R128 Release Notes (6/5/17)

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  • Bloody_Marvel
    Bloody_Marvel Posts: 209 Tile Toppler
    It's gonna be a 4* lazy Bagman.
  • DeNappa
    DeNappa Posts: 1,398 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited June 2017
    Brigby said:
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    • Powers that allow the player to select characters (Like Black Panther (Civil War)'s power Panther's Prey) will now display the name of the opponents under the Icon to make selecting characters more accurate.
    Will there be a good fix for instances like "Muscle - Muscle - Muscle" or "Sniper - Sniper - Sniper" though?
  • Moon Roach
    Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
    Anon said:
    Could it be Sandman?


    That is the least unlikely suggestion so far.  Sand, hourglass, time.  And thematically linked to Spider-Man.

    The only thing going against it is that it's a new character, not a variation.  Which means it can't be right.

  • zonatahunt
    zonatahunt Posts: 251 Mover and Shaker
    It has to be Sandman.  Also, if we do get a new 4* Spidey for the release of Homecoming, I bet you anything it'll be Peter's red hoodie outfit he uses before Stark gifts him his suit.  It looks like that's the costume he dons for a while after Stark deems him to irresponsible to have his suit (all from scenes in trailers).  Kids are going to want red hoodies, and D3 will want to capitalize on the outfit too.  
  • Beer40
    Beer40 Posts: 826 Critical Contributor
    Spudgutter said:
    DarthDeVo said:
    granne said:
    Brigby said: 
    Hi Everyone,
    • Powers that allow the player to select characters (Like Black Panther (Civil War)'s power Panther's Prey) will now display the name of the opponents under the Icon to make selecting characters more accurate.
    Way to bury the lead!

    Well, okay, the wave thing has been supremely annoying so that probably was the lead, but then it was dull thing, dull, thing, lots of dull things, thing I actually care about.

    Which is my way of saying thank you.
    Excited for this too, but gonna reserve judgment until I can try it in game. The issue I had with this was fighting against similar goons (say two Muscle and a Thug, or maybe a wave node where there happen to be three Taisatsu on screen at once, etc.) and one of the clone goons had a CD tile resolving.

    I would want to use Panther's Prey to target that specific goon to try and kill them before the CD resolves. Problem was, the icon was exactly the same, making picking the right goon a guessing game.

    While it sounds like this fix can help differentiate among Muscle, Thug, Hitman, etc., still sounds like it might not be helpful if there are multiples of the same goon.

    So like I said, reserving judgement until I can try it out in game. Sounds promising, but still with the potential for some confusion. 

    Unfortunately, it is not common knowledge, but if you tap on the active character, any CD tile that belongs to them should "flash."  This also works by rotating them in, if they control a CD tile, it will flash.  
    Say what? Hahaha if only I'd have known this for the last year and a half!
  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited June 2017
    DarthDeVo said:
    rubix_qube said:

    DarthDeVo said:
    rubix_qube said:
    It finally occurred to me that whichever enemy is up front then their icon is farthest left when it comes to Panther's Prey. So if you need to pick off a specific goon then make sure they are up front and you'll know which icon to choose.
    Has that been confirmed? I was under the impression that the icon placement was based on the order the opponents appeared on the boost/team up select screen right before the match started.

    For instance, if the match was Maggia Don, Thug and Muscle, with Muscle on the left, Don in the middle and Thug on the right at the boost/team up select screen, then the pistol icons left to right would be Muscle, Don, then Thug.

    Which is great if you can remember that in the middle of the match after you shuffled around different targets several times. It's like playing Three Card Monty; "Find the lady, with the prize!"

    However, that method becomes completely useless when it comes to goon wave nodes.
    Every time I use it the enemy up front becomes the icon on the left. Even if you shuffle the characters around.
     Huh. I'll have to try that. 
    Hot dang, @rubix_qube you're totally right. Tested this in TBE yesterday and once I had enough black AP, I activated the power. Wolverine was in front, so the claws icon was on the left. I cancelled the power, shuffled OBW to the front, reactivated the power, and the Widow icon was now on the left.

