MPQ Developer Q&A March 2024 (QUESTIONS)

MPQBlaine

It's time for our monthly Developer Q & A with the team behind Marvel Puzzle Quest!

We always look forward to addressing community feedback so please feel free to share with us your thoughts and suggestions. To help with our workflow, please be mindful of the following rules.

March Developer Q&A Google Form:
https://mpq.social/devqa

1. Max 1 Question:
   To ensure that we're able to answer as many questions as possible, questions are limited to 1 per player and a maximum of 250 characters.
2. Copy Questions to original Q&A thread:
   To avoid duplicate questions, we kindly ask that you post your question to our Q&A forum thread to display them publicly for others to see here.
3. Deadline to submit questions:
   12pm PST/8pm BST on March 29th.
4. Answers posted:
   Week of April 8th

TFrame

Why have the 5* weekly boost lists been on the exact same cycle since anniversary and are there plans to mix them up more?

Hammer3001

Are you going to create new PVE’s based on classic/modern comic stories such as Days of Future Past or AVX?

Seph1roth5

It feels like many of the 5* since Omega Red have been lackluster. Is there any chance you guys are going to redo the power budget for 5s? Many 4* kits are much more interesting and we'd love them on a 5 without taking months/years to ascend.

UnityGamer

You have many variants of the same character, each with its own star value. How do you determine its star value: by costume, abilities, cover source? In other words, what makes a variant a 1-star vs. 5-star, possibly an alternate costume?

mdreyer93

With the iso-8 desert expanding for many players due to ascension and the 3/5-4 release schedule, what solutions or adjustments to the game economy has the team considered? Maybe expanding LRs to at least M-F & more frequent 2x iso?.

Carnifex

Is there a reason why some PVE events have been run multiple times in quick succession over the last couple of months? E.g. Cosmic Chaos. Since the return of the 7 days PVE, they have only been ran once? Will this formula be mixed up soon? Thanks

turbomoose

With the ascended character now making loads of new 4s and 5s the SCL system could do with updating. Are there plans to change this soon SCL 10 must be getting overloaded now as it’s been years since a new SCL was introduced

Mr_F

Can we have a feature to lock essential character? Like when I want to use loaner I pick it and it stays every fight till I change it manually.

dianetics

Implanted Bomb is a really cool and interesting support.
How many times has it downed the villain it is equipped to since its release?

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Codex

Can you consider reducing the cooldown timers for team-up by at least 50%?

ThisisClemFandango

@dianetics said:
Implanted Bomb is a really cool and interesting support.
How many times has it downed the villain it is equipped to since its release?

** I can't fill out the google for so can someone post the question for me?

Posted it for you buddy

NMANOZ1

Can we get more ascended character offers and in vaults (like 2 and 3 stars ascended to 4 stars) like when you released each batch of ascendable characters?

ElReyFelix

When will the Phoenix Five be completed with the release of 5* Namor?

Scofie

Are there immediate plans to update the rewards for both the S.H.I.E.L.D. Simulator and Season rewards. At the moment, I can finish in the 11th percentile of a 28 day session and get 3 tokens and 45HP and some R/Iso. Sim rewards also not comparable.

Zalasta

Have you considered doing weekly character boosts by affiliation, or some other method that might provide better synergy between boosted characters?

illusionist_KA

Ascension destroyed the sanctity the game. A 1* character is now more powerful than a 5* character. Will we stop getting overly comlplicated powerset 5* characters that requires a bible to translate? Will you now consider lowering the boost levels?

HowDoIUnlockBatman

To be fair. If you're using a bible to translate stuff then I'd imagine everything is overly complicated.

ThisisClemFandango

Bibles are notoriously hard to translate and are also easily misunderstood.

kenbenobi

Can you set the default 3-characters before starting a battle to be event-specific? For instance, when I go into PVP, I don't want to see the 3 characters I just used in DDQ or PVE. I want to see the 3 characters I last used in PVP.

You could even take it a step further, and keep the defaults separate for each individual event (Simulator vs PVP1 vs PVP2). I can't tell you the number of times I started a battle in Simulator, with the required PVP character in the center by mistake.

BriMan2222

What 1 star character is now stronger than a natural 5 star? I mean, I guess you can truthfully say that juggernaut is better than oml, but I don't see anyone using jugg over mthor, shang, chasm, Omega Red, or collosus.