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[Marvel's The Avengers] Officially sunset as of 2023, goodbye true believers

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    Rick, you posted 11 times in extreme close succession. WAY step back. Jay doesn't have to like it just because you do. He definitely will not if part of his experience is someone sending almost a dozen messages in a few minutes saying he's wrong about everything.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    RickRude wrote: »
    jdarksun wrote: »
    RickRude wrote: »
    You just keep bashing without even giving the game a fair shot.

    Destiny sucked st launch, and a good while after, you judt stuck with it.
    How long do you have to play a game you don't like until you're allowed to play one you do?

    And if your askijt cause i said j spent 5 minites with this one, you have yo get oast the tutorial in any game. Stop being a goosey goose.

    Please stop hitting Post Reply instead of Enter.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Im going to make two posts cause they are totally different topics but here we go:

    HOLY FUCK apparently you can use the rocks hulk picks up to kills shields in one light hit

    That's literally game changing

    Hullabaloo
  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2020
    Also this on next characters Im just to copy and paste this as is so there is no speculation onmy part
    1. UnlockPlayableCharacter_AntMan2
    2. UnlockPlayableCharacter_BlackPanther
    3. UnlockPlayableCharacter_CaptainMarvel
    4. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Captain_America
    5. UnlockPlayableCharacter_DrStrange
    6. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Falcon
    7. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Hawkeye
    8. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Hulk
    9. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Hulkbuster
    10. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Iron_Man
    11. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Kamala
    12. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Kate_Bishop
    13. UnlockPlayableCharacter_MarVell
    14. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Mockingbird
    15. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Quake
    16. UnlockPlayableCharacter_ScarletWitch
    17. UnlockPlayableCharacter_SheHulk
    18. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Thor
    19. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Vision
    20. UnlockPlayableCharacter_WarMachine
    21. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Wasp
    22. UnlockPlayableCharacter_Widow
    23. UnlockPlayableCharacter_WinterSoldier

    Edit: No all of them seems to playable heroes. For example, Hulkbuster is listed as "playable character", but he is not exactly a hero. Warmachine got few files with his name, its exactly 10. It seems he will be playable but like Hulkbuster he will be summoned by Iron Man.

    Same thing about Wasp. It also can be related with some heroes that are still early in development, and that would explain why they don't have more files on the beta.

    Edit 2: these are the characters that have a good amount of files, and even skill's names: Black Panther, She-Hulk, Kate Bishop and Winter Soldier. I would bet those 4 + Hawkeye are the next 5 playable heroes.

    Also spoiling this for Villians mentioned
    Other Character Mentions:

    Frenzy (Probably an enemy class)
    Ultron
    Red Hulk
    Deathlok
    Vindicator
    Monica (another Captain Marvel also coming to the Disney+ Show WandaVision)

    bloodyroarxx on
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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Im going to make two posts cause they are totally different topics but here we go:

    HOLY FUCK apparently you can use the rocks hulk picks up to kills shields in one light hit

    That's literally game changing

    I was really grumpy about the long heavy attack windup to smash a shield, but once I unlocked Kamala's heavy air combo that got way better.

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  • EriktheVikingGamerEriktheVikingGamer Registered User regular
    Or you just play as Iron Man and equip rockets. All I have to do to deal with shields or the dodging Elites is press Y. :D

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    listen you two I dont need any of your sass

  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    [*] UnlockPlayableCharacter_CaptainMarvel
    [*] UnlockPlayableCharacter_Captain_America

    This inconsistency makes me mad.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited August 2020
    [*] UnlockPlayableCharacter_CaptainMarvel
    [*] UnlockPlayableCharacter_Captain_America

    This inconsistency makes me mad.

    *frowns in developerish*

    Echo on
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  • M-VickersM-Vickers Registered User regular
    RickRude wrote: »
    And quit defending destiny thay game was shit for a year or two at least

    The core gameplay and world were great, but it took a while for extra stuff to do to appear.

    I’ll be interested to see how the Avengers develops in the first few months. MMOs live and die on how quickly new content is added, and the end game content.