    I truly thought the icon placement was static, and didn't realize they moved as you shuffled targets around. That's totally awesome you noticed that and passed that info along! 
  • supergarv
    supergarv Posts: 414 Mover and Shaker
    I would've loved to read:

    • The game is no longer unresponsive for a short period of time when making a match and waiting for banners, power animations and attack tiles to resolve

  • jackstar0
    jackstar0 Posts: 1,280 Chairperson of the Boards
    Kang would be great, Spidey 2099 would be cool. Sandman could be interesting.
  • HobieCat76
    HobieCat76 Posts: 73 Match Maker
    zodiac339 said:
    "Trapped in Time"
    GASP! Booster Gold? (Wait, he's DC)
    GASP! Kang the Conqueror? (Wait, he'd be under Fox merchandising rights)
    GASP! Cab... nope
    Captain America? (This makes too much sense. I wish it didn't make so much sense.)

    It being Summer of Spidey, I have to agree that Spider-Man 2099 is the most likely. Blue/black/red? The unique features of the poison bite and the small talons in hands and feet should be represented. Maybe web tiles through blue power.
    LOL!!  Booster Gold!!!  ("I'm not Green Lantern!")  if only...

    My first (Marvel) thought was Kang too and part of me hopes it is him.  We need more classic villains.  It's funny also that until you mentioned Fox rights, I forgot that Kang started as a FF villain.  I tend to think of him as an Avengers villain, especially as he just had a fairly long comic arc in ANAD Avengers that continued into the current version of the Avengers.

    But, the "summer of spidey" is pretty compelling so I'll go in on Spider-Man 2099 too.
  • astrp3
    astrp3 Posts: 367 Mover and Shaker
    Moon Roach said:
    Anon said:
    Could it be Sandman?


    That is the least unlikely suggestion so far.  Sand, hourglass, time.  And thematically linked to Spider-Man.

    The only thing going against it is that it's a new character, not a variation.  Which means it can't be right.

    I don't know if the Sandman suggestion was intended as a joke, but I also think it makes a lot of sense. An hourglass (timepiece) "traps" sand. I don't know if Sandman is going to be in Homecoming or not.

    Once I thought that the clue referred to Sandman, I wondered (or hoped) that Doc Ock and Sandman meant that we were going to get the whole original Sinister Six, which would be a new team affiliation (like Team Cap/Team Iron Man/Villains/Guardians of the Galaxy etc.) I actually tried to look at Doc Ock's character page to see if it listed Sinister Six as a team affiliation, but it looks like you can't do so from the info page in the store like you can in a vault. Oh well, I'm sure I'm totally wrong about the Sinister Six, and probably about Sandman too.


  • zodiac339
    zodiac339 Posts: 1,948 Chairperson of the Boards
    HobieCat76 said:
    zodiac339 said:
    "Trapped in Time"
    GASP! Booster Gold? (Wait, he's DC)
    GASP! Kang the Conqueror? (Wait, he'd be under Fox merchandising rights)
    GASP! Cab... nope
    Captain America? (This makes too much sense. I wish it didn't make so much sense.)

    It being Summer of Spidey, I have to agree that Spider-Man 2099 is the most likely. Blue/black/red? The unique features of the poison bite and the small talons in hands and feet should be represented. Maybe web tiles through blue power.
    LOL!!  Booster Gold!!!  ("I'm not Green Lantern!")  if only...

    My first (Marvel) thought was Kang too and part of me hopes it is him.  We need more classic villains.  It's funny also that until you mentioned Fox rights, I forgot that Kang started as a FF villain.  I tend to think of him as an Avengers villain, especially as he just had a fairly long comic arc in ANAD Avengers that continued into the current version of the Avengers.

    But, the "summer of spidey" is pretty compelling so I'll go in on Spider-Man 2099 too.
    Yeah, I think the first encounter with Kang had to do with the pyramids having advanced tech because Kang was pharaoh (did I spell that right? Auto-correct isn't trying to fix it).

    The Sandman guesses are pretty good too. Either 2099 guy being literally trapped in time or Sandman as the sands of time. The picture of him in the hourglass was amusing.

    I wonder if they have any plans for villains like Scorpion or Electro. Maybe we get so few villains because Demiurge is actively trying not to saturate the game with Spidey's enemies. I mean, when I think Avengers, the first villains that come to mind is Wrecking Crew. Absorbing Man could be a fantastic addition though.
  • ZeiramMR
    ZeiramMR Posts: 1,357 Chairperson of the Boards
    zodiac339 said:
    "Trapped in Time"
    GASP! Booster Gold? (Wait, he's DC)
    GASP! Kang the Conqueror? (Wait, he'd be under Fox merchandising rights)
    GASP! Cab... nope
    Captain America? (This makes too much sense. I wish it didn't make so much sense.)

