Dev Q & A - September 2023

I imagine there could be some consideration for putting up badge bits to the newest chapters that are most needed… is there some statistics for that?

It would be very helpful.

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Hi, Kira! That’s a great suggestion. We do have an option in the settings already to reduce VFX. Has this helped you at all?

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So, there’s a slight problem there, given the nature of event trails. Namely, the more franchises that are in the game, the less likely it is that a given player would have built heroes from any given franchise, thereby, when an event trail requires a certain franchises, it can end up costing an impractical amount of resources to get the heroes as strong as they need to be to beat it. Are there any plans to mitigate this risk?

We are soon going to reach a point where we have used up all the currently available franchises, and Franchise Trials will rotate across all the franchises! So franchises we’ve used in the past will come again.

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While it sounds nice, it would be nicer to get some sort of temporary thing, like a new difficulty level with Emerald enemies and Level 1000. And disk power reward could be increased to about 100k per run.

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Is there an eta for patch skills 4 and 5?

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I was pretty surprised that my “Atomic” suggestion made it that high in the poll, but I was a pretty big fan of “Jade”

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The event trial system is something we’ve constantly played around with! Maybe we can find some nice middle ground in next week’s Video Game Trial? shameless advertising for the next event

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For team trials, I think it would be good to completely change rewards.

All badges up to orange could remain as they are now, but beyond badge bits could be replaced by Badge Crates!

Currently, because of over 100 separate badge bits drops (each 6x) the game is lagging way too much to process all these rewards.

If the number of badge bits would decrease, and give badge crates from 1 at Red Rank up to 5 at Emerald ranks per run, it should reduce lags.

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Unfortunately we won’t be able to add any more refreshes with Patch Season 11. These take quite a bit of time to put together and are done in advance of the update. We know you all like the constant cadence of the refreshes and we try to get as many of them into the game with each Patch Season as we can.

There’s always a chance that they’ll receive a refresh for an upcoming Challenger Arena Season or if their Franchise gets featured again in a future Patch Season.

Sometimes we skip Heroes during a Patch Season because we want to do a Kit Refresh for them in the future so keep an eye out for that!

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@TheGrillFather maybe something to consider for QoL.

While we have option to buy badges from Arena, Coliseum etc. Shops and Badge Bazaar, the cost is often way away from what we get.

Could be the shops and Badge Bazaar cost different with the most current badges costing around 50K Badge Bazaar Tokens and around 2.5K of the other tokens?

Currently, E0 badges cost 2.5M of any tokens, yet Invasion gives around 450K of Badge Bazaar Tokens and for the rest we get around… 12K City Watch and 5K of Arena, Coli etc. tokens in a week.

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Will there be more refreshed characters or is that it for this season for right now

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Hello Gerd_Bul! I hope that you are doing awesome today! :grin:

For the writing of the game, our writers will watch the show/movie that each character is from as their way to explore the character’s personality and the world they’re from. From there, the writers always ask themselves: “How can we introduce this character to the Disney Heroes world and maintain what players love about them?” They also look into what other Heroes could make an amazing friend for them, and explore a scenario for the Friendship that highlights and keeps what players love about both characters.

They do all of this while ensuring that the character stays true to who they are, why they’re adored, and writing out a story that players can definitely see them in! It’s a challenge that our writers love to embark on and a joyful experience for them too!

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I wanted it to be called Surge (the soda), but obviously we couldn’t use that :sob: Jade was my favorite from the poll options.

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Yeah, know of that setting, however I am not sure if it has helped me at all or at least not enough.

I can’t double check right now as I am not home right now, but yeah didn’t seem to do much difference for me if at all. (I can post a post or comment later in another place once I am home again).

But yeah, I am an extremely light sensitive person, so when Zeus does his lightening attack with a full screen flash I have to hold the hand over my screen to protect my eyes.

So yeah a proper Photosensitivity Sensitivity mode would be appreciated :-).

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Are their any future plans to increase new hero output?

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I just would be happy if we found some middle ground and let around half to 3/4 of the paid resets be available to F2P players via some sort.

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Any plans for special hero releases and events for the 100th Anniversary of Disney itself, in November?

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Badge Economy …F2P players are getting badge priced out of the game. A single emerald badge can be as high as 600k+ stamina - for a F2P player it is literaly weeks of free Stam saving with zero Stam use just to get a single emerald badge!! How can the devs address this in any meaningful way to keep F2P players in the game??

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Esmerald Rank
1° With the removal of “Ambition” from the Esmerald Rank. Is Subclasses the only new feature that is going to be attached with this feature or there’s plans for something else?

2° With the subclasses tab addition. I found myself suffering to try the subclasses due to a scrolling issues in this screen (that is more obvious in a non English screen). Exist any plans to move this screen to a more proper space in our heroes screen? (Maybe in the first tab for example?)

Badges
3° Since some ranks ago we have gotten platinum badges (most likely due to 100 years of Disney). This means that future Disney content like Wish, Elementals, etc. aren’t going to be referenced as used to be by badges anymore?

4° According to the “State of the game - December 2022” a Yellow quality of life would include some prime badges economy reworking. Are still plans to relief this issues as we get closer and closer to 1M stamina badges (example attacked)?

Heroes
5° We have more that 200 heroes now and some people prefer some heroes over others to use. Would a feature like “heart/favorite” a hero get added to the game to help woth the playerbase that wants to focus in certain heroes?

Missions / Friendships
6° Before the rework of Missions section there was some small but fun to read stories that were attached with this feature. Any plans to bring them back (maybe as collections)?

7° As started before, we have now 200 heroes. But 20 missions running at the same time feels small compared to that. Is the team considering increasing the number of missions we can run at the same time? (It shouldn’t be a too high number)

8° Since some time ago stories stopped to be translated to other languages since we were promised a rework in the friendship feature by a old co worker of your team. Is the plans still going or at least retake the translations for the friendships dialogues?

The Future
9° This year marks 100 years of Disney and they were doing some stuff around most games to celebrate that (because no much companies can say they have 100 years operating) but I noticed that the only celebration we got was platinum badges. Is there plans to do something (maybe a hero, or something) to celebrate this milestone (at least late to the party)?

10° Exist some areas of the game that you see and want to rework sometimes? If so, can you share us why?

11° Our long story we been playing for now more that 70 chapters have brought us some interesting moments and parts only readable one time only. Exist plans to make available to re read this story again?

12° [Spoilers] I don’t understand yet but we jumped form Wreck it Ralph crew and some selected heroes to know they are in a videogame word while the rest feel abducted from their original home and have the hope of going back to their respectives homes once the Mega Virus is defeated… to actually talk normally about the fact they are in a videogame while fighting the traitors villains. This means everyone know this fact now? (Because this is making me think so much about the reaction of them realizing they can’t leave this world anymore, all memories they have aren’t from them and well… you know the drill)

13° We haven’t see the invertor in the storyline for a long time. Neither to check with them about how they are doing or something like that. Would we see him again?

14° R.O.B. was mentioned some YEARS ago as a second bot for invasion… but the only thing we have now is just an avatar icon. Has he been scrapped? Or exist other plans with him now?

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Or they could give badge tokens along with the change I asked for. So one can afford a E0 badge in a day or two.

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