the first thing: whenever you place a critical tile on the board, it generates 1 AP in the tile it replaces, (try it out with 2 star bullseye and see for yourself)
the second thing: idk why it took me this long to notice it but the damage of cascades do LESS damage than making the original match, (like if you match purple, it does full damage, but if you cascade 3 times and it makes another purple match within that cascade, it would do like half the damage of matching it originally)
what else have you guys JUST now noticed or noticed before in-game relating to the gameplay?
I had been playing MPQ for over three years before someone on the forums let me know that you can see which goon placed a certain countdown by switching goons and seeing which countdowns pulse.
Made taking out the right goon to avoid damage a lot less guess-y and a lot more precise.
Speaking of cascades: I discovered that Court Death will generally interrupt one at the least opportune time, using a logic I can’t discover, though seemingly intended to maximize the self-harm involved.
Sometimes it makes 2 matches, other times 1, other times it fires after the first match if you down somebody with it, and even if it would drop into at least 1 other match it triggers first.
Maybe everyone else already knew this but it was new to me. I recently discovered that you can stun an opponent who is invisible. Now, obviously, you can’t specifically target an invisible opponent, but if you have a multi-opponent stun like Spider-Gwen your stun apparently supersedes their invisible.
I was playing against Prof X and trying my hardest not to let him get invisible, unfortunately he beat me to it. I decided to ignore him for a few turns to focus on this two teammates. Eventually I got my Spider-Gwen enough pink to fire her stun hoping (but not expecting) it would target the two active opponents. I figured worst-case scenario it would target one and the second going to waste on Prof X like when it targets an immune-to-stun opponent such as Ultron. As expected it did not specifically target the two active opponents, it did however land successfully against Prof X, overriding his invisible, making him now prone to attacks. Was a nice little surprise to help finish him off.
I forgot to look if it destroyed his invisible tile or not or if it just negated his invisibility.
I assume it would work with others who have group stun abilities (such as Peggy), but I have not confirmed that yet.
I seem to remember something similar with airborn and/or invisible overriding an ally stun. Example, say one of your chars just got 4-turn stunned by Iceman. I think a make-allies-invisible (like AgVenom or InvWoman) or make-allies-airborn ability (like Gwenpool, maybe Colossus?) overrode the stun.
Airborn allies aren’t great, necessarily, but they’re better than stunned (no damage, at least). Invisible allies are obviously better than stunned allies.
I might be off a little on this, but I remember it was something like that.
Criticals generating AP: I’ve noticed this with 1* Spidey for a while now. There’s usually too much going on to tell if it’s happening with MEHulk, tho.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Court Death interrupt a cascade. But I have noticed that if any other match triggers something that will interrupt the cascade (e.g. 2Bullseye or Daken), Court Death will then take effect before the cascade continues.
The Stun, Invisible, and Airborne conditions are all mutually exclusive, yeah. If a character would be affected by more than one, only the last one will actually be in effect.
Also, Airborne characters can’t take damage, but they can benefit from team healing, which is kind of odd.
I think I recently solved another: When a mission requires you to use a specific character, but not a specific version of that character (e.g. any Black Widow), it often auto-selects seemingly really odd choices. I think, but haven’t been able to confirm or find a counter-example, that it picks the one you most recently recruited or trained. Hence why it seems to like the 2 versions so much in those nodes.
I think there’s also often a designated goon who fires their CD tile first. There are a few nodes where when I remember, I park them in front of Strange and watch them die for their effort.
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