I agree but I don’t think that disabling everything is best.
It would probably be a lot of engineering work, but I would love it if all the banners and attack animations were just made asynchronous and allowed to play out in the top part of the screen above the game board. Have them show up but don’t make us wait for them to disappear before providing more input.
Skip all story/dialogue option would be just amazing… Im so sick of having to click that same button every time on like 2/3 of the nodes, I don’t care, I’m not reading these ever again just let us turn them off!!
Turning off character animations is one thing but perhaps they should also disable tile-swapping animations too, for powers that swap loads of tiles like Loki or Main Event Hulk. Tiles would just swap with no animation. In fact do that for all tile movement, even match damage. I’m sure everyone can keep track, and it’d speed things up!
Let’s take it further and disable character portraits, as they could be distracting. The “switching character” animations could just be a line of text above the board.
No need to have colourful health bars either really. Just numbers will do. Turn off all of those floating damage numbers too, no point to them. And the little animations when you match tiles, with “claw” or “blast” flashes? Get rid of them. I’m sure there are too many “flashes” and effects when a combo happens, too.
So basically what we have left is the board, with no animations whatsoever; a few lines of text above it with character names and HP… oh, get rid of the AP indicators too, that might as well be text… there, perfect. Super fast gameplay with no distractions, for ultra fast clears!
Said already, say it again… replay button with a counter for PVE. It’s so many clicks to start a match. It’s really a waste of time. Having to go through the story 4x is kinda silly.
I suspect the Devs don’t want the game to be faster. At least no without you paying. That was the idea behind supports. If they wanted it less tedious to players they would simply reduce the number of games needed in both PvE an PvP.
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This is a good point. QOL changes that make the game faster, reducing your time requirements…also reduce the pain point of the grind. Almost every game with microtransactions depends on your desire to fast forward progress/skip grinds and convincing you that just spending some money instead is a reasonable alternative. (Other than whales who want to go far beyond what is possible by playing, of course).
It is also a design goal on the part of game developers (especially ones that promote microtransactions/long term interaction to keep you around and expose you to purchasing options) to make you feel like you are doing “work” as that creates an investment on the part of the player and a commitment towards your progress. Time spent = Work, basically. Even my kid says he’s spent a lot of time “working” on a bunch of random games he has downloaded.
Additionally, the things you are asking for would most benefit players who have been playing for a long time and don’t need to be told what’s happening with all the banners etc, while newer players still benefit from that information. Spoiler alert! If you’ve been playing for so long that you know everything that is happening, you’re already addicted and the devs don’t have a ton of incentive to do something that only helps you play the game faster.
Final thought…in the PVEs (Simulator may be the only one) that bring in new characters, sometimes banners are helpful because you don’t know everything the characters do. Or you might forget about something someone does. etc.
I’m amazed at how competitive some people are. I like to minimize my grind as much as the next guy, but I refuse to disable animations, do away with story mode, or remove any of my features to shave a few seconds off my times. I came to have fun, watching Iceman sweep away the remaining enemy team with his green is a great joy.
I certainly hope if any of any of these changes are ever implemented they are simply a toggle. I want more from the game, not less.
I kind of wish the game would just end when it’s mathematically over. The game knows when it’s over, because it doesn’t let you retreat during a turn where the AI is going to down what’s left of your team. I understand it’d be super weird if the game just ended while your whole team is still alive because you don’t know that the RNG is about to wipe you out, but sometimes it just feels tedious to have to keep playing when there is literally no way for the game to continue beyond the next action.
I would just love to be able to use my whole roster for Deadpool Dailies. Why do I have to spend several minutes completing 3 matches with 1* or 2*. I know they did it initially to force you to roster those characters but the game has matured enough that it isn’t a factor in driving roster slots anymore. Allow me to use Thanos or my 5* to clear those 3 nodes really fast instead of grinding them with 2*. That would probably save me at least 5 minutes a day on this game. It is also a really easy fix compared to other suggestions. Every day I clear those nodes, it aggravates me that I could be clearing them significantly faster except for this artificial roster limitation.
I’d really love it if they changed the points reduction of playing Story nodes to 50% instead of the current 33%. One less play of each node in the final grind would be great, especially in the case of wave nodes. It would also fit nicely with the nodes only having 6 rewards, as it would be an easy indicator for me that the node is done rather than having to check ‘Ticked’ nodes to see if they are still worth points.
I compeletely agree with you. Just make those slowing things enable or disable.
There’s another thing could be set it. “Attack or Deffence hints in PvP”
