The Marvel Games Panel just concluded at San Diego Comic-Con and Marvel Puzzle Quest was one of the featured games during the panel. During the panel the following information was revealed to attendees.
Deadpool is coming to Marvel Puzzle Quest! Starting on August 1st in the upcoming Episode titled Deadpool vs. Marvel Puzzle Quest, Deadpool will star in his very own episode and be available for player’s roster at the conclusion of the event.
A new gameplay feature to be introduced on July 29th called Team-Up. Team-Up brings heroes into battle that aren’t in your roster. It will add huge amounts of tactical flexibility for players looking to take down their opponents by providing a larger selection of Marvel characters for their squad.
And finally, the Dark Reign subtitle of the game has been removed as the game in the coming months will be branching into other realms in the Marvel Universe.
For people curious about team-ups, there is a slight preview at around the 30 second mark of the trailer.
It seems like you equip a team-up ability at the same time you select boosts. I assume what’s shown is that each team costs 5AP, but it’s not particularly clear…it could be like boosts in that you have a limited amount of them and there were 5 left. shrug
(Also…not sure how I feel about the ALL CAPS threads…)
So if I pay “X” amount of HP then I’ll be able to borrow a character for my team for a match? Or do I collect team-ups similar to boosts with an option to purchase more with HP when I run out?
You can only borrow 1 skill, not a full character set.
There is no buy option in the video or patch notes - not to say there won’t be that option when run out though.
They drop randomly “when defeating non-minion characters” - not sure if mid-fight, or just mean after any match with a hero/villain in.
Unlike boosts, enemy teams will be able to use Team-Ups too.
So most likely you choose which hero/power to bring in on boost screen. Then I would assume if you have gained enough ap from breaking the team up tiles the power will self activate when a certain trigger is hit. Enemy reaches certain health lvl, certain power is activated, etc etc
I’m not too surprised about the hasty end of Dark Reign.
Surely by now, the Dark Reign story has drawn in all the new blood that its going to, and the game sorely needs greener pastures to attract a new audience.
So, I’m guessing that the MPQ team gets to finish what is currently in the pipe and then will align with the other games to focus on GotG (not that this is bad in any way). Deadpool has been announced for next week, then followed by Episode 5 as the next new content after that to close up Dark Reign (with Iron Patriot as the “final boss” of the story, as IceIX previous said that he was in the works), and then moving onto Guardians of the Galaxy.
I’m not sure how the Deadpool Narwhal is going to work.
Somehow I’m afraid that Deadpool will be a bigger joke character than Bagman.
20 Yellow AP
Aquatic Assault
Deadpool summons Deadwhale, Deaddolphin, Deadorca, and Deadnarwhal to flood the battlefield giving both teams 30 AP in Blue.
It looks like this team up thing is a lot like Furys yellow. I sure hope it is. ( unless the team up power being used in the video IS Furys yellow). If so, a lot of players will enjoy it. I know Furys yellow is one of my favorite powers in the game. Of course had I known it was going to be availbe for everyone, just in a different form, then I would not have busted my @$$ so much to get the yellow covers from season 3. Well, actually, yes, i would have. I am far too addicted to this game.
We will just have to wait and see to know for sure.
At the pace they were going, it would have been a LONG time before we even reached that point. We barely touched on any of the broader scope of Dark Reign with the mediocre storytelling and replays of previous events. We are still missing two characters who form the Cabal to begin with. God forbid we actually reached a story in where the Cabal start self-destructing and plotting against each other.
Edit: Also, for anyone that’s interested in catching up on the Dark Reign story, Siege, Civil War, Secret Invasion, AvX, and Infinity, you can get a month of Marvel Unlimited for $0.99 with code SDCC14 this weekend only.
Get on it.
So this “exciting” feature is Deadpool? Cause I dont think another kind of boosts or removing “Dark Reign” is something special (playing 4 months, saw one new episode…). Deadpool was waiting for this Comic Con, all those nerds who can start fapping, trying and spending money on this game cause there will be puny Deadpool (hes not Patch after all
).
About caps…
Nobody likes it when you type in all caps. Just sayin’.
I was talking about this with my alliance. Assuming team-up tiles work like enviro tiles than bullseyes black power will break the game. I have to assume D3 has thought of this or the mechanic is limited in some way but I’ll spell it out in full just in case this is an oversight.
Critical tiles matched with a enviro tile typically nets you about 45ish AP.
This translates to 2 or more castings of most powers
If team-up tiles work the same way then expect the following…
Establish enough teamup to use bullseye black
Use the power to create 2 crit tiles and match team up for multiple re-castings of that skill
Continually cast the skill in this manor creating a near infinite lockdown of crazy damage much like Mags blue but even more reliable.
Everyone complains on the forums because this was a gross oversight and it ruins the game
So yeah…don’t let this happen. Assuming it’s even possible to begin with.
