Marvel Heroes MMO

[Nathan]

I already bought Wolverine's X-Men Now costume. Thinking about buying Ghost Rider and the Alejandra Blaze skin.

 

[zenith16]

Your Holiday groot is up pick him up while you can

amthua
6:12AM
Just a question about Mr. Fantastic's Unique Items..
@Guniw said: If I may be so bold... What about if in lieu of giving Reed the standard +300-500 crit rating & 500-900 crit damage rating on his slot 5... we get an absolutely awesome amount of intelligence on his Helmet of the Maker slot? Something like +8/11 intelligence, which would equate to 240-330 crit rating, and 720/990 crit damage (seems to be the norm nowadays for slot 5s). That would be a really cool flavorful way to fill out his crit ratings in a way that hasn't been done. Or would this be crazy expensive on his item budget? Maybe you could allow us to go outside the item budget on this for the sake of intellect and for the sake of awesome lore themed stuff, and try to ignore the other utility that Intelligence gives and weigh it the same way those crit / crit damge values are typically weighed. Awesome idea. I am going to see what I can do here. I don't think 8-11 is going to be possible, but I do think more than the usual is (assuming there's room). Keep the great ideas flowing.

amthua
6:05AM
Captain America Unique Items
As I hope most are aware, Cap is going to get an update, and along with it, item updates. I have been mulling over changes, and I can say that there is certainly good news. His items are in a place right now that they can and will be significantly improved. I'd just like to throw this out there for now...start thinking about what YOU, the players, want on his specific items. I realize that it's hard to really judge that now without knowing the details of the update, but keep this in the back of your minds. Any and all ideas are appreciated. We make a conscious effort here to work with the players to provide something they are excited to find and use. I'll be in and out of this discussion and taking down notes as we go.

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[zenith16]

On The Ninth and Tenth Day of Christmas Gazillion Gave To Me

...A Ymir's Flurry Snow Artifact! Now you feel like it's snowing all the time with this visual Artifact. I'm not going to complain about getting something free but this isn't as good as the first few days. Maybe someone knows of a good visual combo for this? Here's what it is:

And on the Tenth Day of Christmas, you get a 3 hour Winter Boost potion that boosts, RIF, SIF, XP at 200%, double Eternity Splinter rate drop, and increased Odin Mark drop. You can also buy these potions at the G store:

No new update on the boss marker bug... However, it very likely that they will run Midtown Madness again tomorrow! Great time to pop these buffs!

Published: 23 December 2014

On The Eleventh Day of Christmas Gazillion Gave To Me

... a Festivus Pole Artifact and a Random Costume Box! Pretty cool. For those who are wondering what a Festivus Pole is, check out this video: Video Link
This is the Festivus Pole:

What the minor Miracle is monies! Lots and lots of monies! Well, more like 25k but that's still pretty cool.

Published: 23 December 2014

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[Nathan]

So, stuff I bought this month so far.

Packs

- X-23 Pre-order pack
- Venom Pre-order pack

Single Heroes

- Ghost Rider
- Cyclops

Costumes

- Ghost Rider Alejandra Blaze
- Wolverine Marvel Now

Team-Ups

- She-Hulk


I think I might have a problem.

 

[Havok83]

I got the Enhanced female Black Panther costume. Sigh....I always get stuff for characters I dont have

This is the only F2P MMO, Ive really gotten into and man its really easy to spend money. I need to watch myself

On a side note, Im going away for a week, so I installed the game on my MacBook Pro. It told me my graphics drivers were out of date, but it booted up and ran fine. Looks like Im good to go and wont miss out

 

[Nathan]

If you might be occasionally in the mood to play with someone, you can add me. My name in-game, as well as my Steam ID, is Barachim.

 

[Havok83]

Mine is HavokX

I also bought the Havok Team Up and kinda disappointed. I wish they'd have made him a playable character instead. Having him walk around with my Jean, made me realize, they've barely interacted in the comics.

 

[Nathan]

I was thinking of buying Havok too, as a Team-Up for Cyclops. But I just do not like the model. He looks really poor, compared to some of the other characters.

 

[Nathan]

If you log into Marvel Heroes today, you get a free random hero box.

 

[Havok83]

If you log into Marvel Heroes today, you get a free random hero box.

Thanks. Watch me get someone I already have or dont want. Could love another X-men like Gambit, Nightcrawler or Rogue, but I could never be that lucky

 

[Nathan]

I got Emma, who I already own. But I already got so many characters, it was unlikely that I'd get someone I don't own.

