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Syrinxx
Mar 28, 2002

Death is whimsical today

Tezzeract posted:

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)
Not on android yet, loving 505 games :argh:

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Dizz
Feb 14, 2010


L :dva: L
It's on steam. I didn't like it much, it felt boring.

skipdogg
Nov 29, 2004
Resident SRT-4 Expert

I've given up on this PVE, this poo poo is ridiculous. I can't play these 3 hour refreshes after experiencing the 8 hour refreshes. Doesn't help everyone is gunning hard for Star-Lord. I'm just trying to maintain top 150 for the green mohawk cover.

Tezzeract
Dec 25, 2007

Think I took a wrong turn...

Dizz posted:

It's on steam. I didn't like it much, it felt boring.

It took a while for me to like it also. The game opens up once you have a bunch of creatures to build teams with (the tutorial is pretty slow.) Being part of a guild is pretty sweet because you progress alongside them as people contribute gold to complete tasks.

PVP is neat too, though I hear the player quality ramps up at level 50.

It's not as zippy as MPQ, but it's also not as P2W and stressful/frustrating as MPQ.

JohnnySmitch
Oct 20, 2004

Don't touch me there - Noone has that right.
Guess I just lucked out like crazy with my (fairly late) bracket on the Blade PVP - snagged top 5 with only a little over 300pts...

fishtobaskets
Feb 22, 2007

It's not about butthole pleasures
Lipstick Apathy

JohnnySmitch posted:

Guess I just lucked out like crazy with my (fairly late) bracket on the Blade PVP - snagged top 5 with only a little over 300pts...

And I got 54th with 760. poo poo.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Hahaha they completely hosed up any fights with minions in them. They now have a slow animation to show that they're generating AP. So loving tedious

Goldom
Feb 19, 2009

The governor has given a rats-alert advising people to stay in their homes.
Sounds like they're already backpedaling - a couple guys on the forum complained, and the official guy was instantly like, "Okay, we'll make it an option in the next version" even before the next 500 people complained. And thank goodness for that, I'm still annoyed at the new-ish delays that stop you from switching ability tabs during the enemy's turn and from selecting an ability right when your turn starts.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I think I'm done with this game. Devs dont play it and keep making things worse every single time.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

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

Tezzeract posted:

It took a while for me to like it also. The game opens up once you have a bunch of creatures to build teams with (the tutorial is pretty slow.) Being part of a guild is pretty sweet because you progress alongside them as people contribute gold to complete tasks.

PVP is neat too, though I hear the player quality ramps up at level 50.

It's not as zippy as MPQ, but it's also not as P2W and stressful/frustrating as MPQ.

Is there a Goon guild? Or a thread for it for that matter?

Wet Biscuit McGlee
Jul 13, 2006

girls hate me
I made the mistake of bringing Wolverine, Daken and Hood to a goon node.

Each turn took nearly a minute between passives going off and the AP notification.

King Burgundy
Sep 17, 2003

I am the Burgundy King,
I can do anything!

JohnnySmitch posted:

Guess I just lucked out like crazy with my (fairly late) bracket on the Blade PVP - snagged top 5 with only a little over 300pts...

Yeah, top 5 was like 430 in mine. It was nice.


Bruceski posted:

Is there a Goon guild? Or a thread for it for that matter?

Also not in any alliance currently if anyone has space. Same user as forums name.

bouncyman
Oct 27, 2009

King Burgundy posted:

Yeah, top 5 was like 430 in mine. It was nice.


Also not in any alliance currently if anyone has space. Same user as forums name.

Bruceski posted:

Bruceski posted:
Is there a Goon guild? Or a thread for it for that matter?

There's a bunch of us in my guild Bounce House. I think people have been slowly quitting the game though.. only about 12 of us still playing daily. Let me know if you guys want in and I'll kick some more inactive members for you.

Bruceski
Aug 21, 2007

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

I was asking about a different game. "Is there ... a thread for it" is a good hint.

Tezzeract
Dec 25, 2007

Think I took a wrong turn...

Bruceski posted:

Is there a Goon guild? Or a thread for it for that matter?

