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then again, this doesn't always work either

Grr!! I had time for a handful of games tonight so I tried for some covers and hero points. Guess what i was rewarded with instead.

Otoh, I did stage a 1 vs. 2 bad guy battle in which I came from behind top win with an unleveled Dark Hawk that had no use for AP.

accidentally played this with the sound on.
never again.

I keep getting that Bag Man Spider-Man alternate. I sold it and it came back!

keep him, he's more useful than he seems!

yeah Baghead Spidey kinda rules

Hmm. I got 2 extra red Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men cards) from the Bad is Good tourney. My Wolvie is currently 5/3/2 (G/R/Y). Seems like the Yellow (Healing Factor) ability is the best one to have, Green is maxed out (Feral Claw). Should I listen to my gut and sell off the two Red cards I have and hope I'll draw three Yellows in the future? Or is just foolishness... is the Red ability worth leveling up to 5?

Personally I like having the red at five, I am hoping to go 5/5/3. I feel that the healing works often enough, and if you're not counting on getting every yellow tile for some other reason, you can just avoid breaking them and heal. The cost/effect of the red attack tho (at stage 5 and level 50, i think it's 12 tiles for 1400 damage, plus any damage you gain from your feral claws on the way) is pretty great.

Typically on the forum tho people say it's best to roll 5/3/5, which I get. TBH I probably went 5 red because I got them first. But I don't feel like I've "ruined" the card by any stretch, the minmaxing on individual skills doesn't seem to make a HUGE difference in most matches. HP and damage are really key aside from a few covers (eg. Storm 1, Storm 2, etc).

I tihnk my wolvie is at 4/5/2 at the moment and I am not terribly disappointed with his lack of healing ability.

You're probably right about the ability balance. Though, I would be REALLY bitter if my maxed out Classic Storm had maxed Yellow (Passive counter) vs. Blue (Stun), especially after the nerf to the counter ability. The Red attack sounds better than I initially thought, though. I have a week to waffle on this decision.

Note on Yellow: My bigs right now are Iron Man Classic 40 and Thor, both which have key Yellow abilities, but Wolvie will make my B or C team anyway.

I mean Iron Man Model 40, o'course

Apropos nothing, I wonder if they cleared the rights to use that Kirby cover for Devil Dinosaur

They probably own them lock stock and barrel anyway

Wait wait wait

I think my sarcasm meter is 100% broken

Devil Dinosaur is ACTUALLY in the game???

WAIT

THIS GAME IS ON STEAM?

OH NO

Yes on both counts. Hahaha!

I've been leery of not using covers for characters I like; I have Thor at 5 green covers and at level cap, but I'd have liked to have yellow at 5 instead. but I got the green drop first. it's changed the way I play a bit but I like that, a serendipitous way to try a different way of bashing Hammer peons

I'm at 2-4-4 on Wolvie. I don't use the red power much because I'm usually using Thor also with him and Thor's red bash is the sauce, especially buffed

here's how OP modern Hawkeye is in The Hunt:

I was playing the penultimate Alaska* fight with the lvl 136 Pyro and lvl 97 Daken and got enough red and blue matches to set Hawk's red and blue countdown tiles. While they went off, I used is purple and blue match strength to down the Pyro; the turn after the Pyro went down, both countdowns went off and 1-shotted the rest of the team, including the lvl 97 Daken.

I love this character in this event and I will be very sad when it ends. Also for the love of god someone give me an Invisible Woman card.

* I think it's Alaska? the first Hunt board

I just got modern Hawkeye and he seems awesome. Plus, I can only hope for Pizza Dog

I keep getting my ass beat hardcore by Daken, every time. Need to figure out what is up with that.

my maxed thor is 3 on red and my classic storm 3 on green. regret both -- the classic storm more.

i'm all about critical tiles in the hunt. match em with purple or blue hawkeye and i can do 2700 damage. a few of those and i can take down an entire team.

this is why I love the crit tile board so much; if you can get a crit off an environmental tile match, you can spam the board with crit tiles and wipe a team out in one turn

Reached the final reward level of The Hunt (30,000 pts) to get that Iron Man Model 40 Red card.
what am i doing with my life, he says to himself

He's winning, obviously.

feeling a little, dare i say, burnt out on this just now

it's hard, with all the events, to feel like you're making progress. & getting a bunch of shit draws sags my spirits.

of course then i played since i posted

this is probably as close as i'll ever come to playing an mmo

Eh actually doing decent in this bad is good thing. Bullseye protect tiles, and my jacked up venom, and rag make it pretty easy so far.

https://24.media.tumblr.com/b04241c5d70491a115e7737d882b21a5/tumblr_mxpkhuXgLv1qbypg1o1_500.jpg

tatted across my belly

It's like a slap in the face every single time.

y'all get it now

also hawkeye/black widow draw again and again

at least have the decency to give me modern hawkeye, you asshole game
(or pizza dog)

We're all in an abusive relationship.

