**** Human Torch (Annihilus) ****

Bowgentle

I don't see the toxicity, really.
It's a lot of people asking warranted questions to the developers about issues that concern them - and a developer answering.
Nobody has been anything but respectful when Ice or Devpool has actually posted.

BlackBoltRocks

Happy to see Johnny Storm finally get a 4* version to complete the Fantastic Four at the tier. I've always liked using 2* and 3* Johnny; I suspect I'll have fun using 4* Johnny as well.

@Alex502 said:

This Torch as an F4 entry is unremarkable entirely. He doesn't synergize with Invisible Woman or Thing or with Mr F either. There just isn't much attention to the team mechanics between them, and its just not exciting.

Hmm I don't think he needs to have synergy with any of Reed, Sue, or Ben. It kinda fits into Johnny's character: brash, young, bold, eager to do his own thing without worrying about the rest of the F4. Also, since they're using the Annihilus version, Johnny was trapped in the Negative Zone without any of the other F4 members, so again thematically it makes sense. He has to rely on the Cosmic Control Rod to beat Annihilus and get out of the Negative Zone. To me, he provides a nice Red/Black outlet (because Thing's and Sue's Green powers are far superior). He's an easy 5/5/3 all day. I guess if you want synergy, Johnny's Green can help fuel Reed's Blue. Regardless, I'm looking forward to trying out Johnny/Reed/Sue in the DDQ node that requires 4* characters. For his debut PVP, I have no idea which 5* are boosted, because the What's New page is borked.

Also, speaking as an old man who's been playing this game since it came out 137 years ago, I'm delighted they reused the original Johnny Storm pose instead of doing a new one. Here's hoping they also reuse the in-battle animations! #nostalgia

HoundofShadow

And that's the problem. All's well when they reply. When they don't post or reply within the timeframe expected of them, those toxicities start oozing out in this forum. It is during hard times we see the true colours of players.

If pve scheduling problem is such a major/urgent issue, the dev will definitely reply as fast as possible. I can point out a few threads where the dev replied to and then got the team to fix it as fast as possible, like Jeff's logo being too bright, or Clea's bugged yellow active power being fixed within a day.

Anyway, 5/5/3 is the one and only build for him. If you want to focus on buffing attack tiles, Super Skrull could be interesting because he can creat 5 attack tiles with his repeater.

Bzhai

Nah, the toxicity is only coming from a few posters who are snarky and attack others for having different takes. Ever since people have called them out or ignored them there's been more healthy discussions. The mods are also being more proactive by removing tangent conversations into other threads.

What you're probably seeing is an uptick in complaints about the scheduling snafu which I think is warranted. Some observant players even pointed it out on the calendar but it only exploded during Easter weekend and still hasn't been rectified. Players can tolerant individual character bugs but when our daily routines are affected it's really annoying. Doesn't help that communication has declined lately especially when it comes to new content (the Hellfire Club support came and went without any official announcement here and they continue to post on social media ahead of time).

I still think these chaotic times are leaps better than the staleness the previous devs gave us. But the team in charge of events is doing a really terrible job.

Bad

@Blackstone said:

I'm not even trying to be critical of whoever is currently working on this game, I just can't keep ignoring the problems when mistakes become the norm.

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Don't forget that well known bugs which also are pointed out here aren't fixed.
Take a comfortable chair in order to wait for their fix.
That's pretty dishearting and guess what: it's not serious. It totally darkens the really positive fact that old characters were rebalanced.
Also the scheduling snafu was understable when they initially took in charge. How many time has passed by? Now the bugged events and overlaps indeed are a norm and what it's actually mindblowing is that they seem to not know why.
Oh yeah you can add their QA testers, who prenerf a pretty bad character but it seems they are pretty comfortable with a broken character perfectly denounced.

Alex502

I've voiced a lot of these same things when I posted in the "Suggestions and Feedback". Let's bring more of these points directly to the dev team.

HoundofShadow

Since lack of staffs seems to be the main issue for both Demiurge and BCS, perhaps, it's time to petition for Blizzard or EA or other big names to take over the running of MPQ. These game companies easily have a few hundred to a few thousand game developers working on games, compared to a small team of 1 to 10 that we currently have. They could dedicate 5-10 staffs for each department to ensure that bugs are resolved quickly, communication are smooth and test/live servers are functioning identically.

DAZ0273

@HoundofShadow said:
Since lack of staffs seems to be the main issue for both Demiurge and BCS, perhaps, it's time to petition for Blizzard or EA or other big names to take over the running of MPQ. These game companies easily have a few hundred to a few thousand game developers working on games, compared to a small team of 1 to 10 that we currently have. They could dedicate 5-10 staffs for each department to ensure that bugs are resolved quickly, communication are smooth and test/live servers are functioning identically.

I have a better idea.

Let's ignore you and your usual tactics of putting words in others mouths and allow other posters to provide their reasonable non-hostile feedback, using the words and expectations they themself feel about the issues. That way - instead of the Devs reading about how the forum expects them to hire half of Peru and insta-fix all bugs, they can read the actual comments/issues of real players of the game instead of the made up players you love preaching about.

If here is not appropriate, the Mods'll sort it out.

4* Torch as Annihilus - this one was also news to me! I hope this doesn't preclude us actually getting Ol' Bug Brain himself. I'm happy we have the full 4 at 4* level now.

Bowgentle

It's kinda weird he doesn't feed anyone, but I guess they didn't want to put in a temporary double-feeder, resulting in retro-rewards when they update him.
Understandable, but makes it less attractive to buy his release offers.

DAZ0273

I guess he could feed a potential 5* Annihilus?

I am assuming next few characters are all gonna be GotG themed.

