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Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Retro Futurist posted:

Strike Force is out now too, but I haven’t been able to get in yet and I’m not sure the servers are running yet

Are they betaing in Canada? DC Legends did that I think. Usually they use like the Philippines.

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Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


Aphrodite posted:

Are they betaing in Canada? DC Legends did that I think. Usually they use like the Philippines.

No idea. It doesn't really say and the site still shows pre-regitration, it just showed up on the app store. I still can't get in but I see some chat stuff while it's loading so maybe they just have limited servers

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Aphrodite posted:

Are they betaing in Canada? DC Legends did that I think. Usually they use like the Philippines.

BTW, DC Legends is bullshit since they added Deathstroke that is impossible to beat.

Diabetic
Sep 29, 2006

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world Diabeetus.

Retro Futurist posted:

Strike Force is out now too, but I haven’t been able to get in yet and I’m not sure the servers are running yet

Link? Gotta get my Avengers Alliance Fix in before the Marvel Heroes 2015 update runs out of my system.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

twistedmentat posted:

BTW, DC Legends is bullshit since they added Deathstroke that is impossible to beat.

Yeah I usually still win but he's annoying.

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


Diabetic posted:

Link? Gotta get my Avengers Alliance Fix in before the Marvel Heroes 2015 update runs out of my system.

Not sure how to link it but it was on the front page of the app store

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

It soft launched in New Zealand about 2 week’s ago, and now apparently Canada. No US release yet.

You can just search for it if you’re in those countries.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Aphrodite posted:

Yeah I usually still win but he's annoying.

I have a team power of 15k, I have been beaten by teams that had 7k power with Deathstroke, He's bullshit.

What kind of game is strike force?

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

It's almost exactly DC Legends/Galaxy of Heroes. Squad based cooldown battles, gear levels, recruiting based on character shards.

twistedmentat posted:

I have a team power of 15k, I have been beaten by teams that had 7k power with Deathstroke, He's bullshit.

Well my team's power is 25k, so brute force usually works.

Nerdietalk
Dec 23, 2014

Am I missing something or is it impossible to level up the attack and health this event? The only way I could get Black Widow's costume the way I'm going now is if I buy a bunch of health packs.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

You can’t this week.

The Widow costume requires extensive med kits, streak extending or refights.

Nerdietalk
Dec 23, 2014

Oh boyo

Gonna have to make that judgement call

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


I mean I'd like the infinity statue, but that's pretty lovely and I don't want to enable TinyCo's model any more than I need to.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
Oh i'll probably buy the statue because the last time I bought one of those X over Y days crystal things it went on 3x as long as it meant to.

Also I'm more interested that I can get Hawkeye. Though shouldn't Hairball be Chewie?

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

The Widow costume would probably cost you 2000+ shards if you’re not already on streak 9 or 10 today.

Odds are one of the other costumes required for the statue will be in a crate making it cost about 3000 itself.

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


twistedmentat posted:

Oh i'll probably buy the statue because the last time I bought one of those X over Y days crystal things it went on 3x as long as it meant to.


You can't, you need to get all the impossible to get premium costumes.

In other news I finally got Strike Force working and it's pretty good. I gave up on the DC one right away so can't compare to that, but I play Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes and it's pretty much that. Seems good so far, I mainly play these kinds of games at work so as long as it has an auto play option I'm happy

bagrada
Aug 4, 2007

The Demogorgon is tired of your silly human bickering!

Avengers Academy just hits you from all angles this event. Tiny amount of items from long missions on the board. 6 1/2 hour healing timers. No combat upgrades. Requiring Howard to beat the last 2 sectors. The last sector being 50% pass/fail depending on who goes first the final round and requiring 4 floaties which can take up to 32 hours to get if you don't aggressively reroll missions. I'm at 1/25 hawkeye arrows after 9 fights, and didn't get pizza for fight 4 so I'm at the mercy of customer support to get Lucky in time (no reply yet after 26 hours). And that's the easy week 1 of an event, and not even getting into the widow costume, where Hairball the cat can't fight the boss, and you need to shell out a ton to get through 8-10 on the boss in between his short healing timers, your long healing timers, and the 7 day quest timer.

Sorry had to vent, I knew what I was getting into with these games but yeesh, sometimes it just feels sadistic.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Retro Futurist posted:

You can't, you need to get all the impossible to get premium costumes.

In other news I finally got Strike Force working and it's pretty good. I gave up on the DC one right away so can't compare to that, but I play Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes and it's pretty much that. Seems good so far, I mainly play these kinds of games at work so as long as it has an auto play option I'm happy

AH I thought it was something you cna straight up buy like the Thor statue or Iron fists dojo. I shelled out for Howard, but hey, its howard, and honestly, I just care about getting Hawkeye more than anything.

But yea its loving annoying how heavily nickle and diming this event is. The tiny amount of water wrings you get from the jobs to fight the soldiers is just stupid, and then a loving 6.5 hour wait time for fully healing? Thank god I don't give a poo poo about any of the actual reward characters.

I am sticking with the dc one because its only terrible with Deathstroke, otherwise its fine, but I like how rather than costumes, it just gives you another version of the character. There's like what, 4 batmans? I'll give strike force a try, it sounds like Avengers Alliance, which kind of started all this.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

It's basically Avengers Alliance 2 2.

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


Yeah I'm going to get Pizza Dog because that's cool, but I'm not going to spend money on a costume for Widow, and I cannot imagine I'm going to get Hawkeye. This game really is one of the worst examples of FTP and the only reasons I stick with it are Marvel characters and sunk cost

Diabetic
Sep 29, 2006

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world Diabeetus.

Aphrodite posted:

It's basically Avengers Alliance 2 2.

:swoon:

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Careful, AA2 was not much like AA1.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to

Aphrodite posted:

Careful, AA2 was not much like AA1.

