Have you ever overlooked/missed a key feature?

Fineberg wrote:

Please share your personal experiences with slight or major overlooks of gameplay, the following is a bit of a lengthy rant, sharing my experiences- I won't be sad if you skip it.

I consider myself pretty new, I'm in my third week into the game and still learning the ropes- balancing my roster, experimenting with character combos, collecting 2*'s, 3*'s not named Bag-man, etc.

Within the past 24 hours I stumbled across a couple of somewhat key aspects to the game, things that if I was aware of from day 1, my roster would probably be more impressive.
A) I was unaware that if you are below 5 health packs, they replenish over time.
I had been hording health packs from the start of the game to use as an as-needed, absolutely necessary basis. Recently, I thought "screw it" and started using health packs less conservatively, stumbling upon a timer.
This one is totally on me- In PvP, I did not notice the "SKIP" option. I have not noticed anything negative from hitting "SKIP" a few times until I find a match-up where I should win. Before, I thought I had hit a proverbial brick wall whenever one of three/five nodes turned red.

I'll add more as I come across them, but would enjoy hearing if anyone has anything else to add.

I know someone who didn't know health packs regenerated until I told him, nearly a year into the game...

Fineberg wrote:

This one is totally on me- In PvP, I did not notice the "SKIP" option. I have not noticed anything negative from hitting "SKIP" a few times until I find a match-up where I should win. Before, I thought I had hit a proverbial brick wall whenever one of three/five nodes turned red.

A friend of mine was complaining about PvP.

"I get to about 250 points and all the fights are worth less than ten points, it's not worth it."

"Even if you skip, you can't find any good fights?"

"Wait, you can SKIP?"

It took me a while to figure out that different characters had different damage values for colors. For a few weeks after I started I always thought that IM35 always took red and A. Wolverine always took green. Wasn't until I got my characters up a few more levels before I realized that the character that did the highest damage was the one that took that particular color.

There is also the health pack thing. Took me a couple weeks to learn that they replenished over time. Ok, ok, ok. Fine. It took me longer than a couple weeks. It actually took a couple months. Little over 2 months to be more accurate.

And for a 3rd thing.... (I'll try to explain as best I can, so hang in there and bear with me)
It took me a long time to figure out who hit first when you matched to different colors at the same time. (see pic below)






In the pic above, I can move the red down to make a red match 3 and the blue up to make a blue match 3 in the same move. But if Thor tanks red and Beast tanks blue then who hits first? Well I finally figured out it is based on which tile I move. If I move the red one down, then Thor goes first. But if I move the blue up then Beast goes first. This took me a while to figure out. At first I thought it was based on damage amount. Whichever one did the most damage went first. But that was wrong.

You live, you learn. Been playing for almost 10 months and I still have no idea what's going on half the time.

Ben Grimm wrote:

JCTthe3rd81 wrote:

But if Thor tanks red and Beast tanks blue then who hits first? Well I finally figured out it is based on which tile I move. If I move the red one down, then Thor goes first. But if I move the blue up then Beast goes first. This took me a while to figure out. At first I thought it was based on damage amount. Whichever one did the most damage went first. But that was wrong.

There's also something else you missed - you shouldn't be using Beast. He's terrible.

I know. It's kind of sad really. Beast is such a powerful hero in the comics. They could have done sooo much more with him than they did. But that's a topic for another thread.

I was trying to think of a character that would use blue, and thinking "blue" and "character" made Beast the first one to pop into my head. Just using him for an example. The only time ever actually use him is when I'm doing the Shield Simulator or a few prologue missions just to play around. I like to use him with A. Wolverine and C. Storm and Colossus and Psylocke. Kind of a 90's X-Men team . But in actual game play, you are right. Beast is not very useful. And it only took me about 5 minutes to figure that one out.

I didn't know Health Packs regenerated until around day 225, I'm on day 277. So right now I'm sitting on 52 health packs, because I might as well save them for a Gauntlet or some other event with a cover I really want.

Of course, since I didn't understand health packs regenerated, you can imagine how ultra mad I was at the true healing nerf.

I'm also still working out exactly how strike tiles, and things like Demons, psi-katana, and Hailstorm interact. It seems like strike tiles buff each psi-katana dot, but not each hailstorm dot?

I have also learned that I should read ALL effects and affects of any given power.

Ben Grimm wrote:

JCTthe3rd81 wrote:

I know. It's kind of sad really. Beast is such a powerful hero in the comics. They could have done sooo much more with him than they did. But that's a topic for another thread.

Oh, I agree - he's my favorite X-Men character, and I'd like to use him, but, just, no, never going to happen.

Well, they did say in the Q&A that he would be getting "looked" at. I hope that means a buff. I mean come on D3. Beast has been an X-Man, an Avenger, a scientist, and a member of half a dozen other groups. He has super strength, super intelligence, super fast reflexes, and agility. There are so many possibilities for some truly awesome powers there. Even Wolverine thinks Beast needs a buff, and you do NOT want to argue with Wolverine, now, do ya bub?



But as he is now. I only use him when I'm just messing around in the prologue or something. A few matches to kill some time that don't matter if I win or lose. This way I can still use him, (and a few others that I would never use in an actual event), but not have him hurt my scores in events.