R184 Release Notes *Updated (8/8/19)

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  • Yepyep
    Yepyep Posts: 954 Critical Contributor
    GraysunD said:
    @Brigby - Prior to R184 I used to be able to click the screen to cycle through champ rewards when I promoted a character that had a bunch of saved covers. Now clicking the screen does nothing and I have to sit and watch the full animation for each champ reward. Does that seem right? Doing that for a 2 star that has 50 saved covers is gonna be very slow and annoying.
    I'm worried about this...
  • Steel_Colt
    Steel_Colt Posts: 277 Mover and Shaker
    Gain some peace of mind. Mantis gave Thanos some peace of mind in Infinity War, by controlling his emotions in the battle on Titan. 
    Also, Peace of Mind could be shorted to Pom.
    Pom Klementieff is the actress who played Mantis.
    4* Mantis confirmed. 
  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 507 Critical Contributor
    Steel_Colt said:
    Gain some peace of mind. Mantis gave Thanos some peace of mind in Infinity War, by controlling his emotions in the battle on Titan. 
    Also, Peace of Mind could be shorted to Pom.
    Pom Klementieff is the actress who played Mantis.
    4* Mantis confirmed. 
    I was thinking Moondragon myself but your theory sounds more likely. There's a higher chance that they feature a MCU related character, and it could also be tied to the blu ray release for Endgame. 
  • helix72
    helix72 Posts: 996 Critical Contributor
    edited August 2019
    What the heck did you do???

    Ever since the update, I can't play the current PvP anymore. Four matches, four app crashes taking a loss and point hit each time. I tried re-starting the app, I tried rebooting my iPad, same result every time.

    UPDATE: Alliance chat isn't working anymore either.

    UPDATE: Tried deleting, reinstalling and restoring the app. Fixed alliance chat but not the PvP crashing. 6 PvP match crashes and counting. No 900 points for me in this one.
  • Projectus2501
    Projectus2501 Posts: 218 Tile Toppler
    Brigby said:
    Projectus2501 said:
    Ok... Might be good. But I never saw anyone in this forum complaining about texture quality... Gonna keep waiting for game developments.
    shardwick said:
    I'm on a Kindle Fire and honestly couldn't care less about high res images. I just want a fix to dilution and a revamped pve with no time slots.
    It's less to do with improving the quality of art assets, and more to do with how art assets were previously being processed by the engine.

    The new engine handles art asset management much more efficiently, therefore overall game performance is improved. The ability to add higher quality art assets is just icing on the cake.
    Ok. Just saying ppl talk a lot about other problems. 

    Ps: it is true that game looks a lot faster now. Good job on that part. Thank you!
  • Karlemayn
    Karlemayn Posts: 26 Just Dropped In
    IYeaheahI said:
    Sounds very disappointing to me..

    why aren't these resources spent on the items that keep coming up on threads on the forum like fixing dilution, fixing the stale gameplay, making supports accessible/matter, the zillion requested qol changes, etc...

    A while ago we even had a survey that asked our opinion about exactly those urgent problems with the game!

    nobody has asked for higher res textures, sharper rendering or a portrait sensor mode.

    I don't get you people. This is the only game I play where the community's feedback is so strong, so uniform and so ignored.

    I asked for better graphics and higher resolutions. Please don't act like you speak for the community, these are just your opinions. 

    Why has nobody mentioned that the Chat improvements are FANTASTIC?!!!
  • GraysunD
    GraysunD Posts: 4 Just Dropped In
    edited August 2019
    Yepyep said:
    GraysunD said:
    @Brigby - Prior to R184 I used to be able to click the screen to cycle through champ rewards when I promoted a character that had a bunch of saved covers. Now clicking the screen does nothing and I have to sit and watch the full animation for each champ reward. Does that seem right? Doing that for a 2 star that has 50 saved covers is gonna be very slow and annoying.
    I'm worried about this...
    Update: @Yepyep I found I can hit the arrows at the bottom of the screen to shift to another page and just
    cut off the animations. So the update seems good. 
  • zodiac339
    zodiac339 Posts: 1,948 Chairperson of the Boards
    Peace of mind. Like piece of brain. A piece out of you brain? And as vast as stars? Zombie Galactus!
  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,759 Chairperson of the Boards
    ThaRoadWarrior said:
    As Vast As Stars

    Gain some Peace of Mind when you add this character to your roster!

    Who has the mind stone? is that Vision? 
    In the MCU vision had the soul stone and the mind stone was in Loki’s scepter. So maybe a 4* Loki? 
  • Waddles_Pines
    Waddles_Pines Posts: 1,229 Chairperson of the Boards
    Hmm it feels a lot like soap opera effect on TV... Not a huge fan on TV's but hopefully it grows on me in MPQ...
  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 183 Tile Toppler
    Brigby said:
    n25philly said:
    Freelancer said:
    Load times are very fast! 
    From the few DDQ nodes I played, it seemed to me that the movement speed of tiles, both from matching and falling into place, are slower than before. This could be psychological though!
    Load times are insanely fast.  I don't think matches are necessarily slower but they look animated as opposed to stuff just falling.  Certainly makes it look slower.  Maybe there is a slight delay before they actually fall?
    Since load times and animations are faster and smoother, matched or falling tiles probably just seem slower relative to the new increased speed, but I'll double check with the team to make sure there aren't any unexpected hiccups there.
    Thanks for all your hard work, @Brigby!
  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 183 Tile Toppler
    darthsummer said:
    I find it remarkable that people can not only be upset, but take the time to complain about something as helpful (and necessary) as an engine update. I am not much for discussion boards myself, but do people complain when new iOS or Android operating systems are released? Sure, in any game (or anything, for that matter), there are always a thousand and one bits and pieces that can be improved. This, however, does the most good for the most people. 

    To the complaints about “the race” associated with this game: true, seconds matter in competing for the elusive top spots, be it PvP or PvE. Yet once I decided to relax, breathe, and just play the game for the game’s sake, my enjoyment skyrocketed and I still am able to reap 95%+ of the in-game rewards.
    I wasn't upset about the new engine, just concerned about the assets downloading.  Shield hopping in PvP becomes scary when it takes a minute or more to load each match. 😳
  • jamesh
    jamesh Posts: 1,600 Chairperson of the Boards

    For the most part it seems like an improvement.  The animations are a lot smoother, and text entry in chat seems better.  The just-in-time asset downloading is a little distracting, but that'll sort itself out over time.

    I have noticed a few mid-match crashes in PVP, but after reading this thread, it seems like it's actually Mockingbird that's buggy rather than PVP in general.  If I avoid her, I can complete matches.

    The AP bars also seem to flash spuriously on the enemy's turn, as covered in this thread.

  • Arctic_One
    Arctic_One Posts: 133 Tile Toppler
    Could the back arrow be moved to the bottom of the page?
  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 183 Tile Toppler
    Happy to report that it seems the game isn't loading more than the assets required for the match!  I've tested this repeatedly in DDQ.

    Yaaaaay!!
  • acescracked
    acescracked Posts: 1,197 Chairperson of the Boards
    Holy **** this update rocks! I might actually play more pve again.

    Never thought speeding things up would feel like a huge improvement but thanks!

    Downside, I've got to get all my pve timing reworked now, lol.

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