MPQ Developer Q&A August 2023 (QUESTIONS)

rene020223

There are many characters, they could create something to be able to select by affiliation when choosing the team

Thoooooor

Thanks for the quality of life updates recently, I look forward to further announcements on the upcoming ones soon.

My question this month is of there are any plans to update or rebalance feeders? There are still a good number of 4s in particular that have no and feed no characters yet. Would you consider making all 4s double feeders as well, akin to last year's 2* and 3* balances?

illusionist_KA

AI match is getting a little crazy lately. insane cascades, powers fired over and over. article Enemy Cascade Limiting (6/12/18) what broke? why is this not the case anymore?

Basically adding, critical falling from top is happening more often now? this was the case a few month's ago.

nycjonny

@Daredevil217 said:
Can you speak at all to the idea behind Archangel’s rework? Specifically the significant health decrease and decision not to boost match damage to modern levels? Also, do I have to wait for Born Again for 5* Daredevil to get his much needed buff?

(I know I know, 2 questions. But I haven’t asked anything in a few months)

Seems like Archangel been adjusted since. Both health and match damage went up.

ElectricVasting

Are odds boosted for new supports in support stores? It further dilutes the stores for newer players still trying to get R3-R4 versions of older supports. Any consideration for separating new supports into separate LL-style store?

Zarqa

@ElectricVasting said:
Are odds boosted for new supports in support stores? It further dilutes the stores for newer players still trying to get R3-R4 versions of older supports. Any consideration for separating new supports into separate LL-style store?

What makes you think so? They are legally required to show odds beforehand, and as far as I can see odds are the same for each support in the stores.

ElectricVasting

I could certainly be wrong, that's why I was asking. I pulled 10 support tokens and drew 4 skrulluminati and 2 battleworlds. And I don't have the exact numbers, but I had similar distribution last month. I don't have hundreds of pulls to experiment, so I could easily be the victim of poor RNG, but it's been frustrating.

I wanted to add much more nuance to my question, but I was limited to 250 characters in the Google Form. I appreciated the question you posted, but not sure how you submitted it all?

Zarqa

@ElectricVasting said:
I could certainly be wrong, that's why I was asking. I pulled 10 support tokens and drew 4 skrulluminati and 2 battleworlds. And I don't have the exact numbers, but I had similar distribution last month. I don't have hundreds of pulls to experiment, so I could easily be the victim of poor RNG, but it's been frustrating.

I wanted to add much more nuance to my question, but I was limited to 250 characters in the Google Form. I appreciated the question you posted, but not sure how you submitted it all?

Yeah, I submitted a much shorter version in the Google form and in the notes said I had posted a more elaborate version on the forum 🤷🏻‍♂️

As for your question, I just know that at least in Europe the gambling laws are very strict and you have to share odds in advance. So simply based on that, I don’t think there is an increased odds for latest supports since it’s not mentioned in the store. But I could definitely be wrong about that too of course.

fnedude

Do you test the text boxes on a PC in-game before you settle on a power's description? Because many of the newer characters, you can't read them on a PC. Like this:

That's Garganto's Green power.

My display is set at 1440x900 for my 17" monitor, and yet unreadable unless i'm trying to get a magnifying glass out.

dxanders

A majority of characters seem to draw from the MCU or main comics continuity. What are the chances of us getting characters from other media (e.g. Insomnia Spider-Man, X-Men the animated series) or continuities (e.g. Marvel 1602, Zombies, House of M)?

rene020223

Please come back what's new

bigcaktus

My question is : will the roster's selection screen be improved, by adding some filters like tags (as there is more and more in the game), to allow us to filter on the teams (X-Men,...) or others (Gamma Mutates, etc.) ?

nbperp

Can the facebook prompt please go away until you've fixed whatever is wrong with PQ connecting to Facebook? Of all the things we have to click through, it's one that is a constant reminder of an error, not a reward.

fight4thedream

As a fan of the big A, I am happy to see the Horsemen make their way into MPQ. Any chance we will be seeing War and Famine in the near future?

Heartbreaksoup

My question:

Can you please resume giving Supports a power at tier 2 and 4? Even "increase black match damage" would be nice.

(My additional note to devs was to please be mindful of the tiny, tiny text in the Supports and power descriptions for those of us with failing eyesight...)

helix72

Here I helped update:

@rainkingucd said:
3* health was uniform (Colossus, Rags, Sentry have identical health pools). New releases (since Emma) have massively higher health pools relative to a fixed 3* tier. What is the driving factor for new 3* characters to have such high health pools?

3* @ 266 (except the newest where noted)
39,336 - Spider-Rex
36,526 - High Evolutionary
33,716 - Omega Red, Kang
28,659 - Emma Frost, Spider-Gwen, Magik, Jeffrey
26,692 - Arcade, Vulture
25,006 - Hit-Monkey
19,591 - Thanos
18,240 - Hulk
17,024 - Colossus, Ragnarok, R&G, Sentry, She-Hulk
16,213 - Thor
15,402 - Black Panther, Cap, Cap Marvel, DOOM, Gamora, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Vision
14,727 - Cyclops, Hawkeye, Star-Lord
13,781 - Angel, Beast, Blade, DD, DP, Doc Ock, Elektra, Gambit, KK, Magneto, Pyslocke, Punisher, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Squirrel Girl,
12,835 - GSBW, Human Torch, Mystique, Falcon
12,160 - Iron Fist
12,025 - Bullseye, Storm
10,809 - Daken, Strange, Patch
9,458 - Loki
8,106 - Hood

rainkingucd

@helix72 said:
Here I helped update:

Thank you. It's funny, because they're (nearly) exactly double the old ranges. So I guess the new "bands" of 3* health are just 2x the old bands.

Spider-Rex = 2x Thanos
Hevo = 2x Hulk
OR/Kang = 2x Colossus & co (okay, not exactly 2x)
Emma, Gwen, Magik, Jefferey = 2x Cyclops & co (this 2x thing is not holding up anymore)
Arcade/Vulture = 2x Angel & co (maybe if you round to the nearest thousand, it works)
Hit-Monkey = 2x GSBW & co (this works better again)

_TrashPanda

Why do the new offers always come through during s2 pve? Can you please stop having the new offers pop up within at least 30min before and after any of the pve end times?

Bowgentle

@_TrashPanda said:
Why do the new offers always come through during s2 pve? Can you please stop having the new offers pop up within at least 30min before and after any of the pve end times?

Thank you for that question.
It's SO irritating.
Not only offers, also all rewards that are sent out.

Bad

@Bowgentle said:

@_TrashPanda said:
Why do the new offers always come through during s2 pve? Can you please stop having the new offers pop up within at least 30min before and after any of the pve end times?

Thank you for that question.
It's SO irritating.
Not only offers, also all rewards that are sent out.

@Bowgentle said:

@_TrashPanda said:
Why do the new offers always come through during s2 pve? Can you please stop having the new offers pop up within at least 30min before and after any of the pve end times?

Thank you for that question.
It's SO irritating.
Not only offers, also all rewards that are sent out.

At some time they had to be released. You have the consolation that everyone competing will have the same issue, so it's an even situation.
It's needed to remember that the % of players competing for pve ranking is small, and then divide it into players on s2.