Today's update is going to be a bit similar to last week as there was no patch, and we've continued to work on this week's upcoming patch with Dynamic Combat Level, the Blessing changes, revamped Avenger's Tower and other changes that are currently on Test Center.
As of right now, the patch for this week is planned to land on Wednesday, July 27th. The patch should also re-enable the gifting feature of the in-game store, which will have a few restrictions in place to prevent the feature from being abused by fresh "dummy" accounts that were being created specifically to make fraudulent purchases with compromised payment info.
In terms of upcoming news, the Kamala Khan Team-Up and Hulk VU should be finding their way to Test Center in the upcoming week. Emma Frost's next costume should also be finding its way to Test Center soon, so keep an eye out for that!
We're also going to be creating new feedback threads for all heroes in their hero-specific subforums this week. As we move towards upcoming hero changes, we'd like to have the most up-to-date feedback on your favorite powers, suggestions, and top concerns for each hero. If you get a chance, please let us know what you think in these threads as they roll out to each hero forum.
Patch Notes! Dynamic Combat Scaling, Blessing revamp and more!
Dynamic Combat Scaling
Many zones and game modes now support Dynamic Combat Scaling - a system that makes it easier for Heroes of different levels to play together!
Previously in Marvel Heroes, each area of the game had a fixed level, and all enemies in that area were locked to the level of that area. This meant that, even if you and a friend both wanted to play in a mode like X-Defense, if you weren’t near the same level you couldn’t play together. It also meant that if you were significantly over the level of an area - such as going back to lower level Story Mode chapters - you really didn’t have any reason to visit those areas since you would not receive loot or XP for your hero level.
With Dynamic Combat Scaling, these barriers are being broken down! Enemies throughout the game will be able to match your personal hero level and give appropriate rewards, allowing you to play with friends of different levels without having to split up to experience a more appropriate challenge, XP and loot rewards for your hero.
Story Mode will be affected by Dynamic Combat Scaling in the following ways:
Enemies will still have a minimum level based on the progression of chapters as you encounter them, but will continue to scale up to match your hero’s level.
XP rewards from Story Mode have been adjusted to ensure that progression through the chapters is smooth for new players. XP rewards from missions has been reduced slightly, while XP rewards from enemy defeats and orb pickups has been significantly increased. XP rewards from mission completion will now also scale to your hero level rather than being a fixed amount of XP based on the level of the mission. Overall, the amount of XP earned from Story Mode while playing through each chapter normally will be increased compared to before, but reduced when immediately skipping directly to a much higher level mission objective while bypassing enemies.
Chapter 10 no longer requires reaching level 60 to unlock immediately, you’ll now unlock Chapter 10 as soon as you complete Chapter 9’s main mission progression. For now, unlocking Hightown Patrol during the Chapter 10 storyline will still require reaching level 60, and Hightown Patrol will remain broken into level bands, but this will be changing to match other Patrol zones in an upcoming patch.
Challenge Modes will be affected by Dynamic Combat Scaling in the following ways:
Some modes that were previously accessible before level 60 are no longer separated into level bands, and all players will be joining a single zone that allows all players above the mode’s minimum level to join the same area. This includes:
The Cosmic Trial will no longer be entered through the portal within Midtown Patrol itself. The Cosmic Trial now has its own Waypoint entry in the Challenges tab that will unlock for each hero at level 60 so that players can unlock access to Cosmic Midtown Patrol, Cosmic Industry City Patrol, and Cosmic Hightown Patrol for that hero.
Midtown Patrol reward boxes will now drop at the level of the hero you are currently playing.
Modes that previously required level 60 to enter have not changed. These modes still require level 60 to enter, and their difficulty will remain as it did prior to this patch for level 60 players.
Going forward, we’ll be continuing to roll out Dynamic Combat Scaling to fully apply to other content in the game through upcoming updates:
Green and Red Terminals as well as One-Shots will be converted similarly to zones such as Midtown Patrol and will encompass the entire 20-60 level range once they are unlocked for that hero.
Industry City Patrol will be converted similarly to Midtown Patrol and will encompass the entire level 10-60 level range once it is unlocked for that hero.
Hightown Patrol’s level 60 requirement will be lifted, and this Patrol will operate similarly to Midtown Patrol encompassing the entire 1-60 level range. Note that access to this zone will still require at least one hero unlocking Hightown Patrol through Chapter 10 Story Mode main mission progression.
Blessings Revamp
With this patch, we are removing all sources of passive bonuses that grant benefits which ignore diminishing returns. The main outlier in the game in this regard was the Blessing of Hela, which granted an enormous amount of Brutal Strike chance that allowed players to reach incredibly high Brutal Strike chances. Due to these bonuses ignoring diminishing returns, these bonuses simply have become too powerful, and are being converted into rating bonuses so they can be tuned against more consistently.
Because this change affected the Blessing system to a much larger extent than anything else in Marvel Heroes, we have taken the opportunity to redesign Blessings as a whole to make some of the other Blessing choices more appealing, and encouraging some heroes to take different Blessing setups compared to always using Blessing of Hela.
Blessings are now broken up into three major categories: Offensive, Defensive, and Utility.
All Blessings in the Offensive category will have Brutal Rating as a primary affix, as well as a secondary offensive affix:
All Blessings in the Defensive category will have 1% Damage Negation as a primary affix, as well as a secondary defensive affix:
Blessing of Fandral
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Dodge Rating
Blessing of Heimdall
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Deflect Rating
Blessing of Volstagg
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Defense Rating
All Blessings in the Utility category will have both Health and Damage Rating as primary affixes, as well as a third utility affix:
Blessing of Balder
+200 Health
+200 Damage Rating
+50 Spirit
Blessing of Sif
+200 Health
+200 Damage Rating
-4% Spirit Cost
There will be a single uncategorized Blessing - Odin, the All-Father - that grants bonus damage versus bosses, and additionally grants +1 to all Attributes if your hero equips one Blessing from each of the three categories:
Blessing of Odin
+3% Damage to Bosses
If you have an Offensive Blessing, Defensive Blessing and Utility Blessing equipped, gain +1 to all Attributes for 10 seconds when you use any power
With all Blessings being converted to rating bonuses which have different levels of scaling relative to your personal hero level, Blessings will now scale their benefits based on the item level of the Artifact they are being applied to. The listed stats above are the maximum each Blessing will scale to, which is reached with Artfiacts that require level 39 to equip (item level 42) or higher.
In addition, to help players make the transition to the new Blessings on their existing heroes, the Enchanter will now have exchange recipes for each of the individual Blessings. Inserting any Artifact that already has an existing Blessing applied to it will allow you to switch to any other Blessing at no cost using these exchange recipes. This will allow players to change their Blessings around to adjust for the updated Blessing stats without spending additional Odin Marks.
Global Tuning Changes
In line with the change to the Hela Blessing, most other sources of bonuses that ignore diminishing returns are being altered:
Cable Hero Synergy has been updated to +2% Critical Rating at level 25 and 50.
Star-Lord Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Energy powers at level 25 and 50.
Ghost Rider Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Mental powers at level 25 and 50.
Moon Knight Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Physical powers at level 25 and 50.
Wolverine Hero Synergy has been updated to +5% Brutal Rating at level 25.
Midtown Patrol Vest slot 2 Unique item affix has been updated to grant a large amount of Brutal Strike Rating when hitting a Midtown boss.
Two hero powers have also been changed that conferred passive overcap benefits:
Rogue’s Destroyer’s Vengeance passive updated to grant +4% Brutal Strike Rating
Rogue’s Precise Aim passive updated to grant +4% Critical Hit Rating
Other hero powers that affect Critical Hit or Brutal Strike chance outside of diminishing returns do so either temporarily or only for individual powers, and are not being changed.
New Avenger’s Tower
Tony Stark has ordered a remodeling of one of the upper floors of the Avenger’s Tower to serve as the new base of operations, which is now complete!
The new Avenger’s Tower hub area is more spacious and contains all the amenities you’d expect from a billionaire’s superhero headquarters. The previous terminal section of the old hub - after undergoing constant maintenance and repairs to no avail - has been retired, now that the Waypoint technology has been upgraded to the point that they were no longer necessary.
Feel free to get comfortable and take in the sights of the new Avenger’s Tower hub!
Danger Room Tournament - Doop Scenario
A new Danger Room Tournament will begin this week starting Friday, August 5th at 12PM PDT - the Doop Scenario!
Fight off waves of dangerous Doops in Doop Space Nine until you can take down the devious Doop Generals, and finally defeat the dastardly Doop Overlord!
Both Epic and Cosmic versions of the Tournament Scenario will be available, with separate Leaderboards for each. At the end of the week, rewards will be granted to those that participated and have recorded at least one completion time on the Leaderboards, with better rewards for those that reach the top 50%, top 10%, and number 1 spots!
Hero Changes
Captain America
Torqued Shield Throw has changed places with Indestructible Shield in Captain America’s power progression, to give Captain America some additional firepower to deal with Ultron in the Times Square tutorial, and improve the early game experience.
Hawkeye
Hawkeye has received a new power: the Sky-Cycle! This power replaces his sprint as his dedicated travel power. Why walk when you can fly in style?
In-Game Store Gifting Changes
The in-game store gifting feature is being restored this week, with some changes being made with this update. Gifting items to another player will now have a few restrictions for new accounts:
The account must have a verified e-mail address associated with the account
The account must have at least one hero at level 20
The account must be at least 1 week old and have logged into the game at least 5 times
Overall, these restrictions should not impact existing players, but will help prevent gifting abuse from those that were attempting to hide fraudulent transactions behind newly created accounts.
