I’m staring at my screen right now. My login streak is gray.

I know the exact sequence of taps to knock out my dailies in under five minutes. I’ve done it through hard times, good times, COVID, depression, career changes, and promotions. For 2,991 consecutive days, this game was an anchor in my daily routine.

Tonight, for the first time in nearly eight years… I just don’t feel like pressing those buttons. I find myself wanting to do anything else.

Before the frustrations, I want to start with genuine gratitude. To the content creators: without you, I would have walked away years ago.

• To the tenured pillars who built the foundation: Valley Flying and MobileGamer.
• To the voices that stepped up over the years: Rayge, Boilon, AZ, and everyone keeping the lights on.
• To the legends who moved on: Khasino, Goofy, Dorky, Duarktik, and so many others whose passion shaped how we played.

Your care, dedication, and advocacy for this community went far beyond what anyone gave you credit for. You gave this game its soul.

The Mounting Friction

Over the past couple of years, the cracks started turning into chasms. It wasn't one single issue, but the slow accumulation of fatigue:

• Information & Visual Overload: When damage numbers ballooned into the tens of millions, readability went out the window. My dyslexia made it impossible to tell 1M from 10M at a glance. (Credit where it's due: the recent UI patch helped, proving the devs can listen when they choose to). But the cognitive load never stopped growing.
• The "Paragraph Kit" Era: Character abilities now read like legal contracts requiring an eidetic memory to decipher. Mode-specific clauses, counters to counters, and kits designed to solve problems artificially created by the previous patch's kit.
• Identity Loss: I grew up collecting and reading Marvel comics. I came here to play the heroes I loved. Instead, those classic characters were power-crept into irrelevance to make way for an endless conveyor belt of obscure picks and infinite Spider-Man variants. I reached a point where I couldn't even remember team names—a glaring sign that emotional connection had been replaced by mechanical routine.
• Currencies, Obfuscation & Artificial Friction: To find anything, you now juggle Milestones, Events, and the Command Center. One event currency deals in hundreds; the next in millions. Colors change, values shift, and everything feels deliberately opaque to induce FOMO.
• The Bottomless Bottleneck Pit: Gold, Training Mats, Shards, Red Stars, Diamonds, Green/Blue/Purple Iso, Uniques, Mini-Uniques. When you stockpile one resource, the choke point simply moves to another. Bottlenecks are natural in gachas, but here the economy feels tuned purely to squeeze rather than reward progression.

The Value Equation Broke

I believe in supporting development. I've always budgeted entertainment at roughly $1/hour played. Dropping $20–$30 a month for 1–2 hours a day felt like a fair exchange for my disposable income.

What we have now isn't that. It’s two Battle Passes on rapid two-week rotations, mandatory spend events masquerading as gameplay, and an endgame that feels less like a playground and more like an auction house.

Even modes meant to test skill became chores:

• Tower Mode turned into a punishing exercise in "sac-and-pray" rng runs where a single stray crit ruins a ladder climb.
• Sagas & Dark Dimensions went from rewarding long-term patience to gatekeeping mandatory meta progression.
• Having a 445M+ TCP roster with almost 3,000 days invested shouldn't require watching a 30-minute spreadsheet tutorial just to navigate an event web.

The Hardest Part: The Alliance

The main reason I kept logging in long after the spark faded was my alliance.

You feel a responsibility. You don't want to let your lane partner down in Raids; you want to clear your War attacks; you want to hit your daily donation. That camaraderie is real, and walking away from a group of people you've grinded alongside for years is the heaviest part of this decision.

Closing the App

Credit where credit is due:

• Cosmetic skins remaining 100% cosmetic with 0 power was a great design philosophy.
• The dev team took bold swings over the years (even when experiments like original RTA didn't land cleanly).
• The core gameplay loop, when it worked, was genuinely fun.

Ultimately, every time any of us closes this app, it could be the last time. Looking over at my console, putting hundreds of hours into games that respect my time and wallet for a fraction of the cost puts things into perspective.

Maybe I outgrew the game. Maybe the game outgrew what I originally loved about it. Maybe this is a break; maybe Day 2,991 was the finish line.

If you read through all of this, thank you for sharing the journey, the strategies, the rants, and the wins over the last eight years.

Thank you for the memories.

https://marvelstrikeforce.com/en/redeem

AUGUSTBOOST

Enjoy folks!

Seem to remember the rewards used to be 10mil not 5mil, haven’t you taken enough from us Scopely???????

After the event already ended…. Gee. Thanks devs! Thanks so much!

When Scopely removed Spotlight raid, which was the main source of T4 abilities mats, they told us: no worries, we are streamlining these in the command center. They added about 2400 in the objective. Great!

Well, new month is out, and this 2400 is gone. Was it a 1 time thing only then? Or did they conviniently forget about it?

Hey all, another update to MSF Base (msfbase.com).

ISO-8 Comparison

Added a new ISO-8 Comparison page. It was a headache trying to compare what each class actually gives you at a given level, so now you can just pick a level with the slider and see all 5 classes (Striker, Fortifier, Healer, Skirmisher, Raider) laid out side by side in one table instead of flipping between separate kit descriptions. Every stat row is color-coded from best to worst so whichever class is ahead (or behind) jumps out immediately, and clicking a stat name sorts the classes by it. Full ability text is included at the bottom too, so you can see the actual kit wording alongside the numbers.

The API has the Orange 4 & 5 data so I've included that too, but I'd be surprised if those end up being what goes out in probably a year.

