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Got the Artgerm Jean Grey in store today, got the base card from the only spotlight cache I opened and it looks like poo poo so I'm absolutely tempted but 1200 gold is a big ask in the current system... Still it IS pretty sweet tho
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To save people wondering: the shop is now weighted to new variants, probably to increase FOMO. But they went a bit too far on it, as most people appear to be have six or more of the same options.
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Jul 13, 2023 10:39
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I think I'm done with this game. I saved everything since the announcement, and that was only enough to barely get one spotlight cache (I got living tribunal). To get the next one, I'd have to either spend or grind way more than I want. There's a ton of cool cards on the horizon, but lol at getting to actually play them. Luckily, duel force is pretty fun despite low jank the client is.
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Jul 13, 2023 14:10
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SD should have their own game taken away from them, a la Child Protective Services
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Jul 13, 2023 14:46
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This spotlight update blows rear end. Too bad, because Snap is hella good and the cards and changes have been really interesting lately. I don't think I'll stick around if card acquisition is going to be this slow for series 3 complete players.
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Jul 13, 2023 15:04
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Pretty small amount of bonus value my rear end
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Jul 13, 2023 15:12
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Yeah that post is bonkers. He's 'a little bit grumpy' players are gaming the system in their gacha, P2W, freemium, FOMO exploiting, increasingly blatant cash grab game. gently caress you buddy. And the 'small amount' of bonus value is ludicrous.
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Jul 13, 2023 15:24
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Lol. This team is so JV.
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Jul 13, 2023 15:25
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTVoCkPlgE&t=459s lmao this is so loving bad. Start at time stamp. This system could have been decent and they got greedy with it.
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Jul 13, 2023 15:27
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Devo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RTVoCkPlgE&t=459s Yeah I think I'm just not gonna touch spotlights for a while. Only got the knull variant so far but just the idea that my second roll could go like that is offputting.
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Jul 13, 2023 15:33
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It's a badly thought out system. There is zero reason to not hoard spotlight caches. If their intention was to have players hoard their card acquisition for months on end mission accomplished I guess.
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Jul 13, 2023 15:34
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No Wave posted:It's a badly thought out system. There is zero reason to not hoard spotlight caches. If their intention was to have players hoard their card acquisition for months on end mission accomplished I guess. I had not considered hoarding caches before this whole thing but they are basically telling you to do it
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Jul 13, 2023 15:37
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You just have to. Right now the best target for most players is 07/25 with Darkhawk and High Evo. I haven't opened any yet and I think I'm going to skip this week after seeing Jean in action. I really, really want Jeff but now that the random spotlight isn't even guaranteed to get me a Snowguard I might just spend 6k tokens on him. Personally, I will probably open some caches next week to try to* get Iron Lad and then hold off on opening any for a long while. None of the new cards coming up are particularly exciting and this system seems to work better the less S4/S5 cards you have. I still really like this system for freshly completed or almost completed pool 3 players. tl;dr: If you're nearly collection complete, hoard like a motherfucker until you really want something. *editor's note: I don't have to try. I am guaranteed to get the Lad. I do enjoy that about this new system but it does definitely encourage box hoarding. Devo fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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Jul 13, 2023 15:43
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No Wave posted:It's a badly thought out system. There is zero reason to not hoard spotlight caches. If their intention was to have players hoard their card acquisition for months on end mission accomplished I guess. It's only worth opening them in a week where you both want the new card and have neither of the featured cards. Luckily we have them all mined through to the start of September, so we know when we have to save up by. If we were only learning a month ahead of time it still wouldn't be enough.
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Are they dropping any cards to series 3 before the end of the season or do we just not get that free card this time?
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As far as I can tell the entire point of the new system is to shove the new cards in your face more so you feel bad and consider spending money to try to get them
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Push El Burrito posted:Are they dropping any cards to series 3 before the end of the season or do we just not get that free card this time? cinnamon rollout posted:As far as I can tell the entire point of the new system is to shove the new cards in your face more so you feel bad and consider spending money to try to get them No Wave fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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Jul 13, 2023 15:58
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I hope Tucker does deduct 1 gold from me. Every time I log in and see that 9 I'll remember how smart and cool I am.
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Marx Headroom posted:I hope Tucker does deduct 1 gold from me. Every time I log in and see that 9 I'll remember how smart and cool I am. I'm going to upvote this so quickly
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Jul 13, 2023 16:11
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I can't see myself hoarding anything honestly. I don't have the patience for it. Also, does anyone else have a black screen for a few seconds during matchmaking after this patch? It always makes me think my phone screen turned off or something. Or sometimes it will hit Matchmaking and I don't even see my opponent, then it goes black for a few seconds before launching into the match.
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Yes, I am also getting that black screen during matchmaking.
