MPQ At Marvel.com: Survival Mode & New Episode Revealed!

Moon Roach

Not to be a curmudgeon, but D3P don't have the best record for flawless releases of new or updated functionality.

Yet again I ask, will there be someone available on support over the extended Christmas break should there be any issues with the new mode and episode?

It's bad enough having to wait until Monday morning in the One True Time Zone for missing points in Prodigal Sun to be noticed and fixed, but Christmas? What could possibly go wrong?

Unknown

Moon Roach wrote:

Not to be a curmudgeon, but D3P don't have the best record for flawless releases of new or updated functionality.

Yet again I ask, will there be someone available on support over the extended Christmas break should there be any issues with the new mode and episode?

It's bad enough having to wait until Monday morning in the One True Time Zone for missing points in Prodigal Sun to be noticed and fixed, but Christmas? What could possibly go wrong?

It's not like they bar to top LAST christmas is very high...

Unknown

I'd assume we would get a reward based on how many enemies we take out in the survival fight, or maybe after every finished wave.

wymtime

anybody see 2* wolive got a face lift in the game as well. He looks cool.

Unknown

wymtime wrote:

anybody see 2* wolive got a face lift in the game as well. He looks cool.

Game booted me out for the graphical update, just as I was 2 moves away from winnning

NorthernPolarity

inb4 survival mode is actually hard and people start complaining that the feature is a ploy to sell more health packs.

_RiO_

NorthernPolarity wrote:

inb4 survival mode is actually hard and people start complaining that the feature is a ploy to sell more health packs.

^ In after I already predicted it.

Unknown

NorthernPolarity wrote:

inb4 survival mode is actually hard and people start complaining that the feature is a ploy to sell more health packs.

Sell health packs in the middle of survival mode at 75 HP each for extra money!

IamTheDanger

daibar wrote:

Survival mode looks interesting and heavily based towards any healers. So fake healing characters will have some use? My Spidey is covered in cobwebs.


It'll also be interesting to see which teams are better at long term sustainability.

Survival Mode should be one loooooong , continuous, non stop fight. And since fake healing is usually taken away after each match, it should now be very useful if the match does not end until you die. So, yeah, time pick up old Spidey and dust him off.

atomzed

Phantron wrote:

Wouldn't survival mode by definition have to be persistent content if the enemies never run out? And even if they do run out at wave 100 or whatever, it'd be fairly unrealistic to expect even a small percentage of players be able to clear it in a time-limited environment.

Hmm... i must have missed out the part about it being part of the new episode. Wonder how they are going to put it in the pve... If it's a new mission requirement, and it still favour speed for placement, then it's the same old stuff again.

PuceMoose

Awesome, I'm excited to see new story content! Since shaking off the PvE yoke I just play each node once or twice so that I can see the dialog/story contribution. I hope the nodes start off beatable (I remember in Rocket & Groot where I couldn't beat the last two or three nodes in a few of the subs, and had to rely on the Kindness of Others to post the relevant story tidbits), and only start getting nasty after being completed several times.

eidehua

All 3 wolvies we have have been updated graphically. Looks pretty badass.
... but it's kinda weird in match. If he's not up front he's staring at you

http://i.imgur.com/MiBP9NX.jpg

Animations and the character took a bit to load in
For awhile I had invisible xforce man

I think I liked the old xforce SS animation better.
I think the new green one is nice

Unknown

I guess it's time to bring my spidey from 100 to 141. I've always enjoyed him, mnmags and GSBW as a "stun everyone and AoE until it's over" combo

Unknown

daibar wrote:

Survival mode looks interesting and heavily based towards any healers. So fake healing characters will have some use? My Spidey is covered in cobwebs.


It'll also be interesting to see which teams are better at long term sustainability.

Of course that anyone in their right mind will dump spidy for obw I mean stealing ap effecting enemy count downs and supper good at healing no other healer can do that.

Spoit

gamar wrote:

Moon Roach wrote:

Not to be a curmudgeon, but D3P don't have the best record for flawless releases of new or updated functionality.

Yet again I ask, will there be someone available on support over the extended Christmas break should there be any issues with the new mode and episode?

It's bad enough having to wait until Monday morning in the One True Time Zone for missing points in Prodigal Sun to be noticed and fixed, but Christmas? What could possibly go wrong?

It's not like they bar to top LAST christmas is very high...

I liked the hulk event. It was certainly a lot less stressful than any of the recent one's we have now (other than gauntlet of course)

It is Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much easier to place in the top 1% globally than hoping you don't have another crazy in your bracket. And people actually want to reduce the size of reward brackets? Craziness

Unknown

Lol, the new survival mode just makes going through the nodes last longer every 3 hours. I like it though...but just makes the grind even more of a grind.

fmftint

By Survival MODE did you really mean Survival NODE?

Or are you planning on a stand alone option


Survival Node, just like every other node but 3-4 times longer, and only gives a reward once

I don't think the development team and the players have the same definition of "FUN"

CrookedKnight

fmftint wrote:

By Survival MODE did you really mean Survival NODE?

Or are you planning on a stand alone option

Yeah, I think we have different definitions of "new mode" if this is all we're getting by way of a new experience. I was expecting an alternative to PvE grindfests for "single-player" play, and if this is just part of the grindfest that's a huge disappointment.

Pylgrim

platypusavenger wrote:

I could see survival mode helping the fortune of someone like Spiderman who also brings utility protect tiles and stuns, but I question whether the very low healing values from Beast or She-Hulk will be enough to overcome incoming damage and make them usable on the node. Recovering 500 hp every other wave is not going to do much unless the enemies are doing pitiful damage, and if the enemies are doing pitiful damage it is still going to be better to have more offense and clear the wave faster.

Those two characters are already slated for redesign, or at least their healing abilities are.

Unknown

When they say survival mode I was thinking of maybe 5 or so different themed nodes that you can play for as much as you want with say 100 waves and maybe they offer you something cool for hitting certain wave milestones. Sure it would probably devolve into Captain America stunfest or whatever but it'd be something else to do when nothing interesting is going on for PvP or PvE. Was it too much to ask for a static level difficulty survival mode that just keeps getting harder and harder? Maybe even throw in some kind of global scoreboard ranked by number of waves with tiebreaker going to whoever got it first, so that you can see soandso has wave 95 and you can decide if you're crazy enough to challenge that.