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Previously, a new account would have to have at least one hero reach level 30 before they could be affected by event-related server live-tuning bonuses (such as XP, SIF, RIF bonuses). This threshold has been increased to level 60, to allow us to better tune the entirety of Story Mode XP progression so new players have a consistent experience up to level cap the first time, without being overly affected by server-side XP halfway through level progression. Once an account has at least one level 60, they will receive event live-tuning bonuses.
The entrance to Midtown in the southeast corner of Avenger’s Tower will now only appear once a player has reached level 10 with at least one hero on their account.
Jean Grey's Telepathic Detection visual effect has been updated to better match her other powers.
Tippy Toe from Squirrel Girl's 'Tippy Toe's Itty Bitty Bow' unique now critically and brutally strikes when summoned. Don't let the bow fool you.
Storm’s Cape of the Stormcrafter unique now grants Spirit cost reduction to all Windrider powers, instead of cost reduction to only the Windy Flight travel power.
The login reward for day 730 will now grant players a 3-Year Anniversary Birthday Cake. This change is retroactive and all players who have at least 730 login days will receive one!
Login rewards have been added for days 751 to 800.
Fixed an issue that could cause the player’s hero to move towards the cursor location while the chat window was active and the player was attempting to type into the chat box.
Fixed an issue with Cyclops’ Marvel NOW costume that caused his eye beam when using Shotgun Beam to not be angled correctly.
Fixed some visual issues with Luke Cage's Chunk O' Concrete power.
Blob will now correctly drop his medallion when he is defeated.
Fixed an issue with modifier keys being pressed quickly and causing some powers to not activate correctly.
Some powers that result in a transformed state with a custom hotbar will no longer unintentionally be able to use their dedicated travel power via hotkey:
Loki can no longer use his travel power while in Frost Giant form.
Mr. Fantastic can no longer use his travel power while in Spectacular Spheroid form.
Rocket Raccoon can no longer use his travel power while operating his Thanosbuster mech-suit.
Fixed a display issue with the refresh bar not displaying correctly on vendors that have the refresh option.
Fixed an issue in which the the tooltip for the Genosha Influence progress bar didn’t display correctly.
Fixed an issue in which dropped item names would not appear when using a controller.
Fixed a typo in Captain America's Shield Expertise power.
Fixed a typo in the Hero Synergy tutorial window.
Known Issues
The following issues are known and planned to be fixed in an upcoming update:
The Avenger’s Tower Waypoint may not be granted correctly on login. Until this is corrected, a simple workaround is to travel to Midtown Patrol via a different hub, then use the portal door to manually enter Avenger’s Tower and collect the new Waypoint.
The lowest health boss testing dummy in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Training Room does not have the correct amount of health, and instead has the same health as the high health Raid testing dummy.
Hawkeye’s Sky-Cycle will not be visible when used while wearing the Ronin costume.
Hawkeye’s Kate Bishop enhanced costume is showing a T-pose during her run animation.
Some Chapter 1 and 2 missions are showing a “Missing Translation” text string in the Mission Log where it should display the mission description.
Not in the patch notes: they added a recipe on the enchanter to swap a blessing to a different blessing without having to pay an additional 100 odin marks.
Patch Notes! Dynamic Combat Scaling, Blessing revamp and more!
Dynamic Combat Scaling
Many zones and game modes now support Dynamic Combat Scaling - a system that makes it easier for Heroes of different levels to play together!
Previously in Marvel Heroes, each area of the game had a fixed level, and all enemies in that area were locked to the level of that area. This meant that, even if you and a friend both wanted to play in a mode like X-Defense, if you weren’t near the same level you couldn’t play together. It also meant that if you were significantly over the level of an area - such as going back to lower level Story Mode chapters - you really didn’t have any reason to visit those areas since you would not receive loot or XP for your hero level.
With Dynamic Combat Scaling, these barriers are being broken down! Enemies throughout the game will be able to match your personal hero level and give appropriate rewards, allowing you to play with friends of different levels without having to split up to experience a more appropriate challenge, XP and loot rewards for your hero.
Story Mode will be affected by Dynamic Combat Scaling in the following ways:
Enemies will still have a minimum level based on the progression of chapters as you encounter them, but will continue to scale up to match your hero’s level.
XP rewards from Story Mode have been adjusted to ensure that progression through the chapters is smooth for new players. XP rewards from missions has been reduced slightly, while XP rewards from enemy defeats and orb pickups has been significantly increased. XP rewards from mission completion will now also scale to your hero level rather than being a fixed amount of XP based on the level of the mission. Overall, the amount of XP earned from Story Mode while playing through each chapter normally will be increased compared to before, but reduced when immediately skipping directly to a much higher level mission objective while bypassing enemies.
Chapter 10 no longer requires reaching level 60 to unlock immediately, you’ll now unlock Chapter 10 as soon as you complete Chapter 9’s main mission progression. For now, unlocking Hightown Patrol during the Chapter 10 storyline will still require reaching level 60, and Hightown Patrol will remain broken into level bands, but this will be changing to match other Patrol zones in an upcoming patch.
Challenge Modes will be affected by Dynamic Combat Scaling in the following ways:
Some modes that were previously accessible before level 60 are no longer separated into level bands, and all players will be joining a single zone that allows all players above the mode’s minimum level to join the same area. This includes:
The Cosmic Trial will no longer be entered through the portal within Midtown Patrol itself. The Cosmic Trial now has its own Waypoint entry in the Challenges tab that will unlock for each hero at level 60 so that players can unlock access to Cosmic Midtown Patrol, Cosmic Industry City Patrol, and Cosmic Hightown Patrol for that hero.
Midtown Patrol reward boxes will now drop at the level of the hero you are currently playing.
Modes that previously required level 60 to enter have not changed. These modes still require level 60 to enter, and their difficulty will remain as it did prior to this patch for level 60 players.
Going forward, we’ll be continuing to roll out Dynamic Combat Scaling to fully apply to other content in the game through upcoming updates:
Green and Red Terminals as well as One-Shots will be converted similarly to zones such as Midtown Patrol and will encompass the entire 20-60 level range once they are unlocked for that hero.
Industry City Patrol will be converted similarly to Midtown Patrol and will encompass the entire level 10-60 level range once it is unlocked for that hero.
Hightown Patrol’s level 60 requirement will be lifted, and this Patrol will operate similarly to Midtown Patrol encompassing the entire 1-60 level range. Note that access to this zone will still require at least one hero unlocking Hightown Patrol through Chapter 10 Story Mode main mission progression.
Blessings Revamp
With this patch, we are removing all sources of passive bonuses that grant benefits which ignore diminishing returns. The main outlier in the game in this regard was the Blessing of Hela, which granted an enormous amount of Brutal Strike chance that allowed players to reach incredibly high Brutal Strike chances. Due to these bonuses ignoring diminishing returns, these bonuses simply have become too powerful, and are being converted into rating bonuses so they can be tuned against more consistently.
Because this change affected the Blessing system to a much larger extent than anything else in Marvel Heroes, we have taken the opportunity to redesign Blessings as a whole to make some of the other Blessing choices more appealing, and encouraging some heroes to take different Blessing setups compared to always using Blessing of Hela.
Blessings are now broken up into three major categories: Offensive, Defensive, and Utility.
All Blessings in the Offensive category will have Brutal Rating as a primary affix, as well as a secondary offensive affix:
All Blessings in the Defensive category will have 1% Damage Negation as a primary affix, as well as a secondary defensive affix:
Blessing of Fandral
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Dodge Rating
Blessing of Heimdall
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Deflect Rating
Blessing of Volstagg
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Defense Rating
All Blessings in the Utility category will have both Health and Damage Rating as primary affixes, as well as a third utility affix:
Blessing of Balder
+200 Health
+200 Damage Rating
+50 Spirit
Blessing of Sif
+200 Health
+200 Damage Rating
-4% Spirit Cost
There will be a single uncategorized Blessing - Odin, the All-Father - that grants bonus damage versus bosses, and additionally grants +1 to all Attributes if your hero equips one Blessing from each of the three categories:
Blessing of Odin
+3% Damage to Bosses
If you have an Offensive Blessing, Defensive Blessing and Utility Blessing equipped, gain +1 to all Attributes for 10 seconds when you use any power
With all Blessings being converted to rating bonuses which have different levels of scaling relative to your personal hero level, Blessings will now scale their benefits based on the item level of the Artifact they are being applied to. The listed stats above are the maximum each Blessing will scale to, which is reached with Artfiacts that require level 39 to equip (item level 42) or higher.
In addition, to help players make the transition to the new Blessings on their existing heroes, the Enchanter will now have exchange recipes for each of the individual Blessings. Inserting any Artifact that already has an existing Blessing applied to it will allow you to switch to any other Blessing at no cost using these exchange recipes. This will allow players to change their Blessings around to adjust for the updated Blessing stats without spending additional Odin Marks.
Global Tuning Changes
In line with the change to the Hela Blessing, most other sources of bonuses that ignore diminishing returns are being altered:
Cable Hero Synergy has been updated to +2% Critical Rating at level 25 and 50.
Star-Lord Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Energy powers at level 25 and 50.
Ghost Rider Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Mental powers at level 25 and 50.
Moon Knight Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Physical powers at level 25 and 50.
Wolverine Hero Synergy has been updated to +5% Brutal Rating at level 25.
Midtown Patrol Vest slot 2 Unique item affix has been updated to grant a large amount of Brutal Strike Rating when hitting a Midtown boss.
