MPQ Developer Q&A February & March 2023 (QUESTIONS)

S0kun

Hi everyone!

We ran a little late for February so we're going to combine both Feb & March into one Dev Q&A thread. Looking forward to hearing your questions as always!

February & March Developer Q&A Google Form:
https://mpq.social/devqa

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 question in this month's Q&A forum thread to display them publicly for others to see here.
3. Deadline to submit questions:
12pm PST/8pm BST on March 17th
4. Answers posted:
Week of March 27th

Best,
S0kun

meadowsweet

Many use the "MPQ Forum" spreadsheet that tracks PVE players to jump in a 999 to 0 reset. Why not just build transparent player counts into the game itself? Casual full-progression players will still join whenever (knowing placement is a slog) right?

nbperp

Can you make the "share with friends" screens go away until the facebook problem is resolved

trenchdigger

The quick claim 50 LL button makes opening LL tokens quicker and more enjoyable. Could we have a similar CP button, eg "spend 1000 CP" which on the classic vault opens 50 times and on LL and other special vaults opens 40 times?

dianetics

Any chance to get a bug priority list?

There are quite a few that have been around for a while, but never got a dev response.

Can we get a list of known issues sorted by most critical?

Scofie

@dianetics said:
Any chance to get a bug priority list?

There are quite a few that have been around for a while, but never got a dev response.

Can we get a list of known issues sorted by most critical?

Like a prioritised backlog in the bugs section of the forum. That would be quite helpful and interesting to see. And pretty easy to do, I'd expect depending on what they're using to track them.

ThaRoadWarrior

Q) Is there a corner or era of the Marvel universe you feel is particularly under-served by the game's content currently that you would like to play around more with?

went with a softball this month.

Note: I'm glad you brought back the 7-day events, I know they weren't as turnkey as we all would have liked in regards to quality of life and reward structure, but it is good to get out of the very limited rotation of PVE events we've been seeing for quite some time now.

Bowgentle

@Scofie said:

@dianetics said:
Any chance to get a bug priority list?

There are quite a few that have been around for a while, but never got a dev response.

Can we get a list of known issues sorted by most critical?

Like a prioritised backlog in the bugs section of the forum. That would be quite helpful and interesting to see. And pretty easy to do, I'd expect depending on what they're using to track them.

Let's hope it's not post-it notes or random Teams chats.

ragnarady

Is it possible that you will redesign in-match interface to make calculations more intuitive (e. g. showing if Hitmonkey red ability downs the enemy) and to include all relevant information (e. g. showing character affiliations)?

Codex

A few months back you mentioned you were working on updates on User Interface, Supports, Saved Teams and PvP match making. Can you provide a progress update on these projects?

whoami

Can we please get a new loading screen? The current one is like a year old or older…

TheXMan

Can you provide the levels when MMR changes? In particular, when do you move into dual 5 star MMR as well as dual 550 MMR.

MrDupaTM

Is there a chance you can start powering up niche characters that work somewhat well only with other characters they share affiliation with?

For example, 5* Wasp is still pretty much garbage, however she might work well with Ant-man or 4* Wasp so why not help a bit?

Also - nerf Chasm.

chrisH

As a long time player I have no interest in the 1.99 Spidey Starter Pack that keeps getting offered. Can we have a feature to permanently decline an offer so that it does not pop up over and over?

Carnifex

Would you ever consider removing the 'Limited' status from the 4 star characters? Having to wait up to a year to earn more covers in the largest tier already makes it more of a slog, with no decent pay off, as no one uses them once champed. Thank you.

Punisher5784

Have you ever or would consider having a Player Feedback Committee? A group of players at various stages that can give you direct feedback on ideas and suggestions? While you may utilize the Forums and Reddit, having a small dedicated group may help reduce some potential backlash before the rollout (e.g., 5* Wasp rework, return of 7-day events)

iOwnThisName

Florida?

whoami

…explanation for recent string of “bugs”? (Chasm not working properly, Kang not working properly, whatever the heck happened to enemy of the state, etc)

jffdougan

@Punisher5784 said:
Have you ever or would consider having a Player Feedback Committee? A group of players at various stages that can give you direct feedback on ideas and suggestions? While you may utilize the Forums and Reddit, having a small dedicated group may help reduce some potential backlash before the rollout (e.g., 5* Wasp rework, return of 7-day events)

There's at least an unofficial group that has done this after the fact for some things.

StanleyBurrell

Have you considered putting the bonus rewards and timed rewards like VIP in a calendar instead of having them randomly pop up after matches? May be convenient to keep things like that in one screen and I would certainly appreciate them not popping up while playing PvE.

Thank you.

Xception81

@chrisH said:
As a long time player I have no interest in the 1.99 Spidey Starter Pack that keeps getting offered. Can we have a feature to permanently decline an offer so that it does not pop up over and over?

Second. Third. Fourth. Infinite agree.