    I hope it lasts. It’ll be good to have another action mmo to dip into from time to time.

  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    RickRude wrote: »
    jdarksun wrote: »
    RickRude wrote: »
    You just keep bashing without even giving the game a fair shot.

    Destiny sucked st launch, and a good while after, you judt stuck with it.
    How long do you have to play a game you don't like until you're allowed to play one you do?

    And if your askijt cause i said j spent 5 minites with this one, you have yo get oast the tutorial in any game. Stop being a goosey goose.

    The irony here is amazing.

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  • ironzergironzerg Registered User regular
    edited August 2020
    Sorry, I don't mean to break up all the personal attacks by talking about the actual game here, but remember when I said earlier about how awesome it would be if I understood what I was doing when Iron Man would beat the crap out of a guy, knock him up in the air, then rain repulsor blast down on him.

    I did the HARM III mission, and lost. It actually required me to know a bit about what I was actually doing, instead of just mashing buttons.

    Well, it started to click, and after understanding the game more and also understanding what I was unlocking and why, it was awesome.

    Rocket uppercutting to break blocks. Ground smashing to stun a group of enemies. Dodging attacks and countering with spinning repulsor blasts. Staggering enemies then finishing them off to get a health and damage buff. Rapidly taking out fly units with precision repulsor shots.

    I did all that..and for the most part, my brain was making my fingers push the buttons in the correct sequence to do what I wanted when I wanted.

    Iron Man felt like Iron Man.

    And I repeat, it was awesome.

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  • PhillisherePhillishere Registered User regular
    ironzerg wrote: »
    Sorry, I don't mean to break up all the personal attacks by talking about the actual game here, but remember when I said earlier about how awesome it would be if I understood what I was doing when Iron Man would beat the crap out of a guy, knock him up in the air, then rain repulsor blast down on him.

    I did the HARM III mission, and lost. It actually required me to know a bit about what I was actually doing, instead of just mashing buttons.

    Well, it started to click, and after understanding the game more and also understanding what I was unlocking and why, it was awesome.

    Rocket uppercutting to break blocks. Ground smashing to stun a group of enemies. Dodging attacks and countering with spinning repulsor blasts. Staggering enemies then finishing them off to get a health and damage buff. Rapidly taking out fly units with precision repulsor shots.

    I did all that..and for the most part, my brain was making my fingers push the buttons in the correct sequence to do what I wanted when I wanted.

    Iron Man felt like Iron Man.

    And I repeat, it was awesome.

    The fighting system is pretty good once it clicks. I wish there were more supervillain/tough mook fights that let you concentrate on them. My biggest complaints so far revolve around the way ranged enemies keep breaking up the flow, especially since the inability to break out of animations means you often can’t dodge.

    There’s a really good game in here, and the demo made a sale. I hope they tweak the enemy mix before launch, because fewer ranged enemies would really let the fighting system sing for melee players.

  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    I think there's a pretty core reason the button mashing comments started to come up and that is yeah, you can make it through a lot of the beta without really knowing what you're doing. Note that this is a slice of very EARLY gameplay. You're not supposed to have mastered the game in the tutorial, no game with skills you unlock works this way. Most of the people I've seen commenting on it put in about an hour or so so they probably made it through the story missions and MAYBE a war zone or a couple drop zones. They're probably sitting at level 4 or 5 on 1 or 2 characters. Out of 50, mind you (15 in the beta). The early game can definitely be steamrolled but then there's hints at the end of the beta missions that there will absolutely be challenging content: To Tame a Titan's boss is huge and shows that there'll be more unique "boss" encounters, though not super challenging on Normal you absolutely can't just wail away on it till it dies which is nice. HARM Challenges (especially 3) will mess you up if you zone out, there's a lot of nasty combos of enemies that show up and if you don't learn how to deal with them properly you'll die. Flat out. It along with the "secret" Vault mission are essentially their way of saying "Ok ok, so you can kill trash enemies, how about we turn that difficulty knob up a little".

    imo, it's pretty bad form to judge an entire game's difficulty on what is essentially the tutorial section. I mean, unless it's a souls game, I guess.

