Nodes make this game unbearable.

I’m currently on act 5 chapter 1 dark Angel and the nodes kabam puts on this game are unbearable and generally make the game NOT fun. There’s a degeneration buff on this map meaning if you don’t land a punch within 6 seconds you lose your health ok fair enough you want to give us a challenge BUT WHEN THE COMPUTER STANDS THERE BLOCKING THE ENTIRE TIME, trying to bait you into doing a heavy attack so they can just stop blocking and start attacking just to REPEAT the process is madness after awhile kabam stacks the odds in the computers favor

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Jefechuta

Act 5 is pretty easy

Genocnotez80

Is it easy because you have the right maxed out 4 star characters ? Is it easy because you have rank 2 6 star characters ? Is it easy because you have enough credits to afford health items ? If so tell me what I’m doing wrong

AmaadAkira

Is it easy because you have the right maxed out 4 star characters ? Is it easy because you have rank 2 6 star characters ? Is it easy because you have enough credits to afford health items ? If so tell me what I’m doing wrong

Honestly just boost the heck up and brute force through it. Don't bother exploring and clearing once shouldn't be too difficult. When I was doing act 5, there were no degen immune champs so you just had to kill the opponent before they can kill you. And yes, stack up on HP potions and pray. It is widely agreed that many chapters before act 7 & 8 had BS nodes. Wait til you hit act 6.

Jefechuta

Act 5 is pretty easy

Is it easy because you have the right maxed out 4 star characters ? Is it easy because you have rank 2 6 star characters ? Is it easy because you have enough credits to afford health items ? If so tell me what I’m doing wrong

I literally ranked up the 5* that I had when I played act 5 some years ago and won with that, and those were Green Goblin, Proxima Midnight, Sabretooth, Thing and Venom the Duck. And putting maybe some 4* sometimes like Old Man Logan, Scarlet Witch or Guillotine.

I just went for the easiest node for completion to get more and better champs.

Right now you can get 5* and 6* pretty soon, before you had to play a lot more to get a single 5* if you were not a whale or you had good champs to do what was endgame content.

Maybe 2 years ago I just explored act 5 pretty easily so I think you complain too much.

If you were talking about act 6? Then yeah, you would be right, act 6 is probably the hardest one, but act 5 is straight forward.

If you are skilled enough, champions shouldnt be a problem, and theres a lot of youtuber doing f2p runs doing act 5 with pretty normal champions.

Ackbar67

As time has progressed, the early game has gotten accelerated so new players have more of a chance to catch up. As such, new players are able to obtain much stronger champions than was originally intended for their content. As a result, they can muscle through content without growing their skills for far far longer than ever before.

You are now reaching the point where you can't simply brute force your way through content. For veteran players, we first hit that roadblock in early act 4, or even act 3, so it can be difficult to relate to new players who have far stronger champions than we did.

People are saying it's easy because in the grand scheme of mcoc, there really is very little to worry about in 5.1 compared to later content. I don't say this to make you feel bad, but you should realize it. At this point you have a few options. Push through with units (not recommended), stay at your current level forever (if that's what you enjoy, go for it), stop playing mcoc (advised if you're not having fun), or start working on building your skills. If you want advice on how exactly to improve, people are more than willing to help, but if you just say it's too hard you likely won't get a very helpful reaction

Licky

Post your roster, and we can give you specific advice

Dude17

As time has progressed, the early game has gotten accelerated so new players have more of a chance to catch up. As such, new players are able to obtain much stronger champions than was originally intended for their content. As a result, they can muscle through content without growing their skills for far far longer than ever before.

You are now reaching the point where you can't simply brute force your way through content. For veteran players, we first hit that roadblock in early act 4, or even act 3, so it can be difficult to relate to new players who have far stronger champions than we did.

