Marvel Puzzle Quest’s Next Big Feature: 6 Star Characters

"Over 80" instead of "over 100" for 5*s makes me think this press release was written months or even years ago, and they just cut and pasted it in now. Would also explain why there's no details, because they hadn't developed them when they wrote it.

@Zarqa said:

@entrailbucket said:
Yeah, so turning the board into a rhombus sounds neat, but I don't understand how it helps me win fights. If 6* have powers like that, I'm not sure how they'd expect to sell them. They need to be good.

Agreed. Ultimately, the powers should assist you in winning the fight. And win it faster than with another team. Not make it a more interesting puzzle challenge.

Just for arguments sake: if they are 10 times as powerful as 5 stars, but it takes me 10 times longer to think about a match/make a match/resolve a match, then I can just bring my MThor/Shang team and still beat it faster (This isn’t entirely accurate but you hopefully get the point).

New game features is cool. I’m excited about it. But at the core this game is still ‘how do I beat this fight as fast as possible?’, and not ‘who has the coolest ability?’

(To be fair, I would absolutely buy the guy that turns the board into a rhombus so I could play rhomb-MPQ for no good reason, but I am not their typical customer)

They haven't given us much in the way of details yet, but "abilities that warp the board" and "abilities that affect your entire roster" don't sound promising to me. I was expecting 6* to have abilities like "do 500,000 damage for 3AP."

@DAZ0273 said:

@Sidlon said:

At that point, they are likely to replace an equivalent 4-Star release approximately every 3–4 months.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to replace the 5* release every N months?

I assume that 5* are going to basically become 4* in terms of game currency and importance, meaning the 4* level becomes less and less relevant, meaning players will be treating it like the current 3* level.

If the above ends up being the case - we should expect to have 4* PvP replace 3* PvP but also increased 5* PvP because anything else would be a bit bonkers. But we were big eyed boys, with the salt on our skin and we'd throw our kites to the wind.

Just in terms of sheer numbers it makes a lot more sense to swap out 4s for 6s than 5s, because we have so many 4s already. Just like we occasionally get a 2 instead of a 4. The dilution ship has sailed but I think if we need to add more characters then fewer new 4s is the way to go.

@DJ47057 said:
I'm not really sure what this is all about.
Ok, not that everything makes sense what the devs do but do you really think they are announcing buffs and nerfsto make us use more characters and then then create 6* that you'll get so easily that you'll use only those. Or let us ascend so everyone and their dog have 1as6 characters.
And I'm quite sure a character with power comic doesn't need an support from earth. (Although they still didn't manage to destroy earth).
Keep calm and enjoy playing

Idk, Reed Richards with the ultimate nullifier support did beat Galactus

I predict the return of Environmental Tiles!!!!!

Some fun speculation! I'm imagining things that would involve seriously shrinking the display on mobile to fit on screen.

What if there's pick 4 or some form of tagging in like the PvP version of a wave node.

Now that I've thought about it, clearly the nerfs announced are to create space for 6* to soar above the nerfed 5s. Your Shang and MThor teams will not be permitted to outspeed 10 minute 6* 4 dimensional chess exams.

Introducing the 7th colour...?

What if the new SCL levels require 4 clears of each node for your full clears?

Hybrid colour tiles? Yellow with purple spots can be matched as yellow by any character but only a 6* can match it as purple. More potential matches but only if you're playing at 6*. Cosmic (star shaped?) tiles that act as critical tiles for 6* characters but are unmatchable by lower tiers?

Extra large 2x2 tiles? Not sure how that would work.

Diagonal matches? Match 2 but only in your strongest colour?

Foresight of which tiles will fall? Is there a precog worthy of being a 6*? I can only think of Destiny and Madame Web, either would be underwhelming as a reveal!

@Grantosium said:
Introducing the 7th colour...?

I'm thinking 6* characters may be able to collect and use TU tiles for specific abilities, so they may have the standard three power colours plus a fourth power that uses TUs.

Just wild speculation on my part but it would significantly change the game, I very rarely use TU powers now so it either powers Okoye's passive or just sits in my AP pool.

@Pantera236 said:
The new 6* got loaded into game for some.

Apparently everyone on 331. I haven’t updated yet.

Oh yeah, I see the planet eater in game now