It’s been live for hours, no sign of this post yet, so I may as well have a go and see how badly I can stuff it up. Hopefully I have the right dates for the One True Time Zone. And countdowns? Who knows.
Single Player Rewards
All rewards from the previous rank +
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
I have a feeling that after enough people performed through Heavy Metal, our MMR’s started to establish themselves again to a reasonable point on average.
Either the new MMR needed a full PVP to start working, or the MMR of the lower guys got messed up by them placing higher, like it always is after Balance Of Power has run, or they switched MMR back over a holiday w/o telling anyone, or its simply random.
Same here. I played until I was 200+, but the enemies are much more manageable. If the MMR needed a pvp to settle to where it should be, the devs could have told us that this is the case. Then we could avoid all the unnecessary comments about how terrible is the new system.
What I find surprising is that I am still matched with 2* teams. Storm/MNM in particular. Wasn’t the new system supposed to give matches that were of similar * rank? I went 200->400 fighting almost exclusively 2* teams with only 2-3 of them having Patch or BP. I didn’t notice an update, that would suggest the game is using the old system again.
For purposes of advancement of scientific knowledge, I actually kept a log for the teams I faced during my soft climb. Basically, I checked/fought the nodes in counter clockwise fashion, from lower left corner and rotating to the right and back again. Here goes:
First set: 3 seeds
Second set: loaner/94Thor/130Hulk; 79 Kamala/104Blade/94Ares; loaner/94Mnmag/94Ares
Third set: loaner/94Loki/104Luke; loaner/94Thor/94Ares; loaner/94Daken/94Ares
So basically, for the first 18 matchups, I had 3 seeds and the rest were either two star rosters or transition rosters. Only when Rogers-Fury team showed up did I start seeing solid 3* teams.
I was using a max Patch/Laken to soft climb and breezed through all those rounds in one sitting, without use of a single heal pack. [having Kamala with all three colors unlocked is a godsend.] So from my personal experience at least, it seems MMR is back to normal.
Yeah I’m seeing the usual teams on my way to 600 again.
I’m pretty sure we would have gotten a post from a Red if they hat reset MMR to where it was, so I’m thinking the new system really needed Heavy Metal to start working.
Which begs the question why the devs didn’t simply say so sigh
Not at all. I’m just trying to make sense of the new system. Unless I mistaken, the logic behind the change was that we were supposed to fight teams of equal *rank and only fight weaker teams if they scored high enough, but I don’t see this in the current pvp. If we are back to where we were, what was the point of the change?
You have way too much confidence in them. I’m assuming that since the new event went up over the weekend, no one was around to notice that it defaulted to the old matchmaking algorithm.
I guess as people above said its back to normal. I climbed fast to 580 with my transitioner’s team and got scared of attacks even though i successfuly defended 1. Panic shielded for 24 hours. Got attacked only once, but still 10 hours till shield expires. I hope I want be gangbanged to top 200, that would be worst spent 300 HP…
In case you guys don’t look at the bugs forum, there’s a bug in which sometimes the AI’s passive heal will go off every time the AI takes a turn. We might want to press someone with red type to address this before the event starts to wind down. This isn’t the kind of bug you want to encounter in the middle of a late hop.
I quite liked playing this one on Rock Band on my trusty PS3. Not a fan of the band though, as a cursory glance at my millions of posts in the “What Are You Listening To?” thread will show.
Sonic Youth is one of those bands that are basically like, “We dare you to be so uncool as to not like us,” where four songs out of five are near-impenetrable walls of (occasionally awesome) sound, and the fifth is a pop song dressed up as punk (“Teenage Riot” being a prime example). The Pixies were the same. Even the Sex Pistols operated on that principle.
