in the last 3 months.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    I think they deliberately tweak how rubberbanding works every event so it's a moving target. I don't think they like the metagame, and I think they want to make it as hard for us to figure it out as possible.

    Or people actually had a chance at getting the top progression reward this time. Now we don't want that, do we?

    Actually, changing it between events would be confusing but still acceptable. But changing it between or during subs is **** up. Why get points at all? Everybody just plays like he wants and gets some random reward at the end. Same as now, just less frustrating.

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