Marvel Puzzle Quest Discussion Thread

And I just saw your Hero Academy request!
Just got around to setting up the kids' computer with Steam so they can play the stuff I've picked up through random sales and bundles. Forgot I had Hero Academy for Steam as well, and one of my kids wanted to play. (He's also getting started on this game, been playing the prologue tonight.)

I'm not easing off MPQ, just a slow period between events. :drool:

That being said, anyone who feels like beating on a rusty player, now's the time!
 
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Downloading Hero Academy now. For some reason, I always thought it was a paid game.

Speaking of paid games with asynchronous multiplayer, does anyone else have Frozen Synapse?

 
Downloading Hero Academy now. For some reason, I always thought it was a paid game.

Speaking of paid games with asynchronous multiplayer, does anyone else have Frozen Synapse?
The game kind of it paid. You get the core game for free but then you have to buy the other teams. The game is pretty balanced where each team is viable. I always just play random and get whatever team they give me, more fun that way.

The Gold Edition with all the teams was in a Humble Bundle a while back, perhaps you have that and dont even know? You can install/buy it on Steam and then you just log in with your account that you made on the Steam version on the mobile one and you get all your stuff and the two are linked. You can play games on the phone and then log on and play the next turn on your PC.

I have Frozen Synapse for the PC I believe. If I recall correctly I played it like once and wasnt that big of a fan. What exactly is it again though?

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Looked it up

That was a game I always wanted to try! I was thinking of something different. I think I was thinking of Cubemen or something for some reason. I am like 99% sure I own it on Steam, is there any way to transfer that to the Android one or would it cost me the full $10?

 
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I have Frozen Synapse for the PC I believe. If I recall correctly I played it like once and wasnt that big of a fan. What exactly is it again though?

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Looked it up

That was a game I always wanted to try! I was thinking of something different. I think I was thinking of Cubemen or something for some reason. I am like 99% sure I own it on Steam, is there any way to transfer that to the Android one or would it cost me the full $10?
The PC/Android/iOS accounts are all linked, so you can play your games through whichever mode once you have the game for that system. Don't pay $10... it's not a $10 game, but you may already have it through a Humble Bundle as well. I can't remember which one it was in (looking it up now), but that's how I got it. I'm horrible at it, but I still have fun with it from time to time.

EDIT: It was the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle. I picked it up in the trade thread some time ago, because I didn't know about Humble when that bundle was live.

And I didn't pick up the Humble with Hero Academy, but I remember looking into getting the Gold version on Steam. Every time I find it in the trade thread, someone just sold it or some sh*t. Maybe that's why I thought it cost money.

 
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The PC/Android/iOS accounts are all linked, so you can play your games through whichever mode once you have the game for that system. Don't pay $10... it's not a $10 game, but you may already have it through a Humble Bundle as well. I can't remember which one it was in (looking it up now), but that's how I got it. I'm horrible at it, but I still have fun with it from time to time.

EDIT: It was the Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle. I picked it up in the trade thread some time ago, because I didn't know about Humble when that bundle was live.

And I didn't pick up the Humble with Hero Academy, but I remember looking into getting the Gold version on Steam. Every time I find it in the trade thread, someone just sold it or some sh*t. Maybe that's why I thought it cost money.
I am like 99% I got that bundle. I will look into it sometime back at my place soon though and get it linked to my phone!

Also back to MPQ, I am really bouncing around like crazy in this Torch PvP. I dont care enough to shield up really and so I and all over the place. From 5-28 I am just going everywhere while not even playing haha

I got my Patch Season progression reward so I am happy and all that really matters. Its a shame I wont be getting the 10 pack but oh well.

 
I am like 99% I got that bundle. I will look into it sometime back at my place soon though and get it linked to my phone!
If you did, the game would show up through your Humble Mobile app. May not help getting it linked up, since you'd need your login and password if you've already set it up on the computer. Hope you're right, though. I haven't seen any of my humanoids be blown up by a grenade launched off of 2 walls in a while.

