Apocalypse join, not.

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  • Kolence
    Kolence Posts: 969 Critical Contributor

    @Glockoma said:
    So, what teams other than 4* Jean, 4* Cyclops, and IM40 (as well as some well placed 5* teamups) would you recommend to the very low 3* to 4* players? Our alliance mates are definitely running into the Apoc health problem. Thank you

    There's also the old X-force Wolvie with 3* Mags and Loki team. Maybe Kamala could work as well, for purple. It's a relatively reliable infinite move team and it should work much faster now that Xforce is back to his old damage numbers. Just need him covered well on green and black.

  • AlexR
    AlexR Posts: 453 Mover and Shaker

    Rogue / Vulture / Cloak&Dagger always worked great for me. Put a support on Rogue to make her green the strongest color if she isn't already. C&D make black for Vulture or switch them over to heal. 4 damage mitigation methods (C&D heal, C&D debuff Apoc with Cloak's black, Rogue tanks, Vulture flies), Vulture feeds the strongest color to defeat the AP restriction, C&D can remove SAP tiles, Vulture can remove both sap and countdown tiles. Rogue can even board destroy-remove them with red in a pinch.

    Can also trade Rogue out for other tanky characters with a strongest color of either green or blue (so Vulture feeds you the AP easily). Vulture/C&D/third is very solid for Apoc.

  • allen_koholic
    allen_koholic Posts: 105 Tile Toppler

    @ArchusMonk said:
    If that is indeed the solution, it is disrespectful to those who have done the whole event but did not get alliance rewards. My time is valuable. I put in the time during the broken event to get 2 covers, but I will receive only 1. If I get 2 covers for putting in the time to do the event twice, then I will still be short 1 cover. Just push me the cover I should have gotten in the first place and call it a day. If you can’t find a way to push covers only to people who did not get the alliance reward, then push a cover to everyone. I don’t care if that means some people will get extra. Good for them. I’ll be happy if I get the expected awards for the time I spent participating. Running a second fixed event does not do that for me (even though I will end up with more Kang covers as a result).

    I feel like that's the ideal solution (pushing rewards to alliance members who joined "late"), but I very much doubt they can do that because Inifinity whatever has shown over and over they have a tenuous grasp on the code base at best.

    They probably should just push the entirety of the alliance rewards out to everyone, but I guess that's ...too hard? I dunno. I feel like they're going to screw **** up further down the line because "the boss event pushed the schedule out of whack" or something else stupid.

  • WeaponX092
    WeaponX092 Posts: 29 Just Dropped In

    @Glockoma said:
    So, what teams other than 4* Jean, 4* Cyclops, and IM40 (as well as some well placed 5* teamups) would you recommend to the very low 3* to 4* players? Our alliance mates are definitely running into the Apoc health problem. Thank you

    Winfinite 4Thanos / BRB / Polaris worked great.

    Match the protection tiles to generate blue and green, Polaris multiplies them and Thanos removes the attack tiles, shoot Beta's blue to generate more protection tiles, you will have enough green to trigger Thanos ' power, Polaris fills the board with tiles of protection, you will have 30 green AP every time you shoot the power of Thanos.

  • tonypq
    tonypq Posts: 557 Critical Contributor
    edited April 2023

    Absolutely ridiculous. Not looking forward having to go through this aggravating event again to get rewards I should already have.

  • DaveyNY
    DaveyNY Posts: 33 Just Dropped In

    I'm in the same boat, joined the game after Alliance had finished it and got nothing.
    Doing great with personal progression though.
    Already #4 on team.
    Using Beta Ray(456), Polaris(370) & Morbius(302).

  • JoeyCool
    JoeyCool Posts: 16 Just Dropped In

    Same issue here, joined a few hours in and missed out on all alliance rewards. Got all the personal rewards by now though. A blue Kang would have been nice.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,487 Chairperson of the Boards

    Guys - think when suggesting teams you might wanna read the post again. They asked for teams for 3-4* transitioners so BRB winfinites and 5* teams probably not ideal.