Two hero powers have also been changed that conferred passive overcap benefits:
Rogue’s Destroyer’s Vengeance passive updated to grant +4% Brutal Strike Rating
Rogue’s Precise Aim passive updated to grant +4% Critical Hit Rating
Other hero powers that affect Critical Hit or Brutal Strike chance outside of diminishing returns do so either temporarily or only for individual powers, and are not being changed.
New Avenger’s Tower
Tony Stark has ordered a remodeling of one of the upper floors of the Avenger’s Tower to serve as the new base of operations, which is now complete!
The new Avenger’s Tower hub area is more spacious and contains all the amenities you’d expect from a billionaire’s superhero headquarters. The previous terminal section of the old hub - after undergoing constant maintenance and repairs to no avail - has been retired, now that the Waypoint technology has been upgraded to the point that they were no longer necessary.
Feel free to get comfortable and take in the sights of the new Avenger’s Tower hub!
Danger Room Tournament - Doop Scenario
A new Danger Room Tournament will begin this week starting Friday, August 5th at 12PM PDT - the Doop Scenario!
Fight off waves of dangerous Doops in Doop Space Nine until you can take down the devious Doop Generals, and finally defeat the dastardly Doop Overlord!
Both Epic and Cosmic versions of the Tournament Scenario will be available, with separate Leaderboards for each. At the end of the week, rewards will be granted to those that participated and have recorded at least one completion time on the Leaderboards, with better rewards for those that reach the top 50%, top 10%, and number 1 spots!
Hero Changes
Captain America
Torqued Shield Throw has changed places with Indestructible Shield in Captain America’s power progression, to give Captain America some additional firepower to deal with Ultron in the Times Square tutorial, and improve the early game experience.
Hawkeye
Hawkeye has received a new power: the Sky-Cycle! This power replaces his sprint as his dedicated travel power. Why walk when you can fly in style?
In-Game Store Gifting Changes
The in-game store gifting feature is being restored this week, with some changes being made with this update. Gifting items to another player will now have a few restrictions for new accounts:
The account must have a verified e-mail address associated with the account
The account must have at least one hero at level 20
The account must be at least 1 week old and have logged into the game at least 5 times
Overall, these restrictions should not impact existing players, but will help prevent gifting abuse from those that were attempting to hide fraudulent transactions behind newly created accounts.
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Previously, a new account would have to have at least one hero reach level 30 before they could be affected by event-related server live-tuning bonuses (such as XP, SIF, RIF bonuses). This threshold has been increased to level 60, to allow us to better tune the entirety of Story Mode XP progression so new players have a consistent experience up to level cap the first time, without being overly affected by server-side XP halfway through level progression. Once an account has at least one level 60, they will receive event live-tuning bonuses.
The entrance to Midtown in the southeast corner of Avenger’s Tower will now only appear once a player has reached level 10 with at least one hero on their account.
Jean Grey's Telepathic Detection visual effect has been updated to better match her other powers.
Tippy Toe from Squirrel Girl's 'Tippy Toe's Itty Bitty Bow' unique now critically and brutally strikes when summoned. Don't let the bow fool you.
Storm’s Cape of the Stormcrafter unique now grants Spirit cost reduction to all Windrider powers, instead of cost reduction to only the Windy Flight travel power.
The login reward for day 730 will now grant players a 3-Year Anniversary Birthday Cake. This change is retroactive and all players who have at least 730 login days will receive one!
Login rewards have been added for days 751 to 800.
Fixed an issue that could cause the player’s hero to move towards the cursor location while the chat window was active and the player was attempting to type into the chat box.
Fixed an issue with Cyclops’ Marvel NOW costume that caused his eye beam when using Shotgun Beam to not be angled correctly.
Fixed some visual issues with Luke Cage's Chunk O' Concrete power.
Blob will now correctly drop his medallion when he is defeated.
Fixed an issue with modifier keys being pressed quickly and causing some powers to not activate correctly.
Some powers that result in a transformed state with a custom hotbar will no longer unintentionally be able to use their dedicated travel power via hotkey:
Loki can no longer use his travel power while in Frost Giant form.
Mr. Fantastic can no longer use his travel power while in Spectacular Spheroid form.
Rocket Raccoon can no longer use his travel power while operating his Thanosbuster mech-suit.
Fixed a display issue with the refresh bar not displaying correctly on vendors that have the refresh option.
Fixed an issue in which the the tooltip for the Genosha Influence progress bar didn’t display correctly.
Fixed an issue in which dropped item names would not appear when using a controller.
Fixed a typo in Captain America's Shield Expertise power.
Fixed a typo in the Hero Synergy tutorial window.
Known Issues
The following issues are known and planned to be fixed in an upcoming update:
The Avenger’s Tower Waypoint may not be granted correctly on login. Until this is corrected, a simple workaround is to travel to Midtown Patrol via a different hub, then use the portal door to manually enter Avenger’s Tower and collect the new Waypoint.
The lowest health boss testing dummy in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Training Room does not have the correct amount of health, and instead has the same health as the high health Raid testing dummy.
Hawkeye’s Sky-Cycle will not be visible when used while wearing the Ronin costume.
Hawkeye’s Kate Bishop enhanced costume is showing a T-pose during her run animation.
Some Chapter 1 and 2 missions are showing a “Missing Translation” text string in the Mission Log where it should display the mission description.
Not in the patch notes: they added a recipe on the enchanter to swap a blessing to a different blessing without having to pay an additional 100 odin marks.
But... That is in the patch notes.
I wonder what the new "standard" will be for blessings now. Pretty sure any blessings I have on my characters are all Hela's.
my sense is that most characters will probably still use four offensive, and a handful that get specific additional gains from defensive stats will use the odin combo
hold your head high soldier, it ain't over yet
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Patch Notes! Dynamic Combat Scaling, Blessing revamp and more!
Dynamic Combat Scaling
Many zones and game modes now support Dynamic Combat Scaling - a system that makes it easier for Heroes of different levels to play together!
Previously in Marvel Heroes, each area of the game had a fixed level, and all enemies in that area were locked to the level of that area. This meant that, even if you and a friend both wanted to play in a mode like X-Defense, if you weren’t near the same level you couldn’t play together. It also meant that if you were significantly over the level of an area - such as going back to lower level Story Mode chapters - you really didn’t have any reason to visit those areas since you would not receive loot or XP for your hero level.
With Dynamic Combat Scaling, these barriers are being broken down! Enemies throughout the game will be able to match your personal hero level and give appropriate rewards, allowing you to play with friends of different levels without having to split up to experience a more appropriate challenge, XP and loot rewards for your hero.
Story Mode will be affected by Dynamic Combat Scaling in the following ways:
Enemies will still have a minimum level based on the progression of chapters as you encounter them, but will continue to scale up to match your hero’s level.
XP rewards from Story Mode have been adjusted to ensure that progression through the chapters is smooth for new players. XP rewards from missions has been reduced slightly, while XP rewards from enemy defeats and orb pickups has been significantly increased. XP rewards from mission completion will now also scale to your hero level rather than being a fixed amount of XP based on the level of the mission. Overall, the amount of XP earned from Story Mode while playing through each chapter normally will be increased compared to before, but reduced when immediately skipping directly to a much higher level mission objective while bypassing enemies.
Chapter 10 no longer requires reaching level 60 to unlock immediately, you’ll now unlock Chapter 10 as soon as you complete Chapter 9’s main mission progression. For now, unlocking Hightown Patrol during the Chapter 10 storyline will still require reaching level 60, and Hightown Patrol will remain broken into level bands, but this will be changing to match other Patrol zones in an upcoming patch.
Challenge Modes will be affected by Dynamic Combat Scaling in the following ways:
Some modes that were previously accessible before level 60 are no longer separated into level bands, and all players will be joining a single zone that allows all players above the mode’s minimum level to join the same area. This includes:
The Cosmic Trial will no longer be entered through the portal within Midtown Patrol itself. The Cosmic Trial now has its own Waypoint entry in the Challenges tab that will unlock for each hero at level 60 so that players can unlock access to Cosmic Midtown Patrol, Cosmic Industry City Patrol, and Cosmic Hightown Patrol for that hero.
Midtown Patrol reward boxes will now drop at the level of the hero you are currently playing.
Modes that previously required level 60 to enter have not changed. These modes still require level 60 to enter, and their difficulty will remain as it did prior to this patch for level 60 players.
Going forward, we’ll be continuing to roll out Dynamic Combat Scaling to fully apply to other content in the game through upcoming updates:
Green and Red Terminals as well as One-Shots will be converted similarly to zones such as Midtown Patrol and will encompass the entire 20-60 level range once they are unlocked for that hero.
Industry City Patrol will be converted similarly to Midtown Patrol and will encompass the entire level 10-60 level range once it is unlocked for that hero.
Hightown Patrol’s level 60 requirement will be lifted, and this Patrol will operate similarly to Midtown Patrol encompassing the entire 1-60 level range. Note that access to this zone will still require at least one hero unlocking Hightown Patrol through Chapter 10 Story Mode main mission progression.
Blessings Revamp
With this patch, we are removing all sources of passive bonuses that grant benefits which ignore diminishing returns. The main outlier in the game in this regard was the Blessing of Hela, which granted an enormous amount of Brutal Strike chance that allowed players to reach incredibly high Brutal Strike chances. Due to these bonuses ignoring diminishing returns, these bonuses simply have become too powerful, and are being converted into rating bonuses so they can be tuned against more consistently.
