Dev Update #6 - MPQ Unity Launch Pt 3

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  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 607 Critical Contributor

    @SuperCarrot said:
    Apparently the steam people have been doing this for sometime…so I mean recompense to a degree. Also, I am going to feel bad for those that aren’t engaged in discord, Reddit, this forum, etc…they are just playing thinking they are doing nothing wrong…enjoying getting rewards….happy…then bam!!! Roll back!!! I might be inclined to go elsewhere.

    Exactly. And ... even worse ... for a week or two on Steam ... the daily vault drop for the Pride vault was being doubled ... so, not only would a token drop after every startup, depending on characters used, two tokens were dropping.

    As it happened, I had cleared that vault on day one, as I failed to notice it wasn't resettable (derp). And that was before being put upon by the Unity bug supercluster.

    So ... when that vault finally expired, I had 103, IIRC, tokens for the post-vault. Something like 3.5x as many as I "should" have had?

    Gamma tester pay, I says.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,201 Chairperson of the Boards

    @bluewolf said:

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @S0kun said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    What does this mean? Should we not play the daily Crash then if available?

    You can still play it without worrying since the Crash resets everyday vs exploiting the bug and forcing a reset.

    Thanks S0kun! I have no idea how to force a reset so will do as is legal!

    I mean it just means restarting the app for whatever reason. Game freezes etc. On ios it restarts frequently when you leave it for a little while.

    How is that illegal then?

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,201 Chairperson of the Boards

    At the moment this is unplayable on my tablet, crash after crash.

  • SuperCarrot
    SuperCarrot Posts: 241 Tile Toppler

    @JoeHandle said:

    @SuperCarrot said:
    Apparently the steam people have been doing this for sometime…so I mean recompense to a degree. Also, I am going to feel bad for those that aren’t engaged in discord, Reddit, this forum, etc…they are just playing thinking they are doing nothing wrong…enjoying getting rewards….happy…then bam!!! Roll back!!! I might be inclined to go elsewhere.

    Exactly. And ... even worse ... for a week or two on Steam ... the daily vault drop for the Pride vault was being doubled ... so, not only would a token drop after every startup, depending on characters used, two tokens were dropping.

    As it happened, I had cleared that vault on day one, as I failed to notice it wasn't resettable (derp). And that was before being put upon by the Unity bug supercluster.

    So ... when that vault finally expired, I had 103, IIRC, tokens for the post-vault. Something like 3.5x as many as I "should" have had?

    Gamma tester pay, I says.

    Well said. Good on you for sharing that experience. This is also a time when they could choose to lean into it and make try to make something good instead of choosing to stir up further bad feelings.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,201 Chairperson of the Boards

    Chucked out of game again. 3 out of 5 matches. Not looking great right now. 🙁

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,548 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 10 July 2025, 20:13

    When I filter my roster by that very first selection, the one that usually indicates I have covers or shards available, I have 32 characters in there who have no covers or shards waiting to be used. All of them are ascended 1, 2, and 3* characters.

    Also something about the way all the UI is being animated is making me kind of nauseous; I assume the motion curves are different so it could just be 3400 days of seeing it behave one way, and then it suddenly behaving another. I'll see how it goes over time.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,201 Chairperson of the Boards

    Tried another match, Frozen and chucked out for a restart. Maybe I will try restarting my tablet see if that helps.

  • PuckThief
    PuckThief Posts: 1 Just Dropped In

    What a buggy and laggy iOS update. I give it 5 👎🏼.

  • Chrynos1989
    Chrynos1989 Posts: 444 Mover and Shaker
    edited 10 July 2025, 20:41

    @bluewolf said:

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @S0kun said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    What does this mean? Should we not play the daily Crash then if available?

    You can still play it without worrying since the Crash resets everyday vs exploiting the bug and forcing a reset.

    Thanks S0kun! I have no idea how to force a reset so will do as is legal!

    I mean it just means restarting the app for whatever reason. Game freezes etc. On ios it restarts frequently when you leave it for a little while.

