Howard Rewards

pheregas

Lots of issues with the rewards with what is supposed to be a novelty character.

But my main question is...

I got 2 purple covers for the initial event. I happened to pull a green from the vault (lucky me?)

How are we supposed to get all of his colors? Yeah, the vault _might_ have an additional colored cover, but should we really be relying on the luck of the vault to have a fully covered novelty character?

Now I get a 3rd purple cover from the wave node at the end of sub 3.

If... If I could ever manage to win PVP outright (which how many of us can say they've done that, let alone during a new release event, which I've done neither), it would be a green cover. It was also stated that in the Crash of the Titans that the reward would be a green cover.

Where does this mystical blue cover come from?

And why wouldn't the last sub's rewards have 3, one of each color?

My trophy Duck looks to be covered 2/0/3 indefinitely post Crash.

Please consider throwing everybody who participated in this a free blue cover. It will not break the game, I promise you.

vudu3

Blue will be the 1,000 point progression cover for Fowl Play PVP.

MarvelMan

My 0/2/2 quacker would love either of those greens......

pheregas

vudu3 wrote:

Blue will be the 1,000 point progression cover for Fowl Play PVP.

"David wrote:

Moore"]• Fowl Play: Versus event starts 8:00 PM EDT on April 14th. Howard the Duck will be available at increased odds in the cover store as well as the 1,000 progression reward.

Did they edit David's statement to include blue? I didn't see the blue cover specifically mentioned. They went out of their way to mention Ducky's Green in Crash, but no specific color was mentioned in Fowl Play, just the progression.

If this is the case, please update OP.

Crowl

They always do this ****, the alliance cover award should really be the same as the 3rd cover you get for a t10 placement, it would benefit both the players who would have more chance of getting all 3 covers and the devs since it would marginally increase the chances of people spending cp on a new character too.

Tarheelmax

pheregas wrote:

vudu3 wrote:

Blue will be the 1,000 point progression cover for Fowl Play PVP.

"David wrote:

Moore"]• Fowl Play: Versus event starts 8:00 PM EDT on April 14th. Howard the Duck will be available at increased odds in the cover store as well as the 1,000 progression reward.

Did they edit David's statement to include blue? I didn't see the blue cover specifically mentioned. They went out of their way to mention Ducky's Green in Crash, but no specific color was mentioned in Fowl Play, just the progression.

If this is the case, please update OP.

PVP rewards always work the same way. If the top cover (green) is the cover for first place, the 1000 progression cover will be the second (blue) cover.

Malcrof

all my vaults have blue, but i want 5 purple asap, that is what will win his 4* ddq

JVReal

I have Green in current PVE Vault, and Blue in DDQ Vault.

I'm only missing Green to have at least one of each... but that's not looking too likely.

Kevin61

Unfortunately, I fell short of the T100 to get Howard's first purple but did manage to clear the last node in the last sub-event to nab one yesterday.

I, for one, would like to see Howard remain and have his covers regularly available in the line-up. Believe me, I understand the novelty of the character but it is depressing to see one of my favorite characters added to the game and be relegated to Devil Dino status.

CNash

I don't understand why he's relegated to "novelty character" status either. To me he seems like a fully-realised 4*; while the damage on his green is underwhelming and creates problems with casting it repeatedly, his blue stun isn't too bad and his purple is a fine utility skill. Damage aside, invisible characters are very useful. He seems to be more of an assist character rather than a straight damage dealer, which fits with his personality too.

optimus2861

CNash wrote:

I don't understand why he's relegated to "novelty character" status either.

I can't help but wonder if this is something of a test; could it be that the devs are trying the "limited release!" tactic to try & drive token sales higher than they otherwise would be?

Quebbster

optimus2861 wrote:

CNash wrote:

I don't understand why he's relegated to "novelty character" status either.

I can't help but wonder if this is something of a test; could it be that the devs are trying the "limited release!" tactic to try & drive token sales higher than they otherwise would be?

