No More Opponents in PvP?

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  • hurcules
    hurcules Posts: 519
    ThatOneGuyjp189512 wrote:
    this is an anti tanking measure taken to coincide with the new rewards structure, i've been tanking for the past two days, got to the point where i'd only have sub 50 opponents, once i hit 500 it locked me out. Did a couple sim matches and won them, another node opened up. got to 100 in spidey, 3 more opened up, once i crossed 700 it functioned as normal cause that's the point where MMR matters a lot less.
    Same experience. When I got locked out, I just go into SHIELD Sim and win a few games and check when the nodes return. Rinse and repeat. 700 seems to be the right mark when things go back to normal.
  • Trebber
    Trebber Posts: 5 Just Dropped In
    Same experience for me as well. However, during the Spidey event yesterday, once it was greyed out completely I went over to Shield Sim. Played the nodes there and they started greying out. Within an hour, both PvPs were completely greyed out. No way to increase my MMR to open up any nodes or gain points to reach 700.

    Additionally, I put in my 141 def team for Shield Sim and have lost dozens of matches to teams of 40-50 level characters. Looking at the players' decks, they have all 1* characters. Not sure how I am losing to 1* teams in Shield Sim.
  • vudu3
    vudu3 Posts: 940 Critical Contributor
    ThatOneGuyjp189512 wrote:
    this is an anti tanking measure taken to coincide with the new rewards structure
    Is this confirmed or just speculation? Seems odd (stupid) to put this in place and then not tell anyone. If you don't tell people why you're punishing them they don't know they need to change their behavior.
  • Professa D
    Professa D Posts: 111
    Happened to me as well yesterday when i got to the 400ish mark. After winning a few matches in SHIELD sim i would sometimes see ONE node appear, usually against the same guy, if I skipped it I would be locked out again, and sometimes even after winning some SHIELD sim matches I still wouldn't get any nodes to reappear.

    One theory I heard is that it basically means that there are no opponents in your score band with your same MMR so there is no one to fight. While not explicitly an anti-tanking measure, it does create a negative side effect of tanking too low. Used to be that if you over-tanked you would have a hard time finding matches worth more than 17-19 points but you could usually win those 17 point matches fast enough to make it worth it. Now it seems to just mean you can't find ANY matches worth ANY points.

    Of course, it would be nice if they confirmed or denied that this is yet another example of the game "working as intended" or merely a bug. I really hope it was and anti-cheating measure that affected non-cheaters by mistake, because if this is truly working as intended and we will continue to be punished for having a leveled up roster by having to face lvl 141s right out of the gate each pvp, that would be sickening. Really hate that this game has a "players vs. developers" secret war vibe to it. Definitely made me do a immediate 180 on purchasing a Stark Salary when I saw this was happening.
  • Unknown
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    Professa D wrote:
    Of course, it would be nice if they confirmed or denied that this is yet another example of the game "working as intended" or merely a bug. I really hope it was and anti-cheating measure that affected non-cheaters by mistake, because if this is truly working as intended and we will continue to be punished for having a leveled up roster by having to face lvl 141s right out of the gate each pvp, that would be sickening. Really hate that this game has a "players vs. developers" secret war vibe to it. Definitely made me do a immediate 180 on purchasing a Stark Salary when I saw this was happening.

    Likewise. I saw the sale and was very slightly considering making a smaller purchase (have gotten a Stark in the past though) for some extra HP since they've been making some solid improvements lately, but the uncertainty this kind of thing creates (i.e. is this something intended or just a bug) eliminated that whisper of a thought in my head.
  • john1620b
    john1620b Posts: 367
    Me too. I was considering buying $50 or $100 worth of HP to level Nick Fury, but after experiencing the disappearing nodes issue *twice*, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I don't trust that this is a bug at this point, since (given their history) I could certainly believe the devs would implement something like this as a "fix" for tanking. (Which we wouldn't have to do if matchmaking worked well.)
  • Unknown
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    Professa D wrote:
    Really hate that this game has a "players vs. developers" secret war vibe to it.

    Not so secret. I have know about this war since I joined the forums. LOL.
    Professa D wrote:
    Definitely made me do a immediate 180 on purchasing a Stark Salary when I saw this was happening.

    It makes me regret my recent purchase. (Not a Stark Salary... I'm not wealthy. lol) I am actually considering requesting a refund from Google.
  • Unknown
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    mohio wrote:
    If you're still here - any comment on the graying out of events/nodes for some people as reported on these forums (in various threads and multiple events, so it would be hard to have missed it)? Even just a "looking into it" or "working as intended" would be helpful. Thanks!

    Not working as intended, as previous Events haven't had this sort of issue for long while. Definitely something we're looking into. (replied by IceX)

    I came across the above post by IceX in regards to greying out events, so D3 is now aware of the issue (which seems to be a bug rather than a 'feature'), and hopefully those missing nodes will not happen again.
  • Unknown
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    I'm missing 2 nodes in SHIELD training currently. The other 3 are retals. I had 4 retals, 1 regular node. Played the regular node, it went grey. Skipped one of the four retals, it went grey. Someone else attacked me, back to four retals. Beat the retal, it went grey.

    Torch pvp is still fine though.
  • Professa D
    Professa D Posts: 111
    Is this still happening for anyone in the torch pvp? Haven't entered a bracket yet but if this is happening I better enter sooner rather than later.

    Thx
  • Unknown
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    Professa D wrote:
    Is this still happening for anyone in the torch pvp? Haven't entered a bracket yet but if this is happening I better enter sooner rather than later.

    Thx

    just happened to me. im not an excessive tanker. i hate that i cant enjoy this game.

    marc

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