What's New MPQ: May 2023 (Updated 5/11/23)

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  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 513 Critical Contributor

    Really wasted opportunity to release some GotG pvp to help with the milestones. Or at least some related to AAPI and let us earn some tokens for the vault.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    And if you thought that maybe there would be special LRs for Guardians.... NOPE.

  • Wolvie171
    Wolvie171 Posts: 207 Tile Toppler

    This iteration of the Events Calendar is vastly improved. The breaks and days added to the events clearly show what is intended, which in turn should reduce ambiguity. Thank you!

    It's also nice to see the event dates in the top post formatted more logically, based on Pacific Time instead of Eastern Time. No more mental gymnastics to account for the extra day carried over for the end dates.

    Is Fight For Wakanda a temporary placeholder for another 3-day event? It only exists (so far, at least) as a 4-day PVE.

    On the PVP front, the new 4* Versus event normally occurs as the 8th event of the season but on the calendar, it's swapped places with The Hulk as the 9th event for this month. Is this correct?

    A new Boss event too at the end of the season? Good stuff and looking forward to it! :p

  • EddieCL
    EddieCL Posts: 26 Just Dropped In
    edited May 2023

    @IceIX
    In the 5* characters boosted for the week of 5/11, why are there 6 of them?
    EDIT: Also, why is High Evolutionary skipped in PvE rewards?

  • Wolvie171
    Wolvie171 Posts: 207 Tile Toppler

    @EddieCL said:
    In the 5* characters boosted for the week of 5/11, why are there 6 of them?

    It's likely due to this being AAPI month. With the emphasis on Asian American Pacific Islanders, Wong was added to week 5/4 and Shang-Chi was added to week 5/11. Why Scarlet Witch was also included, unless she has AAPI ancestry, is a mystery to me. :/

  • Wolvie171
    Wolvie171 Posts: 207 Tile Toppler

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Although that doesn't explain the 6 boost week? Shang Chi sure but the other 5? So I wonder if that is another mistake? They can dump Goblin that week if they like!

    4 of the boosted characters are part of the normal rotation for their boost weeks: Apocalypse, Archangel, Beta Ray Bill and Green Goblin (since Wong was bumped up and added to the earlier week).

    As the outlier, it feels like Scarlet Witch was added to make the week more grindy aka more health packs. :|

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Wolvie171 said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Although that doesn't explain the 6 boost week? Shang Chi sure but the other 5? So I wonder if that is another mistake? They can dump Goblin that week if they like!

    4 of the boosted characters are part of the normal rotation for their boost weeks: Apocalypse, Archangel, Beta Ray Bill and Green Goblin (since Wong was bumped up and added to the earlier week).

    As the outlier, it feels like Scarlet Witch was added to make the week more grindy aka more health packs. :|

    Apoc, BRB and Shang - I mean it is a poor trio but we will just have to manage without Wanda if that is the case. Gonna be tough...

  • Seph1roth5
    Seph1roth5 Posts: 434 Mover and Shaker

    Please remove implementation of tiered events and just make them new milestones. Would take me way more than 2 weeks to do all of the guardian event stuff unless that's all I did other than work and sort of sleep.

  • shardwick
    shardwick Posts: 2,121 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Bzhai said:
    Really wasted opportunity to release some GotG pvp to help with the milestones. Or at least some related to AAPI and let us earn some tokens for the vault.

    You can play as Shang Chi to get a daily token for that vault. You can probably also use the other characters in the vault too but I've only tried Shang so far.

  • Xception81
    Xception81 Posts: 427 Mover and Shaker
    edited May 2023

    Confirmed on Reddit.
    https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelPuzzleQuest/comments/1365o4s/special_vaults_explained/jin8w0s/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3

  • Pottsie1980
    Pottsie1980 Posts: 52 Match Maker

    Would have preferred more 4/5* pvp events. Only ones for the month are new releases. The featured 3* rarely gets a chance to influence any matches

  • Kwahder
    Kwahder Posts: 180 Tile Toppler

    According to the ingame preview for Hearts of Darkness, the actual boost list for next week is Adam Warlock, Gamora, Star-Lord and Wong. Plus all the guardians at lower tiers are boosted too.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    Time to reset the "days the what's new thread was correct" to zero days.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    Lol, I mean that makes sense. If I was looking at this week I would be thinking - Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - I expect boosted Guardians! I dunno what to say anymore.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    Sure it makes sense.
    But these threads are comedy gold at this point 🤣

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited May 2023

    I mean...I don't really comprehend how this can be wrong this time! It is like a cinema showing Suicide Squad instead of Guardians of the Galaxy 3. But...James Gunn...and...uhm...boost lists!

    Sorry Devs - I know this all comes across as incredibly mean. As Drax would say when talking about this thread (did you remember to boost him???!?!) - "You are horrifying to look at. But that's a good thing."

  • Wolvie171
    Wolvie171 Posts: 207 Tile Toppler

    Giving them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they heard player feedback and changed the boost list to accommodate the GOTG focus this month. It will definitely help with the milestone quests.

    Even so, communication of some sort, as simple as a basic update, would go a long way toward clarifying their intentions. Mistakes happen, but the lack of communication is befuddling. :/

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,985 Chairperson of the Boards

    I'm just happy I get to smash stuff with 672 Starlord, again!

  • CoxLargo
    CoxLargo Posts: 56 Match Maker

    Boosted character dont match... this suck. Lets hope that is the last mistake of this month

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    I wish it was Magik shards for HoD to be honest.

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