Live Chat: 12/17

[Polaris]

Hello and welcome to the live chat for this Q&A session! Let’s get going!

Today’s team includes:

• Commander Jack, Game Designer
• DoubleBeans, Hero Designer
• Leaf, Senior Producer
• Polaris, Senior Community Manager

[Polaris]

Hey, we answered a lot of these questions in this thread. Some of them we can’t answer because:

Dev Q&A Questions for Perblue - Responses!

There are some questions that we can’t answer. We won’t talk about datamined heroes - there are sometimes bits in the game data that aren’t finalized or approved, and we can’t talk about heroes until they’re announced. There’s a lot of questions asking about future heroes - will we add Anna, will we add Phineas & Ferb characters, etc. Unfortunately, we can’t talk about heroes that haven’t been approved yet. We do watch your requests, and we work to fit as many as we can into the roadmap.

[Wave9Nut]

Ok just have to ask…
The oldest build date listed in the files is from August 2016… but you just said development started in September 2017.
Like… what? Huh?
I’m so confused.

[GamerByrd]

Hi! I made my return to the game recently and it’s fun! Just so much I need to catch up on…but I guess my question would be if anyone of you considered doing events for specific Heroes? Just to make it a little easier to find Hero chips

[Polaris]

If you asked a question in the other thread, I request you don’t ask them again. We’d like to make this more fun and less serious.

[Tragic-Magic]

• What was your favorite hero to develop, animation or skill wise?
• Will we be able to reread the vanilla campaign?
• Will we see cosmetic crates appearing the market?
• Which heroes were “worthy” enough to be characters? For example Powerline. How was he able to be playable?

[Filadae_Djaq]

Leaf, what are your favorite movies?

[Imagineer_V]

panics trying to think of some rapid fire questions fast

[DoubleBeans]

Yes, my favorite food is beans.

[The_Real_Numi]

Let´s start then, I guess?

1. You haven´t answered my question about badges properly.
   I was talking about PAST badges. Can you edit OLD badges? Can you change OLDER rank badges to make heroes more useful?
   (Cake of Good Intentions in particular should have been used on more characters)

2. My free stamina change suggestion was completely ignored. How do you count how much stamina people get. And why is it so low if you care about F2P players so much?

3. Emotes in friendships again suggestion was also ignored. Why? You keep adding 25+ cosmetics a month, yet you can only give several cosmetic crates that never amount to the number of cosmetics given you add. Also, idea, guaranteed cosmetic crate as consumable, instead of guild crate.

4. You did a lot of effort with red skills. Can you now at least give stat buffs to the same amount of heroes monthly? How come Ralph´s white maxed does 150K damage while some tanks can deal over a 1M to all enemies?

5. I sincerely hope whatever is the next rank addition, it will let us equip Evasion/Tenacity/Armor/Reality Negation on heroes. That´s the only thing most of them currently need. Not the ones that have at least one and usable. Those that have none!

[Filadae_Djaq]

Approximately how many heroes will arrive in 2021?

[Grim_grinning_Ghost]

Have you gotten to watch movies that haven’t released yet for making heroes (ex frozen 2, soul, onward, etc)

[Gjmguy]

I’ve got a brief question. What will be done about heroes who pulled the short straw with red skills, such as Madam Mim and Woody? Do you think you’ll revisit some older red skills like these?

[Polaris]

The oldest build date listed in the files is from August 2016… but you just said development started in September 2017.
Like… what? Huh?
I’m so confused.

There are some game files that were carried over from our other titles, so they may date older than the development of Disney Heroes.

[Mister_Toon]

What was your favorite character to work on?

Which character do you think has the most creative skillset?

What was the hardest character to work on? The easiest character?

[Wave9Nut]

Favorite underrated Disney movie?
I love all things obscure so I thought this could be a fun question.

[CarneyChang]

When can we meet lightning Rob?

[Musketeer-Endgame]

I really feel bad after reading the answer, and lost my hope for the balance…

so.

Dev Q&A Questions for Perblue - Responses!

• • [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.

Please answer to this. It might be not the nicest, but I just feel bad about this answer.

It just can’t be that bad heroes will be always bad, it’s unfair and resouces spent on the old heroes are just wasted.

If devs are so scared of the very beginning, then maybe just refresh green, blue, purple and red skills for beta heroes? It just feel bad and sad that PB refuse to refresh the most needed.

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1. We have old DuckTales, but it would be possible to add Della Duck, she is amazing character and it would be appreciated to include her.
2. Same as above, but about Don Karnage, is he possible to add?
3. Why Vanellope have only 90 reality negation, there is a badge which gives 170 reality negation and would fix her problem, and maybe even, then, she won’t need such refresh.
4. There is HUGE negative feedback of Basil’s and Kim’s terribleness, will it be fixed?

Questions for PerBlue: December 2020

However, it’s clearly visible that her damage and stats are from May 2019 (the first time she appeared in game’s data) and it’s making a huge impact in game, she doesn’t have much chance to stand against new or even older heroes.
Kim (damage hero):

Older hero - control:

Older hero - damage:

Older hero - tank:

There is no reason for damage role hero to have much lower damage than tanks and control role heroes.

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And because of the season.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2021 for PB employees

[Grim_grinning_Ghost]

What hero would you like to see the most (that you know probably won’t come into the game)
Favorite Disney movie
Favorite Disney character
Favorite non Disney movie
Favorite non Disney character
Favorite Disney parks ride

[DoubleBeans]

Let´s start then, I guess?

1. You haven´t answered my question about badges properly.
   I was talking about PAST badges. Can you edit OLD badges? Can you change OLDER rank badges to make heroes more useful?
   (Cake of Good Intentions in particular should have been used on more characters)
2. My free stamina change suggestion was completely ignored. How do you count how much stamina people get. And why is it so low if you care about F2P players so much?
3. Emotes in friendships again suggestion was also ignored. Why? You keep adding 25+ cosmetics a month, yet you can only give several cosmetic crates that never amount to the number of cosmetics given you add. Also, idea, guaranteed cosmetic crate as consumable, instead of guild crate.
4. You did a lot of effort with red skills. Can you now at least give stat buffs to the same amount of heroes monthly? How come Ralph´s white maxed does 150K damage while some tanks can deal over a 1M to all enemies?
5. I sincerely hope whatever is the next rank addition, it will let us equip Evasion/Tenacity/Armor/Reality Negation on heroes. That´s the only thing most of them currently need. Not the ones that have at least one and usable. Those that have none!

1. We try to avoid editing old badges because players have already earned those badges. It wouldn’t be entirely fair to make the players who haven’t already gotten those badges earn an entirely different badge.
2. We have data that tracks and calculates how much stamina players get. We regularly increase the amount of free stamina players can earn and we’ll continue to increase that amount.
3. I don’t handle cosmetics but I’ll get this feedback where it needs to go.
4. We’ll take another look at red skills when we refresh them.
5. We’ll be adding those stats to some heroes who don’t have them with rarities moving forward! Thanks for the suggestion on that.