I play a lot. And per event I feed the game anywhere between one and five dollars, mostly for rations or ammmo clips.

My problem is timinng. Often when i have time to play iits a couple hours after everyone at home is asleep or an hour while my wife has my son at soccer. Then i go as long as half a day not playing. That's usually fine, but during events it can really mess you up.

It looks like the next Take Down event won't start until next week. There is a weekend (Friday through Sunday) PvP mini-event where the daily PvP rankings can apparently get you Gold tokens, medals, and some of the invitation Storm Shadow cards (the 1988/Resolute one).

Yeah, the weekend pvp event seems a really thinly veiled attempt to get us to burn through our reloads before the next event. No deal; don't need a Storm Shadow that bad.

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I do.

Yeah, I want some more Storm Shadows, and Gold tokens are nice too, but I'm not burning through the reloads I've been stockpiling just to get them. I did get one Storm Shadow last night, and I'm on track to do that today as well. I haven't had as much time to play this weekend as I would have liked, but this is still better than nothing.

I've felt like Cobra has all-around better cards than G.I. Joe, and I think my play over the last few days confirms it. Using my Cobra squad, I've gotten three 30-win streaks, and at one point I had 83 or so total wins in a row. The Joes don't have many characters that can provide a stat boost to more than one character aside from General Hawk, but he's only a two-star Rare card and is a liability. The Joe stat degreasers are decent, though I find it strange that the four-star Shipwreck's ability decreases agility when the only Cobra characters with agility-based special attacks are the various Storm Shadow cards. The Joes have jet pack Duke for taking damage for other units, but only the Leader Flint has Counterattack (though the tactical two-star Roadblock has Counterguard, which only protects one card), while Cobra has Dice and the four-star Zarana (who can counterattack against any position other than her own). Basically, the only way my Cobra squad ever loses is if everyone on my squad fails to execute any special and/or vehicle attack. Out of the three losses I've been dealt recently, I got a rematch with two of the three squads and soundly whipped them, so it isn't like they are powerful.

Had a crazy good day as far as tokens go. Off of just silver and bronze, got a rare Mindbender, a rare Zarana, an epic Resolute Baroness and an epic Cold Slither Zarana.

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Nice get on the Cold Slither Zarana! I still need at least two more Spy Troops Zarana cards to get my Zarana fully promoted as I would like. I got a one-star Resolute Destro from a bronze token and a one-star tactical Lady Jaye from a silver token.

I ended up getting one Storm Shadow card per day from the weekend event. I probably could have qualified for two last night if I had been able to play after 10:30pm my time, as I was around 101 when I stopped playing. I think I had at least six 30-win streaks having my Cobra squad take on Joe squads in PvP. But, I've finally got most of my Cobra cards leveled up as much as I reasonably can for now, so I switched back to my Joe squad for missions. That means I'm putting my Cobra squad up against Cobra squads in PvP since I still don't have any Joe combination worth a crap (but I'm working on Falcon), but I still get my butt kicked usually in battles 7-9 again. Like I said, Cobra squads are just ridiculously stronger than Joe squads - I typically was able to beat even other BattleMasters when using my Cobra squad against Joe squads, but I'm at risk against any decent Cobra squad. It would probably help if my two Zartans didn't totally forget how to use either the Onslaught attack or the Night Raven attack, which they've basically done in my tough battles. I'm even experimenting now with using my fully promoted Baroness instead of my Leader Cobra Commander since Chem Toxin can hit random enemies while Dual Fang needs adjacent enemies (both characters have the Mamba vehicle attack), even though Cobra Commander is much stronger on statistics.

Speaking of the next event, I wonder when it starts? Tonight would seem like the time, but I haven't heard anything from the usual sources and haven't seen any splash screens in the app. I'm itching to start, though I suppose I could use the time to build up more ammo reserves.

...anyone else notice that Zarana's shirt says GOLD Slither? Miscommunication with the art department?

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Anyone else playing the iOS version? And if so, have you downloaded the update? Since I did that, the app freezes every time I enter a non-PVP battle.

Annoying as heck.

Good to know...haven't updated yet, but was about to. Maybe since it's designed for ios7, it doesn't work well with 6.

Also, what the hell is 'Revenge'? It's always just a blank screen when I select it. And I got a notice just now about the next event..."Cobra La strikes back" or something...but again, blank screen.

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I'm not getting a lockup in my regular battles, but I am getting it in some PvP battles. Against certain players, it will load up a battle screen with my squad, but the other squad does not load, and it never gives me the Engage button to start the battle. However, I was getting that last night even prior to updating the app, so I don't think it is the new upgrade that is necessarily the issue.

I think Revenge is just a blank screen for everyone. It was enabled with the previous app update, but I'm guessing it was a feature that wasn't intended to go live yet.

The Cobra-La Strikes Back splash page was blank last night, but it now has info on it, with a picture of Golobulous surrounded by a couple of Royal Guardsmen. I'm guessing the event will go live tonight, though the splash page didn't give any specific information.

Another fun "feature" is that one of my reward Falcon cards apparently has the Lockdown ability rather than Fire in the Hole. I'm hoping it will resolve itself once I use that card to promote one of my other Falcon cards, but I don't understand how that happened.

Overall, the app is seriously bug-ridden right now. Here are the bugs I've identified, most of which I've also reported to Mobage:

-- Desert Scorpion cannot be captured because no opportunity is presented to capture him after the battle.
-- Some of my PvP battles lock up.
-- The Falcon special ability issue.
-- Revenge does nothing but show a popup with the History title and nothing else.
-- The PvP Ranking screen no longer loads, it just shows the rotating Joe/Cobra token indefinitely (I'm pretty sure this worked prior to the 20130829 build i.e. the previous app upgrade).

But hey, it looks like the Dual Fang attack now hits two random targets rather than just two adjacent targets, so hooray for progress there! My Cobra PvP squad is doing much better against other Cobra squads now that my Zartans have remembered how to execute special attacks. It probably also helped to move Zarana to the right side of my squad so that she doesn't get hit early if somebody's leader Storm Shadow executes Shadow Slash, as a regular hit seems to inflict more damage on her than a hit she takes when counterattacking.

I am bleeding rare Mainframes. Seriously can't stop getting them. Did get a Psych Out, too, which is cool. I always have a soft spot for Psych Out...my very first figure.

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Psyche-Out has the most awesome name for a special attack - NOT IN GAME. I got a Psyche-Out, two Salvos, one Mutt, a two-star Stalker, and a couple of 4-star Mainframes. Is it just me, or does the art on both of the Mainframe cards make him look like he has a mustache?

Oddly enough, I probably did as well as can ever be expected with two Bronze tokens last night and got a two-star Rare Roadblock card and a 4-star Epic Dice card.

As of 15 minutes ago, I was ranked 58 in the current event. I'm glad that the Royal Guards appear in regular battles since I didn't capture any during the last event (probably because I didn't even bother with non-Lethal levels). I've captured one already.