With the 4th anniversary of Marvel Puzzle Quest fast approaching, we’re bringing back the annual Anniversary sale, introducing a new Rogue Cover Store sale, as well as giving the X-Men their long-awaited X-Men Affiliation tags!
Anniversary Sale
(Disclaimer: We are aware of some players not being able to see this sale, and the team is currently investigating this issue. Thank you for your patience and understanding.)
The Anniversary Sale is back, and players are once again able to get increased resources when you make any Iso-8 or Hero Points purchase!
Rogue Cover Store Sale
With the release of Rogue, we wanted to try something new with the way players can obtain her in the Hearts of Darkness store.
Instead of the usual dedicated store with increased odds, we’ve decided to apply a discount across the 10x and 40x purchases in the store, reducing it by 500 HP and 4,000 HP, respectively. On top of this, the Daily Deal discount stacks with this special Rogue Cover Store Sale, for an even bigger reduction!
1x Pack: 400 HP (200 Daily Deal)
10x Pack: 4,000 HP → 3,500 HP (3,300 Daily Deal)
40x Pack: 16,000 HP → 12,000 HP (11,800 Daily Deal) X-Men Affiliations
Following tomorrow’s next week’s daily patch, the following X-Men will receive the X-Men Affiliation tag in their bio:
Update: Unfortunately this affiliation tag will no longer be in tomorrow’s daily patch, however it is anticipated to be added in one of next week’s patches. In addition, it will also include Iceman and Mystique, as well.
Would someone good at stats please demonstrate how double-plus ungood this actually is? My gut feel is that it disadvantages those who don’t have a heap of HP or a willingness to buy more HP.
I’ll happily admit that I’m wrong if that is not the case.
I think we need a Mutant tag as well. Gonna really show my age but the logic for mutants is already there because of the old “Target Lock +20% damage to Mutants” Boost I still have laying around in my inventory. I would then love to see a Sentinel character added that does something extra to Mutants.
Am i missing something? Or instead of a dedicated store with a 2-3% drop rate for rogue, you are offering a 12.5% (or 25% for 4packs) discount on hearts of darkness tokens with a 0.1% rogue drop rate. IF, of course, we buy 10x or 40x packs?
And you are adverising this change as a positive?! That’s pretty shamless d3.
Also, the pack odds splash page is still useless. To figure out rogue’s drop rate i need to
(1) figure out the odds of a 4* drop based on the vague ~1:17.
(2) manually count the number of available 4s (i think it’s 53)
(3) remember from earlier forum posts by d3 that the current 12 4s consume 1/2 of the 4* drop rate.
(4) distribute the remaining drop rate amongst the other 41 4* (which is about 0.07%!)
With the old screen we just had a list of each character with the drop rate for that specific character. How is this new screen better!? (And i have been saying this on the forums and to brigby since last winter!).
Still, she’s been a member of the X-Men (such as in Mike Carey’s run) and X-Factor. She’s a complicated character that quite often has acted for what she feels is the benefit of mutants (or at least her children/adopted children). I’d say she is no less an X-Men alumnus than Magneto or Emma Frost if she ever joins the MPQ roster.
Speaking of X-Factor, a case could be made for Quicksilver, but they’ve gone to great lengths at this point to un-mutant SW and QS in the comics, so they’ll probabl;y just stick with the Avengers affiliation.
I am okay with leaving Mystique off based on the principle of 2* Magneto counting but not 3* Magneto. I mean, Juggernaut was an X-Man for a bit too and not even is a mutant.
The way it reads makes me feel like there should have been a single Rogue cover store that used tokens from both Hearts of Darkness and her PVP combined rather than individual event stores. Isn’t it imazing that my dreams haven’t been crushed so much that I was able to hope for such a thing?
Presumably this version of Mystique is the classic “villain” Mystique. As with the two versions of Magneto, one class bad Mags and one new good(ish) Mags.
Although I think it’s not a stretch to say “it’s complicated” when Mystique’s affiliations are involved.
That said, a Mutant Brotherhood affiliation wouldn’t be amiss, either.
@ProfessorGumby That’s a good question! I’ll ask the developers. It’s possible it might have just been a simple oversight, and can be quickly corrected, however I’ll double check with them and update everyone with their response.
There’s probably just an overall delay so they can update his artwork too so he won’t look like a child molester. Then the X-Men won’t be so uncomfortable with the affiliation.
Update: Unfortunately this affiliation tag will no longer be in tomorrow’s daily patch, however it is anticipated to be added in one of next week’s patches. In addition, it will also include Iceman and Mystique, as well.
Juggernaut will definitely be added to the list as well, however we’re not too certain about Cloak and Dagger. To my knowledge, they were only on the Dark X-Men team, not the X-Men.
Also, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are considered part of the MCU, so they will not be included in the X-Men Affiliation tag.
Aesth, obviously anyone who thinks through their mpq purchases will take a pass on the deal. My post was intended to:
(1) critique the shamelessness and foolishness of hyping such an obviously terrible deal; and
(2) highlight the continued absurdity and borderline predatory design of the odds splash page, which for months has offered a confusing and usless jumble of information at best, and is outright deceptive at worst. And this after replacing a simple, comprehensive list of relevant data.
Cloak and Dagger were revealed to be traitors to the Dark X-Men and actually working for Cyclops and the X-Men (along with Emma and Namor) to STOP Osborn. They also appeared frequently in Utopia.