Upcoming Bonus Character Release (8/5/22)

IceIX

Hey all,

It’s new character release time again! We’ll be apprising you of the newest character’s abilities on Monday, as our ordinary course. However, we wanted to inform you that after this new character, we’ll be releasing a bonus 4-Star character to the game the week after! This is in addition to the normal release schedule, so we’ll be releasing the next 4-Star as usual, another 4-Star the next week, then the standard 5-Star release.

To assist with the distribution of this sudden character windfall, we’ll be giving away a copy of this bonus character, pro bono. We hope you’ll look forward to both the next character’s reveal and the information drop on this bonus character next week!

In Brief:

• 8/5 - Spoiler-Free for 4-Star clue character “Something borrowed… something green”
• 8/8 - Information on 4-Star character, clue for 4-Star Bonus character
• 8/11 - Release of 4-Star character
• 8/12 - Spoiler Free for 4-Star Bonus character
• 8/15 - Information on 4-Star Bonus character
• 8/18 - Release and free cover of 4-Star Bonus character
• (Return to standard schedule) 8/19 - Spoiler-Free of 5-Star character

Dok12

Wait, they can do that?

New devs really changing the game  

jeffsterz

Hope it feeds Havok.. Still missing that 5.

wymtime

Thanks for the heads up!!!  I look forward to the new characters.  I hope I have enough HP to roster 2 4* so quickly.

oh wait I have 84395 HP.  I’m good

ThaRoadWarrior

Additional 4*s on an off week kinda feel more like a tax than a bonus, but…I guess thanks?

St_Bernadus

wymtime said:

Thanks for the heads up!!!  I look forward to the new characters.  I hope I have enough HP to roster 2 4* so quickly.

oh wait I have 84395 HP.  I’m good

Pretty sure not everyone is so flush.

Daredevil217

Yeah, I don’t love it at all, but it seems to be a one time deal rather than the new norm, so it’s fine. Plus I’ve liked all the other changes and communication so far from the new devs. I’m curious as to why this is happening more than anything else. Maybe more will be revealed when we know who the character is. 

shardwick

wymtime said:

Thanks for the heads up!!!  I look forward to the new characters.  I hope I have enough HP to roster 2 4* so quickly.

oh wait I have 84395 HP.  I’m good

86,215 for me. I love farming. I also see doing bonus 4s as a way to slowly catch up to giving every 5* a feeder.

WilliamK1983

I wonder if it's one of the characters that lost out to Black Knight in the contest from January of this year?  

ThaRoadWarrior

Fingers crossed for Night Nurse i guess.

HoundofShadow

The latest 4* preview doesn't look like She-Hulk. There isn't any tile destruction at all, which is typical of all the Hulks in-game.

She-Hulk releases on August 17 and this means the bonus 4* is related to She-Hulk because it's the closest date to her TV show and the fact that they are giving away free cover for this bonus 4* character kind of strengthen the argument. Anyway, the new 4* ability is interesting.

jeffsterz

So will this cover be featured in anything? Will it be included in any rewards from PvE/PvP? If not, it’ll take a while to champ and get 10 covers over. 

Timemachinego

jeffsterz said:

So will this cover be featured in anything? Will it be included in any rewards from PvE/PvP? If not, it’ll take a while to champ and get 10 covers over. 

That's the real question, they'd have to do away with one of the "old" character rotation slots in favor of the new one to not make this "bonus" release anything other than a total waste.

ThaRoadWarrior

Is this another limited character?

IceIX

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Is this another limited character?

It is not, no.

Kolence

Will this extra 4* interfere with the schedule of new and improved boss event at the end of a season giving 5* rewards?

We haven't had a new release boss event in quite a while... Just saying. 

IceIX

Kolence said:

Will this extra 4* interfere with the schedule of new and improved boss event at the end of a season giving 5* rewards?

We haven't had a new release boss event in quite a while... Just saying. 

You've been getting new release 5-Star characters from the latest Boss Events though, so...

Kolence

IceIX said:

Kolence said:

Will this extra 4* interfere with the schedule of new and improved boss event at the end of a season giving 5* rewards?

We haven't had a new release boss event in quite a while... Just saying. 

You've been getting new release 5-Star characters from the latest Boss Events though, so...

Oh, for sure. No complaining here.

bahamut685

As long as [Bonus] is a feeder, I'm all for it!

dianetics

Is this how they are going to catch up the 5* feeders?

nixed

IceIX said:

To assist with the distribution of this sudden character windfall, we’ll be giving away a copy of this bonus character, pro bono. 

What does this mean exactly? You're giving us an extra 1k HP to go with the character? Or an extra roster slot for everyone?

Or are you guys just throwing a few extra covers at us and saying it's a "free" character? Because if it's just covers, then saying you're "giving it away for free" seems a little duplicitous, no? Like I understand that most of the MPQ forum users are likely 5+ year players who are already post-HP, but the vast majority of players are not yet Post-HP. Sudden extra characters, and the trend of knowing there are new 3-stars coming in addition to 4's and 5's is a bit concerning.