For some of you, seeing a new character come to Marvel Puzzle Quest is an occasion to go through your comic longboxes and review a few issues to freshen your memories of a hero or villain. For others, it’s a hurried trip to Marvel’s character wiki to see who they are. Some players are familiar with the characters they’ve seen on the big screen, or read through their issues of Captain America, Uncanny X-Men or The Avengers, so they’re at least down on the major characters. Even when they are though, do people remember what the exploits were for Tony Stark while he was using the Model 40 Armor versus something like the Bleeding Edge Armor? Even our team of designers love deepening their knowledge on the characters they’re working on to make sure they’re special and awesome when released. We’d like to share some of that research and learning with the player base with an all new new character launch Event: Introducing...
These events are intended to give players an idea of the origins of the character or incarnation of that character that is being released and how they fit into the ever-growing MPQ universe. The best part? Wherever possible, we’re doing it with stories drawn directly from the source; Panels drawn straight from the comics.
When new characters are first released, we’ll be offering an opportunity to play through a Daily Unlock Event that delves into the origins of the character in question. Each day, another aspect of the background of that character will appear and players can engage in a battle that is core to that character’s existence. Some of these missions will also showcase certain powers for a character. These showcases will help to connect the dots with the powers the character has in-game compared to their source material, as well as showing off just what those characters can do!
These missions are not exclusionary, and will provide the character(s) needed for each of them. As well, battles scale appropriately for your roster strength where necessary. The goal here is to show off the character and their origins, not provide an unbeatable wall for players to push against just to find out more cool info. Rewards are given per node completed as well as for Progression, providing some Iso-8 and Tokens for completing the miniature origin stories we’ve laid out.
We’re looking forward to seeing what you all think of these “Introducing...” Events! This isn’t the first time we’ve integrated comics into the game since we use covers to represent characters, but this is certainly the most in-depth case. We’d like to see what you all think and whether the Event gives as neat an insight as we expect!
Bubba3210 said: Fifteen shards for the Introducing event? Seriously? Why even bother giving out shards if it’s going to be so ridiculously low? Just give me iso, a mighty, something that has value instead of this slap in the face.
Bubba3210 said: @JHawkInc, you’re right. I am bent out of shape and for good reason.They reduced command points in pve. They raised the pvp point threshold for command points. Then they increased the release frequency for 5* and expect us to just accept it and move forward. Oh but we gave you 15 shards and SCL 10. That is not an acceptable solution.Why should I accept it and not voice my opinion?
FesterTester said: I'm curious, is there a plan to eventually combine these introduction events into full-scale PVE events, the way "Honor Among Thieves" was cobbled together from three mini-events?Otherwise, I don't quite see the logic of making a new event every two to four weeks and throwing it in the trash afterwards, while re-running the same PVE events on their current cycle of around 7-8 weeks.
Heartbreaksoup said: Once upon a time, when I was a 2* and 3* player, I made several suggestions for a low-prize or a no-prize sandbox mode or event. I would have, then, loved the opportunity to try out 4*s and 5*s with no reward whatsoever.Even though I'm a 5* player now, I think this is a terrific idea. 100 iso, 15 shards, that's cool. While I would dearly love a couple million more iso to finish champing all my wretched 4*s, I'd mainly just like to try out Onslaught and don't need to be rewarded for some fun new matches. This sounds a lot more entertaining than Versus.