Whoops, looks like I didn’t update in April. As I’m sure a lot of people have already noticed, it periodically happens where blogging about Mega Man temporarily loses its charm for me. I’m often amazed how dudes like David, Adam and Brian can do so with such regularity. I bet that there have got to be days where those guys wake up and say, “You know, I just don’t feel like writing anything about Mega Man today.” But then they put on their game faces and step up to their computers or tablets or smartphones or whatever and do it anyway. I don’t know what mixture of ardent love, optimism, obsession, and sheer willpower makes this possible, but I stand in awe of it.
When I’m not blogging (which is often) I am still occasionally playing Rockman Xover. Skip this paragraph if you care nothing or less than nothing for this game. I will even block it out so people won’t accidentally be forced to read it. So Xover has recently added a new feature called Irregular Burst which involves maxing out up to 5 of the same card and then fu-sion-haaa-ing them together to make new more powerful versions. So far they’ve said this will be essential to continue onward in fighting the new stage bosses. Yeah, okay, that’s fine, but I’m a little irked at how many duplicates of decent cards I’ve sold off because previously there was absolutely nothing useful to do with them. Right now the best strategy in the game is probably to hold on to mid-level 4 and 5 star cards which tend to show up with the most frequency and max them out for fusion rather than wait on trying to get 6 star cards which unless you have lotto winner luck or lots of real money to throw at a silly online card game you will probably never get duplicates of. Of course, this too may change, as clearly Xover has no problem shaking up the rules of strategy even as we’re already 6 months into the game. Speaking of 6 star cards, in all the time I have been playing I have never gotten one to drop randomly. Not from Gacha tickets, not from Team Battles, not from Master Bosses or even Arcade Man rewards. Never. The only Super Rare + cards I have are the ones that are guaranteed (500th Master Boss fight, Air Man level 8, Arena Battles, calendar giveaways). I am seriously due. D-REX, if you’re listening, I’ll gladly take that Glide Armor X off your hands. I could really use a decent Slow skill card.
Okay, with that out of my system… R20+5 has a new (and perhaps improved) English language name and release date so I do not intend to do much more with translating the Japanese version… save perhaps one or two exceptions. We’ll see if I can get my servbooty back in gear first.
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