Category-5 - Season III - June 18-21

MojoWild

morgh wrote:

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

Yes, we're not idiots, this was above and beyond espionage.

Unknown

God dammit, I am really frustrated with the event. It was actually going well for a while. Giving me matches I can actually be competitive with. Their point totals were around mine so I could have a shot at getting points. I have a match against someone, and I get a complete **** cascade that makes sure it does JUST enough damage to kill my Wolvie and making sure the computer gets all of the AP it needs to kill my next one. And now all of the matches I am getting are worth, at most, 15 points.

There goes that hope for progress. I'll hopefully get ONE Spidey cover.

HailMary

Damn. laoahpeh, I think I just hit you while you were still unshielded. I thought you'd be shielded if I waited an hour, but I guess not, since you reappeared in my queue with fewer points.

Sorry, dude. FWIW, feel free to retal. I'm shielded to the end.

Unknown

And apparently I was an idiot for paying until I found a match worth decent points, because the computer just does it ALL OVER AGAIN. Seriously, it feels like I"m supposed to see this as a sign that I'm not supposed to do well.

Twysta

This -

Unknown

Raising my score in Webslinger seems to work bringing Mororo back online thank you very much

Agreed this seems like an anti tanking mechanism, as my MMR was so low before losing the nodes.. After winnings the event came back..

Man, this suck, what with the state of the scores too

Deimos12

Hey Rich,
At least you can actually PLAY THE TINYKITTY EVENT!!!!!!

Deimos12

iPulzzz wrote:

Raising my score in Webslinger seems to work bringing Mororo back online thank you very much

Agreed this seems like an anti tanking mechanism, as my MMR was so low before losing the nodes.. After winnings the event came back..

Man, this suck, what with the state of the scores too

I don't know if this is true or not but I raised my score up to the 300ish mark in webslinger and I still can't get into Cat-5

MojoWild

RichHurtz wrote:

And apparently I was an idiot for paying until I found a match worth decent points, because the computer just does it ALL OVER AGAIN. Seriously, it feels like I"m supposed to see this as a sign that I'm not supposed to do well.

I've been having the same experience, even with boosts. In fact, the boosts seem to make things worse! Like they're acting in reverse or something.

Unknown

Deimos12 wrote:

Hey Rich,
At least you actually PLAY THE TINYKITTY EVENT!!!!!!

What, there's some problem going on with this event now? Can't say I'm too surprised.

At this point, I just want to get to 700 points and Shield until it's over.

I guess after I level up Spidey a little bit for getting a second cover for him (If I'm that lucky) I need to pump more Iso-8 into Hulk so MAYBE people will hesitate a bit to attack me when they see Hulk... though he wouldn't even be close to 85.

Except for that one REALLY broken event (forget which it was) I don't think I'm ever going to be able to get over 700 points in a PvP event. And I doubt that'll ever change which sucks.

EDIT: Managed to break 700, but got attacked during it so I didn't get the 1000 Iso-8. Said screw it and Shielded for the rest of the event. And leveled my Punisher and Hulk up to 75. Probably still not high enough to use them, but slowly getting there.

tbighead21

frustrating...
Sent in a ticket.

Unknown

now i get locked out too, with less than 500 pts.
How do they get 2000 with this issue?

Unknown

i dont seem to be having issues but for sure like 4 or 5 allaince members are locked out as they were making the psuh. and when i unshield im sure getting hit hard for like 40 points its pretty crazy actually

ThatOneGuyjp189512

the tipping points in this seems to be 4 to 500 points, i've got a couple alliance members who can't get into the event. I found once you get to 700 it will *hopefully* go back to normal, cause it did for me.

Unknown

I've never felt the urge to quit this game until now
Cheaters, locking out, no responds, my patience for this game is dying out

HairyDave

I can see it just fine and I'm clearly not alone if the epic mauling I'm getting is any indication. I had be unshielded for an hour at some point (**** timing on my part) so I was expecting to come back to some losses - not 270 points worth

I've managed to claw my way back towards 750 points - which in Flo's bracket isn't good enough for top 50 - but I'm still going to have to bust out for more points near the finish line. Anyone wants to feel kind they're welcome to retreat to me

Frubzy

Im so glad I made an early push in this event...got up to 800 or so..... shield for a while then made my final push to 1100 this morning....the 2nd climb was really tricky tho ... I got hit by everyone at around 900...I lost about 97 pts to 4 players all at once....I kept playing tho..and the attacks died down just enough for me to cross 1100 and shield...

tbighead21

It came back.

tbighead21

and its gone...
One node popped up. I skipped it and its gone again. smh.

Unknown

I have the bug as well...

And from my perspective, the problem is fairly easy to identify.... but hard to determine a workaround.

Essentially, the MMR bucket system is not working properly. When player hit a new MMR "floor", the system is failing to transfer the player to the new bucket. So, players are running out of playable nodes, as they are outpace the players in one bucket, not are not being transferred to the next bucket. The bug hit me trying to transfer from the 1* bucket to the 2** bucket.

Trying to see if I can manually inflate my MMR in the simulator to see the next bucket and repop the nodes in Cat-5, but I don't think I can get my score high enough in the next 45 minutes (or win enough fights consecutively) to test my theory.