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Marvel Heroes (MH)
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MMORPG | Genre:Super-Hero | Status:Final (rel 06/04/13) | Pub:Gazillion Entertainment
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Marvel Heroes Column: Why You Should Give Marvel Heroes Another Look
on January 15, 2014
When we gave Marvel Heroes a 5.6 in our review last June, the game most certainly deserved it. In fact, when I first saw MH at a game convention around six months before launch, I thought it looked terrible. I eventually got a chance to play in the beta and the game was definitely rough, but I could see the potential as it improved towards launch. Still, those improvements weren’t enough, and the game launched a hot mess.
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Quickly, Gazillion endeavored to improve on the game and spent no time trying to gloss over its flaws. Instead, the team looked to tap directly into player feedback in guiding the changes needed to be made going forward. The game did improve some over the first few months, but it wasn’t until Gazillion brought on former Blizzard developer Jeff “Doomsaw” Donais that a clear vision had been set and truly appreciable changes began to roll in at a seemingly breakneck pace. Since then, Doomsaw and his team have done an excellent job taking advantage of feedback from the community. The team engages with the players frequently on the forums in discussions to improve individual characters and even the game as a whole.
I’ve been playing the game on and off since launch and as someone working in community I really have to commend Gazillion on having a finger on the pulse of their player community. This has been most apparent in the great deal of care that has been put into the ongoing process of making each and every character balanced and fun to play. This began with a series of character reworks and then a whole new set of level 52 reworks. Initially, characters were designed with a power progression through level 30, but these latest reworks have added additional power progression through level 52 (out of 60). While the reworks have been coming at a pretty solid clip, Gazillion made the decision late last year to halt them temporarily in an effort to balance the damage across all characters to ensure players didn’t have to wait until their favorite character's rework was on deck to begin enjoying them. If you haven’t played since launch, there’s a very good chance that your favorite character is a lot more viable now, if not reworked altogether.
While simultaneously improving elements of the existing game, Gazillion has also added quite a few new characters, features, game modes, and item types since launch. New characters include: Gambit, Emma Frost, Human Torch, Luke Cage, Squirrel Girl, Ghost Rider, and even the game’s first playable villain, Loki. Loki arrived with the introduction of update 2.0, which added a ninth chapter to the game’s story content, tying into the events of Marvel’s latest Thor film, Thor: The Dark World. Naturally, this content takes place in Asgard, and Gazillion has been adding to the Asgard content available every month since its introduction, with plans to add the game’s first raid to Asgard in the near future.
Endgame has improved significantly, too. There are multiple new modes, including: X-Defense (endless survival, with scaling rewards in experience and loot chance), Midtown Manhattan (a large open zone with continually cycling dynamic events and boss fights), and soon to come, the Danger Room. Even the basic story content has been upgraded with new Heroic and Superheroic difficulty modes.
As for items, Gazillion has added Unique items for each character (in addition to character agnostic Uniques), Team Insignias (aura granting items), rings, new and improved Artifacts, Relics (think Badass ranks from Borderlands 2), and most recently, Legendary items. Legendary items gain experience as you do combat with them equipped to your hero, eventually ranking up over five ranks and unlocking additional benefits along the way. Going forward, Gazillion plans to bring back Runewords from Diablo II and add a new StarkTech item type that will grow in strength as players donate items to it.
A 5v5 PvP mode called “Fire & Ice” was also added late last year, but I honestly wouldn’t advise anyone to check Marvel Heroes out at this time for the PvP alone. The mode is in beta at this point and is quite unbalanced. From what I understand, Gazillion is committed to balancing the mode and officially releasing it in the near future, but it’s just not there yet.
One of the major concerns at launch was Gazillion’s approach to monetizing the game. The game wasn’t Pay-to-Win, but gamers balked at the prices Gazillion were charging for new characters and costumes. While it was technically possible to acquire new characters and costumes through simple gameplay, the token system originally used just didn’t feel practical to most players. Since then, character prices have generally been reduced across the board and Gazillion has implemented a new Eternity Splinters currency that can be used to unlock characters, Ultimate Power upgrade tokens, Retcons (respecs), and more.
Eternity Splinters drop at a regular interval as players play the game and it really doesn’t take a whole lot of time to earn enough of them to add a new character to your playable roster. You can even spend a smaller amount of Splinters to purchase a box granting a random hero reward. If RNG is in your favor, you can end up unlocking a 600 Splinter hero for a paltry 175 Splinters. Eternity Splinters give players options instead of forcing them to hope and pray for their favorite character to drop if they don’t have the cash (or aren’t willing to spend it) on unlocking a new character. That said, you may still get a bit of sticker shock with some of the costume prices, but Gazillion has essentially positioned costumes as a primary revenue source and the studio has to make money somehow. In my opinion, it’s a fair trade off for what is almost entirely a cosmetic feature.
