Dev Q&A Questions for Perblue - Responses!

[Dalmatian_23868]

So it will never happen about cheshire’s nerf

[Filadae_Djaq]

I agree though, we’ll work on less wordy wording going forward.

Yay!

Thx for answering, DoubleBeans.

• We can mix in some more recent heroes in the refresh polls so you guys can decide!

Yes. Add KP and Basil to the polls.

it will throw off the balance and the play of the early game

Is that the case, though? I mean, Cheshire was available as a free sign-in, and new players could have easily unlocked him. So… “balance”?

The friend campaign was going to be a story about Dr. Drakken creating a secret lair among the rooftops of the city. Kim Possible would have to stop him while Duke Caboom helped her jump from rooftop to rooftop.

Post the full story on the forums

I’m excited to hear who will be the next forum-favourite character to rise above the others!

We want him so please make his skillset good. If not, better.

right on January 1, 2021!

Wdym by this? A patch note will arrive on New Years day?

One of my favourite Disney movies is getting more Heroes in the game in 2021! Can’t say more than that.

Leaf, what is the list of your favorite movies?

In short, yes.

Coffin Dance for Tarzan

There have been no Heroes that have been permanently canceled mid-development, and I hope none in the future either.

Merci, mon ami

We’re thinking through some ways to address this in the future.

but this is one reason why we run 2x campaign drop events and have items that do the same.

Even double drops aren’t enough

We’ll definitely consider changing up badges in Trials on a regular basis in the future.

Interesting

• We’ve recently introduced new VIP perks that should help with this. Starting at VIP 5, you’ll no longer need to spend Skill Points to upgrade skills for heroes up to level 30. Every two VIP levels after that, the level limit increases by 5, up to level 65 at VIP 19.

The user meant gold costs, not skill points.

Do you have any suggestions where you’d like to see cosmetic crates awarded?

Invasion, CW, and Heist

But that doesn’t mean we won’t eventually come up with a good solution!

The easiest solution is costumes…

Starting with hero proposals!

takes a knee in front of PB

takes out a box

opens up box

Bill is in the box

Me: Will you add Bill for me?

(Sorry)

We had Lock, Shock & Barrel!

Doesn’t count.

The Diamond Crate upgrades are a feature that benefits early to mid stage players

I’ve been maxed on levels for almost a year by now

[Raymond]

a story about Dr. Drakken creating a secret lair among the rooftops of the city.

I would love to see the fully story and to see Dr. Drakken and Shego in game😊

[Gonzo_da-great]

But that doesn’t mean we won’t eventually come up with a good solution!

The easiest solution is costumes…

I agree even if they only come out with one a year at Halloween time.

[Pipsqueak]

It seems like for the majority of the suggestions & questions about game improvement, a simple “No” would suffice, rather than these incredibly double-speaky roundabout answers that mean exactly that

[LilRubyKinz]

• I just have to ask: Was it a clever reference to the film that Fear is a counter to Elsa? Or just a funny coincidence?
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  • [DoubleBeans] To be completely honest, this was a happy coincidence.

Haha, you should have just gone with it! I thought it was a funny little thing.

[Leaf] We would like her original Frozen dress back in the game as well! Since the Elsa in the game is now from Frozen II, it would not make sense for her to wear her dress from the first movie. But that doesn’t mean we won’t eventually come up with a good solution!

Costumes!!! Please!!!

Even if you just gave Elsa a bunch of costumes and no one else, I would be satisfied

a simple “No” would suffice

Well I do appreciate knowing why the answer is no.

Wow that was a lot for you guys to go through! Thanks for answering all these questions!

[Raymond]

Was this answered? Because I don’t think I saw it addressed anywhere @Polaris… When will Emerald Credits roll out?

Will they be added in March for the new rank?

