Marvel MMO

[zenith16]

To celebrate Iron man 3 and you'll be play that new armor of his in this as well, here's a new trailer on the armor's you'll receive



source: Marvel heroe's youtube
And another long beta weekend starts tonight . but this time around it's open to all beta I hope you all downloaded the patch it's was to fix some problem from monday's run . And enjoy the movie as well.

14 minutes til the servers are up for the long open beta .

[cleverusername8]

Has anyone else been playing the beta?

I've completed the prologue and the first part of the Hell's Kitchen arc. Now I'm stuck at the docks where you have to find Taskmaster and Hood. Did the Q-36 thing with AIM.

Overall, this game isn't that bad. I wasn't sure how I was going to adjust to point and click but I'm finding it manageable. The only problematic thing with the controls is when it lags, it's very difficult to fight. That's almost any game but it's worse here when you have to rely on precisely clicking where you want to go/who you want to attack. I'm often running around circles of enemies that I'm trying to attack because of lag misclicks. But when it' running alright, it's fine.

I started with Iron Man and used the given credits to "buy" Colossus and Black Panther. I pretty much like them in that order (IM > Colossous > Panther) but I'm impressed at how different each one feels. Even Colossus and BP who are both melee feel different and play differently. I'm fairly eager to try new ones when the actual game hits.

What I don't like so far is the voice acting. I know it's an MMO, but the story parts are carried by the voices and I'm not a huge fan of what I've heard so far especially with the villains. Dr. Doom's voice was the biggest disappointment.

I'll play as much as I can in between final project work sessions but I might have to try out the full game when it gets here.

[zenith16]

Originally Posted by cleverusername8

Has anyone else been playing the beta?

I've completed the prologue and the first part of the Hell's Kitchen arc. Now I'm stuck at the docks where you have to find Taskmaster and Hood. Did the Q-36 thing with AIM.

Overall, this game isn't that bad. I wasn't sure how I was going to adjust to point and click but I'm finding it manageable. The only problematic thing with the controls is when it lags, it's very difficult to fight. That's almost any game but it's worse here when you have to rely on precisely clicking where you want to go/who you want to attack. I'm often running around circles of enemies that I'm trying to attack because of lag misclicks. But when it' running alright, it's fine.

I started with Iron Man and used the given credits to "buy" Colossus and Black Panther. I pretty much like them in that order (IM > Colossous > Panther) but I'm impressed at how different each one feels. Even Colossus and BP who are both melee feel different and play differently. I'm fairly eager to try new ones when the actual game hits.

What I don't like so far is the voice acting. I know it's an MMO, but the story parts are carried by the voices and I'm not a huge fan of what I've heard so far especially with the villains. Dr. Doom's voice was the biggest disappointment.

I'll play as much as I can in between final project work sessions but I might have to try out the full game when it gets here.

welcome umm let's see.
The lag just started yesterday and it's affecting every one. some more then others, but this is common in a beta and it's been reported in the beta forum. We just have to wait for the dev's to fix it, when the next server run is online or when they add their next patch. which cable and a few others will be added as they said on their twitch channel also a page over.


Now the ship yard with task master he's some where on the far end of the ship yard in some large shed or dock house join a team and they should lead you to him. the map rotates so I can't just say north of the map . only the people on the same mission with you that made it that far can help you with it.


The voice actor for Doctor doom seems new from what that video a page over that I put up from youtube shows with all the voice actors.

[zenith16]

ok so the long weekend beta session is over incase you missed this what was said on their twitch channel which was this

Originally Posted by zenith16

Nice. This was just put up from their twitter

Marvel Heroes ‏@MMMSociety1h
We're streaming #MarvelHeroes again... today at 1pm PDT (in 20 minutes!). Join us for a look at the game: http://www.twitch.tv/marvelheroes

which now over here's the recorded version of what you just missed.



Marvel Heroes: Official Twitch Channel
Recorded about 1 hour ago 49:31 22


source:Marvel heroes twitchtv

Here's the same video that was just put up on youtube . especial if your one of those that has an issue with watching their twitch channel

part 1





Marvel Heroes - Official Closed Beta Stream # #5- Q&A with our Art Team



Details on Enhanced costumes in this video.