People are saying it's easy because in the grand scheme of mcoc, there really is very little to worry about in 5.1 compared to later content. I don't say this to make you feel bad, but you should realize it. At this point you have a few options. Push through with units (not recommended), stay at your current level forever (if that's what you enjoy, go for it), stop playing mcoc (advised if you're not having fun), or start working on building your skills. If you want advice on how exactly to improve, people are more than willing to help, but if you just say it's too hard you likely won't get a very helpful reaction

Exactly right. We all reached that point where brute force method stops working. Then we had to master fundamental skills like parry, dex, intercept & actually read and understand nodes.

If someone wants continue mashing the screen like it’s Mortal Kombat, stick to arena tbh.

Genocnotez80

Post your roster, and we can give you specific advice

Genocnotez80

As time has progressed, the early game has gotten accelerated so new players have more of a chance to catch up. As such, new players are able to obtain much stronger champions than was originally intended for their content. As a result, they can muscle through content without growing their skills for far far longer than ever before.

You are now reaching the point where you can't simply brute force your way through content. For veteran players, we first hit that roadblock in early act 4, or even act 3, so it can be difficult to relate to new players who have far stronger champions than we did.

People are saying it's easy because in the grand scheme of mcoc, there really is very little to worry about in 5.1 compared to later content. I don't say this to make you feel bad, but you should realize it. At this point you have a few options. Push through with units (not recommended), stay at your current level forever (if that's what you enjoy, go for it), stop playing mcoc (advised if you're not having fun), or start working on building your skills. If you want advice on how exactly to improve, people are more than willing to help, but if you just say it's too hard you likely won't get a very helpful reaction

I hear what you saying but I’m not some new player I’ve been playing since 2014 I stopped playing for a year then I came back and took the game more serious and as the years went on I learned new things I got through act 4 with ease once I upgrade the right champions however as soon as I got to act 5 chapter 1 map 6 dark Angel the computer start acting different no matter what I do to get the computer to stop blocking it doesn’t work unless I have a champion with a first unblockable special baiting out a special is easy playing this blocking game is annoying cause I know for a fact if I go to do a heavy attack to break the block they’ll start attacking do you have advice for that

Genocnotez80

Act 5 is pretty easy
Is it easy because you have the right maxed out 4 star characters ? Is it easy because you have rank 2 6 star characters ? Is it easy because you have enough credits to afford health items ? If so tell me what I’m doing wrong
I literally ranked up the 5* that I had when I played act 5 some years ago and won with that, and those were Green Goblin, Proxima Midnight, Sabretooth, Thing and Venom the Duck. And putting maybe some 4* sometimes like Old Man Logan, Scarlet Witch or Guillotine.

I just went for the easiest node for completion to get more and better champs.

Right now you can get 5* and 6* pretty soon, before you had to play a lot more to get a single 5* if you were not a whale or you had good champs to do what was endgame content.

Maybe 2 years ago I just explored act 5 pretty easily so I think you complain too much.

If you were talking about act 6? Then yeah, you would be right, act 6 is probably the hardest one, but act 5 is straight forward.

If you are skilled enough, champions shouldnt be a problem, and theres a lot of youtuber doing f2p runs doing act 5 with pretty normal champions.

I think you said a whole bunch of nothing. It was insightful the champions you had but everything else is irrelevant I seen what they’re doing on YouTube and it’s not the champions that the problem it’s the **** node for the map I’m on I’ve seen people do it with ultron Hyperion ghost wolverine and another random but the difference between me and them is I don’t have those champions as strong and I’m upgrading them if you have advice on how I can get past the computers “block until I do a heavy to break the block just to hit me and go back to blocking” gimmick feel free to drop the advice otherwise move the on cause I’ve talked to others that’s felt the same way so far I’ve tried taking champions with unblockable first specials

Demonzfyre

Act 5 is pretty easy
Is it easy because you have the right maxed out 4 star characters ? Is it easy because you have rank 2 6 star characters ? Is it easy because you have enough credits to afford health items ? If so tell me what I’m doing wrong
I literally ranked up the 5* that I had when I played act 5 some years ago and won with that, and those were Green Goblin, Proxima Midnight, Sabretooth, Thing and Venom the Duck. And putting maybe some 4* sometimes like Old Man Logan, Scarlet Witch or Guillotine.