[JoseMPC]

Thanks you so much for your time answering the questions this q&a was by far the best

[The_Real_Numi]

Are you planning to change the properties of badges someday so that older characters can get better? I can again come up with Jack Sparrow, who has 29 Armor Negation since R6. Has no Evasion or Tenacity, which is fairly common for Damage heroes even those with a counter move (like Mulan). Same with Basil, his tragicness comes up from no Armor Negation (offense) or no Evasion or Tenacity (defense)

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What I meant here is whether the earlier badges can be changed for the heroes, though.

Do you plan to lower your skills costs?

• [Commander Jack] We’ve recently introduced new VIP perks that should help with this. Starting at VIP 5, you’ll no longer need to spend Skill Points to upgrade skills for heroes up to level 30. Every two VIP levels after that, the level limit increases by 5, up to level 65 at VIP 19.

I think gold was meant particularly there.

Why are the deals for stamina packs and crates so bad compared to older servers? S21 sees 83 stamina packs and 0 diamond crates in a $5 deal yet S1 sees 850 stamina packs and 300 diamond crates. Crates deals give 2,168 crates for $5 (S1)

• [Polaris] We are working to do a better job getting resources to players in the game (scaling rewards for example), so inflated deals don’t feel as necessary. The gap between free to play players and spenders is something we’ve been working hard to address, and selling more things in deals makes that worse. We’ve deliberately tried to avoid that pitfall with servers 21 and 22 by increasing the contents of the deals more slowly, and working to improve the systems in the game to be more generous.

I think that´s what we heard last time. On the other hand, why not remove the “pitfall” by increasing F2P stamina stuff? Crates do need a heavy raise on old servers though.

Can you focus more on 5 to 20 dollar worth deals? I am pretty sure that most people refrain from buying anything over 50 dollars in a video game. Unless you have some data saying otherwise.

• [Polaris] We do try to offer things across different price points. To the point about data, we do see players buy those $50 and $100 regularly, showing there’s players that do want those bigger deals.

At least make it so one can´t get three 50 or 100 dollar deals in a row.

Can you slow down/postpone cap raises? Every 4 weeks is only doable for p2w players and pretty stressful for f2p and new players. Please be more transparent with the data, because it seems doubtful that players left when the increases were longer.

• [Polaris]We’ve been very consistent with a 4-week release for rarity and level caps. In a few cases, we experimented with slightly longer cadences of 5 or 6 weeks. It was exceptionally clear that more players left the game when there were more weeks between level caps, and even with the longer time between updates, the negative feedback around rarity and team level increases was not different. We know that cap raises are not popular with all players, but it’s a necessary part of maintaining the game’s health. For that reason, we will stick to a 4-week cadence for the foreseeable future and are not able to veer away from that. What we want to focus on is giving players more rewards to help those who feel perpetually behind to catch up. This is why we’re adding more rewards to the game that scale with team level. We’ve recently done this with red skill chips. This will be a very slow process to get right, but it’s our hope that it will feel less like a grind when new content is released, and more like something new to experience and work toward. We want the feeling to be that rewards get better as you progress through the game.

Also heard, we are still running on the premise that 5 or 6-week caps are not good. Randall nerfs ruined that one, not the longer cap raise.

Cosmetics

No mention of different ways to get emotes. Sad.

Why no villains in October?

• [Leaf] We had Lock, Shock & Barrel!

They are villains? Imo they are henchmen.

Several months back, Polaris mentioned the possibility of making the City Watch Reset reward from Challengers Arena/Coli into a consumable item, so we could use it at our discretion instead of having to use them right away to get any advantage from them. Is this in development, or at least possible?

• [Polaris]This issue is still in design. The challenge is we don’t want players to hoard the reset items, but we also don’t want to penalize players who rank highly in challenger.

Maybe cap it to some amount? Like 5 or 10 that you can hold at most? Also, why are the rewards in challenger so uneven?

[Dread_Pirate_Doc]

Lock, Shock, and Barrel are villians? I thought they were mischievous to be sure…but Jack simply has to look at them and they are put in their place.

[Musketeer-Endgame]

Where are the answers?

