What's New MPQ - Updated 9/20/21

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Welcome to What's New MPQ! Below, you will find the schedule of our ongoing and future events, along with the character buff list for the week. If you're interested in our events archive, feel free to click open the 'Spoiler' tab to see the list of past events. We will open a fresh What's New thread at the start of every month, and it will be updated on Mondays of every week.

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NOTICE: The upcoming Power Season will be shorter than usual in preparation for the MPQ Anniversary Season. Don't miss your chance to participate in the Power Season, and stay tuned for the upcoming events in MPQ's 8th Anniversary!

Characters
4-Star: The Hydra Stomper (Steve Rogers)
5-Star: Ultron (Age of Ultron)
4-Star Teaser: "Super-absorbent..."

Recent and Upcoming Features
Bug fixes & UI updates
R236 Release Notes: See Here

PVE Events

8/26 - 8/31 Venom Bomb

• Featuring: Knull, Magik, Psylocke, Daken (Dark Avengers)
• Placement Rewards: Odin Shards, Invisible Woman, Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Magneto (Marvel NOW!), Hawkeye (Classic)

8/26 - 9/2 Puzzle Gauntlet

8/26 - 9/2 Introducing... Shang-Chi

• Progression Rewards: Shang-Chi (Origin) Shards

8/30 - 9/3 Strange Sights

• Featuring: Odin, Invisible Woman, Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Magneto (Marvel NOW!)
• Placement Rewards: Black Panther (Civil War) Shards, Loki (Alligator of Mischief), Sentry, Thor (Marvel NOW!), Black Widow (Modern)

9/2 - 9/6 Honor Among Thieves

• Featuring: Black Panther (Civil War), Loki (Alligator of Mischief), Sentry, Thor (Marvel NOW!)
• Placement Rewards: Thanos (The Mad Titan) Shards, Mantis, Beast (Classic), Captain America (Steve Rogers), Storm (Modern)

9/5 - 9/10 Infinite Pursuit

• Featuring: Thanos (The Mad Titan), Mantis, Beast (Classic), Captain America (Steve Rogers)
• Placement Rewards: Ronan Shards, Kate Pryde, Angel, Black Widow (Original), Juggernaut (Classic)

9/9 - 9/13 Unstable Iso-8

• Featuring: Ronan, Kate Pryde, Angel, Black Widow (Original)
• Placement Rewards: Electro Shards, The Hydra Stomper, Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius), Bullseye (Dark Avengers), Venom (Dark Avengers)

9/9 - 9/16 Introducing... The Hydra Stomper (Steve Rogers)

• Progression Rewards: The Hydra Stomper (Steve Rogers) Shards

9/12 - 9/17 Operation Spider Silk

• Featuring: Electro, The Hydra Stomper (Steve Rogers), Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius), Bullseye (Dark Avengers)
• Placement Rewards: Odin Shards, Spider-Man (Infinity War), Iron Fist (Immortal Weapon), Storm (Classic), Iron Man (Model 35)

9/12 - 9/17 Welcome To S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Progression Rewards: The Hydra Stomper (Steve Rogers) Shards

9/16 - 9/20 Spider-Man Vs. Sinister Six (BOSS)

• Featuring: Spider-Man (Infinity War), Iron Fist (Immortal Weapon), Storm (Classic)
• Placement Rewards: Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2), Deadpool (It's Me, Deadpool!), Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)

9/19 - 9/24 Thick As Thieves

• Featuring: Odin, Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2), Deadpool (It's Me, Deadpool!), Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)
• Placement Rewards: Iron Man (Mark LXVI) Shards, Loki (Alligator of Mischief), Doctor Doom (Classic), Captain Marvel (Ms. Marvel), Hawkeye (Classic)

9/23 - 9/28 The Hunt *NEW*

• Featuring: Iron Man (Mark LXVI), Loki (Alligator of Mischief), Doctor Doom (Classic), Captain Marvel (Ms. Marvel)
• Placement Rewards: Ultron (Age of Ultron) Shards, The Hydra Stomper, Cyclops (Uncanny X-Men), Ares, Juggernaut (Classic)

