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MagicCube
May 25, 2004

Tunga posted:

If you're tied, whoever had it last turn keeps it. Only random at start of match.

That's incorrect. Priority is always a coin-flip if tied at any point during the match.

Also cool little addition this patch to cards like Ronan (haven't checked others like Dino and Darkhawk yet) that show what their power will be on board in current state:

MagicCube fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Feb 8, 2024

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Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
the pixel album reward should be a drat pixel emote :colbert:

FireWorksWell
Nov 27, 2014

(It's you!)


Reek posted:

the pixel album reward should be a drat pixel emote :colbert:

Pixel MODOK

Kooriken
Dec 27, 2012

This thread is beneath my talent, but I....shall elevate it.
Red Hulk seems insane. A 6/14 if your opponent doesn't full spend a single turn seems pretty decent.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



I imagine that it will not be +4 power per turn on release. That would be very very broken.

Most of those April cards seem overpowered besides US Agent, who is a worse Lizard

Fate Accomplice
Nov 30, 2006




When will Zabu be nerfed to only affect next turn?

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Fate Accomplice posted:

When will Zabu be nerfed to only affect next turn?
As soon as it drops to Series 3

Cattail Prophet
Apr 12, 2014

MagicCube posted:

That's incorrect. Priority is always a coin-flip if tied at any point during the match.

Also cool little addition this patch to cards like Ronan (haven't checked others like Dino and Darkhawk yet) that show what their power will be on board in current state:


Wonder if this means they're finally going to make Knull consistent with everything else.

Concurred
Apr 23, 2003

My team got swept out of the playoffs, and all I got was this avatar and red text

When the gently caress are they going to officially announce Silver Sable. She's been in the data for forever

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Concurred posted:

When the gently caress are they going to officially announce Silver Sable. She's been in the data for forever
Who knows, she's not even the only one who has been in there for ages

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


I still want Uncle Ben.

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


Bad Video Games posted:

I still want Uncle Ben.

:same:

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

My freebie card rotated from Miles Morales Spiderman to Spiderman and for half a second I thought the game had failed to roll over lol.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Kooriken posted:

Red Hulk seems insane. A 6/14 if your opponent doesn't full spend a single turn seems pretty decent.

You do have to have the card in hand, same as with Evolved Hulk. Red Hulk is General Thaddeus Ross, so it makes sense that he both counters and overpowers Hulk.

Personally, I'd make him a reverse Sunspot gaining 2 power per point of the opponent's unspent energy while in play. He would typically be 6/12 or 6/14 against most decks unless cheated out, but against someone skipping turn 6 for Infinaut on 7 he's straight up to 22 for the hard counter.

Tunga
May 7, 2004

Grimey Drawer

MagicCube posted:

That's incorrect. Priority is always a coin-flip if tied at any point during the match.
I guess the internet is, as ever, full of nonsense. Bunch of people on Reddit are convinced it works that way, one of them even got this article updated to say that. :shrug:

victorious
Jul 2, 2007

As a youth I prayed, "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
Latest datamine shows that now neither bundles nor spotlight schedules will be available in advance past what we already know; they appear to have removed that data completely from the files. Also even upcoming cards don't all have a release date either. Hope you enjoyed planning ahead while it lasted!

ijyt
Apr 10, 2012

i did not i like some mystery

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


ijyt posted:

i did not i like some mystery

Not having leaks in advance is typically bad for these kind of games.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Bad Video Games posted:

Not having leaks in advance is typically bad for these kind of games.

Spotlights are a system that gives players two options. They can husband their resources and plan ahead to spend them how they want, or they do not plan and can end up lacking resources at a critical time which can only be replaced by spending money. Only one of these options promotes long term player retention.

This decision isn't even a bad one from the perspective of it being better to get $10 a month from a thousand people than to get $1000 from one person. It's just straight up a choice to get an extra $10 from a thousand people once, then never again.

doingitwrong
Jul 27, 2013
Yeah, the leaks give engaged players something to look forward to when the meta is stale or bad, give content creators fodder for creating content to speculate and generally draw attention to the game about. Meanwhile the vast majority of the player base who don’t visit the specialist sites continue enjoying and spending in ignorance.

I thought the data mines (with last minute changes!) were brilliant free marketing by Second Dinner. If they don’t realize this, it’s very funny.

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


The problem is stuff gets leaked and then they change it when it comes out and everyone complains like they were promised something

Davedave24
Mar 11, 2004

Lacking in love
Bar With No Name and the Nexus is a weird location combo, huh. I don't think I've run into that before now

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Davedave24 posted:

Bar With No Name and the Nexus is a weird location combo, huh. I don't think I've run into that before now

I have a few times. It's not that interesting though, it's always better to win the Nexus.

Fate Accomplice
Nov 30, 2006




They’ve complained about key hoarding so keeping future caches hidden makes sense.