 

[Havok83]

Without fail, I got Cable who I just bought last month. I don't have many characters which makes it disappointing that I keep getting duplicates. I bet it's not as random as they say it is

 

[Nathan]

The RNG Gods can be cruel sometimes. I wasted 3 costumes to craft a random one, and I got Anti-Venom. Of course I already owned that costume, because I bought the Venom Pack.

But yeah, sometimes I don't believe it's as random as they say either. Sometimes I have the worst luck, just getting dupes, and then there were times, where I got tons of new characters, even though chances to get new ones, shrunk with each time my roster grew.

 

[zenith16]

Sweet I just got Nova Rick rider i the random heroes box today. That makes up for my missing Holiday groot .

 

[zenith16]

Michael Bitton : Four Things We Want from Marvel Heroes in 2015

Posted Dec 24, 2014


We re-reviewed the game earlier this year, bumping our score up from our initial 5.6 to an 8.2, reflecting all the improvements we found in the game. Still, there are a number of issues that have presented since then and today we’re offering up our list of improvements we’d like to see Gazillion make over the course of the next year.
Read more of Michael Bitton's Marvel Heroes: Four Things We Want from Marvel Heroes in 2015.

More Repeatable Content
As much as I love the game, there isn’t anything else in the game that gets as much play as the Midtown Manhattan patrol zone in Marvel Heroes. Gazillion recently added a new patrol zone, Industry City Patrol, but while ICP has players running around it in search of some hot new items, Midtown Manhattan remains king. Normally, you’d praise a developer for creating a piece of content that players go back to over and over, but honestly, Midtown Manhattan is getting tiresome. Even though Marvel Heroes offers a bunch of formalized boss runs, a couple of one-shot missions, and raids, it’s still missing that endlessly repeatable mode that I feel it so desperately needs. Unless you’re looking for a specific item, there really isn’t anything to do where the game has a chance to completely surprise you.
This is where the ‘Danger Room’ comes in. In short, Danger Room will be Path of Exiles ‘maps’ feature. I’m not exactly sure how Marvel Heroes’ implementation will play out, but essentially it’s a way of creating somewhat randomized dungeons for players to explore, with increasing levels of challenge as they make their way through them. Not knowing what I can expect to find with every run would really help keep the experience fresh at endgame and this is something Marvel Heroes sorely needs.


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Itemization Diversity
This seems to have improved some over the last few months of 2014, but in general, most characters in Marvel Heroes build too similarly, particularly in the area of artifacts. There are exceptions, of course, but items such as Gem of the Kursed and Advanced Metasensory Array are most likely going to take up two of your four artifact slots. There aren’t enough sufficiently diverse items competing for the same slots in the game just yet. The best way to improve this would be to create items with similar stats that differ in terms of utility or unique effects. A decent example of this right now is Arnim Zola’s ESP Box vs. Hand of Doom. If you don’t need the spirit management or you’re getting it elsewhere, Hand of Doom is the better item. Otherwise, ESP Box is a great fit for the slot. Gazillion’s item team needs to drive on this approach towards itemization throughout 2015.
Players should really have to think a bit more about what they are equipping to a new character. As it stands, I can level up a character to 60, unbind my GOK, Metasensory Array, and a couple of other common high-end artifacts (Hand of Doom, Taskmaster Guide, ESP Box, etc) and boom, I’ve got a heavily geared character right away. Marvel Heroes will always need to be a bit gear friendly in this way since the game encourages you to level up many heroes, but I feel the current state of itemization takes this friendliness to the extreme. ARPGs live and die by their item hunts and once you’ve acquired one of each of the high-end artifacts in the game, you're practically done. Unless the character in question is chasing a perfect cosmic item roll or a specific unique boss drop, there isn’t always much of an item hunt to pursue on a character to character basis. I feel like every new hero release should also come with a suite of new items (not just hero uniques) that fit, but aren’t necessarily best-in-slot for the hero coming out. These items could give a new hero something to chase while also spicing up the pool of options for existing heroes that share similar qualities (damage type, role, etc.). It’s sort of like a card game; you want to expand the pool of options regularly to shake things up.
Typically, these new items come with new content, but let’s be honest, Gazillion has been pretty slow on delivering new content, and players consume that new content quickly once it comes out. A steady and consistent injection of new items to go along with the regular hero releases could go a long way towards making things more exciting. Again, like card games, these new items don’t always need to be aggressively competing with other items already in the game. Some of them could be more ‘for fun’, for example. These items may surprise players by having unique applications for a particular character on the roster, even if they are maybe useless for anyone else. Recently, Magneto launched with an emphasis on collecting orbs through his secondary resource, and this got players thinking about using a number of orb related artifacts that were previously considered useless. This sort of thing is healthy for the game and we should see more of it, even if it doesn’t always pan out like we hope.

