Attack tiles and floating damage numbers - PLEASE MAKE IT STOP ALREADY!

bluewolf

Look...it's been years of playing and I don't want to contemplate how much of my life I have spent waiting for little dmg numbers to float across the screen.

How about this:  We just see a little flash when the Attack Tiles do their thing and the dmg appears on your character.  That would be pretty clear, right?  We have CDs that do dmg per turn so it's already an established game practice.

It is just wasting all of our time every time an attack tile is placed and you then need to wait for the dmg.

I have Supports that place Attack tiles that I WISH DIDN'T because I don't want to wait for the piddly dmg which has almost no benefit to me but takes up more of my precious time.  Same thing with powers that place attack tiles that have low dmg.

This would a pure win as far as QOL and best of all - cost the devs nothing except the time making it happen.  No giveaway to players, no major UI work.  Just make the dmg happen instantly instead of floating across the screen.

qandols

I agree. Attack tile resolution is the most painful element in the game. 

MrPlow

You have to hear the pitiful punch sound Everytime before the numbers even float up.  Turning off animations should also turn this garbage off.

Michael1957

I laugh at the irony of the people who have time to play video games thinking their time is precious . 😂😂. You people need to get over yourself . 

bluewolf

Michael1957 said:

I laugh at the irony of the day people who have time to play video games thinking their time is precious . 😂😂. You people need to get over yourself . 

.........  Fine. 

I am a person who has time to play a video game but this element makes me enjoy it less and therefore less likely to spend money and consider that there are more enjoyable things to do with my time. Which is not “precious” apparently, but I still value it.  

DyingLegend

Michael1957 said:

I laugh at the irony of the people who have time to play video games thinking their time is precious . 😂😂. You people need to get over yourself . 

My time is precious, i can certainly spend it in other places. Maybe this feature takes away the limited time they have to play the game in a day. Attack tiles damage numbers are tremendously annoying.

krakenoon

Why is it always the ones with over-Inflated egos telling people to get over themselves?

JaGo

@bluewolf especially since they added the ability to tap an attack, shield or strike tile to see the aggregate total damage.

-JaGo

Borstock

bluewolf said:

Michael1957 said:

I laugh at the irony of the day people who have time to play video games thinking their time is precious . 😂😂. You people need to get over yourself . 

.........  Fine. 

I am a person who has time to play a video game but this element makes me enjoy it less and therefore less likely to spend money and consider that there are more enjoyable things to do with my time. Which is not “precious” apparently, but I still value it.  

I thought you vowed to not spend anymore money until Bishop gets nerfed.

bluewolf

Borstock said:

bluewolf said:

Michael1957 said:

I laugh at the irony of the day people who have time to play video games thinking their time is precious . 😂😂. You people need to get over yourself . 

.........  Fine. 

I am a person who has time to play a video game but this element makes me enjoy it less and therefore less likely to spend money and consider that there are more enjoyable things to do with my time. Which is not “precious” apparently, but I still value it.  

I thought you vowed to not spend anymore money until Bishop gets nerfed.

Well, maybe that will happen sometime. 

Doesn’t mean I can’t be annoyed by other things as well. 

sambrookjm

JaGo said:

@bluewolf especially since they added the ability to tap an attack, shield or strike tile to see the aggregate total damage.

-JaGo

Still not available on Steam...  *sigh*

Marc_Spector

DyingLegend said:

My time is precious, i can certainly spend it in other places. Maybe this feature takes away the limited time they have to play the game in a day. Attack tiles damage numbers are tremendously annoying.

Exactly. Everyone has different amounts of free time, and how they choose to use it / how precious they want to consider those minutes is entirely up to them. @bluewolf , you're an awesome and insightful member of this forum and don't let any meaningless uncontributing rando tell you otherwise.