• 18 hours ago We're joined by Clint Thorne, character artist and Josh Book, Art Director, as we stream Marvel Heroes and take questions about all things artistic!

part 2


Marvel Heroes - Official Closed Beta Stream #5 - David Brevik Q&A

Marvel Heroes - Official Closed Beta Stream #5 - David Brevik Q&A Marvel Heroes 296 views 18 hours ago Join us once more for another look at Marvel Heroes, featuring some extensive Q&A with David Brevik about Marvel Heroes endgame and many other things! (Skip to about 9m in ...

source: Marvel Heroes youtube channel

[zenith16]

Forking over your cash to play for free

(7 hours ago)
Super-hero, Economy, MMO Industry, New Titles, News Items, Free-to-Play, Marvel Heroes
131

Free-to-play means you can play for free, right? Not if you've got your sights set on the top founders packs for upcoming games like Marvel Heroes. In a blog on Gamasutra, virtual world economist Ramin Shokrizade explores the trend of these F2P collector-edition equivalents and whether the value justifies the price or if it's all a con to push players into making uninformed purchases before they have enough info.

Shokrizade compares the value of both Marvel Heroes and MechWarrior Tactics founders packs. At $199.99 and $120 respectively, both come with a hefty price tag, but both also claim significantly higher values. Do you really get your money's worth? Because of the replayability inherent in trying each superhero, Shokrizade rated Marvel Heroes as "pricey but reasonable." MechWarrior Tactics, however, received a "poor value" rating due to the tremendous in-game advantage that the founders pack gives.

How will these titles ultimately fare? Shokrizade stated that it all depends on enjoyable player interactions. "[Players] should not have to spend a lot in order to be able to have a positive social experience," he said. "Taking this one step further, if [players] can spend to lower the experience of other players, this will cause a rapid collapse of revenues."

• Source: Gamasutra
• More coverage: Marvel Heroes official site

[Colossal Spoons]

I see a wipe coming this week or next

[zenith16]

I already mentioned this on the beta forum I'm so close with the crafter with the cores. not yet.... No Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo seriously Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooo


oh and on topic of free to play still


Features


If It’s Free It’s For Me (Feature)

Steve and Raju find ways to play without charge.
source: EPD.TV/ROTR


seriously. No more wipes DCUO managed to do this why can't this ? I know they're both slightly different but still.

[Colossal Spoons]

Leveling crafters is taking much longer than I expected. I only got Forge up to 4 or 5 and I feel like I give him tons of blues and purples.

[zenith16]

the fastest way to level them is to feed the artifact's like the doom masks you don't want along with the blues and purples you don't need you on the best stat's you can get from all 3 I mean. I constantly look at those stats before I feed that stuff to them but even so it's taking a while . and now that I'm so close, if the wipe every thing while I'm almost there I'll be very, Very depressed. Especially after having to face some people that made it that far during my first pvp match and having half a beat down. it's hard to recover from man . way too hard. I'm only start now to make them pay for that.

[zenith16]

ok So I just picked up an e-mail that tonight beta test will be "over night" tonight to tomorrow morning. Well they have it on their beta forum for the time it ends if you want to check that out for your selves.

4 minutes til it starts. And no one really expects you to play all night ether even thouh this is happening to night. . so please don't alot us do have work and life to deal with.

new trailer and it's for Thor.



1:00 Marvel Heroes - Thor, Son of Asgard Trailer Marvel Heroes 3,219 views 1 day ago Behold, the mighty Thor - God of Thunder, Avenger, warrior, hero! Play as Thor in Marvel Heroes, the massively multiplayer online action RPG you've been waiting for! Sign

and it's
Marvel Heroes offers one final open beta weekend and Thor trailer

by MJ Guthrie (5 hours ago)
Betas, Super-hero, Trailers, Video, New Titles, News Items, Free-to-Play, Marvel Heroes
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If you missed last weekend's open beta for Marvel Heroes, you've got one more chance to get in and get your super hero on before the June 4th launch. Gazillion Entertainment has announced the last open beta weekend will take place from Friday, May 10th at 8:00 p.m. EDT to Monday May 13th at 1:00 p.m. EDT. For this round, players will get to choose from their favorite Avengers: Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, and Black Widow. To get in on the action, just register on the official site.

To celebrate the Avenger-themed final weekend, the studio also released a new trailer highlighting Thor. Check out the Asgardian action after the break.

