It is a bit of a shame that the voodoo pins only started appearing at the end. You missed out on one of the fun parts of Gloomweaver, who is my ‘go to’ interesting boss. It was still good to watch.
I was listening until the tachyon hot take. She draws five cards every turn. Doubles the end of turn draw for every character. That's what she does when she's doing nothing.
Variants may be hard to unlock, but at the very least they let you unlock all the variants now just by clicking on them. And if anyone cares about the challenge of unlocking more than actually unlocking them, you can still go for the achievements you get after completing their challenge. I view it as a win for everyone.
I've started working on card rankings/analysis for the game (mostly for myself but might make videos about it if I have the energy), and I'm using ra and tempest 5damage one-shot ability as like, a benchmark for the value of a card, the assumption basically being that you can win most game if you just have a team full of heroes that just have that card. And it's basically how I value somethiing at A-tier, if you can consistently output that amount of value every turn. I think it's a pretty good heuristic, even if it breaks down with some weirder heroes like visionnary or heroes that have a few REALLY strong cards and a lot of bad cards, but it still helps with thinking about how much value you should be bringing. Like, "if I control the vilain turn with visionnary, I am nerfin it's output enough that it's a better play than simply doing 5 damage to them?" helps ground your decisions a bit and not spend 10 turns setting things up and shuffling cards around to in the end do nothing of substance.
Definitely Agree that having a High DPS team is the way to win 80% of the battles. We considered having a card tier list and in our conversation about certain heroes. We did find ourselves saying "That one card is amazing" I think we found ourselves saying that any card that prevented an enemy from doing damage or drawing cards is clearly a better choice. Be interested in seeing the discussion.
@@rabidhaberdashery Yeah these effects are extremely strong but there is also something to be said about these negation effects being way stronger with 5 heroes than 3 heroes, spending your turn to skip the vilain turn is overwhelmingly powerful when it's just 1/5th of your actions and the vilain's actions are themselves stronger. When you have three heroes not only is the cost greater but the reward is also lesser especially since the environnement becomes comparatively more important in low hero count games. That can make some cards a bit tricky to evaluate, especially aoe heals/buff, like, legacy damage buff is one of the best powers in the game if you have 5 heroes but if you have only 3 it's pretty sad lol (unless you have the right synergies)
Yeah, we tend to stick to 5 hero teams, as are goal is to beat all the villains right now, but action economy is key. What is your favorite 5 hero and 3 hero comps?
@@rabidhaberdashery I tend to either try to setup interesting situations or go with a random composition (and tweak it a bit sometimes), so I'm not sure if I have a favorite. You can do a lot of different things with 5 heroes so I'm just screwing around with random stuff. I think a character that really shines in 3hero comp though is omnitron, because the lower overall damage output makes protecting it's equipment a lot easier. Another that I can think of having the opposite effect is prime warden tempest. It's absolutely busted in a 5 hero team but in a 3hero team the cost of paying so much health for the power really stings. (it's tempest so it's never really bad but you can really feel a difference).
So in other videos on the channel, we have playthroughs of the specific villains and we played the Villain Hades on the stream. They have a tutorial, but the tutorial is very much on rails, and really not needed if you have played Sentinels of the Multiverse. This video when it was made was about initial impressions.
Aah, I should have looked further but from a simply YT search, I only found this from your channel and I was looking for some gameplay bits, thus my disappointment 😅 Is ok, I still found enough to justify getting the game 👍
No worries! Glad you got the game, its definitely worth it. Try watching ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ATY8ivpUO9A.html where we play Omega. I liked this villain character a lot, both in concept and in mechanics.
@@rabidhaberdashery Started watching and remembering how hard it is to watch someone else play the game ^^; also Omega's startup just made me go "oohh HELL no!" XD not sure I'll ever try him out @_@
So, I thought Omega is one of the better villains of Earth Prime. He is a challenge up front, but when you break him (at about when he flips) you can feel the tables turn. I thought it was a good design because that is how a Super Villain fight should feel, difficult up front and then there is a break in the armor. Yeah, I probably should put a disclaimer up front, not optimal playthrough. Watch our video about our Hero Tier list! I am interested to hear other fans of Sentinels and their thoughts on who is best.
9:40 you all made a major error selecting discarding all your cards, if you had selected destroy all your cards, it only destroys the cards you currently have in play, and in the very beginning of the game, you have none, if you selected destroy all your cards, you would have had nothing happen at all. That card that villain has is a very nasty late game card. if you have no cards in your hand, then you pick discard all your cards.
I think we came up with that decision because at the time, we thought it would have destroyed all the cards in our hand for the game, versus just putting them into the trash. The wording on the card is fairly light, so at the moment, it was difficult for us to determine which is worse. Hopefully, our knowledge of the game has improved since our first episode! I really do appreciate the tactical discussion, because it will make us better players. We really like the game since it has so much depth. 😁
@@rabidhaberdashery well i certainly hope you all continue to improve, and you are correct there is a lot in depth in the game, especially when you eventually get to Oblivaeon. I have a lot of experience with this game, and I will be happy to join you if you wish one of these days. There is a lot on my channel you can use as a guide to help you.
Very nice. More Sentinels content getting released is always good. I'm looking forward to playing this myself. Also, hero variants are releasing for Earth Prime soon and it's getting a DLC called the Magical Mysteries Pack at some point too. So, it looks good for continued content so far.
Yeah, I noticed the physical card game has the expansion pack too. I am all for additional Sentinels content. We will definitely play that on the channel whenever it comes out. Check out our Road to Oblivaeon series on this channel and on our Twitch channel, as we play weekly Sentinels of the Multiverse. When you play, be interested to hear how you think the new heroes play.
Basically they went with the Freedom City centered setting of 2e (and 1e?). 3e started with Emerald City and whole new characters that, I feel, were less obvious copies of DC Marvel stuff. Hopefully a DLC satisfies this in the future!
@@leokhorn I believe Mutants & Masterminds actually made the RPG manual for DC characters, but I am not when they did that in the timeline. I feel like it was after the 3rd edition. I agree, Emerald City gives a little more space from DC Marvel stuff. I think this partnership of SotM and SoEP will be bringing several DLC's in the future, which will be fun.
Oh you're right, DC Adventures was it? Yes, first incarnation of 3e was for DC. But I just meant that the first original setting for 3e was Emerald. Totally looking forward to DLCs. There's a plethora of cool characters to pick from (Threat Report, Rogues Gallery)
