joesaysso wrote:For starters, saving cubes on the lower bosses(the sunstorms and skywarps) was a deliberate strategy of mine going into the episode. The idea was to save all of my resources for the "big fish". If the idea that we are kicking around is true and they scaled available bosses based on some sort of criteria then I got completely screwed over. Like Monuo said, that basically gives the people with better cards an insurmountable advantage. So I either have to dump some money into their random space bridge and hope I get lucky enough to get cards worthy of having or I have to dump all of my saved up resources on lower bosses so that I can get access to the tougher bosses with bigger points and rewards. But, oh yeah, now I have no resources left to fight the bosses except for the 3 cubes I get every couple hours. I guess I can spend more money on cubes too.
joesaysso wrote:The gold medals have not been fixed (I guess they aren't broken to the developers) and its almost insulting how bad they are. Why are they the best medal available when all you get from them are 2s?
I would love feedback on the weapon medals. Did anybody get any 4s out them of or did they any yield 2s as well?
In summary, I, quite literally, got nothing out of this episode. I pulled no good cards out of the bridge. I pulled no new cards that I need for my cyberdex out of the bridge. While I did get the episode Cliffjumper and get some cards leveled thanks to the exp boost, I gained nothing as a result because everybody got the Cliffjumper and everybody leveled their cards and since I got no new rares or super rares, all the cards I leveled everybody already has and has them leveled anyway.
monuo_ripts wrote:These stats only further concrete in my mind that players are not going to excel unless they can manage to build momentum by gaining episode rare 4 cards, which either takes saving a ton of resources from 1 episode for a future episode, or spending a lot of money. I'll be honest and tell you I spent $20 last episode to buy a ton of cubes and I had saved a lot of explore refills from the insecticon episode, this enabled me to stay and edge ahead to get snarl. The dirge's I drew and the 1 I bought ($1) helped me keep that position. I managed to get 3 complete dirges last episode and between those, my snarl, completed cliffjumper, and my best rare 3 cards, I managed to stay ahead and get 2 skywarps. I believe next episode, I may be able to accomplish getting the top rare 4 reward.
monuo_ripts wrote:I'm wondering if they are going to drop the iOS users right in the middle of everyone. If they do, this will discourage them even more because we all have head starts and so much better cards. They'll be disappointed with the first episode they get to play unless they drop the cash to catch up.
Hopefully they'll be separate and all will get to start from scratch on their own servers with equal chances to properly "try" and enjoy the game.
monuo_ripts wrote:Something else that bothers me is the acidstorm and sunstorm from this episode are better than sludge from the last episode and I will never get to use Sludge unless I just save him for something later, same with my kickbacks, they haven't been used since the end of the dinobot episode. Glad they increased the amount of cards you can have, because I don't want to part with my cards I feel I earned.
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Burn wrote:Okay someone explain how I just lost to a LEVEL 26 in a battle and how a LEVEL 26 has a RANK 4 SKYWARP card AND RANK 4 JAZZ.
This person has barely played this game and they have a superior deck to me and I'm at level 136.
This is utter garbage!
diseptikon wrote:joesaysso wrote:For starters, saving cubes on the lower bosses(the sunstorms and skywarps) was a deliberate strategy of mine going into the episode. The idea was to save all of my resources for the "big fish". If the idea that we are kicking around is true and they scaled available bosses based on some sort of criteria then I got completely screwed over. Like Monuo said, that basically gives the people with better cards an insurmountable advantage. So I either have to dump some money into their random space bridge and hope I get lucky enough to get cards worthy of having or I have to dump all of my saved up resources on lower bosses so that I can get access to the to
gher bosses with bigger points and rewards. But, oh yeah, now I have no resources left to fight the bosses except for the 3 cubes I get every couple hours. I guess I can spend more money on cubes too.
It makes sense if you really think about it. What is the point of the middle event if nobody is active? They have to do something about ensuring that people participate in all facets of the events, not just the beginning or the end. As I said before, it doesn't take that many kills to start seeing the higher level bosses appear. Plus earning medals can yield event cards that will help you.
People with better cards have an advantage and rightfully so, otherwise whats the point of having better cards? However, it is not an insurmountable advantage. The reality is this, the first 24 hours of the event are the most crucial. You need to have a deck that can take out the first wave of enemies up to level 5 with 1 battlecube. That way you are gaining one cube per battle to be spent wisely at a later time. If you can get your deck up to that, you will be set for the rest of the event. It is possible without spending cash as I am proof.
I am curious, what is your main deck composed of? Are your cards all trans-scanned from max leveled cards? What is your deck power?
If you want me to share my tactics for events I will.joesaysso wrote:The gold medals have not been fixed (I guess they aren't broken to the developers) and its almost insulting how bad they are. Why are they the best medal available when all you get from them are 2s?
I would love feedback on the weapon medals. Did anybody get any 4s out them of or did they any yield 2s as well?
In summary, I, quite literally, got nothing out of this episode. I pulled no good cards out of the bridge. I pulled no new cards that I need for my cyberdex out of the bridge. While I did get the episode Cliffjumper and get some cards leveled thanks to the exp boost, I gained nothing as a result because everybody got the Cliffjumper and everybody leveled their cards and since I got no new rares or super rares, all the cards I leveled everybody already has and has them leveled anyway.
I agree that medals need to be more rewarding but you do need to consider that people are accumulating thousands and thousands of medals.
I'll be turning in my weapon medals today so I'll let you know how it goes.
