Best Of

I think they have changed covers for Halloween - 4* Cap Marvel, Immortal Hulk, Carnage, Wolfsbane, 5* Black Widow, 3* Daredevil, Squirrel Girl, Spidey Back in Black, Misty Knight seem to be sporting new looks also. Edit - 4* Punisher & 4* Ghost Rider seems to round out the changes.

Oh geez, the iso race for 14th covers - I absolutely slogged my guts out to get the iso to champ Elektra and Quake one time. Elektra and Quake...desperate times indeed! As for Anniversary - I really wish we could get another chance at Boss Rush - they fixed the AP carry over via Sinister 6 - most of us made very limited progress first time around, I would be intrigued to try it again.

It was underwhelming but it's Anniversary so I expected it. Didn't think they would stop giving out tokens to the Anniversary vault from pve events though. That was pretty lame. In previous years I was able to clear out my first vault and then get about 20 tokens from the second vault before Anniversary ended, this time I don't think I even got my first vault halfway finished.

HoundofShadow said:

A lot of features should have been implemented in the first year: turning animation off, saved covers, colourless cover etc. People need to understand that they are not producing a game meant to be sold for retail price where you pay once and you'll have almost everything right at the start. The development cycle for retail PC games and F2P are totally different.

The expanding bloat hits hard for completionists. For casual players, they can rely on Shards to get targeted covers. Unless majority of the players are completionists, they will be doing something about it. Back then in 2017, veterans were already saying that it's impossible to keep up unless you spend a lot of money. If you play competitively, you will be able to catch up without paying. Casual players shouldn't be able to catch up. 

Indeed. I can remember a time without saved covers, when every 14th cover meant a two-week race to get the required iso so that that cover wouldn't go to waste. Or, worst-case scenario, spend some CP to get the 13th cover, so the cover on your vine wouldn't be wasted. I remember my Surfer getting to 5/4/5 and wondering how and where I was going to get that half a million iso to champ him within 14 days.

Heck, even Bonus Heroes had its drawbacks. Imagine bonusing a 2/5/5 Apocalypse and then that Bonus pops up...and it's Red or Yellow. At least with sharts, players have a slow but ultimately guaranteed way of getting that elusive cover.

Players today don't know how good they have it. There's always the tendency to gripe about what one thinks one should have, instead of seeking to be satisfied with what one already has. Could things be better? Of course. Could there be improvements? Definitely. There's always room for improvement. And a lot of players/forumites give feedback that is constructive, such as that the new interface could be better, especially when it comes to font sizes, selecting boosts, accidentally using health packs. All valid points that should be addressed. But there are also many things to be grateful for, if one only takes the time to look for the good instead of always harping on about the bad.

It seems like how good an anniversary is depends on how many anniversary tokens one can redeem. In this anniversary, three new things were introduced:

1) new puzzle event: There will be players bulldozing the nodes with their champed 5*, and those who use loaners or other non-champed 5* to play the node. As seen, it's up to the players to decide how they want to play the nodes.

2) Saved Teams: It was something planned for Anniversary and I think this beats getting anniversary tokens.

3)Taco Vault: Spicy: It looks like it's here to stay and you get one free token every 24/25(?) hour when you use 5* Deadpool.  It's equivalent to getting 40 free items every 40 to 80 days for the rest of your MPQ career. The best items in there are 4* cover, Beginner Support Token and Healthpacks. The rest is probably for those playing SCL 10 or really difficult nodes.

We got much fewer tokens compared to previous anniversaries, but I think Taco Vault: Spicy sort of make it up in the long run if you use 5* Deadpool at least once every reset. Fewer anniversary tokens suck, but Saved Teams and Taco Vault: Spicy are pretty good permanent(?) additions to the game.