 
Also back to MPQ, I am really bouncing around like crazy in this Torch PvP. I dont care enough to shield up really and so I and all over the place. From 5-28 I am just going everywhere while not even playing haha
I'm at 194 with 45 minutes to go. Pondering if I should try for top 100 for the extra 25 HP and the increased ISO payout for the cover, or be nice to whoever manages the 100 slot.

Any PvE event coming up?
Nothing on the forums, nothing on their Facebook.
 
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What the hell.. I really could use that extra 1k ISO.. how the hell do they decide who wins in tie?? We both should get 10th and then the next guy is 12.. Crap like this is just pushing me even further from playing this more!!
 
Just short of top 100 for another Black widow cover. Had 500 points. Think I finished #110 or so. Could have pushed more, but it wasn't quite worth the effort.

I'll check out this Hero Academy as well. Looks like fun.

I've been playing alot of Deadman's Cross lately too. Zombies, FPS, and card collecting)

 
What the hell.. I really could use that extra 1k ISO.. how the hell do they decide who wins in tie?? We both should get 10th and then the next guy is 12.. Crap like this is just pushing me even further from playing this more!!
Here's the fun part, the guy who gets the bump up is the last guy who scored. So even though you got that score first, that player was the last person who played & bumped you down one. Basically last active player gets the score, yes it's BS but it's MPQ what do you expect?

So I was ranked in the upper 100s, with a score of 300-400. Didn't think much about it, played a few rounds pushed my score to 577. Would've been 600 but a thaken torch team got lucky. Just was surprised to get into the top 100 for a purple gsbw. I wanted her green too but I knew that wasnt happening.

 
How are you ranked at 11th with 394 pts?

Single Player Rewards

1. All rewards from the previous rank + Baglady Yellow
2-5. 5000 ISO, 100 HP, Spidey Blue, Purple, Yellow
6-10. 2000 ISO, 100 HP, P, Y
11-25. 1000 ISO, 50 HP, P, Y
26-50. 1000 ISO, 50 HP, Y
51-100. 500 ISO, 25 HP, Y
101-200. 500 ISO, 2* HT, Red
201-300. 250 ISO, R
301-400. 2x Standard Token, 140 ISO
401-500. 70 ISO
I don't need anymore GSBW green, maxed in it but dont have the other colors, glad to be 49. purple color and additional HP.

 
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I am just bullshitting you haha

But seriously I have been slipping in with sweet spots. I generally join with either just over 24 hours left or somewhere around 18 hours left. I try to join after lunch time but before commute so like around 2/3pm I will join.

 
What the hell.. I really could use that extra 1k ISO.. how the hell do they decide who wins in tie?? We both should get 10th and then the next guy is 12.. Crap like this is just pushing me even further from playing this more!!
I think placement ties are determined by when you get the score. I haven't yet gotten a new score and been anything but last of the matching pack.
 
Its a hit or miss sometime. Usually for me, with -600 pts I would be in top 100 or 59
I tried getting in about 16 hours before it closes. Obviously that hasnt been working for me.

This PVP I came in a day left. I got 88 with 577 points, which is better than when Ive come in 16 hour left.

Its totally hit or miss. Im gonna try 8, 12 hours left. Idk why but I always try factors of 4: 24, 16, 12, 8....guess Im just weird.

 
[quote name="downsouthtigger" post="12006441" timestamp="1407955257"]I tried getting in about 16 hours before it closes. Obviously that hasnt been working for me.
This PVP I came in a day left. I got 88 with 577 points, which is better than when Ive come in 16 hour left.

Its totally hit or miss. Im gonna try 8, 12 hours left. Idk why but I always try factors of 4: 24, 16, 12, 8....guess Im just weird.[/quote]
I join at the 24 hrs mark for the hotshot PvP and did pretty good. I don't think tanking in the beginning helps, at least not for me. It would be nice to know the amount of time left without going in. Forum says it lasts until the 15th but that could mean noon EST or midnight EST.
 
I join at the 24 hrs mark for the hotshot PvP and did pretty good. I don't think tanking in the beginning helps, at least not for me. It would be nice to know the amount of time left without going in. Forum says it lasts until the 15th but that could mean noon EST or midnight EST.
Some of us check with our steam account what time the event ends.

