Marvel Puzzle Quest R223 Release Notes (3/15/21)

LakeStone

Hi Everyone - 

Here are the R223 Release Notes!

“Hey, it’s a living…”

• Puzzle battles never looked so good...MPQ gets a makeover! Check out the ALL-NEW Gameboard and tile animations now!
• Colossus (Phoenix Five) is ready to reinforce the frontline. Recruit now in select events!

Additional Details:

• The gameboard has a new visual style, including new tiles, new AP bars and a new match hint.
• New tile physics are now available; they can be enabled or disabled in the options screen.
• The game no longer crashes on startup on specific iOS devices.

Thanks for playing!

Players on Amazon Devices – Please see latest Known Issue FAQ HERE in regards to lost game saves.  Team is currently working on a fix and will keep the FAQ updated with latest details.

SaltnPeppa

Current issues with the new gameboard:

1. The new tiles make it hard to see the "suggested match".   The suggested match is so faint or the prominence of the new tiles are too much making it hard to identify the "suggested match" quickly.
2. The "black color" for strike, attack, protect tiles blends a lot with the deep set colors of the new tiles.   It's especially worse when it's on a black special tile on black tile.

Good changes:

1. Red, purple and yellow color intensity is excellent.   
2. Shapes were done well.

Overall:   The new changes draw human perception towards the gameboard and away from the enjoyment of the Marvel characters, which is essentially what the game is about.   If it was candy crush where the focus is on the board, then this changes are fine, but for a widely known intellectual property like Marvel, our eyes should be drawn to the characters.

The colors make it tough on the eyes to adjust between the Marvel characters and to the gameboard.

Please ask us scientists about things like this.  That's why marketers hire us for visualization and perception changes to their brands.  This is why the Tide logo has barely changed through the years, they pay us to consult for visuals.

LavaManLee

SaltnPeppa said:

1. The "black color" for strike, attack, protect tiles blends a lot with the deep set colors of the new tiles.   It's especially worse when it's on a black special tile on black tile.

Very glad you brought this up.  It is so hard to see a black special tile on a black tile.  It just creates one big glob of a color.

DeNappa

The app also now asks you for tracking permission? (iOS)

What's that about?

LakeStone said:

• New tile physics are now available; they can be enabled or disabled in the options screen.

Thanks for playing!

Lol, this makes tiles a bit 'bouncy' when they fall down the board. Not very useful, but okay.

To be honest, I'd rather have seen an option to reduce flash effects which is still abundant.

ThaRoadWarrior

I've gotten that update asking for tracking permission across apps from many apps today, i think it must be a new OS feature.

Waddles_Pines

SaltnPeppa said:

Current issues with the new gameboard:

1. The new tiles make it hard to see the "suggested match".   The suggested match is so faint or the prominence of the new tiles are too much making it hard to identify the "suggested match" quickly.

Maybe my memory is foggy, but the new suggested match "look at me" tile moving animation seems more pronounced now.  

CNash

It'll take a little getting used to, for sure. But everything does. I won't pass judgement on it (well, not too much) until I've used it a fair amount.

In fact the only thing I will say is that it's really difficult to adjust to when the board dims on the enemy turn. On the old gameboard, only the background changed, but now the tiles are dimmed as well.

Sekilicious

It is much easier to see on my iPad. I did think the game was supposed to designed for the phone but maybe I’m mistaken about that

PorkBelly

CNash said:

In fact the only thing I will say is that it's really difficult to adjust to when the board dims on the enemy turn. On the old gameboard, only the background changed, but now the tiles are dimmed as well.

This is really annoying.  I hope they add a setting that would allow this to be turned off.  

Bzhai

For starters increase the transparency of the character symbols on the tiles. It´s a match-3 puzzle game and the human eye can more easily recognize colours than symbols. It's even worse for folks that have sensory issues. 

At least let us have the option to go back to classic look. You can keep the current layout, just let us toggle the tile colours.

cerrdwyn

PorkBelly said:

This is really annoying.  I hope they add a setting that would allow this to be turned off.  

This. It is also difficult for anyone with eye issues or prone to getting headaches - dimming the board and as dark as it goes, is really hard on my eyes. It makes it difficult to play the game on the regular.  Stop the tiles dimming, and I think it would solve the issue.

ThaRoadWarrior

I know we are all sad about the UI, but is anyone else’s after-match rewards that you send to team mates now opening mobile Safari and then presenting a dialog asking if you want to open the link in MPQ? I’m not sure if that’s an OS update or an app update, but it is a new behavior that coincided with this release.

gravel

ThaRoadWarrior said:

I know we are all sad about the UI, but is anyone else’s after-match rewards that you send to team mates now opening mobile Safari and then presenting a dialog asking if you want to open the link in MPQ? I’m not sure if that’s an OS update or an app update, but it is a new behavior that coincided with this release.

Yeah.  Did that to me today too.

JaGo

ThaRoadWarrior said:

I know we are all sad about the UI, but is anyone else’s after-match rewards that you send to team mates now opening mobile Safari and then presenting a dialog asking if you want to open the link in MPQ? I’m not sure if that’s an OS update or an app update, but it is a new behavior that coincided with this release.

Yes, been happening since the update.

Edit: Since the last mpq update, to be clear.

supergarv

Did you maybe not accept the Ad Tracking after the update? That might be related.

Talestummy

Experiencing the same thing and my tracking for mpq is turned on

ThaRoadWarrior

I did not accept the ad tracking

ThaRoadWarrior

So probably not an intentional nerf per se, I have to imagine it was never intended behavior, but along with this update G4mora's Deadliest Woman no longer treats charged purple tiles as friendly specials for the purposes of insta-kill. Just thought I'd let y'all know if you lean on it for Challenge nodes and don't want a surprise.

PiMacleod

ThaRoadWarrior said:

So probably not an intentional nerf per se, I have to imagine it was never intended behavior, but along with this update G4mora's Deadliest Woman no longer treats charged purple tiles as friendly specials for the purposes of insta-kill. Just thought I'd let y'all know if you lean on it for Challenge nodes and don't want a surprise.

Ouch.  Not that i specifically leaned on it anymore, but this team is one of my 6 Challenge Node killers.  Good tidbit of info to store away.

animaniactoo

DeNappa said:

To be honest, I'd rather have seen an option to reduce flash effects which is still abundant.

Awww. That's disappointing. I had hope for 5 seconds that I could come back and play again with the new UI. But that was one of the major issues which made me sick, so without that change, probably not worth trying. Sigh.

helix72

Another stealth update: when 4* Scorpion was released, Red was his strongest color and Green his 2nd strongest. The damage numbers have now been flipped and Green is now his strongest color, Red 2nd. Matters if you run him with/against characters with powers affecting strongest colors (e.g. 5* Carpool, 4* Valkyrie, 4* Captain Marvel).