What's New MPQ: April 2023 (Updated 4/12/23)

@Bowgentle said:
So no official statements regarding the upcoming gaps in the schedule after two days back in the office?
Impressive lack of communication.

To be fair S0kun did comment briefly about their scheduling snafu and said to watch for the update to this thread for any updates to the schedule and the most recent one that shows the rest of the events for this month don’t show any more off days at least for the rest of this month.

The original calendar and the new dates that were updated no longer coincide completely with one another so I would assume we follow what the update says.

@trenchdigger The text below the image seems to be more up to date, and the hole of 23rd seems to have been remove...

@Bowgentle said:
Sigh.
Guess we'll know when stuff shows up in game.
It would be so easy to write a two-liner, and build so much goodwill.

Agreed. But, for whatever reason, communication has really fallen off the cliff the past 3 -4 months.

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@Bowgentle said:
So no official statements regarding the upcoming gaps in the schedule after two days back in the office?
Impressive lack of communication.

To be fair S0kun did comment briefly about their scheduling snafu and said to watch for the update to this thread for any updates to the schedule and the most recent one that shows the rest of the events for this month don’t show any more off days at least for the rest of this month.

The original calendar and the new dates that were updated no longer coincide completely with one another so I would assume we follow what the update says.

Yes, but even these new dates seem off...

@IceIX said:

4/17 - 4/22 Cosmic Chaos
Placement Rewards: Wong, Hellcat, Jeffrey (Land Shark), Ms. Marvel
Progression Rewards: Magik (P5), Deathlok, Emma Frost (New X-Men), Storm (Classic)

4/21 - 4/25 Fight For Wakanda
Placement Rewards: Kang (The Conqueror), New Character (4*), Hulk (Indestructible), Ares
Progression Rewards: Wong, Hellcat, Jeffrey (Land Shark), Ms. Marvel

4/24 - 4/29 Operation Spider Silk
Placement Rewards: Knull, Miles Morales, Thor (Modern), Wolverine (Astonishing)
Progression Rewards: Kang (The Conqueror), New Character (4*), Hulk (Indestructible), Ares

Is PVE starting and ending on Fridays on the West Coast now? The updated top post shows Cosmic Chaos and Operation Spider Silk ending on Fridays, along with Fight For Wakanda starting on a Friday. Iirc, the date & times are based on Eastern Timezone, hence the carryover into Saturday for CC and OSS, and Wednesday for FFW.

The next new release is on Thursday, April 20th, so FFW should have the same start date. Riiight?

I'm with you, @Wolvie171. This is how I see it:

Schedule says "4/17 - 4/22 Cosmic Chaos"
It should read "4/17 - 4/21 Cosmic Chaos" (the 3-day version)

Schedule says "4/21 - 4/25 Fight For Wakanda"
It should read "4/20 - 4/25 Fight For Wakanda" (to start on a Thursday, as usual)

Schedule says "4/24 - 4/29 Operation Spider Silk"
It should read "4/24 - 4/28 Operation Spider Silk" (the 3-day version, since FFW is 4 days, so the next Boss event can start properly on Thursday, as it must)

About the calendar... idk why you guys bother in making it, if it's pure garbage meant to be ignored anyway.

@IceIX double-check these above, please? Before it's too late. Thanks.

I would second the motion for abandoning the graphical calendar. What is its purpose, do they print this and hang it up in MPQ HQ?
Having 2 representations of the same info, graphics and text, only seems to highlight how out of sync they usually are.

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@Bowgentle said:
Sigh.
Guess we'll know when stuff shows up in game.
It would be so easy to write a two-liner, and build so much goodwill.

Agreed. But, for whatever reason, communication has really fallen off the cliff the past 3 -4 months.

I'm not sure it's less communication. But it's more to talk about because of the fails they produced

It's definitely less communication than when they first started. They were on these forums all the time in the early days letting us know what's up. Nowadays we get a few bones thrown here and there but nothing like when BCS first took over MPQ.

Sounds like Demiurge, TBH.
Massive constant communication to build a community, then - they stopped.

Guess it's standard practice for these mature F2P games with skeleton live ops crews.

@ElectricVasting said:
Thanks Wolvie - this is interesting info I wasn't aware of. But it doesn't seem to purely be a delayed schedule -- because I think MBaku has already had two events, even though he came after Colleen. Like - if it's true we're delayed, it seems like we should be cycling through Deathlok, Namora, and Abom now (or if only one of the slots is super-behind, then maybe Deathlok, Colleen and Mbaku?) -- not Deathlok, MBaku, and Clea, right?

I think Colleen got a turn when she was first released. But then I think she only got 1 from the double Boss event, because C4ge was the reward in the first go-round.

I suppose maybe since they shoe-horned that last Namora in, maybe they replaced Colleen with her, which could maybe make the numbers make more sense. Deathlok and MBaku both got double-rewarded from Enemy of the State, so that would seem an easy place to cut two turns from the backlog ...

M'Baku was omitted. I've added his information to my original post. Thanks for the catch!

Yes, Colleen did get a turn & based on the updated top post Deathlok will get one more in Cosmic Chaos. The others should rotate in more frequently after this event.