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skipdogg
Nov 29, 2004
Resident SRT-4 Expert

Joy of joys. I just bought slot number 50, and I'm staring at 51 for squirrel girl

Just checked the spoiler thread at D3P. Star-Lord confirmed.

This is new as well

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=282043#p282043

quote:

Introducing:Deadpool's Daily Event!
it's got all that daily PVE event content but with MY face on it.
Play every day for a Guaranteed 3-Star!

Also there's a new Ordeals mode or something coming..

skipdogg fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jan 19, 2015

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StumblyWumbly
Sep 12, 2007

Batmanticore!
A friend just started playing, and she started the tower event and is now number 6 in her bracket overall with about 18000 points.
Should I be staying these events a few days after they begin, or is this because she started with all 1* heroes? #1 in my bracket has 120k points

Agent355
Jul 26, 2011


Hey is there more progression to this game yet beyond the weekly events? I remember playing for awhile and enjoying it but eventually getting bored when I realized that after 'chapter 1' or whatever it was called there was nothing to do but wait for events.

Goldom
Feb 19, 2009

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

StumblyWumbly posted:

A friend just started playing, and she started the tower event and is now number 6 in her bracket overall with about 18000 points.
Should I be staying these events a few days after they begin, or is this because she started with all 1* heroes? #1 in my bracket has 120k points

Events start new brackets as old ones fill, so if you don't want to play daily for all 5 days, yes, don't enter at all until later to have a chance at prizes. You can also go here and look for the current event's bracket thread to make sure you aren't about to join an old bracket that hasn't filled, since that'll make it impossible to catch up.

Agent355 posted:

Hey is there more progression to this game yet beyond the weekly events? I remember playing for awhile and enjoying it but eventually getting bored when I realized that after 'chapter 1' or whatever it was called there was nothing to do but wait for events.

That's basically it. Weekly PvE events and a new PvP every few days. There is always some event going on, but they repeat them a ton in between actual new stories.

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo
Joining late for easier brackets has gotten tougher since the end times were sliced up. Each slice has multiple brackets so a fresh bracket that youre eligible to enter may never open up after the first few brackets fill up towards the beginning. I know I've waited various times to enter after the first day and quite often those brackets are stale and never completely fill up before the event end.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I got a squirrel. :3:

skipdogg
Nov 29, 2004
Resident SRT-4 Expert

SynthOrange posted:

I got a squirrel. :3:

I was sitting in the mid 30's the entire time, then had a work meeting where I forgot to get my last rounds in... came in 53rd and missed a 2nd cover by 2200 points. Blah. Oh well, just a stupid game.

I'm actually more excited for the 3* Thor covers in the next PVE than the squirrel, but she's needed for the essential nodes I'm sure.

Goldom
Feb 19, 2009

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

skipdogg posted:

I was sitting in the mid 30's the entire time, then had a work meeting where I forgot to get my last rounds in... came in 53rd and missed a 2nd cover by 2200 points. Blah. Oh well, just a stupid game.

I'm actually more excited for the 3* Thor covers in the next PVE than the squirrel, but she's needed for the essential nodes I'm sure.

I was in top 20 for most of it with little effort, but then in the last 24 I had to fight to hold 50th. Did it, though. Sad about the Thors, because I just need 2 yellows and of course that's the top reward. But it usually means he'll be in PvP soon. Hopefully not the top there too.

Oh, and new slots are now going for 800HP, which is lovely. I've got 1600, so good for now, but it's getting scary. I had over 3000 built up a week ago, but then random luck gave me my first Fury and 4* Thor. I've made it this far without ever dropping a character and only a single $20 purchase in my second week, but if we see 3 new characters in the next couple months, it might be time to say goodbye to a few 1 and 2 stars.

Goldom fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Jan 21, 2015

Auritech
May 27, 2004

Blessed be the tailors
The masks are cut to fit

Blessed be the woodworkers
The crosses and the gallows

Blessed be the forgers of iron
And the spikes and the barbwire

Blessed be the stone cutters
It took a quarry to bury the dreams
A spot has opened up in Metal Bawkses if anyone is looking for an alliance.

Web Madness
Apr 25, 2008

Auritech posted:

A spot has opened up in Metal Bawkses if anyone is looking for an alliance.

Sweet! I only started recently but my alliance has sucked. I was 1/3 of our alliance points in the last PVE event and all I have is 2* :(

In game name: StonedCat

Strange Matter
Oct 6, 2009

Ask me about Genocide
I've been playing this game for a week now. I've got seven roster spots and the next chance to buy more costs 400 HP. Is there any better way to get HP (aside from spending money which I refuse to do on this dumb game) aside from grinding the small number of missions that give it to you?

