**** Maria Hill (S.H.I.E.L.D. Operative) ****

abenness

So, if she is invisible, does that mean she gets to hide from the countdown from her black going off? That would be cool.

I’m shaking my head at the removal of shield training.  Why do this? I enjoyed it as a way to try out non-meta teams in a low-pressure, un-timed event. Those are rare.

Kletvar

R.I.P.   S.H.I.E.L.D. training

Vhailorx

Seems like the black cd should do less damage as you get more covers, or maybe she is immune when invis.

EDIT: damn autocorrect!

First take is that is a worse Kate bishop.

zodiac339

My immediate feedback on no SHIELD training:
1. Guys, it’s a free character cover. Stop complaining when there’s a required character you haven’t finished. It’s been quite a while since we required a character you couldn’t at least pull for.
2. I’m probably going to an earlier start time for the following event, and not already having the cover from Training will delay being able to do the required 4* mission. Which is bad.
Bottom line: please run SHIELD Training. It’s a good thing and is only helpful.

KGB

That Black power makes her trash tier. At least other similar powers like Kate Bishop only do a fraction of the amount of self damage. This is essentially instant death if you can't match it in 4 turns.

As far as no Shield Training goes, add me to the list that doesn't understand why it has to be removed. Not everyone could complete it but virtually everyone could partially complete it and get ISO/tokens etc.

Maybe instead of awarding a full random cover if you happen to fully complete all nodes (ie all 3 required characters at 209), it could be changed to award shards. Say 100 shards for completing the L50 row, 100 more shards for the L110 row and 200 more for finishing the L209 row. That would give out a full cover worth of shards for those who could complete the event but give enough partial shards for players with lesser rosters that they could earn a cover worth of shards faster rather than get nothing if they don't have all 3 characters at 209.

KGB

shardwick

Seems pretty weak. I think an ability similar to 5* DD would have been better. Her black kills off 90% of her health if the cd expires but then health regen and tile buff kicks in. And getting rid of Shield Training is lame when all it needed was to be tweaked a bit.

Vhailorx

Nice demi/d3, you finally increase the 4* release rate so more people people could take advantage of shield training (i.e., you solve the one problem with shield training thay people complained about forever) and then have the the gall to tell us that it is pulled for reevaluation in light of player complaints.  ****.  It just won't provide the same player incentive now and doesn't serve its original purpose.

I would so much rather see you just be honest about bad news. 

DarthDeVo

Karnak's S.H.I.E.L.D  Training was the first time I made it all the way to the end and got the LT. I noticed several others in my bracket accomplished this. 

I am far from a whale, just someone who placed well in CL10 PvE and CL9 PvP, then played CL10 the following event for the progression shards. 

Now S.H.I.E.L.D Training is conveniently being "re-evaluated" to address "player feedback."

Seems about right. Par for the course. 

Retirement is sounding better all the time. 

turbomoose

With all the stuff you have removed I hope you have some new stories or something different to interest us 

as others have already said, shield training was a good resource builder and the only complaint we had was the occasional use of a new character as essential 

UNC_Samurai

You finally get to a point where you give out enough new release covers to make Shield Training feasible, and THEN you eliminate it?  

LAME

Kletvar

@IceIX

 Tell the game designer and the developers to buy a compass because they are lost.

I was playing online games for 11 years and i haven't seen a studio trying so hard to kill it's own game, and then, in October 2018 i started playing MPQ. EVERY patch/release notes since April 2019 is pushing the game to it's grave. 
It's normal to think that after so much ranting from the playerbase about bad patches the game studio and it's crew will learn from their mistakes because you are smart guys with PhDs, but as it was shown numerous times before greed > intelligence.

I'll stick around until Hill's events finish so i can get few shards and covers for her and then i'll probably leave the game until you fix the game and start listening to your playerbase (which i doubt will happen).

pheregas

@IceIX

Eagle eyed viewers may notice that everybody that worked their butt off to make sure they had Karnak ready for the next Shield Training and specifically targeted him with shards since he entered tokens based off of the precedent of every new 4* release have a right to be royally irritated.

Between lack of player base interaction, misconstruing our actual intentions, and the introduction of the infinite grindfest that is CL10, I think it broke me. I think my feelings of betrayal have officially turned to apathy.  I think this is the proverbial straw that broke my back.

