Category-5 - Season III - June 18-21

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daveomite wrote:

LoreNYC wrote:

They probably should remove this event from season scores at the very least until all this funny business gets resolved.

Completely agreed 150%

Doubt it would happen. Scores wouldnt be the only thing needed to reset. People have spent money on shields and boosts, wasted iso etc etc. How would you even go about fixing that as Shield usuage etc would vary drastically from one person to the next. Can't reimburse everyone the same amount as that wouldnt be fair, and cant not do it either. So either way, WE'RE ALL SCREWED

EDIT: My guess is a re-run down the line and season 3 to be extended again.

MojoWild

TheUnwiseOne wrote:

daveomite wrote:

LoreNYC wrote:

They probably should remove this event from season scores at the very least until all this funny business gets resolved.

Completely agreed 150%

Doubt it would happen. Scores wouldnt be the only thing needed to reset. People have spent money on shields and boosts, wasted iso etc etc. How would you even go about fixing that as Shield usuage etc would vary drastically from one person to the next. Can't reimburse everyone the same amount as that wouldnt be fair, and cant not do it either. So either way, WE'RE ALL SCREWED

EDIT: My guess is a re-run down the line and season 3 to be extended again.

Spidey covers for everyone!

Deimos12

Not gonna guarantee this works, but try raising your score in webslinger and see if you get nodes back in Cat5.

Played 3 matches got my score up to 100ish in webslinger but no change in cat5, still greyed out. Thanks for trying though!

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Shielded at 893 - got above 900; was hit by EVERYONE; crawled back to 893 just after 4:00 and shielded. Hopefully enough for top 25 - need blue and purple, not yellow. Still have no idea what build to go with either, not that I'll ever use him much.

It seems like your mmr is still in effect until you hit 900, and once you hit 900, you're visible to everyone. I was at 700 for about 7 hours without being attacked once, and my team is effective, but not scary (105 Lazy Thor, 105 CMags, 64-boosted-to-96 Lazy Storm). Once I got over 900 - about 15 minutes before I planned on shielding - I was in the danger zone. Also, most of my queue was 141s at that point. Not sure if that's just me or that's the new normal - seems like it used to kick in at 800.

OnesOwnGrief

I don't know why I thought it was a good idea but I moved my 3* team up to 100 from 97 wanting to see what would happen. It's officially pairing me with mixed 2-3* teams of 141s instead of 85s almost immediately. Got a feeling that once I hit 115, everything will be 141s for the most part. Was only able to get as far as a little over 600 before having to shield (got a retaliation after shielding). At this rate, I'd be lucky to keep top 100 but I guess I had it coming. Need one or two more LThor Green covers to push higher more reliably now.

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um, does anyone know how half of xmen is over 1300 and some are over 1900??

i think people who are shielded are showing up in other peoples queues, i have had no issues playing today, but i am pretty sure i showed up in an allies queue after i had shielded which would explain the high scores

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Pjoe0211 wrote:

um, does anyone know how half of xmen is over 1300 and some are over 1900??

i think people who are shielded are showing up in other peoples queues, i have had no issues playing today, but i am pretty sure i showed up in an allies queue after i had shielded which would explain the high scores

No, this is not kyipgate. They're cheaters. Check General Discussion.

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Finally crossed the 1100 threshold for the first time ever... and might not place top 5.

morgh

EvilSonGoku wrote:

MojoWild wrote:

mohio wrote:

It could be that the first person saw you lost to them and decided to hit you for extra since even losing to someone now gives out a red retal node. As for the other one hitting you, really bad luck I suppose. Also while your team is fine for offense (I ran OBW/128 LT for a while and consistently top 10'd) it is a sitting duck on defense since OBW is pretty squishy and non-maxed LT is not very threatening to most 141 teams.

agree with locked that they're highly unlikely to remove this event from season 3. I would say they might extend it, but then they'd have to give everyone a free 24 hour shield or something. So yeah, they're not gonna do anything, and we'll be lucky to even have it addressed by a dev in the next week or two.

If my AI would pull extra AP like these guys did, I'd be doing a lot better...
They weren't even 141 teams, they were fairly even with mine. So since they were on defense I should have had better odds... but they were recovering/stealing faster than usual...

lots of strange occurrances. I hit an OBW and thor team and I had 1 more purple for Mags to get of MT. AI took their turn and when they matched and got a cascade, it began taking my purple away. I literally saw my purple bar go from almost full to 1/3 less and the ai did NOT get a recon off either as it was just part of a match3 cascade.

