Increasing opponent variety in PVEs

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edited September 2014 in MPQ Suggestions and Feedback
The game still has way too few villains, and that means that every single PVE tends to feature the same villains, namely the Dark Avengers. Since various aspects of the game tend to conspire towards limiting new character designs, one approach may be to pull the SHIELD/HAMMER goon cloning trick on a larger scale, but only for PVEs. Specifically, clone more of the characters ONLY as PVE opponents, not as released characters. Someone had suggested this a while back for character releases, which I was (and am) against, but it might help with PVE variety.

Namely, Wolverine could be cloned as Sabretooth. Hulk as Abomination. Spider-Man as Paste-Pot Pete. Human Torch as Pyro. Etc. All you'd need is new art and new power names. This would give you a big chunk of "new" villains to spice up PVE (a la the Skrull imposters as Iron Man) without it taking up all the design team's time. And it would mean that we wouldn't be always fighting the same ten characters in PVE.

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  • CrookedKnight
    CrookedKnight Posts: 2,579 Chairperson of the Boards
    Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

    Other suggestions:
    Daredevil->Ikari
    Colossus->The Blob
    Nick Fury->Baron Zemo (yellow summons the Thunderbolts)
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Just run the Simulator/Bad is good style events more often. I think getting new art *is* a big part of creating a character.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    More variety? 2 words: YES PLEASE

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