PLAY THE HULK EVENT AND GET NICK FURY!!! GO GO GO

 
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Some of us check with our steam account what time the event ends.

PLAY THE HULK EVENT AND GET NICK FURY!!! GO GO GO
I hope they set it up properly, since the Hulk event usually gives out a free Hulk once the bar fills up. Better give out a free Fury.

What's the time frame on the first subevent?
 
I hope they set it up properly, since the Hulk event usually gives out a free Hulk once the bar fills up. Better give out a free Fury.

What's the time frame on the first subevent?
11 hrs - Nevada

11 hrs - Canada

 
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Top 10 individual for Fury? fuck that. Just wait for the server crash at the end of this event so they can hand out some worthless tokens.

 
Not enough time for me to do much in this.  Top 150 gets a Psylocke.  What's the boosted characters for the event?

 
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I know he is a decent character but like all 4 stars he is useless until maxed. And getting his covers will be hell and they cost so much more if you want to buy them outright.

I honestly dont care hahah

I still am going to try (I havent even looked at the event yet) but if Fury is the reward he will just sit asking for ISO X-Force and IW.

 
be careful of a pissed off Hulk. double crit him and you will end up with a screen of green nodes and wipe.

oh yes, featured char is Punisher and Spidey

 
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Yes she is another char you need to be careful with. Same with playing Ares against 2* Thor. Feeding him greens is deadly.
 
Who's bright idea is it to put a 100 / 200+ level Hulk at the end of the tunnel and make it replayable?  God damn that thing hits hard and barely made out alive the first go around.  Think the mini events ends between 2-3 AM EST which sucks for me.

 
I played one sub-even last night, didn't realize both closed so early.  At least they aren't giving out too many points, but I don't like digging an early hole like that.

 
Who's bright idea is it to put a 100 / 200+ level Hulk at the end of the tunnel and make it replayable? God damn that thing hits hard and barely made out alive the first go around. Think the mini events ends between 2-3 AM EST which sucks for me.
I think the Hulk nodes are designed for a covered Spidey/Punisher combo. I found those nodes easy, but I was stunning left and right, throwing out defense tiles, and just working him down to the 40% range for some Punisher red.

If you don't have that combo available to you, best bet is defense tiles and stun moves or setting up a mess of powers all in one turn to avoid Anger. The good thing is that when he has 20k health, you can do up to 1k damage without triggering it.
 
be careful of a pissed off Hulk. double crit him and you will end up with a screen of green nodes and wipe.
Careful? Do I have to be? Sometimes its fun to tease a pissed off hulk!

Oh what to do next? Even if I wanted to see what a board full of anger tiles would do, 1 match would probably have killed him anyways.

I went overkill & just raged with panther for the hell of it!

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Ive actually been having fun with hulk. Spamming Magnetos Red cuts his health down little by little that it hardly ever sets off his anger tiles. Unless you got some strike tiles on the board that is. True story, I had won a Daredevil Ambush (red) team up. I equipped it to get rid of it, used it during the battle. The enemy team naturally avoided it like the plague. I was down to my last guy, the enemy was down to his last man standing. His hulk at 3k, My mags at 1k. I pissed him off enough there was a board full of anger tiles. As his turn came and the anger tiles set off I knew I was screwed & a Thunderous clap was coming my way. How about in the anger green cascade he set off the Daredevil trap tile & killed himself. I wish I had videoed that. Ive had lots of pull them out of my ass victories but I never though Id be saved by Daredevil, and a Team up no less!

 
So yeah this happened

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Which was followed by this

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Totally worth the 50 points as Im now over 4k to the 5k goal on the 10 pack! Even my own alliance isnt safe from my wrath!

 
I think the Hulk nodes are designed for a covered Spidey/Punisher combo. I found those nodes easy, but I was stunning left and right, throwing out defense tiles, and just working him down to the 40% range for some Punisher red.

If you don't have that combo available to you, best bet is defense tiles and stun moves or setting up a mess of powers all in one turn to avoid Anger. The good thing is that when he has 20k health, you can do up to 1k damage without triggering it.
Yeah just figured that one out when I stunned him with spiderman or storm and just unloaded on him like no tomorrow.

