Prodigal Sun, Episode 4.5

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  • Unknown
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    Knock3r wrote:
    At least it's only six nodes per sub at the moment. Could be worse *cough* Florida *cough*...

    At first glance, the second sub also seems to have a higher difficulty level so is this Hard Mode?

    Yes Wakanda points are about twice that of Los Angeles so you can think of it like normal and hard modes.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    Carthl wrote:
    Sweenz wrote:
    meh... playing semi-casually(hit each node once initially, then make sure to rubberband the last hour or two) and am in 5th... only 1k behind leader.

    I tried that, but I must be in some super grindy bracket, because I'm 4k behind in #77. That's okay since I'm not going for the cover, but still weird how rubberbanding works for some and not others.
    Yeah, I'm playing more than usual and am not able to catch up.
    Either I got a bad bracket or the implementation of rubberbanding gets worse with every PVE.
    Both are highly likely.
  • Unknown
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    Sumilea wrote:
    Knock3r wrote:
    At least it's only six nodes per sub at the moment. Could be worse *cough* Florida *cough*...

    At first glance, the second sub also seems to have a higher difficulty level so is this Hard Mode?

    Yes Wakanda points are about twice that of Los Angeles so you can think of it like normal and hard modes.

    So it's another wedge for players in this event? I'm not in this group, but it seems that players without Gold Daken were already screwed for points, and now there's a difficulty spike that will cut off even more players?
  • Infrared
    Infrared Posts: 240 Tile Toppler
    Did not expect SHIELD agents as goons. I like the change of atmosphere, even if they still do the same things as HAMMER goons. Anyone else notice they dropped the period from "S.H.I.E.L.D Base" in the subs titles?
  • Unknown
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    The difficulty in Wakanda is pretty brutal in my case too - most nodes start in the 90s and I only have one of the buffed heroes, playing with lv 85 otherwise. Just had my **** wiped by BP who was being fed relevant covers... Okay, admittedly i was playing with my useless b/c rate team, cause everyone else is dead and I'm out of healthpacks... still.
  • Unknown
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    Can we talk about the hideous art assets for the new subs? I didn't install this game on my Apple 2E using floppy discs.
  • Unknown
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    Just got my reward packs, and wound up getting the 1 Moonstone cover I needed to complete her and a Purple CMag's cover. icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Unknown
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    Bowgentle wrote:
    Carthl wrote:
    Sweenz wrote:
    meh... playing semi-casually(hit each node once initially, then make sure to rubberband the last hour or two) and am in 5th... only 1k behind leader.

    I tried that, but I must be in some super grindy bracket, because I'm 4k behind in #77. That's okay since I'm not going for the cover, but still weird how rubberbanding works for some and not others.
    Yeah, I'm playing more than usual and am not able to catch up.
    Either I got a bad bracket or the implementation of rubberbanding gets worse with every PVE.
    Both are highly likely.

    I'm not really grinding but at least hitting every high value node a couple times each refresh and I'm 4k behind the bracket leader and I don't think I'd be able to grind those 4k down even if I wanted.
  • Unknown
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    Every 12 or so hours, I would usually do each node twice.

    Did we ever figure out the refresh rate for these ones with progress bars? Oh, it's progress bar AND timer... maybe we get something if the progress bar is full before time runs out?

    EDIT: It looks like Wakanda could be the "Hard Mode" of this round?
  • rkd80
    rkd80 Posts: 376
    Wakanda is terrible. All nodes for me are around 90-110 and he is a beast. If he gets on a roll he will steamroll the entire team. Just used up my entire active roster + health packs and I got a whopping 1,000 points and ranked 100! Woohoooo.
  • Unknown
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    So i got my prodigal sun token from winning the last round and I GOT DAKEN!!!!!!!! Sadly its his healing and heat. Who cares yo I got Daken's 3* version!.

    I'll probably push to win his blue in Fresh Cut while working on this double shield area to win more prodigal sun coins. Sadly i fear now that its a global progress thing i probably wont rank as high as i did last two rounds.

