MPQ At Marvel.com: Dr. Strange Arrives With A New Event!

David [Hi-Fi] Moore

Greetings, MPQ faithful!

The time has finally arrived. Dr.Strange is dimensionally-warping into Marvel Puzzle Quest and he's bringing along an all-new event with him.

Mystically motivate yourselves over to Marvel.com for character screens and power peeks, as well as event details, in a chat with D3 Go!'s Josh Austin.

You can READ IT HERE.

PIECING TOGETHER MARVEL PUZZLE QUEST: DOCTOR STRANGE
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"Marvel.com: With Doctor Strange dropping in theaters in a few short weeks I hear there's a whole magical world waiting for players in 'Puzzle Quest.' Can we get a tl;dr?

Josh Austin: Yes! Doctor Strange is coming to Marvel Puzzle Quest as not just one, but two playable versions! For the first time in probably forever, Doctor Strange will have a 3-star version (Stephen Strange) and a 5-star version (Sorcerer Supreme). This is the first 3-star we have released in some time (before my time on the project) and I'm sure a lot of Marvel Puzzle Quest fans will be very excited to get their hands on a new 3-star!

With the new character, we also have a new Story Event called Strange Sights, where the player will be entering three different doors with a new animation that takes the player to an alternate universe where mindless ones and other bad guys are in control. Get through the story mode to fight off against Kaecilius!"

Marine8394

Sounds interesting. And yes I am a little pumped for a new 3*. I also love the idea of a new event with new VILLAINS! At this part I say from here on out i hope there is more support toward what you are trying to produce, than frustration. Though that is a two way street. Peace be with you. I hope.

Willis

If you're too lazy to read through the article I copy pasted the section about their abilities for you.

Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) and Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) are 3 and 5-star characters respectively. Doctor Strange's first ability is called Crimson Bands of Cyttorak and it costs 9 blue for both variations. This power converts a chosen basic tile into a Countdown tile and stuns the target for 2 turns at lower levels and up to 3 turns the higher the cover level. The Countdown tile for each turn deals damage on the board (3-star level 145 damage, to 1772 damage maxed 5-star) and destroys enemy AP of the color that the Countdown tile ends up being.

His second ability is Eye of Agamotto which costs 11 purple AP for both Doctor Strange Star tiers. For 3-star Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) this power removes up to 2 random enemy Attack tiles and the player gains 2 Purple AP. At higher levels this can remove random Attack, Protect, Strike, Invisibility and Trap tiles and up grant up to 4 Purple AP to the player. For 5-star Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) this power creates a colorless eye tile that activates each turn removing a random enemy at attack tile and the eye tile can't be removed from the board. At higher levels this power removes 1 of each tile types above at random each turn.

Lastly the third ability is called Flames of the Faltine that has a Passive component and a 14 AP yellow cost for the 5-star added to the Passive ability. For 3-star Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) this ability is a passive and thus costs 0 AP. Each time an opponent uses a power, it deals 212 damage to the target and gives a burst of 45 health to the player’s team. For 5-star Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) this ability has both passive and active elements. It still deals damage to your opponent every time their characters use a power, but for 14 yellow AP, you can deal almost double the damage on a whim. At maxed level 5 this power deals 16,016 damage!

DrStrange-616

As I mentioned in another thread, I've been waiting 804 days for this! So excited!

GrumpySmurf1002

The PvE looks like a regular PvE/Boss PvE hybrid. Weird, but cool.

New content, new Villain(s?), and a choose your own adventure so that replays aren't repetitive.

Expectations are tempered, but this could be fun.

xKOBALTx

These previews have me wondering: is the art the exact same across the 3* and the 5*? It seems like it might be. That's.... interesting?

Edit: It looks there is a single screen that shows an outfit more like the movie - the Strange Sights event placard.

CNash

Any word as to whether Kaecilius is playable? He'd be our first new villain since... Green Goblin, I think?

Punisher5784

Josh Austin: With these larger events that are a part of movie releases, there is a lot of planning and approvals to get through so we have to build in time to get things through in time for release. As it gets moving, the game art is passed around for review to people at Marvel

I want to know how Ice-Man, QS, 3* Bullseye, 4* Luke Cage and many other character art got approved by Marvel

Vhailorx

So 5trange has

9ap (blue) power for stun, and a placed CD that does 1772 damage per turn and destroys ai ap on resolution.

11ap (purple) power for placed eye tile that removes 1 of each enemy special tile per turn.

Passive that does direct damage (and burst healing?) whenever the ai uses a power, and 14ap (yellow) that does up to 16k direct damage.

Overall that looks ok. Passive is awesome for pve, yellow active seems weak relative to cost at 5* tier. Blue is solid. Not sure about purple. Its expensive for random, slow special tile removal.

