So I'm about to start playing this game for the first time. I'm assuming things are a bit different then when the OP was made. Any tips for a newbie?
You're about to get a
ton of free selectors just for starting out; while the majority of the game's content lets you play whoever you happen to like, it's wisest to focus these free selectors characters you'd otherwise only get from paying for them; Silk, Loki, Hulkbuster, Sister Grimm or She-Hulk are all really popular recommendations- they also happen to be among the most powerful characters in the game, and thus vital for getting the best rewards from competitive/score based modes.
Don't bother with ISO-8 until you get a character fairly high level; you'll probably get a bunch of strong ISO early on, but you absolutely don't want to socket them on to a character until you know what set you want to give them and burn through the stupid amount of gold to get it.
If you accidentally click your way into the Lab, feel free to ignore just about all of it. There's a Bio Converter in there that sounds awesome at first blush, but is actually useless and a gold sink that, when upgraded, becomes even less useful. The only thing of value there is the ability to get one random bio from each mission you go in there, which is worth it early on, but is really easy to forget about.
Feel free to drop your in-game-name; most of us in here have several spots in our friends lists wasted by people who haven't logged in in months, and having an active friends list helps- our higher level endgame allies can help you cheese some story missions while you're working on getting access to farming all the characters, and it'll let you get more Dimension Rifts to unlock some of the rarer characters like Loki and The Destroyer, the former of which you should try and six star as soon as possible if you want to tackle the hardest content in the game.
