Heavy Metal - September 03 - 07 - Season XVIII

[Moon_Roach]

HEAVY METAL:

This Event:

Model 40

New Characters:
:mrfantastic: Reed Richards

Sam Wilson Captain America

This Week:

[spoiler]

Unkillable

Scott Lang

Wanda Maximoff

Classic

Steve Rogers Super Soldier

It’s Me, Deadpool!

Otto Octavius



Astonishing X-Men

Dark Avengers


Dark Avengers

Classic[/spoiler]

    **Single Player Rewards**

    1. All rewards from the previous rank + ![icon_ironman.png|34x34](upload://xf74KPLtQVa4z5OcACveZWAoWXs.png)

2-5. 5000
, 100
,



6-10. 2000
, 100
,


11-25. 1000
, 50
,


26-50. 1000
, 50
,

51-100. 500
, 25
,

101-200. 500
,

201-300. 250
,

301-400. 2x Standard Token, 140
401-500. Standard Token, 70

    **Progression Rewards:**

    25. Standard Token
    50. 100 ![iso8.png|17x17](upload://o3JCisjSOEk2QCCcAGvxRHtSxVt.png)
    100. +3 All Boosts   ![redtile.png|17x17](upload://iwKPCaItB5dIQLEkRdxmKBKSaDW.png)

200.

300. Event Token
400. 25
500. 1000
575. 25
650. Event Token
725. 50
800.

850. 1000
900. Event Token
950. 1000
1000.

1300.

    **Alliance rewards:**

    1-2. 5000 ![iso8.png|17x17](upload://o3JCisjSOEk2QCCcAGvxRHtSxVt.png)

, 250
,

3-10. 5000
, 100
,

11-25. 3000
, 100
,

25-50. 2000
, 100
,

51-100. 1000
, 50
,

101-250. 1000
, 50
251-500. 500
, 25
501-1000. 500
1001-10000. 250

Ending Time Countdowns

Slice 1
Slice 2
Slice 3
Slice 4
Slice 5

[udonomefoo]

I was looking forward to a new set of boosteds, but this first event feels just as slow. IM40 is useless* (* for Lukewin, yes I know he has one use

) and the boosted 3s are slow and overlap too much. SW & DP will be great for quick final hops with super whales, but the climb is rough for me. I’m back to fistclops over these guys.

[system]

@udonomefoo

I was looking forward to a new set of boosteds, but this first event feels just as slow. IM40 is useless* (* for Lukewin, yes I know he has one use

) and the boosted 3s are slow and overlap too much. SW & DP will be great for quick final hops with super whales, but the climb is rough for me. I’m back to fistclops over these guys.

Gauntlet is next after The Hunt. Save the Whales.

[system]

this event better not turn out like the last…if there’s even a hint of BS I give up because I shouldn’t have to jockey for an invisible woman cover

[system]

@raisinbman

this event better not turn out like the last…if there’s even a hint of BS I give up because I shouldn’t have to jockey for an invisible woman cover

No Hulkbuster this PvP. Scoring overall might drop … Maybe

[lukewin]

I’ve climbed to 911 with SW and LCap in S5. Don’t really want to keep playing, because I don’t think there are any points out there. I’m #1 in my bracket and only finding 20 pts matches. 38 hrs left, so way too early to shield. Don’t need the IW, but still gonna go for 1k. Gonna float and let the attacks come in, then do my final push within 8 hrs, so I can use one shield.

[system]

weird…I just did recharge and only 1 tile went off and other tiles stayed…not only is IM40 a piece of crap he’s bugged

I think the match-6 from arcane incantation countdown triggered it

Got to 850 points, actually points available very early...wasn't gonna get caught with my pants down like with army of one. All on stream of course.

Deadpool/Wanda/IM actually works pretty well...recharge will feed deadpool and you can finish with IM40 blue. Also IM40 tanks so your actual important characters don't get wrecked too bad. Lots of AOE dmg means health packs though.

[system]

@raisinbman

weird…I just did recharge and only 1 tile went off and other tiles stayed…not only is IM40 a piece of crap he’s bugged

I think the match-6 from arcane incantation countdown triggered it

This is actually a known bug, and it’s countdown related, not IM40 (or any character) specific. I submitted it to a dev the other day in detail and got a response saying they had seen it before but never knew why until I submitted. Here’s what it is and how it works (not sure if it’s fixable, but at least now it’s a known thing)

Imagine a few countdowns out. To make it simple we’ll go with Soldier countdowns because they destroy a row. We’ll have a board with only two rows. The top has a CD on 2 at the far right. The bottom has a CD at 1 at the far left. CDs tick down one row at a time, left to right.

Our simplified board looks like this:

Countdown processing time. The top row ticks down from 2 to 1, nothing happens.
Bottom row ticks down the tile on the left and processes it. It goes off and destroys the row, and a new row drops down on top.

You’re now left with a new bottom row with a CD tile on the far right which is now on 1. But wait!
The game is still processing left to right on the bottom row. So it proceeds along the tiles until it finds another countdown at the end of the row (it has no idea or concern that this tile has already been processed once this turn), and processes it. It goes off and destroys the bottom row, another one falls and replaces it, and board is now:

So I’m going to assume that’s roughly what happened in your case. A Recharge tile above your SW Arcane tile ticked down from two to one. Then Arcane ticked down, went off, and the ensuing cascade dropped the Recharge lower than it was already, and it processed again for the second and final time, going off, stunning IM40, and leaving 2 unprocessed Recharge tiles on the board.

[system]

Got to 1k much easier…normally when I climb this early there’s no points available, I guess ppl have changed their minds about when to climb

…All on stream, of course

[Vhailorx]

Definitely a ton more Jean Grey’s out in force this pvp.

I would say that 9/10 teams worth 35+ points that I saw above 900 were JG/Switch.

Is this because the switch–>jg’s purple combo is too good to pass up?

or is it because more people are buying JG covers as she is the new key to PVP (in that she is the best possible counter to most of the best tactics because she shuts down ap acceleration tactics that involve generating cascades and risk match-5s)?

[Quebbster]

@Vhailorx

Definitely a ton more Jean Grey’s out in force this pvp.

I would say that 9/10 teams worth 35+ points that I saw above 900 were JG/Switch.

Is this because the switch–>jg’s purple combo is too good to pass up?

or is it because more people are buying JG covers as she is the new key to PVP (in that she is the best possible counter to most of the best tactics because she shuts down ap acceleration tactics that involve generating cascades and risk match-5s)?

I think Scarlet Witch being boosted had something to do with it. It’s basically free damage for Jean going up against Wanda.

[system]

@Vhailorx

Definitely a ton more Jean Grey’s out in force this pvp.

I would say that 9/10 teams worth 35+ points that I saw above 900 were JG/Switch.

Is this because the switch–>jg’s purple combo is too good to pass up?

or is it because more people are buying JG covers as she is the new key to PVP (in that she is the best possible counter to most of the best tactics because she shuts down ap acceleration tactics that involve generating cascades and risk match-5s)?

SW + Grey is ez damage, and jean will scare people trying to use iron fist or other tile spammers. Pretty simple, really.

also, you can get screwed fighting jean grey…

Lots of points availible, but Salgy(I have you queued
) is in my bracket, I should’ve expected as much!

At 1249 points, might actually get to 1300 progression!!!




Hit 1300 for the first time, shame it was only for a Elektra purple but that makes up for me not getting one in Army of One!!!

[system]

Guess I’m not enough to see jeans everywhere but I dealt with a lot of cyclops