End of Year MPQ Feature Updates

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Heading into the end of the year, we wanted to thank our players for sticking with us for another amazing year of MPQ which saw a bunch of new features added to the game as we prepare for an exciting 2025! Our goal is to always ensure that players are enjoying these features so we definitely take your feedback into serious consideration when designing them into the game.

That being said, some of the most talked about features this year have been the recently announced Cover Exchange System which saw a ton of conversation happening since we announced it last week and Season Passes/Quests that has been a fun reward mechanic for players to tackle. In our effort to keep improving on these features, here’s a quick update on changes we plan on making in the very near (via data pushes) and soon-ish (upcoming releases) future.

COVER EXCHANGE SYSTEM UPDATE
It's been a week since the announcement of Cover Exchanges and 3 days since the function was added to the game. In that time, we've gotten a ton of great feedback from the community who spoke up about what they both liked and didn't like about the feature.

After discussing the feedback and seeing where things can improve, we’ve decided to make a few adjustments based on the current time frames available at this time.

Latest Legends Cover Exchange
We’ve decided to include the ability to exchange Latest Legends covers as part of our Cover Exchange system, but this is something that will be a part of our upcoming R318 build planned for January 6, 2025. These exchanges will cost more than a standard 5-Star exchange, which is broken out below.

Cover Exchange Costs
As a result of your feedback, we’ve made the following changes to the Cover Exchange costs, especially affecting 4 and 5-Star costs.

Current: 75HP / 100HP / 200HP / 500HP / 1250HP
Updated: 75HP / 100HP / 150HP / 400HP / 650HP (LL 1000HP)

Timing:
This will happen during the data patch this evening on Dec 20th. Note: This patch may go out a little earlier than normal nightly patches. We apologize for any inconvenience on people trying for their PVE clears, we’ll do our best to minimize disruption.

Shard Exchanges
Along with the addition of Latest Legends to the system, we plan on enabling the exchange of shards for covers early next year. This is already in the works and we plan on releasing this update by the end of January.

The Cover Exchange System is still early in its development along with many of the other features that we’ve outlined in our recent 2025 Roadmap. Please give it a shot and let us know what you think!

UPCOMING SEASON PASS UPDATES
From its evolution from Quest Vaults into a full fledged Season Pass, daily quests and ways to reward players for actively engaging with MPQ have been pretty well received and we’ve really enjoyed all the feedback that we’ve seen with this mechanic.
We've been hard at work on the feature to strengthen the rewards and better value player's time. The biggest piece of this is that players feel that completing the pass offers little to do in the game afterwards from the pass, and we agree that improvements can be made. Along with that, players enjoyed the pre-Season Pass feature of having Event Quests giving tokens to a themed Vault from months past. While that's not what the Season Pass currently does, we figured we can combine these for the best of both worlds! As such, we'll be making the following changes to the Season Pass as of January's season:

Season Vaults
Tied to every season comes the return of Season Vaults that are tied to completing quests in a Season Pass. For unlocking tiers in the Season Pass in both Free and Premium tiers, tokens will be unlocked for vaults that offer up prizes similar to previous Quest Vaults including:

• 4-Star Ascended covers, including a 4-Star version of the Season's featured character (if applicable)
• 5-Star covers
• 3/4/5-Star covers related to the current Season
• The normal Iso-8, HP, CP, Cover Pack tokens, etc

An exciting note about these vaults compared to their predecessors is that the number of items has been raised from 80-120 total items!

Season Pass Over Leveling
Starting in January, additional levels past the max in the Season Pass will give overleveling rewards. This is a repeating schedule of 10 rewards that gives additional Iso-8, Red Iso-8, CP, and Elite Tokens. But more importantly, in every set of rewards is a copy of the current featured Season character as well as a Token to the Season Vault! So no matter where you are in your Season Pass journey, you'll continue to get rewards and more pulls at the current Season Vault. We wish you all the best luck in pulling those Ascended covers and 5-Stars from the new Season Vault!