MPQ Developer Q&A November 2024 (ANSWERS)

TheXMan

August 2024 Q&A had this -
Question: are there any plans to add the ability to play on one account in steam and the mobile version?

Answer: Planned, yes. It's not directly related to the engine update, but we'd have to reimplement a link in both this version and the redone engine version, and it's not a super simple implementation. So yes, but stay tuned. In the near term though, we can do that manually for you, just contact CS and they'll walk you through it!

slidecage

@GrimSkald said:

@slidecage said:
I dont understand the answer or something

15. @Slidecage [Official Forums]
    Question: Will we ever be able to do cross gameplay be able to use same account on steam phone and tablet

Answer: This is totally on our radar. Currently, there are a bevy of technical reasons as to why the systems are not in place but we hope to be able to alleviate those at some point.

i asked this on another topic and a player said all you do is contact cs and they will allow you to play on two things.... so can you or can you not play on steam and tablet

I'm not sure, since I've always run the game on Android, but I think you can contact CS to have them port your game over to phone/tablet -- it's a one time, one way thing.

EDIT: I have been told the above is not the case, so I'm actually not sure what they mean. Possibly they mean without the intervention of CS.

If it's a one way thing then guess got to start new cause not sure how much will be playing on tablet. Probably 20 percent time there and 80 on PC

Just need to buy a new desk and PC for new house. Still thinking laptop but not sure how good I would like laptop. They have all in one pc for aroundb 500. May go that way

trewiltrewil

So this has devolved into: "We can't do anything on the current engine." I feel like we need a real update on that engine progress as it has been coming soon for over a year now (at least it seems that way). I know engines are complex but at some point the game really needs some of these improvements.

Maybe the team could take a month off from QA and give us a real deep dive on what to expect there and when. Seems like that would be more insightful than these QA sessions at this point.

ThisisClemFandango

Yeah give them some time to properly assess where they are.
Been working on that new game engine long time now, yep, been going on 2 years now, yep, you been working on that the whole time? Been doing that every day? Yeah? Been talking about that every month for 2 years now. Must of made some progress in those 700 + days.
Oh I can't wait to see it.

Scofie

@GrimSkald said:

@slidecage said:
I dont understand the answer or something

15. @Slidecage [Official Forums]
    Question: Will we ever be able to do cross gameplay be able to use same account on steam phone and tablet

Answer: This is totally on our radar. Currently, there are a bevy of technical reasons as to why the systems are not in place but we hope to be able to alleviate those at some point.

i asked this on another topic and a player said all you do is contact cs and they will allow you to play on two things.... so can you or can you not play on steam and tablet

I'm not sure, since I've always run the game on Android, but I think you can contact CS to have them port your game over to phone/tablet -- it's a one time, one way thing.

EDIT: I have been told the above is not the case, so I'm actually not sure what they mean. Possibly they mean without the intervention of CS.

I think that's the case. As in you can't just jump on an alternative platform and put in your IGN and carry on. CS can definitely do it though as they can do these things behind the scenes.

Codex

@trewiltrewil said:

Maybe the team could take a month off from QA and give us a real deep dive on what to expect there and when. Seems like that would be more insightful than these QA sessions at this point.

No please don't take month off from QA. Where can I ask my very important questions. For example,

I like the recent change to quests, where I only need to bring the required character into the match and then retreat to get credit on the task. Can you change the make x matches in y color to have the same affect? I.e. have x amount of y color on the board. I want to spend as little time playing this game and getting the most amount of rewards.

P.s. no need to work on the game engine changes this is more important 👌

trewiltrewil

I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm a PM, I get it things are hard and get pushed back and run late... It is just that I would rather have subpar seasons of that means we are one month closer to getting some of the underlying major challenges fixed. Clearly we are all invested and not going anywhere, but I do really wonder about new players coming in... I love this game and just want it to keep being a going concern.

Zalasta

@trewiltrewil said:
So this has devolved into: "We can't do anything on the current engine." I feel like we need a real update on that engine progress as it has been coming soon for over a year now (at least it seems that way). I know engines are complex but at some point the game really needs some of these improvements.

Maybe the team could take a month off from QA and give us a real deep dive on what to expect there and when. Seems like that would be more insightful than these QA sessions at this point.

What are you going to do when you find out that we’ve been using the new engine for four months?

DAZ0273

@trewiltrewil said:
So this has devolved into: "We can't do anything on the current engine." I feel like we need a real update on that engine progress as it has been coming soon for over a year now (at least it seems that way). I know engines are complex but at some point the game really needs some of these improvements.

Maybe the team could take a month off from QA and give us a real deep dive on what to expect there and when. Seems like that would be more insightful than these QA sessions at this point.

Maybe they could:

slidecage

@Scofie said:

@GrimSkald said:

@slidecage said:
I dont understand the answer or something

15. @Slidecage [Official Forums]
    Question: Will we ever be able to do cross gameplay be able to use same account on steam phone and tablet

Answer: This is totally on our radar. Currently, there are a bevy of technical reasons as to why the systems are not in place but we hope to be able to alleviate those at some point.

i asked this on another topic and a player said all you do is contact cs and they will allow you to play on two things.... so can you or can you not play on steam and tablet

I'm not sure, since I've always run the game on Android, but I think you can contact CS to have them port your game over to phone/tablet -- it's a one time, one way thing.

