Hello, players! We’ve got another installment of Meet the Dev for you. Today we’re taking a look at Majik! You might have played against him or talked to him. He wanders into the chat sometimes like most of the devs. More often than some of the anti-social ones. I assure you they’re just anti-social. It’s not like we have them chained to their desks in the basement working on bugs or anything. That’d be crazy!
The long awaited update came out, plus a server side update, and we’re hoping that it helped a lot of the issues that you all had been experiencing. Also, the United Republic Crest cardback is available in the store if you wanted to go take a look at it. The Oktoberfest card is there as well and both of them are only on the shelf for a limited time. Without further ado, Majik!
Describe your job on the team for us, please, so we can have a better idea what you do!
My job is breaking things so they cannot be broken during the live version of the game. One of the latest things I happened to break were cards in the game which was interesting, fun to see, and fun to do. You can see an example here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeUMao9EE7E This is not fixed up yet but is in the process of being fixed by the correct people in the team. Other things that I do are sorting out the many bug reports you guys send in (thanks for them) and make sure they get to the correct people to fix up. Remember sending those reports does help us :). You also see me in chat helping out with questions here and there and playing some matches! You can call me a ninja as I will be in one spot and poof gone to another hence the name Majik :)
Is it legal in the country of Canada for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
Interesting question, I do not know the answer to this. Never been in this situation or heard of anyone in one, though I do believe it is legal if they are widowed as they can move on and re-marry. Marriage is a strange thing and in the end it is just paper to me.
This was a riddle and the answer is no. In order for his wife to be a widow he would be dead!
Has there been a nerf or card change in the past that you disagreed with? Do you have a better solution?
Not per say disagreed with but during the time I was away on vacation, before being part of the team, I was used to AT Ambush Team of Republic being advance deploy and charge. These abilities made them nice for early game. I came back, played a PVP, and lost not knowing of the change (it’s important to read changelogs). :D A better solution would have been to take charge off. He was more suited and better for advanced operations.
Do you think someone will hit 12 wins without 3 losses on their Arena card the first day it comes out, whatever day that is, or do you think it will take a couple of days?
I do think getting 12 wins without losing 3 will take some good dedication and thought. I think the 1st person to do so will be a week after it is released. IF someone does somehow get those 12 wins in the first two days they are sure lucky and deserve the good prize coming to them and we will have to trap them and interrogate them on their deck ideas. Joking, but I would enjoy talking to them about how, what choices they made, and why they made such choices.
MOW: FO is a spin-off game from a parent game called March of War. Some of our players don’t know too much about MOW, though, but I’ve heard at one time you were a faction leader. Would you care to tell us a little about both?
Warhammer 40K meets WW II with more than a little of Command & Conquer: Red Alert tossed in for good measure along with some Risk. It is F2P, just like this one, but it is a turn-based strategy MMO with co-op. It has 6 factions Alliance, Republic, Empire, Warlords, Union and Junta each with different skill sets for units. To better know the back story on each faction you could check out the wiki.
http://marchofwar.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Factions
This hopefully helps give some backstory on the faction you play in Face Off. Now onto Faction Leader. I became faction leader of the Latin Junta which is South America and Central America area. At the time the current leader was very busy with personal real life things and all the other factions were invading. No one was trying to defend or help so I rose up and gave orders and ended up kicking each faction out (all 5) with good commanders. In that time I gained respect from the other leaders in game and got voted faction leader. I served as faction leader for the good part of a year due to how well I did my job. Here are some videos of those times on my channel if you want to take a look!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfTQymsR2Eb41Acy_N-yqfQ/videos :)
What is your favorite bug in the game?
My favorite bug in the game is ninja bugs. I call them this because they are very sneaky and like to hide and are not always wanting to happen at all. You’ve got to make them come out. These are the most fun to find and take care of as usually it solves many other chains of bugs.
How did you come to be a part of the team?
I knew a few of the team members through being a beta tester on the other March of War for a good amount of time as well as early access on March of War: Face Off. I was noticed for my long hours of dedication to find and kill bugs. I also did find a few exploits / major bugs that got fixed and saved them from going to live. I was/am giving good ideas to help improve both games and for making the community better for players.
Ignoring your ranking in the game, because you spend a lot of time on the testing servers, what rank would you say that your skill level should be?
Good question. To be very honest the league of gold, silver, etc. to me doesn’t matter. I'm an old school gamer that likes to play relaxed, enjoy games, and have fun with it. I could lose 30 games and still play because it’s fun. Skill level wise that varies as well as there are soo many combinations of faction vs faction deck builds. A person who is near the top now might be good with a certain deck build but once another person finds a better one, or one to counter it, they will more than likely not stay at the top. That is the fun thing with card games thinking, exploring the cards, and seeing what works good together.
In a continuing tradition I’d like you to tell us a little bit about what aspect of the game that’s still unreleased you’re most looking forward to?
I’m most looking forward to two things and both are factions from the other March of War. Those are, of course, Junta and Warlords as they were to me the most fun factions in MOW. I can’t wait to see how they play out here and have everyone enjoy some beautiful Amazonian women or crazy warlords with beasts. :P
What is your favorite game?
Hard to pick just ONE fav game so I’ll name the top 3 that I’ve had the best times with over the years.
- 1 - Final Fantasy Tactics - enjoyed this game’s strategy. I still play it and got nicknamed Mewt from the main character.
- 2 - ARK - this game has improved a lot and it’s very fun to tame dinos/prehistoric creatures while surviving and building a settlement. It’s not fully released yet but this will beat up Minecraft in competition. :P
- 3 - Pokémon - I have played a lot of Pokémon over the years and I have a huge collection of cards in books. Who can’t enjoy a smiling Pikachu looking at you or one of those cute animated creatures?
Thank you for joining us and I hope you enjoyed the questions. Arena is coming out likely at the end of this month. I know we’ve talked about it a lot but I’m hoping everyone is just as excited as we are. Have a good weekend guys! See you on the battlefield!