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Anals of History
Jul 29, 2003

Sentry kills himself in six turns. The animation during his yellow power looks like mid-air constipation. Outstanding.

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Goldom
Feb 19, 2009

The governor has given a rats-alert advising people to stay in their homes.

BGrifter posted:

Just what the game needs, more characters! I know I've had my Nick Fury, Lazy Daken, Lazy Thor, Falcon, Lazy Cap, Black Panther, Psylocke and Human Torch maxed for ages and was starting to get bored.

I'm sure by next weekend we'll have Sentry, Lazy Juggernaut, Nightcrawler, Lazy Bullseye, four more Iron Man variants and a Spider-Ham character to max.

Seriously. Even if it weren't a matter of needing so many HP, ISO and covers, every new character they add makes the chance you'll get something you're looking for even smaller. At this rate there'll be another 20 or so new characters by the end of the year.

McDragon
Sep 11, 2007

Ha, he looks like a bad Superman knock-off. The power of one million exploding suns is a bit poo poo apparently, judging by his abilities.

JohnnySmitch
Oct 20, 2004

Don't touch me there - Noone has that right.
I wish, at least with all the 'lazy' versions coming out, they would let you convert covers somehow. Maybe like covert 5 red Thor (probably +Hero Points) to 1 red Lazy Thor or something. Or at least let us pick what gumball machine we put our Heroic coins.

Rustallion
Sep 11, 2001
Do we think that wacky PvP events like the 1-star one are a thing of the past? Should I dump the maxed out 1-stars I've been hanging onto?

Chernobyl Peace Prize
May 7, 2007

Or later, later's fine.
But now would be good.

McDragon posted:

Ha, he looks like a bad Superman knock-off. The power of one million exploding suns is a bit poo poo apparently, judging by his abilities.
Sentry's a bold new design innovation: a lazy version of a character that didn't even have an original.

A.o.D.
Jan 15, 2006

BGrifter posted:

Just what the game needs, more characters! I know I've had my Nick Fury, Lazy Daken, Lazy Thor, Falcon, Lazy Cap, Black Panther, Psylocke and Human Torch maxed for ages and was starting to get bored.

I'm sure by next weekend we'll have Sentry, Lazy Juggernaut, Nightcrawler, Lazy Bullseye, four more Iron Man variants and a Spider-Ham character to max.

I... I'd get excited over a Spider-Ham character. :blush:

Bacon Terrorist
May 7, 2010

to ride eternal, shiny and chrome

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2022
'Black Suit Spider-man' or 'Iron Spider' surely.

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD
3 star Bagman.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

McDragon posted:

Ha, he looks like a bad Superman knock-off. The power of one million exploding suns is a bit poo poo apparently, judging by his abilities.

He's got super-everything. Including super-psychosis.


The best attack animation :allears:

Sherlock Bones
Jul 13, 2006
;/
Wailing Fungus has two spots open

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Wooo, a gold cover from a standard token... oh. It's just Iron Man. :geno:

herakles
Jan 17, 2009

McDragon posted:

Ha, he looks like a bad Superman knock-off. The power of one million exploding suns is a bit poo poo apparently, judging by his abilities.

He seems to be a character specifically designed to sell heal packs. :P He does a poo poo-ton of whole-team damage on both sides, and his green power actually seems pretty awesome at making lots of matches because the countdown tiles trigger one at a time. But yeah, overall, pretty crappy.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

The game could do with a few more healing characters. OBW's 2* so she's common enough though.

Anyway, what's known about Sentry at this point:

Sentry (Dark Avengers)
3 Star Rarity (Rare)
At level 15, HP: 1140
At level 77, HP: 4860
At max level, HP: ???

Supernova - 11 Red AP
The Sentry projects an epic energy blast. Damages the enemy team for 189 before shattering up to 4 random Red tiles. Each tile damages the enemy team for 35 and allies for 35 but does not generate AP. This ability ends the turn.
Level Upgrades
Level 2: Damage to allies reduced to 28 per Red tile destroyed.
Level 3: ???
Level 4: ???
Level 5: ??? (L77: 944 damage, destroys 9 Red tiles, 137 enemy damage & 72 friendly team damage per tile.)


