Said something about 5 missions for ant man

slidecage

Hopefully this does not mean the next 5 PVE will all be for ant man.

one. July 9 to July 16
Two July 16 to July 20
Three July 20 to 23
Four July 23 to 30
FIVE July 30 to Aug 6

Blah it could be .

sort of shocked the PVE is for antman though antman would been the 30 day event only

Mawtful

Don't worry, Ant-Man will have an "increased draw-rate"™ from special event tokens to use in the Ant-Man MPQ Reward Vault™.

jffdougan

I am still currently optimistic that we might get a video or text post tonight.

Unknown

I had heard at one point Ant-Man was getting his own DDQ style thing for 30 days. This might be the precursor to that.

Beats PVE grinding, to be sure.

Der_Lex

His event is up as well, starts in 15 hours, with a purple Ant-Man cover as the single prog reward. 5 missions will probably mean 5 nodes.

No need to antsicipate the worst all the time.

stochasticism

More likely each mission is multiple nodes. Maybe 6 nodes each, one for each day? 30 days for 5 nodes is a bit excessive unless they are only winnable with luck.

firethorne

Was very dismayed to see enemy of the state yet again. Here's hoping growth industry doesn't turn out to be a cluster &%#& like the first Ultron.

dr tinykittylove

I am legit excited about growth industry, can't wait to see what it is. Enemy is my favourite pve as well, so I see no cause for complaint on my side.

Der_Lex

stochasticism wrote:

More likely each mission is multiple nodes. Maybe 6 nodes each, one for each day? 30 days for 5 nodes is a bit excessive unless they are only winnable with luck.

Not necessarily. You're looking at this from the perspective of a hardcore MPQ player/forumite. For us this would be a (probably slightly harder) DDQ, that we beat in one, maybe two days and then ignore for the rest of the month. No big deal, although an easy 4* gain is always nice.

Think of the more casual players, or the new players who have seen the movie and then found the game. For them it's pretty cool to come into the game and find a small, beatable event for that movie they've just seen/are about to see, and gets them the main character to boot (who's a shiny 4*, no less). That's a nice piece of marketing for both the movie and this game, and keeping it running for a month makes sense, because that's the timespan in which most people will see the movie.

getterwing

Der_Lex wrote:

His event is up as well, starts in 15 hours, with a purple Ant-Man cover as the single prog reward. 5 missions will probably mean 5 nodes.

No need to antsicipate the worst all the time.

this PVE is not divided into different starting/ending time sessions like other PVE event, it is possible that this event is similar to DDQ.

Unknown

You gotta be kidding me. Ant-man 4*?!? He's a B+ character at best. Don't get me wrong. I like Ant-man but I dislike the hero ranking that has recently been determined by D3. He's clearly a 2*, I can see 3* but no way a 4*. When Dr. Strange, Silver Surfer, Emma Frost, Apocalypse, or Cable are added, you cannot rank them lower than Ant-man. No way in Hell! I always thought D3 needed to overhaul the ranking system and this proves that need more than ever. Hulk is a bonafide 4*. He always kicks Thing's @$$, yet Thing is 4*?!? What gives?!? Sorry to rant on but I just got my first Kingpin cover and really don't want to grind for Ant-man. Excelsior!!!

Mawtful

Der_Lex wrote:

stochasticism wrote:

More likely each mission is multiple nodes. Maybe 6 nodes each, one for each day? 30 days for 5 nodes is a bit excessive unless they are only winnable with luck.

Not necessarily. You're looking at this from the perspective of a hardcore MPQ player/forumite. For us this would be a (probably slightly harder) DDQ, that we beat in one, maybe two days and then ignore for the rest of the month. No big deal, although an easy 4* gain is always nice.

Think of the more casual players, or the new players who have seen the movie and then found the game. For them it's pretty cool to come into the game and find a small, beatable event for that movie they've just seen/are about to see, and gets them the main character to boot (who's a shiny 4*, no less). That's a nice piece of marketing for both the movie and this game, and keeping it running for a month makes sense, because that's the timespan in which most people will see the movie.

Definitely this. Check out the bio for Ant-Man - it's an ad for the movie!

El Satanno

Marvelfreak wrote:

You gotta be kidding me. Ant-man 4*?!? He's a B+ character at best. Don't get me wrong. I like Ant-man but I dislike the hero ranking that has recently been determined by D3. He's clearly a 2*, I can see 3* but no way a 4*. When Dr. Strange, Silver Surfer, Emma Frost, Apocalypse, or Cable are added, you cannot rank them lower than Ant-man. No way in Hell! I always thought D3 needed to overhaul the ranking system and this proves that need more than ever. Hulk is a bonafide 4*. He always kicks Thing's @$$, yet Thing is 4*?!? What gives?!? Sorry to rant on but I just got my first Kingpin cover and really don't want to grind for Ant-man. Excelsior!!!