No thread yet, though it'd be pretty awesome if there was one and we could get a Gems of War guild going.

Even if you're not in a goon guild though, you can join a new one and make good progress.

Synthwave Crusader
Feb 13, 2011

Ended up getting rank 2 in my Blade bracket last night. I ended up dropping some HP on a shield last night because gently caress losing to high level poopsockers. Ended up only 30 points behind the top ranked winner because several people couldn't win against me even with shields. 3* Thor complete set + 10k ISO which I immediately used to get several characters past 50.

King Burgundy
Sep 17, 2003

I am the Burgundy King,
I can do anything!

bouncyman posted:

There's a bunch of us in my guild Bounce House. I think people have been slowly quitting the game though.. only about 12 of us still playing daily. Let me know if you guys want in and I'll kick some more inactive members for you.

Sure, I'll join.

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo

SynthOrange posted:

I think I'm done with this game. Devs dont play it and keep making things worse every single time.

You'll be back you always come back

bouncyman
Oct 27, 2009

King Burgundy posted:

Sure, I'll join.

Spot's open! Join up whenever :)

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Snazzy Frocks posted:

You'll be back you always come back

Nope, I'm gone. Sunken cost be damned.

King Burgundy
Sep 17, 2003

I am the Burgundy King,
I can do anything!

bouncyman posted:

Spot's open! Join up whenever :)

Joined, pending approval!

bouncyman
Oct 27, 2009

King Burgundy posted:

Joined, pending approval!

All good! Welcome to the guild.

big cummers ONLY
Jul 17, 2005

I made a series of bad investments. Tarantula farm. The bottom fell out of the market.

Starting fresh after playing a bunch a year ago, are there any decent guides to getting started and sustaining myself as a F2P player? Don't want to waste my funbucks inefficiently

fishtobaskets
Feb 22, 2007

It's not about butthole pleasures
Lipstick Apathy

Paineopticon posted:

Starting fresh after playing a bunch a year ago, are there any decent guides to getting started and sustaining myself as a F2P player? Don't want to waste my funbucks inefficiently

http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3939

I also like http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=21083 as a companion piece with a slightly different perspective on the characters.

big cummers ONLY
Jul 17, 2005

I made a series of bad investments. Tarantula farm. The bottom fell out of the market.

Exactly what I needed, thanks!

Sefer
Sep 2, 2006
Not supposed to be here today

SynthOrange posted:

Nope, I'm gone. Sunken cost be damned.

So we should kick you from the guild, right? Anyone want his spot in PizzaDog?

skipdogg
Nov 29, 2004
Resident SRT-4 Expert

Sefer posted:

So we should kick you from the guild, right? Anyone want his spot in PizzaDog?

How does that alliance rank? I'm not super serious about this game (as in I will not be using Line or reserving special times to play), but grabbing a top 250 prize once in a while wouldn't suck. I'm good for 500-650 per PVP depending on what I need to do to grab top 100, and do well in PVE. Season 10 score was 5396

Sefer
Sep 2, 2006
Not supposed to be here today

skipdogg posted:

How does that alliance rank? I'm not super serious about this game (as in I will not be using Line or reserving special times to play), but grabbing a top 250 prize once in a while wouldn't suck. I'm good for 500-650 per PVP depending on what I need to do to grab top 100, and do well in PVE. Season 10 score was 5396

We're 275 in the current PVE event. I don't think we hit 250 much, but top 500 is pretty regular. We have a few people that play all the time, a couple who don't even get a fight in every day, and a bunch in between.

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo

SynthOrange posted:

Nope, I'm gone. Sunken cost be damned.

Be a man and pull the sell trigger on your roster

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

I'd have to reinstall the game and retrieve my profile and thats more work

Sefer posted:

So we should kick you from the guild, right? Anyone want his spot in PizzaDog?
Sure.

BaconCopter
Feb 13, 2008

:coolfish:

:coolfish:
I'd love a spot on a Goon alliance, my group, The Endless, is mediocre at best. Not getting alliance rewards is seriously killing this. I have a pretty decent roster, always get 500+ in PvP and generally rank pretty high in PvE events.
IGN: BaconCopter

I keep on getting screwed with heroic/special draws... I have better luck getting 3* covers from the normal recruit tokens :doh:. Besides the 3 I got in the 10 pack from the the last season, I haven't gotten a 3* in over 15 pulls...

big cummers ONLY
Jul 17, 2005

I made a series of bad investments. Tarantula farm. The bottom fell out of the market.

