Marvel Puzzle Quest R295 Release Notes

BriMan2222

Teen machine. He's a teen and he does machines, obviously it's Donatello.

meadowsweet

After a few minutes of lazy DuckDuckGo-ing, I present to you: Machine Teen?

rainkingucd

@BriMan2222 said:
Teen machine. He's a teen and he does machines, obviously it's Donatello.

O M G! It's a hidden TMNT setup! Last was Honey Badger with her nunchuks. Now comes a Teen Machine. 2 more and we'll have an ersatz Turtle Team.

Who's next? Spiral as Leonardo?

Nurielkun

@Venomous said:
Character is pretty easy. I thought Victor Mancha at first before I realized there was someone else who matches the quote perfectly.

I am 100% certain this is Viv Vision. Daughter of Vision.

As a 3/5 release? I'm not entirely sure how.

DeNappa

@S0kun said:
“Teen Machine…”

• Get ready to celebrate Black History Month in MPQ with Daily Play tokens all month long!
• The community has spoken! Check out a total rebalance of the Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) (Feb 1).
• Puzzle Ops returns, jump in for challenging puzzles!
• The PVP Season of Soul is coming to a close! Make sure to get your final matches in before (Feb 5). Thank you for playing!

• We're removing the facebook login option from the game

... would have been nice to include in the release notes. And/or additional announcements in the forum with more details about this.

Scofie

@WilliamK1983 said:

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

Pandering, that's all these months are.

@WilliamK1983 - grateful if you could explain what you mean by this comment. It could be read a couple of different ways (which explains why it has been flagged) but rather than delete it, I wanted to give you the opportunity to clarify. In doing so, please be mindful of the forum rules.

bluewolf

@DeNappa said:

@S0kun said:
“Teen Machine…”

• Get ready to celebrate Black History Month in MPQ with Daily Play tokens all month long!
• The community has spoken! Check out a total rebalance of the Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) (Feb 1).
• Puzzle Ops returns, jump in for challenging puzzles!
• The PVP Season of Soul is coming to a close! Make sure to get your final matches in before (Feb 5). Thank you for playing!

• We're removing the facebook login option from the game

... would have been nice to include in the release notes. And/or additional announcements in the forum with more details about this.

The devs put up a forum post about it a couple/three weeks ago. Within hours it was down because many users, as we have seen, have major issues with the switch.

Now....if you are trying to communicate something as important as changing your save method, you sure as heck would not just post on the forum, and you would definitely put game news popups in. And obviously they did that but forgot to remove that when they put the switchover on pause because of all the issues.

But the switchover is 100% on pause at this time because many or most people who try to switch cannot do so and carryover their progress right now.

Choose your idiom for "They done screwed up".

Dayraven

Strange seems to me like he just needs more match damage and cheaper/stronger powers, rather than any basic conceptual rework. Maybe the Eye of Agamotto could be extended to remove some newer tile types?

Bowgentle

@Dayraven said:
Strange seems to me like he just needs more match damage and cheaper/stronger powers, rather than any basic conceptual rework. Maybe the Eye of Agamotto could be extended to remove some newer tile types?

Clearly his skill descriptions are way too short!
They all need 300 more words.

ThaRoadWarrior

This clue sounds like Night Thrasher to me. Teen Machines are clearly skateboards.

JSP869

@bluewolf said:

@DeNappa said:

@S0kun said:
“Teen Machine…”

• Get ready to celebrate Black History Month in MPQ with Daily Play tokens all month long!
• The community has spoken! Check out a total rebalance of the Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) (Feb 1).
• Puzzle Ops returns, jump in for challenging puzzles!
• The PVP Season of Soul is coming to a close! Make sure to get your final matches in before (Feb 5). Thank you for playing!

• We're removing the facebook login option from the game

... would have been nice to include in the release notes. And/or additional announcements in the forum with more details about this.

The devs put up a forum post about it a couple/three weeks ago. Within hours it was down because many users, as we have seen, have major issues with the switch.

Now....if you are trying to communicate something as important as changing your save method, you sure as heck would not just post on the forum, and you would definitely put game news popups in. And obviously they did that but forgot to remove that when they put the switchover on pause because of all the issues.