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Kim Possible went through the most iterations, if that answers your question.

And that’s why she needs to hold her 2019 stats and being 2nd weakest hero of 2020, after Basil?
This is ridiculous.

• • [DoubleBeans] I don’t think we’ll focus just on red skills when refreshing a hero but we will consider them when refreshing a whole hero.

With only 10 full refreshes per year, this will never happen, because of course heroes with weak red skills won’t be targeted each time. And I see that Yax was ignored

• • [DoubleBeans] So I could go on forever answering balance/normal gear questions but I’ll be short. I’ll take a look at the normal gear for the heroes mentioned here and keep all your feedback in mind for future rarities.

So??? Nothing I guess will happen? It will be nice if Jack and Basil would get armor negation, Vanellope reality negation, Nick and Vanellope need fantastic crit - both didn’t get any from over a year.

As for heroes that get normal crit when they don’t deal normal damage; it’s just unavoidable for them to not get at least a little.

I know that some base badges give normal crit, but it would give only around 20 normal crit, so it doesn’t explain why Fear and Joy have over 250 normal crit, Jack Ske. over 150 normal crit and
upcoming heroes which does no damage also over 250 normal crit.

• • ((addressed in answer above))

Not really tho.

• • [Leaf] We’ve looked into refreshing the heroes everyone gets access to at the very beginning of the game, like Vanelope or Ralph, but we keep coming to the roadblock that it will throw off the balance and the play of the early game. Players who are new to Disney Heroes will have a more confusing experience, and will be less likely to keep playing and join our community. We’ve decided to hold off on refreshing Vanelope and other very early heroes like her until we can come up with a better solution.

Ok, but this answer is just stupid.

1. First chapters give diamond crates so new players will get some of the newer heroes anyways.
2. ALL HEROES COST THE SAME TO MAX - DISKS, MODS, STARS, SKILLS, BADGES AND OTHER THINGS COST THE SAME FOR ALL, THEN WHY PLAYER WHICH SPEND ON RALPH WILL GET NOTHING FROM THE SPENT $30, BUT OTHER PLAYER WHICH SPEND THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR CHESHIRE WILL GIVE HUGE DIFFERENCE. THIS IS COMPLETELY OUTRAGEOUS ANSWER.
3. What kind of confusion is even mentioned?! People will quit because starting heroes will be useable? How… People will leave because Ralph is dying in the tutorial battles and have no chance against other players with a bigger amount of heroes received outside of the diamond crates from campaing.
4. Not the thing mentioned but answers like that make people quit, this answer doesn’t have any logic and discriminate players.
5. Oh, this is ‘‘collect and evolve’’ game, why someone who likes WiR movie can’t enjoy using Ralph and Vanellope and is forced to use someone else?
6. Friendship campaign, Ralph and Vanellope are still being used as allies, so why they are ‘‘allowed’’ to be weak if they are still part of the game just as the other heroes. You’ve created the system and then ignore its existence… ~
7. All heroes should be in similar level as in the 2 point said, everyone cost same to max.

• • [Leaf] The Red Skill chip scaling that was released with 2.5 was our first foray into balancing the Red Skill chip economy since Red Skills were originally launched. We are going to see how our first changes affect the economy and player progression and then will evaluate what additional steps are needed.

Ok, but this doesn’t give any actual answer… it was a few weeks, any results?

• • [Commander Jack] Do you have any suggestions where you’d like to see cosmetic crates awarded?

Weekly challengers rewards.
Invasion.
Heist. Heist is just dead, it will revive this mode.

• • [Leaf] If you’d like to see Heist have a big sweep of Quality of Life improvements, definitely vote for it the next time we have a poll on the forums for where we should focus next! That isn’t to say it won’t get any love until that time, but getting it picked in the poll for what Quality of Life focus we do will have a big impact.

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• • [Leaf] We had Lock, Shock & Barrel!