Ultimately, Marvel Heroes is a much better game today than it was at launch and it looks like players have been rewarding Gazillion for their efforts to improve it. Marvel Heroes doesn’t feel like a game treading water, consigned to its fate by a disastrous launch. Instead, it’s a game that is growing in a meaningful way all the time, with developers who truly seem to care about providing their players with solid service and a receptive ear to constructive feedback. If you found yourself underwhelmed by the launch product, or stayed away due to what you heard from friends either about the state of the game or its monetization model, I would encourage you to give it another look.
You can find Marvel Heroes free-to-play on Steam. For a peek at the game’s 2014 hero (and villain) lineup, check out the Marvel Heroes Advance Packs.
Gambit's Luck of the Draw Weekend FAQ January 16th, 2014
What is included in the Bonus Random Hero Box?
You have an equal chance at receiving any of our 28 Heroes that are a part our roster, including Heroes that you already own. If you already own that Hero, you will receive a Hero Token to upgrade that Hero's Ultimate Power.
What is included in the Bonus Random Costume Box?
You have an equal chance at receiving any of the costumes that are available for purchase directly in the store, including Enhanced Costumes. This includes costumes for Heroes that you do not own.
If I bought a Hero or Costume before the promotion started, will I receive a Bonus Random Hero or Costume box?
No, due to the nature of the promotion, we will not be matching items bought prior to the promotion with the promotional deal.
Do I have a chance of receiving a Hero or Costume I already own from the Bonus Random Hero Box or Bonus Random Costume Box?
Yes, there is still a chance of you receiving a Hero or Costume that you already own. If you already won the Hero you will receive a Hero Token which you can use to upgrade that Hero's Ultimate Power.
Does the Bonus Random Costume Box include Ultimate Pack exclusive costumes, Default Costumes, Chase Costumes, or Fortune Card Exclusive Costumes?
No, the Bonus Random Costume Box only includes the costumes that are available for purchase directly in the store.
Are Hero and Costume Bundles also included in this promotion?
No, only individual Heroes or Costumes purchased with Gs are included in this promotion.
Are Heroes purchased with Eternity Splinters a part of this promotion?
No, only individual Heroes or Costumes purchased with Gs are included in this promotion.
Is this promotion limited to a first time purchase?
No, you can purchase as many Heroes or Costumes as you want and will receive a Bonus Random Hero Box for each Hero purchased, or a Bonus Random Costume Box for each Costume purchased.
If I save the Random Hero or Costume Box and open it after more Hero or Costumes are released, will I have a chance at receiving those?
No, the Random Hero and Costume boxes only contain the current roster of Heroes and the current costumes available for purchase in the store.
Does this promotion include everything in the store?
No, this promotion only includes Heroes and Costumes.
Does this promotion include Webstore Packs?
No, this promotion only includes Heroes and Costumes sold in our In-Game Store that are available for purchase with Gs.
Will Nightcrawler be available for Pre Order with this?
No, Nightcrawler will not be available for Pre Order with this promotion.
0 From:https://forums.marvelheroes.com/dis...forum-ama-twitch-livestream-24-01-2014#latestConsolidated Updates from the Forum AMA + Twitch Livestream [24/01/2014]
njferns
Cutting EdgeLocationMumbai, IndiaAmazing
January 24
Today @Ryolnir & @TheArtofRawr held a Developer Livestream on Twitch (http://www.twitch.tv/marvelheroes), where they graciously showed off Nightcrawler, the newly reviewed Cap & Hawkeye (& we saw Kate Bishop run around as well). PLUS the first reveals for Fear Itself Wolverine & the highly awaited Lady Loki. Brilliant job done on BOTH costumes that look absolutely smashing & kudos to @TheDink for her work on Lady Loki which is top-notch as always. (I would like to know though who was responsible for the equally great work done on Fear Itself Wolvie.)
This image has been resized to fit in the page. Click to enlarge.
But before the Twitch event actually happened, Ryolnir decided to "keep us entertained" (read: distract us from whining & moaning about the servers being down ) with an AMA (http://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/61377/ask-gazillion-anything/p1). So since the servers are still down I figured I could consolidate all the updates from the forum AMA AND the Twitch livestream into one single post for your reading pleasure while you'll wait. Special mention to@KingBacon for keeping us entertained with his humorous antics in the AMA & thanks to @Doomsawfor popping in the AMA & Livestream too. Of course a BIG THANKS to Ryolnir for conducting both & trying to answer as many questions as he could from the barrage of queries.In case I've missed out on anything feel free to comment & I'll add it in with your credit.
New Heroes
Hero Improvements
- Choice for the final 2 heroes in the Advance packs is between Rogue (very likely), Mr. Fantastic, Blade & 1-2 possible others.
- Moon Knight comes after Nightcrawler. He will be mostly based on Charlie Huston's Moon Knight & before (with a touch of Vengeance of the Moon Knight.) He has plenty of ranged & melee skills & the Moon Copter/Angelwing will be present.
