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Do we know the pool of characters that a Double Shot token draws from? Is it just Magneto Modern, Bullseye, and IM40?
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Jan 6, 2014 17:39
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Meh, I say we have to wait and see how many people actually bother with shields before we jump to any conclusions.
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Jan 6, 2014 17:39
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Welp. I'm done playing this seriously now.
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Jan 6, 2014 17:41
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Mr. Met posted:Do we know the pool of characters that a Double Shot token draws from? Is it just Magneto Modern, Bullseye, and IM40? I got a Daken. ~~~ I also loving lost three fights in a row because the opening salvo of the computer's move NEVER loving STOPPED. Seriously. One guy had my exact team, 20 levels lower.
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Jan 6, 2014 17:45
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Happy Bear Suit posted:Meh, I say we have to wait and see how many people actually bother with shields before we jump to any conclusions. I'm willing to bet to get any serious top five you're going to pretty much have to. There really aren't even slacker brackets now, I forgot to join the tournament last night until 16 minutes were left, my first fight put me in 37th place (meaning a new bracket was just formed) and after my second fight I was dropped to 150, and had to fight constantly just to make top twenty. The short boost seems cheap enough that I will be surprised if we don't end up seeing mostly locked top tens, especially since that will pay for the lock with HP anyways.
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Jan 6, 2014 17:53
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Looks like they upped the duration on the shields by the way. 50 for 8 hours, 100 for a day, 200 for 3 days. Still seems like a lovely idea to me though.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:02
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haha paying money to "protect" your rating is the most loving cash-grab scumbag poo poo move possible. These guys are going to make a mint from their whales.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:06
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Hmm yea, it seems like instead of fixing an existing broken mechanic they're just trying to make a quick buck off of it by applying a little F2P band-aid, when in reality the entire system needs to be redesigned. But im still hoping that in practice, it won't actually be as bad as it seems.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:14
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Call Me Charlie posted:This is scummy as gently caress. Wow what the gently caress is this. This is not how you fix things 
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Jan 6, 2014 18:15
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rabidsquid posted:I'm willing to bet to get any serious top five you're going to pretty much have to. There really aren't even slacker brackets now, I forgot to join the tournament last night until 16 minutes were left, my first fight put me in 37th place (meaning a new bracket was just formed) and after my second fight I was dropped to 150, and had to fight constantly just to make top twenty. I think this might be the way to go from now on, though. I don't usually join tournaments until less than 8 hours to go anyway, so I'm not sure how much it'll affect me.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:16
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If I actually cared about placing high in tournaments rather than just grabbing the handful of cover tokens you get for reaching the first few score "miletones", I'd probably be pretty pissed about that.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:18
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Mr. Met posted:Do we know the pool of characters that a Double Shot token draws from? Is it just Magneto Modern, Bullseye, and IM40? It's any 2 Star or better character with a higher than normal chance of IM40.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:22
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Spikey posted:It's any 2 Star or better character with a higher than normal chance of IM40. So naturally, when I rolled the dice I got the most "Ironclad" character in the roster. Bagman.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:31
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McDragon posted:Looks like they upped the duration on the shields by the way. 50 for 8 hours, 100 for a day, 200 for 3 days. It varies per event. Double-shot is the one posted. You're looking at S.H.I.E.L.D Training.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:35
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Call Me Charlie posted:This is scummy as gently caress. So in theory if the top 25 guys in a bracket all shielded during the final hours of an event and you're #26, you're probably screwed? It would be extremely hard to move up the bracket because you wouldn't be able to score points very efficiently attacking people with lower scores than you. Am I understanding this correctly?
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Jan 6, 2014 18:36
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Merrill Grinch posted:So in theory if the top 25 guys in a bracket all shielded during the final hours of an event and you're #26, you're probably screwed? It would be extremely hard to move up the bracket because you wouldn't be able to score points very efficiently attacking people with lower scores than you. Am I understanding this correctly? Well, I think your potential matches draw from EVERYONE playing, not just the people in your 500-man bracket. But I suppose if the top 25 in each bracket usually shield themselves, it might be harder to find high-level opponents?
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Jan 6, 2014 18:40
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While the language suggests otherwise, I think the only way this can really work is by locking your points at a certain level, not your rank. It'll be interesting if you're still able to be attacked while protected. It could effectively raise the ceiling for progression rewards if someone sprints 100 points ahead and throws on a shield; they instantly become a target for all the lower players and enable them to slingshot their scores that much higher.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:40
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Merrill Grinch posted:So in theory if the top 25 guys in a bracket all shielded during the final hours of an event and you're #26, you're probably screwed? It would be extremely hard to move up the bracket because you wouldn't be able to score points very efficiently attacking people with lower scores than you. Am I understanding this correctly? Not necessarily. They're frozen in place, while you can still gain points. I'm assuming it works like this: I (with 500) attack you (with 800, unshielded): I gain 25, you lose 35. I (with 500) attack you (with 800, shielded): I gain 25, you lose 0. So I can still overtake you if I keep playing the game and overcome the crabbing. But wait! What if those top 25 use a shield, wait for the right opponents to show up, beat two or three people quickly and slap the shield back on? Those who can afford to do that will win consistently. Those who can't, won't. That's why people are screaming.
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Jan 6, 2014 18:40
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Call Me Charlie posted:This is scummy as gently caress. That's a scumbag move, and I say that as someone with over 7k HC sitting around.