Reading the past few pages, I see a lot of people feeling negatively about the game. Is it in a bad state right now? Is it possible to have fun as F2P if I'm mostly interested in the collecting aspect, and not super worried about being pvp competitive?

Goldom
Feb 19, 2009

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

Paineopticon posted:

Reading the past few pages, I see a lot of people feeling negatively about the game. Is it in a bad state right now? Is it possible to have fun as F2P if I'm mostly interested in the collecting aspect, and not super worried about being pvp competitive?

Collecting is all there really is, in the end, I guess. The negativity mostly comes from D3 releasing new characters at such a rate that you fall further behind on your collection every week. Even if you do get all the available covers, it's impossible to level them up as fast as new ones come out.

It's perfectly fine to play F2P though. I haven't spent anything in the last year and keep up okay. If I weren't keeping other entertainment on simultaneously, though, I think I would have burnt out a long time ago.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

My reason is the developers keep adding stuff in with no playtesting. The minion AP notification banner is one of the latest in a long long line of boneheaded 'improvements' to the game without any sort of testing at all leading to the game being worse off until they revert the changes.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
I think the biggest issue is transitioning from 2* to 3*, because 3*s aren't useful until you max their skills and pump them full of ISO, which is hard to do when they're not that easy to come by.

Like, if you started playing early on when there weren't too many 3*s and only X-Force Wolverine and Invisible Woman as 4*s, you had a decent chance of being able to build up a hero from PvP and PvE and tokens. Now, though, there are so many heroes but only 1 PvP event at a time, so the chance of the hero you want being a prize + you actually being able to place in the top 150 / 100 / whatever to get that cover are pretty low. Most of my maxed 3*s are pretty much from 2013 or early 2014 and I still don't have a maxed LazyThor yet.

I did a bit of P2P back in 2013, but the covers that I got back then (Doom, for the most part) weren't really that instrumental in getting me to where I am now. I'm still able to get into top 25 on certain events as long as I'm motivated enough and hit the right time slot. Even got an Elektra on a PvE event that I barely participated in. So yeah, I think F2P is possible.

Syrinxx
Mar 28, 2002

Death is whimsical today

Paineopticon posted:

Reading the past few pages, I see a lot of people feeling negatively about the game. Is it in a bad state right now? Is it possible to have fun as F2P if I'm mostly interested in the collecting aspect, and not super worried about being pvp competitive?
The game blows and is an amalgamation of all the most rotten f2p bullshit in one horrible package. Right now it's worse than it's ever been and I'm pretty sure that 90% of their business model now revolves around releasing stupid new characters as quickly as possible and making a majority of their money forcing people buy slots for them if they want to pve. For balance and "enhancements", the developers just fling feces against the wall and see what sticks and add it to the game. It's good enough to play while you're taking a dump and that's all.

Puweyxil
Oct 19, 2001
I like to eat cheese.
Dinosaur Gum

Syrinxx posted:

It's good enough to play while you're taking a dump and that's all.
Only if you can schedule your dumps to be right before an event ends.

EscortMission
Mar 4, 2009

Come with me
if you want to live.

bouncyman posted:

There's a bunch of us in my guild Bounce House. I think people have been slowly quitting the game though.. only about 12 of us still playing daily. Let me know if you guys want in and I'll kick some more inactive members for you.

I would love to get in on this, my IGN is EscMission.

bouncyman
Oct 27, 2009

EscortMission posted:

I would love to get in on this, my IGN is EscMission.

Go ahead an appy, I'll create a spot for you. Same goes for you if you still want it BaconCopter

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BaconCopter
Feb 13, 2008

:coolfish:

:coolfish:

bouncyman posted:

Go ahead an appy, I'll create a spot for you. Same goes for you if you still want it BaconCopter

Quit my current one, I'll apply as soon as a slot is available!

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