Just had an idea in the name of speed and efficiency!
I’ve played this game for 600 days straight. I mostly play PVE but I do take part in some of the more prestigious PVP events as well. So going on 2 years of play time I KNOW that, Daken makes
Bullseye makes
… I know Doc oc does his crazy stuff with special tiles… Ironfist makes fisting tiles at the start of every turn. Same with Luke cage’s shield tile… blades
creation etc etc the list goes on!
My issue is if you get a green match then cascade to maybe 1 or 2 other green matches your watching 30 seconds of dakens
animation. First you get the purple name banner…then the tile animation. Same will Bullseye and his
passive. There are so many characters that have these long animations that really add unnecessary length to matches. ESPECIALLY when you’re grinding those PVE nodes down to 1
I would LOVE to see a toggle option in the settings menu to allow for fast animation. Playing this game for 2 years straight I feel I know what every character does (at least all of the SAME FREAKING 4 or 5 PVE villians we have to fight every SINGLE event…). Having the animation go 3 or 4 times faster would be a HUGE improvement to the game!!! Faster gameplay always helps, but for when new characters come in we can always switch fast animation off until we get comfortable again!
Thoughts?
TL;DR allow an option in settings for fast animation to speed up gameplay!
I absolutely agree. I was just thinking of how much time this adds to each and every match. Add a few seconds to each turn …makes an extra minute or 2 per match … Multiply that by 10 nodes each run in pve…
I’m no whale, but I would really be willing to pay for a Fast Animation Option if they make it a purchasable add-in. I feel like it would be worth 10$ to me.
For PVP maybe… But not so much for PVE. There’s only so many points you can get. Once your nodes are down to less than 100 points per win you’re not going to get any significant placement gains. especially seeing how getting your node down to 1 faster than the next person doesn’t have an advantage. And besides there are a few way more unfair advantages already in place that effect competitive balance.
one being the powered up characters. If you don’t have the powered up characters you’re not going to have a good time in the nodes.
Second and most significant is the required character nodes. if you have only 1 of the required characters of the 3 needed… you are way way behind the 8 ball. You will most likely not get anywhere near top leaderboards. Other people who have the three chars are going to get all the juicy points from those nodes
But if everyone has the option to turn on/off fast animation, then no one is at a disadvantage.
The only players watching the full animation will be new players and maybe vets watching new character abilities every once in a while. And, I think vets in every game should have an advantage due to experience. That’s a more deserving than some of the other advantages out there.
Agree that this sounds like a fantastic idea. Suspect that D3Go won’t do it because it’s surely part of the design that Carnage’s main use in defence is that he discourages attackers because his animations take SO LONG to play through…
Oh yes for PVE. If i turn off my animations and take 2 hours for the final grind in a sub while you take 3 with animations on, that allows my nodes to reload an hour more and I’ll come up on top every time.
Oh dear God, I never enjoyed the extended animations, which is sad, because some of them are truly quite well done (perils of everything being time-based and competitive), but never really hated them until Carnage.
For the love of all that’s holy, a loaner lode with Goons should not take the better part of an hour… lol
What annoys me most is that they’ve shown they can implement abilities that go off quickly. It just doesn’t seem to be a priority, for whatever reason.
Interesting fact: YOUR DEVICE IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THIS PROBLEM!
Fun Fact: 2 years ago my 1st generation iPad could still run MPQ, and I started a 2nd profile on it when I was down on health packs and too addicted to this game. It was absolutely insane how much slower it was compared to my iPhone 4s! Then when I upgraded to my iPhone 6 it was just as stark of a difference.
If you want a Fast Animation Option, upgrade your device.
As far as turning off the animations, (ignoring the balancing issue it would cause in the Meta-game), what would make the game “MARVEL” Puzzle Quest anymore?
Maybe you feel like you’re living the high life after playing on a crappy tablet, but most of us have only played on modern devices and still find the repeated animations to be a problem.
I’d say my biggest complaint would be in PVE against Pyro minions. I have no idea why their countdowns take so long to finish the animation. What is it, 1,5 second burn noise, then an empty delay of 2-3 seconds before the damage and tile destruction actually takes effect? The power animations are typically fine, barring the attack tile bug some time back.