It took so loving long to fight one god drat battle the the difficulty jumped so quickly. It's good it died so quickly.

The Question IRL
Jun 8, 2013

Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

Aphrodite posted:

It's basically Avengers Alliance 2 2.

Be careful what you say. Many games tried to take that title.
Avengers Alliance Tactics, Avengers Alliance 2...none of them succeeded.

You are setting up for high expectations.

New Wave Jose
Aug 20, 2008

twistedmentat posted:

It took so loving long to fight one god drat battle the the difficulty jumped so quickly. It's good it died so quickly.

I just started playing Strike Force and it feels like that. Hopefully they are going to tweek it a bit and it will get better

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

The Question IRL posted:

Be careful what you say. Many games tried to take that title.
Avengers Alliance Tactics, Avengers Alliance 2...none of them succeeded.

You are setting up for high expectations.

Believe me, that extra 2 is not a typo.

Craptacular!
Jul 9, 2001

Fuck the DH
I don't know if anyone else plays it , but I occasionally play the "Spider-Man Unlimited" runner game. It has only Spider-Man characters, but it has really, really deep cuts in Spider-Man characters. I can play as Spider-Girl and Mania the teen-Venom, which is all I need; but also it has caused me to learn of the existence of other one-off or forgotten characters that I think are interesting. I've read old comics I would have passed on because of this game, so I guess it's working.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
Strike Force is basically Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes with marvel stuff, and its decent right now. The way characters level up and then have gear levels that also improve, that we have generic troopers and named characters, the various things to do, yea it's basically the same as GoH.

Though the hero mission I'm stuck on right now is kinda busted as you have to protect Fury, but as soon as Luke Cage's protect status goes off, Fury gets hit, and he can only take 3 hits. The only way to finish it I can see is to either spend money to get another protect character, or just level up and brute force my way through the mission.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

No Academy voice spoilers up on Voices.com so far. I saw someone on Reddit mention that the next event might be Dr. Strange related again for some reason, so possible they don't need new voices.

The post-event newscast is about Thanos but that's still a bit off now.

twistedmentat posted:

Strike Force is basically Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes with marvel stuff, and its decent right now. The way characters level up and then have gear levels that also improve, that we have generic troopers and named characters, the various things to do, yea it's basically the same as GoH.

Though the hero mission I'm stuck on right now is kinda busted as you have to protect Fury, but as soon as Luke Cage's protect status goes off, Fury gets hit, and he can only take 3 hits. The only way to finish it I can see is to either spend money to get another protect character, or just level up and brute force my way through the mission.

Yeah I don't think there are really any hero protectors you can farm that early either. Maybe one of the Shield troopers? I think the daily reward one might taunt?

There's another character I got very early but may have been from orb luck. It's called Shield Specialist I think? It's a female character with dark hair. Her special ability stealths and heals your lowest health character. If you have Night Nurse available to farm she's good too.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
I am hoping they follow up with Fury telling Billy they have to go find his mom.

And no Night Nurse yet, but I'm leveling up fairly fast doing the Villain missions and just farming Bucky and Widow shards.

Theswarms
Dec 20, 2005
Night Nurse is great because her basic heal targets your lowest health guy so she can keep a priority target alive on those missions where the ai focus them without taunts.

Shield Operative can be farmed from Nexus 1-6 (Not sure if you unlock Nexus after that mission or not) and she has a 2 turn cooldown heal that targets the lowest health person and also stealths them so they can't be targeted. She's probably worth farming for that alone.

Your other option is to stack damage and kill the enemy faster than they can attack, farming gear levels on your high damage characters (eg punisher) will help a lot with that.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
Yea I just brute forced my way through it, got to level 17 just by farming bucky, widow, and yondu nodes and was able to just destroy the enemies. Now I'm on the Cap one, but that one is clearly too strong for me.

Working on Nexus now, but its also tough as hell.

Okay it put me in an alliance, and its called Welcome to MAA3, so I'm not going to complain.

twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Dec 27, 2017

GLOSS
Apr 10, 2005

PEARL GROWLS "TAKE OFF THAT SHIRT, STEVEN." I COMPLY, REVEALING THE FULL LENGTH SHIRT TATTOO. PEARL RETREATS INTO HER GEM, DEFEATED.
The latest update for Academy actually has the generic icon/splash screen. Could we actually be getting the mythical main story update?

bagrada
Aug 4, 2007

The Demogorgon is tired of your silly human bickering!

GLOSS posted:

The latest update for Academy actually has the generic icon/splash screen. Could we actually be getting the mythical main story update?

Maybe they inherited marvel heroes' switch flipper.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

GLOSS posted:

The latest update for Academy actually has the generic icon/splash screen. Could we actually be getting the mythical main story update?

They usually revert back when there's a break between events.


Also gently caress I forgot to check earlier today and missed out on Throg and a bunch of rank ups.

Old Kentucky Shark
May 25, 2012

If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.


I gave up on Throg after I got to Wednesday with Loki's costume still 13 sunglasses short. gently caress RNG.

Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Old Kentucky Shark posted:

I gave up on Throg after I got to Wednesday with Loki's costume still 13 sunglasses short. gently caress RNG.

I was going to shard it. Having everything else was going to be cheap, like 200.

I screwed myself over too. At the end of week 3 after unlocking Redwing I dumped all my... whatever the resource was. If I had saved that to week 4 I'd have had the glasses easily.

twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
Yea i was hosed hard by RNG with the boxes as there were days where I couldn't get enough to run research.

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


Looks like we kind of sort get a break from events

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twistedmentat
Nov 21, 2003

Its my party
and I'll die if
I want to
It just says outfits, so I'm kinda worried we won't have a chance to get characters from this year we missed.

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