Because this change affected the Blessing system to a much larger extent than anything else in Marvel Heroes, we have taken the opportunity to redesign Blessings as a whole to make some of the other Blessing choices more appealing, and encouraging some heroes to take different Blessing setups compared to always using Blessing of Hela.
Blessings are now broken up into three major categories: Offensive, Defensive, and Utility.
All Blessings in the Offensive category will have Brutal Rating as a primary affix, as well as a secondary offensive affix:
All Blessings in the Defensive category will have 1% Damage Negation as a primary affix, as well as a secondary defensive affix:
Blessing of Fandral
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Dodge Rating
Blessing of Heimdall
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Deflect Rating
Blessing of Volstagg
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Defense Rating
All Blessings in the Utility category will have both Health and Damage Rating as primary affixes, as well as a third utility affix:
Blessing of Balder
+200 Health
+200 Damage Rating
+50 Spirit
Blessing of Sif
+200 Health
+200 Damage Rating
-4% Spirit Cost
There will be a single uncategorized Blessing - Odin, the All-Father - that grants bonus damage versus bosses, and additionally grants +1 to all Attributes if your hero equips one Blessing from each of the three categories:
Blessing of Odin
+3% Damage to Bosses
If you have an Offensive Blessing, Defensive Blessing and Utility Blessing equipped, gain +1 to all Attributes for 10 seconds when you use any power
With all Blessings being converted to rating bonuses which have different levels of scaling relative to your personal hero level, Blessings will now scale their benefits based on the item level of the Artifact they are being applied to. The listed stats above are the maximum each Blessing will scale to, which is reached with Artfiacts that require level 39 to equip (item level 42) or higher.
In addition, to help players make the transition to the new Blessings on their existing heroes, the Enchanter will now have exchange recipes for each of the individual Blessings. Inserting any Artifact that already has an existing Blessing applied to it will allow you to switch to any other Blessing at no cost using these exchange recipes. This will allow players to change their Blessings around to adjust for the updated Blessing stats without spending additional Odin Marks.
Global Tuning Changes
In line with the change to the Hela Blessing, most other sources of bonuses that ignore diminishing returns are being altered:
Cable Hero Synergy has been updated to +2% Critical Rating at level 25 and 50.
Star-Lord Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Energy powers at level 25 and 50.
Ghost Rider Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Mental powers at level 25 and 50.
Moon Knight Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Physical powers at level 25 and 50.
Wolverine Hero Synergy has been updated to +5% Brutal Rating at level 25.
Midtown Patrol Vest slot 2 Unique item affix has been updated to grant a large amount of Brutal Strike Rating when hitting a Midtown boss.
Two hero powers have also been changed that conferred passive overcap benefits:
Rogue’s Destroyer’s Vengeance passive updated to grant +4% Brutal Strike Rating
Rogue’s Precise Aim passive updated to grant +4% Critical Hit Rating
Other hero powers that affect Critical Hit or Brutal Strike chance outside of diminishing returns do so either temporarily or only for individual powers, and are not being changed.
New Avenger’s Tower
Tony Stark has ordered a remodeling of one of the upper floors of the Avenger’s Tower to serve as the new base of operations, which is now complete!
The new Avenger’s Tower hub area is more spacious and contains all the amenities you’d expect from a billionaire’s superhero headquarters. The previous terminal section of the old hub - after undergoing constant maintenance and repairs to no avail - has been retired, now that the Waypoint technology has been upgraded to the point that they were no longer necessary.
Feel free to get comfortable and take in the sights of the new Avenger’s Tower hub!
Danger Room Tournament - Doop Scenario
A new Danger Room Tournament will begin this week starting Friday, August 5th at 12PM PDT - the Doop Scenario!
Fight off waves of dangerous Doops in Doop Space Nine until you can take down the devious Doop Generals, and finally defeat the dastardly Doop Overlord!
Both Epic and Cosmic versions of the Tournament Scenario will be available, with separate Leaderboards for each. At the end of the week, rewards will be granted to those that participated and have recorded at least one completion time on the Leaderboards, with better rewards for those that reach the top 50%, top 10%, and number 1 spots!
Hero Changes
Captain America
Torqued Shield Throw has changed places with Indestructible Shield in Captain America’s power progression, to give Captain America some additional firepower to deal with Ultron in the Times Square tutorial, and improve the early game experience.
Hawkeye
Hawkeye has received a new power: the Sky-Cycle! This power replaces his sprint as his dedicated travel power. Why walk when you can fly in style?
In-Game Store Gifting Changes
The in-game store gifting feature is being restored this week, with some changes being made with this update. Gifting items to another player will now have a few restrictions for new accounts:
The account must have a verified e-mail address associated with the account
The account must have at least one hero at level 20
The account must be at least 1 week old and have logged into the game at least 5 times
Overall, these restrictions should not impact existing players, but will help prevent gifting abuse from those that were attempting to hide fraudulent transactions behind newly created accounts.
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Previously, a new account would have to have at least one hero reach level 30 before they could be affected by event-related server live-tuning bonuses (such as XP, SIF, RIF bonuses). This threshold has been increased to level 60, to allow us to better tune the entirety of Story Mode XP progression so new players have a consistent experience up to level cap the first time, without being overly affected by server-side XP halfway through level progression. Once an account has at least one level 60, they will receive event live-tuning bonuses.
The entrance to Midtown in the southeast corner of Avenger’s Tower will now only appear once a player has reached level 10 with at least one hero on their account.
Jean Grey's Telepathic Detection visual effect has been updated to better match her other powers.
Tippy Toe from Squirrel Girl's 'Tippy Toe's Itty Bitty Bow' unique now critically and brutally strikes when summoned. Don't let the bow fool you.
Storm’s Cape of the Stormcrafter unique now grants Spirit cost reduction to all Windrider powers, instead of cost reduction to only the Windy Flight travel power.
The login reward for day 730 will now grant players a 3-Year Anniversary Birthday Cake. This change is retroactive and all players who have at least 730 login days will receive one!
Login rewards have been added for days 751 to 800.
Fixed an issue that could cause the player’s hero to move towards the cursor location while the chat window was active and the player was attempting to type into the chat box.
Fixed an issue with Cyclops’ Marvel NOW costume that caused his eye beam when using Shotgun Beam to not be angled correctly.
Fixed some visual issues with Luke Cage's Chunk O' Concrete power.
Blob will now correctly drop his medallion when he is defeated.
Fixed an issue with modifier keys being pressed quickly and causing some powers to not activate correctly.
Some powers that result in a transformed state with a custom hotbar will no longer unintentionally be able to use their dedicated travel power via hotkey:
Loki can no longer use his travel power while in Frost Giant form.
Mr. Fantastic can no longer use his travel power while in Spectacular Spheroid form.
Rocket Raccoon can no longer use his travel power while operating his Thanosbuster mech-suit.
Fixed a display issue with the refresh bar not displaying correctly on vendors that have the refresh option.
Fixed an issue in which the the tooltip for the Genosha Influence progress bar didn’t display correctly.
Fixed an issue in which dropped item names would not appear when using a controller.
Fixed a typo in Captain America's Shield Expertise power.
Fixed a typo in the Hero Synergy tutorial window.
Known Issues
The following issues are known and planned to be fixed in an upcoming update:
The Avenger’s Tower Waypoint may not be granted correctly on login. Until this is corrected, a simple workaround is to travel to Midtown Patrol via a different hub, then use the portal door to manually enter Avenger’s Tower and collect the new Waypoint.
The lowest health boss testing dummy in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Training Room does not have the correct amount of health, and instead has the same health as the high health Raid testing dummy.
Hawkeye’s Sky-Cycle will not be visible when used while wearing the Ronin costume.
Hawkeye’s Kate Bishop enhanced costume is showing a T-pose during her run animation.
Some Chapter 1 and 2 missions are showing a “Missing Translation” text string in the Mission Log where it should display the mission description.
Not in the patch notes: they added a recipe on the enchanter to swap a blessing to a different blessing without having to pay an additional 100 odin marks.
But... That is in the patch notes.
I wonder what the new "standard" will be for blessings now. Pretty sure any blessings I have on my characters are all Hela's.
A new chat command has been enabled that will allow users to cast a vote against someone being heavily abusive or spamming in public chat channels:
/chatbanvote (player name) (reason for vote)
This feature is intended to give players the ability to report a user for chat abuse in a way that - if enough votes are received against that user - will block them from continuing to use public chat features until a CS representative can investigate and resolve the situation.
Note that use of this feature is logged both for votes received and votes cast against other users, and attempted abuse of this feature will be considered a violation and may result in action taken against your account. This feature is only intended to give players the ability to prevent someone who is severely abusing chat privileges (such as RMT spammers) from continuing to do so until a CS representative can investigate the reports. Please use this feature responsibly.
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Story Mode mission XP rewards were granting more XP than intended and have been corrected.
Legendary Quests and Shared Quests will now properly update in Midtown Patrol.
Hawkeye’s Kate Bishop enhanced costume should no longer T-pose during run or idle animations.
Hawkeye’s Sky-Cycle should no longer be invisible when wearing the Ronin costume.
The new Avengers Tower Waypoint should be unlocked for all players by default.
The health of various Civilians and NPCs have been adjusted to better reflect the amount of damage they are taking from enemies.
The health of the level 60 DPS Target Dummy has been corrected and will no longer have the same amount of health as the level 60 High Health Raid Dummy.
Mission descriptions for Chapter 1 & 2 Story Mode missions in the Mission Log should no longer display “Missing Translation” text.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from clicking item links in chat to see the item preview.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from dragging and dropping items into the Trade panel.
