MPQ Developer Q&A January 2025 (ANSWERS)

Is 5* Kraven coming or not? Are Sony giving up on the spider patent after numerous failures, should we just ascend Kraven and give up on this dream completely?...stay tuned, same MPQ channel, same MPQ bracket.... no fight, good night...

@Scofie said:

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@Seph1roth5 said:
Well that's sad and surprising. Supports are clearly a big part of the game, and have had a big effect on pvp. Seems very weird to all of a sudden just stop releasing them for MANY months. Leapfrog obviously screwed everything up (and to a lesser extent, eros), but with 18 of them released it really shouldn't need to be sent to the lab for review.

P.S. Once again our old friend Hound of Shadow gets another question in. This time to clarify that cover swaps are not a 'feature' of the game. You'd think we could let this go by now since it's not going back to what it was ever.

And what an answer it was!

"Any system that required a player to manually go through customer service as a stop gap is obviously not a permanent game feature."

What's funny is that I remember that guy arguing with me about it when he was still here, saying it was intended, necessary, blah blah whatever. This answer is clear and concise and should put an end to any debate about their intentions.

You sure that was Hound? He never argued anything in favour of players, especially not veteran ones! If the Devs set the game to electrocute players if they finished Top 10 in Season Hound would have found a way to say the players deserved it!

I think he just disagreed with everything I said, regardless of how he actually felt, as a general rule. There's a few of those around!

No there isn't.

😜

You lovable scamp

@Bzhai said:

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@concillado said:
Is 5* Kraven coming or not? Are Sony giving up on the spider patent after numerous failures, should we just ascend Kraven and give up on this dream completely?...stay tuned, same MPQ channel, same MPQ bracket.... no fight, good night...

Maybe that's part of Marvel's strategy to get the rights back. Helping promote their movies would just be counterproductive.

Tbf I don't think any amount of promoting would help that movie.

@Pantera236 said:

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@Bzhai said:

@concillado said:
Is 5* Kraven coming or not? Are Sony giving up on the spider patent after numerous failures, should we just ascend Kraven and give up on this dream completely?...stay tuned, same MPQ channel, same MPQ bracket.... no fight, good night...

Maybe that's part of Marvel's strategy to get the rights back. Helping promote their movies would just be counterproductive.

Tbf I don't think any amount of promoting would help that movie.

...hehe, I read and saw the video reviews of the movie... they were actually quite entertaining! ;-)

@S0kun said:

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@rainkingucd said:

19. @rainkingucd [Official Forums]
    Question: Can you share the history / lore / reasoning behind the new character clues in the "What's new" thread after the character has been released? Understanding the details encourages us comic nerds to read more about the character (i.e. Seeking Saylum)?
    Answer: It can be any number of things. We look at clues that pull from a character's history, or power set, or name and then try to come up with a transformative double meaning for the most part. It's a bit like the clues for Cryptic Crosswords.
    

Sorry, that was not what I meant with the question. While I like getting the philosophy behind the clue creation, I was more hoping for an answer to the cryptic crossword when the character is released. Like in the "What's New" threads, after the character has been released, can you add a description explaining how the clue aligns? I still have no idea what "Seeking Saylum" means in context for Namor.

as an example, "Winter's Moon" = Luna Snow because Snow/Ice powers happen in winter, and Luna is a name that means Moon. Or "Original Widow" = misdirect of Black Widow, and instead refers to Marvel's OG Widow in the literal sense, Aunt May

@S0kun please

Ahh yeah. The "after" part flew over our heads. For the next character release page I post, I'll be sure to add a reason for the clue given for that character.
i.e. “Birds of a Feather...” was a pretty direct clue for Sam Wilson for obvious reasons.

Thank you for the reply @S0kun and the answers going forward.

@Grizwald said:
Honestly, the Kraven movie would have been a lot better if it wasn't trying to show the origins of a Spider-Man villan. Anti-hunter guy gets mystical animal powers and uses them for justice would be better than origins of Kraven. The big problem with the Sony movies was "why do I care about these people? Where's Spider-Man? "

Kraven has had exactly one great story ever and it very much involves Spider-Man. Otherwise he is just Freddie Mercury during a costume change that went wrong at Wembley Stadium.