Where's the New Character Sunspot thread?

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  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,799 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @BriMan2222 said:
    I turned his animations on, as I do when a new character is released to see what they look like, and he has some of the best animations I've seen in awhile. Who needs a generic fireball or punch when you have great animations like "Look at my flip phone! Look at it!" and "My stock portfolio is lit yo."" and .... generic fireball....

    Okay I guess 2 out of 3 isn't bad, especially when so many of the more recent "animations" have been "posing and not moving at all" and "posing and not moving at all in the exact same pose but also there is a small burst of light behind me"

    Will changing his costume change his animations to something else? Showing off a fireball instead of his phone? Fire in the sky instead of stocks and bonds? If so, I'm definitely keeping him in his default costume.

    Oh that's a fireball! I could not work out what he is doing there, I thought maybe he was practicing his tennis strokes or something. I'm gonna go watch again!

    I thought I saw him shoot off a fireball or fire in general. He may just be giving a fire infused hand shake.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,718 Chairperson of the Boards

    No sorry, I just checked and he is definitely playing tennis.

  • Bustapup
    Bustapup Posts: 231 Tile Toppler

    I think he's great and very versatile..... He can be an absolute AP battery too with the right teammates. I used him with an ascended 1star storm and his yellow, followed by her green with Zemo reducing AP cost gave me pretty much a winfinite so I'm looking fwd to trying out other formations.

    He's also very good paired with Hotpool and either 3* Mephisto or purple man. With Hotpool tanking Mephisto and sunspots passive damage absolutely smacks when a strike tile is powered up

  • Timemachinego
    Timemachinego Posts: 580 Critical Contributor
    edited 23 September 2025, 18:49

    Why do we have Norman Osborn cosplaying Jason Blood and calling himself Sunspot? I get the suit look, it's very "in" (did one of you "artists" decide you're good at suits?) but he's literally never had red hair in any incarnation except WHILE powered up in an alt-universe. If you're going to keep hitting us with bad art, at least get the palettes right ffs.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,311 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 24 September 2025, 02:04

    Ok this guy is weird, and not at all obvious from the power descriptions.

    The AP drain part of his purple is worthless. Here's what that power actually says: "drain X purple AP, create X trap tiles." The best use of it, by far, is to cast it on a color where the enemy has 0AP. The traps get created on random colors, not the color you select. There is no real reason to cast it for more than 3, because you get a hit from his red passive every time you use it.

    The CD tile part of his yellow power is also worthless. That power actually says "5AP: create 4 trap tiles."

    The goal with him is to flood the board with traps. Every time you match or destroy one trap, he creates two more. The enemy takes damage when they match them. If you have more than 3, they take AoE damage.

    The rest of his kit is bonus stuff. His red active is bad, but the passive is decent because it does damage every time you cast the other powers. He also passively burst heals every time you match red, purple, or yellow.

    I ran him with Goose, who passively makes really big strike tiles. Ideally you want a booster of some sort with him to take advantage of the AoE traps. Any of the usual suspects should work.

  • Hellblazer666
    Hellblazer666 Posts: 358 Mover and Shaker

    Why did they make his skin white on the default but for his spend 10 to get is classic costume he has the right skin color? Roberto is Brazilian he should have brown skin on both models.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,311 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Hellblazer666 said:
    Why did they make his skin white on the default but for his spend 10 to get is classic costume he has the right skin color? Roberto is Brazilian he should have brown skin on both models.

    He's been drawn in different ways over the years.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,718 Chairperson of the Boards

    @MegaBee said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @Hellblazer666 said:
    Why did they make his skin white on the default but for his spend 10 to get is classic costume he has the right skin color? Roberto is Brazilian he should have brown skin on both models.

    He's been drawn in different ways over the years.

    Additionally, Brazilians have a wide variety of skin tones.

    As created Roberto is mixed race with his mother being American Caucasian and his father Afro-Brazilian. However his darker skin was a point of reference in his first appearance which causes him to be singled out by racist opponents leading to him discovering his mutant powers. So it seems a bit weird he is so light skinned but as said he is mixed race. I don’t have an explanation for the hair.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,718 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    Now if you desperately need an actually-accurate irrelevant nitpick to whine about (and I know many of you do!), using a Brazilian character to tie in with Hispanic Heritage Month is incorrect.

    "Hispanic" refers to people who speak Spanish -- Brazilians speak Portuguese. Brazilians are Latino but not Hispanic.

    Well Brazil does celebrate its Independence Day on Sep 7th so maybe he is there for that!

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,510 Chairperson of the Boards

    The problem with finding Hispanic characters under the correct category is that there aren’t many in Marvel’s stable.

    So sometimes they will stretch the category to add or include someone and people will complain. But the devs are kind of stuck working with mostly existing characters.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,311 Chairperson of the Boards

    @bluewolf said:
    The problem with finding Hispanic characters under the correct category is that there aren’t many in Marvel’s stable.

    So sometimes they will stretch the category to add or include someone and people will complain. But the devs are kind of stuck working with mostly existing characters.

    Oh yeah, it's understandable and I really couldn't care less.

    There's a certain population of folks who exist only to complain about whoever the new character is, though, so I figured they may as well whine about a minor nitpick that's actually accurate.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,718 Chairperson of the Boards

    @bluewolf said:
    The problem with finding Hispanic characters under the correct category is that there aren’t many in Marvel’s stable.

    So sometimes they will stretch the category to add or include someone and people will complain. But the devs are kind of stuck working with mostly existing characters.

    This is because a character called Zeitgeist killed loads of heroes from South America! Yes even Defensor!

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,799 Chairperson of the Boards

    So I guess that new Sunspot costume is just for show. Look but don't touch. Sorry everybody who wanted that one over the default.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,510 Chairperson of the Boards

    The costume is now for sale.

    Honestly it seems weird that they didn’t get it up before his PvP ended….

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