Fixed an issue that was causing the interact prompt to appear in the upper left-hand corner rather than next to the interactable object when using a gamepad.
Mystic Mayhem is now live, and will run until next week’s patch!
Infernal Limbo - A game mode only available during Mystic Mayhem that sends players into Limbo to defeat the Demon Lord N’astirh!
Legendary Mystic Scrolls and Double Legendary Mystic Scrolls - Items that can drop anywhere giving you some of the best loot in the game!
Hero Tokens Anywhere - All enemies in the game have a rare chance to drop a Hero token!
Eternity Splinters Galore - Packs of 10 Eternity Splinters have double the regular chance to drop, and have a rare chance to turn into a pack of 63 Eternity Splinters!
Asgard Supports the War Effort - Higher chance for rare runes to drop anywhere in game!
Experience Counts - 63% Experience Boost
Finding Items - 63% RIF/SIF Boost
Strike on Limbo - Speak to Magik in the X-Mansion for a mission that grants you 3 power points and +63 permanent health bonus!
Mystic Mayhem Invades - Demons from Limbo have invaded Midtown Manhattan Patrol!
Exclusive Items and Rewards
Sharabus Neotum - An artifact for summoners that comes in 3 different damage type variations
Mayhem Demonblood - A damage dealer artifact that comes in 5 different damage type variations
Bloodstone Demonband - Unique rings for a variety of different builds
Mystic Mayhem Coffers - Boxes with a chance to drop the above items as well as other rewards
Mystery Achievements - A new mystery achievement will be added each time the event goes live, and if players solve it before the end of the event, the 63% XP/RIF/SIF buff will last an extra day, overlapping with the next event!
Achievement Mayhem - Mystic Mayhem has its own set of achievements for you to earn!
New Team-Up: Ms. Marvel
Ms. Marvel joins the Team-Up roster of Marvel Heroes 2016!
One of the Avengers' biggest fans, Pakistani-American teen Kamala Khan grew up as just another regular kid in Jersey City. As she returned home from sneaking out one night, Kamala was exposed to the Terrigen Mists, awakening miraculous new powers within her by activating her Inhuman genes. Using these morphogenetic powers, she took on the mantle of her most idolised superhero and now fights crime as Ms. Marvel!
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Damage from both enemies and bosses within the Cosmic Trial was slightly higher than intended has been reduced.
The health of all bosses in Cosmic Patrol zones has been reduced slightly. Additionally the health of triple boss waves in Hightown Patrol was higher than intended and has been corrected.
Fixed an issue that was causing players to take slightly more damage from enemy attacks than intended in level 60 zones.
Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when attempting to view the scoreboard during a PvP match.
Fixed an issue where certain tooltips and item nameplates would not highlight or move to the top when moused over with the cursor.
Fixed an issue that caused the Crossbones Medallion to not correctly add to Physical or Energy damage ratings.
Fixed an issue that caused the Skrull Energy Rifle Focusing Crystal to not correctly add to Energy Damage rating.
Fixed an issue that caused the Nick Fury Was Right T-Shirt to not correctly add to Physical Damage rating.
Fixed not being able to drop items on the Character Portrait in the Character Sheet Panel in order to auto-equip them.
Fixed an issue that caused M.O.D.O.K. in Holo-Sim to not be able to drop Odin Marks when defeated.
Fixed an issue where Travel Powers were stacking with movement speed bonuses.
Iron Legionnaire Mini-Bosses in Times Square Terminal have increased cooldown time between power usage.
Tippy Toe from Squirrel Girl's 'Tippy Toe's Itty Bitty Bow' unique should now properly scale with item level.
Iron Fist’s Mighty Asgardian Mace unique should now refresh all active stacks of the Attack Speed buff on successful Critical Strike, preventing individual stacks from expiring at different times.
Traitor S.H.I.E.L.D. Commanders no longer count for the 'Practice Makes Perfect' achievement. The traitorous S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander's verbal objection "But I’m a total boss!" has been noted and filed.
Checked out Angela on TC and she is ok, nothing fancy. Her character model, however, is super detailed and I hope they bring all the roster up to that level.
Patch notes from the other day for the End of Summer event and Angela release.
New Hero: Angela
Angela joins the hero roster of Marvel Heroes 2016!
When the Angels of the Tenth Realm, Heven, waged war on Asgard, Odin's daughter and heir to Asgard's throne was kidnapped by the Queen of Angels. But Odin would not be extorted by the Angels, and his daughter, Aldrif, was seemingly slain. Odin retaliated by severing Heven from Yggdrasil and closed it off from the other Nine Realms. While sealed away, Aldrif was discovered to have survived and was then raised—hidden from her true heritage—as Angela, Huntress of Heven.
As all secrets eventually come to light, Angela uncovered the truth of her upbringing. Now, shunned from Heven and branded a traitor to Asgard, Angela roams across the realms to find her place within it—continuing her hunt wherever it takes her.
Chapter 1 Story Mode Update
Chapter 1 of the Story Mode has been updated as we continue to work on improving the Story Mode experience.
Some of the changes for Chapter 1 include:
Completely redesigned mission progression, including new areas to explore! Missions now follow a much more direct progression, rather than separating out side missions and minor missions from main story missions.
Updated treasure rooms - these rooms will now spawn their reward chest near the exit portal once you complete the encounter within.
Supervillain fights updated - some bosses will now have new powers in their arsenal!
Supervillain encounters previously in public areas are being moved to their own instance within the zone. These are still tougher encounters, and will allow you to use the auto-party function to form a group to take them down, though you are still welcome to take the challenge on solo! For Chapter 1, this applies to the Electro encounter previously seen in Crumbling Brownstones.
For heroes that have already completed the Intrepid Reporter mission in Chapter 1, the updated missions will auto-complete and you will not need to do these missions again. For those that have not yet completed the Intrepid Reporter mission however, mission progress will be reset for Chapter 1 so players can properly experience the new mission progression within the chapter.
End of Summer Event
This past summer has been a scorcher so Dr. Pym and Mr. Fantastic put their great minds together to make Never Melting Ice Cream Bars for their fellow heroes to help keep them cool. Jealous that they didn’t have access to this new tasty technology, villains banded together and stole all of the Ice Cream Bars for themselves and stole the secret Never Melting Cores!
Help our heroes survive the hot summer by recovering the Never Melting Ice Cream Bars and Never Melting Cores from those dastardly villains.
Defeat enemies for a chance to get a Never Melting Ice Cream Bar which will give you a temporary boost! Bosses also have a small chance at dropping Cupcakes!
Also defeat enemies to collect the Never Melting Cores back from them and turn them into the Special Events Vendor for some fun in the sun rewards!
The event begins today, August 25th and will run until September 2nd, including:
100% Increased XP, and increased Cosmic Prestige leveling rate
Daily log-in gifts that include Never Melting Cores
A new Achievement for being a true summertime food connoisseur
New Summer Fortune Card that can drop in-game with all manner of goodies and summer-themed items!
Summertime Buffs - collect 5 of these to receive an instant lootsplosion!
End of Summer Tournament - Defeat Bosses and collect Never Melting Cores to earn Tournament points. The top spots on the leaderboard will earn Summer Fortune Cards and Never Melting Cores to exchange at the event vendor!
1 point per regular Boss defeat
3 points per Cosmic boss defeat
1 point per Never Melting Core collected
Tournament rewards:
Top 10%: 2 Summer Fortune Card, 5 Never Melting Ice Cream Bars, 25 Never Melting Cores
Top 20%: 1 Summer Fortune Card, 3 Never Melting Ice Cream Bars, 20 Never Melting Cores
Top 50%: 2 Never Melting Ice Cream Bars, 10 Never Melting Cores
Placement: 1 Never Melting Ice Cream Bar, 5 Never Melting Cores
The End of Summer event vendor will have a variety of rewards to exchange for Never Melting Cores recovered, including some returning summer-themed items like The Big Kahuna, The Perfect Wave and Brutally Awesome Summer Shades!
Crimson Box (200 Never Melting Cores)
Mysterious Blue Box (200 Never Melting Cores)
Box of Crafting Elements (20 Never Melting Cores)
Cosmic Reliquary of Rarity (40 Never Melting Cores)
Cosmic Team-Up Gear Box (20 Never Melting Cores)
Ghost Box (20 Never Melting Cores)
Brutally Awesome Summer Shades (150 Never Melting Cores)
The Perfect Wave (150 Never Melting Cores)
The Big Kahuna (200 Never Melting Cores)
Costume Core Box (40 Never Melting Cores)
Event: Operation Omega
Operation Omega will run alongside the End of Summer event starting Friday, August 26th, and runs through September 2nd!
Note that while this event runs alongside the End of Summer event, the XP bonuses will not be active. Server-side XP bonuses are being granted through the End of Summer event.
Join your fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. recruits for omega level loot, bosses, leveling and more!
During Operation Omega, the first time you complete a Shared Quest each day will reward double Omega Orb rewards.
Agent Coulson offers a mission during Operation Omega week. Each day, you can complete five or more waves in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Holo-Sim to receive a reward from him. This will help hone your skills to be prepared for Omega-Level threats.
During the event, any enemy can drop a powerful artifact called The Omega Drive.
Omega-Level Boosts Return - pair this with our server-wide boost for even greater returns!
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Colossus’ Modern Costume (default) has received a visual update.
Legendary Quests will now appear for Chapter 1 story content.
Item tooltip comparisons will once again display the stat change differences for the currently equipped item.
