New engine date? Any news about the game?

will7612
will7612 Posts: 112 Tile Toppler
in MPQ General Discussion

April so far, and no horizon, ZERO NEWS, worst Comm effort, if any
Here we are, "waiting for something", and some Alliances are accusing low participation, players disband, and the excitement is at its lowest point
Any comments?

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  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,505 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 13 April 2025, 22:37

    Sign up for joining the closed beta of the new engine was announced on discord a couple weeks ago, so it should be coming soon.

  • will7612
    will7612 Posts: 112 Tile Toppler

    Did you get a Beta test?

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,505 Chairperson of the Boards

    @will7612 said:
    Did you get a Beta test?

    No, I didn't care to sign up

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,883 Chairperson of the Boards

    Aw, I would've signed up.

  • NMANOZ1
    NMANOZ1 Posts: 143 Tile Toppler

    I think it should be released on the 29th of this month as a 40th birthday present for me!

  • liminal_lad
    liminal_lad Posts: 484 Mover and Shaker

    I applied to test but haven’t heard anything yet.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,432 Chairperson of the Boards

    I'd love to balance test new characters or features, but have very little interest in doing free QA work/bug hunting for them.

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,088 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    I'd love to balance test new characters or features, but have very little interest in doing free QA work/bug hunting for them.

    We already do that for free though, but I know what you're saying.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,754 Chairperson of the Boards

    @will7612 said:
    April so far, and no horizon, ZERO NEWS, worst Comm effort, if any
    Here we are, "waiting for something", and some Alliances are accusing low participation, players disband, and the excitement is at its lowest point
    Any comments?

    Yikes, if we are at the point that players themselves are actually disbanding then things are dire indeed, there will be limbs everywhere! :#:o

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,504 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    I'd love to balance test new characters or features, but have very little interest in doing free QA work/bug hunting for them.

    I get that. I have a slightly different view - I think the new engine is absolutely key for the future of this game and getting new content in. Sure, we can wait another x months for an internal team to do the wide range of QA activity across multiple devices and platforms and risk a wide range of bugs and issues that will alienate more players when it is finally released (or worse still, break accounts) but I'm happy to spend a few hours playing a game to help move that process along and de-risk it.

    This gives me the opportunity to play more in that non-timebound style that people keep asking for and hopefully it will give me a chance to play fun teams and try out combos that I wouldn't usually and at times I don't usually play. It is a win-win.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,491 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Scofie said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    I'd love to balance test new characters or features, but have very little interest in doing free QA work/bug hunting for them.

    I get that. I have a slightly different view - I think the new engine is absolutely key for the future of this game and getting new content in. Sure, we can wait another x months for an internal team to do the wide range of QA activity across multiple devices and platforms and risk a wide range of bugs and issues that will alienate more players when it is finally released (or worse still, break accounts) but I'm happy to spend a few hours playing a game to help move that process along and de-risk it.

    This gives me the opportunity to play more in that non-timebound style that people keep asking for and hopefully it will give me a chance to play fun teams and try out combos that I wouldn't usually and at times I don't usually play. It is a win-win.

    I'm curious as to why they just didn't release a 2nd copy of the game in the app store with the new engine so that everyone who wanted to could download and try out the new engine. Then no need to ask for beta testers (no one here for example was even asked and this is the official forum). I know Crapple has a tough time adding new apps but Android doesn't (don't think Steam does either). They'd then be able to get potentially thousands of testers and if something was wrong you could easily go back to the official version of the game.

    KGB

  • NemoAbernnigan
    NemoAbernnigan Posts: 197 Tile Toppler

    @Scofie said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    I'd love to balance test new characters or features, but have very little interest in doing free QA work/bug hunting for them.

    I get that. I have a slightly different view - I think the new engine is absolutely key for the future of this game and getting new content in. Sure, we can wait another x months for an internal team to do the wide range of QA activity across multiple devices and platforms and risk a wide range of bugs and issues that will alienate more players when it is finally released (or worse still, break accounts) but I'm happy to spend a few hours playing a game to help move that process along and de-risk it.

    This gives me the opportunity to play more in that non-timebound style that people keep asking for and hopefully it will give me a chance to play fun teams and try out combos that I wouldn't usually and at times I don't usually play. It is a win-win.

    I play on my kindle fire so I really am just hoping they continue to support the device whenever they do implement the new engine, and if they aren't going to, I hope it never comes out hahaha.

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,504 Chairperson of the Boards

    @KGB said:

    @Scofie said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    I'd love to balance test new characters or features, but have very little interest in doing free QA work/bug hunting for them.

    I get that. I have a slightly different view - I think the new engine is absolutely key for the future of this game and getting new content in. Sure, we can wait another x months for an internal team to do the wide range of QA activity across multiple devices and platforms and risk a wide range of bugs and issues that will alienate more players when it is finally released (or worse still, break accounts) but I'm happy to spend a few hours playing a game to help move that process along and de-risk it.

    This gives me the opportunity to play more in that non-timebound style that people keep asking for and hopefully it will give me a chance to play fun teams and try out combos that I wouldn't usually and at times I don't usually play. It is a win-win.

    I'm curious as to why they just didn't release a 2nd copy of the game in the app store with the new engine so that everyone who wanted to could download and try out the new engine. Then no need to ask for beta testers (no one here for example was even asked and this is the official forum). I know Crapple has a tough time adding new apps but Android doesn't (don't think Steam does either). They'd then be able to get potentially thousands of testers and if something was wrong you could easily go back to the official version of the game.

    KGB

    I can think of a couple of reasons - one is control over who is accessing so there are no people deliberately trying to break it. Second would be that the second version would not be permanent, but a new player might be attracted to the wrong app and be upset if their game closes at the end of the trial period.

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