MPQ Sneak Peek: January 2020 Edition (Updated 01/29/20)

IceIX

Jormagund said:

@IceIX can you shed any light on this please?

No particular light to shed on this, but you all make good points. I'll bring it up with the rest of the team.

iron-n-wine

Is Emma Frost getting skipped in Crash too? Expected her after Valkyrie but it’s gone to gamora 

bluewolf

iron-n-wine said:

Is Emma Frost getting skipped in Crash too? Expected her after Valkyrie but it’s gone to gamora 

I hope with all my being that they do not force us to use Emma in a Crash.  Who could she beat?

HoundofShadow

4* Carnage, C&D...

bluewolf

HoundofShadow said:

4* Carnage, C&D...

I can't tell if you're joking.  That would be a disaster.

jamesh

DAZ0273 said:

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ThaRoadWarrior said:

I wonder; there are some basic numbers tweaks that seem like they wouldn't cause any riots - for instance if you just take every character at 450 and compare basic match damage and base hit points, and normalize that, would anyone cry about it? Would you sell back your OML if his match damage was made to align with modern characters like Danver5? Or if Silver Surfer's health were as good as GE Doom's with no other changes? I think it's harder to break out the pitchforks over number tweaks than it is for tear-down-and-rebuilds.

This seems logical but just never happens. Maybe there is some reason why we don't know about and I guess we probably never will.

There's pretty clear commercial benefits to giving new characters a built-in advantage over the older and possibly better covered characters.  It certainly seems to have gotten out of hand though.

axmoss

I had The Hulk (Bruce Banner) and Kingpin (Spider-Verse) as the next 2 classic 5-stars.

bluewolf

axmoss said:

I had The Hulk (Bruce Banner) and Kingpin (Spider-Verse) as the next 2 classic 5-stars.

Banner is up for DP v MPQ, so it seems that Ock is an interruption vs some complete change.  We'll see.

ThaRoadWarrior

A "fun" Emma matchup would be a pumped up 3* blade or maybe Daken. She needs a steady stream of enemy specials she can delete with her purple.

bluewolf

ThaRoadWarrior said:

A "fun" Emma matchup would be a pumped up 3* blade or maybe Daken. She needs a steady stream of enemy specials she can delete with her purple.

OK, say you take Emma in 1 v 1.  The only build that makes sense is 3/5/5, since purple costs 10 AP, generates a 2-turn repeater and only removes specials or AP - every other turn.  Your only hope is to somehow get enough yellow and black to make some strike tiles you can fortify and use black to increase her match damage and MAYBE you can somehow win if the other character isn't destroying you with powers while you're chasing 19 AP to accomplish that.

You would never want to chase the purple since it does 0 dmg, and anyone that spams specials will just be overwhelming her meager Psychic Meddling ability.  I'm not sure it would be fun to face a, say, 250 Blade or Daken, but I guess it could be interesting.

Woe to the players who haven't champed her and would have literally no chance to win anything other than a super weak matchup.

This is getting off topic but I guess the upcoming events are all pretty standard stuff.

T_REZ5000

bluewolf said:

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ThaRoadWarrior said:

A "fun" Emma matchup would be a pumped up 3* blade or maybe Daken. She needs a steady stream of enemy specials she can delete with her purple.

OK, say you take Emma in 1 v 1.  The only build that makes sense is 3/5/5, since purple costs 10 AP, generates a 2-turn repeater and only removes specials or AP - every other turn.  Your only hope is to somehow get enough yellow and black to make some strike tiles you can fortify and use black to increase her match damage and MAYBE you can somehow win if the other character isn't destroying you with powers while you're chasing 19 AP to accomplish that.

You would never want to chase the purple since it does 0 dmg, and anyone that spams specials will just be overwhelming her meager Psychic Meddling ability.  I'm not sure it would be fun to face a, say, 250 Blade or Daken, but I guess it could be interesting.

Woe to the players who haven't champed her and would have literally no chance to win anything other than a super weak matchup.

This is getting off topic but I guess the upcoming events are all pretty standard stuff.

You’re overthinking this.  Just equip Chewie and every crash is trivialized.

Thalfen

T_REZ5000 said:

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bluewolf said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

A "fun" Emma matchup would be a pumped up 3* blade or maybe Daken. She needs a steady stream of enemy specials she can delete with her purple.

OK, say you take Emma in 1 v 1.  The only build that makes sense is 3/5/5, since purple costs 10 AP, generates a 2-turn repeater and only removes specials or AP - every other turn.  Your only hope is to somehow get enough yellow and black to make some strike tiles you can fortify and use black to increase her match damage and MAYBE you can somehow win if the other character isn't destroying you with powers while you're chasing 19 AP to accomplish that.