On that note, does anyone have any suggestions for beating the From Russia mission in the Venom chapter? I managed to do it exactly once through sheer luck, but most of the time Yelena's thugs gun me down almost without effort.

fishtobaskets
Feb 22, 2007

It's not about butthole pleasures
Lipstick Apathy

Strange Matter posted:

I've been playing this game for a week now. I've got seven roster spots and the next chance to buy more costs 400 HP. Is there any better way to get HP (aside from spending money which I refuse to do on this dumb game) aside from grinding the small number of missions that give it to you?

On that note, does anyone have any suggestions for beating the From Russia mission in the Venom chapter? I managed to do it exactly once through sheer luck, but most of the time Yelena's thugs gun me down almost without effort.

For new players, hero points will mostly come from daily rewards and a few select missions in the storyline. You should also be able to jump into PVE events pretty easily, and score surprisingly well (and thus more HP) because you'll face far easier opponents than the majority of the playerbase since PVE scales with your roster's level.

Peechka
Nov 10, 2005
So explain something to me fellow marvel puzzle gons. I had played this game since release but took like a 6 month break when they decided to start nerfing the poo poo out of everything I got pissed and walked away about the time the hulk events started to show up. Anyway Im back now and just cant wrap my head around something.

So I was grinding out the last event, the one with squirrel girl, I was top10 consistently, usually hovering around 2-3. But the last day this dude comes up out of nowhere and gets like 10,000 points within a few hours. So Im like drat, this dude must be loaded with high level covers. So i click on his name and see that hes got garbage. A bunch of lv 40 and less characters,like 12 of them, most with one or two covers each, total newb. I have not played in 6 months and I had better and more leveled up and covered characters. So how the gently caress is this guy scoring ~10K points within a few hours? Something smells fishy here. I could not even touch him in the main event. I think he had like 12K points more than #2.

Now I know you can spend money to buy heal packs and keep grinding, but even then it does not add up. Because the point scoring has diminishing returns when grinding. and I was grinding my rear end off. Usually consistently clearing the board 2-3x every couple of hours or at least the higher point battles.

Anyway I did manage to score the 3 different color squirrel girl covers, I think I ended up being #6 overall so all is good but it just bugs me how this dude did this. Is there some cheats going on? Some leet way to grind events Im not aware of?

Peechka fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Jan 22, 2015

AnonSpore
Jan 19, 2012

"I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Peechka posted:

So explain something to me fellow marvel puzzle gons. I had played this game since release but took like a 6 month break when they decided to start nerfing the poo poo out of everything I got pissed and walked away about the time the hulk events started to show up. Anyway Im back now and just cant wrap my head around something.

So I was grinding out the last event, the one with squirrel girl, I was top10 consistently, usually hovering around 2-3. But the last day this dude comes up out of nowhere and gets like 10,000 points within a few hours. So Im like drat, this dude must be loaded with high level covers. So i click on his name and see that hes got garbage. A bunch of lv 40 and less characters,like 12 of them, most with one or two covers each, total newb. I have not played in 6 months and I had better and more leveled up and covered characters. So how the gently caress is this guy scoring ~10K points within a few hours? Something smells fishy here. I could not even touch him in the main event. I think he had like 12K points more than #2.

Now I know you can spend money to buy heal packs and keep grinding, but even then it does not add up. Because the point scoring has diminishing returns when grinding. and I was grinding my rear end off. Usually consistently clearing the board 2-3x every couple of hours or at least the higher point battles.

Anyway I did manage to score the 3 different color squirrel girl covers, I think I ended up being #6 overall so all is good but it just bugs me how this dude did this. Is there some cheats going on? Some leet way to grind events Im not aware of?

Pve events scale based on the level of your roster. So where you get level 200ish enemies, a new player will get level 20s and smash through them. Their characters also heal much faster because they're lower level. Finally people who are out of the top 10 or so will get a scaling point bonus for every mission they do.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

With enough autism, anything is possible.

Syrinxx
Mar 28, 2002

Death is whimsical today

SynthOrange posted:

With enough autism, anything is possible.
Thread title

StumblyWumbly
Sep 12, 2007

Batmanticore!

Strange Matter posted:

On that note, does anyone have any suggestions for beating the From Russia mission in the Venom chapter? I managed to do it exactly once through sheer luck, but most of the time Yelena's thugs gun me down almost without effort.

I think I used Hawkguy a lot for those types of missions. Destroy a row when a tile is about to go off, and his crit power is awesome if you can level it up. Storm and Jugs can maybe help get rid of countdowns, too, and BW's stun well help against stronger enemies

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L
When I first started out, I used Iron Man, Storm, Widow. It was a good combination of damage, Tile Clearing, and utility like stuns or stealing AP. Black Widow's multiple turn stun was very good in making sure that juggernaut was never moving again.

EscortMission
Mar 4, 2009

Come with me
if you want to live.
I started playing this 2-3 days ago and its pretty much exactly where I wanted OG Puzzle Quest to be. Anyone got room in their alliance for someone still getting used to their Iron Man/Storm/Black Widow training wheels?

