Monthly MPQ Developer Q&A - Submit Your Questions!

BearVenger

1. Would you consider a one-way Alliance treasury, so that members could contribute towards a roster slot (and possible cosmetic alliance purchasables), without requiring one member to bear the load by himself? I think if all members got the option to chip in (and were expressly told NO REFUNDS), it might be a way to contract extra HP.

2. What alternate HP purchasables have you considered?

TheViceroy

Actually got two more:

1) When will the descriptions of powers for older characters be updated to include relevant information about:
- Strike Tile Damage
- Attack Tile Damage
- Countdown duration
- Heal Amount (for the Lieutenant goons that place healing Countdown tiles )
Dr. Doom's "Summon Demons" & IM40's "Recharge" are examples that could use these updates.

2) When will some type of UI display be added to allow us to know which goons are associated with their Countdown tiles ?
A suggestion would be to make all of a goon's placed continuously pulse/flash (not too spastic, but noticeable enough) when they are the primary target. No additional UI needed!

Unknown

First, thank you for this new forum feature. It is greatly appreciated.

1. Could you please fix Deadpool's black ability?

2. Could you please change back C Mags colors?


I ask the 1st question as this is one of the most popular characters, but his black power is making one of the most heralded character arrivals all for not. It is too situational and fails to adequately capture the character's authentic regeneration that is supposed to be on the same level as wolverine. Maybe a minor amount of passive regeneration each turn with a burst when LOTP is activate with a lower threshold for its activation.

I ask the 2nd question since his powers have the same overall functions as before his nerf; there does not seem to be any logical justification to change his color scheme especially given the dearth of good purple abilities.

SuperRecoome

I have a question,
Have you ever thought about a "Team Bonus" of sorts, something along the lines of having your team be certain characters and getting a small bonus for that,like play with 3 avengers, and get the "Avengers assemble" bonus of +10% damage. something like that?

stevenbrule

I'll offer a couple of thinly-veiled compliments:

1) Can we get more themed pvps? I really like Children of the Atom and the Avengers one. It would be fun to see the "Gods" and "Bad Guys" themes again. It might be fun to also have a "Time travel" PVP that would permit multiple versions of the same character (e.g., Patch and Astonishing on the same team...).

2) Any word on an Invisible Woman buff? X-Force is so much more fun since the modification!

Unknown

BearVenger wrote:

1. Would you consider a one-way Alliance treasury, so that members could contribute towards a roster slot (and possible cosmetic alliance purchasables), without requiring one member to bear the load by himself?

Great idea I'll second that.

Unknown

I just want the new 3*s in the token pools so I can spend my season 4&5 rewards

Puertorico

Question from the ✖️➖MEN. Can we please get more rewards in pvp and seasons. A 1300 score in a pvp is easily obtainable. And 7500 a season is reached by many in only a few events. Thank you.

BearVenger

Puertorico wrote:

Question from the ✖️➖MEN. Can we please get more rewards in pvp and seasons. A 1300 score in a pvp is easily obtainable. And 7500 a season is reached by many in only a few events. Thank you.

"Easily?" Ye cats!

Pylgrim

1. Has any thought been given to the addition of skins/costumes? If so, have you thought about the option of they granting minor adjustments to a character to carefully customize your rooster? (e.g. +2 blue match damage, -2 purple match damage.)
2. Could you please standardise (or at the very least make transparent) the ever-shifting scoring scheme of PVEs? Always blindly having to guess the true impact of rubberbanding/scaling/bracketing for the current one is not a fun game for which many people don't have the time and even less actually know about or truly understand.

GothicKratos

Is there any plans on the table for a Windows Phone version of MPQ?

Unknown

Will there ever be an option to sync an account over mobile and steam like was briefly offered just before the steam release?

Unknown

Something similar has been asked already, but... are you ever going to improve the drop rates for 3* characters in specific event tokens again? When there were guaranteed covers, I bought quite a few cover packs, but now I feel it just isn't worth it, with chances fairly high you get just one or none of the covers you actually want in the 42-pack.

DD-The-Mighty

Rico Dredd wrote:

Something similar has been asked already, but... are you ever going to improve the drop rates for 3* characters in specific event tokens again? When there were guaranteed covers, I bought quite a few cover packs, but now I feel it just isn't worth it, with chances fairly high you get just one or none of the covers you actually want in the 42-pack.

Seconding and adding a question.

With the massive influx of already and soon to be released 3* characters and the necessity to acquire 13 covers of each hero to make a decent character--

Why are the 3* drop rates and methods of winning 3* characters the same if not worse than when there were only a handful of 3* characters?

vudu3

Are you planning to fix the cover color order / color power mismatch several characters?

Daken cover order is purple, black, blue but his power order is black, purple, blue
cMags cover order is yellow, red, blue but his power order is blue, red yellow
Deadpool cover order is red, purple, black, but his power order is purple, black, red
Dr. Doom cover order is black, blue but his power order is blue, black, purple
Capt. Marvel cover order is red, black yellow but her power order is red, yellow, black
Spidey cover order is yellow, blue, purple but his power order is yellow, purple, blue
GSBW cover order is green, red, purple but her power order is purple, green, red
She-Hulk cover order is blue, green, red but her power order is blue, red, green
Beast cover order is blue, green, yellow but his power order is blue, yellow, green
Loki cover order is black, purple but his power order is purple, black, green

The effectiveness of X-Force's Surgical Strike is dependent upon quickly being able to determine the enemy team's strongest color. Inconsistencies like the ones listed above make this difficult to do.

yogi_

This is an indulgent question.

In the longer term / MPQ2 or whatever you call it, would you ever move to something along the lines of my reclassification (a character roster model more closely aligned to the official Marvel power ratings)? It's not a perfect model and there are elements of it that could go multiple ways but it offers a sort of alternate path forward. Or is something like it just never ever going to happen and the current model is how it's planned for as long as you see going foward?

As an alternative would you consider utilising (the stronger stand-alone) elements of it such as a single model of healing, all characters moving to a consistent max level, an overhaul of the star system based on overall skills, a health value based on a multipler of said amount, an integrated roster / training system, etc.?

theshadeofopal

1. Is there landscape mode or more tablet friendly option on the horizon?

2. Is there a plan to revamp the time and costs involved in loaning characters as team ups?

Unknown

Regarding some aspects of the PvE game:

1) Is goons generating energy for characters considered 'fair game'? I presume this is intentional but even so would it not be reasonable to at least limit that to +1 each turn? Rather than the "By turn 3 you're guaranteed to cop an unstoppable crash into headbutt" that we're getting now

2) With villain+goon nodes, why is it that when the villains are downed, the goons are still allowed to use TU's?

3) <Insert obligatory question regarding the issue of goon countdown ambiguity>

Unknown

Could you please, please, please give us back proper healing rather than this "burst of health" nonsense?

The only thing it's really doing is making me play less.

IamTheDanger

What about lowering the Ap cost of certain abilities? Some powers in the game are almost impossible to use. And this was before the +Ap boost drops stopped.

Some of those are unique, fun abilities. We just want to be able to use them.

Sgt. JJ