entrailbucket said: For being brand new, this player seems to have picked up some insider terminology pretty quickly.
DAZ0273 said: Hi Aueio!Without knowing exactly where you are in game, we might need a bit more information to give more precise advice.So the first question to ask is - have you finished Prologue? That is where you generally start out as a new player and it will equip you with a number of 1* and 2* characters with which to start building out your roster as well as other rewards such as iso-8 and some Hero Points. Finishing Prologue (if not already done) is a priority. Once you reach a certain rank (sorry can't rememer what level that is), you can also apply to join an Alliance and the rewards and help you can get from your Alliance mates can be of great assistance in progressing - especially by giving higher level team-ups to help you with tricky battles.Story mode (or PvE) is gated - you need to be a certain SHIELD Rank before you can play at higher levels so the game will not let you join a higher level than your ranking allows. Deapool vs MPQ is a bit of tricky event for newer players because it has the vast majority of opponents as actual characters/tile movers as opposed to goons who tend to just put out countdown tiles.Versus or PvP is definitely not new player friendly but we can try and help with that also although you might be frustrated at first until you have built out your 2 * roster a bit better and moved into 3* territory.Now as a player of quite a few years I can't speak to what newer players on the Forums experience has been as MPQ has changed a lot over time so they might be able to give you a better perspective than I can.It also depends on what sort of player you are - it is possible to "fast track" through MPQ and there are guides etc in various places but MPQ is also quite a bit a long game or as they say "A marathon not a sprint".
entrailbucket said: If you've been reading a ton of stuff and you're looking to get hardcore right away, maybe that's what I was picking up on. This is not meant to be a hardcore game, maybe ever, but certainly not at the beginning. Play casually. The types of things you're reading about aren't going to be relevant for you until years from now, if ever, unless you're going to be spending tens of thousands of dollars to skip past huge parts of the game and get competitive immediately.
Aueio said: ...I bet this game is fun for those who have played a year or more but as a new player it feels like I walked into a poisonous swamp....Do noobs generally stay in the game or are they turned off by the slow and hard progress like me?
acescracked said: Aueio said: ...I bet this game is fun for those who have played a year or more but as a new player it feels like I walked into a poisonous swamp....Do noobs generally stay in the game or are they turned off by the slow and hard progress like me? MPQ is hard.
KGB said: acescracked said: Aueio said: ...I bet this game is fun for those who have played a year or more but as a new player it feels like I walked into a poisonous swamp....Do noobs generally stay in the game or are they turned off by the slow and hard progress like me? MPQ is hard. Actually I'd say MPQ is a commitment.You have to commit (30 minutes a day minimum) to playing the game to advance much past the prologue.KGB
entrailbucket said: KGB said: acescracked said: Aueio said: ...I bet this game is fun for those who have played a year or more but as a new player it feels like I walked into a poisonous swamp....Do noobs generally stay in the game or are they turned off by the slow and hard progress like me? MPQ is hard. Actually I'd say MPQ is a commitment.You have to commit (30 minutes a day minimum) to playing the game to advance much past the prologue.KGB To advance much past the prologue? I'm pretty sure you can do an SCL1 PvE with a few 1*, and the game gives you a bunch of 2* at the very beginning now anyway.You don't *have* to commit to anything. Not everyone wants to be competitive. Not everyone aims to build a top-5% roster (which nearly everyone who posts here has). If your goal is to get into the top 5% of all players, then yeah, that's going to take either a lot of time or a lot of money, or both. That shouldn't be news. The game has been around forever and a lot of top players have also been around forever.
KGB said: entrailbucket said: KGB said: acescracked said: Aueio said: ...I bet this game is fun for those who have played a year or more but as a new player it feels like I walked into a poisonous swamp....Do noobs generally stay in the game or are they turned off by the slow and hard progress like me? MPQ is hard. Actually I'd say MPQ is a commitment.You have to commit (30 minutes a day minimum) to playing the game to advance much past the prologue.KGB To advance much past the prologue? I'm pretty sure you can do an SCL1 PvE with a few 1*, and the game gives you a bunch of 2* at the very beginning now anyway.You don't *have* to commit to anything. Not everyone wants to be competitive. Not everyone aims to build a top-5% roster (which nearly everyone who posts here has). If your goal is to get into the top 5% of all players, then yeah, that's going to take either a lot of time or a lot of money, or both. That shouldn't be news. The game has been around forever and a lot of top players have also been around forever. You must have misunderstood what I meant by commitment.As you said, you can always enter events at very low CL's if you just want to match a few tiles / win a couple battles and put the game away until another day.But if you want to advance your roster in any meaningful way (more than a handful of characters rostered, higher level characters in terms of ISO and covers) you have to play. A fair bit, not just 5 or 10 minutes here and there. And you have to repeat the same stuff (PvE events plus multiple hits on nodes within each PvE event, DDQ, PvP etc) over and over again without being bored by that (ie there is no long RPG story mode to play through like the prologue is).KGB