World Rupture - 7 Green AP
Sentry flies into the heart of the battlefield, sending waves of kinetic energy rippling outward. Creates Green Countdown tiles that do 24 damage to enemies and 12 to allies.
Level Upgrades
Level 2: Reduces ally damage to 10.
Level 3: ???
Level 4: ??? (L77: creates 12 Countdown tiles, 92 enemy damage & 34 friendly team damage per tile)
Level 5: ??? (L77: creates additional Countdown tiles on extremities of the X pattern)

Countdown tiles are created on a board-centered X pattern.


Sacrifice - 8 Yellow AP
The Sentry sacrifices himself for the good of the team. He takes 237 damage, but converts a random basic Yellow tile into a Strike tile with a strength of 59.
Level Upgrades
Level 2: Creates Strike tile with a strength of 65.
Level 3: ???
Level 4: ??? (L77: inflicts 779 self-damage, creates 289 yellow Strike tile)
Level 5: ??? (L77: reduces self-damage to 687, increases Strike tile strength to 355)

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



SynthOrange posted:

The game could do with a few more healing characters. OBW's 2* so she's common enough though.

Anyway, what's known about Sentry at this point:

Sentry (Dark Avengers)
3 Star Rarity (Rare)
At level 15, HP: 1140
At level 77, HP: 4860
At max level, HP: ???
Max HP should be 8700-8800 then.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

SynthOrange posted:

He's got super-everything. Including super-psychosis.


The best attack animation :allears:

Looks like he got sucker punched to the gut by the Hulk.

Syrinxx
Mar 28, 2002

Death is whimsical today

Mister Macys posted:

Looks like he got sucker punched to the gut by the Hulk.
Which he did many times at the end of World War Hulk :D

Bob Socko
Feb 20, 2001

World Rupture is really easily countered by strike tiles. My Punisher got off two volleys of strike tiles, Sentry popped World Rupture, and then Sentry popped.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

The tools of a hero mean nothing without a solid core.

Bob Socko posted:

World Rupture is really easily countered by strike tiles. My Punisher got off two volleys of strike tiles, Sentry popped World Rupture, and then Sentry popped.

Your strike tiles boost the damage they take from their abilities? Is that true for Hulk as well? How about Ares's Sunder?

Bob Socko
Feb 20, 2001

I've never noticed it on anyone else, but now I'm curious. I'll see if I can sucker an Ares into taking a swing at me.

Update - ok, I was wrong, sort of. I just tested it again and it's a graphical bug. You know the big red negative number that pops up next to a character when you damage them? That displayed about -2000 worth of damage as all of the countdown tiles popped. However, the actual health bars of the hostile team went down normally. I guess when it happened the first time, Sentry was at low enough health that the effect killed him.

Bob Socko fucked around with this message at 07:48 on May 20, 2014

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

LOL @ all of Sentry's team-killing powers. I guess the developers weren't selling enough of those health packs to their liking.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Nothing can stop the Sentry from killing his team

McDragon
Sep 11, 2007

His Yellow is pretty nice with OBW. Mega-boosts Espionage, and then she can heal him up. I see it only works that well when it's powered up a lot. It was good on the team-up mission though.

Shroud
May 11, 2009
It doesn't really matter anyway. Unless you're a whale, the odds of you getting enough covers and iso to make him any good are astronomically against you.

The most I'm hoping for is a few covers in case for when he's a requirement for some event.

avantgardener
Sep 16, 2003

Shroud posted:

It doesn't really matter anyway. Unless you're a whale, the odds of you getting enough covers and iso to make him any good are astronomically against you.

The most I'm hoping for is a few covers in case for when he's a requirement for some event.
Yes that does seem a problem with the current mechanics. I maxed my punisher today, but getting one of the newer characters to that level would be near impossible as there are so many different covers to get now, so the chances of getting a specific one are that much less.

waffles beyond waffles
Jun 22, 2008

Oh, what a day...
What a lovely day!
This is kind of a vicious cycle. I missed out on Lazy Daken (and haven't lucked into one with tokens or hero points). Without him I can't do the special nodes, which lowers the likelihood of me getting a Sentry. And I imagine the new characters and special events requiring them will continue all summer.

I can't be the only one who spends more time outdoors in the warm weather. Why didn't they push these out in the winter?

Dr_Gee
Apr 26, 2008

retro sexual posted:

Equally there is a spot in Hired Goons if you are willing to expand to the 11th spot (1100HP). Search for it under a private alliance, apply, post here!

Already taking up a Pizza Goon slot as a filthy casual, but thanks for the offer!

