A humble request as the new engine is implemented

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ General Discussion
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Could some developer “accidentally” corrupt the code for the Honor Among Thieves event so it never ever ever runs again?

No one enjoys it. It sucks. It’s annoying to play and it always irks me that Nova is hanging out with monsters from another dimension in some weird alliance that makes no sense. Mindless Ones are basically just destruction incarnate and why would he be with them? It’s stupid.

Just get rid of this farking event.

To refer to another thread, give if the Stark treatment.

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As far as I understood, he‘s protecting some quantum lock gadget thingy and it‘s drawing in this monsters from hyper- and subspace and he just uses them as a 2nd line of defense, because tbh, that artifact seems pretty destructive in anyone‘s hand

But yeah, the event is a slug, mindless ones are the worst goons, 2nd place goes to the hand ninjas spawing all the attack tiles, 3rd is every A.I.M goon

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This will just leave more space to Meet Rocket & Groot whilst on The Hunt!

But seriously - if we do not get new PvE’s then this will have all been a big waste of time.

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I’m okay with Honor Among Thieves, I’d much rather have Strange Sights updated so that the nodes aren’t so close to each other anymore.

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From the dialog I got the impression Star Lord was working for the Nova Corps to retrieve the artifact. So Nova was just there to pick it up once Star Lord retrieved it. Then of course there is the double cross of Star Lord not giving it to him so they have to battle Nova + Mindless ones to escape so they can sell it to the highest bidder. In other words Nova isn’t just hanging out there at random and he is not allied with the Mindless ones.

If the new engine properly speeds up placement of SAPs + CDs then this event plus others with AIM goons etc won’t seem like such a slog.

KGB

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God, yes! The Deadpool Vs MPQ 2nd sub nodes too please, I understand they want to fit them on that globe but I got fat fingers

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I miss the era of unique PvEs. The current cookie-cutter format (24 or 48hr subs, one at a time, 24hr refresh, 3 easy, 3 hard, 4 essential) is boring.

We should have subs with 15 fights, or subs where every fight is medium, or overlapping subs, or random 8hr refreshes.

I’d also love to see them start putting supports on PvE enemies.

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@KGB said:

@Chrynos1989 said:
As far as I understood, he‘s protecting some quantum lock gadget thingy and it‘s drawing in this monsters from hyper- and subspace and he just uses them as a 2nd line of defense, because tbh, that artifact seems pretty destructive in anyone‘s hand

But yeah, the event is a slug, mindless ones are the worst goons, 2nd place goes to the hand ninjas spawing all the attack tiles, 3rd is every A.I.M goon

From the dialog I got the impression Star Lord was working for the Nova Corps to retrieve the artifact. So Nova was just there to pick it up once Star Lord retrieved it. Then of course there is the double cross of Star Lord not giving it to him so they have to battle Nova + Mindless ones to escape so they can sell it to the highest bidder. In other words Nova isn’t just hanging out there at random and he is not allied with the Mindless ones.

If the new engine properly speeds up placement of SAPs + CDs then this event plus others with AIM goons etc won’t seem like such a slog.

KGB

There’s dialogue? Next you’ll be telling me there are animations and sound!

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@Scofie said:

@KGB said:

@Chrynos1989 said:
As far as I understood, he‘s protecting some quantum lock gadget thingy and it‘s drawing in this monsters from hyper- and subspace and he just uses them as a 2nd line of defense, because tbh, that artifact seems pretty destructive in anyone‘s hand

But yeah, the event is a slug, mindless ones are the worst goons, 2nd place goes to the hand ninjas spawing all the attack tiles, 3rd is every A.I.M goon

From the dialog I got the impression Star Lord was working for the Nova Corps to retrieve the artifact. So Nova was just there to pick it up once Star Lord retrieved it. Then of course there is the double cross of Star Lord not giving it to him so they have to battle Nova + Mindless ones to escape so they can sell it to the highest bidder. In other words Nova isn’t just hanging out there at random and he is not allied with the Mindless ones.

If the new engine properly speeds up placement of SAPs + CDs then this event plus others with AIM goons etc won’t seem like such a slog.

KGB

There’s dialogue? Next you’ll be telling me there are animations and sound!

My fiancé started playing this game a while back, and she had her volume up. I was immediately transported back to 2013!! So many years since I had the sound on, and oh how I missed the thud sound of enemies dying.

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I almost always play with sound effects on. Dunno it’s just part of the experience for me, maybe ASMR like. The 45-ish second music loop I always keep turned off though.

If there’s anything I hope the new engine will bring it’s that we can disable screen flashing effects. There’s way too much of that (if you ever play in a dark place it’s super noticeable).

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I played some matches for my wife on her phone last week and she has the sound on and I was absolutely astonished to hear some of the sound effects that I have never ever heard. I can’t remember who it was now but there was one that was sort of funny. A lot of them are quite bleepy sounding. I’m still not turning the sound back on again.