9/23 - 9/30 Introducing... Ultron *NEW*

• Progression Rewards: Ultron (Age of Ultron) Shards

9/23 - 9/30 Puzzle Gauntlet *NEW*

9/27 - 10/1 Lost In Time *NEW*

• Featuring: Magneto (Age of Apocalypse), The Hydra Stomper, Cyclops (Uncanny X-Men), Ares
• Placement Rewards: The Hulk (Bruce Banner) Shards, Kate Pryde (Marauders), The Punisher (Dark Reign), Moonstone, Iron Man (Model 35)

PVP Events

8/29 - 9/1 Shang-Chi - Martial Awe

• Placement Rewards: Okoye Shards, The Thing, Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius), Human Torch (Johnny Storm)

8/31 - 9/4 Doctor Octopus - Eight Is Enough

• Placement Rewards: Onslaught Shards, Thor (Goddess of Thunder), Wolverine (Patch), Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)

9/2 - 9/6 Wolverine - Sharp Dressed

• Placement Rewards: Professor X (Classic) Shards, Throg, The Punisher (Dark Reign), Magneto (Marvel NOW!)

9/5 - 9/8 Punisher - Army Of One

• Placement Rewards: Rescue Shards, Valkyrie, Spider-Man (Classic), Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)

9/7 - 9/11 Spider-Man - Webslinger

• Placement Rewards: Ronan Shards, Venom (Eddie Brock), Luke Cage (Hero for Hire), Magneto (Marvel NOW!)

9/9 - 9/13 Luke Cage - Sticks And Stones

• Placement Rewards: Scarlet Witch (WandaVision) Shards, The Hydra Stomper (Steve Rogers), Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange), Ares

8/26 - 9/20 S.H.I.E.L.D. SIMULATOR (Season Start)

9/12 - 9/15 The Hydra Stomper - Boot Camp

• Placement Rewards: Silver Surfer Shards, Vulture, Squirrel Girl, Magneto (Marvel NOW!)

9/14 - 9/18 Squirrel Girl - CoverSquirrel

• Placement Rewards: Spider-Man (Back in Black) Shards, America Chavez, Kamala Khan, Captain Marvel (Ms. Marvel)

9/16 - 9/20 America Chavez - Stars And Strikes

• Placement Rewards: Spider-Man (Peter Parker) Shards, War Machine, Captain America (Super-Soldier), Moonstone

9/19 - 9/22 All Caps

• Placement Rewards: Star-Lord (Awesome Mix Volume 2) Shards, Wasp (Janet van Dyne), Star-Lord (Peter Quill), Thor (Marvel NOW!)

9/21 - 9/25 Diversity - Combined Arms *NEW*

• Placement Rewards: Storm (Ororo Munroe) Shards, Miles Morales, Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Moonstone

9/23 - 9/27 Miles Morales - Web 2.0 *NEW*

• Placement Rewards: Ultron (Age of Ultron) Shards, Wiccan, Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius), Storm (Classic)

9/23 - 10/4 S.H.I.E.L.D. SIMULATOR (Season Start) *NEW*

9/26 - 9/29 Ultron - Peace In Our Time *NEW*

• Placement Rewards: Thanos (The Mad Titan) Shards, Nova, Bullseye (Classic), Moonstone

Buff List

8/26 - 9/2

• Beta Ray Bill, Captain America (First Avenger), Rescue, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Agent Coulson, Juggernaut (Fear Itself), The Punisher (MAX), Silk, Wolverine (X-Force), Daredevil (Man Without Fear), Deadpool (It's Me, Deadpool!), Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy), Quicksilver, Storm (Mohawk), Bullseye (Dark Avengers), Thor (Marvel NOW!), Black Widow (Modern), Hawkeye (Classic)

9/2 - 9/9

• Doctor Octopus (Classic), Iron Man (Mark XLVI), Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex), Silver Surfer, Karnak, Kingpin (Wilson Fisk), Rocket & Groot (Awesome Mix Volume 2), Talos, Throg, Blade (Daywalker), Colossus (Classic), Iron Fist (Immortal Weapon), Thor (Modern), Vision, Hawkeye (Modern), Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men), Juggernaut (Classic), Storm (Modern)

