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canyonero
Aug 3, 2006
They were streaming together yesterday or Thursday and the chat was all variations of “love watching these twins play together”.

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New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
^^^ I think I was there for that but I turn chat off, glad I'm not the only one though.


Wow, Alex Ross Captain America is gorgeous. Too bad I don't run Cap and already have a zillion variants of him.

Fartington Butts
Jan 21, 2007


:lmao: Pixel Ka-zar

“Hey guys what’s goin on?! :D

Tom Smykowski
Jan 27, 2005

What the hell is wrong with you people?

Opopanax posted:

God I hate the 80-85 slump. Every season I sit there bouncing up and down, getting a bunch of 1 or 2 cube wins and 8 cube losses

This is me but 70s this season

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


Fartington Butts posted:

:lmao: Pixel Ka-zar

“Hey guys what’s goin on?! :D

Love the "new" sticker on it, too. They commissioned and paid for that specific thing

Fartington Butts
Jan 21, 2007


Tom Smykowski posted:

This is me but 70s this season

Yeah I'm stuck jumping between 74-75. Getting wrecked with most of my decks

A Long Way Down
Jul 14, 2009

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise

Grimey Drawer
I cracked 80 for the first time ever today and every game since has been a slog of bad pulls and opponents snapping when I’ve got nothing.

Kly
Aug 8, 2003

how do you get two of the same card in your deck? ive played a few people who have doubles of a card but the location didnt do it and none of the cards i see them play do it

Beasteh
Feb 12, 2012

I'M QUESTIONING MY EXISTENCE AND THIS IDIOT JUST WANTS TO PEE OFF A WALL

That's not possible so post screens next time you see it

Devo
Jul 9, 2001

:siren:Caught Cubs Posting:siren:
Were they playing a Loki deck and the card that they had two of was actually one of yours?

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
Clicking the card will tell you if it was created by a location or something if you missed it. Could also be pulling a card that you have with a cable or something

Kly
Aug 8, 2003

this most recent time definitely wasnt a card i had
ill click the card next time though i didnt know it told you

CJ
Jul 3, 2007

Asbungold
Does the ladder still match best on collection level once you are series 3? I got infinite with high evo second day but maybe that's because i'm 1000 collection level.

Devo
Jul 9, 2001

:siren:Caught Cubs Posting:siren:
Ways I can think of to have two of the same card in your hand:

The Hub location (completely random card)
Time Theater location
Cloning Vats location into some sort of bounce effect
Sinister London location into some sort of bounce effect
Bar Sinister location into some sort of bounce effect

Moon Girl
Loki if one of them was a copied card
Cable if it was one of your cards
Mantis if it was one of your cards

Agent 13
Maria Hill
Mirage
Agent Coulson
Nick Fury
Those last five are just completely random chance.

I might be missing one or two. But yeah if you're ever not sure where a card came from you can click it and it will tell you if it was created by some effect.

Devo
Jul 9, 2001

:siren:Caught Cubs Posting:siren:

CJ posted:

Does the ladder still match best on collection level once you are series 3? I got infinite with high evo second day but maybe that's because i'm 1000 collection level.

I think that collection level is the highest priority matchmaking tool until you get into infinite rank. Then they try to match you based on SP.

Big Mouth Billy Basshole
Jun 18, 2007

Fun Shoe
Is there a trick to finishing the pool 3 collection? I started playing again, collection level around 1k, and every cache I opened recently had titles, avatars, etc. I'm still missing a ton of cards, so getting cosmetics kind of sucks.

CJ
Jul 3, 2007

Asbungold

Big Mouth Billy Basshole posted:

Is there a trick to finishing the pool 3 collection? I started playing again, collection level around 1k, and every cache I opened recently had titles, avatars, etc. I'm still missing a ton of cards, so getting cosmetics kind of sucks.

Every 9 caches are a set in a randomised order, and 2 of those 9 will have series 3 cards in them. So you can go up to 14 caches without a card but the overall rate you earn them is the same as everyone else, and you will still have 4 cards after 18. I think there's an exception that it will be replaced by garbage if you got the card you should have got through some other means but i'm not sure on that.

