Your WORST MPQ moment of the day (REALITY thread)

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

    @entrailbucket said:

    @DrClever said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    If you're fast on open, you can actually watch the leaderboard to see who's playing it safe and who the biggest daredevils are. If you need to make up a few points, you can hold for a bit. There's really a lot of strategy to it, much more than it may seem.

    Okay, you've almost sold it to me.

    If there was a way of making it look like you were taking an approach you weren't in order to lure people into a particular course of action that would eventually favour you then I might consider it.

    I probably wouldn't actually do it, cos there's other games that have that in the base gameplay, but it would get a far as 'maybe'.

    THAT kind of strategy happens in PvP. I guess it's not part of the base gameplay, but it's what makes the base gameplay actually fun, and not mindless drudgery punctuated by random points loss.

    Unfortunately very few players are playing PvP strategically these days -- the big truce rooms and the cupcake-industrial complex have removed all that from the high-end metagame.

    Probably because 90% of the people playing pvp would have just stopped playing the mode without an easy road to 1200.
    For those that enjoy it, there's always s2 and s5.

  • sambrookjm
    sambrookjm Posts: 2,253 Chairperson of the Boards

    Just got Shang-Chi'd in the Magneto PvP, courtesy of an Illusions team-up. The resulting matches and cascades after the board shake took out Chasm, who then regenerated, and then took him out again despite the other team being stunned.

    To quote Ron Burgundy: "Heck, I'm not even mad. That's amazing!"

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,637 Chairperson of the Boards

    @sambrookjm said:
    Just got Shang-Chi'd in the Magneto PvP, courtesy of an Illusions team-up. The resulting matches and cascades after the board shake took out Chasm, who then regenerated, and then took him out again despite the other team being stunned.

    To quote Ron Burgundy: "Heck, I'm not even mad. That's amazing!"

    You ate a wheel of Chis?

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,480 Chairperson of the Boards

    Whelp...I'm in Riri stunlock. Absolutely nothing I can do. Well apart from get stunned and slowly die of course.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,480 Chairperson of the Boards

    That kid is frickin' Nostradamus coz Omega Red just killed the hell outta me in SCL10 5E third clear...ouch.

  • sambrookjm
    sambrookjm Posts: 2,253 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:
    That kid is frickin' Nostradamus coz Omega Red just killed the hell outta me in SCL10 5E third clear...ouch.

    Lesson #1 I learned in that node - Never bring Half Thor into a fight vs Omega Red.

    Lesson #2 I learned in that node - Even a boosted Shang-Chi can get his butt whooped when the board has very few red and purple tiles on it.

    Lesson #3 I learned in that node - My 4-star Thor, boosted this week, is a higher level than my 5-star Thor...and she doesn't do much against Omega Red either.

    Lesson #4 I learned in that node - Kitty and BRB still work well together.

  • DrClever
    DrClever Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    @DAZ0273 said:
    So completely out of nowhere my 13 year old son has decided to start playing MPQ again (he last played when he was like 7 or something I think) and this has led to him asking all these roster building questions that I have no idea about and generally being annoying.

    This is a podcast I'd listen to.

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 3,012 Chairperson of the Boards

    Cap's PvP, vs boosted Phoenix Jean and Surfer. First turn, AI makes one match and the cascade gives them 16 purple.

    By the end of turn 2, they had 20 red.

    I still managed to win, but it was close.

  • rainkingucd
    rainkingucd Posts: 1,532 Chairperson of the Boards

    Class of 2015 Event Quests. I was clicking through too fast and for the pick reward, I selected Carnage, instead of the 5* Phoenix shards. The shards would have given me a champ level and 25 CP

  • raber18
    raber18 Posts: 59 Match Maker

    Only got two 5* in 36 pulls from latest

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

    Next he'll demand that you buy him some HP, so he can roster that Kang.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,480 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Bowgentle said:
    Next he'll demand that you buy him some HP, so he can roster that Kang.

    Oh I can definitely see that one coming...

  • skittledaddy
    skittledaddy Posts: 1,013 Chairperson of the Boards

    Come on, DAD... It's just one more slot. I mean look at how many YOU have...

  • DrClever
    DrClever Posts: 584 Critical Contributor

    @DAZ0273 said:
    20CP spent later

    "Look at my 5* Kang cover! And it's blue!"

    "..."

    I look forward to his post in the best moment thread.

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,637 Chairperson of the Boards

    I have found that just buying the slot in anticipation is a better course of action.
    1) You look like a generous parent.
    2) You don't have to listen to endless whining before buying it anyway.
    3) You get out of potentially more expensive future purchases because you already bought them something.
    4) You can use the "one for you, two for me" principle and buy yourself a new 5* cover.
    5) Kang will send you away if you don't.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,480 Chairperson of the Boards

    I like the plan but it does come with some good and bad:

    1.) I'll take it out of his food budget...he needs to understand MPQ is suffering!
    2.) No amount of roster slots will stop endless whining
    3.) Damn it...too late...stupid Nintendo Switch...
    4.) I won't be able to afford that due to answer 3
    5.) That sounds quite a good option! Hit me Kang!

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,480 Chairperson of the Boards

    And now I am trying to bring a 5* Deadpool to a 3* Deadpool party in Deadpool Daily Quest...

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