I just went for the easiest node for completion to get more and better champs.

Right now you can get 5* and 6* pretty soon, before you had to play a lot more to get a single 5* if you were not a whale or you had good champs to do what was endgame content.

Maybe 2 years ago I just explored act 5 pretty easily so I think you complain too much.

If you were talking about act 6? Then yeah, you would be right, act 6 is probably the hardest one, but act 5 is straight forward.

If you are skilled enough, champions shouldnt be a problem, and theres a lot of youtuber doing f2p runs doing act 5 with pretty normal champions.

I think you said a whole bunch of nothing. It was insightful the champions you had but everything else is irrelevant I seen what they’re doing on YouTube and it’s not the champions that the problem it’s the **** node for the map I’m on I’ve seen people do it with ultron Hyperion ghost wolverine and another random but the difference between me and them is I don’t have those champions as strong and I’m upgrading them if you have advice on how I can get past the computers “block until I do a heavy to break the block just to hit me and go back to blocking” gimmick feel free to drop the advice otherwise move the on cause I’ve talked to others that’s felt the same way so far I’ve tried taking champions with unblockable first specials

Don't worry. That guy can't handle Electric Defense - 2 and Hit me I Dare you in Battlegrounds. I wouldn't listen to a thing they say.

Demonzfyre

Act 5 is pretty easy
Is it easy because you have the right maxed out 4 star characters ? Is it easy because you have rank 2 6 star characters ? Is it easy because you have enough credits to afford health items ? If so tell me what I’m doing wrong
I literally ranked up the 5* that I had when I played act 5 some years ago and won with that, and those were Green Goblin, Proxima Midnight, Sabretooth, Thing and Venom the Duck. And putting maybe some 4* sometimes like Old Man Logan, Scarlet Witch or Guillotine.

I just went for the easiest node for completion to get more and better champs.

Right now you can get 5* and 6* pretty soon, before you had to play a lot more to get a single 5* if you were not a whale or you had good champs to do what was endgame content.

Maybe 2 years ago I just explored act 5 pretty easily so I think you complain too much.

If you were talking about act 6? Then yeah, you would be right, act 6 is probably the hardest one, but act 5 is straight forward.

If you are skilled enough, champions shouldnt be a problem, and theres a lot of youtuber doing f2p runs doing act 5 with pretty normal champions.

I think you said a whole bunch of nothing. It was insightful the champions you had but everything else is irrelevant I seen what they’re doing on YouTube and it’s not the champions that the problem it’s the **** node for the map I’m on I’ve seen people do it with ultron Hyperion ghost wolverine and another random but the difference between me and them is I don’t have those champions as strong and I’m upgrading them if you have advice on how I can get past the computers “block until I do a heavy to break the block just to hit me and go back to blocking” gimmick feel free to drop the advice otherwise move the on cause I’ve talked to others that’s felt the same way so far I’ve tried taking champions with unblockable first specials

If you're looking for a option to combat the passive A.I, Dragon Man is good. He can gain unblockable from heavy for a short time. X-23 has healing so she can heal back lost health.

You have all the champions you need for act 5. You just need to put together a team.

Genocnotez80

Act 5 is pretty easy
Is it easy because you have the right maxed out 4 star characters ? Is it easy because you have rank 2 6 star characters ? Is it easy because you have enough credits to afford health items ? If so tell me what I’m doing wrong
I literally ranked up the 5* that I had when I played act 5 some years ago and won with that, and those were Green Goblin, Proxima Midnight, Sabretooth, Thing and Venom the Duck. And putting maybe some 4* sometimes like Old Man Logan, Scarlet Witch or Guillotine.

I just went for the easiest node for completion to get more and better champs.

Right now you can get 5* and 6* pretty soon, before you had to play a lot more to get a single 5* if you were not a whale or you had good champs to do what was endgame content.

