Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-173.213.212.232-20130605012337/@comment-9234979-20130605040310

173.213.212.231 wrote: what are the episodes? You'll see soon. There was one supposed to start tonight already at 8pm Eastern but it has been delayed, which is not unprecedented. When the episode starts, you'll see a different screen and it'll ask you if you want to "join". Say yes. You'll automatically get some loot for it. Then your job is to go "scan" on missions and keep going until you run into bosses. Fight them and beat them and you earn more loot. If they are too strong, call for help. A help request will go out to about 30 other players who can attack the boss too. If a boss you started gets killed, you and everybody else win episode points.

Likewise you can go to your own "boss help request queue" and see if other people's help requests have come to you. If so, you can decide whether you want to help, based on whether you think the boss will be finished or not. If he gets finished, you get the points, plus some other loot like medals for participation or being the guy who does the most damage. If your attack finishes the boss, you win a blue battle cube to store and use later. You had to use at least one blue cube to attack anyway, so you're making that cube back.

You could also use two or three cubes in your attack to multiply the damage. But choose carefully and be strategic with your cubes since they are a sort of currency that lets you do things.

As the episode progresses you can check your episode rank. This is a ranking of points earned by everybody participating in the episode. Certain rewards are given to any player that reaches a certain final point rank. At higher ranks, you get special boss cards and their weapons. These guys become very strong members of your deck for future use. Also you get cubes, transmetals, weapons, etc. in increasing amounts the higher your final rank is.

Have fun.