 
Hulk is beyond easy against my Steve and Hood team.

With Hood there I havent actually had him ever pull off a single move. Then I have Steve do a stun, then damage with red then pull Hood's blacks and then by the time he is unstunnned, I just do it again with all the stuff I got back. Once I get blue and red I just focus on black for Hood and then it is game over.

I usually get out of each one now with very minimal damage even taken!

 
So this is a hulk event, recycled, rehashed.... We've got some new characters since the last time they did this. Once again Punisher is a featured character, as is Hulk.  For some crazy reason Johnny Storm is a featured character.  So here's the deal, Hulk event, fatured characters, did we forget someone? Oh yes, She Hulk.....It is a hulk event after all :roll:

Maybe its just me but that makes sense, or am I just crazy & they didnt really release a She Hulk? Whens the last time you got a cover for her or she was a prize? 

Also because Ive blocked the last Hulk event out, was the sub events always this short?  Did I miss some sub events last night?  Plus progression rewards are crap & for the amount of hulk points needed its way too much.  All for a blue spiderman as the top tier? Pass.

Going back to She hulk, plus we got Captain Marvel now...Time for an all ladies tournament again? Might be time with the expanded female roster.  That would bring some diversity.  I dont think we've had a females only tournament since they introduced moonstone.

 
So this is a hulk event, recycled, rehashed.... We've got some new characters since the last time they did this. Once again Punisher is a featured character, as is Hulk. For some crazy reason Johnny Storm is a featured character. So here's the deal, Hulk event, fatured characters, did we forget someone? Oh yes, She Hulk.....It is a hulk event after all :roll:

Maybe its just me but that makes sense, or am I just crazy & they didnt really release a She Hulk? Whens the last time you got a cover for her or she was a prize?

Also because Ive blocked the last Hulk event out, was the sub events always this short? Did I miss some sub events last night? Plus progression rewards are crap & for the amount of hulk points needed its way too much. All for a blue spiderman as the top tier? Pass.

Going back to She hulk, plus we got Captain Marvel now...Time for an all ladies tournament again? Might be time with the expanded female roster. That would bring some diversity. I dont think we've had a females only tournament since they introduced moonstone.
I feel like they are shorter yeah but who knows.

And yeah I have all the females, except Psylocke softcapped at only 68 because I we barely get covers for them (Grey Suit being the exception I just never care to go after her covers). She Hulk, Captain Marvel, Stormhawk and Grey Suit are all sitting with somver variant now of 3/1/1 softcapped at 68. They seem to never get love : /

 
She Hulk, Captain Marvel, Stormhawk and Grey Suit are all sitting with somver variant now of 3/1/1 softcapped at 68. They seem to never get love : /
I guess because I dont have her, I totally forgot that they released her. Plus Modern Storm was always good enough for me. Seems StormHawk is like the opposite of Captain America. They took a crappy 2* & made him an Awesome 3*. Stormhawk, awesome 1*, crappy 3*. (basing this on what Ive played with loaner Stormhawks!)

Psylocke, GSBW, any female have a yellow? [Oh nvm Storm(hawk)] Trying to figure out who my rainbow team would be if they did have a womans tourney. I guess my third would be some variant of storm, possibly classic for the yellow passive & for the blue stun & AOE damage.

 
I am finally getting a PS4 this weekend! Any ideas on where to go to build up my library? I already own an X1 so really right now I just want Diablo (coming Tuesday), Second Son and then some PSN stuff. So simply put, any deals you guys are aware of for Second Son or PSN credit? hahah

Also I have enjoyed not caring about missing all these events. I think I will play events hard when they are NEW covers but for now with these I will just play intermittently.