    Really d3 you had to do this? D; make this Charizard queen suffer why don't cha
  • Unknown
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    edited May 2014
    Yargh. Everything but the Sentry team-up node are Hard or higher difficulty, so I probably won't be spending too much time in Wakanda. I'll focus more on LA, but I imagine the point values will probably end up staying low. Guess I'll see again in 12-ish hours.

    On the plus side, I'm only 5 levels away from a maxed 5/3/5 Ares. Thinking I might keep him this way... until I get a Red cover, then I'll wonder what to do. icon_razz.gif
  • Unknown
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    The scores I'm seeing at the top of sub bracket is awfully close to doing every mission down to 1, so you should not expect to come close to that kind of score if you're not putting in similar effort with the tighter rubberband.
  • Unknown
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    Phantron wrote:
    The scores I'm seeing at the top of sub bracket is awfully close to doing every mission down to 1, so you should not expect to come close to that kind of score if you're not putting in similar effort with the tighter rubberband.

    I'm relying on my usual rule for PVEs: I can usually just top 100 each of the subs and still be ideally placed to top 20 the main at the end. Most of the #1s are going to screw up their scaling in the process.
  • Unknown
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    Does anyone think that the sub might END when the progress bar fills up? I know there is also a timer, but the event wording says "Do as much damage as you can to SHIELD" before the Mayhem bar fills up and the Avengers arrive. Doesn't that suggest that you won't be able to do any damage to SHIELD after the bar fills up?
  • Unknown
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    I entered Los Angeles as soon as it appeard. Did all nodes once and I was already 1000 points behind the leader in my bracket. How is that possible when the nodes are barely worth 100 points.

    Something stinks.
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    wathombe wrote:
    Does anyone think that the sub might END when the progress bar fills up? I know there is also a timer, but the event wording says "Do as much damage as you can to SHIELD" before the Mayhem bar fills up and the Avengers arrive. Doesn't that suggest that you won't be able to do any damage to SHIELD after the bar fills up?
    Either we get new nodes, or the timer is the failsafe if the points total is not reached after 36 hours.
  • Unknown
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    I'm not sure I could come anywhere near the leader in either of my subs even if I grinded everything down to 1. I did one full clear, which was good for ~500 in LA and ~900 in Wakanda and my leaders are ahead of me by over 1k in both. icon_eek.gif Another clear of LA would give me 400 - I'd estimate another for ~250 and maybe another for ~150? Where are they getting those points from?
  • Unknown
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    Bowgentle wrote:
    wathombe wrote:
    Does anyone think that the sub might END when the progress bar fills up? I know there is also a timer, but the event wording says "Do as much damage as you can to SHIELD" before the Mayhem bar fills up and the Avengers arrive. Doesn't that suggest that you won't be able to do any damage to SHIELD after the bar fills up?
    Either we get new nodes, or the timer is the failsafe if the points total is not reached after 36 hours.

    The timer is 48 hours, not 36, by the way.

    It would certainly be good to know. Makes a big difference if you're timing your refresh against the timer or the estimated end of the progress bar. LA looks like it will be done inside of 20 hours.

    EDIT: Also, did they change the LA progress bar from 100M to 85M since the event started? I could have sworn LA and Wakanda had the same progress bar targets when this began, and now they don't. That could account for point discrepancies that some people are seeing, if there was some sort of OSCORP style readjustment AGAIN (as stupid as that would be on their part).
  • Unknown
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    wathombe wrote:
    Does anyone think that the sub might END when the progress bar fills up? I know there is also a timer, but the event wording says "Do as much damage as you can to SHIELD" before the Mayhem bar fills up and the Avengers arrive. Doesn't that suggest that you won't be able to do any damage to SHIELD after the bar fills up?

    I'm hoping that means you get a node with 2000 iso as reward that has you fighting some Avengers instead of the event spontaneously ending at that point.

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