Patch Notes - 5/8 - Storm and Falcon changes

IceIX
IceIX ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 4,328 Site Admin
edited May 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
Beginners and Intermediate Agents rejoice! Today's data patch is targeted at improving your ability to improve your roster of heroes and bring the fight to Osborn and your fellow Agents.

Gameplay
    -Added in new random rewards for finishing Versus battles. In addition to the normal 70/140 Iso-8 rewards, it is now possible to pull any 1* or 2* character. These Comic Cover rewards are balanced in frequency so that the overall Iso-8 rewards assuming that you sell all covers is equal to the previous rewards in Versus. - Adjusted odds of 2* characters in the Standard Pack upwards by 20% compared to their earlier odds. These extra odds were taken from the 1* character odds, so 3*+ odds are unaffected.

Characters
    Falcon: Inspiration - updated to use static increases for his ability instead of percentage bases. Old ability:
    Inspiration - Yellow Passive
    Falcon spreads his wings, motivating his teammates as he swoops into the fight. When the team makes a yellow match, Falcon improves the strength of 3 friendly Protect, Strike, or Attack tiles by 10 percent.
    Level Upgrades
      Level 2: Improves friendly tiles by 15 percent. Level 3: Improves friendly tiles by 20 percent. Level 4: Improves friendly tiles by 25 percent. Level 5: Improves friendly tiles by 30 percent.


    New ability:
      Inspiration - Yellow Passive
      Falcon spreads his wings, motivating his teammates as he swoops into the fight. When the team makes a yellow match, Falcon improves the strength of 2 friendly Protect, Strike, or Attack tiles by 7.
      Level Upgrades
        Level 2: Improves friendly tiles by 8. Level 3: Improves friendly tiles by 10. Level 4: Improves friendly tiles by 13. Level 5: Improves 3 friendly tiles by 13.
      Max Level: Improves 3 friendly tiles by 79.

      Storm (Modern)'s Level 5 Lightning Strike:
      Old Ability:
        Lightning Strike - Green 10 AP
        Storm calls a blinding bolt of electricity from the heavens, shattering 8 tiles, doing damage and earning AP for each.
        Level Upgrades
          Level 2: Shatters 9 tiles. Level 3: Shatters 10 tiles. Level 4: Shatters 12 tiles. Level 5: Shatters 16 tiles.


        New Ability:
          Lightning Strike - Green 10 AP
          Storm calls a blinding bolt of electricity from the heavens, shattering 8 tiles, doing damage and earning AP for each.
          Level Upgrades
            Level 2: Shatters 9 tiles. Level 3: Shatters 10 tiles. Level 4: Shatters 12 tiles. Level 5: Shatters
          14 tiles.
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          Comments

          • Unknown
            Unknown
            Seems like good news for newer players.


            Now you guys need to figure out a way to make the 3 star transition a bit easier. icon_e_wink.gif Especially when you will be adding multiple 3/4 star characters in the coming weeks diluting the pool even further.
          • TheHueyFreeman
            TheHueyFreeman Posts: 472 Mover and Shaker
            I actually think these changes make a lotta sense. There was a gap developing in the 2 star range and this will help them a lot.

            It IS a little odd to change falcon in the middle of his tourney but thats a minor gripe all things considered.
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            The extra ISO will be nice, definitely.
          • Puritas
            Puritas Posts: 670 Critical Contributor
            good changes for mid level players!
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            Thank god for that new sell all button! icon_lol.gif
          • IceIX
            IceIX ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 4,328 Site Admin
            sms4002 wrote:
            Thank god for that new sell all button! icon_lol.gif
            You'd almost think we planned it! icon_razz.gif
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            Nice! Looks like good changes all around!
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            And I just got CStorm instead of ISO! icon_e_smile.gif

            In the rewards window, when we can see where did the reward come from, it states "Versus Reidolphin".
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            Evolutionary change. Their bread and butter comes from token packs and roster slots. This will just "encourage" new players to buy roster slots sooner/more often. Helps compensate for nerfing the the placement rewards in events. I assume the chance at a 2* is lower than the other rewards to maintain the ISO rate and won't be an equal chance of 70/1*/140/2*.