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Jan 6, 2014 19:29
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Dev 1 - Grinding during the last hour to place high is pretty bad, guys, we have to fix it. Dev 2 - Yep, players only have to poopsock it once and we don't even make a cent on that. Dev 3 - I got it! Let's have them grind multiple times per event and buy "protection" from us between said grinding sessions. Hey, nice score you got there, be a shame if somethin' happened to it, y'know what I'm sayin' ?  Dev 1 & 2 - 
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Jan 6, 2014 19:36
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matryx posted:It varies per event. Oh, that's pretty sneaky.
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Jan 6, 2014 19:57
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Hmm.. Will high-end SHIELD training progression rewards finally be achievable with shields?
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Jan 6, 2014 20:05
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I love this game / I hate this game. I finished the Hulk event yesterday by playing a 240 point match with <1 min to go and in the low 400s for rank (wanted <600 for Hulk). Woke up this morning, surprised to find out I was a top 1000. At least I got 3 OBWs. Where do you go to buy the shields? I know how to buy roster spots and covers, but not power-ups / shields. BDawg fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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Jan 6, 2014 20:38
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BDawg posted:I love this game / I hate this game. I finished the Hulk event yesterday by playing a 240 point match with <1 min to go and in the low 400s for rank (wanted <600 for Hulk). Woke up this morning, surprised to find out I was a top 1000. Top left corner, blue + sign.
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Jan 6, 2014 21:38
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You may not have the button if you haven't updated the game to the latest one. It didn't force the update for me, at least.
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Jan 6, 2014 21:47
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Happy Bear Suit posted:Hmm.. Will high-end SHIELD training progression rewards finally be achievable with shields? Without drops it's a trickle down economy based on people who can beat the whales buying them. At best it might boost the majority of user's progression one or two prizes, but it would come at the price of basically shuttering the possibility of achieving a high rank prize without paying for it.
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Jan 6, 2014 22:09
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The update broke the game on my phone and I no longer have an iPad to play on.  When I go to launch the game I get "Initialization Failed" then "Failed to laod system file (error 0). Please try reinstalling Marvel Puzzle Quest." I've reinstalled twice now, restarted the phone, and tried moving it to the SD card and I keep getting the error. It leaves a process though, because I can go and kill the app in my app manager. If I could get top whatever in the IM40 event I could finish my Spider-Man too.
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Jan 6, 2014 22:19
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Just started a couple weeks ago or so, I've got 4 lvl 20's and 5 more level 1-8's. I've been holding off on using medpacks, because I usually just play at work and I can wait the hour if I need to, but, do they ever come back? I've got like 11 but I got them all in like the first few days and I haven't seen one since.
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Jan 6, 2014 23:03
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Quad posted:Just started a couple weeks ago or so, I've got 4 lvl 20's and 5 more level 1-8's. They refill every 35 minutes after you have fewer than 5 remaining. You don't really need them in the very early going, but by the time you have high-leveled characters you will use them constantly.
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Jan 6, 2014 23:04
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Just got my fifth Spider Man blue from randomly deciding to play the 500 ISO lottery! Today is a good day.
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Jan 6, 2014 23:56
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zamin posted:Just got my fifth Spider Man blue from randomly deciding to play the 500 ISO lottery! Today is a good day. Grats! I paid the HC for my 5th one over the holiday since I had a lot of down time. It makes a huge difference.
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Jan 7, 2014 00:08
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McDragon posted:Looks like they upped the duration on the shields by the way. 50 for 8 hours, 100 for a day, 200 for 3 days. Not on my screen. I have the original durations.
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Jan 7, 2014 00:11
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Looks like #2 in my bracket has shielded up - there's a little grey hexagon next to his ranking. #1 is still 100 points ahead and is clearly a maxed Rag/Magneto whale since he's dropped about 30 points in the last 6 hours despite the rest of the top 10 going from ~250 to ~450.
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Jan 7, 2014 01:30
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Deep Winter posted:Not on my screen. I have the original durations. Duration depends on the tournament apparently. They last longer for SHIELD Training.
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Jan 7, 2014 02:51
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Karnegal posted:Grats! I paid the HC for my 5th one over the holiday since I had a lot of down time. It makes a huge difference. Thanks, brother. It's already a huge boost. Top guy in Shield Training is currently over 1700. For over the last month or longer, top has been floating around 1300-1400. Either someone made a crazy push or the Shields are pushing the scores higher already. Hopefully it's the latter, then those top rewards might finally be attainable in a week or so.
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Jan 7, 2014 03:31
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I experienced a weird bug last weekend in which the Hulk missions didn't have mission text (they had placeholders instead), gave out Hawkeye Moderns, and were low-leveled. I played those a bit, got a bunch of Hawkeyes, then the next day the missions went back to normal. Pretty funny when half of the missions turned out Impossible on my difficulty rating (the rewards changed, too). That was fun. Hawkeye Modern kinda suffers for targeting random tiles for countdowns, though...
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Jan 7, 2014 03:33
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Still to early to tell, but it seems like shields will give better ledges to boost yourself up from since their value doesnt collapse when you hit them?
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Jan 7, 2014 03:34
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I'm really not a fan of the UI shifts. The information I care about is time left and my rank. Now it's on the bottom of the screen. I can tell that they want to advertise shields, but come on.
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Jan 7, 2014 03:55
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That seems to be the case. Maybe the days are upon us when we can feasibly get those 1100 - 1400 progression rewards! In the past, the 1100 point ones were just outside of reach and were pretty drat good (Spidey blue, etc). That's got to be one hard fall from the top when you get attacked that high though. Shields up!
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I fought my way up to 2nd with 609 points currently. I've followed the earlier advice and only gone after people with higher point values to ensure a point loss for them if they want to slap fight. And oh, do some of these people not know when to stop a slap fight. 
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