Added a new context menu item labeled “Report as Spam” to allow players to report another player for spam and cast a chat ban vote, equivalent to /chatbanvote chat command.
This week, we're planning to patch tomorrow, August 30th.
Tomorrow's patch contains some fixes for End of Summer event drop behavior, as well as Angela changes & fixes that didn't quite make her release. The patch also has some necessary event data, so that we can swap over to the Civil War event this upcoming Friday, with the End of Summer event running until then (through Thursday until midnight).
For next week, a number of visual updates are working through the pipeline and multiple VUs may wind up shipping with the following patch. Hulk, Dr. Strange, and Wolverine default VUs are progressing nicely and could all see a release late next week. A new Elektra costume is also coming through around the same time, as well as a Captain America costume that I suspect folks will not be able to predict!
For those wondering about our big upcoming announcements... soon™. To be more specific, we're expecting around the end of next week for the first of a number of dev blogs detailing some of the big changes coming to Marvel Heroes. We're looking forward to finally being able to discuss some of these changes with you folks!
As always, feel free to leave any questions or comments, and I'll try to respond to what I can.
Have a great week!
Hey folks,
First off, we apologize for these plans not being clearly communicated in the original patch notes for the Chapter 1 update. We should have done a better job making sure folks understood this was happening and why, and we clearly didn't do that. That's on us, and it's something we'll ensure doesn't happen in the future.
To be clear as possible - the main goal here, as indicated in today's patch notes, is that we don't feel Story Mode mission rewards are the ideal place for these kind of permanent hero bonuses, and we are planning on moving them out of this reward system as we move forward with our Story Mode chapter updates. Permanent stat bonuses are virtually compulsory - your hero really isn't "maxed" even at level 60 if you haven't completed these bonuses - and we don't necessarily like the resulting checklist of Story Mode steps that needs to be repeated for each hero that you have in your roster.
When it comes to these kind of tuning adjustments, naturally we're going to make changes that we feel provide the best experience for all of our players. However, that does not mean that we plan to simply discard these kinds of rewards altogether. We want to change what game systems permanent hero bonuses are coming from in the future, in order to allow players more freedom to choose where they play. In this case, though, we definitely didn't communicate clearly and in turn caused some unnecessary concern and confusion. We'll own our part in that, and be clearer going forward. Once those future chapter updates are closer we'll talk about the details of how those stat bonuses will work.
It is that time again, time to talk about September's event schedule! We have some exciting things in store!
This month, we have a lot of MCU things going on! Marvel's Captain America: Civil War comes out digitally on this Friday and on Blu-ray and DVD on 9/13. We also have the season premiere of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC on 9/20 and Marvel's Luke Cage on Netflix on 9/30!
We are excited to announce that we have some new event content for all of these!
Our Civil War event will be returning on Friday, September 2nd at 12:01am Pacific and run until we patch on Tuesday, September 20th. We will allow players to change sides on Friday, September 9th at Noon Pacific and Friday September 16th at Noon Pacific.
After we patch on Tuesday, September 20th, we will be have our first Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D event! More details will be coming, but we have some very cool things coming to coincide with the season premiere. Holo-Sim is getting some love, including a new, more challenging level 60 only version with a full loot review, some new rewards and new achievements. We will be running this event until Friday, September 30th. The new level 60 version of Holo-Sim should be on Test Center fairly soon to test out.
Friday, September 30th, we will deploy another patch, and once it comes up - our Luke Cage event will begin! This event will be fairly similar in scope with our Daredevil event back in the spring and will focus on celebrating Luke Cage's comic history as well as his brand new Netflix show. I hear the Diablos are back in town and causing problems! New achievements, a tournament, new items and some experience boosts are in store!
Remember, this is just talking about the gameplay elements of these different events. As we get closer to each one, we will have more info on some new exciting things coming to the store, including sales and new items!
I can't wait for you all to get your hands on this content, September is shaping up to be a great month.
Then, October. Man. October is going to be fun in a whole different way.
I really like being able to hit 60 halfway through story mode. It lets me just enjoy playing and not rush through because I'll out level the quests and the content (not having to worry about ES drops stopping because I'm too high level is great).
I also bet the omega gain rate from the scaled xp from story quests is pretty nice as well but mine have been capped for a while now so I dunno for sure.
I really like being able to hit 60 halfway through story mode. It lets me just enjoy playing and not rush through because I'll out level the quests and the content (not having to worry about ES drops stopping because I'm too high level is great).
I also bet the omega gain rate from the scaled xp from story quests is pretty nice as well but mine have been capped for a while now so I dunno for sure.
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I logged in to play Angela to 60, I cant say i feel strongly one or the other about her but after deadpool, kitty, psylocke, thor and magik it felt fairly old hat. (the ribbons actually look like they work really well, take that mr fantastic.)
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Edit - Got Blade, one of the few I didn't have. Woo!
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Many zones and game modes now support Dynamic Combat Scaling - a system that makes it easier for Heroes of different levels to play together!
Previously in Marvel Heroes, each area of the game had a fixed level, and all enemies in that area were locked to the level of that area. This meant that, even if you and a friend both wanted to play in a mode like X-Defense, if you weren’t near the same level you couldn’t play together. It also meant that if you were significantly over the level of an area - such as going back to lower level Story Mode chapters - you really didn’t have any reason to visit those areas since you would not receive loot or XP for your hero level.
With Dynamic Combat Scaling, these barriers are being broken down! Enemies throughout the game will be able to match your personal hero level and give appropriate rewards, allowing you to play with friends of different levels without having to split up to experience a more appropriate challenge, XP and loot rewards for your hero.
Story Mode will be affected by Dynamic Combat Scaling in the following ways:
Enemies will still have a minimum level based on the progression of chapters as you encounter them, but will continue to scale up to match your hero’s level.
XP rewards from Story Mode have been adjusted to ensure that progression through the chapters is smooth for new players. XP rewards from missions has been reduced slightly, while XP rewards from enemy defeats and orb pickups has been significantly increased. XP rewards from mission completion will now also scale to your hero level rather than being a fixed amount of XP based on the level of the mission. Overall, the amount of XP earned from Story Mode while playing through each chapter normally will be increased compared to before, but reduced when immediately skipping directly to a much higher level mission objective while bypassing enemies.
Chapter 10 no longer requires reaching level 60 to unlock immediately, you’ll now unlock Chapter 10 as soon as you complete Chapter 9’s main mission progression. For now, unlocking Hightown Patrol during the Chapter 10 storyline will still require reaching level 60, and Hightown Patrol will remain broken into level bands, but this will be changing to match other Patrol zones in an upcoming patch.
Challenge Modes will be affected by Dynamic Combat Scaling in the following ways:
Some modes that were previously accessible before level 60 are no longer separated into level bands, and all players will be joining a single zone that allows all players above the mode’s minimum level to join the same area. This includes:
Midtown Patrol (now level 1-60)
S.H.I.E.L.D. Holo-Sim (now 1-60)
X-Defense (now 1-60)
The Cosmic Trial will no longer be entered through the portal within Midtown Patrol itself. The Cosmic Trial now has its own Waypoint entry in the Challenges tab that will unlock for each hero at level 60 so that players can unlock access to Cosmic Midtown Patrol, Cosmic Industry City Patrol, and Cosmic Hightown Patrol for that hero.
Midtown Patrol reward boxes will now drop at the level of the hero you are currently playing.
Modes that previously required level 60 to enter have not changed. These modes still require level 60 to enter, and their difficulty will remain as it did prior to this patch for level 60 players.
Going forward, we’ll be continuing to roll out Dynamic Combat Scaling to fully apply to other content in the game through upcoming updates:
Green and Red Terminals as well as One-Shots will be converted similarly to zones such as Midtown Patrol and will encompass the entire 20-60 level range once they are unlocked for that hero.
Industry City Patrol will be converted similarly to Midtown Patrol and will encompass the entire level 10-60 level range once it is unlocked for that hero.
Hightown Patrol’s level 60 requirement will be lifted, and this Patrol will operate similarly to Midtown Patrol encompassing the entire 1-60 level range. Note that access to this zone will still require at least one hero unlocking Hightown Patrol through Chapter 10 Story Mode main mission progression.
Blessings Revamp
With this patch, we are removing all sources of passive bonuses that grant benefits which ignore diminishing returns. The main outlier in the game in this regard was the Blessing of Hela, which granted an enormous amount of Brutal Strike chance that allowed players to reach incredibly high Brutal Strike chances. Due to these bonuses ignoring diminishing returns, these bonuses simply have become too powerful, and are being converted into rating bonuses so they can be tuned against more consistently.
Because this change affected the Blessing system to a much larger extent than anything else in Marvel Heroes, we have taken the opportunity to redesign Blessings as a whole to make some of the other Blessing choices more appealing, and encouraging some heroes to take different Blessing setups compared to always using Blessing of Hela.
Blessings are now broken up into three major categories: Offensive, Defensive, and Utility.
