R144 Release Notes (1/15/18)

4* Pizza Dog would be the best anniversary character of all time (sorry, Howard).

JHawkInc said:

DrDevilDinosaur said:

Been thinking about the splash screen and the app icon. We've got Chavez, Nico, Nova, and Kate (and Pizza Dog). Nico and Chavez both ran away from their homes. I thought Nova might also fit, but it seems like it would be a bit of a stretch compared to those first two. However all of the characters are on "Teen" teams - Runaways, Young Avengers, Champions, etc.

So is our Justice or Vengeance character another teen? I tried looking through some of the recent lineups for those teams but didn't see anything that really stood out.

People have pointed to Vengeance = Ghost Rider.

Robbie Reyes is a teen Ghost Rider (and was the one on Agents of Shield, and was fairly frequently requested back then)

It's not just Vengeance, but Justice as well. Ghost Rider does not harm the ones that are not guilty. So he is pursuing either Justice, either Vengeance. The hint is perfect for him, and it seems reasonably fit to be a 5*.

The only thing that I doubt is that Reyes is more powerful than Blaze, so he would deserve the 5* ranking. (As we know by now, 5* in MPQ doesn't necessarily mean more powerful, but like Peter Parker is a more powerful Spiderman, I would expect the original Ghost Rider to be more powerful than his future and more recent incarnations - I don't know Reyes, so I do not know if this is the case). 

The current intro screen does imply that we could have a teen coming, so it could be Reyes. If so, just wish he would be a better Ghost Rider game-wise than the current 4* version. Ghost Rider is one of the better marvel characters, and it is ashame it has such a weak/niche version in MPQ. 

Also with the likes of mexican Hulk, mexican Chavez, and now a possibly mexican Ghost Rider, we should have an event named "Do not cross the border" between american and mexican heroes. Next they could go in the other direction towards Canada and just introduce Alpha Flight

Caprila said:

D4Ni13 said:

Also with the likes of mexican Hulk, mexican Chavez, and now a possibly mexican Ghost Rider, we should have an event named "Do not cross the border" between american and mexican heroes. Next they could go in the other direction towards Canada and just introduce Alpha Flight

Hulk is Korean and America is Puerto Rican. The only Mexican in the game is Nova.

My bad, than.. 

HoundofShadow said:

Previously, Kraven's abilities (without stat and without identifying that character as Kraven) was posted in a subforum. But I can't find any for this latest teaser. Did I miss out something? I remembered that new character are released every Thursday or on a certain day of the week. Is that practice still carried out?

New characters are normally released on a Thursday. As for the forum, there doesn't seem to be any consistant rule - sometimes we get a hint, sometimes we get an "Unknown Coming Soon" thread in the character section. On at least one release (Wasp, Black Bolt, Spider Woman) we got told straight out we were getting all 3 without any speculation/hints.

HoundofShadow said:

@DAZ0273

Thanks for the confirmation. The developers love to be unpredictable, which is a good thing. The next character should be released somewhere in mid Feb then. Could there be a link among vengeance, justice and Valentine's day for the next character?

I know the month is flying by for me, but the new character will release on 1/25, which isn’t quite mid Feb yet.

They don't necessarily do a 3* version of all 5*'s they release. While we are due for a 5* it would be nice if it was Blaze, just because the most current incarnation is Blaze in the current Spirits of Vengeance comic with Blade, Satana, and Hellstrom. 

HoundofShadow said:

I was under the impression that there's a new character release each month. And the character release around Christmas day was like a Christmas present. It seems like a lot of people are betting on Ghost Rider. If there is indeed a 3* version of Ghost Rider, his ability would be similar to 4* Ghost Rider. At least, it's what I gathered from comments on other characters that have any two versions from between 2* to 4* land. The common nickname are Lazy Thor, Lazy Elektra etc. Because they have similar power, except that the higher level ones have more damage.

The older 3* were before 5* existed and a few were lazy updates (although 3* Cap was a major improvement).

The trend with 5 & 3 releases began with Dr. Strange. His 3* version was so good (some feel better than the 5 on relative merits), they obviously caught the bug to release new 3's. Next was Thanos, and at first Thanos 3* version was terrible - he literally killed his team more than the enemy but fortunately they tweaked him and he is also great. So the new 3's were downpowered versions of the 5's (well except for Gambit black!) - the one real stand-out was Hawkeye who is very different from his 5* version. So if it happens expect similar with GR.

I would also accept this one, even though I don't think he's canonically related to the flaming skeleton ghost riders

There was definitely a horseman in the Ghost Racers Battleworld gimmick, but I didn't read it so i don't know what his deal is beyond maybe being a Centaur?