All in all, maybe better than 5bw, but not sure if he is as good as the existing top tier (oml, phoenix, bss, gg, im46, bb).

CrookedKnight

Holy cow, a lazy 5*?

Merrick

"And I can’t forget to share that this is the first event that players can choose their own path."

Does the path affect the rewards or just the story text?

This will be the first event in a long time that I actually read the text and not skip through it as fast as possible, because the extra 3 minutes per sub might be important to end rank.

But if it impacts the actual rewards, we should be told before hand.

Punisher5784

CrookedKnight wrote:

Holy cow, a lazy 5*?

It's likely cause the devs wanted a 5* and many forum players stated Strange should be a 5* but Marvel probably wanted Strange more accessible to promote the movie so we're getting a 3* version of a 5*

hodayathink

Merrick wrote:

"And I can’t forget to share that this is the first event that players can choose their own path."

Does the path affect the rewards or just the story text?

This will be the first event in a long time that I actually read the text and not skip through it as fast as possible, because the extra 3 minutes per sub might be important to end rank.

But if it impacts the actual rewards, we should be told before hand.

Sounds like each path has it's own vault and it's own tokens. The question is then how similar the vaults are.

Kjempen

Awesome! Like Marine8394 wrote, new villains and new event! GREAT! And different paths for different outcomes = replayability

Let's hope this event goes better than Boss Rush (not that everything about that event was terrible)...

Punisher5784

Kjempen wrote:

Let's hope this event goes better than Boss Rush (not that everything about that event was terrible)...

The boss fight with Kaecilius will be followed by waves of Boss GG, Hulk and Phoenix if you choose the the wrong path

Marty17

Well, at least I can obtain a usuable Doctor Strange via than waiting for like a year to even get one of each cover for version.

TazFTW

Choose the wrong path...

Surprise Boss Rush!

Polares

Vhailorx wrote:

So 5trange has

9ap (blue) power for stun, and a placed CD that does 1772 damage per turn and destroys ai ap on resolution.

11ap (purple) power for placed eye tile that removes 1 of each enemy special tile per turn.

Passive that does direct damage (and burst healing?) whenever the ai uses a power, and 14ap (yellow) that does up to 16k direct damage.

Overall that looks ok. Passive is awesome for pve, yellow active seems weak relative to cost at 5* tier. Blue is solid. Not sure about purple. Its expensive for random, slow special tile removal.

All in all, maybe better than 5bw, but not sure if he is as good as the existing top tier (oml, phoenix, bss, gg, im46, bb).

He looks really good as a PvE specialist. Yellow being activated everytime a countdown is placed and purple cleaning all types of tiles every turn can be amazing.

He is also the first competent stunner in 5 land, a real pity, is a blue ability, if it was in another color he would be a great partner for Spidey.

Let's wait and see the final numbers but he looks quite good. A pity I wont max him until 2018

PS: A lot of passives powers lately being triggered when the enemy fires a power (Starlord, Cage and now Strange)

Vhailorx

Polares wrote:

Vhailorx wrote:

So 5trange has

9ap (blue) power for stun, and a placed CD that does 1772 damage per turn and destroys ai ap on resolution.

11ap (purple) power for placed eye tile that removes 1 of each enemy special tile per turn.

Passive that does direct damage (and burst healing?) whenever the ai uses a power, and 14ap (yellow) that does up to 16k direct damage.

Overall that looks ok. Passive is awesome for pve, yellow active seems weak relative to cost at 5* tier. Blue is solid. Not sure about purple. Its expensive for random, slow special tile removal.

All in all, maybe better than 5bw, but not sure if he is as good as the existing top tier (oml, phoenix, bss, gg, im46, bb).

He looks really good as a PvE specialist. Yellow being activated everytime a countdown is placed and purple cleaning all types of tiles every turn can be amazing.

He is also the first competent stunner in 5 land, a real pity, is a blue ability, if it was in another color he would be a great partner for Spidey.

Let's wait and see the final numbers but he looks quite good. A pity I wont max him until 2018

Agree on all counts (especially waiting for numbers to really evaluate him).

They are really on a roll with 'activate on ai power' passives. Strange, cage. And new star lord too.

IamTheDanger

Will this be a regular pve, or boss battle type? Will we being going at it alone, or with our alliance like Ultron, Galactus and Civil War? It would be nice to know this in advance.

stochasticism

IamTheDanger wrote:

Will this be a regular pve, or boss battle type? Will we being going at it alone, or with our alliance like Ultron, Galactus and Civil War? It would be nice to know this in advance.

There is a photo in the gallery with this article showing nodes that follow a standard pve format and it says the event will enter the regular rotation. Sure sounds like a standard pve in choose your own adventure style. How this last part affects scores, rewards, and rankings for both the event and subs is anyone's guess.