All Blessings in the Offensive category will have Brutal Rating as a primary affix, as well as a secondary offensive affix:
Blessing of Frigga
+15% Summoned Ally Damage
+200 Brutal Strike Rating
Blessing of Hela
+400 Brutal Strike Rating
+400 Brutal Damage Rating
Blessing of Hogun
+200 Brutal Strike Rating
+300 Melee Damage Rating
Blessing of Loki
+200 Brutal Strike Rating
+300 Ranged Damage Rating
All Blessings in the Defensive category will have 1% Damage Negation as a primary affix, as well as a secondary defensive affix:
Blessing of Fandral
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Dodge Rating
Blessing of Heimdall
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Deflect Rating
Blessing of Volstagg
+1% Damage Negation
+1,000 Defense Rating
All Blessings in the Utility category will have both Health and Damage Rating as primary affixes, as well as a third utility affix:
Blessing of Balder
+200 Health
+200 Damage Rating
+50 Spirit
Blessing of Sif
+200 Health
+200 Damage Rating
-4% Spirit Cost
There will be a single uncategorized Blessing - Odin, the All-Father - that grants bonus damage versus bosses, and additionally grants +1 to all Attributes if your hero equips one Blessing from each of the three categories:
Blessing of Odin
+3% Damage to Bosses
If you have an Offensive Blessing, Defensive Blessing and Utility Blessing equipped, gain +1 to all Attributes for 10 seconds when you use any power
With all Blessings being converted to rating bonuses which have different levels of scaling relative to your personal hero level, Blessings will now scale their benefits based on the item level of the Artifact they are being applied to. The listed stats above are the maximum each Blessing will scale to, which is reached with Artfiacts that require level 39 to equip (item level 42) or higher.
In addition, to help players make the transition to the new Blessings on their existing heroes, the Enchanter will now have exchange recipes for each of the individual Blessings. Inserting any Artifact that already has an existing Blessing applied to it will allow you to switch to any other Blessing at no cost using these exchange recipes. This will allow players to change their Blessings around to adjust for the updated Blessing stats without spending additional Odin Marks.
Global Tuning Changes
In line with the change to the Hela Blessing, most other sources of bonuses that ignore diminishing returns are being altered:
Cable Hero Synergy has been updated to +2% Critical Rating at level 25 and 50.
Star-Lord Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Energy powers at level 25 and 50.
Ghost Rider Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Mental powers at level 25 and 50.
Moon Knight Hero Synergy has been updated to +3% Critical Rating to Physical powers at level 25 and 50.
Wolverine Hero Synergy has been updated to +5% Brutal Rating at level 25.
Midtown Patrol Vest slot 2 Unique item affix has been updated to grant a large amount of Brutal Strike Rating when hitting a Midtown boss.
Two hero powers have also been changed that conferred passive overcap benefits:
Rogue’s Destroyer’s Vengeance passive updated to grant +4% Brutal Strike Rating
Rogue’s Precise Aim passive updated to grant +4% Critical Hit Rating
Other hero powers that affect Critical Hit or Brutal Strike chance outside of diminishing returns do so either temporarily or only for individual powers, and are not being changed.
New Avenger’s Tower
Tony Stark has ordered a remodeling of one of the upper floors of the Avenger’s Tower to serve as the new base of operations, which is now complete!
The new Avenger’s Tower hub area is more spacious and contains all the amenities you’d expect from a billionaire’s superhero headquarters. The previous terminal section of the old hub - after undergoing constant maintenance and repairs to no avail - has been retired, now that the Waypoint technology has been upgraded to the point that they were no longer necessary.
Feel free to get comfortable and take in the sights of the new Avenger’s Tower hub!
Danger Room Tournament - Doop Scenario
A new Danger Room Tournament will begin this week starting Friday, August 5th at 12PM PDT - the Doop Scenario!
Fight off waves of dangerous Doops in Doop Space Nine until you can take down the devious Doop Generals, and finally defeat the dastardly Doop Overlord!
Both Epic and Cosmic versions of the Tournament Scenario will be available, with separate Leaderboards for each. At the end of the week, rewards will be granted to those that participated and have recorded at least one completion time on the Leaderboards, with better rewards for those that reach the top 50%, top 10%, and number 1 spots!
Hero Changes
Captain America
Torqued Shield Throw has changed places with Indestructible Shield in Captain America’s power progression, to give Captain America some additional firepower to deal with Ultron in the Times Square tutorial, and improve the early game experience.
Hawkeye
Hawkeye has received a new power: the Sky-Cycle! This power replaces his sprint as his dedicated travel power. Why walk when you can fly in style?
In-Game Store Gifting Changes
The in-game store gifting feature is being restored this week, with some changes being made with this update. Gifting items to another player will now have a few restrictions for new accounts:
The account must have a verified e-mail address associated with the account
The account must have at least one hero at level 20
The account must be at least 1 week old and have logged into the game at least 5 times
Overall, these restrictions should not impact existing players, but will help prevent gifting abuse from those that were attempting to hide fraudulent transactions behind newly created accounts.
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Previously, a new account would have to have at least one hero reach level 30 before they could be affected by event-related server live-tuning bonuses (such as XP, SIF, RIF bonuses). This threshold has been increased to level 60, to allow us to better tune the entirety of Story Mode XP progression so new players have a consistent experience up to level cap the first time, without being overly affected by server-side XP halfway through level progression. Once an account has at least one level 60, they will receive event live-tuning bonuses.
The entrance to Midtown in the southeast corner of Avenger’s Tower will now only appear once a player has reached level 10 with at least one hero on their account.
Jean Grey's Telepathic Detection visual effect has been updated to better match her other powers.
Tippy Toe from Squirrel Girl's 'Tippy Toe's Itty Bitty Bow' unique now critically and brutally strikes when summoned. Don't let the bow fool you.
Storm’s Cape of the Stormcrafter unique now grants Spirit cost reduction to all Windrider powers, instead of cost reduction to only the Windy Flight travel power.
The login reward for day 730 will now grant players a 3-Year Anniversary Birthday Cake. This change is retroactive and all players who have at least 730 login days will receive one!
Login rewards have been added for days 751 to 800.
Fixed an issue that could cause the player’s hero to move towards the cursor location while the chat window was active and the player was attempting to type into the chat box.
Fixed an issue with Cyclops’ Marvel NOW costume that caused his eye beam when using Shotgun Beam to not be angled correctly.
Fixed some visual issues with Luke Cage's Chunk O' Concrete power.
Blob will now correctly drop his medallion when he is defeated.
Fixed an issue with modifier keys being pressed quickly and causing some powers to not activate correctly.
Some powers that result in a transformed state with a custom hotbar will no longer unintentionally be able to use their dedicated travel power via hotkey:
Loki can no longer use his travel power while in Frost Giant form.
Mr. Fantastic can no longer use his travel power while in Spectacular Spheroid form.
Rocket Raccoon can no longer use his travel power while operating his Thanosbuster mech-suit.
Fixed a display issue with the refresh bar not displaying correctly on vendors that have the refresh option.
Fixed an issue in which the the tooltip for the Genosha Influence progress bar didn’t display correctly.
Fixed an issue in which dropped item names would not appear when using a controller.
Fixed a typo in Captain America's Shield Expertise power.
Fixed a typo in the Hero Synergy tutorial window.
Known Issues
The following issues are known and planned to be fixed in an upcoming update:
The Avenger’s Tower Waypoint may not be granted correctly on login. Until this is corrected, a simple workaround is to travel to Midtown Patrol via a different hub, then use the portal door to manually enter Avenger’s Tower and collect the new Waypoint.
The lowest health boss testing dummy in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Training Room does not have the correct amount of health, and instead has the same health as the high health Raid testing dummy.
Hawkeye’s Sky-Cycle will not be visible when used while wearing the Ronin costume.
Hawkeye’s Kate Bishop enhanced costume is showing a T-pose during her run animation.
Some Chapter 1 and 2 missions are showing a “Missing Translation” text string in the Mission Log where it should display the mission description.
I mean people won't be, it's pretty hard to get over 45% brutal strike now.
But... That is in the patch notes.
I wonder what the new "standard" will be for blessings now. Pretty sure any blessings I have on my characters are all Hela's.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Listen, reading is hard!
Edit: Actually it seems 4x Hogun is best damage, but Hogun/Fandral/Utility/Odin is just about as good so I'll probably go with that
Chat Ban Voting Function
A new chat command has been enabled that will allow users to cast a vote against someone being heavily abusive or spamming in public chat channels:
/chatbanvote (player name) (reason for vote)
This feature is intended to give players the ability to report a user for chat abuse in a way that - if enough votes are received against that user - will block them from continuing to use public chat features until a CS representative can investigate and resolve the situation.
Note that use of this feature is logged both for votes received and votes cast against other users, and attempted abuse of this feature will be considered a violation and may result in action taken against your account. This feature is only intended to give players the ability to prevent someone who is severely abusing chat privileges (such as RMT spammers) from continuing to do so until a CS representative can investigate the reports. Please use this feature responsibly.
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Story Mode mission XP rewards were granting more XP than intended and have been corrected.
Legendary Quests and Shared Quests will now properly update in Midtown Patrol.
Hawkeye’s Kate Bishop enhanced costume should no longer T-pose during run or idle animations.
Hawkeye’s Sky-Cycle should no longer be invisible when wearing the Ronin costume.
The new Avengers Tower Waypoint should be unlocked for all players by default.
The health of various Civilians and NPCs have been adjusted to better reflect the amount of damage they are taking from enemies.
The health of the level 60 DPS Target Dummy has been corrected and will no longer have the same amount of health as the level 60 High Health Raid Dummy.
Mission descriptions for Chapter 1 & 2 Story Mode missions in the Mission Log should no longer display “Missing Translation” text.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from clicking item links in chat to see the item preview.
Fixed an issue that prevented players from dragging and dropping items into the Trade panel.
Fixed an issue that was causing the interact prompt to appear in the upper left-hand corner rather than next to the interactable object when using a gamepad.
Mystic Mayhem is now live, and will run until next week’s patch!
Infernal Limbo - A game mode only available during Mystic Mayhem that sends players into Limbo to defeat the Demon Lord N’astirh!
