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Gogeta and Vegito EZAs are out

The Gogeta was really easy and the Vegito was actually pretty difficult for some reason. I was even thinking Vegito might be bugged because Realm of Gods is supposed to be good at defending but I was taking 60k normals with some RoG characters with type advantage!

Just lost to Syn Shenron when he had 0 hp and needed a super attack to kill him

:-(

He had like a million attacks in the first slot so I put the new AGL Goku with a Whis. He had 500k defense and was taking 50 damage from normals.

550k super, RIP, dead

Guess I should have put one of the STR characters instead but they only had 200k defense so it felt like a bad idea.

I only got 3 SSRs outside of my 3 guaranteed LRs and 2 of those were the early game SSRs. The other one was INT 19/20.

But for my LRs I got AGL SSJ Goku (rainbow now), Gohan/Krillin (rainbow now), and Kale/Caulifla (first copy).

The AGL SSJ Goku is pretty good after his EZA and I'm happy to finally get Kale/Caulifla but yeah mine were pretty bad too.

Yeah I wasn't going to spend any stones but I've been pretty lucky with this anniversary so far. Since I got everything from the original banners I was able to save up like 550 stones and figured why not.

A post on reddit said we can save about 750 more from here to the WWC so should have plenty to get those units too.

One round on each of the new banners got me the new Goku, LR Golden Freiza I didn't have, and like 6 or 7 other LR dupes.

Got both LRs and a ton of other LR dupes in about 400 stones. In addition to that screenshot I got 2 Cooler dupes.

Usually not this lucky with anniversary!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/5/9/AAHnsGAAEoq3.jpg

Well okay then

I literally do pettan for the orbs 1 time each reset and that's it.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. Playing more out of habit and sunk cost fallacy than anything else these days. Maybe we should all make a pact to uninstall or something lol.

I'll say that I was stuck in the same boat with Hearthstone for a while too. After I uninstalled that and missed like a month worth of daily quests I think something flips in your brain and you feel like it's okay. Like you're finally free from the pointless feeling that you need to sign into the game and waste time on those quests.

They don't have stone missions, but there are still stones locked behind buying the packs (you know, the same thing happening with these Whis Keys).

People are just getting upset about the semantics of "locked stones behind paywall" versus "locked stones behind paywall + missions"

It's the exact same!

Except this new Whis pack gives you 50 stones for $10 compared to the Kai LL guidance which gives you 30 stones for $12. It's just now you have to do a mission every day to get the stones you bought instead of getting them immediately with the Kai LL packs.

All of the Kai LL packs give you keys to access the event and stones.

If this stage didn't have 2 free attempts for F2P then nobody would care. There's already the Kai link level stage you can only access by buying the special paid key so I don't see this as being any different.

They just added some missions to force people who paid to log into the game for 2 weeks.

So the real scummy tactic is that you could buy the keys, forget to do the missions and lose out on the stones. But that was already in the game too with the paid subscription if you forget to login for a day.

So yeah it's a bummer there are now "missions" that you need to pay to do but again it's just more complicated buying stones.

Yeah and there are stones in the shop that are locked behind buying them too. The marketing was bad to show everyone missions that they can't complete without paying but it's no different than charging for stones.

You don't open the shop every time there's a deal and get upset at all of the stones you're missing compared to whales. Just because these are missions now people are looking at them upset that they have to buy?

Overblown issue of people getting upset at bad marketing

I don't get why people are upset about the Whis key thing, it's just a more complicated way to purchase stones?

If you never purchase stones then who cares?

I like Turles but hopefully he has a new name like Turles (Full Power) or something so you can link him with the good Turles.

My 30 ticket summon had 2 LRs: Gohan/Krillin and Bojack

And a dupe of Recoome/Guldo which I'm more excited about

Yeah I kinda thought the emotional arc would be about Scott not getting to watch his daughter grow up and Kang offering him a deal with the devil to do that.

But no they glossed over Scott missing so much time with his daughter.

I do agree but I would have preferred to buy it standalone for a discount. I wasnt interested in the other DLC that came in the season pass.

TomNook7 posted...

Really the achilles heel in all this is how long it takes to Draw Magic. If they could just speed that up, it'd improve this entire package exponentially. Maybe they did in the Remaster? I haven't played it yet.

There's an option for 3X battle speed which really helps, yeah. Could draw 99 of something on all 3 party members in a few minutes.

Overall I liked this DLC but I was really hoping for more fanservice or some sort of conclusive epilogue to all 3 games. Would have liked to see all 3 parties meeting each other and giving everyone a happy ending. But who knows if this is truly the last time we'll see all of these characters.

And not all of the pixel variants are actually in the game yet actually. So each new update probably adds a few more!

My final playtime was like 18 hours. I wasn't rushing but I didn't do quite everything on the map either.

Also just beated it!

The point of no return for people who are curious is the top of Prison Island. So make sure to do everything before then if you're the type of person who does that.

I'll wait to share thoughts until more people are done.

I just played against a bot and their name was "PilpyLachlan"

It was 100% a bot because they had impossible gold and inked splits. So idk how they name these bot accounts anymore.

Yeah I've never really understood why Cosmo gets the ability to stop future On Reveal effects and Enchantress costs more to only stop current Ongoing effects.