You would never want to chase the purple since it does 0 dmg, and anyone that spams specials will just be overwhelming her meager Psychic Meddling ability.  I'm not sure it would be fun to face a, say, 250 Blade or Daken, but I guess it could be interesting.

Woe to the players who haven't champed her and would have literally no chance to win anything other than a super weak matchup.

This is getting off topic but I guess the upcoming events are all pretty standard stuff.

You’re overthinking this.  Just equip Chewie and every crash is trivialized.

I have chewie with 3* and I don’t see how it makes anything trivial. Are you assuming 5* and having the stun?

T_REZ5000

Thalfen said:

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T_REZ5000 said:

bluewolf said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

A "fun" Emma matchup would be a pumped up 3* blade or maybe Daken. She needs a steady stream of enemy specials she can delete with her purple.

OK, say you take Emma in 1 v 1.  The only build that makes sense is 3/5/5, since purple costs 10 AP, generates a 2-turn repeater and only removes specials or AP - every other turn.  Your only hope is to somehow get enough yellow and black to make some strike tiles you can fortify and use black to increase her match damage and MAYBE you can somehow win if the other character isn't destroying you with powers while you're chasing 19 AP to accomplish that.

You would never want to chase the purple since it does 0 dmg, and anyone that spams specials will just be overwhelming her meager Psychic Meddling ability.  I'm not sure it would be fun to face a, say, 250 Blade or Daken, but I guess it could be interesting.

Woe to the players who haven't champed her and would have literally no chance to win anything other than a super weak matchup.

This is getting off topic but I guess the upcoming events are all pretty standard stuff.

You’re overthinking this.  Just equip Chewie and every crash is trivialized.

I have chewie with 3* and I don’t see how it makes anything trivial. Are you assuming 5* and having the stun?

Weird, the 37% chance at a 283 attack tile per match is extremely helpful for me.  Only have little over half 4*s champed and it hasn’t failed me yet.  Don’t even use boosts anymore in crashes.

bluewolf

T_REZ5000 said:

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Thalfen said:

T_REZ5000 said:

bluewolf said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

A "fun" Emma matchup would be a pumped up 3* blade or maybe Daken. She needs a steady stream of enemy specials she can delete with her purple.

OK, say you take Emma in 1 v 1.  The only build that makes sense is 3/5/5, since purple costs 10 AP, generates a 2-turn repeater and only removes specials or AP - every other turn.  Your only hope is to somehow get enough yellow and black to make some strike tiles you can fortify and use black to increase her match damage and MAYBE you can somehow win if the other character isn't destroying you with powers while you're chasing 19 AP to accomplish that.

You would never want to chase the purple since it does 0 dmg, and anyone that spams specials will just be overwhelming her meager Psychic Meddling ability.  I'm not sure it would be fun to face a, say, 250 Blade or Daken, but I guess it could be interesting.

Woe to the players who haven't champed her and would have literally no chance to win anything other than a super weak matchup.

This is getting off topic but I guess the upcoming events are all pretty standard stuff.

You’re overthinking this.  Just equip Chewie and every crash is trivialized.

I have chewie with 3* and I don’t see how it makes anything trivial. Are you assuming 5* and having the stun?

Weird, the 37% chance at a 283 attack tile per match is extremely helpful for me.  Only have little over half 4*s champed and it hasn’t failed me yet.  Don’t even use boosts anymore in crashes.

I was engaging in the idea of Emma's mechanics vs another character's mechanics.  Supports obviously can endrun around a lot of shortcomings, lack of covers, etc.  I personally would probably win an Emma crash as mine is 309, but would need to heavily depend on Supports and boosts.

I'm fine if they do it, player rage can be amusing.  Watch the world burn and all that. Many, many players have not been as lucky as you with Supports, and her mechanics make her a very bad character.

DAZ0273

I champed Emma for a Kitty cover and I still haven't used her even once. Even Flaptain and Kingpin have had a spin out in that time.

ThaRoadWarrior

You know, I'm generally a bit of an apologist for even the most useless character, but I tookmy lvl 294 Emma into the simulator right after getting that costume to see the animations and she died almost immediately from my MMR lol. It was a bummer.

IceIX

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krakenoon

Typo?

Are we repeating a sweet vault?

Edit: old vault was savory.

krakenoon

Also...

Am I correct that all champ rewards have been adjusted to avoid the HP/shard double dip fiasco?

bluewolf

So, based on the updated list of PVPs and rewards, it looks like we are just moving forwards in the alphabet from the last reward, vs trying to go back and offer the ones that were skipped (based on the expected progression from the December rewards).

Oh, maybe you skipped Bishop because he's going to be nerfed?  And you just skipped a whole bunch of other 4's so it wouldn't be obvious?  Please say yes.