You've gotta get it out of your head that the star rating means anything but how difficult it is to obtain covers for the character. Because that's all it is! It's got nothing at all to do with their relative power level from the comic stories. If that were the case, we'd all have to be mad to think that Juggernaut is anything less than 3, right? Just stop thinking about it, because it isn't going to change.

yogi_

El Satanno wrote:

You've gotta get it out of your head that the star rating means anything but how difficult it is to obtain covers for the character. Because that's all it is! It's got nothing at all to do with their relative power level from the comic stories.

After a pretty long time being around this game and these forums and doing concepts and models of my own, exactly this.

It doesn't make sense, nor explained, nor justified but its far better if you just accept it for what it is.

ClydeFrog76

dr tinykittylove wrote:

I am legit excited about growth industry, can't wait to see what it is. Enemy is my favourite pve as well, so I see no cause for complaint on my side.

Ditto x 2.

getterwing

Marvelfreak wrote:

You gotta be kidding me. Ant-man 4*?!? He's a B+ character at best. Don't get me wrong. I like Ant-man but I dislike the hero ranking that has recently been determined by D3. He's clearly a 2*, I can see 3* but no way a 4*. When Dr. Strange, Silver Surfer, Emma Frost, Apocalypse, or Cable are added, you cannot rank them lower than Ant-man. No way in Hell! I always thought D3 needed to overhaul the ranking system and this proves that need more than ever. Hulk is a bonafide 4*. He always kicks Thing's @$$, yet Thing is 4*?!? What gives?!? Sorry to rant on but I just got my first Kingpin cover and really don't want to grind for Ant-man. Excelsior!!!

number of stars don't reflect the power of the character in the comic. hulk is a not-so-powerful *** while Elektra is a ****. I don't think anyone will think that Elektra in the comic is more powerful than hulk in any way.

Unknown

firethorne wrote:

Was very dismayed to see enemy of the state yet again. Here's hoping growth industry doesn't turn out to be a cluster &%#& like the first Ultron.

it'll at least crash the servers and everyone knows it

Marvelfreak wrote:

You gotta be kidding me. Ant-man 4*?!? He's a B+ character at best. Don't get me wrong. I like Ant-man but I dislike the hero ranking that has recently been determined by D3. He's clearly a 2*, I can see 3* but no way a 4*. When Dr. Strange, Silver Surfer, Emma Frost, Apocalypse, or Cable are added, you cannot rank them lower than Ant-man. No way in Hell! I always thought D3 needed to overhaul the ranking system and this proves that need more than ever. Hulk is a bonafide 4*. He always kicks Thing's @$$, yet Thing is 4*?!? What gives?!? Sorry to rant on but I just got my first Kingpin cover and really don't want to grind for Ant-man. Excelsior!!!

Your name is marvel freak yet you don't want to see a B lister(Like Iron man previously was) get his time to shine?

The bigger issue for TRUE marvel fans is why isn't Squirrel Girl a Google-star character

Der_Lex

raisinbman wrote:

The bigger issue for TRUE marvel fans is why isn't Squirrel Girl a Google-star character

Because she may be many things, but she's not a search engine.

Unknown

Der_Lex wrote:

His event is up as well, starts in 15 hours, with a purple Ant-Man cover as the single prog reward. 5 missions will probably mean 5 nodes.

No need to antsicipate the worst all the time.

5 nodes, 5 Ultron events in 30 days concurrent to usual PvE/PvP, each having it hidden after you beat Ultron the 8th of course.

Buret0

My understanting is that we are going to get 30 days of Antman solo evants. These evants will be gauntlant style, in that we do not need to grind them and we won't get a placemant reward for completing them. These will be run independantly and in parallel with the existing PvP and PvE evants, just something to do in between grinds.

And as to the elephant in the room: It would be nice if we had something like this permanantly, but I am hesitant to think the developers would be willing to give us something fantcy like this.

Unknown

Buret0 wrote:

My understanting is that we are going to get 30 days of Antman solo evants. These evants will be gauntlant style, in that we do not need to grind them and we won't get a placemant reward for completing them. These will be run independantly and in parallel with the existing PvP and PvE evants, just something to do in between grinds.

And as to the elephant in the room: It would be nice if we had something like this permanantly, but I am hesitant to think the developers would be willing to give us something fantcy like this.

Man, you got some strong german accent