NEW EVENT: Jackpot

Another Fanguide-prompted event!  So, of course, we like the idea of this – leaderboard only for big prizes is great. We would have preferred a 24-hour event, since there are no other rewards on offer, and we would have preferred more players to be able to win big. But it’s still a good idea, and the three days gives everyone a chance to get a couple of runs in, so it makes sense. More importantly, it is something different - but even more importantly are the fatal flaws of the Mysterio glitch and 10,000+ player leaderboard.


LEADERBOARD:

The text says it is all about Rings, but it is not – this is another Distance BLITZer

It means there are two distance events on at the same time. That's six in two weeks?  Distance is the new Enemy (pun intended).

A leaderboard-only event with big rewards is cool. Only giving them to 3 people is not so cool. Even worse, is the fact that this is another broken leaderboard event, with at least 10,000 players in it. SO the intention was to give the top prizes to 0.1% of players, but it is more like 0.03%. Which is shocking.

Top prizes:

1 – 500 ISO
2 – 250 ISO
3 – 125 ISO



The rest of the players in the top 3000 get a handful of consumables and vials, but the vast majority of people will receive nothing at all.




BUFFS:

Sadly, this is another pay-to-win event, with no portal and the highest buff, by huge margin, is available only as purchase. No portal.  Really not cool.  I just got the pop-up (of course) £23 for 3 Dusk. This no-portal-pay-only buffing has to stop.  I get that the company want to make money, but put the buffs in a portal and up for sale so people have the option. There has to be a portal too, even if the % is really low, because no one likes pay to win.  It’s what shady companies do, not supposedly legit ones.

The huge flaw with this event though, is that it contains many Mysterio bosses, and is therefore possible to glitch it. Everything we have said above is completely undermined by this flaw.  The fact that the x8 buff can only be obtained through cash purchase, and still cannot guarantee a win,. because people cheating with the Mysterio glitch will steal it from them.  This is very troubling, as the developers well know of the Mysterio glitch, yet they have made a pay-to-play event winnable by the cheats. Very shady.

In conclusion – yeah, love the idea of huge prizes for a leaderboard only run….but the rest of it really hasn’t worked out too well.  One for the glitches, exclusively.

- Goatmeat

DAILY FLASH: Sinister Thursday!

 


The nerfing of the progression rewards in these daily events continues, with this one down from 34 raw ISO to just 4, but the rest of the rewards are intact - slot premium and VIP portal.

Big difference is the objective has been reduced from 20,000 to just 8000 rings to collect, so although the prizes have come down, they are much easier to obtain. Good news for many I expect. 

Total of 120 ISO worth of progression prizes and a handful of half-decent runs to complete, gives this a Fanguide Event Score of 13. Not very good really, but not *too* bad.

There is also an expanded second-tier prize here, increased from 21 players to 31, which is a good move. Top ‘board prizes today are:

1–3 - Titan portal
4 -35 - VIP portal
36-150 – Premium portal

The leaderboard is a BLITZ most-in-one-run event. Woo hoo!   Actual joy.


BUFFS:

Your buffs for today are:

Legendary Ghost x 10
Rare Bullet Points x 6
Epic Secret War x 4
Epic Battle Damage x 2

Really like how they are rolling the buffs across these events and between events. Much much better. Pulls from the portals are becoming less and less redundant now, which is how it should be.

The most effective way to compete in this event is to lead with MJ or Swiney-G and stack your highest buffs behind them, try not to die.

Four Ghosts will get you 40 per ring, three Ghosts and MJ lead will get you 90 per ring.  Even any +1 Ring spider will get you 60, still more than four Ghost.  So always sacrifice a buff to make space for a ring combo Spidey.


PORTAL

The portal for this has a better amount of spiders in it, even if three of them are epics and a rare. Good luck getting some Ghosts. It probably wont happen and you'll be shelling 30 ISOs for epic Secret War, but hey ho, have fun.

A reasonably decent event. Strangely managing to take things backwards and forwards at the same time.  Good stuff though. You can see their little brains working!


- Goatmeat

NEW EVENT: We Had a Deal

Event number three of update ten, and things are not looking good, kids. This post one is going to make up for the very short one about the Daily Flash event today.

This is supposed to be an event where Silver Sable returns to the Sinister Six for unfinished business to defeat the spiders. Well, someone give us a call if they see her in there. Solus’ face and attacks are appearing for some of the bosses – yet, none are Silver Sable. The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

The little red banner just repeats the name of the event, which to be fair, is a lot more descriptive than they usually are.

Let’s see what’s inside this mess.

PROGRESSION:

Progression rewards for running 500,000 meters will award you with a grand total of 63 raw ISO, and that’s it. If you have a buff of x10, you will be able to do it in one Great Run. If not, it will take many more attempts than that.

This gets a Fanguide Event Score of just 3. The previous two events scored 42 and 32. No need to elaborate on how poor that is.

LEADERBOARD:

It’s a GRIND Leaderboard - again, of course - which appears to be restricted to the promised 3,000 players. That is something at least. We get offered vials for the top prizes for the first time ever. Not an auspicious occasion, unless the VIP portal suddenly changes to 10,000 vials a pull.

Between progression and leaderboard, there is nothing other than buffs you can do to increase your position. It's so boring, and the third distance grinder we've had this week.

Prizes are:
70 ISO & 30,000 vials for the top 3 places
50 ISO & 15,000 vials for 04-25
Premium Portal & 15 ISO for 25-100




 BUFF SPIDERS:

Buffs affect the progression and leaderboard placement.

Legendary Captain Spider x 6
Legendary Spider Punk x 5
Epic Battle Damage x 4
Epic Vanilla x 4




PORTAL

For this portal, the game reverts back to the terrible composition of just the four buffs, but costs an astronomical 40 ISO a go – to help fight for a grand prize of 70 ISO. Someone making the decisions on this must have failed maths class at school, as there is no point in pulling from the portal to compete in this event. The spiders in it are weak and have been around for ages. It includes two epics, which you are most likely to get. 40 ISO for Epics is not cool.

Needless to say, we are not enthused.  The least the developers need to do, to compensate for the car-crash state of the game, is to offer events that are worth slogging through the laggy glitches for. Something really great, as an apology for the unplayable update. But no. Just, no.


- Goatmeat