Power Changes Involving Team-Up Tiles (2/18/17)

Moon Roach wrote:

What I find telling about this entire thread, with nearly 100 posts and 5000 views is that Brigby's original post still has 0 up-votes.

Now that's just typical. Someone has gone and spoiled what was a very understated, nay unspoken, critique of the post.

As someone who uses Switch in a number of team combinations, this is a huge issue that makes her far less valuable. There are generally lots of team-up tiles on the board in the very nature of this game. Player's don't actively match them very often and the AI stops matching them once it has enough to fire its team up power. Therefore in many games, you have a higher number of team up tiles than you would normally predict using basic statistics based on how many should be on a random board. Did the developers factor this into their planning? Wouldn't just be easier to change the wording of the the power to say any non-special tiles instead of changing her power? Editing text would have been a whole lot easier and better for the game than editing a large list of powers and drastically impacting certain characters.

Also really unhappy with this change. I used Switch a couple of times this morning, and had 0 tiles change several times because (a) it got placed in the corner, (b) it got placed in the middle of TU Tiles, (c) it got placed into a blue match-3, or d (a+b) Didn't get any match 5s or even 4s. Her green also got nerfed by this change, so I have little use for her anymore.

The change to Cyclops' blue and red is also annoying, but less of a deal breaker. I used both of these countless times to get that 10th TU tile. I suggest if you are going to make one power dependent on having enough AP of another tile, to change that AP requirement so that it's not something the other powers can't target.

Changing these mid-season is also pretty freaking annoying.

/end rant

I think it is safe to say this is one of the worse changes made to MPQ in a long while. The developers need to reverse this mess before it destroys the game even more.

Silver Surfer's silver singularity is noticeably less effective now since sometimes the optimal placing of the black hole is on a Team-Up tile. Why nerf a 5 star that needs help staying relevant with his peers? I'm particularly affected since SS is my only champed 5 star and I use him frequently.

Punisher5784 wrote:

firethorne wrote:

deadtaco wrote:

Why was this explanation of a ghost change de-sticky-ed so quickly while the post regarding changes to the strange sights event that has already ended is still up?

Because players don't like it, and they want it to disappear rather than respond.

No, they simply unstickied the wrong post.. right.. right?

Doesn't look like it at this point. I don't think they want Brigby or anyone giving any further explanation about this.

deadtaco wrote:

Doesn't look like it at this point. I don't think they want Brigby or anyone giving any further explanation about this.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this will turn out to be a "Hey, everyone! So, this changed!"

*Crickets*

JablesMc wrote:

deadtaco wrote:

Doesn't look like it at this point. I don't think they want Brigby or anyone giving any further explanation about this.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this will turn out to be a "Hey, everyone! So, this changed!"

*Crickets*

dev meeting :

"So these character's abilities are not following exactly what their description says they will do. I found the code, it was an easy fix."

"Oh thank god. People are always on us about how we break things all the time, this will be an easy win! Put it out in production post-haste!"

"Should we let them know this change is coming?"

"Why?!? We are fixing the game, this show progress! They will love us for get a fix out there so fast!"

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Arphaxad wrote:

We need to make sure this doesn't go away until they fix this. Keep this article active.

Sad to say, that's never worked. The Galactus issue just drifted away. Boss Rush was met with mostly silence until we got bored of posting.

Eventually a mod will come here and tell us not to bump unless we have something to contribute. Eventually people will realise their contributions feel more like whining, even if they're valid, and they'll stop posting. The devs will never answer it, the feature will go along as normal and we'll all just sigh and never use the affected characters again.

This, too, shall pass.

True but to be fair, they specifically stated in the post "We will be monitoring this change to ensure that it doesn't create a negative impact on the game". Clearly this has a very negative impact on the players who play the game.

After using Beast today I feel confident in saying this change increases cascades in moves that cause random tile destruction. Fighting against Switch I didn't see any evidence that she is significantly less effective. I still feel that overall this is a positive change.