MARVEL PUZZLE QUEST – 10 YEAR CELEBRATION

DAZ0273

Personally I would say Anniversary was the wrong choice schedule wise to roll this out. Anniversary is all about advancing your roster and having fun. I really appreciate the effort that has gone into Quandary but to me it is going to be a fail because if you are going to do a special event then I want it to be themed around Marvel characters and be as player friendly as posdible. The best example was Xmen v Apocalypse which I think was about as perfect an Anniversary event there has ever been - and yes that had puzzle elements but they were elements you could use superpowers to resolve. When Anniversary is done I will not care about Quandary and that is sad but I will just be thinking we could have had something much cooler using Marvel characters. I am not overly excited about her Boss Event either but remain open to it. It must take hours and hours to design these characters powers so to use Anniversary to showcase how we can't use them in an event is baffling to me as a design choice but that is just me. I am glad others are having a lot of fun with it and I will play as much as I fancy. The zero point thing though - that was just poorly communicated in my opinion and was confusing.

BlixTheFrog

@MoosePrime said:
It's not a fun puzzle when the tile you need to match is in the corner, and you only have one match near the top of the board.

Yeah that’s not how you solve that one actually.

MoosePrime

@BlixTheFrog said:

@MoosePrime said:
It's not a fun puzzle when the tile you need to match is in the corner, and you only have one match near the top of the board.

Yeah that’s not how you solve that one actually.

I wasn't referring specifically to the trap puzzle. The one with fortified tiles can have a tile in the corner that you need to match.

Any puzzle that has specific tiles to match, if the board doesn't give you good matches, becomes a bore. It's even worse when you don't have any board manipulation abilities to help freshen the board for new matches.

The Viceroy Returns

So we only had a single day to claim the Sylvie Loki costume?
I swear I at least logged in yesterday, but don't have it. Where was this?

BlixTheFrog

@jp1 said:

@BlixTheFrog said:
Can I whine just a bit about the whining?
Loved those puzzles (remember it’s called PUZZLE Quest Marvel ?) that force us to think things through instead of brainlessly completing missions.

Why is constructive feedback always pegged as whining? How else will they know people don’t like it? Your opinion being positive doesn’t automatically give you high ground. With that said, I respect your right to voice it the same as everyone else.

Constructive feedback? Didn’t see much of that, really.
"It sucks I don’t get it not worth my time big fail", moreso. Along with people just misunderstanding the concept of the quests and community event because they posted before trying to figure it out. Also, there’s a very simple way the developers will know if it’s a success or not : Will the players play or not.
But hey, no big deal, it’s easy to ignore me.

BlixTheFrog

@MoosePrime said:

@BlixTheFrog said:

@MoosePrime said:
It's not a fun puzzle when the tile you need to match is in the corner, and you only have one match near the top of the board.

Yeah that’s not how you solve that one actually.

I wasn't referring specifically to the trap puzzle. The one with fortified tiles can have a tile in the corner that you need to match.

Any puzzle that has specific tiles to match, if the board doesn't give you good matches, becomes a bore. It's even worse when you don't have any board manipulation abilities to help freshen the board for new matches.

Hm, if only you could start again if the board looks too bad at first sight. There’s no ranking, no time limit... How is that a problem? How is this not whining?

Bowgentle

Jeez Blix, let it go.
Take off your Hound hat.

Bowgentle

@The Viceroy Returns said:
So we only had a single day to claim the Sylvie Loki costume?
I swear I at least logged in yesterday, but don't have it. Where was this?

There's still 3 days on that offer.
It's not free.

DAZ0273

This event is for some people and not for others.

Some players don't appreciate having to quit an event they have started because absolute randomness has given them a no win situation. I would be less sympathetic if we could use powers and so had extra options but I can see why players get frustrated when they are presented with unsolvable problems and have to start again. Puzzles that cannot be solved on the first attempt because of factors outside of a person's control are actually bad puzzles, not good ones.

None of the above is to say Quandary is a bad event - it is not but it could be much much better,

Bowgentle

I didn't enjoy Quandary very much, but it's... Fine?
I just hope they never implement that in regular PVE.

jp1

@BlixTheFrog said:

@jp1 said:

@BlixTheFrog said:
Can I whine just a bit about the whining?
Loved those puzzles (remember it’s called PUZZLE Quest Marvel ?) that force us to think things through instead of brainlessly completing missions.