9/9 - 9/16

• Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Heimdall, Hela, Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2), Peggy Carter, Polaris, Vulture, Wolfsbane, Angel, Black Panther (T'Challa), Cyclops (Uncanny X-Men), Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange), Wolverine (Patch), Ares, Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Iron Man (Model 35), Venom (Dark Avengers)

9/16 - 9/23

• Captain America (First Avenger), Green Goblin, Knull, Spider-Man (Back in Black), Black Widow (infinity War), Drax, Miles Morales, Nova, Rogue, Elektra (Assassin), Kamala Khan, Luke Cage (Hero for Hire), Ragnarok, Squirrel Girl, Magneto (Marvel NOW!), Captain Marvel (Ms. Marvel), Hawkeye (Classic), Storm (Modern)

9/23 - 9/30 *NEW*

• Black Bolt, Ghost Rider (Robey Reyes), Okoye, Wasp (Hope van Dyne), Beast (Age of Apocalypse), Gwenpool, Hulk (The Main Event), Lockjaw, Spider-Man 2099 (Miguel O'Hara), Bullseye (Classic), Captain Marvel (Modern), Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius), Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Spider-Man (Classic), Black Widow (Original), Storm (Classic), Iron Man (Model 35), Juggernaut (Classic)

Deadpool Dailies

8/25

• 4-Star Featuring: Rocket & Groot (Awesome Mix Volume 2), Wiccan, Mockingbird, Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson (Captain America)
• 3-Star Featuring: Iron-Man (Model 40), The Punisher (Dark Reign), The Hulk (Indestructible), Wolverine (Patch), Daredevil (Man Without Fear)
• Crash: Magik

8/30

• 4-Star Featuring: Peggy Carter, Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers), Professor X (Charles Xavier), Silk, Cyclops (Classic)
• 3-Star Featuring: Psylocke, Thor Modern), Captain America (Super-Soldier), Human Torch (Classic), Sam Wilson (Falcon)
• Crash: Super-Skrull

9/4

• 4-Star Featuring: Scorpion, Lizard, Rogue, The Thing, Magik
• 3-Star Featuring: Daken (Classic), Sentry, Storm (Mohawk), She-Hulk, Captain Marvel (Modern)
• Crash: Invisible Woman

9/9

• 4-Star Featuring: Super-Skrull, Invisible Woman, Bishop, Cloak & Dagger, Dazzler
• 3-Star Featuring: Deadpool (It's Me, Deadpool!), Beast (Classic), Colossus (Classic), Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius), Blade (Daywalker)
• Crash: Bishop

9/14

• 4-Star Featuring: Nightcrawler, Northstar, Carnage (Cletus Kasady), Quake, Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
• 3-Star Featuring: Mystique, Rocket & Groot (Awesome Mix Volume 2), Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2), Luke Cage (Power Man), Squirrel Girl
• Crash: Cloak & Dagger

9/19

• 4-Star Featuring: Legion, Nick Fury (Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Venom (Eddie Brock), Anti-Venom (Eddie Brock), Thanos (Endgame)
• 3-Star Featuring: Cyclops (Uncanny X-Men), Black Panther (T'Challa), Iron Fist (Immortal Weapon), Kamala Khan, Quicksilver
• Crash: Dazzler

9/24 *NEW*

• 4-Star Featuring: Juggernaut (Fear Itself), Sandman, Thor (Goddess of Thunder), Mantis, Gwenpool
• 3-Star Featuring: Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Vision (Android Avenger), Bullseye (Classic), Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange), Thanos (Modern)
• Crash: Nightcrawler

MackDan1

Thank you for keeping up with this weekly.
 Still not a fan of 3* centered pvp though.

Anon

PVP is gonna be rough for me starting the 2nd...

MackDan1

Thanks again for updating.