But the switchover is 100% on pause at this time because many or most people who try to switch cannot do so and carryover their progress right now.

Choose your idiom for "They done screwed up".

Except it's back in the game as of yesterday, and switching from Facebook to Google back-up erases your progress. Fortunately switching back to Facebook will restore your roster, but it's a little disconcerting to make the switch and appear to lose everything.

It's also annoying that even after this morning's update the "Facebook login is being removed..." message still appears, while tapping 'back' then opens the Options window, as if prompting us to make the switch now.

GrimSkald

@JSP869 said:

@bluewolf said:

@DeNappa said:

@S0kun said:
“Teen Machine…”

• Get ready to celebrate Black History Month in MPQ with Daily Play tokens all month long!
• The community has spoken! Check out a total rebalance of the Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) (Feb 1).
• Puzzle Ops returns, jump in for challenging puzzles!
• The PVP Season of Soul is coming to a close! Make sure to get your final matches in before (Feb 5). Thank you for playing!

• We're removing the facebook login option from the game

... would have been nice to include in the release notes. And/or additional announcements in the forum with more details about this.

The devs put up a forum post about it a couple/three weeks ago. Within hours it was down because many users, as we have seen, have major issues with the switch.

Now....if you are trying to communicate something as important as changing your save method, you sure as heck would not just post on the forum, and you would definitely put game news popups in. And obviously they did that but forgot to remove that when they put the switchover on pause because of all the issues.

But the switchover is 100% on pause at this time because many or most people who try to switch cannot do so and carryover their progress right now.

Choose your idiom for "They done screwed up".

Except it's back in the game as of yesterday, and switching from Facebook to Google back-up erases your progress. Fortunately switching back to Facebook will restore your roster, but it's a little disconcerting to make the switch and appear to lose everything.

It's also annoying that even after this morning's update the "Facebook login is being removed..." message still appears, while tapping 'back' then opens the Options window, as if prompting us to make the switch now.

I filed a ticket. We'll see if they expect us to do a CS ticket to do this, or else if it's just something that snuck by and they're working on both the issue and tying the google log in to other devices.

Blackstone

@Scofie said:

@WilliamK1983 said:

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

Pandering, that's all these months are.

@WilliamK1983 - grateful if you could explain what you mean by this comment. It could be read a couple of different ways (which explains why it has been flagged) but rather than delete it, I wanted to give you the opportunity to clarify. In doing so, please be mindful of the forum rules.

I always find it odd when people reduce observance of certain groups to "pandering" or "unneeded" or "if they have ...x... They should have...y...."

Comments such as those always strike me as coming from a place of insecurity.

Obviously, I don't know what that specific individual meant by his comment, but experience has taught me it's generally from a lack of understanding/empathy.

But it's not pandering when it's still needed.

Everytime I take my grandson out in public, I'm reminded that it is still needed.

When people acknowledge me but avoid eye contact with my son-in-law, I'm reminded it's still needed.

When my daughter has to call me to come "just be there" so she doesn't get overlooked, I'm reminded it's still needed.

Black history month isn't about separating contributions of African Americans from others in history, it's about recognizing their contributions which have been ignored.

To some it may seem like "pandering" but to others it's about being seen.

It's about being present and acknowledged for who they are and not the stigma ignorant people have concerning their skin color.

It's about being seen without being reduced to "pandering".

...... Yeah. That's probably where I should take a break. But people obviously need to have conversations about these things.

WilliamK1983

@Scofie said:

@WilliamK1983 said:

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

Pandering, that's all these months are.

@WilliamK1983 - grateful if you could explain what you mean by this comment. It could be read a couple of different ways (which explains why it has been flagged) but rather than delete it, I wanted to give you the opportunity to clarify. In doing so, please be mindful of the forum rules.

Pretty self explanatory..every themed month is nothing more than an opportunity for an entity to pretend to care for profit, clicks, whatever to drive the bottom line. These entities don't care anything past that, case in point black Friday month.