Legendary Mystic Scrolls and Double Legendary Mystic Scrolls - Items that can drop anywhere giving you some of the best loot in the game!
Hero Tokens Anywhere - All enemies in the game have a rare chance to drop a Hero token!
Eternity Splinters Galore - Packs of 10 Eternity Splinters have double the regular chance to drop, and have a rare chance to turn into a pack of 63 Eternity Splinters!
Asgard Supports the War Effort - Higher chance for rare runes to drop anywhere in game!
Experience Counts - 63% Experience Boost
Finding Items - 63% RIF/SIF Boost
Strike on Limbo - Speak to Magik in the X-Mansion for a mission that grants you 3 power points and +63 permanent health bonus!
Mystic Mayhem Invades - Demons from Limbo have invaded Midtown Manhattan Patrol!
Exclusive Items and Rewards
Sharabus Neotum - An artifact for summoners that comes in 3 different damage type variations
Mayhem Demonblood - A damage dealer artifact that comes in 5 different damage type variations
Bloodstone Demonband - Unique rings for a variety of different builds
Mystic Mayhem Coffers - Boxes with a chance to drop the above items as well as other rewards
Mystery Achievements - A new mystery achievement will be added each time the event goes live, and if players solve it before the end of the event, the 63% XP/RIF/SIF buff will last an extra day, overlapping with the next event!
Achievement Mayhem - Mystic Mayhem has its own set of achievements for you to earn!
New Team-Up: Ms. Marvel
Ms. Marvel joins the Team-Up roster of Marvel Heroes 2016!
One of the Avengers' biggest fans, Pakistani-American teen Kamala Khan grew up as just another regular kid in Jersey City. As she returned home from sneaking out one night, Kamala was exposed to the Terrigen Mists, awakening miraculous new powers within her by activating her Inhuman genes. Using these morphogenetic powers, she took on the mantle of her most idolised superhero and now fights crime as Ms. Marvel!
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Damage from both enemies and bosses within the Cosmic Trial was slightly higher than intended has been reduced.
The health of all bosses in Cosmic Patrol zones has been reduced slightly. Additionally the health of triple boss waves in Hightown Patrol was higher than intended and has been corrected.
Fixed an issue that was causing players to take slightly more damage from enemy attacks than intended in level 60 zones.
Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when attempting to view the scoreboard during a PvP match.
Fixed an issue where certain tooltips and item nameplates would not highlight or move to the top when moused over with the cursor.
Fixed an issue that caused the Crossbones Medallion to not correctly add to Physical or Energy damage ratings.
Fixed an issue that caused the Skrull Energy Rifle Focusing Crystal to not correctly add to Energy Damage rating.
Fixed an issue that caused the Nick Fury Was Right T-Shirt to not correctly add to Physical Damage rating.
Fixed not being able to drop items on the Character Portrait in the Character Sheet Panel in order to auto-equip them.
Fixed an issue that caused M.O.D.O.K. in Holo-Sim to not be able to drop Odin Marks when defeated.
Fixed an issue where Travel Powers were stacking with movement speed bonuses.
Iron Legionnaire Mini-Bosses in Times Square Terminal have increased cooldown time between power usage.
Tippy Toe from Squirrel Girl's 'Tippy Toe's Itty Bitty Bow' unique should now properly scale with item level.
Iron Fist’s Mighty Asgardian Mace unique should now refresh all active stacks of the Attack Speed buff on successful Critical Strike, preventing individual stacks from expiring at different times.
Traitor S.H.I.E.L.D. Commanders no longer count for the 'Practice Makes Perfect' achievement. The traitorous S.H.I.E.L.D. Commander's verbal objection "But I’m a total boss!" has been noted and filed.
I guess that one's alright though
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Angela joins the hero roster of Marvel Heroes 2016!
When the Angels of the Tenth Realm, Heven, waged war on Asgard, Odin's daughter and heir to Asgard's throne was kidnapped by the Queen of Angels. But Odin would not be extorted by the Angels, and his daughter, Aldrif, was seemingly slain. Odin retaliated by severing Heven from Yggdrasil and closed it off from the other Nine Realms. While sealed away, Aldrif was discovered to have survived and was then raised—hidden from her true heritage—as Angela, Huntress of Heven.
As all secrets eventually come to light, Angela uncovered the truth of her upbringing. Now, shunned from Heven and branded a traitor to Asgard, Angela roams across the realms to find her place within it—continuing her hunt wherever it takes her.
Chapter 1 Story Mode Update
Chapter 1 of the Story Mode has been updated as we continue to work on improving the Story Mode experience.
Some of the changes for Chapter 1 include:
Completely redesigned mission progression, including new areas to explore! Missions now follow a much more direct progression, rather than separating out side missions and minor missions from main story missions.
Updated treasure rooms - these rooms will now spawn their reward chest near the exit portal once you complete the encounter within.
Supervillain fights updated - some bosses will now have new powers in their arsenal!
Supervillain encounters previously in public areas are being moved to their own instance within the zone. These are still tougher encounters, and will allow you to use the auto-party function to form a group to take them down, though you are still welcome to take the challenge on solo! For Chapter 1, this applies to the Electro encounter previously seen in Crumbling Brownstones.
For heroes that have already completed the Intrepid Reporter mission in Chapter 1, the updated missions will auto-complete and you will not need to do these missions again. For those that have not yet completed the Intrepid Reporter mission however, mission progress will be reset for Chapter 1 so players can properly experience the new mission progression within the chapter.
End of Summer Event
This past summer has been a scorcher so Dr. Pym and Mr. Fantastic put their great minds together to make Never Melting Ice Cream Bars for their fellow heroes to help keep them cool. Jealous that they didn’t have access to this new tasty technology, villains banded together and stole all of the Ice Cream Bars for themselves and stole the secret Never Melting Cores!
Help our heroes survive the hot summer by recovering the Never Melting Ice Cream Bars and Never Melting Cores from those dastardly villains.
Defeat enemies for a chance to get a Never Melting Ice Cream Bar which will give you a temporary boost! Bosses also have a small chance at dropping Cupcakes!
Also defeat enemies to collect the Never Melting Cores back from them and turn them into the Special Events Vendor for some fun in the sun rewards!
The event begins today, August 25th and will run until September 2nd, including:
100% Increased XP, and increased Cosmic Prestige leveling rate
Daily log-in gifts that include Never Melting Cores
A new Achievement for being a true summertime food connoisseur
New Summer Fortune Card that can drop in-game with all manner of goodies and summer-themed items!
Summertime Buffs - collect 5 of these to receive an instant lootsplosion!
End of Summer Tournament - Defeat Bosses and collect Never Melting Cores to earn Tournament points. The top spots on the leaderboard will earn Summer Fortune Cards and Never Melting Cores to exchange at the event vendor!
1 point per regular Boss defeat
3 points per Cosmic boss defeat
1 point per Never Melting Core collected
Tournament rewards:
Top 10%: 2 Summer Fortune Card, 5 Never Melting Ice Cream Bars, 25 Never Melting Cores
Top 20%: 1 Summer Fortune Card, 3 Never Melting Ice Cream Bars, 20 Never Melting Cores
Top 50%: 2 Never Melting Ice Cream Bars, 10 Never Melting Cores
Placement: 1 Never Melting Ice Cream Bar, 5 Never Melting Cores
The End of Summer event vendor will have a variety of rewards to exchange for Never Melting Cores recovered, including some returning summer-themed items like The Big Kahuna, The Perfect Wave and Brutally Awesome Summer Shades!
Crimson Box (200 Never Melting Cores)
Mysterious Blue Box (200 Never Melting Cores)
Box of Crafting Elements (20 Never Melting Cores)
Cosmic Reliquary of Rarity (40 Never Melting Cores)
Cosmic Team-Up Gear Box (20 Never Melting Cores)
Ghost Box (20 Never Melting Cores)
Brutally Awesome Summer Shades (150 Never Melting Cores)
The Perfect Wave (150 Never Melting Cores)
The Big Kahuna (200 Never Melting Cores)
Costume Core Box (40 Never Melting Cores)
Event: Operation Omega
Operation Omega will run alongside the End of Summer event starting Friday, August 26th, and runs through September 2nd!
Note that while this event runs alongside the End of Summer event, the XP bonuses will not be active. Server-side XP bonuses are being granted through the End of Summer event.
Join your fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. recruits for omega level loot, bosses, leveling and more!
During Operation Omega, the first time you complete a Shared Quest each day will reward double Omega Orb rewards.
Agent Coulson offers a mission during Operation Omega week. Each day, you can complete five or more waves in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Holo-Sim to receive a reward from him. This will help hone your skills to be prepared for Omega-Level threats.
During the event, any enemy can drop a powerful artifact called The Omega Drive.
Omega-Level Boosts Return - pair this with our server-wide boost for even greater returns!
Minor Changes & Bug Fixes
Colossus’ Modern Costume (default) has received a visual update.
Legendary Quests will now appear for Chapter 1 story content.
Item tooltip comparisons will once again display the stat change differences for the currently equipped item.
Added a new context menu item labeled “Report as Spam” to allow players to report another player for spam and cast a chat ban vote, equivalent to /chatbanvote chat command.
I also bet the omega gain rate from the scaled xp from story quests is pretty nice as well but mine have been capped for a while now so I dunno for sure.
addict
I logged in to play Angela to 60, I cant say i feel strongly one or the other about her but after deadpool, kitty, psylocke, thor and magik it felt fairly old hat. (the ribbons actually look like they work really well, take that mr fantastic.)