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Also, already bought a back with jean and Scott?
Today is Valentine's Day, and love is in the air! We wanted to show you the love with our special, limited time promotion. Today only, buying a Marvel Heroes Starter Pack or Premium Pack can get you Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops and Jean Grey, AKA Phoenix - for FREE!
Purchase your Founders Pack Today
Almost every Starter Pack and Premium Pack is eligible for this offer. (The Ultimate Pack is not, as you already get all the costumes and both heroes as part of your pack!) All you need to do is purchase a pack between 12:01 AM and 11:59PM PST today. (That's 3:01 AM and 2:59AM EST on Feb 15th, 8:01 AM and 7:59 GMT on Feb 15th and 7:01 PM and 6:59PM Sydney time on Feb 15th. More timezone help here). Please note, Cyclops and Jean Grey will be added to your Founders Pack when it is granted at the beginning of Early Game Access (when the game is released), and will not be seen in your cart during checkout - this is normal!
Please note, if you choose to buy either the Cyclops or the Jean Grey Starter Pack during today's promotion, you will only receive either Jean Grey or Cyclops as a bonus (whichever one you did not purchase). This offer also does not apply to the Uncanny X-Men or Marvel NOW! Premium Packs (as they both already contain Jean Grey and Cyclops).
Already bought a Founders Pack? We love you too!
For anyone who's already picked up a Starter or Premium Pack, we thank you for being an early supporter of Marvel Heroes, and want to show you some love on this Valentine's Day too. That's why everyone who purchased a Starter or Premium Pack before 12:01 AM PST on February 14th will be getting a Valentine's Day gift, X-Men style.
Here's the breakdown:
For previous Starter* or Premium Pack purchasers:
FREE Cyclops (Astonishing costume) and Jean Grey (Phoenix costume)
* This applies to anyone who purchased any Starter Pack (except Cyclops/Jean Grey) or Premium Pack
(with the exceptions noted below, before 12:01 AM PST on February 14th.)
For previous Cyclops Starter Pack purchasers:
FREE Jean Grey (Phoenix costume) plus Black Queen costume
For previous Jean Grey Starter Pack purchasers:
FREE Cyclops (Astonishing costume) plus 90's X-Men costume
For previous Marvel NOW! Premium Pack purchasers:
FREE bonus costumes: Cyclops Classic, Jean Grey Dark Phoenix
For previous Uncanny X-Men Premium Pack purchasers:
FREE bonus costumes: Cyclops 90's X-Men; Jean Grey Black Queen
For previous Marvel Classic Premium Pack purchasers:
FREE bonus costume: Cyclops Classic
We hope everyone has a fantastic Valentine's Day and hope you enjoy playing with Scott and Jean in Marvel Heroes!
Happy Valentine's Day! For anyone who's already picked up a Starter or Premium Pack, we thank you for being an early supporter of Marvel Heroes, and want to show you some love on this Valentine's Day too. That's why everyone who purchased a Starter or Premium Pack before 12:01 AM PST on February 14th will be getting a Valentine's Day gift, X-Men style. Here's the breakdown:
For previous Starter Pack or Premium Pack purchasers, except Cyclops/Jean Grey Starter Packs:
FREE Cyclops (Astonishing costume) and Jean Grey (Phoenix costume)
(This applies to anyone who purchased any Starter Pack or Premium Pack, with the exceptions noted below, before 12:01 AM PST on February 14th.)
For previous Cyclops Starter Pack purchasers:
FREE Jean Grey (Phoenix costume) plus Black Queen costume
For previous Jean Grey Starter Pack purchasers:
FREE Cyclops, (Astonishing costume) plus 90's X-Men costume
For previous Marvel NOW! Premium Pack purchasers:
FREE bonus costumes: Cyclops Classic, Jean Grey Dark Phoenix
For previous Uncanny X-Men Premium Pack purchasers:
FREE bonus costumes: Cyclops 90's X-Men; Jean Grey Black Queen
For previous Marvel Classic Premium Pack purchasers:
FREE Jean Grey (Phoenix) plus bonus costume: Cyclops Classic
Sincerely,
The Marvel Heroes Team
EDIT: Damn! Beaten to the punch from the punch dimension. By many many hours? I need to pay attention.