IGN: EscMission

Goldom
Feb 19, 2009

The governor has given a rats-alert advising people to stay in their homes.
This new PvP is going to be ridiculous with Blade, Elektra and Squirrel covers involved, PLUS double ISO. I guess that works out in my favor though, since mostly I'm way behind on making it to the season pack in time. Would have liked some easier Blades though.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Somehow got into the Groot PvP with 35 minutes to spare and got Top 49. I was really happy until I realized that Top 50 and Top 100 both give the same amount of covers, and that I could have just stopped way earlier. Still, at least I now have a Squirrel Girl I'll never use, and I'm like 400 points away from my free 10 Heroic pulls that'll net me 9 2*s and a dupe 3*.

Also, my PvE event had like 139 people when I checked like 12 hours ago, which is surprising since I joined like 2 days ago. Maybe I will get 2 Lazy!Thor covers.

Goldom
Feb 19, 2009

The governor has given a rats-alert advising people to stay in their homes.
Jesus, now it's another 4-star. Way back at 4-Thor I was suspecting that they were angling to make 3-star become nothing more than a transitional period to 4 star, and it seems that's really coming true. Best of all, it's only for top 50, so the next PvE is gonna be a pain without it.

Not even gonna happen for me unless I wait to join until a fresh bracket near the end. I'd rather have that yellow Thor progression reward, which I desperately need to fix my 5/3/5. Wonder how late I could join to get 60k, I have no memory of how high scores run in specific PvEs.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I think my love hate relationship is turning into a hate hate one.

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

PVP reward to win a 4* dropped from 1300 down to 1000. :hellyeah:

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

He looks pretty drat dull though. All countdown abilities all the time.

Lordy
Jan 2, 2011
This game used to be rather fun but since I started to ascend past my 2 star team it feels really dull and nothing I ever do has any meaningful impact on my roster besides giving me another single cover for a three star I will never finish.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Decent haul on my 10 Heroic Pulls.

5 3*s, and only 2 were dupes.

Got to skill up my Blade, Mystique, and Gamora. Hood Blue and Patch Red were cashed in for ISO. Much better than last season's pulls, for sure.

McDragon
Sep 11, 2007

Well I think this gif I stole from the D3 forum thread sums up my feelings pretty well.


Also shame on them for not giving all his skills song title names. Or maybe that's just a film thing.

fishtobaskets
Feb 22, 2007

It's not about butthole pleasures
Lipstick Apathy

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

Hood Blue cashed in for ISO.

I hate you.

Gregorio
Aug 9, 2010

Goldom posted:

Jesus, now it's another 4-star. Way back at 4-Thor I was suspecting that they were angling to make 3-star become nothing more than a transitional period to 4 star, and it seems that's really coming true. Best of all, it's only for top 50, so the next PvE is gonna be a pain without it.

Not even gonna happen for me unless I wait to join until a fresh bracket near the end. I'd rather have that yellow Thor progression reward, which I desperately need to fix my 5/3/5. Wonder how late I could join to get 60k, I have no memory of how high scores run in specific PvEs.

I think Thick as Thieves is terribly scaled for points... I remember getting like 220k without much work in the past. You should still make the progression easily if you join late as long as they haven't changed it too much.

21st Cherry boy
Jan 28, 2004
i'm a girl, fucktard

Same. Eternally 5/3/5.

What's the best way to get ahead in these events now? Just play every eight hours? I did top twenty for the hunt but I feel the competition is gonna be much harder this time around.

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo
Its back to 3hr refreshes which sucks so feel free to suffer as much as you please

21st Cherry boy
Jan 28, 2004
i'm a girl, fucktard

Snazzy Frocks posted:

Its back to 3hr refreshes which sucks so feel free to suffer as much as you please

Sweet, time to grind mindlessly for a week only for none of it to matter until the last few hours.

skipdogg
Nov 29, 2004
Resident SRT-4 Expert

FWIW all future PVE is going to be 8 hr refresh

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Looks like in game chat is dead.

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L

SynthOrange posted:

Looks like in game chat is dead.

No need to chat in-game when you can just do your daily poo poo and log off and do something more practical.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Dizz posted:

your daily poo poo

When else am I going to play the game?

Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L

SynthOrange posted:

When else am I going to play the game?

Whenever they make it worth playing.

Tezzeract
Dec 25, 2007

Think I took a wrong turn...
Kinda unrelated, but I've been checking out Gems of War and it seems much friendlier than MPQ. Plus it's made from the original PQ devs.

Might be a good pick for people who are a bit tired of MPQ (like I was)

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Goldom
Feb 19, 2009

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

SynthOrange posted:

Looks like in game chat is dead.

It shows up if you leave the game open a few minutes. There's a notice about it on the d3 board - it'll be fixed next update.

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