The names they came up with for obviously fake player slots in these tourneys are terriblefreerangeC@geWannaBeSkrullHAIGUYZDOOM
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
i tank in all lightning rounds now. win one, then play with weak characters and resign right away. can't tell but i think it helps get me weaker opponents in the serious tourneys.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 05:48 (ten years ago) link
i've never gotten above 200th place in a lightning round - competition's too brutal. any success?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:01 (ten years ago) link
actually, i think the trick is that you play any round - whether you win/lose - with scrub characters, you get matched with other scrub teams and then you can kick their ass when you retaliate. so it's best to start out with your weakest teams and steadily use your stronger ones only if you have to
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:14 (ten years ago) link
then again, this doesn't always work either
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:15 (ten years ago) link
Grr!! I had time for a handful of games tonight so I tried for some covers and hero points. Guess what i was rewarded with instead.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:40 (ten years ago) link
Otoh, I did stage a 1 vs. 2 bad guy battle in which I came from behind top win with an unleveled Dark Hawk that had no use for AP.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 06:41 (ten years ago) link
accidentally played this with the sound on. never again.
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 07:46 (ten years ago) link
I keep getting that Bag Man Spider-Man alternate. I sold it and it came back!
― mh, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
keep him, he's more useful than he seems!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
yeah Baghead Spidey kinda rules
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Hmm. I got 2 extra red Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men cards) from the Bad is Good tourney. My Wolvie is currently 5/3/2 (G/R/Y). Seems like the Yellow (Healing Factor) ability is the best one to have, Green is maxed out (Feral Claw). Should I listen to my gut and sell off the two Red cards I have and hope I'll draw three Yellows in the future? Or is just foolishness... is the Red ability worth leveling up to 5?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Personally I like having the red at five, I am hoping to go 5/5/3. I feel that the healing works often enough, and if you're not counting on getting every yellow tile for some other reason, you can just avoid breaking them and heal. The cost/effect of the red attack tho (at stage 5 and level 50, i think it's 12 tiles for 1400 damage, plus any damage you gain from your feral claws on the way) is pretty great.
Typically on the forum tho people say it's best to roll 5/3/5, which I get. TBH I probably went 5 red because I got them first. But I don't feel like I've "ruined" the card by any stretch, the minmaxing on individual skills doesn't seem to make a HUGE difference in most matches. HP and damage are really key aside from a few covers (eg. Storm 1, Storm 2, etc).
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
I tihnk my wolvie is at 4/5/2 at the moment and I am not terribly disappointed with his lack of healing ability.
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
You're probably right about the ability balance. Though, I would be REALLY bitter if my maxed out Classic Storm had maxed Yellow (Passive counter) vs. Blue (Stun), especially after the nerf to the counter ability. The Red attack sounds better than I initially thought, though. I have a week to waffle on this decision.
Note on Yellow: My bigs right now are Iron Man Classic 40 and Thor, both which have key Yellow abilities, but Wolvie will make my B or C team anyway.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
I mean Iron Man Model 40, o'course
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
Apropos nothing, I wonder if they cleared the rights to use that Kirby cover for Devil Dinosaur
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
They probably own them lock stock and barrel anyway
Wait wait wait
I think my sarcasm meter is 100% broken
Devil Dinosaur is ACTUALLY in the game???
― I've Seen rRootage (Will M.), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:23 (ten years ago) link
WAIT
THIS GAME IS ON STEAM?
OH NO
Yes on both counts. Hahaha!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:28 (ten years ago) link
I've been leery of not using covers for characters I like; I have Thor at 5 green covers and at level cap, but I'd have liked to have yellow at 5 instead. but I got the green drop first. it's changed the way I play a bit but I like that, a serendipitous way to try a different way of bashing Hammer peons
― Euler, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:39 (ten years ago) link
I'm at 2-4-4 on Wolvie. I don't use the red power much because I'm usually using Thor also with him and Thor's red bash is the sauce, especially buffed
― Euler, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
here's how OP modern Hawkeye is in The Hunt:
I was playing the penultimate Alaska* fight with the lvl 136 Pyro and lvl 97 Daken and got enough red and blue matches to set Hawk's red and blue countdown tiles. While they went off, I used is purple and blue match strength to down the Pyro; the turn after the Pyro went down, both countdowns went off and 1-shotted the rest of the team, including the lvl 97 Daken.
I love this character in this event and I will be very sad when it ends. Also for the love of god someone give me an Invisible Woman card.
* I think it's Alaska? the first Hunt board
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
I just got modern Hawkeye and he seems awesome. Plus, I can only hope for Pizza Dog
― mh, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
I keep getting my ass beat hardcore by Daken, every time. Need to figure out what is up with that.
my maxed thor is 3 on red and my classic storm 3 on green. regret both -- the classic storm more.
i'm all about critical tiles in the hunt. match em with purple or blue hawkeye and i can do 2700 damage. a few of those and i can take down an entire team.
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
this is why I love the crit tile board so much; if you can get a crit off an environmental tile match, you can spam the board with crit tiles and wipe a team out in one turn
― SHAUN (DJP), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
Reached the final reward level of The Hunt (30,000 pts) to get that Iron Man Model 40 Red card. what am i doing with my life, he says to himself
― Nhex, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
He's winning, obviously.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:03 (ten years ago) link
feeling a little, dare i say, burnt out on this just now
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link
it's hard, with all the events, to feel like you're making progress. & getting a bunch of shit draws sags my spirits.