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It is little things like that that make a difference
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And a pic showing how the new UI looks.
Looks like they are pricing around the same as League of Legends in point costs. Im guessing the Enhanced Skins like pirate deadpool and symbiote spidey would be in the 1500+ range.
The mini map looks different in that screenshot, but that's all I noticed. Have they put the full screen map in yet? Also, how is the difficulty? It looks like there's a lot going on in videos, but I rarely see people losing a lot of health, and staying that way, or dying. This game looks to have fixed one of my major problems with MuA, never enough enemies in screen. But one worry is even the world event bosses, while taking a lot of hits to kill, it all seemed pretty easy.
You hit tab and it brings up bigger map.
With the last patch it is way too easy. I think they ramped up XP gain to get testers up to higher levels to try out the new chapter they added. They're constantly turning the difficulty up and down trying to tune it so it should be much better by open beta/launch. I have to admit it is fun wading into a group of 20+ enemies and wrecking face. The raid bosses so far end up like any outdoor public raid, as in you get too many players on them and you just spam them to death. Most of them do move around quite a bit and some summon adds, throw AEs, stuns, etc., but right now not very challenging if there are more than half a dozen people fighting.
But when they cranked up the spawn rates last week as they were trying to tune them, that was a challenge and I died to packs of dozens of Sentinels many, many times that day. It was glorious.
Yup, looks like I'm obligated to give them my money.
Grabbed the Hulk starter pack.
Thx for all the info. I've watched just about every YouTube video out there, which is why I asked about the map. In all the videos I saw, tab for map hasn't been implemented. The developers even mentioned it
I'm going to cross my fingers and hope for a beta invite. I was very tempted for the $200 pack for the 5% increased everything and beta access. In the end I just couldn't justify it, or even spring for it if I could justify it, in my head.
I love MuA, I love xmen legends, I loved diablo 1 and 2 and really liked 3 even though I stopped playing it way sooner than I thought. ( I was hooked, PC died, when got a new PC played LoL and not D3 cause most the people I knew quit. Damn fine game, wish I would have played it more if for nothing else, RMAH. Fuck gold farmers, screw USA congress for outlawing online poker, I found a new form of online revenue!
Anyways, back to replying.
Glad to hear that about the difficulty. It's funny, I remember people bitching about the hardest difficulty in D3, yet I watched videos of Athene(?) who beat the highest difficulty in 4 days, begging for something next to impossible. They promised to make him happy. (And honestly I think the RMAH is what drived many people to be disappointed by not being able to farm but totally different discussion. Glad there's no RMAH)
Now I don't want impossible difficulty, but I do want a challenge. As I said, in MuA my biggest gripe was me and my friends had to fight over enemies to beat up! It's awesome to feel like a super hero, but its another to make it so everyone mashes an ability and the whole screen is cleared. I want my screen filled with enemies, I want super Heroes to be getting beat up, wolverine has to let himself heal while the hulk smashes
In, then while hulk is getting mad (because really, hitting him doesn't do much) the thing pops in, only to he slapped aside as the boss rushes at iron man and slaps him out of orbit. In rushes hero B and C, but banding together, you win, blah blah blah. I think you get my point
Can't believe I just typed this much on an iPhone about this game. So hyped.
Couple pics from pre-content patch:
According to the description you can't actually get Symbiote Spidey and three others outside the Ultimate Founders package:
That sucks
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Wasn't sure I said it enough
If they do this they might as well make the Extremis armor exclusive and add some special effects like a "store in body" animation or something.
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But isn't the whole point of the reward for a founders program to provide them with something exclusive and iconic to the IP or game in general? How is this different than a super exclusive CE? It is a rad costume, and I almost considered shelling out $200. But that's the point.
I do think eventually it'll be available in game as the rarest of drops though.
Then how about some entirely new costumes? Something that's absolutely exclusive.
My point isn't "There shouldn't be exclusive costumes", my point is "Iconic costumes shouldn't be exclusive".
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Why?