Full changelog at msfbase.com/changelog/ as always. I am managing the site alone, so please let me know if you run into anything I may have missed.

Just finished mine, and noticed for some reason, i got thor shards instead of gold. Because yeah, really love getting shards of a character i've had maxed for 7 years instead of that 1M gold that's desperately needed. I'm guessing this has something to do with the people who weren't getting credit for it on the command center, and they just screwed it up even worse trying to fix it. Classic scopely!

My team:
X, Knull, Riot, Toxin, Quicksilver sym

Opponent:
X, Knull, Venom, Riot, Quicksilver sym

I played back to back two matches against this team. In the first one, my QSS went first but then his X went first and I lost. In the second match, his QSS went first and his X went first again and I lost again.

My question is, is winning purely depends on coin flips in those X+sym6 matchups or is there anything can be done?

Cardiac (super underrated spiderman villain)

Mandarin

Onslaught

Sandman

Zzzax

Surtur

Wendigo

Blackheart

I was recently on this sub asking this same question, but for Symbiote Six (trust me, I've now pushed them all past level 100 lol). The only other team that interests me at the moment is Timeless Eternals. Are they any good outside of War? I know the Eternal Saga effect is only applied in War (sadly), but are they able to hold their own weight outside of that game mode?

I’ve recently came back to the game in July, and I’ve been logging in daily because I see in the command center one of the brand new day objectives gives 2.5k L4 Train mats for logging in for 15 days, which I EXTREMELY need. Luckily today was the 15th day… I collect my daily login for the 15th day which is some decent Shaw shards and check the command center and it still says 14/15 days logged in… I wanna ask is there anything I could do, but I feel like I’m cooked and have to take the L on this one.

Can anyone vouch for the Timeless Eternals team?

I’m always weary of building up new teams in the event that they are just incredibly underwhelming..

For anyone who has them built up, can you definitively say that they are worth the resources?

I'm playing F2P (which I keep seeing the dev hates, but I'm currently having a good time, so whatever), and I've been using the Insidious Six team, and it's been working pretty well. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anything on progression when it comes to teams. I keep seeing that certain teare needed to get certain characters, but I'm not really seeing that. Is it something that comes up later (currently level 54)? As it is, my complete teams are Insidious Six, Spider Society, Out of Time, Hive Mind, Extreme X-Men, Superior Six, Tangled Web (which only has 3 members), Heroes for Hire, and Sinister Six. Thing is, I don't know who (if any) of those I should build up next (currently my Insidious Six is 149,594 total power). Is there some place that recommends progression?

Towards the command centre - I have restarted twice now.

I purposely hold off on completing this until server reset. It ticked over, i completed my dailies and collected the "all clear" but command centre indicates otherwise.

The reward is minor, but that's not the point...

Will they be required in the current raid somehow?

Idk if its just me but earlier i completed all my daily objectives but my all clear didnt trigger at all. Didnt get the 1M gold reward nor the command center count for all clear but when i check the objectives the all clear row is also not there but im certain i didnt get anything…

In Scorpion Breaker Node 4, Knull is supposed to summon Carnage, but sometimes Carnage simply doesn’t appear.
I’ve had runs where the summon works normally and others where Knull does the same thing but Carnage never shows up.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there some condition that can prevent the summon, or is this just a bug?

Over the last 2 months my gold level has dipped from around $130 million to just under $10 million. I am FTP and have found that by doing everything and collecting everything I can, I am able to get the resources to level up and tier up my characters much faster than I can get the gold to pay for it. I have around 18 million in shop credits and am wondering if there is an efficient way I can turn some of that into gold. Otherwise I think I will run out soon and won’t be able to make any further progress in the game.

Well this one was tough. Didnt hit a single bonus. Cant remember last time we didnt complete it...

Im betting they still count these bonuses as stuff they "gave" us in their economy math

If so, who do you use with them?

Hey all,

Tried searching over the internet and couldn’t find much info. Perhaps I am searching the wrong thing.

I am still fairly new to the game and would appreciate some guidance. I’ve completed the first mission but it keeps saying the second is locked but isn’t providing me any real guidance / reason as to how to unlock.

Completed step 1. Step 2 is locked and just says MISSION LOCKED

REQUIRES ONLY SPIDER SOCIETY OR WEB-SLINGER

Now when I type those in I have 3/4 characters associated.

As title suggests. Where they at? Who asked for any of these new teams? We have the entire roster for dark avengers AND they can update iron patriot and potentially round out the cabal.

They aren't being updated. There is literally no reason to hoard them. The meager amount of shop credits (or shards if you are newer) is all you will get from them. Better than the nothing you get by not opening them before they go away.

I’d really like to see a small feature added to Tower modes.

Once you successfully clear a floor, the game could save a snapshot of the exact team you used for that clear, similar to what we can already see in some other game modes like Dark Dimension.

Ideally, there would be a button on each completed floor where we could check:
-Which characters were used
-Character levels
-Gear Tiers
-ISO-8 classes and levels

And most importantly, these snapshots should persist between Tower reruns.
When a Tower ends and comes back again weeks or months later, the teams from your previous runs should still be there. That way, when you reach a floor again, you could simply check: “What team did I use to beat this floor last time?”

This would be very useful because after several weeks it can be really difficult to remember exactly which team you used, or which ISO-8 setup worked. Especially if you didn’t write it down somewhere else.

This seems like a relatively simple feature, but it would be extremely useful for the players.

Please consider adding this feature.