I'm a hospital orderly in a major city and have been smack dab in the middle of COVID-mania / high contagion risk daily for the past few months. Ever since I quit smoking (which MPQ was a helpful component of, actually!) my 5 minute alone-time MPQ breaks throughout the day are one of the only chill, meditative, zenlike moments away from the daily chaos. I've only in the past month or so started to be annoyed by the small delay when attack tiles fire off, and wasn't sure if it was a bug, or, just me being hyper-sensitive to small delays like that given how little time to play I've had in the past month (and, as aforementioned, if I only have time for 1 or 2 matches, I'll avoid playing against attack tile placers). Glad to see I'm not the only who's been irked by it!

BlackBoltRocks

@Michael1957 if you have nothing nice to say, and post mainly to troll or swipe at other forumites, kindly don't say anything at all. We already have at least three people on this forum who do that, which is three people too many.

sinnerjfl

This has to be one of the most annoying little things in this game, they don't seem to want to bother fixing that but messing around with the whole support screen, sure let's do that! (noone asked for that last change btw...)

HoundofShadow

It would be great to speed up their animations. As a competitive player, playing in heavy Mindless goons PvEs increase my playtime by 5-10 minutes x 2 for 4+3 or 7 clears.  That's actually 10 to 20 mins of waiting for their animations per day.  I could use this time to play 3 to 6 PvP matches instead.

They have sped up the placement of special tiles by Mindless. Strangely, it applies only to the first match of when you fully close and open MPQ app. 

froggerjohn

Yep, if you regularly quit and restart MPQ after every match, you can be in "fast mode" all the time. 

Polares

Totally agreed.

Said that I am going to add, that it is a bit sad that we need to play the game for so long, and so fast, that small animations like these annoys us so much ... Seriously the day Devs decided that this game was all about repetition and speed was a sad day. 

PS: Still hoping a new form of Gauntlet comes back some day. And Scl10 was also big opportunity failed to change this.

Borstock

bluewolf said:

Borstock said:

bluewolf said:

Michael1957 said:

I laugh at the irony of the day people who have time to play video games thinking their time is precious . 😂😂. You people need to get over yourself . 

.........  Fine. 

I am a person who has time to play a video game but this element makes me enjoy it less and therefore less likely to spend money and consider that there are more enjoyable things to do with my time. Which is not “precious” apparently, but I still value it.  

I thought you vowed to not spend anymore money until Bishop gets nerfed.

Well, maybe that will happen sometime. 

Doesn’t mean I can’t be annoyed by other things as well. 

But it does take the teeth out of your threat to stop spending.

BriMan2222

Borstock said:

bluewolf said:

Borstock said:

bluewolf said:

Michael1957 said:

I laugh at the irony of the day people who have time to play video games thinking their time is precious . 😂😂. You people need to get over yourself . 

.........  Fine. 

I am a person who has time to play a video game but this element makes me enjoy it less and therefore less likely to spend money and consider that there are more enjoyable things to do with my time. Which is not “precious” apparently, but I still value it.  

I thought you vowed to not spend anymore money until Bishop gets nerfed.

Well, maybe that will happen sometime. 

Doesn’t mean I can’t be annoyed by other things as well. 

But it does take the teeth out of your threat to stop spending.

He didn't threaten to stop spending, he said that it makes him less likely to start spending.

krakenoon

Between this and 1 bad board I missed T5 in 7 8(

Borstock

BriMan2222 said:

Borstock said:

bluewolf said:

Borstock said:

bluewolf said:

Michael1957 said:

I laugh at the irony of the day people who have time to play video games thinking their time is precious . 😂😂. You people need to get over yourself . 

.........  Fine. 

I am a person who has time to play a video game but this element makes me enjoy it less and therefore less likely to spend money and consider that there are more enjoyable things to do with my time. Which is not “precious” apparently, but I still value it.  

I thought you vowed to not spend anymore money until Bishop gets nerfed.

Well, maybe that will happen sometime. 

Doesn’t mean I can’t be annoyed by other things as well. 

But it does take the teeth out of your threat to stop spending.

He didn't threaten to stop spending, he said that it makes him less likely to start spending.

Fine. It takes the teeth out of his threat to not start spending when, even if they made the requested change, he's on record as saying he won't spend until Bishop is nerfed. Either way, whether they fix these tiles or not, he's not spending. So, not much of a threat.