New Feature Coming - Targeting Heroes

shardwick

ElReyFelix said:

shardwick said:

ElReyFelix said:

@IceIX

Once progress is achieved towards a character, will we be able to choose which color cover we get of that character?

Well, going off of the image that was posted it looks like a purple cover was targeted. So my biggest questions would be how many characters in a tier can be targeted at once and if one character can be targeted for multiple covers at a time. 

I hope you're right. However, the purple could just be the color of the feature in general. Much like when you choose a player for bonus hero, it turns yellow...but that has nothing to do with getting a yellow cover

I always thought it was an odd choice to go with yellow over something like red which is associated with a heart. If the character used was someone else like OML or another non-purple user then yeah I could see purple being a default color for all characters.

@dokiy I don't think it'll be that. Can you imagine the sheer outrage if you needed shards to even obtain one character in a time where the devs have acknowledged that dilution is a problem?

BigSoftieFF

Anything that helps target specific heroes is all good by me. Look forward to the news!

Vins2

"Next couple of weeks" can't come soon enough!

shardwick

blankcanvas said:

Borstock said:

370 Bishops and WorthyCaps....everywhere. 

Took the words right out of my mouth 😂

Yeah, I don't envy 5* players. Though in 4* land it's Juggs, Juggs and more Juggs.

Last season: Wooo I'm one of the few that has a champed Juggs.
This season: Dammit.

DAZ0273

Sounds intriguing and I assume with all this talk of baldness it can only mean 5* Moondragon incoming - confirmed!

Polares

Sounds promising. Very VERY important for the success of this,

CAN WE USE THIS WITH ANY RARITY CHAR? 5 INCLUDED?

There is 0 ways of getting 5s other than opening LTs (or buying them for crazy amount of CP), so I hope there is a new way of getting a particular 5 char.

PiMacleod

Polares said:

Sounds promising. Very VERY important for the success of this,

CAN WE USE THIS WITH ANY RARITY CHAR? 5 INCLUDED?

There is 0 ways of getting 5s other than opening LTs (or buying them for crazy amount of CP), so I hope there is a new way of getting a particular 5 char.

Im assuming yes, but only cause the cynic in me now wonders when the even-harder-to-obtain, more-expensive CP-wise 6* characters will appear. 

ThaRoadWarrior

There are absolutely 0 implementation details here, so I'm reserving judgement either way. The concept of targeted roster growth is great, but there are so many ways the implementation could not align with my play style that it could end up being something I never use anyway. Hopefully it's a net positive for everyone though, lord knows these devs take a lot of heat for every change lol. I'm sure for them, knocking items off the backlog probably feels like pulling tokens out of the Classic Legends store - Sisyphean progress against an always moving bar lol.

 I kind of hope that this feature turns out to be individual character XP, and you'll have to use under-covered characters in fights to turn all these Magikarps into Gyardoses rather than another RNG layer on top of organic draws with a smaller bonus hit chance, but we'll see.

I'm also very curious if, like with Shield Clearance Levels, there is some possibility of assigning retro-active progress to it and everyone who would have otherwise qualified for it all along will get a big "here you go!" dump of whatever the thing is. </wishful thinking>

fight4thedream

While new avenues to acquiring characters is always welcome news, until we get more concrete details I do think it would be wise to temper one's expectations.

maguirenumber6

Hopefully I can use this new system to find/earn the third yellow cover I need to champ Old Man Logan :-)

ThaRoadWarrior

I could also see this feature being cool if it ONLY helped you go from 0->13 covers, rather than for grinding out champ levels. In that sense it would be a solid catch-up strategy to help stimulate the Middle Class of transitioners, rather than something that just helps the Haves have more. 

DAZ0273

ThaRoadWarrior said:

I could also see this feature being cool if it ONLY helped you go from 0->13 covers, rather than for grinding out champ levels. In that sense it would be a solid catch-up strategy to help stimulate the Middle Class of transitioners, rather than something that just helps the Haves have more. 

That definitely feels like a fair compromise to me. Bonus Heroes can chase bonus champ levels (the colour of the cover is irrelevant for that purpose), this hopefully will help get characters completed.

pheregas

fight4thedream said:

While new avenues to acquiring characters is always welcome news, until we get more concrete details I do think it would be wise to temper one's expectations.

This should be repeated with any news from the devs.  

Nick441234

fight4thedream said:

While new avenues to acquiring characters is always welcome news, until we get more concrete details I do think it would be wise to temper one's expectations.

Exactly this. You just know you are going to have to finish top 10 in a PVE to earn one token towards a cover. To earn that cover will require you to earn 100 tokens. 

shardwick

fight4thedream said:

While new avenues to acquiring characters is always welcome news, until we get more concrete details I do think it would be wise to temper one's expectations.

So basically treat it like it's Anniversary.

Waddles_Pines

Now the real question is... can you target villains

But, really, as long as it's not tied to a VIP tier or hard spending, it should be a net positive.  I remember those threads that popped up in our neck of the woods a few months ago re: the VIP tiers in there Magic game.  

liminal_lad

fight4thedream said:

While new avenues to acquiring characters is always welcome news, until we get more concrete details I do think it would be wise to temper one's expectations.

Coming from a mod, I can't tell if this means "I know something you don't know and you're going to be disappointed" or just "I don't want you guys getting yourselves worked up when we don't know any details."

fight4thedream

liminal_lad said:

fight4thedream said:

While new avenues to acquiring characters is always welcome news, until we get more concrete details I do think it would be wise to temper one's expectations.

Coming from a mod, I can't tell if this means "I know something you don't know and you're going to be disappointed" or just "I don't want you guys getting yourselves worked up when we don't know any details."

It's the latter. I do not get any special access to information about the game. I learn about new features and changes the same as everyone else here. But I have been around long enough to see people get their hopes up only for things to not work out as they had wished (myself included). It's definitely something to be curious about and look forward to but let's find out how it will work first before jumping to any conclusions.

DarthDeVo

fight4thedream said:

liminal_lad said:

fight4thedream said:

While new avenues to acquiring characters is always welcome news, until we get more concrete details I do think it would be wise to temper one's expectations.

Coming from a mod, I can't tell if this means "I know something you don't know and you're going to be disappointed" or just "I don't want you guys getting yourselves worked up when we don't know any details."

It's the latter. I do not get any special access to information about the game. I learn about new features and changes the same as everyone else here. But I have been around long enough to see people get their hopes up only for things to not work out as they had wished (myself included). It's definitely something to be curious about and look forward to but let's find out how it will work first before jumping to any conclusions.

Awwwwwww man, I was looking forward to breaking out my Jump to Conclusions Mat.

You see, it's this mat that has a bunch of different conclusions you can jump to. 

Therealsmkspy

So is this announcement for an announcement the extra "anniversary special"? 

An announcement for an announcement, smdh.