Maybe 2 years ago I just explored act 5 pretty easily so I think you complain too much.

If you were talking about act 6? Then yeah, you would be right, act 6 is probably the hardest one, but act 5 is straight forward.

If you are skilled enough, champions shouldnt be a problem, and theres a lot of youtuber doing f2p runs doing act 5 with pretty normal champions.

I think you said a whole
If you're looking for an option to combat the passive A.I, Dragon Man is good. He can gain unblockable from heavy for a short time. X-23 has healing so she can heal back lost health.

You have all the champions you need for act 5. You just need to put together a team.
See this is constructive !, do you have any other champion suggestions ? Some of my six stars I use for wars so I’m working with the ones that aren’t being used and 5 stars

Genocnotez80

As time has progressed, the early game has gotten accelerated so new players have more of a chance to catch up. As such, new players are able to obtain much stronger champions than was originally intended for their content. As a result, they can muscle through content without growing their skills for far far longer than ever before.

You are now reaching the point where you can't simply brute force your way through content. For veteran players, we first hit that roadblock in early act 4, or even act 3, so it can be difficult to relate to new players who have far stronger champions than we did.

People are saying it's easy because in the grand scheme of mcoc, there really is very little to worry about in 5.1 compared to later content. I don't say this to make you feel bad, but you should realize it. At this point you have a few options. Push through with units (not recommended), stay at your current level forever (if that's what you enjoy, go for it), stop playing mcoc (advised if you're not having fun), or start working on building your skills. If you want advice on how exactly to improve, people are more than willing to help, but if you just say it's too hard you likely won't get a very helpful reaction
Exactly right. We all reached that point where brute force method stops working. Then we had to master fundamental skills like parry, dex, intercept & actually read and understand nodes.

If someone wants continue mashing the screen like it’s Mortal Kombat, stick to arena tbh.

Who said I didn’t and don’t have these skills ? Do YOU have any suggestions since I’m over here mashing the screen since you know so **** much

Ackbar67

As time has progressed, the early game has gotten accelerated so new players have more of a chance to catch up. As such, new players are able to obtain much stronger champions than was originally intended for their content. As a result, they can muscle through content without growing their skills for far far longer than ever before.

You are now reaching the point where you can't simply brute force your way through content. For veteran players, we first hit that roadblock in early act 4, or even act 3, so it can be difficult to relate to new players who have far stronger champions than we did.

People are saying it's easy because in the grand scheme of mcoc, there really is very little to worry about in 5.1 compared to later content. I don't say this to make you feel bad, but you should realize it. At this point you have a few options. Push through with units (not recommended), stay at your current level forever (if that's what you enjoy, go for it), stop playing mcoc (advised if you're not having fun), or start working on building your skills. If you want advice on how exactly to improve, people are more than willing to help, but if you just say it's too hard you likely won't get a very helpful reaction
I hear what you saying but I’m not some new player I’ve been playing since 2014 I stopped playing for a year then I came back and took the game more serious and as the years went on I learned new things I got through act 4 with ease once I upgrade the right champions however as soon as I got to act 5 chapter 1 map 6 dark Angel the computer start acting different no matter what I do to get the computer to stop blocking it doesn’t work unless I have a champion with a first unblockable special baiting out a special is easy playing this blocking game is annoying cause I know for a fact if I go to do a heavy attack to break the block they’ll start attacking do you have advice for that

Brute force potency is affected by class relationship, if you have the class advantage you will take much less damage. Keeping the ai aggressive requires a bit of AI manipulation, which takes a lot of practice, but here are some basics:

Leave yourself open. The less you're blocking the more likely it is that the defender will attack into you.

Don't finish your combos. Generally the AI is much more willing to dash back in if you only do partial combos.

Start baiting specials long before it's necessary. Right after they hit 2 bars, try to bait out the special. If they're not throwing it, use the occasional hit to keep brute force from triggering. With a whole bar of wiggle room it gives plenty of time for them to throw it.

