"New Updates Every Month"

Kelbris

remember that adorable tagline in the Comic Con panel video?

I don't mean to be overly critical, but you said you were going to do a thing and then you didn't do the thing.

New PVP concepts aren't new content. They're changing the rules to a board game. I don't care if I get 500 when I land on free parking or if I'm only getting the pool of taxes; I'm still playing **** Monopoly regardless of whether I'm the shoe or the car.


I'm not sure if I speak for everyone, but I want to read stories about Marvel characters. Write stuff. I'd kill to be able to write stories for a video game using the entire Marvel roster as characters. now that environments literally don't matter, you could just put a bunch of nodes on a piss-stained carpet and have the fight background be bears eating berries.

also, since we never actually get any panels seeing people doing stuff (just angry faces yelling **** YOU HAMMER! NO **** YOU SHIELD), a little bit of narrative wouldn't hurt from time to time.

Unknown

Though it's pretty hard to predict anything about what their goal is, it's pretty likely they organized a "Summer Break", for all the guys going on vacation, and who would be pissed to miss important contents.

The game must have also grown a lot in terms of number of new players, so they must give them time to level their rosters. And since the new players are the ones who invest the most, they will focus on those primarily.

It now takes 6.2 Million ISO to level all characters (though more than half is unnecessary). When you are a new player, you must feel overwhelmed.

150K Iso to max the 1* characters (when you begin)
865K Iso to max the 2* characters

So, if we want to be positive, we should have something new in September onwards.

Thing is, they spent so much time with the Team Up thing, they did not have the time to do anything else.

Meanwhile, let's grind Iso ! lol

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arktos1971 wrote:

Though it's pretty hard to predict anything about what their goal is, it's pretty likely they organized a "Summer Break", for all the guys going on vacation, and who would be pissed to miss important contents.

Hastily thrown together after their Spring Snooze, Winter Wing-It and Fall Fúckup.

Unknown

I don't expect fancy content but I'll be fine if we have a new event like "Venom eats everyone" where he finally succeeds at eating all the guys he said he's going to eat. That can't possibly be very hard to do.

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Phantron wrote:

I don't expect fancy content but I'll be fine if we have a new event like "Venom eats everyone" where he finally succeeds at eating all the guys he said he's going to eat. That can't possibly be very hard to do.

That seems like a great event to introduce Hank Pym. Because after eating everyone, Venom will certainly need some....


Ant Acids.

Knyghtmare

j12601 wrote:

Phantron wrote:

I don't expect fancy content but I'll be fine if we have a new event like "Venom eats everyone" where he finally succeeds at eating all the guys he said he's going to eat. That can't possibly be very hard to do.

That seems like a great event to introduce Hank Pym. Because after eating everyone, Venom will certainly need some....


Ant Acids.

I forgive you for that really, really bad joke. Venom on the other hand...

OnesOwnGrief

It's not even hard to do fancy panels when we already have the animations in the game for attacks and apparently unused graphics that have appear cover pack icons. It isn't difficult to animate something like She-Hulk slamming the ground and adding screen shaking effect on the background. That takes about 5 min or less in flash to do.

What may be a bigger issue is the amount of data the game would eat up if they were included. The amount of data used on a mobile plan and etc. I have no personal idea how taxing this game actually is on data plans but I have an unlimited mobile plan so I haven't cared since day 1.

Unknown

I'll gladly take that "Venom Eats Everone" PvE. Might introduce 3* Venom.

Anyway, I'd appreciate something in the style of the Deadpool PvE. That was brilliant. Doesn't have to be complex, just fun to play. The duration of that one was pretty much perfect too, not too long, not too short.
But I'm fine with the simulator PvE getting recycled with new line-ups from time to time, that counts as new too... well, almost.

Kelbris

arktos1971 wrote:

Though it's pretty hard to predict anything about what their goal is, it's pretty likely they organized a "Summer Break", for all the guys going on vacation, and who would be pissed to miss important contents.

The game must have also grown a lot in terms of number of new players, so they must give them time to level their rosters. And since the new players are the ones who invest the most, they will focus on those primarily.

It now takes 6.2 Million ISO to level all characters (though more than half is unnecessary). When you are a new player, you must feel overwhelmed.

150K Iso to max the 1* characters (when you begin)
865K Iso to max the 2* characters

So, if we want to be positive, we should have something new in September onwards.