    It being Summer of Spidey, I have to agree that Spider-Man 2099 is the most likely. Blue/black/red? The unique features of the poison bite and the small talons in hands and feet should be represented. Maybe web tiles through blue power.
    If you were going with DC villains, there's the Time Trapper which would be even more appropo.

    2099 and Sandman make sense. The 90s cartoon had a version of Vulture who could siphon vitality (de-aging himself) but that seems too removed from the other versions of Vulture to be the answer to the clue. 
  • CubRob
    CubRob Posts: 74 Match Maker
    Dormammu (referencing movie?)
  • GrimSkald
    GrimSkald Posts: 2,698 Chairperson of the Boards

    These clues are rarely as indirect as it would need to be for Sandman.  We're probably talking about someone from the future (or maybe the past) trapped in the present.  Maybe someone who ended up trapped out of time?  SM 2099 is a great guess, as is Cable, Bishop, and actually the Two-Gun Kid. :)  Of course, there's also Kang and Immortus, but they're characters who haven't aged really well.  We've also occasionally seen versions of Iron Man from the future (descendants of Tony,) and almost invariably they were villains.

    Weird that Marvel has so many characters that fit that description.

  • zodiac339
    zodiac339 Posts: 1,948 Chairperson of the Boards
    CubRob said:
    Dormammu (referencing movie?)
    I wouldn't expect a 4* Dormammu. More likely a boss, though that might depend on whether Dormammu gets a role in a later movie.
  • Nepenthe
    Nepenthe Posts: 283 Mover and Shaker
    GrimSkald said:

    These clues are rarely as indirect as it would need to be for Sandman.  

    ...

    Arrgh, quote editing bug.  Anyway, after the explanation that "Stop me if you've heard this one" referenced stopsigns, which have 8 sides, like octopi have 8 legs... Yeah, this is Sandman.

  • Brigby
    Brigby ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 7,757 Site Admin
    rubix_qube said:
    It finally occurred to me that whichever enemy is up front then their icon is farthest left when it comes to Panther's Prey. So if you need to pick off a specific goon then make sure they are up front and you'll know which icon to choose.
    Yes. I just confirmed this with the development team. The enemy at the front will have their icon displayed on the left. This will still be applicable after R128.
  • astrp3
    astrp3 Posts: 367 Mover and Shaker
    edited June 2017
    GrimSkald said:

    These clues are rarely as indirect as it would need to be for Sandman.  We're probably talking about someone from the future (or maybe the past) trapped in the present.  Maybe someone who ended up trapped out of time?  SM 2099 is a great guess, as is Cable, Bishop, and actually the Two-Gun Kid. :)  Of course, there's also Kang and Immortus, but they're characters who haven't aged really well.  We've also occasionally seen versions of Iron Man from the future (descendants of Tony,) and almost invariably they were villains.

    Weird that Marvel has so many characters that fit that description.


    Marvel did just release the first issue of a new Cable comic, so it could be him - though you'd think they'd have timed his release to coincide with the release of the comic. Plus, I'm not sure how often MPQ had introduced a new character based on a comic event rather than a movie/TV event (unless there's a movie/series featuring cable that I don't know about).
  • hodayathink
    hodayathink Posts: 528 Critical Contributor
    astrp3 said:
    GrimSkald said:

    These clues are rarely as indirect as it would need to be for Sandman.  We're probably talking about someone from the future (or maybe the past) trapped in the present.  Maybe someone who ended up trapped out of time?  SM 2099 is a great guess, as is Cable, Bishop, and actually the Two-Gun Kid. :)  Of course, there's also Kang and Immortus, but they're characters who haven't aged really well.  We've also occasionally seen versions of Iron Man from the future (descendants of Tony,) and almost invariably they were villains.

    Weird that Marvel has so many characters that fit that description.


    Marvel did just release the first issue of a new Cable comic, so it could be him - though you'd think they'd have timed his release to coincide with the release of the comic. Plus, I'm not sure how often MPQ had introduced a new character based on a comic event rather than a movie/TV event (unless there's a movie/series featuring cable that I don't know about).
    4* Carol was timed with the end of Civil War II and the relaunch of her solo series. Her movie isn't for quite a while yet, and they announced her last summer. Though there's an argument to be made that she doesn't count because she's a variant.

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