Use champions with access to unblockable or power control. It reduces the number of things you need to keep track of. CGR, corvus, IMIW, and prof x all have access to unblockable and power control

Real_Madrid_76_2

Bro brute force is pretty easy. Just try to manipulate opponent ai and make it aggressive. If needed, watch some ai manipulation tricks on YouTube and watch the vid made by seatin on top 10 best tips and tricks in mcoc

Genocnotez80

As time has progressed, the early game has gotten accelerated so new players have more of a chance to catch up. As such, new players are able to obtain much stronger champions than was originally intended for their content. As a result, they can muscle through content without growing their skills for far far longer than ever before.

You are now reaching the point where you can't simply brute force your way through content. For veteran players, we first hit that roadblock in early act 4, or even act 3, so it can be difficult to relate to new players who have far stronger champions than we did.

People are saying it's easy because in the grand scheme of mcoc, there really is very little to worry about in 5.1 compared to later content. I don't say this to make you feel bad, but you should realize it. At this point you have a few options. Push through with units (not recommended), stay at your current level forever (if that's what you enjoy, go for it), stop playing mcoc (advised if you're not having fun), or start working on building your skills. If you want advice on how exactly to improve, people are more than willing to help, but if you just say it's too hard you likely won't get a very helpful reaction
I hear what you saying but I’m not some new player I’ve been playing since 2014 I stopped playing for a year then I came back and took the game more serious and as the years went on I learned new things I got through act 4 with ease once I upgrade the right champions however as soon as I got to act 5 chapter 1 map 6 dark Angel the computer start acting different no matter what I do to get the computer to stop blocking it doesn’t work unless I have a champion with a first unblockable special baiting out a special is easy playing this blocking game is annoying cause I know for a fact if I go to do a heavy attack to break the block they’ll start attacking do you have advice for that

Brute force potency is affected by class relationship, if you have the class advantage you will take much less damage. Keeping the ai aggressive requires a bit of AI manipulation, which takes a lot of practice, but here are some basics:

Leave yourself open. The less you're blocking the more likely it is that the defender will attack into you.

Don't finish your combos. Generally the AI is much more willing to dash back in if you only do partial combos.

Start baiting specials long before it's necessary. Right after they hit 2 bars, try to bait out the special. If they're not throwing it, use the occasional hit to keep brute force from triggering. With a whole bar of wiggle room it gives plenty of time for them to throw it.

Use champions with access to unblockable or power control. It reduces the number of things you need to keep track of. CGR, corvus, IMIW, and prof x all have access to unblockable and power control

Who is IMIW ?

Jefechuta

Act 5 is pretty easy
Is it easy because you have the right maxed out 4 star characters ? Is it easy because you have rank 2 6 star characters ? Is it easy because you have enough credits to afford health items ? If so tell me what I’m doing wrong
I literally ranked up the 5* that I had when I played act 5 some years ago and won with that, and those were Green Goblin, Proxima Midnight, Sabretooth, Thing and Venom the Duck. And putting maybe some 4* sometimes like Old Man Logan, Scarlet Witch or Guillotine.

I just went for the easiest node for completion to get more and better champs.

Right now you can get 5* and 6* pretty soon, before you had to play a lot more to get a single 5* if you were not a whale or you had good champs to do what was endgame content.

Maybe 2 years ago I just explored act 5 pretty easily so I think you complain too much.

If you were talking about act 6? Then yeah, you would be right, act 6 is probably the hardest one, but act 5 is straight forward.

If you are skilled enough, champions shouldnt be a problem, and theres a lot of youtuber doing f2p runs doing act 5 with pretty normal champions.