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011

Big Mouth Billy Basshole posted:

Is there a trick to finishing the pool 3 collection? I started playing again, collection level around 1k, and every cache I opened recently had titles, avatars, etc. I'm still missing a ton of cards, so getting cosmetics kind of sucks.

If you have any collector tokens left, use them to redeem random series 3 cards for 1000 tokens. Some people will say that you should save them for Series 4 or Series 5 cards, but my philosophy is that if it helps you to enjoy the game more right now, then it's not a bad investment.

Kly
Aug 8, 2003

Devo posted:

Ways I can think of to have two of the same card in your hand:

Agent 13

I might be missing one or two. But yeah if you're ever not sure where a card came from you can click it and it will tell you if it was created by some effect.

I think it mustve been this one and it was destroyed after being placed

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

BoldFace posted:

If you have any collector tokens left, use them to redeem random series 3 cards for 1000 tokens. Some people will say that you should save them for Series 4 or Series 5 cards, but my philosophy is that if it helps you to enjoy the game more right now, then it's not a bad investment.

Hard disagree here. Even with Spotlight caches, the rate of acquisition on S4/5 cards is a lot slower than series 3. Buying S3 cards for tokens is gaining a bit more fun in the present for a lot of additional grind in the future. Only do it if you're pretty sure you won't stick with the game for more than a few months.

Last King
Sep 29, 2007

In corporate R'lyeh, Cthulhu works you.

Fun Shoe
as far as i can tell, it's not a guaranteed two of every nine, even if it's back to back (i.e. the going without seeing a card for fourteen caches in a row) but instead it's based off of a long-term average. i stopped following it but there were multiple support topics in the official discord where people were posting pics / videos of their opened caches, and a few of those looked like they had 14+ straight without a single new card.

uXs
May 3, 2005

Mark it zero!

Last King posted:

as far as i can tell, it's not a guaranteed two of every nine, even if it's back to back (i.e. the going without seeing a card for fourteen caches in a row) but instead it's based off of a long-term average. i stopped following it but there were multiple support topics in the official discord where people were posting pics / videos of their opened caches, and a few of those looked like they had 14+ straight without a single new card.

No. It is guaranteed. But the groups of 9 aren't nicely placed between 2 spotlight caches, which is tripping people up.

Last King
Sep 29, 2007

In corporate R'lyeh, Cthulhu works you.

Fun Shoe
that's what i thought as well, except like i said, there were posts of people showing their opened caches and a couple of them had 14+ boxes without a card. hence why i said, the speculation is now that it's an average of every two per nine. feel free to go through all of the support / bug topics in the official discord if you (i stopped a while ago) but that was specifically one of the hot topics since it's supposed to be guaranteed and surprise, it's apparently not for a couple of people.

second dinner did the same thing re: bots in conquest, where they specifically stated that there were no bots and people regurgitated that garbage gaslighting others who ran into bots (including myself, where i lost both in gold and infinity to cheating ones) and then next season, surprise surprise second dinner back tracked saying just kidding guys! now there's no bots anymore we pwomise! (except in poo poo grounds and silver). they don't know how their own game works (at times).

Fartington Butts
Jan 21, 2007


Goddamn discard fest is not fun

Nikumatic
Feb 13, 2012

a fantastic machine made of meat
Yeah I’m seeing almost nothing but variations on Hela casino in conquest right now so it’s probably a good idea to tech in Rogue or Enchantress (if they’re Invisible Womaning) and Cosmo if you’re not also running those decks.

Cattail Prophet
Apr 12, 2014

I mean, there is a weekend mission to discard 30 goddamn cards. Presumably things will calm down once everyone is finished with it.

incoherent
Apr 24, 2004

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the_american_dream posted:


I mainly have him on because he’s on all day and plays a bunch of fun decks. Since the ranking system km and dera have just played the same Loki decks

He's the equivalent of having CNBC on during the day: you're going to get annoyed if you avert your eyes to see what kind of poo poo these people spew. But there is some news and reporting going on to keep your ears perk'd.

or, just watch his youtubes (which he paradoxically hates but gets insane revenue from). I've been tearing rear end all over with a black widow card deck he dropped.

incoherent fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Oct 22, 2023

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

Love when the other guy telegraphs Alioth and feeds me 8 cubes.