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Jedit posted:It's only worth opening them in a week where you both want the new card and have neither of the featured cards. . But what if you want the new card but DO have the featured cards? That was me, have Knull and LT... I did at least get the cool Knull variant, but the other Spotlight Cache turned into an Electro variant. No Jean Grey. I did get Snowguard and Thanos from my regular caches, though, so...I guess there's that? And looking ahead at the datamined Spotlight Caches, I'm in almost the same boat for every week. I don't have Kang for the week he's in it with Echo, but I do have Iron Lad, and I have both Darkhawk and High Evo for the week after... and Thanos (now) and Master Mold for the week after that...Looks like 8/8 is no new cards, and I have all three of those, so that's at least an easy "hold 'em" week. Week of 8/15 I once again have the two non-new cards, same with 8/22, and 8/29...and 9/5 So...yeah, do I even have ANY optimal strategy for these? I guess just don't open them if its a week where I don't have a strong desire for the new card that's released, and hope the week I DO open them all I luck into the new one I want?
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 I still get so much glee after stomping a Galactus player. gently caress that stupid card!
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New Leaf posted:Also, does anyone else have a black screen for a few seconds during matchmaking after this patch? It always makes me think my phone screen turned off or something. Or sometimes it will hit Matchmaking and I don't even see my opponent, then it goes black for a few seconds before launching into the match. Same here. It is very distracting and keeps making me think something went wrong. Seems this patch may have introduced a fair amount of bugs. The cost reduction bug is particularly annoying. I wasn't able to pull a card with Magneto, which had its cost reduction stick, and fairly certain I would have had a good chance to win the match if I had been able to do that. Had to take a retreat instead. At least I'm glad I was aware of the bug to save some cubes.
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New Leaf posted:gently caress that stupid card!
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DrBouvenstein posted:But what if you want the new card but DO have the featured cards? That was me, have Knull and LT... I did at least get the cool Knull variant, but the other Spotlight Cache turned into an Electro variant. No Jean Grey. if there was dupe protection on the mystery cards it'd probably be a little different but since there's not, gotta have four
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You don't HAVE to do the optimal thing, but games like this are actively working against you if you don't in order to get into your wallet, so keep that in mind
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I don't know, I didn't hoard and I don't feel like not having Jean is holding me back
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i'm just saying if there's something you really want you better have four caches, otherwise the RNG gods could slap you and that feels bad
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cinnamon rollout posted:You don't HAVE to do the optimal thing, but games like this are actively working against you if you don't in order to get into your wallet, so keep that in mind While this is true, so far all of the new cards since High Evo and Zabu have not been meta-defining, and they’ve done a good job balancing the problem cards quickly. You don’t have to pay to win so much as you have to play long enough to be mostly pool 3 complete.
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it's kinda dumb jean and phoenix force can't really interact MY LORE
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Slowpoke! posted:While this is true, so far all of the new cards since High Evo and Zabu have not been meta-defining, and they’ve done a good job balancing the problem cards quickly. You don’t have to pay to win so much as you have to play long enough to be mostly pool 3 complete. You don't have to pay and you definitely don't need all the cards, but you should be cognizant of how to best use spotlight caches, is all im saying, to keep an edge on the ever growing list of cards
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Whatever the specifics, they have to find a system that makes it feel fun/rewarding to open caches, while tantalizing us with juuuust few enough rewards that people feel like they could have more fun by spending money and whales by spewing money. It's an easy balance to gently caress up, because the other option it to just stop playing. There's plenty of other things to do. The new system is boring. You get boring amounts of credits, a few—mostly disappointing—variants, and a bunch of caches where the optimal strategy is to not open them most of the time. And when you do open them, you know exactly what you are getting, so it feels like where you are often forced to buy stuff you don't want.
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It's just wild to me how many problems they've caused for themselves by not having caches auto-open. Like maybe its by design and lets hardcore players optimize but the gulf between hoarding and not is just too impactful now to ignore. Despite everything I do think more random cards and fewer tokens is a good direction, but I also think they need to give more tokens than the current version and make the spotlights less of a waiting/optimization game. Having them auto claim and give 1k tokens+variant for a dupe would probably be a better system overall while actually being worse for me personally, but it would also make whales less exploitable so it wont happen.
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 See that barely visible sparkly circle by their Lockjaw? That's a Spider-Ham, apparently. How many loving graphical errors are in this game? It can't be that hard to fix after this long..
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New Leaf posted:
Yeah, I've been using lockjaw a ton over the past few weeks and I have this kind of thing happen constantly. Also common has been (making up an example) dropping Cable on Lockjaw and Cable still showing as present instead of the new card that came out.
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Lockjaw graphics errors was one of the things that was supposed to be fixed this patch but alas
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