Meet Broken Circle Studios - Developer Blog (6/2/22)

DyingLegend

Intriguing development if i do say so.

There is a lot of questions this raises. I don't mind the addition of 3/5 combos but at the same time, a 3 star really does nothing for a 5 star roster.

Will the cost of roster slot decrease or will there be a new way to acquire slots? Maybe slots per character and not per individual character instance. IE, 1 slot for Iron Man but this covers all variants of him. Clear as mud I'm sure ?

Rebalances are always welcome, personally I'd start with adjusting match damage of older 5 stars.

Costumes are cool, no complaints there outside of, i wish they did more than change appearances.

What about changing daily resupply rewards? Playing 2500+ days and getting a standard token is kinda lame.

Lastly,
Dilution. The elephant in the room. With the addition of more characters, will there be a more streamline way to earn characters outside of the slow crawl of the shards system? Return of Bonus heroes? Harder events for better rewards ? Daily 4 star missions ? Anything to help build rosters slightly faster. 

Anyways here's to a bright future ! 

HoundofShadow

So, this is the big change that was coming to MPQ. Welcome to MPQ. 

I went through all 2.3 pages and I'm surprised no one asked certain questions. Let me add some unique questions to this page:

1) Will there be a monthly dev faq, or how often will there be faq/communication between dev and the community?

2) Are you planning on releasing 6*?

3) Will you bring back community pves or boss events?

4) Are you planning to implement supports in pvps?

5) Any plan to increase the number of timeslices available in the game?

6) Do you plan to make the AI smarter to play against with?

7) Did you make any changes to the gameplay's codes?

Bzhai

Welcome to the BCS team. Looking forward to hearing more from you guys in the future especially your design intentions for new releases and general direction of the game. 

I echo most of what's been said in this thread especially those related to gameplay and longevity of the game. But if I could make one small request it would be the option to toggle the ui of the game. For example, turning off texts and banners or switching the look of the board to classic design.

Oh yea, and sandbox mode. 

Falconfreak

Welcome to the game. I look forward to what you guys and gals can do. I have one request. Please add Hobgoblin as a new 5 star to the game. He is the most requested character in every poll or topic about adding a new a character. Pick the Roderick Kingsley version for Hobgoblin. He has the strength, speed and all the cool toys and weapons Green Goblin has but without the crazy in the Goblin serum because he perfected it. He would be a lot of fun to play in game.

dlegendary0ne

Awesome exciting changes coming.  If you're listening, I'd love to have a practice mode.  One where you can take your roster and test any setup vs any enemy or wave of enemies.  It'd be cool to play with characters you don't have yet too, so you can plan how to build your roster - provided you're not already an endgame player.  

hell969

I would love to see true PVP so you can play vs your friends and alliance members in a real time match. I know that it would be a big task as that would require a pire-to-pire connection.

Scorpion201

ImmortalZodd said:

I'd like to see how you address PVP match making.  It's frustrating to have to soft-cap 5 stars because I don't want to be stuck seeing only meta 5 teams in PVP.

I like the idea of costumes as long as you can earn them without paying cash.

Enthused by idea of rebalancing old characters- many of them desperately need it. 

Would be cool to see more opportunities for Alliance members to support each other- like swapping covers, gifting iso, etc.

Stunned and Excited for the Changes.

This Times a Million, especially when their boosted. it makes it no fun for us non 5 star players. i rather deal with high end 4 stars than 5 stars.

And as for boss events, Gargantos was a good start. wouldn't mind seeing Dormammu and The Living Tribunal as boss events.

Phumade

Sad to see the end of an era.  Excited to see the new changes.

Jormagund

Falconfreak said:

He is the most requested character in every poll or topic about adding a new a character.

Omega Red says hello.

Cross posting a couple of things I said in Discord so Ice doesn't have to.

Be great to have shards for supports so we could earn higher levels.

Would really like to see more Milestones, we very occasionally have seasonal ones, for example at Christmas and I think these could easily be added as targets alongside the current season or based on the month (pride, black history, etc.).  Could build in rewards to use certain characters/affiliations and mix it up month to month.  Marvel CoC does this quite well in my opinion.

Echoing others and good to see an intent to revisit some stagnant areas of the game or outdated rewards/costs.  Hope you and your team enjoy the ride.

PorkBelly

More 3* characters seems like a real drag.  They have no use for players who mainly use 4* & 5* in PvP and PvE.  

If you’re going to be emphasizing more 3* releases for newer players, you should rework CL10 to eliminate them as a requirement.  

emswad

hell969 said:

I would love to see true PVP so you can play vs your friends and alliance members in a real time match. I know that it would be a big task as that would require a pire-to-pire connection.

Now that would be fun!

BriMan2222

Costumes being one of the things you want to look at and with Morbius coming back to theaters due to being the best performing and most awesome movie of all time, now would be a great time to add a movie Morbius costume.  The costume should also change all of his moves to "It's morbin' time" and add animations of him morbing all over the enemy team.

MennoKnight

While we’re wishing, I’d like to be able to try a fun 4* team without getting stomped by my 5* matches.  Maybe some kind of “exemplar” system, like City of Heroes had, just for PVE. 

Or maybe my answer is to try a lower CL. 

ThisisClemFandango

BriMan2222 said:

Costumes being one of the things you want to look at and with Morbius coming back to theaters due to being the best performing and most awesome movie of all time, now would be a great time to add a movie Morbius costume.  The costume should also change all of his moves to "It's morbin' time" and add animations of him morbing all over the enemy team.

See its people like you that convinced Sony to re-release it!
Haven't we all suffered enough already?!
Also if anyone here can explain to me how vulture got his flying suit back that'd be lovely.