Beasteh
Feb 12, 2012

I'M QUESTIONING MY EXISTENCE AND THIS IDIOT JUST WANTS TO PEE OFF A WALL

Lol I got a MODOK Hela gamer who snapped with the nuts turn 1 and I casually Enchantressed their invisible woman causing them to go off early and discard their Hela, and they nonstop Kamala emoted me for over ten minutes straight

I put the phone down and came back and they were still at it, this game has some emotionally healthy and balanced players

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Beasteh posted:

Lol I got a MODOK Hela gamer who snapped with the nuts turn 1 and I casually Enchantressed their invisible woman causing them to go off early and discard their Hela, and they nonstop Kamala emoted me for over ten minutes straight

I put the phone down and came back and they were still at it, this game has some emotionally healthy and balanced players

You're starting to understand why I and a number of others round here think that if SD aren't going to add a global mute, then the first time you use Kamala should bring up the Delete Account box and the second time should confirm it. With a brief exception on the launch of Conquest where you might emote "Snap?" on turn 1 and then snap yourself to indicate that you wanted a one-and-done match, nobody has ever used emotes in this game for any reason except to be toxic. SD have even been told this by the people who do it.

MotU
Mar 6, 2007

It was like she was evicting walking garbage.
Pillbug
Like 80% of my games have a fist bump after a close match but maybe I haven’t reached peak toxicity since I’m still sub-600

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

Turn 1 mute, all day, every day. A handy reflex that carried over from Hearthstone, and its bullshit lack of global mute. The 1/10 fist bump after good game isn’t worth the 9/10 smug and salty spam.

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

Back to Infinite. Shuri remains a busted cube hog.

What's with all the bots at 95-plus? Did they finally silo the Infinite players off from the sub-100 crowd?

Maneck
Sep 11, 2011

Skippy McPants posted:

Back to Infinite. Shuri remains a busted cube hog.

What's with all the bots at 95-plus? Did they finally silo the Infinite players off from the sub-100 crowd?

Infinite players have been segregated from non-Infinite for something like six months now. You're at least the third person to report facing, while running Shuri at 90+, a significant number of bots. Hard to tell if that's meaningful.

uXs
May 3, 2005

Mark it zero!

MotU posted:

Like 80% of my games have a fist bump after a close match but maybe I haven’t reached peak toxicity since I’m still sub-600

I think the balance good/bad emoting is still positive but it's definitely becoming worse. The post-infinite ranking system hasn't helped, people seem to be way saltier because completely meaningless number.

Devo
Jul 9, 2001

:siren:Caught Cubs Posting:siren:

Maneck posted:

Infinite players have been segregated from non-Infinite for something like six months now. You're at least the third person to report facing, while running Shuri at 90+, a significant number of bots. Hard to tell if that's meaningful.

I feel like for at least the last three months my climb through the 80s has been an order of magnitude more difficult than my climb through the 90s. Once you get to 95 you can just farm 4 cubes off of bots (because the fuckers always retreat) and try not to lose 8 cubes to the few actual players you see.

Nikumatic
Feb 13, 2012

a fantastic machine made of meat
There are a lot of things in this world that my stupid brain can’t comprehend, but giving even the tiniest little microscopic poo poo about post-infinite ranking numbers might be the thing that I understand the least.

A Long Way Down
Jul 14, 2009

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise

Grimey Drawer
I only use two emotes, fist bumps when a game was good and Spider-Man when we drop the same cards.

I had a guy last night keep doing Spider-Man and “I don’t believe you” emotes the whole game and I’m not sure why. It started before we even flipped cards.

Devo
Jul 9, 2001

:siren:Caught Cubs Posting:siren:

Nikumatic posted:

There are a lot of things in this world that my stupid brain can’t comprehend, but giving even the tiniest little microscopic poo poo about post-infinite ranking numbers might be the thing that I understand the least.

I thought this at first, but since infinite conquest isn't open yet it's kind of fun to see number go up

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Darke GBF
Dec 30, 2006

The cold never bothered me anyway~

Skippy McPants posted:

Love when the other guy telegraphs Alioth and feeds me 8 cubes.

There's nothing like playing Leader into a different lane against his priority Alioth, watching his whiff, and then seeing my copy spawn and murder his. It's a "must Kamala emote" moment.

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