Bzhai

@DAZ0273 said:
4* Torch as Annihilus - this one was also news to me! I hope this doesn't preclude us actually getting Ol' Bug Brain himself. I'm happy we have the full 4 at 4* level now.

Really glad that it wasn't Madlyn Pryor, always felt that big boss villians should be exclusively 5*. Speaking of villians, there's a long list of classic ones we have yet to tap into: Baron Zemo, Enchantress, Sauron, Mandarin, Red Skull, Dormammu and Omega Red (remember him?)

dianetics

Looking at this kit…

I don’t know why this character exists. 2 4* human torches that have similarish abilities.

This is a clear miss. If the devs wanted another human torch put him in another tier.

He’s not even worth pursuing as a new 4* player. This could be BCS worst 4*.

Bowgentle

@dianetics said:
This could be BCS worst 4*.

There's Puck.

dianetics

@Bowgentle said:

@dianetics said:
This could be BCS worst 4*.

There's Puck.

Lol but when he released all you could see was his bald head and I loved it.
If they never made him taller in the character window I would have used him more. Just for fun.

entrailbucket

Is he that bad? I'm not 100% clear on the mechanics of his black power, but if it lowers all his AP costs by 1 every time it ticks, instead of just lowering them by 1 when it's on the board, then that could get crazy and annoying pretty fast.

Of course, the wording is odd, and no other character does anything like that, so who knows. Nobody will know until we can test it.

His damage is quite low for 5* players, but...4* damage should be that low. I get being frustrated that not every 4* is usable by 5* players (like Deathlok or Agent May -- support characters), but they desperately need to flesh out the 4* tier for 4* players.

Bowgentle

And there it is, PVE overlaps.
Oh and it's the 4 day version of FFW, naturally.

Bowgentle

Maybe Marvel "suggested" they wanted him in the game?
And the next few 5s might be Guardians related, so a 4 was the only possibility.

The rockett

@Bowgentle said:
And there it is, PVE overlaps.
Oh and it's the 4 day version of FFW, naturally.

Are we allowed to talk about this here or will MODAK tell us we are not able too?

entrailbucket

@dianetics said:

@entrailbucket said:
Is he that bad? I'm not 100% clear on the mechanics of his black power, but if it lowers all his AP costs by 1 every time it ticks, instead of just lowering them by 1 when it's on the board, then that could get crazy and annoying pretty fast.

Of course, the wording is odd, and no other character does anything like that, so who knows. Nobody will know until we can test it.

His damage is quite low for 5* players, but...4* damage should be that low. I get being frustrated that not every 4* is usable by 5* players (like Deathlok or Agent May -- support characters), but they desperately need to flesh out the 4* tier for 4* players.

He is not better than the existing 4* Torch.

He should have been a 5* with enhanced mechanics.

Legit human torch is not popular enough to warrant 2 characters at the same level.
He is not Spider Man

I dunno, I think he's better than the existing 4* Torch (pending clarification on the repeater mechanic)? It's not like that guy is some kind of all-star.

The unpopularity/duplication argument is just irrelevant at this point. We are going to keep getting new characters every 2 weeks or whatever it is, forever. Basically every Marvel character that's ever mattered is in the game already, so if it's between Silver Samurai, Lady Stilt-Man, and another Torch... I don't blame them for just flipping a coin, because, like, who cares.

More to the point: the 4* tier is screwed, currently -- far, far worse than the 5* tier. It's Polaris and Friends, and that is just a disaster for a game that makes money selling you slots for new characters. This guy makes attack tiles, buffs them, and can destroy enemy specials, so he's probably gonna see some use when he's boosted, as a partner for her. That's about as good as a 4* can get now.

Beast1970

@HoundofShadow said:
Of course, no one is "forcing" them to do anything.

Yes, this affects everyone to different degree. Only hardcore players are deeply affected by this. They are so affected by this that they have to ask this question
repeatedly until they get an answer. Unfortunately, the answer given is as good as a non-answer or is similar to why some powers are bugged in live environment but it looked fine from their test servers. Majority of the players are not going to be affected deeply by this. They are going to continue playing a few matches every day and call it a day. You don't see MPQ players in reddit posting other threads with pve scheduling problems because most of them don't care about it.

Creating a specific thread for your "urgent" pve scheduling problem will prevent you guys from hijacking other threads in the future, like this thread. (I know some of you are going to say that I'm the one who derailed this thread. Since this thread has already been derailed at page one, we might as well sacrifice Human Torch thread).

I totally fail to understand your ostrich in the sand approach here.

First, this thread introduces three separate elements of information: Character Powers, Feeder Updates, Release Events. Discussion on all three topics introduced are most certainly 'on topic'.

Second, I don't understand how you absolutely know what other people are thinking in every post you make, and who will and won't be affected by this.

Third, I don't understand how you conveniently either totally ignore, or outright lie about reality. There WAS indeed a 'specific thread for (our) "urgent" pve scheduling problem. That thread WAS created prior to any reply from any dev in this thread. "You don't see MPQ players in reddit posting other threads with pve scheduling problem" is another blatant lie from you, hoping other people here don't actually follow Reddit as well as the forum:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelPuzzleQuest/comments/12pvif9/pve_schedule_discrepancies/

There is indeed a Reddit thread on exactly the issue you claim isn't discussed there.

And fourth, you seem to be the only person deeply offended by anyone asking questions about information introduced in the opening of this thread. It almost appears you believe this is your forum, and anyone with a differing view, or anyone posting something that doesn't fit your narrow world view of what is acceptable is wrong and should be admonished for disturbing your day.

Why don't you let the forum mods do their job. If they feel things are off topic, they split those posts off as a separate post, and have done so in the past. If they haven't split the information off, then clearly the posts are on topic, and as much as you may not like that, the scroll function will get you past those pesky posts fast enough.