MPQ Developer Q&A January 2023 (QUESTIONS)

S0kun

Hi everyone!

Back to our regularly scheduled program with this month's Developer Q&A thread!

As we continue to improve on its workflow, we'd like to make some optimizations to make it easier to organize and read when we post answers. If you've got any suggestions on how we can improve our monthly Q&As, please feel free to suggest in this thread as well! Here's what we're changing:

• Questions will be limited to 1 per player to ensure that we can answer as many questions as possible.

• Drop down for "Topics" to help consolidate duplicates. Even though questions are posted to the thread here, they can sometimes get lost. When applicable, we'll attribute an abridge version of the questions to the multiple players asking in our response.

January Developer Q&A Google Form:
https://mpq.social/communityqa
If you don't have a Google account, please post your question in the thread and a friendly neighborhood Iso hunter may swoop in and help out.

1. Max 1 Questions:
To ensure that we're able to answer as many questions as possible, questions are limited to 1 per player and a maximum of 250 characters.
2. Copy Questions to original Q&A thread:
To avoid duplicate questions, we kindly ask that you post your questions as thread replies to this forum thread to display them publicly for others to see.
3. Deadline to submit questions:
12pm PST/8pm BST on January 25th
4. Answers posted:
January 31st

Looking forward to your questions as always!

Best,
S0kun

DAZ0273

4* characters have high iso champing costs and given there are now so many has any consideration been given to reducing these?

Scofie

There's a great amount of in-game content, such as PvE stories and power animations that it would be good to watch when not "on the clock". Are there plans for an in-game library for these? And possibly some milestones for watching them all...

meadowsweet

The current "Our First Characters Vault" is the first time I've understood the special character tokens. In the past, I've had no idea who to use, when, why, or for how long. Could you perhaps add these (and 3-star Deadpool's daily whale points and 5-star Deadpool's daily taco token) to a new tab under Quests - similar to the 12 Days of Marvel tab you recently ran? It's hard for casual fans to keep track of all the possible goodies every day; just add a daily checkbox that shows there's one more thing we could be earning. Thanks!

LFChikarason

With recent changes to Deadpool Dailys and the four cycle being every seven days instead of every five, we will get through the current list of four stars by June 2025. Any chance that cycle can move quicker?

MrDupaTM

Currently there’s 77 5* characters in the game. However, only about 7-8 of them are actually being used (lately pretty much just 3 with Chasm causing half of the gaming experience to be just repeatedly clicking on “skip” button rather than making colour matches).

Are you planning to address it at all?

ThaRoadWarrior

Paraphrased: event quests came back online with the 12 days, and just as suddenly went away. Are there any plans to roll those out more fully this year? (I suspect they were built into the event and not deliberately added but I can’t be sure, personally)

I gave the note: the official forums seem to have been quickly abondonwd by the new dev team similar to the old; it would be nice if the official forums weren’t the last and least reliable place to get game information.

liminal_lad

The forum has noticed that some 5*s have been stealth updated. Are there plans to address this in official forum posts? Are there plans to share who's up next?

waywreth

Can you give us a timeline on the support revamp and any plans?

dokiy

Will we ever have the ability to see which character we have used X amount of times? I know years ago old Devs said 4 star Punisher was least used 4 star. I would love to see data like that, even just if it was for my account.

ShionSinX

Can we get a new set of daily missions, "using an affiliation 3x" for a not-iso reward? Some 4* shards like the holiday event missions or tokens (increasing rarity per shield ranks). If possible on top of the existing ones, +1 to total dailies.

Note: with affiliations getting more importance it would be cool if they were included into everyone's routine so we get to remember them by memory and not having to keep checking them everytime (because theres no easy way to do it right now like a filter into our roster window, only individually). And some 3/4* shards as reward would be cool!

Lionowilson

PvP 2-part
In PvP, I have skipped close to 75 times and seen the same five teams. I cannot beat those teams, why will it not show other teams? And the only way I can seem to beat teams that are on my level is with 5x +20% to all damage and 5x +10% damage. And hope to get lucky. I even wiped with boosted iHulk (level 459 pre boosted) and Moon Knight (454 pre boosted), both full health going in, to a level 270 Polaris and a 330 ish
Mighty Thor.

Question 2: Release events
This is more a suggestion
The coding might be a nightmare, so I understand that but for release events in PvP, start of event the new release is 1/1/1, 12 hrs later 3/3/3, 12 hrs later 5/5/3 (build based on devs opinion of best build) at 450. 12 hrs later until end of event level 550. Now that would be for CL10. Scale it down for lower tiers. This way people get an actual feel for what the newest characters can do. Otherwise they primarily sit in the back and do little to nothing.

fnedude

Since Affiliations are getting so important, can we have a "sort by affilliation" on the Hero choice screen and roster. Default to ABC order, then * rarity order.

So if I choose "Sort by Affilliation", it then goes "Avengers, ABC Order, 5/4/3/2/1", then "Champions, ABC order, 5/4/3/2/1", etc.

entrailbucket

What percentage of regular players have at least one character at lvl450 or above (and how much time do you spend thinking about those players' experience)?

BriMan2222

This has been an issue for years and years, but it seems like something that should be very simple to avoid. Can you please not have a 3 star character featured in pvp during the boost week of their 4 or 5 star counterpart?

samael64

May not be your call, however I've noticed that there have been no MPQ tie ins to earn Marvel Insider points for a month or more, nor is there a new cover redemption option this month. Is this intentional and will it continue?

S0kun

@samael64 said:
May not be your call, however I've noticed that there have been no MPQ tie ins to earn Marvel Insider points for a month or more, nor is there a new cover redemption option this month. Is this intentional and will it continue?

I can answer since I work on these We won't have a redemption option this month, but there definitely was something planned last month. We had the Reality Season, Unstable Iso Event, Download MPQ, and Namor cover redemption. Maybe you missed it? I'll try to make sure these are added to our communications on social too in the near future so you don't miss out.

benr69

Can there be some new missions developed & rolled out? Not Alliance if possible. Sort of boring and fatiguing having the same missions over and over-the nadir being the Strange Sights redux. It might also address some “automatic play” concerns raised by others. Thank you! Also I second the Marvel Insider ask.

whoami

I know you all have been very busy making much needed changes and additions—thank you!

….but, what about that ancient loading screen? I don’t think it has been updated in a year!

Ptahhotep

Fight for Wakanda has four subs. The first three have a one on one node for Black Panther. Are there any plans to add another one on one node for the last sub?

nbperp

Can we please add new kinds of quests - weekly quests, season quests, etc.