They aren’t villains

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• • [DoubleBeans] This is a great question! I had to talk to our lead writer about this one. The friend campaign was going to be a story about Dr. Drakken creating a secret lair among the rooftops of the city. Kim Possible would have to stop him while Duke Caboom helped her jump from rooftop to rooftop.

Oh well, a gem, thanks for the answer, really sad it wasn’t released.

[Deputy_Martin]

[Leaf] We’ve taken a lot of time in the past 2 years to look at Guild War matchmaking, and I’m sorry to say that we’re out of low hanging fruit or even medium sized changes that would make a positive impact on this. There’s a lot of technical challenges we would need to overcome. However, that doesn’t mean we’re giving up! It just means we may need to think more outside-the-box.

Sorry i’m late to this Q&A, but sometimes the smallest changes can make an impact. My suggestion on this one is don’t match a guild from Bronze rank with a guild from Platinum rank even though they have similar MMR. This would give the lower rank guild a slightly bigger chance to progress.

Also, why do we even have a rank for when the guild are always matched with the guilds from other ranks. All we do each month is the race to at least 7 wins to get end-of-season legendary rewards. Any other rank below Legendary is pointless.

Anyway, thanks to PB team for all you hard work, much appreciated.

[Myeong]

Wait, wasn’t this thread supposed to be locked already?

[PawpsicleSticks]

You’re thinking of the live Q&A. This one is for the questions that were asked in advance.

[Myeong]

Oh oops. I got them mixed up. Thanks.

[IGNASIO]

[DoubleBeans] So I could go on forever answering balance

Wow…
Wait, wait!
Do you guys REALLY think that there is balance in this game?..
Just… Wow, so optimistic

[Leaf] We’ve looked into refreshing the heroes everyone gets access to at the very beginning of the game, like Vanelope or Ralph, but we keep coming to the roadblock that it will throw off the balance and the play of the early game. Players who are new to Disney Heroes will have a more confusing experience, and will be less likely to keep playing and join our community. We’ve decided to hold off on refreshing Vanelope and other very early heroes like her until we can come up with a better solution.

“cough, cough” Max and Cheshire in the shops “cough, cough”

[Polaris] Not all heroes are intended to be strong in all areas of the game.

I would like if there were no one such heroes in game …

[Polaris] Some heroes are specifically created to be strong in Invasion, while others are great at PVP or in City Watch.

This heroes were created to be strong on the PLAYER side, but now they are just pain for us in CW, Invasion and others. I think ALL heroes must be strong in specific area. Now less then 1/2 heroes are useful in these modes. Rest of them is trash everywhere

[DoubleBeans] We try to make heroes’ purple and red skills fit their kits as best we can. Some red skills are specifically tuned to be better in certain modes to give certain heroes an interesting niche.

About Red skills. I think every red skill must have 2 effect : 1 without level-depending and 1 with this one. so that we get at least some kind of bonus when opening a skill. And the second bonus when increasing its level

[Leaf] There isn’t a definite answer to this question, but this is one reason why we run 2x campaign drop events and have items that do the same.

2x drop must be holded regularly (maybe once a week; 1st week normal, 2nd elite).
And 2x items must be more easier to get for high-level players. Because now it just depends on your luck (it drops only in weekly awards and war crates).

[Leaf] We are going to see how our first changes affect the economy and player progression and then will evaluate what additional steps are needed.

How long will it be to see and analize it?
'cause problem become bigger with every cap rise

[Musketeer-Endgame]

Some heroes have absolutely NO use in ANY mode, only friendship campaign, but if PB refuse to even make them any better, the players will anyway upgrade the other heroes, so no use, they could remove them and nothing will change.

Tho, just realised, PB refreshed Mr. Inc and Felix, heroes which can be obtained for FREE on first day, so yeah, no logic just some useless excuses.

[PawpsicleSticks]

for FREE on first day

Technically second day. And you forgot Bogo.

Still, it’d be awfully nice to see Woody or Nick get a refresh too.

[Irrer-Minnie]

Yep. Though Woody needs it more…