  • ironzergironzerg Registered User regular
    I feel you on the dodge. I wish the dodge button would cancel animations to allow more fluidity when it comes to dodging. I also suggested that they reduce the range on ranged enemies. You take a lot of fire from way offscreen, and it doesn't feel as good. I don't enjoy being in part of a huge brawl, and then taking 10 lasers from a guy so far away I can barely see him. I do enjoy having to be situationally aware and pop range guys who are shooting at me, but they have to be sort of...in the scene, if you know what I mean.

    Watching the Avengers movies you don't have a lot of situations where people are sniping at the heroes for hundreds of feet away.

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    ironzerg wrote: »
    I feel you on the dodge. I wish the dodge button would cancel animations to allow more fluidity when it comes to dodging. I also suggested that they reduce the range on ranged enemies. You take a lot of fire from way offscreen, and it doesn't feel as good. I don't enjoy being in part of a huge brawl, and then taking 10 lasers from a guy so far away I can barely see him. I do enjoy having to be situationally aware and pop range guys who are shooting at me, but they have to be sort of...in the scene, if you know what I mean.

    Watching the Avengers movies you don't have a lot of situations where people are sniping at the heroes for hundreds of feet away.

    Obviously the MCU hasn't gone into the Avengers true weakness yet.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Or you just play as Iron Man and equip rockets. All I have to do to deal with shields or the dodging Elites is press Y. :D

    This is the answer to every problem anyway so

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    OK so I'm in the beta and Once I got the mission table idk how to progress things any further. I can like 8-10 missions but I don't know which ones push the story forward, if any.

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    OK so I'm in the beta and Once I got the mission table idk how to progress things any further. I can like 8-10 missions but I don't know which ones push the story forward, if any.

    CONFUSED, HALP.

    Nah, you're basically done with the story parts of the beta. You can just do whatever you want. Definitely do the HARM Challenges (there's 3 of them) to unlock the 2nd beta nameplate. For other missions to kind of see what the game is about you should still do the Hulk iconic mission and each of the war zones once, but those are all optional and don't give anything that carries over into the main game. Oh and the villain sector!

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Kyanilis wrote: »
    spool32 wrote: »
    OK so I'm in the beta and Once I got the mission table idk how to progress things any further. I can like 8-10 missions but I don't know which ones push the story forward, if any.

    CONFUSED, HALP.

    Nah, you're basically done with the story parts of the beta. You can just do whatever you want. Definitely do the HARM Challenges (there's 3 of them) to unlock the 2nd beta nameplate. For other missions to kind of see what the game is about you should still do the Hulk iconic mission and each of the war zones once, but those are all optional and don't give anything that carries over into the main game. Oh and the villain sector!

    excellent thank you!

    I'll do the HARM things. Villain sector just crashed to desktop on me so that's not great but otherwise this is really fun.

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2020
    Yeah my personal beta progression is

    -HARM Rooms
    -PNW Arc Reactor mission
    -Eastern Seaboard War Zone
    -PNW War Zone again to get gear and unlock the Arctic War Zone
    -Arctic War Zone
    -PNW Villain Sector

    At this point you could quickly unlock the Arctic War Zone again and use the DNA keys from the Villian Sector to get the special chests from there or you can call it quits.

    Also if you are using Hulk do the Iconic mission first.

    @spool32

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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    doing them all with just NPC companions too since I assume people will be basically garbage, run ahead, make me miss everything, etc.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    edited August 2020
    also obviously I am Iron Man, objectively the best superhero.

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  • ED!ED! Registered User regular
    ironzerg wrote: »
    Iron Man felt like Iron Man.

