Thick as Theives: Essential Switch?

PiMacleod

Was playing along, Gritty-naut-ing as usual... When the game did a quick reload.  You know, when all of a sudden you're forced back to the menu, because the server did something, or your phone hiccupped or whatever.

Went right back in, like nothing happened.  Right back to my Essential 5*s that i was wrapping up.  The 4th clear to be precise...  I didnt even look.  Like most of us here on the forums, we know the buttons and the layout.  We just click click click, unless we need to make a change to our team.

I was half-way through the match when i realized it wasn't 5* Kingpin fighting with my Gritty.  It was 5* Prof X!  Checked his powers... Yep, it was him (not just an image swap or error).

Finished the fight, and yep, it was the right node - the 5* essential.  And it also now says "Professor X" in the title.... Not Kingpin.

Its not like i mind the change.  Still got my 4th clear.  But figured i'd see who else got this... And obviously let the community know.

furbear00000

Happened to me too. 

rainkingucd

4* changed to WorthyCap as well, instead of MODOK.  3* is Spiderman instead of Strange, and oddly enough 2* is still Bullseye.

MegaBee

That is weird!

spidyjedi84

Rewards still show Strange and MODOK in progression.

qandols

Same here. Had to look twice and restart, but there it is. And they are not boosted either. Correction: Prof-X and Worthy cap are not boosted, the 3- and 2-stars are.

Jacklag

Whaaaaaat???

I'm seeing the same thing. It's got to be a bug. Spiderman also replaced Mr. Sinister as the token cover, which no longer opens the Scheming Mr. Sinister token store

pheregas

I went in and checked my sub 1 requirements.  The text still says Kingpin (5*), MODOK and Strange as being the required characters.  Actual nodes require Prof, Worthy Cap and Spiderman.

This is beyond weird.

qandols

Compensatioooooooon! 

furbear00000

qandols said:

Compensatioooooooon! 

In my opinion, using Prof X instead of Fatpin is a bonus for us. 

qandols

Ditto that!

pheregas

furbear00000 said:

qandols said:

Compensatioooooooon! 

In my opinion, using Prof X instead of Fatpin is a bonus for us. 

Bonus or not, there will be a percentage of players that will be unable to compete the way they had been.  Grind times will be affected.  That one guy with a sole Kingpin champ will go back to being less competitive.  

In all my time playing this game, I don't ever recall something so egregious as essentials being randomly changed before the end of the first sub, let alone at all during an event.

qandols

Thus my outcry. I will not suffer greatly, but many players will have their game plan turned wayside by this.

y4747

same here. and the worst part is the "new" essentials aren't boosted.... good luck with that 5* essential in scl9.

Jacklag

furbear00000 said:

qandols said:

Compensatioooooooon! 

In my opinion, using Prof X instead of Fatpin is a bonus for us. 

But Spiderman instead of Strange is not 

PiMacleod

Jacklag said:

furbear00000 said:

qandols said:

Compensatioooooooon! 

In my opinion, using Prof X instead of Fatpin is a bonus for us. 

But Spiderman instead of Strange is not 

I would think Spiderman is better in day 2's case.  The 3* node has 3 actual characters (not goons).

Because they move tiles, spidey's purple for defense, and his blue for cheap stun, would be more useful i would think.

But maybe thats just 5* gameplay... They are usually dead before they fire a power for any potential dr strange to retaliate.

qandols

And just now I got a stockpiled post event Thick as Thieves reward. It just gets better and better.

bluewolf

The sub 2 is borked, the list of essentials is the same as the 12/15/19 run of Thick as Thieves.  Maybe the devs will fix it.

Outside of Essentials it is the same boost list as it supposed to be, including boosting the correct Essentials.

Inside Essentials the 2/3/4s are boosted, but the 5E is not.

There's probably some legacy coding where the essential is always boosted in their nodes but the 5Es are newer and therefore (I assume) pulling the boost/not boost toggle from the event boost list.

qandols

Also the Recruit button stops working. You have to back out from the event to get it. Gremlins are a-foot. Maybe best to stop playing before the game decides to sell all your camped 5*:s. 

bluewolf

qandols said:

Also the Recruit button stops working. You have to back out from the event to get it. Gremlins are a-foot.

My guess is that there is some framework code that layers onto the base event code which drives:

1.  Essentials
2.  Boost list
3.  Store that the event points to.

The store for the last run of TaT was the normal vanilla TaT vault which does not exist since this is the "new 5* release event!".  The sub wants to point to the TaT vault since the code switched to copy the run from December, but there's no vault so it goes nowhere.

pheregas

Does this mean that PVE has stopped providing Sinister special store heroics as rewards?

Forget Prof$.  It's time for $ini$ter!