― Euler, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link
of course then i played since i posted
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
this is probably as close as i'll ever come to playing an mmo
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Thursday, 12 December 2013 00:42 (ten years ago) link
Eh actually doing decent in this bad is good thing. Bullseye protect tiles, and my jacked up venom, and rag make it pretty easy so far.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 December 2013 02:43 (ten years ago) link
https://24.media.tumblr.com/b04241c5d70491a115e7737d882b21a5/tumblr_mxpkhuXgLv1qbypg1o1_500.jpg
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
tatted across my belly
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link
It's like a slap in the face every single time.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
y'all get it now
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link
also hawkeye/black widow draw again and again
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:56 (ten years ago) link
at least have the decency to give me modern hawkeye, you asshole game(or pizza dog)
― mh, Thursday, 12 December 2013 22:04 (ten years ago) link
We're all in an abusive relationship.
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Thursday, 12 December 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
Most of this is old news for a lot of you but i actually learned a thing or two:
Environmental TilesThese are the tiles that aren't a solid color and have some design on them that goes with the background behind the characters.The number of AP generated by matching them is determined by the highest environmental damage - if your highest character is 4, then a 3 match gives you 12 environmental AP (EP?)Critical tiles multiply the number of tiles you receive. If your crit is 3x and your environmental number is 4, a 2 tile, 1 crit match would yield (4 + 4) * 3 = 24 environmental APThey aren't randomly chosen, in a given PvP or PvE event, the same missions or sections of the room always have the same tiles. Standard PvP, the top is the computer room, the left is the forest and the right is the cityThe max number of environmental AP you can have is 400CoversCovers are needed to raise your character's levelThe max covers you can apply to any one color of a character is 5If a character has 2 color abilities, you can max both of them out - 10 covers or 5/5If a character has 3 color abilities, you can only apply 13 covers yielding 5/5/3 or 5/4/4 in your chosen combinationOnce you find/win a cover you can use HP to increase that color or wait until you find/win moreMatchingMatching 4 or more tiles in a row/column will destroy all of the tiles in that row/columnMatching 5 or more tiles in any shape (T, L, +) will yield a critical tile and give you an extra turn
CoversCovers are needed to raise your character's levelThe max covers you can apply to any one color of a character is 5If a character has 2 color abilities, you can max both of them out - 10 covers or 5/5If a character has 3 color abilities, you can only apply 13 covers yielding 5/5/3 or 5/4/4 in your chosen combinationOnce you find/win a cover you can use HP to increase that color or wait until you find/win more
MatchingMatching 4 or more tiles in a row/column will destroy all of the tiles in that row/columnMatching 5 or more tiles in any shape (T, L, +) will yield a critical tile and give you an extra turn
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 December 2013 02:18 (ten years ago) link
Didn't realize about the different shapes with 5 matches!
Should I continue to hammer on one mission in the vain hopes of grilling hero points, or should I move on top new missions?
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Friday, 13 December 2013 06:10 (ten years ago) link
if it's still unchecked in your rewards list for that mission, keep grinding. besides you have another 36 hrs~ to do the other set
― Nhex, Friday, 13 December 2013 07:14 (ten years ago) link
Meant prologue missions, not featured missions. :-/
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Friday, 13 December 2013 07:21 (ten years ago) link
btw that crit multiplier is really why modern Hawkeye rules so hard, get a 4 or 5 tile environmental crit in the lab and it's game over
― SHAUN (DJP), Friday, 13 December 2013 07:22 (ten years ago) link
this is such a depressing thing to do and i am actively embarrassed doing it but the only way i feel i am continuing to make progress in this godforsaken treadmill of pointless timewasting is to chronicle my SHOOPERHEWO ROSTER in excruciating detail. it is a coping mechanism.
thor - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 maxdaken - lv 62 - 5/5 maxiron man 40 - lv 51 - 4/2/2iron man 35 - lv 50 max - 5/4/4 maxstorm modern - lv 50 max- 5/5/3 mxblack widow modern -lv 40 max - 5/5 maxjuggernaut - lv 40 max - 5/5 maxmod hawk - lv 34 - 5/4/3magneto NOW - lv 22 - 2/4/2ragnarok - lv 28 - 1 green, 2 redcap murrica - lv 27 - 4/4/5 maxDoom - lv 25 - 2 blackhood - lv 25 - 2 yellowstorm classic - lv 24 - 5/5/3 maxbullseye - lv 21 - 4 black, 1 purplespider man classic - lv 18 - 1 yellow, 1 bluevenom - lv 16 - 5/5 maxwolverine astonishing - lv 16 - 4/4/2hawkeye - lv 15 - 5/5 maxmoonstone - lv 15 - 5/1/1black widow grey suit - lv 15 - 3 purpleloki - lv 15 - 1 blackblack widow original - lv 8 - 1 /2spiderman bagman - lv 6 - 2 purple, 1 blueyelena - lv 1 - 5/5 maxplus FIVE open spots. I may need to take a break after the hunt.
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 December 2013 07:23 (ten years ago) link
sitting on a red astonishing wolvie cover cuz i dunno if i wanna go 5/4/5 or 5/5/3 instead of 4/5/4
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 December 2013 07:26 (ten years ago) link
Ha w should the cap'n be used? Just doest seem to work in most combos I've tried.
― Jeff, Friday, 13 December 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link