    And I repeat, it was awesome.

    https://youtu.be/99j8Sag1Bqg

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  • RonaldoTheGypsyRonaldoTheGypsy Yes, yes Registered User regular
    Nolan North doing Iron Man makes him feel like Deadpool especially after Nolan North did Deadpool in the Marvel Heroes game.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    Nolan North is running out of "sarcastic white male in his 40s" voices it seems

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    Nolan North is running out of "sarcastic white male in his 40s" voices it seems
    I'm...pretty tired of him.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    I dont even really blame North like really the casting director really fucking blew it on that one.

    I wonder if it was his expertise with mocap that helped, same with Laura Bailey and Troy Baker. Although I dont find either of their performances as annoying, hell I can hardly tell its Baker.

    IM's "Bustin" line is straight up something Deadpool would say its very *sigh*

  • -Loki--Loki- Don't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining. Registered User regular
    Nolan North doing Iron Man makes him feel like Deadpool especially after Nolan North did Deadpool in the Marvel Heroes game.

    And Deadpool in the Deadpool game.

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  • ED!ED! Registered User regular
    Yeah, one of my complaints up thread was that IRON MAN is basically DEADPOOL in this which is annoying. And it's not at all Nolan North's fault. Someone wrote that "Busting makes me feel good. . ." line and it wasn't North.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    ED! wrote: »
    Yeah, one of my complaints up thread was that IRON MAN is basically DEADPOOL in this which is annoying. And it's not at all Nolan North's fault. Someone wrote that "Busting makes me feel good. . ." line and it wasn't North.

    I know it is the VA's fault they got cast, but this cast was really them just going down the list of most well known voice actors and calling them up to give them a lead role. Like I don't begrudge any of those folks their talent, but sometimes the job goes to the big guys in the room over someone who may have killed it. Thor sounds painfully generic in this.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2020
    ED! wrote: »
    Yeah, one of my complaints up thread was that IRON MAN is basically DEADPOOL in this which is annoying. And it's not at all Nolan North's fault. Someone wrote that "Busting makes me feel good. . ." line and it wasn't North.

    I know it is the VA's fault they got cast, but this cast was really them just going down the list of most well known voice actors and calling them up to give them a lead role. Like I don't begrudge any of those folks their talent, but sometimes the job goes to the big guys in the room over someone who may have killed it. Thor sounds painfully generic in this.

    Thor is Travis Willingham who has been Thor's voice for like a decade

    EDIT he started in 2012 they replaced the cast from Avengers EMH for the roles going forward

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    HOW IS Avengers EMH 10 years old!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxaJpUnF6xA

  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    If they plan to add as many heroes as it seems like they're aiming for they will have to pull in more people, and likely some lesser known greats. Or at least that's my hope. I know they're not the "core" cast but they've said each hero will get an arc of sorts so won't just be like...battle lines either.

  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2020
    Videos of Cap and Thors Character Cards and full skill trees, there is some significant cool shit IMO in those trees, also Caps lvl 39 costume is great (gimme the Winter Soldier MCU costume damnit!)

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    We definitely need more casual costumes.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    I don't personally care about spoilers, but I do think posting potential DLC stuff/later game skins and such is poor form before the game is even out. I'd just toss it behind a spoiler for those who wanna see it themselves

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    I agree, I mean they're videos and the fact that those two characters are in the game isn't a spoiler so you don't actually see anything in the thumbnail but it's probably best to be on the safe side.

    Anyway, I was watching these earlier and turns out the skill selectors are on the 2nd page too, I thought they'd be a 3rd page thing but looks like there's a ton of choice in terms of how you build characters. Basically you can only choose 1 out of 3 to fill a "slot" at any time. You can swap it without any extra cost once you've unlocked them but you need to make some choices about which ones best suit your overall build/playstyle. I'm a little surprised there's so many, but that's pretty neat.

  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    We definitely need more casual costumes.

    And Kamala needs fewer casual costumes.

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  • bloodyroarxxbloodyroarxx Casa GrandeRegistered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    We definitely need more casual costumes.

    And Kamala needs fewer casual costumes.

    Blame Marvel for this

    they are notoriously strict with costumes so I bet her casual look is probably cause that's where they get the most leeway cause she hasn't been around very long to get a depth of "superhero" costumes like the others do.

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