#MCL Halloween event

[maddafuchagurl]

If Thomas had been on "Joker 2" the film would've performed so well! LOL

[jxcotts]

same picture, different characters. :)

*disappointed but not surprised*

[secretsandpurplethoughtss]

The difference between LIs plots for the Halloween event 2024 is hilarious

spoilers!!

Roy: wants to do a good job, but be nice to kids (we fix up his makeup)

Thomas: wants to do a good job, prevent everyone from getting to the candy jar (we fix each other's makeup)

Amanda: wants to do a good job, prevent people from getting to the candy jar, wants to scare everyone, but kids only a little and have them have sooome candy (we fix each other's makeup)

Devon: wants to do a good job for future job opportunities, just overall chill (we have to fix an emergency together)

Jason: scares the THE LIVING HELL out of everyone AND we stab him!!!

[kalyna-btm]

[tetrakys]

A few thoughts on the Halloween event

The first event of New Gen was released today, and as usual there are some positives and negatives. I'll start with the negative and put everything under spoiler.

Negatives

The system in my opinion isn't well calibrated. I personally hate gatcha, years ago I swore to myself I would never play another gatcha game in my life. But alas most games have some form of gatcha embedded mechanic, and I know generally people are not as negative toward them as I am. However, even if I want to set my personal feelings aside and try to be completely objective, there are some issues.

I think it all boils down to: games should either have a luck component or a timing/difficulty component. At the moment the event relies both on luck (the gatcha and the minigame) and timing (it's too short). This means that while it's impossible for f2p players to complete the event in full, it's also extremely expensive for them (and everyone else) to catch up.

Side note: I don't think it's outrageous that f2p can't complete the event in full. If we look at other games it's basically the case everywhere (I'm thinking of Ikemen games especially, but also MLQC and other similar mobile games). Companies have to make money somehow so it makes sense that they incentivise people to invest in the game with additional rewards. The issue here is that by adding too many obstacles what is achieved isn't a desire to invest some money to keep playing, but only a feeling of frustration that puts people off completely.

I did the math, f2p players by entering the event every day will only be able to obtain around 10-12 items when the total is 25 (including clothes, room elements and moments with the crushes), which makes for only 40% of the event. The gap is too large. If it had been 70-80% instead, maybe some players would've felt encouraged to spend something on the event to complete it, but when you're missing more than half and would need around 650-750 gems the feeling is instead anger mixed to a resigned 'what's the point?'.

Of course there is the possibility of someone being extremely lucky and obtaining perfect scores at the minigame and also unlocking all the dates and items they really care about in those free rolls they are able to obtain. It is true that not everyone wants to maximise the event and unlock all clothes and scenes. In which case yes, the event would be very convenient to them. But 40% odds of obtaining exactly what you want are still too low in my opinion.

Hence why I think this would be solved by either making the minigame easier, or extending the event for a few extra days.

Positives

There are indeed some very positive aspects. The outfits and items are all really pretty in my opinion, plus I already mentioned being a fan of how the crushes look like in their Halloween attire.

But what I think is the main improvement of this event is the scenes spent with the crushes, they seem to be much longer than what we used to have in the old game. Plus personally I really liked these scenes, they were both funny, cute and a bit romantic/hot. I can tell it's an early days event because there's nothing overtly romantic going on, but it feels right for the pace of the game. Also, I think all illustrations are 10/10 chef's kiss (I wiiiish Jason's illu had been a bit darker, with a dangerous/spicy undertone, but alas that's just my personal taste).

Also, what really sold me on these scenes is that they are all saved in our library, and we can replay them in full whenever we want and even pick different choices. This gives my completionist soul so much relief, I've always hated that I couldn't test different choices in past events without spending most of the event currency.

So, in conclusion, there are both things that work and don't work in this event, I hope for Christmas and Valentine the high quality of art and scenes will be kept and the system will be reworked to make it less frustrating for everyone.

[0lost-in-my-mind0]

New event sections in the game!

Today they updated the site and both in the game and on the login page they added the events section. There are some problems on the English server and one of the screenshots is not visible, so I took the screenshot from the French server. They posted some previews (too many in my opinion, this way already in October we already know a Christmas outfit and a Valentine's outfit TwT) I like spoilers, but in due time x.x

Also, there are some icons, including the one for the shop on the missions page… this makes me think that there could be some Halloween-themed missions and as much as the idea is nice, given the droprate it could be problematic…

We can predict that there will be some special episodes like in the old MCL~

I put everything under spoiler, as usual, because there are really a lot of them and I understand perfectly that not everyone can want them. I put the spoilers in order: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day and the Summer event.

If you want to see only the Halloween ones they are the first. I wrote the names of the events, in different colors, as in the list above. As soon as you see green if you don't want to go further, stop because the Christmas ones start.

So the team gave us quite a few spoilers, what do you think?

These are the new sections in the closet and you can also see what is supposed to be the Halloween event icon!

This could be the background of the special episode

For Christmas we have "bigger" previews, because we can see an outfit and also a scene from the episode (I don't know if the dialogue is real or if it was created just for the preview).

I don't know if it's true, but it seems to be set in the mall. Obviously Roy is always naked… I don't want to seem like a prude, but dressed like this all he needs is a gagball in his mouth and we can take him straight to Christian Grey's red room… it doesn't really feel that Christmassy x'3

They also blessed us with a preview of the Valentine's Day event icon and an outfit.

And last but not least, we have the icon of a probable Summer event~!

[crowstormx]

 𓉸 𝅄 jason & amanda spooky layouts. 🎃 ⁈

[ydhuil]

Praying all I know that the Halloween event comes with some wig I like and can get with a shitty mini-game.

[candysweetposts]

It seems like BV is in trend with other games that basically force you to pay for the events. I'm short of money so I won't be paying shit.

[astreia-oniria]

Me trying not to despair over a fu**ing fictional game to obtain fictional clothes and fictional romantic scenes for my fictional character.

[wintersearose]

BALDUR'S GATE 3 REFERENCE IN

MCL NEW GEN

It's Goosetarion!

[pequenaotaku]

I really wish I could post the special edits and texts I made for New Gen's Halloween event today, but unfortunately, I'm still in the middle of editing the second image.

I've been at this for longer than I would like... But at least I'm very satisfied with the result.

It will end up coming out in the next few days, so be patient. (Not that anyone is charging me, I'm doing it myself-)

[mikailys]

WAR IS OVEERR WAR IS OVEERR

[secretsandpurplethoughtss]

Difference between Roy and Thomas

Halloween Event 2024 spoilers!!

[souliescorner]

(Jason to Candy probably)

Also, have I just created a meme? I'm so sorry! (Not really)

[0lost-in-my-mind0]

Sneak peek of Halloween event~

A doll skin is coming~!