New Feature: Costumes! *Updated (11/26/18)

Daredevil217

Nabistay said:

Another thing that isn't for me but I hope everyone else buys to help fund the game. Maybe they can loosen up on the support drop rate now?

Exactly how I feel (though I would buy Netflixdevil's black costume!).

I'm really happy they are looking at other revenue sources.  Basically a little something extra for the collectors that you can ignore if you'd like.  Plus even if you don't purchase these you can still see them in game when you face opponents who purchased which is very cool.

How people can complain about something that helps the game make money and you can literally ignore if you choose at no penalty is beyond me.

Moon Roach

waywreth said:

Moon Roach said:

Are those costumes visible to your opponent when you're battled in PVP?  Or are they something just you can see?

Per Brigby - Others players will see your Costume in Versus battles, and vice versa

Gosh darn, that Q&A wasn't there when I asked the question.

rixmith

I appreciate the devs trying some things to raise additional revenue. I'm just not sure that these will be particularly interesting to most forum visitors. Why? I mean that KK costume looks awesome! I'd love to have that! Well, at least I would if I was still a 3* player who used her everyday.

But I'm not. I'm a 5* player and I use KK or Luke Cage maybe two or three times a year. Deadpool a little more often since he is required in his PVE and I sometimes need to refresh some Deadpool points. But still.

It's like that 4* Spider-Sense Support I got that is only good if you equip it on SpiderMan Infinity War. Who I never use. (Silly me thinking that I could get the synergy perk on 5* SpiderMan).

I know we mention ad-nauseam on the forums about how disappointing it is to have all these characters with no reason to ever use more than a small handful. But this is a great opportunity to connect that player issue to a business issue:

I won't spend money/resources on items specific to characters that I have no reason to use.

So how about it? Make it worth our while to use our whole roster:

Make PVE about using your whole roster instead of speed
Have a PVE where you can only use each character once each clear
PVE nodes where you can only use characters of 3* or lower, 4* or lower (like DDQ has for 1* and 2*)
Have accomplishments where using characters generates bonuses based on total damage done, powers used, etc.

Make it fun again to have all these characters instead of "How many clicks does it take to find that 3* Thanos for the trivial nodes?" Then costumes might be more interesting,.

marshall

Love the costumes, particular the No Normal one, but haven't used this characters in months... Hope it drives revenue to support the game and we can get character rebalances. Most of our rosters just sits there with little value in reusing.

turbomoose

Nice thought to keep the game interesting but really not what the vast majority of gameplayers are looking for 

Brigby please bring us some good news regarding support tokens as rewards in story mode, perhaps a few new story lines or another run of the new boss event from the anniversary with improvements. 

finally a solution to the growing dilution of 4* and 5* characters, every new release makes it harder to complete the older characters 

DyingLegend

Make sure costumes are in vaults with over 200 two stars in them please 

crackninja

I suspect this may be of interest to the masses, just not the majority of those who use the forums.  Totally agree that:
1) no value to me since I never use these characters
2) I do wish the hours spent getting this feature rolling were instead used to fix things I care more about, but...
3)  If this makes enough money to help the game roll on, then I'm happy we have it

fmftint

If we look at feeders and supports, this "new feature" should be fully rolled out in 2, maybe 3 years

Freelancer

I wonder if this will mean no more new variant characters just new skins for existing ones.

fight4thedream

While I understand this new feature may not be for everyone, I am pretty excited about it! Also happy they include new animations. 

Costumes I would love to see in game (in order of preference):

5* Thor: Eye-patch Thor or as Drax put it "Pirate-Angel Baby" Thor (Infinity War)
5* Silver Surfer: Jack Kirby Version or Norrin Radd 
4* Nightcrawler: AoA Nightcrawler
4* Wolverine: Weapon X
4* Iceman: AoA Iceman
4* Domino: Deadpool 2 movie version
5* Green Goblin: Hobgoblin 
3* Cyclops: X-factor Cyclops
4* Vulture: Classic Old Man Toomes version
5* Old Man Logan: Weapon Omega 
3* Angel: Classic version w/Angel wings
3* Quicksilver: Original Costume (I do believe there is already art for this, no?)

I think this feature is definitely a plus and will help get versions of characters we might not have had in-game. Although, I do hope there will be other non-paying ways to earn costumes in the future. 

Awesome stuff!

HoundofShadow

This is interesting. They made this feature in a way that doesn't affect the gameplay in terms of strategies. It's not compulsory to get it and everyone can see it. 

I like the last 2 (Kamala and Luke Cage). 2 out of 3 costumes belong to 3* characters. The last one belongs to a 4*. Could this be something many players brought up in their feedbacks or surveys? 

Pr0spect0r

I lost interest after "buy VIP during this period to get". Saw that and knew they rest would have ridiculous hoops to jump through to get.

marshall

I want this Kitty Pryde to confuse and shock my enemies.

KenshinUK

So instead of steam UI fix we get TF2 hats essentially?
If it keeps the game alive... ok... I guess.

Phumade

Based on the number of stickers I see in line, and the skins I see in fornite / call of duty,  I have no doubts people will be buying these hand over fist.  If it doesn’t affect my gameplay, why do I care about the other chars costume?

I just hope they release the classic costumes ASAP.  Quake already has a marvel reigns variant, and I would probably want that outfit

Borstock

I wish the alternate costumes came with perks, but I understand how that would just raise H E double hockey sticks on the forum when some of these are only available through in-game purchases. 

If you're taking recommendations, I have two:

1: Make the alt-covers that are sometimes feautred available, too

2: Not sure if it's possible, since these mostly seem like re-skins, but I'd love to be able to use Skottie Young versions of characters in-game

babinro

I like the idea of selling cosmetics. 

I'm not crazy about the random implementation with limited times attached.  Would have a preferred a straight up static storefront for people to buy into at any time.

STOPTHIS

I understand that the devs have to recoup the money spent on new art assets, but I hope in the future we will be able to earn some of these not just having to pay for them. Especially in vaults. I like they idea of having to achieve some sort of feat to get them. "Win [X amount] of matches with Ms Marvel to unlock..." or "Spend [X amount] of Deadpool whale points to unlock..." type of stuff.

Both these and supports are nice on paper and wouldn't be bad if they weren't gated behind massive amounts of RNG or having to spend money in a certain time frame.

Arks

Pr0spect0r said:

I lost interest after "buy VIP during this period to get". Saw that and knew they rest would have ridiculous hoops to jump through to get.

Don't worry, I'm sure we'll be able to buy them outright for $9.99. Limited time only! /s

LavaManLee

I'm curious how much money will actually be made off this and what the business plan (assuming there was one) said would be made by doing costumes.

I get that costumes are a thing with in some video games (e.g. Fortnite, Overwatch) but in those games it's true multi-player and you can show off your costume to friends and strangers.  You can kind of look like you might be really cool while playing.

With this, who cares except yourself?  No opponent is going to think "Wow, nice Lady Deadpool".  So you are literally only spending money so you can see your own costume.

Yeah, it's neat to change up the look and feel now and then but, as mentioned above, I don't care if 5* Thor were a stick figure by a three year old.  That's who I'm using.

Was anyone on the forums ever caught saying "I wish I could get better costumes for my characters"?