Dev Update #6 - MPQ Unity Launch Pt 3

PorkBelly

I’m on iOS. Is there any way to get rid of the bounce effect when you skip to a new PvP team? It’s very distracting.

JoeHandle

@PorkBelly said:
I’m on iOS. Is there any way to get rid of the bounce effect when you skip to a new PvP team? It’s very distracting.

A curious game. The only winning move is ...

Have you checked the steadicam permissions in settings?

bale_79

The game keeps closing. Can't get into pvp. Have to wait about 5 minutes to login in. This game is telling me to take a break.

Grantosium

I play on two devices. Generally my phone during the day and my tablet in the evening (both android).

The tablet is a super cheap one that was bought specifically to run MPQ and save a bit of phone battery. Even on the old engine the tablet would occasionally struggle when the AI fired a Polaris/MThor cascade but was generally fine. The positives I've discovered from having compared the new engine on both now are:

• The tablet shows off how much higher the resolution is than the old build. Occasionally an animation seems to play as it's intended and it inspires a bit of hope about how good the game could look if it ran smoothly.

• Having swapped back to my phone this morning the lag on the phone feels almost inconsequential in comparison to the experience on the tablet. Maybe it has actually gotten quicker with use but still feels like it's more likely I've had to lower my expectations a long way to even play on the tablet and it just seems better by comparison.

Incidentally, I don't know how many Fan Favourites tokens I've had. I'd guess it could be as many as 8 at this point. Expecting that rollback will be for people who've had 100s, maybe 1000s, of tokens but it still puts me in a position where I'm paranoid about being rolled back while also being a little worried that other players will get away with 99 tokens and no comeuppance. Not a great feeling.

itsuka7

So far, the most annoying bug(?) is that every time I open the game, even if I did not really close it but just went to another app for a moment, I have to a full Facebook login over several screens, which keeps giving me error messages saying I need to enable tracking. It then redirects to the mpq settings which do not contain any tracking setting I can adjust. I am on an ios ipad, latest ios version.

Is there a solution for that problem? I do not have those FB problems on my android phone.

I do get into my account, but the error message continues. I wish I could leave FB, but I play cross platform, so need a ‘neutral’ account backup

Philbert101

Didn’t get alliance rewards for Out of Time.
Sure hope the apology rewards are good. This is some B S. (Doesn’t stand for babysitter)
And I’m actually not intending to get extra Fqn Favorite tokens. The game is forcing them on me because the required character in the PvP is a fan favorite. (iron Man).
Don’t roll me back, yo!!!!!

DAZ0273

I am 100% certain that the levels of tokens you guys are getting are not what the Devs are talking about. You are not doing anything wrong as any reasonable person would deduce.

Philbert101

Ooooh jab. Nice.
Reasonable is a relative term.
Like,”Any reasonable person could deduce I was using sarcasm in that last comment.”
But I won’t say that because I’m being nice today.
Just pointing out that some players aren’t actually meaning to get extra tokens regardless of the amount they are getting.
How many is egregious? I personally have gotten at least 50 just playing. How many more will I get to hit the roll back point? Heck, I barely know what egregious means!!!!
(Sarcasm again)

DAZ0273

@Philbert101 said:
Ooooh jab. Nice.
Reasonable is a relative term.
Like,”Any reasonable person could deduce I was using sarcasm in that last comment.”
But I won’t say that because I’m being nice today.
Just pointing out that some players aren’t actually meaning to get extra tokens regardless of the amount they are getting.
How many is egregious? I personally have gotten at least 50 just playing. How many more will I get to hit the roll back point? Heck, I barely know what egregious means!!!!
(Sarcasm again)

Actually in terms of the law (which I am not getting into) "Reasonable" is an objective criteria, not a subjective one. By that I mean it is not what you as an individual find reasonable but what a majority of people if so asked would find reasonable.

In this case I think it is a lot easier - if you are just playing and receiving tokens you weren't expecting then that seems fair use. If however you are looting tokens from the Devs broken window on multiple repeat again and again and again that might be seen as being unreasonable.

Anyway - we now have a clear idea of what the Devs feel is reasonable.

Philbert101

Sounds reasonable. I appreciate the information.
Thanks again for responding, like I said previously. And you aren’t “just another person” on the forums. You are Chairman of the Board.
And no sarcasm here, I love your stories. Keep it up.

DAZ0273

@Philbert101 said:
Sounds reasonable. I appreciate the information.
Thanks again for responding, like I said previously. And you aren’t “just another person” on the forums. You are Chairman of the Board.
And no sarcasm here, I love your stories. Keep it up.

Anybody can be "Chairman of the Board", it is just a matter of how many posts you make on the forum and I waste too much of everybody's time posting nonsense and pictures of squirrels. Anyway, I hope they can sort out those issues for you - I managed to play one complete match of PvP yesterday, so obviously this thing is fixed already!