    And if we have to Apoc again so be it, not sure why it has to wait until Monday though.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Guys - think when suggesting teams you might wanna read the post again. They asked for teams for 3-4* transitioners so BRB winfinites and 5* teams probably not ideal.

    And if we have to Apoc again so be it, not sure why it has to wait until Monday though.

    Maybe the server would explode if they run two boss events at the same time.
    It's a possibility, with how things have worked since BCS took over.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,487 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Bowgentle said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Guys - think when suggesting teams you might wanna read the post again. They asked for teams for 3-4* transitioners so BRB winfinites and 5* teams probably not ideal.

    And if we have to Apoc again so be it, not sure why it has to wait until Monday though.

    Maybe the server would explode if they run two boss events at the same time.
    It's a possibility, with how things have worked since BCS took over.

    I guess although with being able to get the top amount of boss points available so early I guess even low level players are probably pretty much done already with this. Might as well just kill it. Oh well. Not the biggest deal I guess. I never thought I would say this but I sort of wish there was something else to play for the next two days...

  • Zarqa
    Zarqa Posts: 483 Mover and Shaker
    edited April 2023

    I wonder if they want to see if Alliance rewards still get pushed when the event closes. That’s maybe why they told people to play like normal, and why they are waiting until Monday?

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited April 2023

    @dianetics said:
    They can't run two of the same event at the same time. So either they let the event resolve or they close it early.

    Why can't they, though?
    I mean, there's always multiple PVPs and PVEs running at the same time.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,487 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Zarqa said:
    I wonder if they want to see if Alliance rewards still get pushed when the event closes. That’s maybe why they told people to play like normal, and why they are waiting until Monday?

    I find it a bit worrying that they don't know if this will happen or not if that is the case. I mean if the code is that unpredictable who knows what it will do next?!?!? I guess if the next 5* is a Terminator we will get a clue...

  • Zarqa
    Zarqa Posts: 483 Mover and Shaker
    edited April 2023

    They have shared on Discord that the QA environment is not the same as Live and this is causing problems. Both the Magneto rework and the Alliance event looked good in the QA environment and had bugs when pushed to Live. Must be super frustrating, and also why they don’t know for sure what will happen…

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,487 Chairperson of the Boards

    "don't know for sure what will happen" - they have built Skynet haven't they? Do we have any players called Sarah Connor here?!?!?!

    I am what you might call an idiot when it comes to things like computing so please forgive me if the following assumption is wrong but...

    What use is a QA environment for testing that doesn't replicate a live event? Is that not a bit like bringing a Formula 1 car to the Grand Prix coz it looked great in a Tik Tok video only to find out it has no wheels?

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited April 2023

    Yeah if the QA environment isn't reliable you might as well test things in prod right away.
    I mean, hopefully the sequence is test environment - QA environment - production environment.

  • bigjojo04
    bigjojo04 Posts: 421 Mover and Shaker

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Guys - think when suggesting teams you might wanna read the post again. They asked for teams for 3-4* transitioners so BRB winfinites and 5* teams probably not ideal.

    And if we have to Apoc again so be it, not sure why it has to wait until Monday though.

    Yea I’m in the same boat as to why wait till Monday. What I proposed to my alliance mates was that if part of their solution was to just run the event a second time why not just take down the original event within minutes of it originally starting and just restart it either later the first date or have it start on time the next day with the corrections to it rather than wasting everyone’s time having to do it twice? Honestly I don’t mind having to do it again since it’ll allow me to double dip on rewards for it but I understand not everyone has the same time flexibility that I have.

  • tonypq
    tonypq Posts: 557 Critical Contributor

    I appreciate some things BC has done for the game since they stepped in. However everything seems to be a bloody mess, one after another whether it's characters or events. How can they screw up so much so often. In 40 years of gaming, I'm not sure I've seen a game become such a hot pile as MPQ is currently.

  • Ptahhotep
    Ptahhotep Posts: 452 Mover and Shaker

    It’s possible that if they kill the event it wouldn’t run the code that writes out the player results log. If they haven’t got that then they wouldn’t be able to identify the players that need to receive retroactive rewards.

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