I think you said a whole bunch of nothing. It was insightful the champions you had but everything else is irrelevant I seen what they’re doing on YouTube and it’s not the champions that the problem it’s the **** node for the map I’m on I’ve seen people do it with ultron Hyperion ghost wolverine and another random but the difference between me and them is I don’t have those champions as strong and I’m upgrading them if you have advice on how I can get past the computers “block until I do a heavy to break the block just to hit me and go back to blocking” gimmick feel free to drop the advice otherwise move the on cause I’ve talked to others that’s felt the same way so far I’ve tried taking champions with unblockable first specials
Don't worry. That guy can't handle Electric Defense - 2 and Hit me I Dare you in Battlegrounds. I wouldn't listen to a thing they say.

Lmao, I handle it pretty easy, that doesnt mean I find it funny and right to put it in VT, im realistic, not like you

Jefechuta

You literally have better roster than I had while doing act 6 so If you are not able to do act 5, then read all the nodes, look for 5 champs that you have that are mostly good for at least doing one of the roads and do it.

You have enough dmg and immunity champs to do whole act 5 I think, but you have to play the right champs in the right nodes with some skill at least

Ackbar67

As time has progressed, the early game has gotten accelerated so new players have more of a chance to catch up. As such, new players are able to obtain much stronger champions than was originally intended for their content. As a result, they can muscle through content without growing their skills for far far longer than ever before.

You are now reaching the point where you can't simply brute force your way through content. For veteran players, we first hit that roadblock in early act 4, or even act 3, so it can be difficult to relate to new players who have far stronger champions than we did.

People are saying it's easy because in the grand scheme of mcoc, there really is very little to worry about in 5.1 compared to later content. I don't say this to make you feel bad, but you should realize it. At this point you have a few options. Push through with units (not recommended), stay at your current level forever (if that's what you enjoy, go for it), stop playing mcoc (advised if you're not having fun), or start working on building your skills. If you want advice on how exactly to improve, people are more than willing to help, but if you just say it's too hard you likely won't get a very helpful reaction
I hear what you saying but I’m not some new player I’ve been playing since 2014 I stopped playing for a year then I came back and took the game more serious and as the years went on I learned new things I got through act 4 with ease once I upgrade the right champions however as soon as I got to act 5 chapter 1 map 6 dark Angel the computer start acting different no matter what I do to get the computer to stop blocking it doesn’t work unless I have a champion with a first unblockable special baiting out a special is easy playing this blocking game is annoying cause I know for a fact if I go to do a heavy attack to break the block they’ll start attacking do you have advice for that

Brute force potency is affected by class relationship, if you have the class advantage you will take much less damage. Keeping the ai aggressive requires a bit of AI manipulation, which takes a lot of practice, but here are some basics:

Leave yourself open. The less you're blocking the more likely it is that the defender will attack into you.

Don't finish your combos. Generally the AI is much more willing to dash back in if you only do partial combos.

Start baiting specials long before it's necessary. Right after they hit 2 bars, try to bait out the special. If they're not throwing it, use the occasional hit to keep brute force from triggering. With a whole bar of wiggle room it gives plenty of time for them to throw it.

Use champions with access to unblockable or power control. It reduces the number of things you need to keep track of. CGR, corvus, IMIW, and prof x all have access to unblockable and power control
Who is IMIW ?

Iron Man Infinity War

Upbea_k19

Is it easy because you have the right maxed out 4 star characters ? Is it easy because you have rank 2 6 star characters ? Is it easy because you have enough credits to afford health items ? If so tell me what I’m doing wrong

I still had 3*

honeybisc

Who said I didn’t and don’t have these skills ? Do YOU have any suggestions since I’m over here mashing the screen since you know so **** much

i mean... you have 6*, man. most of us were doing this with mediocore 4*, you dont even need specific champs at this point.

Feeney234

LOL just wait until you go do Act 6 😂

Licky

Tbh bro you just got to push through the nodes and use your brain to figure them out

You have more of a diverse roster at chapter 1 than I did at chapter 4

I did whole of act 5 with 3 maxed 4 stars and 1 5 star rank 3 and one five star rank 2

So you can do it

And they weren't game breaking champs, just sunspot, NF , doom, Mr fantastic and Spidey 99

With that roster and a bit of skill you can do it