I suspect that is part of the motivation, yes. Will a limited release increase sales?

mpqr7

I have 3 purples and 1 blue so far... 3 from pve prizes (hunt individual & alliance placement + webbed final node), 1 from taco token vault. So there we go.

StevO-J

What I don't get is the following: You have all these events that fall under the Duck Season denominator, you have a vault system for events and the like; why not make all these events give out tokens for a Duck Season Vault? Why was this link not made?

It worked for an Independence Day Vault last year, right? Why not have a Vault and put in 1 cover of each color for Howard the Duck in there, and maybe give us a chance (albeit small) at all his colors? I know, I know... 3 covers for the same character in one vault is appearently too much especially with a new character, but isn't this supposed to be one of the few events where he's available? My, my... such wasted potential and opportunities.

Ah well, I'll enjoy my 0/0/2 Howard and hope the 4* DDQ can get me a green too. I really hope that fight is at least possible within reason.

PS. I can't be the first to notice this, if someone posted something like this before me, all credits to that person! I didn't have time to read all posts regarding the release of Howard T. Duck.

mohio

To throw in my personal anecdote - I was only t100 in the release pve, so that along with alliance t100 and the final node reward made mine 0/0/3. Pulled the Howard from my pve vault last night but it was another purple! so now he's at 0/0/4. Anyhow, as I've seen others mention in various other threads (sorry for no credit, I don't remember and am too lazy to search for it), they put too much time and effort into designing Howard AND a PvE starring him (that gives him out as a reward no less), that I can't see them just relegating him to novelty status completely. They will certainly run this PvE again someday, I only hope they rotate what cover is given out in that last node, though I don't have high hopes since the Hulk cover is always* green and the sentry cover is always red in their respective pves. Maybe by "limited" they only mean they won't be adding him to the normal token pool, not that we're only going to see him once a year.

* - There was one (maybe 2?) runs of The Hulk that had RNG determine the cover since there were 4 covers in the available reward pool and you just got one of them. Even then I think it was 2 green, 1 red, 1 black, but this hasn't been the case for the last 4 or 5 (or more?) times it's been run.

edit: Has anyone calculated the how long the PvE/story "cycle" is? What I mean is if they run every event once with no repeats, how long does it take to cycle back to an event? Just wondering, since it might be indicative of when we might expect to see a rerun of this one.

SnowcaTT

Malcrof wrote:

all my vaults have blue, but i want 5 purple asap, that is what will win his 4* ddq

I didn't try hard for him anywhere - but lucked into late PVE slice for a purple, got one from the final PVE node, and had one in my Taco vault that I opened for.

I agree with going for purple, I'm 0/0/3 and really wouldn't mind seeing another purple as the DDQ reward (if there is any possible way to win it with a 0/0/3).

BlackSheep101

There should be a blue cover available in his pvp, and I can't remember where I read it, but I think I saw that his ddq fight will give a green cover.

stochasticism

Howard pvp is live. It is blue at 1k.

SnowcaTT

stochasticism wrote:

Howard pvp is live. It is blue at 1k.

And increased rewards! All the way up to 3.6%!

I considered buying a daily deal each day...then realized there are ZERO other 4*'s in those. It's Howard or (much, much more likely) nothing!

ClydeFrog76

CNash wrote:

I don't understand why he's relegated to "novelty character" status either. To me he seems like a fully-realised 4*; while the damage on his green is underwhelming and creates problems with casting it repeatedly, his blue stun isn't too bad and his purple is a fine utility skill. Damage aside, invisible characters are very useful. He seems to be more of an assist character rather than a straight damage dealer, which fits with his personality too.

Thought the exact same thing when using him in loaner nodes.

He's also - most importantly - FUN to play with. Something a lot of the character releases don't capture.

Melevorn

I know that some people love the character in the comics - but he really is a 'joke' 4* in MPQ.

He shares colours with JG and Iceman - so under almost any circumstances they're superior to the poor .

He has powers with mechanics found elsewhere in the 4* tier, but they are better elsewhere.

He is hard to obtain.

Seriously, don't worry too much about completing him. Just having him in your roster should be enough to satisfy most collectors, surely?