Why is Simulator the only PvE that gets updated?

Orion

The Simulator is becoming my favorite PvE because it's constantly updated with new and interesting combinations of opponents.  It's the only PvE where you can fight against the newest 4*s.

So why the heck don't you guys update some of the other, older PvEs so we don't have to fight the same Dark Avengers over and over and over and over again?  Yeah, I know, story, but that's a weak excuse.  Give us a little more variety and it won't be such a chore to grind through 5 clears each day.

Ducky

Simulator isn't a story, therefore they can easily interchange the characters in the nodes. It's hard to put non Dark Avengers in nodes when the stories are about Dark Avengers. 

It's why the gauntlet nodes get updated periodically as well. 

Dragon_Nexus

The whole Dark Avengers thing is a hell of an anchor to this game now.
They dropped that DA thing 2 years ago. They really, really need to ramp up the PvE.

Sure they can't change the villains around for every PvE every time, that's a lot of work. But like Simulator, I end up liking Produgal Sun and the first sub event of Deadpool Vs MPQ because it gives me something other than Dark Avengers to fight.

The Hulk is a 7-day event that is just torturous with how many high HP grindy Moonstone, Ares, Venom and Juggernaut nodes it has, not to mention the slow Daken and Bullseye nodes.

The whole Dark Avengers thing is so played out now. It might be slightly interesting if they'd kept the story going so we actually knew more about it but with the lable going away, so too did any chance of that. They really, really need to expand on PvE events. I've said many times it doesn't need to be anything grand. Just get a short story done and whack in some characters. We don't need brand new minions or anything like that, or funky new mechanics. Just a new story with different enemies to fight.

JHawkInc

Worst part? We didn't even get a 3* Iron Patriot Normon Osborne to round out the set.

I would love to see new enemies and story events. Hydra or AIM goons? A Masters of Evil or Sinister Six group that could fill out a story like the Dark Avengers? Sentinels?

But we could get so much out of just re-using existing assets. "Phoenix has mind controlled all the X-Men!" Fight X-Men, throw in a Phoenix Boss node on the last day. "Dormammu has taken over a SHIELD base!" Shield goons, Mindless Ones, Mordo, and a handful of Avengers. "Ultron is trying to time travel and stop the Avengers from being formed!" Story features "current" Avengers (4Thor, Peggy, Cho, IM40, Hawkguy, etc) wondering why the classics (1*/2* Avengers) aren't working together, fighting them and some Maggia or something, then finding out Ultron is behind it, and as the goons slowly shift from Maggia to Sentries, Ultron releases a "techno virus" to control Avengers tech and that's an excuse to have a few enemy nodes with Iron Man, War Machine, and Riri as enemies on a few nodes. Have Fury go crazy with some plan that has us fighting him and Daisy and Shield goons, that turns out to be a plan to stop Doom from doing something.

LOTS of ways to use existing stuff in new patterns, that even if they're similar to nodes we've played before, give us more reasons to NOT PLAY DARK AVENGERS.

Celerial

I took almost a year long break and I have to admit I was surprised to come back to the very same events...

DrDevilDinosaur

They could just cut the dialogue out and call them Simulator Stories. Say that Shield is running training based off previous missions with updated data. This lets you reskin The Hulk event to feature, say, Spider-Woman leading everyone on a chase around the world and no one knows whether she's siding with SHIELD or Hydra (or AIM) but she has some secret documents.
Or reskin Thick as Thieves to be about Daredevil tracking down kingpin.

Nick441234

I couldn't give a flying monkeys about a story, just give me different people to fight. 

broll

Agreed.  I like the mini-events like Plan C and their story, do more of those and remove the story from the old PvEs would be good for me.

JackTenrec

Part of me says "Yeah, less freaking 20K Moonstone!", but the other part of me says, "Hmm, replaced with 20K KK/Vision/ProfX".

DaveR4470

It's not the only one that's updated -- some of the others are updated.  But they're usually small changes (like replacing a goon with an Ultron sentry, or stuff like that), and it's done much less frequently than the Sim is updated.

BumpoTheClown

Just add a short sequence at the start of the PvE event:

DEADPOOL (looking offscreen): Aw, man! It's those darn Skrulls again.
DEADPOOL (looking directly at player): That's right. Skrulls. It's all Skrulls. Got it? I'm winking here, but you can't tell because of my mask.

(Run existing event with whatever characters you want as the bad guys to fight.)

granne

JackTenrec said:

Part of me says "Yeah, less freaking 20K Moonstone!", but the other part of me says, "Hmm, replaced with 20K KK/Vision/ProfX".

@JackTenrec I think that for ProfX to be 20k, he'd have to be level one bajillion.