            Falcon changes are a nice balance between the original high percentage and the nerfed percentage. Lessons learned that percentage based skills are a no-no for good balance.

            Nerf to a 1*. Oh my! Looks like a precursor to the gold storm coming down the road.
          • IceIX
            IceIX ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 4,328 Site Admin
            UncleSam wrote:
            Evolutionary change. Their bread and butter comes from token packs and roster slots. This will just "encourage" new players to buy roster slots sooner/more often. Helps compensate for nerfing the the placement rewards in events. I assume the chance at a 2* is lower than the other rewards to maintain the ISO rate and won't be an equal chance of 70/1*/140/2*.

            Falcon changes are a nice balance between the original high percentage and the nerfed percentage. Lessons learned that percentage based skills are a no-no for good balance.

            Nerf to a 1*. Oh my! Looks like a precursor to the gold storm coming down the road.
            Yep, the odds on the 1*/2* drops along with the 70/140 equal out so that you'll still be gaining ~105 Iso-8 per match in Versus assuming that you sell every single Comic Cover you gain.

            %'s - Not always, but yes. Percents work fine for things like Daken's Healing & Heat since they keep that ability useful for him at all levels. A support ability that scales like that however will just cause the problem that it was in that it makes lower leveled versions more valuable than higher.

            1* nerf - Coincidence really. As stated in the Upcoming Changes, Storm was cascading and causing mayhem with the ability as it was which was exacerbated at higher levels with AI.
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            Doh! I should've started the Falcon PvP and taken advantage of my low leveled Falcon's percentage Inspiration if I knew the change was coming mid-tournament...
          • JamieMadrox
            JamieMadrox Posts: 1,798 Chairperson of the Boards
            Now I can finally get that black OBW cover I've been waiting over a month for.
          • Ducky
            Ducky Posts: 2,255 Community Moderator
            I may actually finish my OBW now! haha
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            Just went to fight some retals in Falcon PVP and saw cover rewards. This is a really nice change. Many of these will just get sold off, but I'm certainly not going to be bummed to have max covered unleveled 2* characters. They may get some ISO sunk into them eventually when they're featured for PVEs, or just look pretty along the way. Very happy to see this.
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            charlesjbarry wrote:
            Now I can finally get that black OBW cover I've been waiting over a month for.

            Only a month? Im already pretty well into my 3* transition and still are missing two for her black!
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            IceIX wrote:
            Yep, the odds on the 1*/2* drops along with the 70/140 equal out so that you'll still be gaining ~105 Iso-8 per match in Versus assuming that you sell every single Comic Cover you gain.
            Still a welcome boost, since you can't buy a 2* cover for 200 iso a cover in the hand is worth two in the store... or even a lot more than that icon_e_wink.gif
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            IceIX wrote:
            1* nerf - Coincidence really. As stated in the Upcoming Changes, Storm was cascading and causing mayhem with the ability as it was which was exacerbated at higher levels with AI.

            1* scaling in PvE is already crazy, but thanks for the bit of help I guess.
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            I really like the percent change for 2* covers from standard packs without it effecting the chances of getting 3* and 4* covers. It'll make standard packs a little more worth getting.
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            This is a refreshing change. One that seems to help the mid level player. It does, however, raise the question will anyone buy a standard token for 500 ISO again? I guess if you are going 100k at a time for 3*s, but that's about the only time.
          • Unknown
            Unknown
            gamar wrote:
            Nice! Looks like good changes all around!

            Even though up to 5 minutes ago I thought a slight tweak to mStorm was reasonable, now that I see she and Thor are the only HO characters I have leveled I have changed my mind and this patch is 100% TERRIBLE HOW COULD YOU

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