SaltnPeppa

Thanks for the frequency and very timely updates @Neko

Elementeo

How much do you think it’s skull, Zemo or kang one of the 3

HoundofShadow

I went to google "Destined to rule" and Kang, Loki and Red Skull were the first few names that popped up. 

The next 5* release is on September 23. And the next series or movie is Eternal (November 5). Another one that I found is Shuma-Gorath. It will be awesome if this demon is the next 5*.

Omegased

I want Multiple Kangs, and all playable at the same time. that would be great.

ThaRoadWarrior

If it's Shuma Gorath, I really hope we get some Marvel Superheros/Marvel vs Capcom art. He had a good look in those games and is almost certainly his best known incarnation as a character.

DAZ0273

ThaRoadWarrior said:

If it's Shuma Gorath, I really hope we get some Marvel Superheros/Marvel vs Capcom art. He had a good look in those games and is almost certainly his best known incarnation as a character.

Wouldn't Capcom own that art?

ThaRoadWarrior

Capcom is no stranger to suspect imagery usage, maybe they won't notice lol

https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/06/13/0122204/capcom-sued-by-photographer-claiming-they-used-80-of-her-photos-without-licensing

DAZ0273

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Capcom is no stranger to suspect imagery usage, maybe they won't notice lol

https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/06/13/0122204/capcom-sued-by-photographer-claiming-they-used-80-of-her-photos-without-licensing

Lol! I would be up for some of that!

Oh and just to tie this all together, the name Shuma Gorath is actually lifted from a Robert E Howard Conan story, giving us a nice circular plagiarism theme!

ThaRoadWarrior

It's probably Public Domain if it's in an REH story. He was active a billion years ago.

DAZ0273

ThaRoadWarrior said:

It's probably Public Domain if it's in an REH story. He was active a billion years ago.

Yeah probably and the Marvel version would be Copyright to them visually.

Venomous

I'm honestly really hoping this is Maximus. In truth he's probably the only Inhuman I personally like besides Kamala or Quake. 

JHawkInc

It's going to be Attuma, and he'll be a hard counter for Namor.

(seriously though, I have a gut feeling this is going to be one of those where we see the announced character and go "wait, what?" and have to ask for an explanation because it's not anyone we guessed or thought was an obvious answer)

TheEyeDoctorsWife

I would love more of the Royal Attilan family . Every character made so far has been above average . Triton, Gorgon, Maximus or Crystal .

BlackBoltRocks

In Unstable Iso-8, the HfH offer for Ronan is his Blue cover.

Latest 5* are usually in HfH four times before they rotate out, i.e. their last HfH offer as a Latest will be their first power. In Ronan's case, Black. But seeing as Ronan will be leaving on 20 Sep, and this is the start of a new Latest 5e cycle, I'm not optimistic Ronan will be featured again. Although Sighclops and Knull had one last run even after they left Latests.

Was Ronan skipped in the previous 5e cycle (someone correct me if I'm wrong), and why? It seems to me like he was.

HoundofShadow

I knew Shuma-Gorath from Marvel vs Capcom and he was really nice to play with.

Has the dev done a survey for anniversary? I remember they did one some time back and then they released a special store consisting of Apocalypse, Kitty and Ghostpool.

Sekilicious

BlackBoltRocks said:

In Unstable Iso-8, the HfH offer for Ronan is his Blue cover.

Latest 5* are usually in HfH four times before they rotate out, i.e. their last HfH offer as a Latest will be their first power. In Ronan's case, Black. But seeing as Ronan will be leaving on 20 Sep, and this is the start of a new Latest 5e cycle, I'm not optimistic Ronan will be featured again. Although Sighclops and Knull had one last run even after they left Latests.

Was Ronan skipped in the previous 5e cycle (someone correct me if I'm wrong), and why? It seems to me like he was.

I think it was Electro that was skipped for Odin. I don’t remember a forum post for Ronan. I could be wrong of course.

Ptahhotep

Destined to rule suggests two characters to me. 

Namora, though I don’t see her as being a five star.
Hulkling, as emperor of the Kree and Skrull he seems to be a suitable candidate.