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@Scofie said:

@KGB said:

@Chrynos1989 said:
As far as I understood, he‘s protecting some quantum lock gadget thingy and it‘s drawing in this monsters from hyper- and subspace and he just uses them as a 2nd line of defense, because tbh, that artifact seems pretty destructive in anyone‘s hand

But yeah, the event is a slug, mindless ones are the worst goons, 2nd place goes to the hand ninjas spawing all the attack tiles, 3rd is every A.I.M goon

From the dialog I got the impression Star Lord was working for the Nova Corps to retrieve the artifact. So Nova was just there to pick it up once Star Lord retrieved it. Then of course there is the double cross of Star Lord not giving it to him so they have to battle Nova + Mindless ones to escape so they can sell it to the highest bidder. In other words Nova isn’t just hanging out there at random and he is not allied with the Mindless ones.

If the new engine properly speeds up placement of SAPs + CDs then this event plus others with AIM goons etc won’t seem like such a slog.

KGB

There’s dialogue? Next you’ll be telling me there are animations and sound!

I wonder if the still do animations, since no one has them turned on, I bet the community wouldn’t even notice if they stopped

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@Chrynos1989 said:

@Scofie said:

@KGB said:

@Chrynos1989 said:
As far as I understood, he‘s protecting some quantum lock gadget thingy and it‘s drawing in this monsters from hyper- and subspace and he just uses them as a 2nd line of defense, because tbh, that artifact seems pretty destructive in anyone‘s hand

But yeah, the event is a slug, mindless ones are the worst goons, 2nd place goes to the hand ninjas spawing all the attack tiles, 3rd is every A.I.M goon

From the dialog I got the impression Star Lord was working for the Nova Corps to retrieve the artifact. So Nova was just there to pick it up once Star Lord retrieved it. Then of course there is the double cross of Star Lord not giving it to him so they have to battle Nova + Mindless ones to escape so they can sell it to the highest bidder. In other words Nova isn’t just hanging out there at random and he is not allied with the Mindless ones.

If the new engine properly speeds up placement of SAPs + CDs then this event plus others with AIM goons etc won’t seem like such a slog.

KGB

There’s dialogue? Next you’ll be telling me there are animations and sound!

I wonder if the still do animations, since no one has them turned on, I bet the community wouldn’t even notice if they stopped

I always play with animations on. Game is unbearable otherwise.

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@Chrynos1989 said:

@Scofie said:

@KGB said:

@Chrynos1989 said:
As far as I understood, he‘s protecting some quantum lock gadget thingy and it‘s drawing in this monsters from hyper- and subspace and he just uses them as a 2nd line of defense, because tbh, that artifact seems pretty destructive in anyone‘s hand

But yeah, the event is a slug, mindless ones are the worst goons, 2nd place goes to the hand ninjas spawing all the attack tiles, 3rd is every A.I.M goon

From the dialog I got the impression Star Lord was working for the Nova Corps to retrieve the artifact. So Nova was just there to pick it up once Star Lord retrieved it. Then of course there is the double cross of Star Lord not giving it to him so they have to battle Nova + Mindless ones to escape so they can sell it to the highest bidder. In other words Nova isn’t just hanging out there at random and he is not allied with the Mindless ones.

If the new engine properly speeds up placement of SAPs + CDs then this event plus others with AIM goons etc won’t seem like such a slog.

KGB

There’s dialogue? Next you’ll be telling me there are animations and sound!

I wonder if the still do animations, since no one has them turned on, I bet the community wouldn’t even notice if they stopped

I turn animations back on when new characters at released just to see what their new powers look like.

Many of the new animations do seem pretty phoned in though. Like standing in one place posing and not actually moving, second power that exact same animation but also there’s a barely noticeable lightning effect..

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@BriMan2222 said:

@Chrynos1989 said:

@Scofie said:

@KGB said:

@Chrynos1989 said:
As far as I understood, he‘s protecting some quantum lock gadget thingy and it‘s drawing in this monsters from hyper- and subspace and he just uses them as a 2nd line of defense, because tbh, that artifact seems pretty destructive in anyone‘s hand

But yeah, the event is a slug, mindless ones are the worst goons, 2nd place goes to the hand ninjas spawing all the attack tiles, 3rd is every A.I.M goon

From the dialog I got the impression Star Lord was working for the Nova Corps to retrieve the artifact. So Nova was just there to pick it up once Star Lord retrieved it. Then of course there is the double cross of Star Lord not giving it to him so they have to battle Nova + Mindless ones to escape so they can sell it to the highest bidder. In other words Nova isn’t just hanging out there at random and he is not allied with the Mindless ones.

If the new engine properly speeds up placement of SAPs + CDs then this event plus others with AIM goons etc won’t seem like such a slog.

KGB

There’s dialogue? Next you’ll be telling me there are animations and sound!

I wonder if the still do animations, since no one has them turned on, I bet the community wouldn’t even notice if they stopped

I turn animations back on when new characters at released just to see what their new powers look like.

Many of the new animations do seem pretty phoned in though. Like standing in one place posing and not actually moving, second power that exact same animation but also there’s a barely noticeable lightning effect..

This is the exact reason I don’t like comic books.

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@dianetics said:

@Chrynos1989 said:
I wonder if the still do animations, since no one has them turned on, I bet the community wouldn’t even notice if they stopped

There is atually a cool feature that was requested in a dev QA that got implemented.

Play effects once per match.

So the animation will play the first time every match it is triggered. I’ve had it on for a while and the game is a bit more enoyable.

Didn’t realize that, nice idea!