[Source: Gazillion Entertainment press release] Continue Reading





source: Marvel Heroes youtube channel & Massively

More coverage: Marvel Heroes official site

[zenith16]

Alright the servers are up now . And tomorrow the last open beta weekend will be done

[zenith16]

Marvel Heroes Release Imminent, Play It This Weekend

4 hours 23 minutes ago - Diablo creator and Marvel Heroes developer David Brevik offers his first 'state of the game' post for Marvel Heroes. Read More »

source:IGN

[Jennifer Walters]

Finally played the first two missions as Black Widow. Definitely fun.

Not entirely sold on movement and how often you can find yourself picking up **** that doesn't even belong to a hero you have because of it.

Unlocked Storm and Ms. Marvel. I'll give them a go when I hope back on a little later tonight.

[Quasimod0]

So how is it? Similar to ultimate alliance?
Do you unlock characters pretty often?

[Colossal Spoons]

Originally Posted by JustABill

Finally played the first two missions as Black Widow. Definitely fun.

Not entirely sold on movement and how often you can find yourself picking up **** that doesn't even belong to a hero you have because of it.

Unlocked Storm and Ms. Marvel. I'll give them a go when I hope back on a little later tonight.

I hear Widow is really powerful. Carol is a beast as expected tough.

Originally Posted by Quasimod0

So how is it? Similar to ultimate alliance?
Do you unlock characters pretty often?

Not too similar to UA, more like Diablo. Character drops were rare for me, but I got 5 or 6 so far in 2 months.

[Jennifer Walters]

Lol. That Venom fight was...well crazy and there were about seven thousand people piling on him so I never really got to do anything in it.

I couldn't find Taskmaster nor The Hood's hideout so I gave up for the night because I was tired and frustrated.

[Nathan]

Say, can you rotate the camera or is it fixed? I'd like to zoom the camera close to the action, but if I can't rotate the camera, I'll never see the enemy coming.

[Jennifer Walters]

From what I can tell the camera is not fixed.

[Nathan]

What do I have to press to rotate it then?

[zenith16]

I've finally reached my goal of a level 16 crafter after playing all night and now I'm missing "Esoteric Unstable molecules," to add my core to my armor and weapons. and I've reached max level of 35 too. man what a run. my marvel now cyclops was in demand at the supposed final mission of Doom's castle all this month. I still have to finish up with my other characters but I doubt I'll finish with them in the same way before the coming patch and wipe and add on of cable Torch and the others that will be coming with all that. and now I'll taking a nap and a break . farming for unstables is madness and the Esoteric are the top tiers of the elements . which i have to find the lower versions and their a pain to find cause their not as in abundance as they were when you weren't searching for them.

[Colossal Spoons]

When farming for mats, would it be better to slaughter much lower level mobs or are there areas that drop specific items?

[zenith16]

It's different for every one when i first found artifacts and cores it was on the same week they showed mutant town on their video streams I made it to the purifiers camp and it started for me there. then I started to farm there cause it those were showing up for me there the most til I reached doom.



And on what Nathan asked while you can zoom in on your character as close as you want there is no real rotate of the screen as you want that i've see but if you want to see eniemes coming at you there is a Cree artifact that call ed the optic scanner and it looks like the alien versin of the splinter cell goggles it act like radar for your character so you can see the map's open's up to you and you see other player's around on the map as well as the enemy NPC's

[TheCorpulent1]

Man, I was really jazzed to try this out over the open beta weekend since I saw Thor's available... and then I found out they shut the servers down. I'm trying to be patient but it's been friggin' hours. I just want to smite some b****es. Is that so much to ask?

[zenith16]

There have been three issue that have been overdue for fix's that's the dot damage bug which has been around since last Monday. the doom castle throne Re spawn bug which is even older. and there seems to be this weird lag issue that shows any time some log's in for the first time during the day. so they might be trying their best to be rid of at least two of them. also Thor has been in since forever that trailer was odd but it was to let people know he was there. but he was from the beginning I wish you'd have joined earlier. I would have liked to have seen you on the beta forums giving your input on Thor. but so far he's one of the most awesome in it.