Philbert101

No sarcasm. IM just a regular guy on the forums. You are an important member of the MPQ community. Your stuff has me cracking up all the time. Like I said. Thanks for responding. Keep up the good stuff.

bluewolf

@DAZ0273 said:

@Philbert101 said:
Sounds reasonable. I appreciate the information.
Thanks again for responding, like I said previously. And you aren’t “just another person” on the forums. You are Chairman of the Board.
And no sarcasm here, I love your stories. Keep it up.

Anybody can be "Chairman of the Board", it is just a matter of how many posts you make on the forum and I waste too much of everybody's time posting nonsense and pictures of squirrels. Anyway, I hope they can sort out those issues for you - I managed to play one complete match of PvP yesterday, so obviously this thing is fixed already!

Shhhh you werent supposed to tell them that.

DAZ0273

@bluewolf said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@Philbert101 said:
Sounds reasonable. I appreciate the information.
Thanks again for responding, like I said previously. And you aren’t “just another person” on the forums. You are Chairman of the Board.
And no sarcasm here, I love your stories. Keep it up.

Anybody can be "Chairman of the Board", it is just a matter of how many posts you make on the forum and I waste too much of everybody's time posting nonsense and pictures of squirrels. Anyway, I hope they can sort out those issues for you >! - I managed to play one complete match of PvP yesterday, so obviously this thing is fixed already!>!

Shhhh you werent supposed to tell them that.

Nothing to see here!

Blazpheme

I am seeing a lot of the same stuff others have reported, but I actually have 2 strange things happen that I have not seen...

The ugly one (kind of a big deal): I had opened a couple of Latest Legends tokens and the second was a 5-star Winter Soldier cover. Then, staying on the menu, I scrolled up to purchase a token pull from the Winter In July and pulled a 5-star Iceman yellow cover.

I went to my roster to look at the covers, saw the Iceman one could only be "Saved" since he is not champed, and his yellow is already maxed at 5. So I turned my attention to the Winter Soldier cover that allowed me to train him to 13 covers, then I promptly level him up and paid the fee to champ him. When I returned to my roster, the Iceman cover was gone. Just vanished without a trace.

It didn't get saved, because it says 0/3. It didn't get added, because his yellow was already maxed and he cannot be iso'ed up. The CP spent on the pull was also gone because there was less than 10 available.

I kept playing, thinking he might pop up after a few rounds. No.
I force quit, cleared the cache, and restarted. No.
Just gone. And probably nothing I can do about it but grumble here and move on.

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The goofy one (not a big deal): Ever since I bought my current table, I have had it set up on my desk area with the power cord coming out of the top side of the tablet (which is really the bottom of the tablet, but the game allowed me to rotate the screen to play in either direction).

Once I downloaded the update and launched the new version, the app will no longer rotate, and now I can only play with the cord coming out of the bottom of the tablet.

Obviously, this is not an actual bug that prevents me from enjoying the game, but it was my first impression of the new engine. Starting the game as I've done countless times, but seeing the logo upside-down was like whatthefudge, that's weird.

I even checked some other apps on my tablet, and they all rotate just fine. So maybe it is something to do with that missing android button, or that pesky build number in the corner, but the game now refuses to budge in any other direction, when it previously didn't care which way was up.

At the very least, I can declare that the new engine is more anal-retentive than the previous engine.

Anyone else see anything similar?

KGB

Something else I noticed last night when doing my PvE clears.

When you are playing with SAP users (Polaris and company) the board 'flashes' the SAP tiles to a large size every time they are included in a calculation. So your turn starts and all your SAPs flash large because of Polaris passive. Then when you make a match that includes an SAP, all your strike tiles flash large size twice (once for Polaris passive doing damage then from match 3 damage) followed by more flashing if you get a cascade and so on. On defense it's the reverse with protect tiles flashing large as part of the defense. It's very annoying (even worse if the other team has SAPs too) and not much different from the old 'board flash on every move'.

There are way more pressing bugs but once those get dealt with this one needs to get fixed big time.

KGB

Grantosium

I noticed the SAP graphic too. Sure it's only started in last few hours. I don't hate it... Yet. Perhaps it needs an on/off button jn settings?

The fact that it works at all seems to indicate that the game is performing better than yesterday.

On my phone, if not on my tablet, despite the remaining problems the overall performance does seem to be tending towards acceptable at a reasonable rate. Not sure if this is because the performance is getting better or my expectations are getting lower.

firethorne

If the devs aren't aware, the reddit community is building a running list of issues they've found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelPuzzleQuest/s/HD3tCyV4sA

scottee

Logged into the game this morning and it's somehow more laggy than yesterday. There's a delay every single time I move a tile. It's like the game has to ping the server to calculate how much damage a match makes. Every. Single. Move.

Honestly, whichever upper manager demanded they push out this update before it was ready should be fired. Been playing since the 1st year the game was out. Ready to leave if this isn't fixed, because it's unplayable.

BriMan2222

In addition to shields not displaying properly in pvp it also no longer gives the warning that you are about to break your shield if you click on fight. So, if you accidentally graze the fight button with your finger when you weren't actually ready to go into the fight, too bad. Learned that one the hard way this morning.