Most of this is old news for a lot of you but i actually learned a thing or two:

Environmental Tiles
These are the tiles that aren't a solid color and have some design on them that goes with the background behind the characters.
The number of AP generated by matching them is determined by the highest environmental damage - if your highest character is 4, then a 3 match gives you 12 environmental AP (EP?)
Critical tiles multiply the number of tiles you receive. If your crit is 3x and your environmental number is 4, a 2 tile, 1 crit match would yield (4 + 4) * 3 = 24 environmental AP
They aren't randomly chosen, in a given PvP or PvE event, the same missions or sections of the room always have the same tiles. Standard PvP, the top is the computer room, the left is the forest and the right is the city
The max number of environmental AP you can have is 400

Covers
Covers are needed to raise your character's level
The max covers you can apply to any one color of a character is 5
If a character has 2 color abilities, you can max both of them out - 10 covers or 5/5
If a character has 3 color abilities, you can only apply 13 covers yielding 5/5/3 or 5/4/4 in your chosen combination
Once you find/win a cover you can use HP to increase that color or wait until you find/win more

Matching
Matching 4 or more tiles in a row/column will destroy all of the tiles in that row/column
Matching 5 or more tiles in any shape (T, L, +) will yield a critical tile and give you an extra turn

Didn't realize about the different shapes with 5 matches!

Should I continue to hammer on one mission in the vain hopes of grilling hero points, or should I move on top new missions?

if it's still unchecked in your rewards list for that mission, keep grinding. besides you have another 36 hrs~ to do the other set

Meant prologue missions, not featured missions. :-/

btw that crit multiplier is really why modern Hawkeye rules so hard, get a 4 or 5 tile environmental crit in the lab and it's game over

this is such a depressing thing to do and i am actively embarrassed doing it but the only way i feel i am continuing to make progress in this godforsaken treadmill of pointless timewasting is to chronicle my SHOOPERHEWO ROSTER in excruciating detail. it is a coping mechanism.

thor - lv 85 max - 5/4/4 max
daken - lv 62 - 5/5 max
iron man 40 - lv 51 - 4/2/2
iron man 35 - lv 50 max - 5/4/4 max
storm modern - lv 50 max- 5/5/3 mx
black widow modern -lv 40 max - 5/5 max
juggernaut - lv 40 max - 5/5 max
mod hawk - lv 34 - 5/4/3
magneto NOW - lv 22 - 2/4/2
ragnarok - lv 28 - 1 green, 2 red
cap murrica - lv 27 - 4/4/5 max
Doom - lv 25 - 2 black
hood - lv 25 - 2 yellow
storm classic - lv 24 - 5/5/3 max
bullseye - lv 21 - 4 black, 1 purple
spider man classic - lv 18 - 1 yellow, 1 blue
venom - lv 16 - 5/5 max
wolverine astonishing - lv 16 - 4/4/2
hawkeye - lv 15 - 5/5 max
moonstone - lv 15 - 5/1/1
black widow grey suit - lv 15 - 3 purple
loki - lv 15 - 1 black
black widow original - lv 8 - 1 /2
spiderman bagman - lv 6 - 2 purple, 1 blue
yelena - lv 1 - 5/5 max
plus FIVE open spots. I may need to take a break after the hunt.

sitting on a red astonishing wolvie cover cuz i dunno if i wanna go 5/4/5 or 5/5/3 instead of 4/5/4

Ha w should the cap'n be used? Just doest seem to work in most combos I've tried.

Cap works best as a support character doing chip damage and pumping tiles back into other characters IMO; like, you use him to do bits of dmg and hopefully set up a cycle where his he keeps returning piles of red and blue to you so that you can fire off your big dmg characters like Thor. Also his protect ability can be a lifesaver and he has enough HP to be an emergency tank if your big guy goes down

you could probably make yourself close to invulnerable using a levelled Cap and Bullseye together

his protect ability is useful for forcing critical 5-gem combos (see also Magneto Marvel Now's blue power and Black Widow Grey Suit's green power)

cap's blue ability is great just because you can loop stuns by getting one blue match in-between activations, they'll get off one attack from that character every three turns. it's a great shutdown tool

yes, that's how I use cap: pump stuns & red blasts for little cost. and his yellow protect gets so strong that regular attacks won't beat you down (those protect tiles don't help much though when a buffed Thor brings the hammer down)

I think maybe I've gone off the deep end; I started a spreadsheet to get a statistical sample of drop rates from Standard tokens. Please tell me somebody's already done this on the internet so I can stop myself.