Why is constructive feedback always pegged as whining? How else will they know people don’t like it? Your opinion being positive doesn’t automatically give you high ground. With that said, I respect your right to voice it the same as everyone else.

Constructive feedback? Didn’t see much of that, really.
"It sucks I don’t get it not worth my time big fail", moreso. Along with people just misunderstanding the concept of the quests and community event because they posted before trying to figure it out. Also, there’s a very simple way the developers will know if it’s a success or not : Will the players play or not.
But hey, no big deal, it’s easy to ignore me.

Say less.

entrailbucket

@Bowgentle said:
I didn't enjoy Quandary very much, but it's... Fine?
I just hope they never implement that in regular PVE.

I'm always going to grade this type of event on a curve. I liked some of the puzzles and some of them were random or frustrating, but, like, who cares? It's an extra thing, with rewards that are fine, but you won't miss anything if you don't feel like doing it.

Bad

It's an event where it's not needed brute force, raw power damage, special tiles building, etc... So it can be played by exactly any 3* or 4* taking damage or quitting if the board it's not ok.
But for some people that's too much too.
Sorry, but that's an event totally different of the usual gameplay. Still you can play your old gameplay in every PvE sub each day.

The Viceroy Returns

@Bowgentle said:

@The Viceroy Returns said:
So we only had a single day to claim the Sylvie Loki costume?
I swear I at least logged in yesterday, but don't have it. Where was this?

There's still 3 days on that offer.
It's not free.

Thanks, didn't see any details on this at all, thought it was like that Cyclops Hellfire costume they gave out back a while ago.
Guess I'm blind and didn't see it in the store when I posted that, so thanks for the info.

BlixTheFrog

@DAZ0273 said:
This event is for some people and not for others.

Some players don't appreciate having to quit an event they have started because absolute randomness has given them a no win situation. I would be less sympathetic if we could use powers and so had extra options but I can see why players get frustrated when they are presented with unsolvable problems and have to start again. Puzzles that cannot be solved on the first attempt because of factors outside of a person's control are actually bad puzzles, not good ones.

None of the above is to say Quandary is a bad event - it is not but it could be much much better,

Well to each his own. For me puzzles that CAN be solved on the first attempt are the **** ones. 😉

Hammer3001

Where are the shards/covers for Spider-Ham??
Can someone explain the lack of love for this character?

BriMan2222

@Hammer3001 said:
Where are the shards/covers for Spider-Ham??
Can someone explain the lack of love for this character?

Spider-Ham is never part of the anniversary, he is always part of the Christmas celebration.

He is out Christmas ham.

entrailbucket

@BriMan2222 said:

@Hammer3001 said:
Where are the shards/covers for Spider-Ham??
Can someone explain the lack of love for this character?

Spider-Ham is never part of the anniversary, he is always part of the Christmas celebration.

He is out Christmas ham.

He's also really, really bad. Dino turned out ok the last time they redid him, Howard is at least annoying, and Taskmaster can be set up to do cool stuff. Spider-Ham is so, so bad.

DAZ0273

@BlixTheFrog said:

@DAZ0273 said:
This event is for some people and not for others.

Some players don't appreciate having to quit an event they have started because absolute randomness has given them a no win situation. I would be less sympathetic if we could use powers and so had extra options but I can see why players get frustrated when they are presented with unsolvable problems and have to start again. Puzzles that cannot be solved on the first attempt because of factors outside of a person's control are actually bad puzzles, not good ones.

None of the above is to say Quandary is a bad event - it is not but it could be much much better,

Well to each his own. For me puzzles that CAN be solved on the first attempt are the **** ones. 😉

You didn't read my post correctly I don't think - I said puzzles that cannot be solved by factors outside of a persons control. That is not the same as puzzles being "hard". If you did a crossword and couldn't complete it because one of the clues was wrong it would be the same thing. If RNG puts a tile in an unmatchable place there is nothing that the player can do - now if you had access to powers you might be able to use board control to solve that but not in this instance. If it is unmatchable you are screwed and it was all down to bad RNG.

ThaRoadWarrior

I would say Ham is the least well designed character in the game; just completely unrelated and unuseful powers across the board.