*fake edit. I would ask real questions, but the underlying question is why?
I mean seriously what's different from a founders program and a CE? If you want that costume so bad, but it. I got the dead pool pack because of pirate dead pool.
What's wring with a CE style pre order bonus?
That way everyone's happy.
That was how I interpreted it, anyway.
I know personally I looked at the costumes available in the preorder packs and that's how I made my decision (I got all the deadpoolz) . I wanted mr fix it hulk, and didn't personally like any of the costumes in the $20 packs.
I dunno, the same thing has been happening in LoL. There's an Annie skin exclusive to a big bundle, that just had the artwork redone. It's always been exclusive but now there's a battle if "I want to buy it" vs "it should stay exclusive!" There's no way to please everybody.
Uhm, it's never being exclusive at all, seriously.
The reason it costs more relatively than other skins is because it's part of a bundle and League's bundle system doesn't discount based on owning parts of the bundle.
Anyway, I don't like the Founders pack skins being exclusive because the difference between that and a CE for a standard game is that if I want to get a CE for a game a year after enjoying it for a long time I can.
I don't like time limited skins because I don't feel there should be a reward for playing a game at a given time.
Isn't it exclusively part of that bundle? And with the rework people were crying that it should be sold stand alone, and other wanting it to stay part if the bundle.
I guess you're right about the physical CE's. I have a shrink wrapped Burning Crusade CE that I'm going to sell for Texas soon. But if I had opened it, ya you could get the physical stuff, but the in game content code would have already been used. Correct me if I'm wrong, there's no way to get that pet unless you got the CEright? And aren't pets being used for something insane right now, like Pokemon fights or something?
This game is F2P and relying in micro transactions for $. At some point, I think it's safe to say, you'll be able to buy it.
In the FAQ, Gazillion says that while those specific outfits in the Ultimate Pack are, in fact, completely exclusive and will never be resold, they can still use the assets to sell slightly reworked versions of the outfit.
I can certainly see them selling a "Secret Wars" Spidey suit, which is identical to the symbiote suit minus the tendrils so it's a different suit, and the vast majority of the forum agrees with this speculation.
Honestly though, I bought the $200 pack, and I couldn't care less if they eventually sold the suits later on down the line (I just wanted to support this type of endeavor, get the beta access, and enjoy the permanent bonuses to xp and item find), but according to the FAQ, they will stay exclusive to the Ultimate Pack.
Some people just want to have that shiny special item that proves to everyone else that they are a special snowflake and are better than everyone else, kinda like when all the WoW hardcore PVPers/raiders whine when Blizzard makes their hard-earned special loincloth or mount available to the unwashed masses in more alternative/casual/group finder ways. Whoop whoop, I am wealthy/stupid/irresponsible enough to spend the equivalent of 4 AAA games on a game that's not even released yet for a special outfit that took absolutely no skill whatsoever to acquire! Worship me and so forth!
I'll tell you what though: In this last round of beta I've been playing Mr. Fixit Hulk, and that's the suit I'll be playing with when this game goes live. A dapper mob enforcer that can launch himself like a meteor into a crowd of guys for mass insta-kills? Yes please.
Also, sorry for the simile if you live in the Ural mountains.
Basically they're giving out one of the Ultimate Packs every day until the 27th of February, to people who register between now and then and to people who have already registered.
So they're really promoting the hell out of this.
That's dumb as balls, IMO.
That's pretty sweet. I'm going to send that out to some friends. Although ill be pretty jealous if they win and I don't.
It seems natural to me that a company that is giving their game away for free would put their most desirable outfits in their most expensive ticket item. They gotta make money somehow.
Think about this though: it's an isometric camera, and you're going to spend 99.9% of your time scrolled all the way out to see the bad guys and such. Is it really that big of a deal that you can't have the black suit with tendrils as opposed to getting the almost certain release of the black suit minus tendrils?
In games like this, they're going to be putting out new suits every week. That Spidey suit will be equipped for a couple of minutes until the new flavor of the day pops up, then that suit is equipped then put in the stash and replaced for the next outfit you find/buy, repeat ad nauseum.
I wouldn't really worry about it.