Scofie

@WilliamK1983 said:

@Scofie said:

@WilliamK1983 said:

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

Pandering, that's all these months are.

@WilliamK1983 - grateful if you could explain what you mean by this comment. It could be read a couple of different ways (which explains why it has been flagged) but rather than delete it, I wanted to give you the opportunity to clarify. In doing so, please be mindful of the forum rules.

Pretty self explanatory..every themed month is nothing more than an opportunity for an entity to pretend to care for profit, clicks, whatever to drive the bottom line. These entities don't care anything past that, case in point black Friday month.

Thanks for explaining. It could have been interpreted, as @Blackstone mentions above, as a way to trivialise marginalised communities for calling out social injustice.

I think what you are referring to is a cynical exploitation of social injustices by pretending to care about them, when they really don't, presumably to gain commercial advantage.

FWIW, I don't think "pandering" is the right word for that and I don't believe that's what is happening here either.

S0kun

@DeNappa said:

• We're removing the facebook login option from the game

... would have been nice to include in the release notes. And/or additional announcements in the forum with more details about this.

Please disregard the notice. It was not supposed to go out with R295 and we suggest you log back into Facebook until we republish our blog that will outline the steps needed to seamlessly migrate your accounts.

Blackstone

@WilliamK1983 said:

@Scofie said:

@WilliamK1983 said:

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

@meadowsweet said:

@SaltnPeppa said:
What do you mean "Black Friday Month"? Because if that's a reference to Black History Month and reducing it to a shopping day, that's very inappropriate.

Black Friday?

Pandering, that's all these months are.

@WilliamK1983 - grateful if you could explain what you mean by this comment. It could be read a couple of different ways (which explains why it has been flagged) but rather than delete it, I wanted to give you the opportunity to clarify. In doing so, please be mindful of the forum rules.

Pretty self explanatory..every themed month is nothing more than an opportunity for an entity to pretend to care for profit, clicks, whatever to drive the bottom line. These entities don't care anything past that, case in point black Friday month.

I don't think it's as self-explanatory as you say... Because your initial comment seems directed at the observation of the month itself, while your explanation is directed at entities taking advantage of the observation of the month.

I've said things I thought had obvious meaning many times here that were taken out of context so I think I understand...

But I will say "themed months" like Black History Month are much more than "an opportunity for an entity to pretend..."

It still seems like you don't recognize the value of certain "themed months" because you're only focused on one narrow aspect.

You're being blunt, so I'll be blunt as well.

Saying Black History Month is "nothing more" than an "opportunity to blah blah....etc" trivializes something that means something to people.

If it didn't, those entities couldn't use it to pander.

By all means call out an entity for pandering if you have evidence of it. (I don't think that's the case here)

But please don't reduce the entire observation to being only about taking advantage of people.

meadowsweet

One person's pandering is another person's first small steps towards representation.

You can find complaints online about performative activism or woke-ism or shoehorning in a minority character or re-casting a straight white male character. And you can also find reaction videos or essays with minorities or children saying they finally saw someone like them in popular media for the first time. Seems like it does more good for the latter group than it does harm to the first group. I got emotional just seeing how much the Black Panther movie or Captain Marvel movie meant to a lot of folks (after years of Hollywood executives refusing to invest in or believe in blockbuster movies with a black or female lead.)

Companies and ad campaigns are never going to solve the world's problems, but I also don't understand how it does any harm to elevate or celebrate groups that have been marginalized or overlooked in the past. If you want to frame it as a cynical cash grab (like a mattress sale on Presidents' Day or something), it's a free country and you can think that if you like.

bluewolf

Since 1976, every US President has designated February to be Black History Month, and chosen a theme for that year's observance/celebration.

This does not mean that its enough. Certainly there are entities that use it in a way that is more to their advantage than anything.

But there are many non-profits and schools and organizations using Black History Month as a way to educate, inform, and highlight important contributions and events.

This is not the same as posting a message to social media or issuing a statement because all your competitors did, then carrying on with business as usual.

ThisisClemFandango

@Bowgentle said:
Any chance we'll get a forum post on that Strange rework?

Clearly not