And I am enjoying having Hero Academy with Koju and Ltrain! I started a couple more games with each of you just because it is more fun to have a few going at a time I think. My buddy Nm8or and I have like 10 going at once haha

 
And I am enjoying having Hero Academy with Koju and Ltrain! I started a couple more games with each of you just because it is more fun to have a few going at a time I think. My buddy Nm8or and I have like 10 going at once haha
I love strategy games, and the asynchro aspect is awesome. Still trying to figure out what all of the units on the other teams do, so all these games going on at once are a pretty big help. Trying to track down the Gold version for cheap on Steamtrades. I'm glad to announce that I am currently undefeated in my short Hero Academy career, 1-0, with a victory over Koju. I know... he said he was rusty.

 
I love strategy games, and the asynchro aspect is awesome. Still trying to figure out what all of the units on the other teams do, so all these games going on at once are a pretty big help. Trying to track down the Gold version for cheap on Steamtrades. I'm glad to announce that I am currently undefeated in my short Hero Academy career, 1-0, with a victory over Koju. I know... he said he was rusty.
Hahaha yeah with your one team so far I have noticed you already pulled some weird stuff/rookie mistakes : P

The knight character class with the Council benefits the LEAST from the Sword attack boost. His attack knocks characters back and so is rarely good for attacking unless in extremely specific situations. He is best used as a tank with just a helmet and shield then. You then can use him as a forward tank for teleporting with your Ninja with. I have found the Archer is best to give the sword attachments to with that team. But yeah the more you play the more you will get it all.

Once you have the gold pack you should play all of the trials or whatever, they are REALLY helpful early on with getting a grasp of everyone's abilities and how best to utilize them

 
I am finally getting a PS4 this weekend! Any ideas on where to go to build up my library? I already own an X1 so really right now I just want Diablo (coming Tuesday), Second Son and then some PSN stuff. So simply put, any deals you guys are aware of for Second Son or PSN credit? hahah
You can try gamesharing which would reduce the cost of games by at least 25% and it's pretty simple to do. I've been doing it for couple years and has saved me a lot of money but the downside it did create a large backlog for me.

 
Also I have enjoyed not caring about missing all these events. I think I will play events hard when they are NEW covers but for now with these I will just play intermittently.
These sub events are just too fast. This is like the hulk event on turbo, hopped up on speed, while fast forward is pressed. Every time I turn around its only a couple hours til a sub event ends. Then I jump back in the sub events over & another ones up. Right now Ive done little to jack in the Hulk event, 10 hours left in the current sub events which when I jump back into it will probably be over.

Then again because Ive been focusing on getting my Taco 10 pack Ive been playing the tournaments more. 500 more points until I get it, just wondering if I should slowly go into the simulator or just jump into the spidey tournament. The spidey tourney would get me points faster....I dont even know what the progression rewards are.

 
Then again because Ive been focusing on getting my Taco 10 pack Ive been playing the tournaments more. 500 more points until I get it, just wondering if I should slowly go into the simulator or just jump into the spidey tournament. The spidey tourney would get me points faster....I dont even know what the progression rewards are.
You can get 50 point nodes in Training fairly easily if you haven't already gone too far. It would be easy to knock out 500 points. Heck, at 65 points, someone at a score of 530 will give me 47. All my other nodes are at 50 in case I needed just a few more points for a placement award. Sitting at 231 for the season, so it doesn't seem likely I'll rocket into top 100 in the next two days. Yes, the season ends in just over two days.

Really wish the leaderboard was scrollable, or at least gave the score for the next placement level. Kind of a "100th place has 9634 points. You can do it!" style message.

Spidey tourney has a black Johnny Storm at 500, yellow Spidey at 1100. Placement is She-Hulk covers, for everyone who said she was forgotten.

And from the d3p forums about the next patch:

Gameplay

- Alliance members can now send Team-Ups to other members
- Characters sent to Alliance members will be "On Patrol" and unavailable for the sender to use for a short time after being sent off
- Characters On Patrol may either come back for use after that time or immediately on use of Hero Points
- Team-Up tiles now correctly deal damage when matched with Strike tiles on the board
- The enemy team is no longer able to use Team-Ups for characters on that team
- Team-Ups can now be deleted
- Enemy teams now use 1 Team-Up instead of 3

Character

- Hawkeye (Modern) will no longer Avoid AoE damage created by his own team
Assuming no hidden changes, sounds like Team Ups get a much needed overhaul.
 
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