Ultimate Upgrades
I don’t know if I’m just doing it wrong or what, but I haven’t leveled a single character’s ultimate ability to 20 yet. I’ve been playing since launch and I still don’t have enough splinters to buy enough upgrade tokens to max out a single character’s ultimate ability. I buy all of my heroes and teamups with cash, so I imagine this is even worse for anyone who goes the full F2P route or somewhere in between. This makes me incredibly apprehensive about investing my splinters in a character’s ultimate, especially when I like to level up and play multiple characters, as the game encourages you to.
I feel there should be more ways to earn ultimate upgrade tokens, even if it’s something as simple as earning a certain amount of experience with a particular character eventually grants you an upgrade token. Or how about a couple of tokens for each prestige? Honestly, the particular implementation isn’t too important to me, but I feel there definitely needs to be more avenues for upgrading your hero’s ultimate ability. Splinters simply compete with too many other things (especially when team-ups can cost as much as a hero) in the game to make ultimate tokens a priority unless you’re OK with playing just a single character.

Visual Updates and Art Consistency
While Marvel Heroes has never been the most gorgeous game out there, it’s still a pretty good looking title, overall. Still, over the last few months, Gazillion’s artists managed to figure out some new tricks to take their character art to a whole new level. We’ve seen some night-and-day improvements on some newer heroes and costumes, so much so that some costumes look downright awful by comparison. These improvements are also completely inconsistent. For example, Magneto launched with three costumes, the black and white Marvel NOW! costumes and his classic red and purple. While the Marvel NOW! costumes look fine, the classic Magneto costume makes the character look like he’s from an entirely different, and much higher quality, game. If you’re going to launch a new hero with these improvements, all the costumes should reflect it, too. Basically, we’re in a League of Legends situation, where many characters and skins in the cast are of one quality while others enjoy the benefit of whatever new tricks the artists have learned to squeeze more out of the game over time.
Like Riot Games, I hope Gazillion has a plan to go back through the existing characters and costumes and improve them to the same level of the new stuff we’ve seen come out in recent months (Hulk Cancerverse, Magneto Classic, Amazing Spiderman, All New Marvel NOW! Wolverine, etc.). I understand that essentially redoing older releases may cost the studio money, but the rest of the game suffers for it. There is simply too stark a difference between many of these costumes. On the plus side, redoing older costumes may make them more attractive to purchase, and Gazillion may end up making out OK in the end.
What would you like to see Gazillion add or improve on in 2015 for Marvel Heroes? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
Michael Bitton / Michael began his career at the WarCry Network in 2005 as the site manager for several different WarCry fansite portals. In 2008, Michael worked for the startup magazine Massive Gamer as a columnist and online news editor. In June of 2009, Michael joined MMORPG.com as the site's Community Manager. Follow him on Twitter @eMikeB


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Created On: December 24, 2014

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Get the full scoop on Marvel Heroes' Venom

(1 day ago)
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The most recent addition to Marvel Heroes' roster, Venom, isn't merely a Spider-Man reskin. Gazillion put some thought into making this 43rd playable character unique as it uses its symbiote power to do nasty things to nasty people.

Gazillion said that it wanted to go "all out" on Venom's looks and animations. Venom also has an interesting resource builder. "Unique to Venom, ichor serves as his primary resource, replacing spirit entirely, and accumulates as Venom uses powers that drain his own health – representing the host's constant battle with the symbiote," said Systems Designer Michael May.

You can check Venom's trailer out after the break!

[Source: Gazillion press release] Continue Reading


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[zenith16]

VOD of this
The Stream Team: A very Venom Marvel Heroes Monday

(2 hours ago)
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If Spiderman is just a wee bit too clean cut for you, you might enjoy Marvel Heroes' newest playable villain instead. Venom, the dark antithesis to the colorful web crawler, has recently joined the ranks. Of course, that means Massively's MJ has got to check him out in all his symbiote glory. And part of that glory is using ichor as a resource builder, which just happens to drain his health in order to power up his skills. That means MJ could actually cause her own deathblow if she's not careful! Join us live at 5:00 p.m. to see the dark side of Spidey powers (and if MJ can survive her new powers).

Game: Marvel Heroes
Host: MJ Guthrie
Date: Monday, December 29th, 2014
Time: 5:00 p.m. EST

Enjoy our Stream Team video with in. Continue Reading

source:Massively

 

[Nathan]

Don't forget, the Holiday Sales ends January 1st. Last chance to purchase a Hero or Costume for half price.