Thing is, they spent so much time with the Team Up thing, they did not have the time to do anything else.

Meanwhile, let's grind Iso ! lol

this game puts PvE on a loop. No one's going to miss ****.

Kelbris

PvE idea: Bruce Banner bonds with a small dog. Deadpool steals the dog and put it in stark tower because Tony Stark wouldn't let Deadpool play with his expensive cars/Proton guns. Bruce goes on a rampage for Fluffy.

Mawtful

Kelbris, your new sig is glorious.

ThatOneGuyjp189512

literally the only event i've actually enjoyed and looked forward to was Deadpool Vs. MPQ, it was something totally new and different. The entire event was a grind fest, but it was only 3 days long, had 2 subs, and the dialogue....oh the dialogue, i've never really laughed at this game(save for the occasional stark quips) but damn, his dialogue was so well done i laughed out loud many times(a particular favorite was the bagman dialogue at the very beginning) and seeing Ares FINALLY have a line was weirdly satisfying even if it was just a small snippet.

i would love it if they introduced some kind of intra-alliance event or maybe some kind of alliance vs. alliance events, that would make the alliances worth being in beyond the daily rewards and extra alliance rewards. Make the prizes actually attainable by any alliance, make it scale accordingly. Maybe make it just you vs. uber leveled characters and go by who has the highest scores against other alliances....like really, i'm gonna be playing this game for a long time regardless(3.2 million ISO and 3 she hulk covers is what i need to max every 3 and 4 star i have) but please, give us something new, not just new character in the same old PVP and same old reruns for PVE.

Pylgrim

Technically, Team Ups was last month. If we get something new in a week or so, they will still be fulfilling that promise. Besides, who knows what do they mean with "updates". They may just have meant literally upgrades to the game, such as the latest, R59.

Unknown

If anything, I'd say it was carefully worded that way for the express purpose of not promising new "content" each month. Promising updates every month could be as small as pushing a bugfix every four weeks.

Phillipes

Pylgrim wrote:

Technically, Team Ups was last month. If we get something new in a week or so, they will still be fulfilling that promise. Besides, who knows what do they mean with "updates". They may just have meant literally upgrades to the game, such as the latest, R59.

You may be right. But why are devs still making things NOBODY wants (Team-Ups), INSTEAD making things EVERYBODY wants (like new content)?

babinro

The thing about a statement like "new updates every month" is that it's vague and nebulous.

- We've had a patch update this month
- We've had at least one unique PvP concept this month

As underwhelming as these things might have been for some players it was clearly something NEW to the game.
Saying that it doesn't count is simply wrong unless of course they specifically promised otherwise.

I think the reality of this statement was to inform newer players that the game offers different challenges and adds new characters over time. This wasn't a statement to the devoted hardcore saying that drastically game changing features such as Team-Ups/True Healing will be added EVERY single month from now on. Do you realize how jarring and devastating that could be to the game?

Kelbris

babinro wrote:

The thing about a statement like "new updates every month" is that it's vague and nebulous.

- We've had a patch update this month
- We've had at least one unique PvP concept this month

As underwhelming as these things might have been for some players it was clearly something NEW to the game.
Saying that it doesn't count is simply wrong unless of course they specifically promised otherwise.

I think the reality of this statement was to inform newer players that the game offers different challenges and adds new characters over time. This wasn't a statement to the devoted hardcore saying that drastically game changing features such as Team-Ups/True Healing will be added EVERY single month from now on. Do you realize how jarring and devastating that could be to the game?

We used to get a new PvE event every month with a linear story.

The match-3 core will always be the same. Can't really change it much.

I just want them to **** write something.

Unknown

The DP vs MPQ was run at the begining of this month. it is currently 8/25. So I would expect something at the begining of September. It is still to early.

Unknown

Since the last week of June, there has been

-True Healing
-Team Ups
-Deadpool vs MPQ

While opinions may differ over whether the first two are positive changes, in the last 60 days, there has been a new PvE and 2 new gameplay changes. So far, on this at least, I would say they have kept their word. Let's see what the next 30 days bring.

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Kelbris wrote:

PvE idea: Bruce Banner bonds with a small dog. Deadpool steals the dog and put it in stark tower because Tony Stark wouldn't let Deadpool play with his expensive cars/Proton guns. Bruce goes on a rampage for Fluffy.

How about instead of bonding with a small dog, Bruce Banner befriends a tiny kitty?