I wouldn't say you got nothing out of this episode. Just because everyone else has cliffjumper doesnt mean that he will not strengthen your deck. Again, its about being able to defeat the first wave of enemies. Also you led me to believe that you are still sitting on 250 battle cubes? I will share battle cube spending strategies if you wish to maximize your rewards. Let me know.
diseptikon wrote:It makes sense if you really think about it. What is the point of the middle event if nobody is active? They have to do something about ensuring that people participate in all facets of the events, not just the beginning or the end. As I said before, it doesn't take that many kills to start seeing the higher level bosses appear. Plus earning medals can yield event cards that will help you.
People with better cards have an advantage and rightfully so, otherwise whats the point of having better cards? However, it is not an insurmountable advantage. The reality is this, the first 24 hours of the event are the most crucial. You need to have a deck that can take out the first wave of enemies up to level 5 with 1 battlecube. That way you are gaining one cube per battle to be spent wisely at a later time. If you can get your deck up to that, you will be set for the rest of the event. It is possible without spending cash as I am proof.
diseptikon wrote:I am curious, what is your main deck composed of? Are your cards all trans-scanned from max leveled cards? What is your deck power?
If you want me to share my tactics for events I will.
diseptikon wrote:I agree that medals need to be more rewarding but you do need to consider that people are accumulating thousands and thousands of medals.
diseptikon wrote: Also you led me to believe that you are still sitting on 250 battle cubes? I will share battle cube spending strategies if you wish to maximize your rewards. Let me know.
mikeyfuzz wrote:Now that the game is out on iOS, I can finally take part, add me if you see me: mikeyfuzz00
joesaysso wrote:I do agree, in a way it does makes sense. I'm not so much mad that they did it as I am that they did it and didn't advertise that they did it. The strategy that I employed was one that I picked up from the first two episodes, in which the middle days were dead and nobody started battling bosses until the top bosses started rolling out. I like to think that my strategy evolved based on the way they ran their event. Perhaps I am the fool for expecting the episode to go exactly the same when they didn't state anywhere that they changed any of the rules.
And incidentally, their plan didn't work. Skywarps timed out pretty much the duration of the episode from the time they first showed until the final day. I'm assuming because nobody wanted to fight them because they were waiting for bigger bosses that never showed up. As I result, I ended up with significantly less medals this round.
joesaysso wrote:My cards are all leveled properly, making failure in these episodes more frustrating. All of the cards in my deck are max leveled in individual modes, scanned, and the max leveled again. I have all of the rank 3 cards complete with the exception of Ramjet. meaning my deck consists of the the best Rank 3 cards and the rank 3 episode cards that I have accumulated, all properly leveled. My deck power for this past episode was just over 7000.
joesaysso wrote:I am always interested in getting feedback and hearing strategies from other players. I don't think your strategies differ from mine all that much really. Not because I think I am really good or anything but just because the game isn't overly complicated. but of course, I will gladly compare strategies with anybody.
joesaysso wrote:You say that but heres the reality: thanks to the new way they did this event, I didn't get that many medals. I won about 150 gold medals for the entire episode. Thats it. Not thousands. And 25 of those I got just for joining in the first place. Out of those approximate 150 golds, I got one rank 3 card and 149 rank 2 cards. Thats embarrassing. Statistically speaking, that means that 99% of the time, the gold medals result in only the worst card that they guarantee. This, by far, makes them the worst medals in the game. Fact: I got more 3's from my bronze medals earned from leveling during this episode than I did from the GOLD medals. That is total BS and it shouldn't be that way. I'm not saying that they have to drop a rank for once every 3 medals, but after thousands and thousands of medals you should manage to grab at least one. Certainly, LOTS more 3s should drop from gold medals.
joesaysso wrote:Indeed, I do still have 250 cubes ready to go for the next episode. Which, I will probably turn into closer to 300+ by the time the second boss of the next episode roles out via spending my 50 energon refills that I've had saved up from the previous 2 episodes. As stated earlier, I am always interested in hearing other's strategies. If I don't get one of the big prizes of the next episode, I'm just retiring from this game.
diseptikon wrote:
I can tell you my experience was completely different as I was constantly busy fighting enemies. I did run into stretches of time where bosses timed out but it was only certain times (mostly after 10-11 pm pacific for me)and certainly not as bad as you describe.
diseptikon wrote:Can you take out level 5 enemies (worth 1000 xp IIRC) in the first wave of the event with 1 or 2 battlecubes solo?
diseptikon wrote:It might sound crazy but I believe getting a rank 4 card will most likely not help your deck. You have to think about it this way, you will have only 1 mode of the card (no trans scan bonus) and you most likely will not have their weapon (weapon bonus). Once you start getting rewards of rank 4's in both modes and specific weapons, you will see a solid increase. Don't count out those event level 3's either because of the fact that you can get both modes and weapon rather easily and their stats usually are better than the standard 3's you can get from the campaign.
diseptikon wrote:You are set up perfectly to make a big shift in rewards. Before I go into strategies what point rank do you want to reach? I suggest aiming for top 1000 simply to set a realistic goal based on the cards you have.
Believe it or not you are at the most difficult stage of the game breaking out of the campaign deck into something stronger. Once you find your groove other campaigns will start falling in line accordingly.
ashe5k wrote:So I downloaded this to my iPhone 4 yesterday to compare it to my Asus Transformer tablet and the version on the iPhone works so much better than my android version it's kind of scary. It is one of the 'older' model tablets, but is younger than my iPhone by about a year or so I think.
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