I’m sitting on 19 keys and have zero plans to spend till a 3/3 week.

On the plus side each week I wait improves my odds with the random card

MagicCube
May 25, 2004

Tunga posted:

I guess the internet is, as ever, full of nonsense. Bunch of people on Reddit are convinced it works that way, one of them even got this article updated to say that. :shrug:

It doesn't help that the tutorial only goes over the extremely bare minimum of mechanics and there is no official documentation for pretty much every other feature in the game.

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo
I still think it's funny they want to claim they are building a simple easy to understand game and mysterio exists

Red
Apr 15, 2003

Yeah, great at getting us into Wawa.

Last King posted:

ben brode literally drowning in coke while some high-school entry level intern is trying to churn stuff out.

The Carnival thing looks and works like poo poo. Last night, I was halfway through some of the challenges, and when I checked, it said I was at zero progress; I looked later, and I hadn't played a single game, and I had updated numbers.

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo
I was playing the game and it the page didn't give me credit for logging in

Nikumatic
Feb 13, 2012

a fantastic machine made of meat
The in-game web events have always been extremely wonky and awful. Try hitting the little refresh button on the main carnival screen and see if it updates things for you.

uXs
May 3, 2005

Mark it zero!

Fate Accomplice posted:

They’ve complained about key hoarding so keeping future caches hidden makes sense.

I’m sitting on 19 keys and have zero plans to spend till a 3/3 week.

On the plus side each week I wait improves my odds with the random card

But the effect is literally the opposite. If you're already hoarding because you're afraid of missing future cards, having less information on future spotlights only makes the uncertainty, and thus the need to have a buffer, bigger.

Nobody is going to "oh poo poo, I have no information on coming months now, I better start spending all my keys, lol!", that makes no sense at all.

Fate Accomplice
Nov 30, 2006




uXs posted:

But the effect is literally the opposite. If you're already hoarding because you're afraid of missing future cards, having less information on future spotlights only makes the uncertainty, and thus the need to have a buffer, bigger.

Nobody is going to "oh poo poo, I have no information on coming months now, I better start spending all my keys, lol!", that makes no sense at all.

or they could think players will think "I dunno if future caches will have more cards I want, but this one has these 1-2 cards, let's goooo"

also I vaguely recall a dev mentioning they've considered reverting keys themselves - so every 120 levels you immediately pull from the week's cache.

which is even worse than how spotlights began

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Fate Accomplice posted:

or they could think players will think "I dunno if future caches will have more cards I want, but this one has these 1-2 cards, let's goooo"

also I vaguely recall a dev mentioning they've considered reverting keys themselves - so every 120 levels you immediately pull from the week's cache.

which is even worse than how spotlights began
Awful idea

YoshiOfYellow
Aug 21, 2015

Voted #1 Babysitter in Mushroom Kingdom

Snagged Thor from my season freebie this morning. :toot:

Feels like I've been seeing him around for an eternity, feels good to have him on board.

Sandwolf
Jan 23, 2007

i'll be harpo


Fate Accomplice posted:

or they could think players will think "I dunno if future caches will have more cards I want, but this one has these 1-2 cards, let's goooo"

also I vaguely recall a dev mentioning they've considered reverting keys themselves - so every 120 levels you immediately pull from the week's cache.

which is even worse than how spotlights began

I love playing the game of “how many anti-player decisions can SD make before the game collapses”

Red
Apr 15, 2003

Yeah, great at getting us into Wawa.

Sandwolf posted:

I love playing the game of “how many anti-player decisions can SD make before the game collapses”

I mean, every app you get nowadays is a mandatory subscription model, and I just assume this will eventually follow suit.

victorious
Jul 2, 2007

As a youth I prayed, "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
I also just noticed the shop no longer greys out the prices of variants you can't afford, it just prompts you to buy gold if you don't have enough.

plainswalker75
Feb 22, 2003

Pigs are smarter than Bears, but they can't ride motorcycles
Hair Elf
Did some streamer just post a new Galactus deck or something? This has literally been every conquest I've played this morning and I'm loving sick of it

Red
Apr 15, 2003

Yeah, great at getting us into Wawa.

plainswalker75 posted:

Did some streamer just post a new Galactus deck or something? This has literally been every conquest I've played this morning and I'm loving sick of it

If it's the Galactus into Leader trick, I'm there with you.

Fartington Butts
Jan 21, 2007




Game gets a little buggier with every update. Another thing I've noticed is that the limbo animation activates every time a fast forward happens.

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Ninurta
Sep 19, 2007
What the HELL? That's my cutting board.

So, for this Carnival event, am I expected to login daily to claim the rewards? If so, woops, I guess I missed yesterday. I had checked in the morning but I think that was prior to the daily reset as it showed everything already claimed.

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