[zenith16]

So I was right on the issue with the lag. this is from the beta forum

Originally Posted by Rockjaw

Hey everyone. Apologies for the ongoing lag issues many of you may have seen. We've been tracking and diagnosing these as best we can, especially since this morning when the issue seems to have gotten worse. Many of you may have experienced 'freezing', very long load screens, possible disconnections from the server and so on.

Originally Posted by Rockjaw

As many of you are completely new to the game this weekend, we know this isn't a great first experience! All we can say is that we're working hard to resolve things, and that this isn't normal behavior. (Hopefully our ongoing testers can validate me there!) Unfortunately, this problem seems to be something that's outside of our direct control, and is taking longer to fix than we'd like.

With anything lag related there are a number of issues that can cause this, and we have to eliminate each one as we work to ensure we find the real issue. At this time the issue seems to be network hardware related, and at a high level. This isn't something we have direct control over but we have the right people on-site investigating now.

These issues are not, we believe, related to Steam, the number of players on the servers, or the servers themselves. We have more than enough hardware in place to handle load and our capacity has not been severely tested (yet). However, it's clearly causing issues and that's not acceptable, so we're going to get it fixed.

I'll keep this thread updated when I have more news.

UPDATES FOLLOW:

3PM: We've temporarily disabled access to the game at this time. Anyone currently in-game should be able to continue to play. Others will not be able to login for now.

4:25PM: We temporarily re-enabled game access in the last hour. We're testing to see what parts of the game are causing issues.

5:15PM: Here's a bit more detail.

Game Access: Right now we are throttling access to the game. What this means, effectively, is that you can attempt to login and it may work - but it may not. (We're basically standing at the door to the club and only letting people in during brief periods of time.) This isn't a great situation (and it's temporary), but it will allow some of you to play. As before, if you're in, you'll remain in.

In advance: we know it's super frustrating and we wish it wasn't happening, however we've run down all other alternatives, and keeping the number of players low through throttling is the only way we can ensure semi-decent performance.

Solutions: As I said above (and earlier) these issues actually aren't related to the number of players on the servers - which sounds confusing when you read that we're throttling game access. We have the capacity on the servers for many more players than we currently have. The issue is related to some network hardware configuration issues. Essentially we have problems in our datacenter that were unforeseen, and we're working to get those resolved.

We have no current ETA on when this will be fixed, but we're hoping it'll be sometime tonight (Pacific time). Our Ops team is working hard to resolve the issue. We'll update when we have more.

7:25PM (Pacific): Latest update is that our network hardware configuration won't happen until late tonight, Pacific time. It will likely be past 11PM our time; if that time changes I'll let you know. We will continue to throttle access until then.

Apologies for not having more positive news. We are discussing whether to extend the weekend.

2:10AM (Pacific): Late night update. So, good news is that our network configuration issue is being actively worked on. It will be tested and then rolled out. If testing goes to plan, we will be allowing more players into the game over time. When we're ready to accept more players Ryolnir (Ryan) should be by to let you know. Please try to login and let us know your experiences, particularly with lag.

Myself, I have to sleep because I have a lot of work to do tomorrow. Apologies again but fingers crossed things will improve in the next few hours.

5:00AM (Pacific) [Ryolnir]
We believe our network configuration changes have improved performance and we've opened the doors again. See you online!

and in more NEWs MH


No launch torch for Marvel Heroes, but plenty of Steam

(1 day ago)
Betas, Super-hero, Launches, News Items, Free-to-Play, Marvel Heroes
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When Marvel Heroes announced that Squirrel Girl, Emma Frost, Nova, and Luke Cage would be delayed until after the game had launched, it was bad news, depriving the game of three popular heroes and Nova until later. Now another hero has joined the ranks of the not-in-launch crowd. The Human Torch will be delayed until after release, although players who have pre-purchased launch packs will still have full access to all of the Torch's add-ons when he does go live.

Despite this loss, the game has obviously generated enough heat to make its way on to Steam for its final open beta weekend. Players who already have the game installed don't need to worry, but Steam users can install the game directly from the Steam client. Launch packs purchased prior to the Steam integration should work seamlessly, and you can also purchase launch packs directly from Steam if the final beta weekend inspires you to do so.

• Source: Marvel Heroes on Steam, Human Torch for Post-Launch
• More coverage: Official Site

I'll be checking if the servers are back up.