Sure Ongoing has a higher overall value than On Reveal typically but why does that translate to the removal being more expensive too?

Just saw Yellowjacket in a Galactus deck for the first time. Pretty smart idea to use him with Chavez to stop Shang-Chi stuff.

But my opponent played Yellowjacket, then Chavez, so I killed her with Shang-Chi. So maybe Galactus players are too stupid for that combo.

Yeah I'd agree they didn't need to shoehorn in Sephiroth as much as they did. They could have made a cool highway fight with Roche the finally or something.

The only bad thing about the first game was the lack of fast travel so revisiting planets to find stuff you missed was monotonous.

And I guess it was lame that you'd unlock a staff or dual sabers but they're only used in certain moves. But this game fixes that too!

Okay I just played for 4 hours and yeah this rules.

I think Thanos is a lot more fun than Galactus personally. You can do a lot of stuff with the stones: zoo, destroy, Lockjaw, bounce, Dino ongoing.

There's like 2 different Galactus decks and they're both easily countered or you win 1 or 2 cubes.

That's a good point, yeah that would have been worse. Maybe just be more open about the changes, IDK.

It's maybe both! We'll have to see. But there are plenty of hints that Sephiroth and Aerith have some knowledge of the original game

I wonder how the consensus would be if they clearly advertised it as a sequel because that's definitely what it is.

Living Tribunal isn't exactly a villain but I could see him and High Evolutionary going into the permanent series 5 list.

Devs said that the decision to make a card permanently series 5 isn't really based on anything except maybe card complexity.

Tribunal isn't complex but it's definitely a build around card.

Okay this thread on Reddit is actually pretty impressive:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelSnap/comments/12yf8st/just_played_against_this_card_when_did_it_get/

Ooooh I have Master Mold pinned but maybe Negasonic is a better idea. I can wait until she's 3000 tokens.

As someone who loved FFVII, I thought 7R was fantastic!

I finished it and immediately started a hard play through which I NEVER do with games.

I think I'd be very tempted to buy Stegron if I didn't know the High Evolutionary is coming in about a month.

I could see some surprise wins with Zabu + Stegron and Absorbing Man or something.

Yeah the KH3 DLC was $30 which was way too expensive. And I don't really think KH3 was very good either, those DLC fights were just great. The KH combat system is flashy and button spammy but with actual difficult content there's a lot of nuance that is underrated I think. That's all I was trying to say!

Yeah I'm sure it's RNG but it's just WEIRD that it seems to happen so often you don't see a card or a deck type for days or weeks. Then you start playing a new deck and suddenly that's all you're seeing.

KanzarisKelshen posted...

No, I'm serious. Did you play the postgame? They added a ton of extra moves and a sick amount of excellent bosses to test them on. The front half of KH3 isn't super good, but the back half (things like Big Hero 6's playground city, the limitcut episode, a lot of little touches in the finale) are terrific. It's a weird game but it almost ruined KH2 for me because even though it's still such a good game, KH3 is even more fluid and rich.

The DLC fights are particularly good too. Each one is like a puzzle or a rhythm game finding out when you need to dodge, block, and attack during the boss pattern.

I mean they're all good except the super secret final fight, fuck that fight.

Some of those DLC fights took me an hour+ to get down which is longer than I spent on any fight in other difficult games like Elden Ring.

It's all anecdotal and people have done tests to prove otherwise but yeah I think the game rigs your matchmaking too.

There's too many examples I've experienced of playing a Zoo deck and seeing Pool 1/2 decks. Then you switch to a deck with lots of series 4/5 cards and suddenly all of your opponents are playing similar decks.

I think there's a hidden weight to every card that gives your entire deck a "deck cost" number. Then it factors in "deck cost" when you're matching against opponents.

I don't think they're intentionally putting you into bad matchups but the decks I see from my opponent really seem to depend on whatever I'm playing.

Hit 60 with Dinohawk. Honestly thank god for bots giving me 8 cubes every 5 games. Also Spider-Man is super underrated in this deck. Sure it's a 2 cube winner but I'll take what I can get.

KommunistKoala posted...

did you try dinohawk? got to 60 without too much trouble with that

Yeah that's the deck I've been playing the most but it's pretty hard to beat Galactus. I added a Debrii to try to counter those decks a little bit so we'll see how it goes.

I'd wager it's still not a very good card. It's good in this specific scenario of a Patriot mirror match which I'm only seeing when I play Patriot.

Lose 4 games in a row to Super Skrull when I haven't seen Super Skrull 4 times total in my entire Marvel Snap history.

Switch to a Bishop zoo deck and lose to Killmonger on turn 6

I give up, 60 isn't happening.

Just lost 8 cubes to a Patriot mirror match where the other guy was using Super Skrull. His turn 6 flip was Super Skrull and Onslaught in the dark dimension

I'm just trying to get to 60 for this mystery variant for the month and nothing works.

:-(

Since your created character carries over to the real game this was basically just a "create your character now" demo.

https://www.dota2.com/newfrontiers

Doubt many people here still play Dota but I'm sure a lot of us did back in the day. Interesting to see some major changes like this to basically everything in the game.

So is everyone excited about the inevitable Sandman nerfs next month? Sandman decks being the most popular is not a meta I expect the devs to keep around for very long.