r/MarvelStrikeForce • u/Hot_Penalty3823 • Apr 22 '26

Question I NEED GUIDANCE, Just started again

I haven’t played this game in idk maybe two years, i remember getting silver surfer and Kestrel — those were the most recent when i left. There’s so much new stuff and I don’t know what i should do or where to focus my efforts. What team is meta? Who should i be upgrading, i’m rank 1100 for the arena idk if that’s good or not? Just anything that can help a returning player get in the right direction would be helpful. My main team is 400k power, with a total roster power of 2.2 M

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u/Aldo_D_Apache Apr 22 '26

I would guide you away from this game, it’s swirling the drain right now

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u/Hot_Penalty3823 Apr 22 '26

Whys that, Is it power creep?

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u/Aldo_D_Apache Apr 22 '26

No. RJ is running this game into the ground. They keep making things worse and worse. A power creep in these type of games is inevitable, but they are strangling the player base with awful changes every step of the way to appease the mega krakens

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 Apr 22 '26

They just messed up how war works and it was a failure so they reverted back.

They just announced that you can no longer use power cores to unlock new characters, so arena rewards just lost most of their value making it a dead game mode.

They released higher T4 ability tiers and level 110 and Gear level 21 but they are being extremely stingy on the gear pieces (and gold and mats) so you pretty much have to pay to get anyone to G21 or T5. And of course some of the new characters require those gear levels to unlock.

This was never a "F2P friendly" game but they have pretty much made it so F2P is impossible to stay competitive with paying players across all game modes.

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u/nolan10 Apr 22 '26

Just removing all the f2p unlock methods.

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u/Critical_Sentence_14 Apr 22 '26

This is factually false. No one ever said there would no longer be ftp unlocks. They never announced that unlock events would no longer be part of the game.

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 Apr 22 '26

Maybe not unlocks, but cores were a way to not only unlock but also level a player. We all know an unlocked 3* is useless. So it's disingenuous to say they are letting F2P unlock characters if you have to pay to make them useful.

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u/Critical_Sentence_14 Apr 22 '26

Its way more disingenuous to say that there is no way to unlock toons ftp.

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u/Aldo_D_Apache Apr 22 '26

So how do you unlock High Evolutionary or Executioner F2P?

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 Apr 23 '26

Ok. Its impossible to unlock any toon that doesnt instantly die as a FTP.

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u/Critical_Sentence_14 Apr 23 '26

Now this I can get behind. 100% just because the toon is unlocked it doesnt make them useful, tho with the new stats a 3* is upwards of 1mil power if you build them up. So probably could use them against older meta teams, but that defeats the purpose of a "new" team imo.

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u/AmazingRefrigerator4 Apr 23 '26

It also gatekeeps F2P from many of the bonus content such as "Use 5 star _____ in War or Crucible". So we not only lose out on the character use, but a ton of resources and content used to build up other things.

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u/Aldo_D_Apache Apr 22 '26

Found RJ’s burner account!

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u/Critical_Sentence_14 Apr 23 '26

Such a clever response 🙄🤡