    This, I Play a 2nd game competitive, going in there causes MPQ to Close 1-2 Times a day, but I assume the mantra is „You shall have no other mobile games besides MPQ, Chrynos, you filthy heathen!“

    Edit: while writting this, MPQ has closed on its own an additional time, doesn’t Look good for me @S0kun

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,201 Chairperson of the Boards

    Managed a PvP battle without being chucked out. Guess we see how it goes.

  • revskip
    revskip Posts: 1,104 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Chucked out of game again. 3 out of 5 matches. Not looking great right now. 🙁

    Don't worry, they'll just roll you back for your trouble.

  • Daniel2121
    Daniel2121 Posts: 280 Mover and Shaker

    @revskip said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Chucked out of game again. 3 out of 5 matches. Not looking great right now. 🙁

    Don't worry, they'll just roll you back for your trouble.

    I sure wish they rolled the whole "new engine launch" back!

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,201 Chairperson of the Boards

    @revskip said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Chucked out of game again. 3 out of 5 matches. Not looking great right now. 🙁

    Don't worry, they'll just roll you back for your trouble.

    I haven't beniffited in any illegal way so don't think so but we shall see!

  • JSP869
    JSP869 Posts: 833 Critical Contributor

    @S0kun said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    What does this mean? Should we not play the daily Crash then if available?

    You can still play it without worrying since the Crash resets everyday vs exploiting the bug and forcing a reset.

    "Forcing" a reset?

    The game resets and has to reload if I sit my phone down for more than a minute or two.

    I need to create Strike or Protect tiles for the Season Quests, and that requires playing a bunch of matches with BRB, R5G, and Polaris, two of whom will gift me a FF token if I use them.

    Because I don't really play for placement (anymore), but I don't want to screw over my placement too much, I just hit the first node in the current PvE sub but I have to hit it multiple times to create 150 SAP tiles (or however many it was).

    So I hit the node once or twice, set my phone down to do some work, pick it back up to play another quick match and progress the challenge a little more, and the game has to reload.

    Okay, that's another free FF token just for literally playing the game and completing the Quests. Thanks, I guess.

    "Defeat 21 foes with Juggernaut (Fear)" Same process. Play the first node in the Sub with Juggs, Chasm, and Thanos, and because I'm using Juggs, literally a required character for the Quest, I get another FF token.

    Because the game does NOT stay open in the background, I've gotten approx. 20 'bonus' tokens just from playing the game and completing the Challenges.

    Exploiting? Hardly. Fix your game.

  • JSP869
    JSP869 Posts: 833 Critical Contributor

    And then there's this! I wasn't really paying attention until the three Hulks caught my eye, so I played another match and recorded it, scrolled back, and realized it wasn't just three Hulks, with two being replaced by Loki and Magneto, it was three Polaris on my team being quickly replaced with BRB and R5G.

    I'd bet donuts to dollars this is contributing to the lag problem.

  • WampaX
    WampaX Posts: 14 Just Dropped In

    I do not know how, but I've updated to R325 (new app icon, release notes say "welcome to the new engine") but still everything is running in the app as R323 - I see new characters, I see new covers, I see the new vault and Event Quests keep updating . . . what limbo have I fallen into ?

  • StevO-J
    StevO-J Posts: 754 Critical Contributor

    Tried to make a save data backup using AppleID, but when I signed in it 'updated' my account to the temporary one I made to restore my account 17 months ago when my previous phone died... :s

    I didn't realise that the temp account data was still in there and could overwrite in this way. I'm not chuffed, let me tell you. Hoping CS can help me restore my account data, they could before so I'm kinda hopeful there at least. Guess I have about a week off then....

  • Waddles_Pines
    Waddles_Pines Posts: 1,259 Chairperson of the Boards

    Too lazy to read through every page, my .02; on Android the game is waaaay to bouncy. It's like Poochy... To the extreme.... Hopefully they fix that and bring back the persistent back button on Android...

  • Philbert101
    Philbert101 Posts: 16 Just Dropped In

    Trying to play on my android tablet today before I got my phone updated and fixed was awful.
    It’s more useful as a coaster than to play this game right now.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,623 Chairperson of the Boards

    This whole update reminds me of that South Park episode where Mr. Mackey buys a new computer program to run the school, but every time he tries to do something it creates bigger and bigger bugs until he eventually just gets rid of it altogether.

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