Also, as someone who's trying to make the switch from 1* to 2* I'd actually probably be willing to drop :10bux: on HP to buy a few covers/slots to get started, but gently caress me if I'm going to drop $20. The amount of cash you need to drop to actually buy poo poo goes way beyond what I've seen from other free-to-play games.

It honestly feels like I'm not making any headway at this point, but it's still pretty fun to play a few times a day while poopin' or before bed so I doubt I'll just give up any time soon.

Dr_Gee fucked around with this message at 22:11 on May 20, 2014

Tirade
Jul 17, 2001

Cybertron must act decisively to prevent and oppose acts of genocide and violations of international robot rights law and to bring perpetrators before the Decepticon Justice Division
Pillbug
Just reapplied to agentsofgoon as dravenstone, I've got a week or so of grinding before I'll have to drop out again.

Kiffetastic
Aug 20, 2004

Oooooh Yeeeees!
My other two choices were pretty much the same thing, and it's all I get if I skip. All that for 27 points too! I've only got one maxed 3-star character and I'm using a maxed 2-star plus whatever else they force me to use. Maybe once they finally nerf Spider-Man I'll stop getting these ridiculous goddamn brackets that make me hate everything ever.



Also my only goal in the new event is to try and make Sentry kill himself, whether he be on my team or the enemy team. Sacrifice -> Sacrifice -> Sacrifice. Watching him emo himself to death is just too great. It's even better when the enemy uses his ability and then matches away the strike tile.

Alucard
Mar 11, 2002
Pillbug
I'm currently rocking a maxed 2* wolverine, level 48 classic storm, and level 38 obw. Any goon alliances that wouldn't mind a casual in the group?

Call Me Charlie
Dec 3, 2005

by Smythe
Patch, Doctor Doom and Loki are a surprisingly strong team if you can get the tiles needed before the other team. Doom generates blacks for Loki who negates the negatives of Patch raining hell down.

waffles beyond waffles
Jun 22, 2008

Oh, what a day...
What a lovely day!
Hey Snazzy Frocks, I have a season score of 12248 points at the moment. How about you switch out one of your 9k scrubs in stealth for me instead for the next hour. :v:

Syrinxx
Mar 28, 2002

Death is whimsical today

Season 2 just popped up and it's exactly the same as season 1 which means every whale alliance will be forced to grind up ridiculous scores in every single pvp event, ensuring anyone trying to transition to 3 star heroes will have no hope whatsoever of getting covers

Seriously gently caress this game

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo

gromdul posted:

Hey Snazzy Frocks, I have a season score of 12248 points at the moment. How about you switch out one of your 9k scrubs in stealth for me instead for the next hour. :v:

I already tried to bring in goons like you but Dear Leader insists on making all the recruitment calls so...

Infinite Karma
Oct 23, 2004
Good as dead





It sucks, but getting some competitive 3* characters is a marathon, not a sprint. You need about 10/13 covers to get a decent max level, which is going to take months anyway.

Gallow
Apr 9, 2002

I SUPPORT ALL THE PREDATORS

Syrinxx posted:

Seriously gently caress this game

That's the general opinion of new and old players right now. I just got hosed in the mouth in my final Season ranking. I was solidly in the Top 20 all month. If the event ended when it was supposed to, Sunday night, I'd have a top 25 prize of 20 heroic tokens. Since they hosed up their last patch they had to extend the tournament. Fine, add a few days. But don't change the loving ending time too! How is that fair? Since I actually have a job, I couldn't do the last minute rush and missed Top 25 by ONE SPOT. I get half the prize for twice the effort.

Again, gently caress this game and gently caress D3.

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

Alliance finished 14th. Time to redeem that sweet sweet single Nick Fury purple cover that might be used as an essential character node in PVE one day!

I was 26th for Season 1. Tried to make a push in the simulator to get into 25 and got crabbed the gently caress down to 29th. If it makes you feel any better we probably just missed out on 5 additional bagmen and moonstones!

Happy Bear Suit fucked around with this message at 17:45 on May 21, 2014

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

Happy Bear Suit posted:

Alliance finished 14th. Time to redeem that sweet sweet single Nick Fury purple cover that might be used as an essential character node in PVE one day!

Just think, only one more year of that and you'll have a pretty ok 3* Nick Fury!

Makes The Insane from WoW seem reasonable.

JBones
Aug 21, 2002
Finished 22nd. Blah

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LorneReams
Jun 27, 2003
I'm bizarre
I've sold so many Invisiable womens that I could probably have a maxed out one by now :(

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