I wasn’t as big a fan of the Feb Q&A as I was of the Jan Q&A. When I watch the videos, I’d like to get insight into the game, understand why things are the way they are, and possibly be able to play better. As you can see above, a lot of the forum’s popular questions went unanswered, while some of the not so popular questions got answered (no offense to those posters asking those questions). How about for March Q&A, we just ask the same popular questions from the Feb Q&A that went unanswered?
My thoughts on Feb Q&A.
-Deadpool’s daily quest is great, so I’m glad they did address it in the questions about the non-competitive PVE, 4-star transition for more ISO, and fix for roster slot prices. I can buy into the first 2 questions, but don’t think that it really does anything to help the roster slot prices issue.
-Nice to see they have already planned a visible Shield cooldown timer and them explain that tile generation is completely random, except for the missions in Ch 1 where there are no team up tiles, and red is more abundant for IM35’s red.
-Artwork questions/answers were nice, but they take time away from gameplay questions that could be answered.
-Multiple versions question/answer was nice.
-“What are your favorite MPQ teams to play as?”, nice to hear that Will goes back to the start to get the beginner’s POV, meaning he is focusing on existing players as well as newcomers. Good sign for the health of the game. Miles is a fan of winfinite. Jae is obviously in 2* land with an LThor, unless he meant Thor 2, good thing DP DQ is around, otherwise, you’d be stuck in 2* land for a while. I feel bad for Casey, if Patch and DD is his team. But reinforces they earn their covers, otherwise, he’d use Patch and Doom or SheHulk for her red after BR.
Thanks Luke. I’m pretty sad they didn’t even address my question. A simple “we’re still trying to figure it out” kind of thing would have been better than ignoring it.
They didn’t have to even tell us what they are considering just that it was on their radar. They’ve acknowledged that the roaster slots were an issue… Still haven’t done anything about it. How is this different unless they don’t think it is an issue?
They did a pretty good tap-dance this month, “answering” questions already addressed in the interim with the daily content. This sort of goes against the spirit of a Q&A session, and they could have summed up a lot of the issues they addressed with far less exposition and moved onto things that are still outstanding that people have been asking about for quite some time. The art stuff was pure filler, and I felt bad for the guy they trotted out there to talk about it because he looked pretty uncomfortable. One little tease about some stuff that’s coming that they’re not ready to talk about was about all we got, and that’s not much for a nearly 20 minute video. Format is still a good idea, and the first one was pretty interesting, but not a super awesome job this month. Better luck next time.
This was fun to read thanks. I made a post about the slot princess getting ridiculous a few months ago I think when sentry first came out. Anyways I got criticized badly from the community saying things like “that’s how the devs can keep the game free”, “they have to make money some how”, “they’re not that expensive” and other negative comments. Now everyone seems to have come to the conclusion that they are expensive and that it’s hard to keep up with the new characters. The devs have already admitted that they need to be fixed but instead they keep introducing new characters and forcing us to buy the overpriced roster slots, so my question is no longer. When will you fix the slot prices? but will you stop the release of new characters until you fix the slot prices or until you come to a final decision for the slot prices?
My answered question about favorite MPQ teams was a sneaky attempt to figure out each devs’ familiarity and competitive level in the game. Mission accomplished!
the way i heard it they said they answered three issues - 2-3* transition, iso shortage AND roster slots all with dpd and increased daily rewards. period. i think they think theyre done.
now well have to see how high roster slot prices get before they outstrip hp gains. im “only” at 700 hp per slot as of now and ive got almost enough for two slots, iron fist and hopefully lazy daken. lets hope for lots of tasty tacos, at least one of those 1000HP bad boys.
I was the one who asked the question, so obviously I thought it was worthwhile. The reasonable assumption is that tiles are created randomly, but having them officially confirm that helps to prevent conspiracy theories. I personally knew that it was random, but couldn’t rule out the possibility that it was be weighted in some way so they could tweak things now and then to change the chance of cascades for different events.
Their answer actually revealed something that I previously did not know about the inner workings of the game. That is, the early levels are weighted towards red tiles. This gives me hope that they may someday use that capability to create new game modes. Some examples from my old suggestion:
Maybe have colour challenges like cast Escape Plan on a board with no purple.
Or keep Daken alive with no blue.
Or opponents are A.Wolverine and Rocket+Groot, on a board with 50% higher chance of yellow.
Not to put a damper on your enthusiasm about them “officially” addressing this, but let me ask you a question. Let’s just say, hypothetically, that you’re one of the developers and you’ve rigged the generation of tiles in some manner for some purpose. Are you going to spontaneously confesses this during a Q&A session where you handpicked the questions? Or would you respond with a dismissive answer blaming random generation and confirmation bias?
I think that hypothetical developer would find it easier to just ignore the question altogether (especially since it only got a few upvotes) and leave it to the reasonable forum posters to continue to assure everyone that cascades are truly random.
The devs may sometimes give unconvincing reasons for some of the changes they make, but I have never seen them lie about the mechanics of how the game works.
Because you would know if they were lying about game mechanics? How exactly? I’m not accusing them of anything, and it’s nice that you believe them at their word, but their solemn oath that there’s nothing hinky going on behind the scenes constitutes approximately the same level of proof as a playground pinky swear.
They’ve said before that tile generation is truly random.
Lots of RNG in this game, and the human mind is notorious for being bad at accurately tracking random results, so I doubt this question will ever really be put to rest, despite multiple assurances by the devs that tile generation is random. There’s no financial or gameplay reason to cheat players via altered RNG.
Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they’re not after you.
And again, I’m not accusing the developers of anything. I just don’t see how them saying “we swear, it’s totally random” would convince anyone to alter their belief one way or another. It isn’t proof of anything, and if you were inclined to think the game was cheating you already there’s no reason to think they wouldn’t also lie about it. I don’t personally subscribe to this line of thinking, mind you. Just disputing the notion that this somehow totally debunks the conspiracy theory.
It was so ridiculously dumb to ask (and upvote in such amounts) about the upcoming Daily quest thing. We knew it was coming, that it was imminent, and hell, we almost had all the particulars about it. Just needed to wait a little bit more. But nooo, let’s waste a question and dozens of upvotes only to get an outdated answer that ended eating almost half of the allotted time of the video. Next time can we not ask about rumoured things, so the questions about real concerns or complete unknown stuff will get their chance in the sun?
I actually meant my 4* transition question. Ya know, the first most up voted question that wasn’t answered… Just seems silly to ask for feedback and then ignore it to fit your needs.
I used the hp roster slot thing as an example because they at least sort of acknowledge it as an issue but have gone silent on how anyone except people who have xf/4hor, are supposed to get any more 4s to complete with said 4 rosters. PvP is ugly if you don’t have them already and they keep putting a growing rotation of 4*s into the mix to delay getting any more. It creates an unhealthy divide in the game that they should be thinking about before people give up. I’ve almost entirely stopped playing PvP BC of this issue.
