Villain/Hero rotation in PvE events

Nonce Equitaur 2
Nonce Equitaur 2 Posts: 2,269 Chairperson of the Boards
edited April 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
Most new character rewards involve the following events.

PvE Story events
Unstable ISO-8
The Hunt
The Hulk
Thick as Thieves
ISO-8 Brotherhood
Prodigal Sun
Deadpool VS MPQ
Enemy of the State
Meet Rocket & Groot

PvE Non-story events
The Gauntlet
The Simulator

The Non-story events usually have interesting teams. But they almost never get the big rewards.

The Story events have a major problem -- endless grind on the same villains.
Juggernaut, Venom, Yelena, Daken, Bullseye, Ragnarok, Moonstone -- over and over and over.
Each node needs to be done over and over in order to win. Bullseye, Rags, and Moonstone got big health bumps.

Villains not used enough in PvE events:
Doctor Doom, Doctor Octopus, Loki, Magneto, Mystique, Quicksilver, Sentry, Hood

Heroes not used enough in PvE events -- All of them.

It's time to abandon using particular villains on particular node. Perhaps it could be an option in the next Event, when Unstable ISO-8 runs again.
OPTION 1: Nodes primarily Juggernaut, Venom, Yelena, Daken, Bullseye, Moonstone, Maggia, Hammer
OPTION 2: Nodes more like the Simulator. Much larger pool of possible opponents.

Here's what they could be called:
Simulator Unstable ISO-8
Simulator: The Hunt
Simulator: The Hulk
Simulator: Thick as Thieves
Simulator: ISO-8 Brotherhood

That should be easy to implement, and would remove a lot of the grindiness of current events.

We could also use some new PvE events, but those would be harder to implement.

Comments

  • FaustianDeal
    FaustianDeal Posts: 760 Critical Contributor
    Concept could be Professor X running simulations of different battles we have faced using the Danger Room...
    Can look the same but make key swaps... (Colossus --> Juggs for example)...

    could definitely be cool..
  • Nonce Equitaur 2
    Nonce Equitaur 2 Posts: 2,269 Chairperson of the Boards
    FaustianDeal wrote:
    Concept could be Professor X running simulations of different battles we have faced using the Danger Room...
    Can look the same but make key swaps... (Colossus --> Juggs for example)...

    could definitely be cool..

    Yes, exactly. Just something slightly different, so that the PvE events will play out differently, even though the story parts would be identical.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    On the Ares node in The Hunt, the blurb before the mission reads something like: "Norman Osborne has recruited Ares... the God of War". I always thought there was supposed to be a 'for 100 iso 8 and some tacos' that comes after it since it seems like it was so easy to recruit the God of War. I mean, he doesn't even have an introduction and he's just there. So why can't additional villians or even have heroes switch sides for cheap too?
  • snlf25
    snlf25 Posts: 947 Critical Contributor
    Been a good long while since we've seen new villians. I'd like a complete moratorium on Daken/bullseye/juggy/moonstone/ares/whoever I missed for at least several months.
  • Pylgrim
    Pylgrim Posts: 2,332 Chairperson of the Boards
    Hell, I've been saying this for a while. In Thick as Thieves there is ONE node where you have to face Iron man and Magneto. Turns out they are Skrulls! Such a convenient flavourful way of allowing you to fight against heroes even in villain-themed stories. It is so silly that they never brought them up again.
  • FaustianDeal
    FaustianDeal Posts: 760 Critical Contributor
    Phantron wrote:
    [...]"Norman Osborne has recruited Ares... the God of War". [...] 'for 100 iso 8 and some tacos' [...]

    Norman made a run for the border, hooked Ares up with fourth meal, and it was on!
  • Nonce Equitaur 2
    Nonce Equitaur 2 Posts: 2,269 Chairperson of the Boards
    Pylgrim wrote:
    Hell, I've been saying this for a while. In Thick as Thieves there is ONE node where you have to face Iron man and Magneto. Turns out they are Skrulls! Such a convenient flavourful way of allowing you to fight against heroes even in villain-themed stories. It is so silly that they never brought them up again.

    I really like that. They just need to combine their idea there with their events.

    New PvE Story events
    Skrull Unstable ISO-8
    Skrull The Hunt
    Skrull The Hulk
    Skrull Thick as Thieves
    Skrull ISO-8 Brotherhood
    Skrull Prodigal Sun
    Skrull Deadpool VS MPQ
    Skrull Enemy of the State
    Skrull Meet Rocket & Groot

    The story might be stale, but people that have done the events multiple times usually skip the story. 95% of the game is the fights, so these would feel like new events. At least I wouldn't need to fight Bullseye Moonstone Daken a hundred times in a row.
  • elvy75
    elvy75 Posts: 225 Tile Toppler
    The Skrull Empire approves this !!!

    But honestly rotation would be more than welcome. Whenever 'new' pve comes we all know what to expect. It would be nice to be surprised and see something else for a change.
  • ShadowX1984
    ShadowX1984 Posts: 59
    Totally agree with all of this. They rotate the featured/buffed characters the players use each time they re-run a PVE, which makes no sense if you're following the storyline (how does it make sense to play "Deadpool vs MPQ" without Deadpool as a featured charcter, for example). So really they could just sub in different villains with no explanation whatsoever.
  • Nonce Equitaur 2
    Nonce Equitaur 2 Posts: 2,269 Chairperson of the Boards
    ShadowX1984 wrote:
    So really they could just sub in different villains with no explanation whatsoever.

    To appease the Marvel Overlords, D3 would probably need to use at least a token sentence or two. Lots of Skrull images with slight color variations would help. Changing a few frames of the story would be fun. But it would otherwise be identical, except for the fights not being Daken, Bullseye, Moonstone, Yelena, Rags, Venom, Juggs.
  • ZommyGD
    ZommyGD Posts: 79 Match Maker
    Bump
    This is a good idea!

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