Wasn’t Tower Mode Supposed to Start Today?

Hammer3001
Hammer3001 Posts: 290 Mover and Shaker
in MPQ General Discussion

Have they said anything new about this?

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  • Jash735
    Jash735 Posts: 171 Tile Toppler

    It’s up now and unless I’m missing something it is considerably underwhelming…

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,947 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Jash735 said:
    It’s up now and unless I’m missing something it is considerably underwhelming…

    They said it would change everyday didn't they? Maybe the tower will get harder with better rewards each day

  • kuntilanak
    kuntilanak Posts: 273 Mover and Shaker

    Looking at the underwhelming progress rewards, I hope the nodes don't get too hard...

  • Omegased
    Omegased Posts: 658 Critical Contributor

    I was thinking the same, but maybe the node rewards are awesome....
    Right?

  • Blackstone
    Blackstone Posts: 885 Critical Contributor
    edited 17 October 2025, 01:19

    I don't know what I expected...
    But this ain't it.

    There's not even a tower.

    Maybe the characters you use each day will be locked out the rest of the days?

    Maybe the rewards shown are a glitch?

    Maybe it's a trick and Quandary will adjust as you go?

    I don't know.

    Also, did I miss something?
    There's the primary (marked by a house emblem) but there's also a "1" emblem beneath that as if there's another event but it just says "event ended" but I never saw a chance to do anything with it.

    I'm just going to assume it wasn't supposed to release yet and the whole thing will disappear in the morning leading to a fixed version showing up later.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,692 Chairperson of the Boards

    The tower has 14 pairs of nodes visible.

    I assume there’s a second sub or whatever with 14 more that’ll open in 2 weeks.

  • Ptahhotep
    Ptahhotep Posts: 468 Mover and Shaker

    Anyone know why some of the rewards are marked with a red banner?

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,692 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Ptahhotep said:
    Anyone know why some of the rewards are marked with a red banner?

    The occasional red banner on rewards is a long standing visual bug that means nothing.

  • Blackstone
    Blackstone Posts: 885 Critical Contributor

    I went camping for the weekend.
    No service meant no mpq.
    Opened the game today though.
    The tower is still trash and I have no idea why they bothered.
    I suppose you could skip it until you need nodes for certain challenges without handicapping your timing in other events.

  • Gymp28
    Gymp28 Posts: 271 Mover and Shaker

    So far the tower seems like it’s more of a mode for new players, to get them some more extra resources at their level.

  • Painmonger
    Painmonger Posts: 232 Tile Toppler

    It's hard to call it a tower when it's descending at an angle. The downstairs?

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,367 Chairperson of the Boards

    It's the underground pyramid from Alien vs. Predator.

  • Ptahhotep
    Ptahhotep Posts: 468 Mover and Shaker

    Galactus came along and knocked it over.

  • Batjester
    Batjester Posts: 44 Just Dropped In

    @Painmonger said:
    It's hard to call it a tower when it's descending at an angle. The downstairs?

    It's in Australia.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,970 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Gymp28 said:
    So far the tower seems like it’s more of a mode for new players, to get them some more extra resources at their level.

    The Tower is the old Gauntlet PvE event that's hasn't been run for years now. Players have routinely asked for it to be run again and it appears they are running it during anniversary.

    The nodes simply increase in power (mine started at 330 and are currently 480 and based on how fast they increase it should top out around 700 for me which is roughly double my top characters at 370).

    KGB

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,367 Chairperson of the Boards

    @KGB said:

    @Gymp28 said:
    So far the tower seems like it’s more of a mode for new players, to get them some more extra resources at their level.

    The Tower is the old Gauntlet PvE event that's hasn't been run for years now. Players have routinely asked for it to be run again and it appears they are running it during anniversary.

    The nodes simply increase in power (mine started at 330 and are currently 480 and based on how fast they increase it should top out around 700 for me which is roughly double my top characters at 370).

    KGB

    How much different is this run of it compared to the past ones?

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,947 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 23 October 2025, 00:00

    @WilliamK1983 said:

    @KGB said:

    @Gymp28 said:
    So far the tower seems like it’s more of a mode for new players, to get them some more extra resources at their level.

    The Tower is the old Gauntlet PvE event that's hasn't been run for years now. Players have routinely asked for it to be run again and it appears they are running it during anniversary.

    The nodes simply increase in power (mine started at 330 and are currently 480 and based on how fast they increase it should top out around 700 for me which is roughly double my top characters at 370).

    KGB

    How much different is this run of it compared to the past ones?

    Well, the things that made the old gauntlet so hard are no longer issues. 5 stars didn't exist and neither did champions. A 270 4 star was the strongest thing in the game.

    Also, mirror matches didn't used to be allowed in pve so if the enemy team has hulkbuster, you couldn't bring hulkbuster.

    The difficult levels of the gauntlet were the best characters in the game, so then you couldn't use those characters, and at much higher levels than were possible for you. Deadpool was usually on the enemy team too so you couldn't bring your own dp or dp tu and just use whales.

    Now, even at level 800 you can just kang them, or multiple man insta win, or polaris/mthor them.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,815 Chairperson of the Boards

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @WilliamK1983 said:

    @KGB said:

    @Gymp28 said:
    So far the tower seems like it’s more of a mode for new players, to get them some more extra resources at their level.

    The Tower is the old Gauntlet PvE event that's hasn't been run for years now. Players have routinely asked for it to be run again and it appears they are running it during anniversary.

    The nodes simply increase in power (mine started at 330 and are currently 480 and based on how fast they increase it should top out around 700 for me which is roughly double my top characters at 370).

    KGB

    How much different is this run of it compared to the past ones?

    Well, the things that made the old gauntlet so hard are no longer issues. 5 stars didn't exist and neither did champions. A 270 4 star was the strongest thing in the game.

    Also, mirror matches didn't used to be allowed in pve so if the enemy team has hulkbuster, you couldn't bring hulkbuster.

    The difficult levels of the gauntlet were the best characters in the game, so then you couldn't use those characters, and at much higher levels than were possible for you. Deadpool was usually on the enemy team too so you couldn't bring your own dp or dp tu and just use whales.

    Now, even at level 800 you can just kang them, or multiple man insta win, or polaris/mthor them.

    All this!

    Also Gauntlet was a really long event. Since it replaced an entire PvE, you were meant to do it a little at a time. I think there were 3 subs of 20 fights each?

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,367 Chairperson of the Boards

    @BriMan2222 @entrailbucket so what y'all are saying is they took the fun out of it...figures. Hopefully when the dust settles from the engine switch, they can rotate it in and run it the old way.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,815 Chairperson of the Boards

    @WilliamK1983 said:
    @BriMan2222 @entrailbucket so what y'all are saying is they took the fun out of it...figures. Hopefully when the dust settles from the engine switch, they can rotate it in and run it the old way.

    The old way would be a lot different from what we're used to! We wouldn't be able to use characters over 270, and no mirror matches. All the quick/instant wins would be gone. No supports either!

    Also, everybody really kind of hated the Gauntlet. It was really hard, and also it replaced an entire PvE but had no sub rewards or placement rewards.

    It'd be fun if they ran something in the spirit of the Gauntlet, but I'm not sure how they could do that now.

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