 

[zenith16]

They're back

Ryolnir
January 5

Achievements
Yes, collect all unique achievements are retroactive, you just need them in your inventory/S.T.A.S.H.

Ryolnir
January 5
Achievements
@Skorpos: Correct, you will need to get them again if you sold them/donated them.

TheDink
January 5

Haz some Wiccan...
Thanks all! glad ye approve! going to look at him in the game to do a material pass, perhaps tomorrow I can post an in-game pic!

TheDink
January 5
"Oh hi 90's Jean Grey....
I'm starting on Storm tomorrow but I think Jean is right after her ^^

amthua
January 5
Just a question about Mr. Fantastic's Unique Items..
Keep it coming. And thanks for the great ideas so far!

Ryolnir
January 5
While You Guys Are in the Spoiling Mood..
No, I'm still writing the motion comic!

 

[zenith16]

Ryolnir
January 5

Superior Iron Man costume
It would have to be Enhanced to make it worth it... Hmm...

TheDink
January 5
"Oh hi 90's Jean Grey....
@MarvelMechanic said: Exciting! I wonder what costume was chosen for Storm and Jean Storm's I know for sure but there is a toss up between 2 Jeans costumes, but both are ones that a lot of people have been requesting...without saying too much ;

TheDink
January 5
MC2 Spider-Girl Enhanced
Glad you like her! she was fun to pose!

amthua
January 5
Nova Uniques - Question
I did this for Mr. Fantastic, and I'm doing this for Nova too. If you could make up to 5 changes to his Unique items, what would they be? I am looking for specific skills, stats etc that he is lacking on his existing items, things that would make them that much better.

amthua
January 5
Nova melee slot 1 and range slot 2 uniques
I am not sure about new ones, but his existing ones will be reviewed and made appropriate.

amthua
January 5
Marvel Statues
As an FYI, the Magneto XM is INSANE.

source: Marvel Heroes 2015 Forum Home

 

[zenith16]

Heretic
2:06PM
The Great Cons and Pros of Private Patrol Instance Discussion
The main reason for our hesitation to enable solo patrol instances is server performance. Patrol instances are, bar none, the most intensive drains on our servers of any kind of instance or map. Allowing solo instances would increase the

Heretic
2:21PM
The Great Cons and Pros of Private Patrol Instance Discussion
@pwturty said: rather than solo patrols, any chance the max # of players can be cut down to like 3 or 5? i for one am in the group of people who cant play ICP or MM if there are more than a couple people on the screen because i play on cardboard box Hard versus soft caps, and the actual number of those caps, is a continuing topic of discussion internally, in fact.

Heretic
2:29PM
The Great Cons and Pros of Private Patrol Instance Discussion
@RybackStun said: While I understand the issue you have brought up, it didn't seem like it was that significant of an issue when you guys accidentally implemented the queue system a few months ago. We did, in fact, test a rolling queue system for patrol maps. The server data collected from that test was relevant to this discussion. Server performance varies depending on a large array of conditions with some instances and some individuals getting better or worse performance over time. That being said, the result of these and other analyses is that this is a significant cause for concern. As noted earlier, we would like to have more flexibility in the future, but right now we're not in a position to commit to that.

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2014
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[zenith16]

Doomsaw
2:37PM
The Van.
The Van approaches. Frank Is Ready

Doomsaw
2:38PM

The Van.
Based on this, but with a modern take on it:

Doomsaw
2:55PM
The Van.
That is actually a great idea! @bwahahahahahahaha said: sigh, now we will raid raids in the ride, hope you will add costumes for van i wanna play pimp my ride here

Heretic
3:16PM
Midtown Retrofit Request for Feedback
Brand new bosses are beyond the scope of this retrofit, but bringing in others like Mole Man and Black Cat is definitely feasible, as would be things like the Sinister Six and possibly Mr. Sinister. Lot of great feedback here, guys. Feel free to keep it coming; I am working on this for the rest of the week at least, and starting today is...villains!

Heretic
3:14PM
Any ICP players who actually live in the real world Industry City neighborhood of Brooklyn?
By any chance do we have any players who play the Industry City Patrol who are actually from the real world Industry City neighborhood in Brooklyn?

Doomsaw
3:25PMHiring More People - Details Within
Hi all, We are adding a couple more game designers to the team as we expand the number of features and content in the game.

Doomsaw
3:48PM
Symbiote Wolverine!
Upcoming new costume! I just have the "t-pose" right now that is done after the base modeling work, but before animations, so no

Doomsaw
4:14PM
Symbiote Wolverine!
@AmDash said: This spring or late winter? Goodness. Late Winter meaning February, Spring meaning March/April. No later than that. As costumes go, it's fairly involved. Not as involved as the new Ghost Rider costume, however...