I also kept getting the same 2 or 3 people over and over even after skipped over a dozen times. It seems you have to get out of that scoring bubble and more options appear but you hit another and same thing. This pvp has been a mess and I do hope they scrap these scores since many can't even play.

Also people who lose to you also show up as if it was a retal node. Happened multiple times to me yesterday.

Umm hello - have you ever read the ability description of Espionage? :O
(Passive) Black Widow steals enemy secrets. When she attacks by making a Purple match and the enemy has Purple AP, she steals 1 from them.
So if they matched 2 or 3 times a purple, you lost 2 or 3 purple

elvy75

what is going on, why can i even get into Category-5, at the beginning one node at the time was disapearing, and now the whole damn thing is gone....

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I know it's been rehashed many times before, but I'm frankly sick of the retal system. I spend over 1,000 iso skipping today - that's over 100 battles! - simply because I can't find anybody worth more than 20 points and attacking them will just result in wasted time and huge point losses.

Retals add nothing to the game - who CARES about getting "revenge" on a guy who's probably not even in your bracket? At the very least the system needs to be changed so that you can never wind up behind by attacking someone.

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Well i went to go make my push and now im getting attacks for 40 plus points like non stop

mohio

Forgot to make my "please don't attack me in the next 5 minutes" plea (shield was running out and I just got back from running errands, so didn't exactly have time for for(u)malities). Anyway - reshielded at 1143 (thanks to a def win from our friend clf02 - maybe flo told him I hit him so he came looking for me?) so if anyone has got me in their queue and were wondering, fire away!

How are people's bracket's looking? I know it's still "early" but just wondering if mine is normal. 10th is ~900 which doesn't seem out of the ordinary, but it shoots up fast, 7th is 1020 and 6th 1102. I'm hoping those guys right around 1100 are satisfied with their storm cover and don't try to push into top 5.

HailMary

laoahpeh: Are you shielding soon? I've got you in a node, and I'd like to hit you, but all friendly-like.

P.S. - I'd very much like it if people didn't attack me for the next hour. Thanks!

mags1587

laoahpeh, I have you queued, are you shielded? You are worth a very nice amount of points and I need to shield hop in a bit here.

edit: HailMary, heh. Apparently we're in the same mmr range.

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Well I am done for the night. Took 3 shield hops to finally break 1100 so sat in second spot behind Bloodwars hopefully I will stay in the top 5 for the extra ISO but I cannot see it happening too many big names behind me.

Twysta

I find that my nodes aren't refreshing or are taking forever to refresh into a new player.

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Sumilea wrote:

Well I am done for the night. Took 3 shield hops to finally break 1100 so sat in second spot behind Bloodwars hopefully I will stay in the top 5 for the extra ISO but I cannot see it happening too many big names behind me.

you've got a pretty good shot. we've got a weak bracket. i didn't mean to use so many shields, but i got bored and started a bit too early

ThatOneGuyjp189512

Twysta wrote:

I find that my nodes aren't refreshing or are taking forever to refresh into a new player.

seriously man....you're gonna wreck my keyboard cause i just got water all over it read this....also. pretty sure this is most definitely an anti tanking measure, i got to over 100 and it opened up nodes in Cat-5, so....probably best solution is get your MMR back up....i'll keep it updated as to if i get locked out of spidey at 400(the range most people got locked out)

Edit: Once i hit 700 it went back to normal, cause the consensus is that that's the point where MMR doesn't matter as much and you're open to pretty much everyone.

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And I'm locked out. Greyed out, can't open it, can't even see what my score or rank is.

So, I'm pretty sure the devs only play the game on a separate testing server that doesn't interact with other players, and don't actually play the game that we all play. I mean, Ice was in our alliance, and he definitely NEVER played. They only understand the game in a vacuum.

They basically have no idea what they're doing, no idea what the effects are, and no interest in receiving feedback from people who actually experience those effects.

Also: I wasn't tanking; just playing the game.

Also: Ice has admitted that he tanks and experienced MMR hell in those rare tournaments that he graced us with 34 pts. But instead of fixing the MMR, they find ways to eradicate tanking. And then this weird thing, where I can't even play the event. Super.