Mission accomplished. Maria’s black went off and killed my desire to play this game anymore.

leoperez90

Seriously your taking away another method for us to gain resources. 
My V.I.P is about to expire, looks like I won't be supporting that anymore. 

jredd

wow. what a boring, awful character. that black is horrendous.

maybe take a break from releasing characters if this is what you're now offering up as a 4*. 

work on the game instead. 

rdvargas1

Shield and shield training was an effective way for people to get 4*s. Nobody was complaining except for the previous 4* being used as an essential. I really don’t care because I’m a5* player, but it’s another misstep. 

IceIX

Anon said:

Not sure how to build her. Looks good though.

Does her black create strike tiles on different colors? If so, she would be fun with Kitty and Domino.

Yes, Strike tiles are created on random Basic tiles.thedarkphoenix said:

I'm guessing the cool down and and Invisibility works hand and hand? If you're invisible you won't take the cool down damage right?


Right.....?

Correct. If she's Invisible, the CD tile damage fizzles since it now has no target. Originally, Get Out Alive made her Airborne (the animation is a SHIELD Jetpack!), but that didn't work since the Countdown tile doesn't count down while the user is Airborne. So Invisibility it is! Just for reference, you can send her Airborne with another character like Colossus, then blow up the CD with Captain Marvel and she won't take damage either.

So basically, anything that prevents her from taking damage entirely when that goes off is effective, but no damage reduction will help. And Deadpool won't jump in front. He'll just laugh at her.

Or, you could just match the CD away before it goes off. That works too.

jamesh

Even if "Get Out Alive" allows her to avoid the damage of "Best of Intentions", the AI probably won't play the powers that way in PVP.  Taking a character into battle that is likely to commit suicide on defence seems like a bad play.

The power description doesn't specify which colour tile the countdown will be placed on either.  If it is placed on a random colour, it will be difficult to gauge how easily you'll be able to match away the tile.  Contrast this with Kate Bishop, where her black power is relatively safe if there are a lot of black tiles on the board (and even then, the downside isn't too bad if you can't get rid of the countdown).

bluewolf

Every time the ST came along, I would turn on animations and sounds and take some time to explore the new character and get a feel for them.  It was a fun way to leisurely play the game.

I realize a lot of people got upset when a new character was essential and they couldn't get the cover, but this decision to skip ST is a big disappointment for me and removes an event that I personally enjoyed a lot.  Of course, I always had enough covers (at least, I have for a very long time now) so I always got that free cover.

If there was a concern that too much stuff was being given out, you could have changed the rewards or something.  I dunno.

I also point out that eagle-eyed players started asking about ST a week ago when the Sneak Peek got posted - which was before Karnak was in tokens.  If we had been told then that there would be no ST, people could have evaluated whether to shard Karnak based on his merits vs thinking they needed him at a certain level for the ST.  It's probably not the worst thing to have sharded him since he's a solid 4, but he's also probably not a lot of players' first choice in terms of building the strongest team.

All that said, the 209 chase was IMO an artificial goal which somewhat got in the way of pursuing your favorite team so maybe it's better if that goes, but moving in a different (lower) goal would be much preferred to this.

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Hill is an interesting choice considering the number of requested characters we are still waiting for.  She seems very medicre to me, but at least her PVP will be very easy to deal with.  I guess her powerset is kind of novel.  It could be kind of interesting to use her right - even a bit puzzle-y - but obviously the AI will never use her correctly.

Vhailorx

IceIX said:

I'm guessing the cool down and and Invisibility works hand and hand? If you're invisible you won't take the cool down damage right?


Right.....?

Correct. If she's Invisible, the CD tile damage fizzles since it now has no target. Originally, Get Out Alive made her Airborne (the animation is a SHIELD Jetpack!), but that didn't work since the Countdown tile doesn't count down while the user is Airborne. So Invisibility it is! Just for reference, you can send her Airborne with another character like Colossus, then blow up the CD with Captain Marvel and she won't take damage either.

So basically, anything that prevents her from taking damage entirely when that goes off is effective, but no damage reduction will help. And Deadpool won't jump in front. He'll just laugh at her.

Or, you could just match the CD away before it goes off. That works too.

This is not evident from her description at all.  The game treats self damage very differently from enemy damage (e.g., protect tiles are useless against self damage).  Does her black CD count as enemy damage?

spidyjedi84

So, we're losing roughly 9000 or more ISO, a random cover for a new 4 star, roughly 5 covers to a pertinent character vault that featured more chances to draw the new character, and upwards of 2 CP because you can't listen to criticism and balance which 4 stars are featured and we're supposed to smile and nod that you're not giving us a S.H.I.E.L.D Training event? Tinykitty you, d3.