EDIT: I have been told the above is not the case, so I'm actually not sure what they mean. Possibly they mean without the intervention of CS.

I think that's the case. As in you can't just jump on an alternative platform and put in your IGN and carry on. CS can definitely do it though as they can do these things behind the scenes.

So if I contact them.

I'm on steam. Like to play on tablet. I would only be allowed on tablet right my steam account be gone

Or would I be able to do both

TheXMan

According to the answer I posted above from August Q&A, you can do both

Zarqa

@slidecage you keep asking the same question. For weeks now. YES you can play on both Steam and mobile. Several people have pointed this out. Please contact Customer Support via email, they can provide you with better answers than we can if you want a definite answers.

For reference, here is a post I wrote in November, laying out the various steps you need to take: https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/comment/1046843#Comment_1046843

Scofie

@slidecage said:

@Scofie said:

@GrimSkald said:

@slidecage said:
I dont understand the answer or something

15. @Slidecage [Official Forums]
    Question: Will we ever be able to do cross gameplay be able to use same account on steam phone and tablet

Answer: This is totally on our radar. Currently, there are a bevy of technical reasons as to why the systems are not in place but we hope to be able to alleviate those at some point.

i asked this on another topic and a player said all you do is contact cs and they will allow you to play on two things.... so can you or can you not play on steam and tablet

I'm not sure, since I've always run the game on Android, but I think you can contact CS to have them port your game over to phone/tablet -- it's a one time, one way thing.

EDIT: I have been told the above is not the case, so I'm actually not sure what they mean. Possibly they mean without the intervention of CS.

I think that's the case. As in you can't just jump on an alternative platform and put in your IGN and carry on. CS can definitely do it though as they can do these things behind the scenes.

So if I contact them.

I'm on steam. Like to play on tablet. I would only be allowed on tablet right my steam account be gone

Or would I be able to do both

You can do both. With the same account. Your progress will sync across different devices. Just contact CS via email and they will help you.

slidecage

@slidecage said:

@GrimSkald said:

@slidecage said:
I dont understand the answer or something

15. @Slidecage [Official Forums]
    Question: Will we ever be able to do cross gameplay be able to use same account on steam phone and tablet

Answer: This is totally on our radar. Currently, there are a bevy of technical reasons as to why the systems are not in place but we hope to be able to alleviate those at some point.

i asked this on another topic and a player said all you do is contact cs and they will allow you to play on two things.... so can you or can you not play on steam and tablet

I'm not sure, since I've always run the game on Android, but I think you can contact CS to have them port your game over to phone/tablet -- it's a one time, one way thing.

EDIT: I have been told the above is not the case, so I'm actually not sure what they mean. Possibly they mean without the intervention of CS.

If it's a one way thing then guess got to start new cause not sure how much will be playing on tablet. Probably 20 percent time there and 80 on PC

Just need to buy a new desk and PC for new house. Still thinking laptop but not sure how good I would like laptop. They have all in one pc for aroundb 500. May go that way

How I taking this and might was wrong when they are saying it's s one way thing how that sounded to me was. If I was on steam and wanted to play on tablet. Cs would moved it one way into the tablet meaning you could not play onnsteam. Ii misunderstood what one way meaned

Maybe I contact them next week once I get it up and running.

Does anyone play on a tab 9a.
Does your battery life suck
I had it at 80. Play a few games last night for two hours and took it down to 20

Even says with full charge max life is 10 hours. Seems low

I could see playing on tablet and phone could work since you download both from one store

But streamn and Google play are two different thing

Like said I took one way meaning you will be transfering it to new place and loosing the oldb
Thanks again

tupacboy

Does anyone know if there is a ETA on the new engine?

TheXMan

what's your ETA...2 minutes

ThisisClemFandango

@tupacboy said:
Does anyone know if there is a ETA on the new engine?

Between now and when the game closes down

St_Bernadus

@ThisisClemFandango said:

@tupacboy said:
Does anyone know if there is a ETA on the new engine?

Between now and when the game closes down

I see, an optimist!

MgoBlue51

@St_Bernadus said:

@ThisisClemFandango said:

@tupacboy said:
Does anyone know if there is a ETA on the new engine?

Between now and when the game closes down

I see, an optimist!

I'm expecting them to say "sorry, we realized our new engine was never going to work. We decided to scrap the entire project. To make it up to you, we are increasing the release rate."

In their own words, never say never!

DAZ0273

@MgoBlue51 said:

@St_Bernadus said:

@ThisisClemFandango said:

@tupacboy said:
Does anyone know if there is a ETA on the new engine?

Between now and when the game closes down

I see, an optimist!

I'm expecting them to say "sorry, we realized our new engine was never going to work. We decided to scrap the entire project. To make it up to you, we are increasing the release rate."

In their own words, never say never!

That would explain why they let us have all those roster slots in vaults! They are tricky ones, these Devs!