Ryolnir
7:29PM

new hulk TC
Thanks for the feedback all - Hulk obviously wasn't meant to go public just yet and many of his powers are unfinished, but your feedback was great and we're making sure to address as much as we can before he goes public (again) in TC on Friday.

Doomsaw
6:13PM
We love Ryolnir, generally.
I just sent this image to @ryolnir since he was working very hard and needed a cute picture to improve his morale:

source: Marvel Heroes 2015 Forum Home

 

[zenith16]

amthua
January 7
Insignia Review - Any Updates?
@shadowgank said: before the holidays amthua had said early January .So i would assume soonish The team is working hard o

amthua
January 7
Insignia Review - Any Updates?
@holdmyshizzit said: Is it sill scheduled for a January release, or am i pushing my luck with answers? lol We will certainly push for a release as soon as we can get the work done and everything ironed out. Ideally we're looking at January. @Uniclonus said: In the event you remove unattractive affixes, will existing insignias with those affixes totally re-roll, will they get a new affix roll for that one slot, or will they stay as is except with a blank spot? Unattractive affixes that are removed will stay on the existing items, but will no longer be able to roll going forward.

amthua
January 7
Insignia Review - Any Updates?
@batmanxsuperman said: What are changes are going to happen with unattractive affixes ? and auras ? like quicksilver, LC, and juggernaut? any hints? Auras that are deemed bad, will most likely be left on the item as flavor. Then an additional effect or effects will be added to the insignia. Example: Insignia of Skip Bayless You and your allies have a 99.9% chance to be completely wrong about anything sports related when you open your mouth, lasts the rest of your life Obviously that aura is terrible. No one likes it. But its very flavorful for Skip. We'd keep that effect, but most likely change it from "you and your allies" to just "you", but we'd also add a new effect, something similar in balance to: You and your allies gain 200 damage rating vs bosses and 150 critical hit rating when you critically hit for 5s So in this case, the Insignia would have a personal effect (the old, bad one) and a new effect (200 dmg rating vs. bosses, 150 crit rating) which is comparable to an O'Grady.

amthua
January 7

Insignia Review - Any Updates?
@Nootteryouknow said: amthua Any chance you could sneak in some Hellfire Club insignias? We've already got Emma, Jean, Magneto, Iron Man, and Storm who could use them, and I'm sure we'd see more in the future. Come on, you know Emma deserves to have access to an exclusive class of insignias~ Sneaking in something that isn't scheduled will honestly push the release of this back.

source: Marvel Heroes 2015 Forum Home

 

[zenith16]

news on Winter soldier

Ryolnir
4:10PM
Some questions
He is physical damage. He will have S.H.I.E.L.D. & Avengers. He will use Vibranium.

Ryolnir
4:16PM
Some questions
His alternate costume is his movie costume. He's not quite ready to be fully shown off in-game yet, new gun models and such are on their way for him!

Ryolnir
4:14PM
Let's get to it: Who is maining this guy?
Between his powers and his voice over, I think I'm going to be playing him for quite a while.

Ryolnir
5:38PM
Q&A for Advance Pack 2
We will be making an announcement about it soon.

amthua
5:36PM
Let's get to it: Who is maining this guy?
All this Winter Soldier and Cap talk. Hmm...maybe something shared...

 

[zenith16]

Ryolnir
6:47PM
Rogue- Borrowed Hawkeye Passive change...
Thanks - we're checking this out. Does it actually give 100% or just show that?

Ryolnir
6:59PM
Rogue- Borrowed Hawkeye Passive change...
Thank you!

Lord
8:00PM
Dink spoils Wiccan (In Game schreenshots)
I accept all your praise for telling @theDink to model this and telling the VFX artists to make the powers blue.

meowingtonz
8:05PM
Vote for Marvel Heroes 2015 in MMORPG's Player's Choice Awards!
Ladies and gents, you're the best ever

meowingtonz
8:23PM
Vote for Marvel Heroes 2015 in MMORPG's Player's Choice Awards!
@GGiant said: Woo moved into second place in just hours! Will you guys ever be able to get them to update the page for the game? Its super outdated and not super flattering, imo. That's a great point. I'll look into it. We certainly have more than 19 heroes playable now

Ryolnir
8:56PM
Vote for Marvel Heroes 2015 in MMORPG's Player's Choice Awards!
Thanks so much for the support everybody!

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[zenith16]

First Patch of 2015! v1.3

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