Marvel Puzzle Quest R338 Release Notes (Release Feb 11)

The devs have also made comments about how their QA/test environment is not on true parity with the live environment. I don't know how or why that state of affairs developed and hopefully correcting that is something that can be done, but on the other hand it's probably a lower priority as long as its "good enough" vs trying to make the game itself work better and have cooler stuff.

I suppose at this point you either accept that the developers will often release stuff that's broken or doing weird things because of developer tool limits or you've found a different way to spend your free time.

Yeah, the same old advice. Deal with it or quit. Complaining won't do any good. I am certain the devs don't consider it to be fine that they can't do proper testing and would much rather have reliability around this.

@bluewolf said:
The devs have also made comments about how their QA/test environment is not on true parity with the live environment. I don't know how or why that state of affairs developed and hopefully correcting that is something that can be done, but on the other hand it's probably a lower priority as long as its "good enough" vs trying to make the game itself work better and have cooler stuff.

I suppose at this point you either accept that the developers will often release stuff that's broken or doing weird things because of developer tool limits or you've found a different way to spend your free time.

Yeah, the same old advice. Deal with it or quit. Complaining won't do any good. I am certain the devs don't consider it to be fine that they can't do proper testing and would much rather have reliability around this.

This is a pretty common situation in smaller shops, and even some mid-size ones (remember the MPQ team is like 5 people). Obviously it's ideal to have a test environment that mirrors production, but there are ways to work around it if you can't afford to build or maintain one.

As far as device compatibility, I think it's unrealistic to expect a team of this size to test MPQ on tens of thousands of specific combinations of device/OS version, many which haven't been produced in a decade. Some stuff just isn't going to work right. If you find something that doesn't work, it's worth letting them know so they can investigate that device when they have time.

We also have to accept that our devices are not forever. I recently had to upgrade our PC to cope with Photoshop for my wife. I find Photoshop to be an obnoxiously greedy program with each (seemingly constant) update but that is the way of the tech world, files sizes get bigger and programs more demanding. Even for phone games.

@ViralCore said:

@entrailbucket said:

@bluewolf said:
The devs have also made comments about how their QA/test environment is not on true parity with the live environment. I don't know how or why that state of affairs developed and hopefully correcting that is something that can be done, but on the other hand it's probably a lower priority as long as its "good enough" vs trying to make the game itself work better and have cooler stuff.

I suppose at this point you either accept that the developers will often release stuff that's broken or doing weird things because of developer tool limits or you've found a different way to spend your free time.

Yeah, the same old advice. Deal with it or quit. Complaining won't do any good. I am certain the devs don't consider it to be fine that they can't do proper testing and would much rather have reliability around this.

This is a pretty common situation in smaller shops, and even some mid-size ones (remember the MPQ team is like 5 people). Obviously it's ideal to have a test environment that mirrors production, but there are ways to work around it if you can't afford to build or maintain one.

As far as device compatibility, I think it's unrealistic to expect a team of this size to test MPQ on tens of thousands of specific combinations of device/OS version, many which haven't been produced in a decade. Some stuff just isn't going to work right. If you find something that doesn't work, it's worth letting them know so they can investigate that device when they have time.

Please stop telling everyone the team consists of 5 people. They literally posted in the article saying their new/current MPQ dev team is much larger than that.

Where did you see that? The entire studio has like 20 employees, and they're still maintaining Gems of War too. Here's what they told me:

And there's nothing wrong with this! MPQ doesn't need 100 people working on it.

I'm on a device that has been very stable through most of Unity, but I have to say I'm really loving the buttery smooth framerate that comes with turning off the 30fps cap. Everything slides and drops and jiggles with so much more clarity.

No hidden or implied sarcasm here, I'm finding it really enjoyable.

Ya I downloaded some update today through the assets and it made the breathing tiles stop and made the gameplay a bit faster with battery saver on

@bluewolf said:

@Hellblazer666 said:
Ya I downloaded some update today through the assets and it made the breathing tiles stop and made the gameplay a bit faster with battery saver on

I’m not sure what you got, but I double checked and have no assets to download. The tiles continue to pulse.

That’s weird I didn’t notice them pulsing at all. It might have been that extra 1gb or whatever you mentioned from the update the other day

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
Descended characters would be good so long as they descend to max-level instead of min level. As it is currently, I have to scroll down past a huge glut of level 270 characters to get to my 370 4* characters on the DDQ 4* node. This is a reverse quality of life change for me as currently implemented.

Saved teams help a lot.

Noticed the game froze for a couple of seconds but fixed itself out on battery saver today

@TheMigz said:

@bluewolf said:

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
Descended characters would be good so long as they descend to max-level instead of min level. As it is currently, I have to scroll down past a huge glut of level 270 characters to get to my 370 4* characters on the DDQ 4* node. This is a reverse quality of life change for me as currently implemented.

They did say they plan to address this in 339.

Unfortunately it took about 4 weeks between 337 and 338.

Hoping 339 is more like the old 2 week schedule but we’ll see.

Can confirm the target for 339 is beginning of March. But in general, we'd like updates to have a bit more breathing space between each other than the 2-week cadence. Which is really, really fast.

I don't blame you to be honest, you should work at a pace that is manageable.

A whole lot of the updates in the past had barely noticeable changes at best. This was especially true in more recent years. If the goal is less frequent updates but making them more impactful, I think that's a good approach (barring some major bug requiring an update fix, of course, which would generally always be preferred sooner than later).

The way the descended characters appear and are leveled currently is slightly annoying, but certainly manageable for playing a few DDQ nodes which have no timers and are cleared just once a day. Just search for your preferred teammates and go.

If at all possible, I would highly recommend the team try to get the in game News button working as many players who aren't highly active on the socials seem frustrated and annoyed by some of the changes (particularly battery saver mode, which many find annoying to use and is defaulted on) made in the last update (I assume a large % of them don't read app update notes either, which as far as I can tell from my looking at the stores, don't detail everything that was changed this update at all and leave many parts out).

Being able to communicate to players in game has been missing as a function since July, so if you get it working in early March that'll be about 9 months without that ability to inform players what's going on, etc.