BriMan2222

ThisisClemFandango said:

BriMan2222 said:

Costumes being one of the things you want to look at and with Morbius coming back to theaters due to being the best performing and most awesome movie of all time, now would be a great time to add a movie Morbius costume.  The costume should also change all of his moves to "It's morbin' time" and add animations of him morbing all over the enemy team.

See its people like you that convinced Sony to re-release it!
Haven't we all suffered enough already?!
Also if anyone here can explain to me how vulture got his flying suit back that'd be lovely.

Hey,  it's not the fans fault that Sony can't tell the difference between real hype and obvious meme-ing.

ThisisClemFandango

BriMan2222 said:

ThisisClemFandango said:

BriMan2222 said:

Costumes being one of the things you want to look at and with Morbius coming back to theaters due to being the best performing and most awesome movie of all time, now would be a great time to add a movie Morbius costume.  The costume should also change all of his moves to "It's morbin' time" and add animations of him morbing all over the enemy team.

See its people like you that convinced Sony to re-release it!
Haven't we all suffered enough already?!
Also if anyone here can explain to me how vulture got his flying suit back that'd be lovely.

Hey,  it's not the fans fault that Sony can't tell the difference between real hype and obvious meme-ing.

It's made me chuckle they've made a ridiculously small amount of money from this re-release.
I feel even less enthusiastic about that well known and well loved spider-man villain El Diablo.
Sony needs to be stopped. 

DAZ0273

Sony just haven't hit their top tier Spider guys like Hypno Hustler and Razorback yet. Give them time.

Seph1roth5

Welcome to uh...your game I guess heh.  Always nice to hear the people in charge of development are also players/fans.  A couple thoughts/wishes I've had over the last few years I've played.

1: It was disappointing when every reward was lowered.  Getting 10 hero pts is just...bad.  Would love to see those raised to usable levels.  Same with duplicate supports giving a negligible amount of red iso.
2: Everyone else has talked about supports, but yeah, would be nice if there was another way to gain/level them up.
3: Classic Legends.  I think the price is much too high for very much out of date characters, especially since it's a giant pool.  I think I (and other people) would be far more likely to spend $$, CP, HP, whatever on them if the cost was lowered to say, 5, or if it was a guaranteed 5* or something.
4: Speed.  AIM goons and other minion fights take very long because you're just waiting for all their tiles to do their thing.  I've been completely destroyed by prof x/onslaught on their first turn faster than it takes lv 65 goons to take their turn.
5: Repetition.  I really enjoy MPQ, but sometimes it gets a bit boring using the same team or 2 at SCL 10 to clear it.  I know you mentioned more events and such, so I'd like to suggest spicing it up with more variety.  I really like the all-x-men one, maybe one that's all 3* or all 4* or something?  
6: Teasers.  Demiurge (I think?) was doing a pretty good job teasing new 4/5* and their powers, though some of the hints were suuuuuuuuuper out there.  Keep those.
7: Not sure if there's a way to do it, since every gacha/mobile game seems to.  But I'd love if some of the screens were streamlined so I didn't have to click through 10 things after every match.  Related:
8: Small nitpick, but I tend to open a bunch of low level packs at once and then level up my guys by level.  Delete the 1s, then level up 2s, 3s, etc.  That way I might get a higher up cover and get to it.  My beef is that the exp you get from opening packs is DIRECTLY on top of the back arrow from opening a cover.  You have to tap juuuuust right or it just takes you further into the character.

Anywhoo, optimistic as well.

jredd

hopefully expanding/improving supports is on the table. And maybe try to speed the game up a bit and make it actually work more than one match a month. Anyways, good luck.

Yepyep

illusionist_KA said:

honest question, will feeders (3 to 4* and 4 to 5*) be looked at.  Specifically, older characters as feeders and the not new characters as feeders. This will bring life back into the older characters that are sitting doing nothing.  Not everyone has resources to push for new characters. Making new character feeders right away was a travesty to the game.

I haven't read the whole thread yet, but I have to think this is the main reason (other than the cash-grab roster slots thing) to push growing the 3* tier: to restructure feeders across the board. It is fundamentally flawed now. We badly need new feeders grown in the 3* tier for farmers to harvest.

Regarding the roster-slot issue, I'm guessing someone addressed it before I did, but the introduction of a "pocket slot" is a killer idea for helping with this problem.

fight4thedream said:

 I noticed you used the terms micro/macro rebalances and I was wondering if you could expound a bit more on that topic. [lots redacted, sorry @fight4thedream]

This is important. "Rebalances" as a term most definitely includes the possibility of nerfs. I want specific, early info if they're going to nerf my hard-earned tinykitty characters.

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Should we expect schedule disruptions as the new dev team learns where all the bodies are buried and how all the tool chains work? Or was all the previous event start disruption we saw starting with Moon Knight that handoff?

You, of all people (ITB), know that we'll see those disruptions. That's inevitable and totally OK -- as long as they have a plan to communicate with us about it. Preferably in advance. But bc that's usually impossible, ASAP is mandatory. And a rational, reasonable compensation policy for people who get burned in the process.

Vhailorx said:

I am leery of a change this significant.  Renewed dev investment is good, but major revisions to an 8- year old economy are not trivial.  There is a lot that could go wrong,  and that is even before we consider the worst possibilities like a pure cash grab or other bad faith actions. 

More releases = more HP pressure.  And if they intend to do an aggressive balance pass,  should we also expect to see nerfs?  who is designing characters now?  I would exist some wildly high variance (both positive and negative) for new characters for the next year at least. 

I am cautiously pessimistic,  but hope to be proven wrong. 

This is absolutely the most insightful, important comment here. The potential for disaster is ... vast.  Hopefully the goal is big change, executed incrementally. [Forgive me, @Vhailorx  for the emphasis changes.]