- Doctor Strange is currently in design phase on track for his March release. He has many spells & some nifty Astral Form stuff planned.
- Star Lord power trees: Element Guns, Ship, TBD.
- Psylocke is in design phase.
- X-23 & Beast progress as side projects when there is downtime, which is rare, but occasionally happens.
- Blade will definitely be in 2015, if not 2014. But more likely 2015.
- Magneto, Venom & Juggernaut- Second half of 2014. There is a very specific story chapter that needs to finish before these releases. (They also have something in mind for Agent Venom.)
- Silver Surfer will likely be released close to Starlord's August release.
- Nova & Invisible Woman - Mid 2014.
- Iceman- (Maybe early) 2015
- Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)- May come out in 2015.
- Elektra & War Machine will eventually be playable heroes but timing is TBD.
- There are serious limitations for super-speed heroes like Quicksilver & Northstar, which is why they could probably never make them as playable.
- Kaine Spiderman will most likely not be playable in the game.
- Penance could be a likely candidate for 2016.
Missions
- Scarlet Witch's review will most likely be in April or so.
- Black Widow's review will be in February.
- They are working on a number of changes for Gambit. His running animation will also be changed.
- In his review Daredevil will receive something similar to combo points & will have improved AOE/trash killing' abilities. [Thanks @Skaughtto ]
- They will be adjusting tenacity soon. 2 things need to be fixed: the tooltips & overall balancing/amounts/ratios.
- Team-up characters will begin to be released in the next few months.
- Possible to see Arachne (Julia Carpenter), Deathlok as a team up or similar someday.
- Likely you will be able to donate gear to team ups (sidekicks) to upgrade their stats.
- Dual spec for heroes will be coming latest by the first half of this year.
-Tokens that let you upgrade the item level of items (increasing the white numbers and affixes slightly).
- Raid on TC - Probably in 1-2 months. Rewards for raids hasn't been decided yet, but will possibly include some combination of:
-A few rare runewords.
-Uniques items & artifacts (or advanced versions of current)
-Higher chance of "any hero" uniques.
-Achievements.
Items
- There will be a recipe for Bovineheim.
- More terminals are in the works. Bullseye terminal seems likely.
- Hardcore mode is often discussed, but never locked down.
- An Ultron multiphase boss is being planned.
-Note that the base items themselves are pretty vanilla (similar to socketed items with some key design differences), it's the runewords themselves that are more interesting. The Uru-Forged Items themselves are vessels than can be enchanted with runewords.
- Uru forged item drops will be pretty rare in this patch since they're a preview - more common in the future (but never common).
-They come in 6 flavors: War Belt, War Ballista, War Axe, War Gauntlets, War Helm & War Plate (Those are the high-level version names)
-Here are some sample runeword names:2-Rune Runewords: Shield Wall Bowazon Blood Barrage Fire Barrage Valkerie's Legacy
3-Rune Runewords: Ritual Spiritfire Ancient Grove Bone Breaker
4-Rune Runewords: Heroes of Asgard Demonic Savagery Gladiator Viking's Vitality Lunar Eclipse
5-Rune Runewords: Surtur's Volcanic Soul Beast Master Breath of the Dying Enigma Ultimate Guardian God of Thunder God of Mischief
-Runes will be able to enchant slot 1-5.
- Most runes will have 1 affix, the basic design is that they are one per item, but there may be more advanced recipes.
-Gear slot 1-5 can only have 1 rune.
Costumes
- StarkTech should be in test by late February/early March & live in March.
- Relic auto stacking is coming.
- More STASH tabs likely available for purchase by March.
- They are planning a medallion/artifact pass.
- No new blessings planned right now.
Misc
- Phoenix 5 Emma Frost coming next week! She will probably be 950G as she has no flames or voice modulation.
- Jean Grey's All New X-Men costume is finished & on the schedule. Her Here Comes Tomorrow costume is also likely to be done at some point.
- Black Widow has a new costume waiting to be released. Doomsaw has since teased what the costume would be based on here: https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/61570/server-update-keeping-the-data-secure/p1
- Thor's Future King costume will be the next costume released for him.
- Shuri enhanced costume for Black Panther confirmed.
- American Dream costume for Captain America is still in the works.
- Indestructible, Fear Itself & Joe Fixit (Madripoor) costumes are all on the list for Hulk with the Indestructible one coming first.
- Patch Wolverine, , Dark X-men Emma Frost, Iron Spiderman, Rune King Thor, Ultimate Thor, Ms. Thing (FF), 2099 costumes are definitely on their list.
- Cyclops & Wolverine Age of Apocalypse costumes, Age of X & X-Treme costumes will happen.
- Rocket Raccoon's Timely Inc costume- Highly desired by Gaz but there have been certain licensing issues with it in the past. They could probably resolve it by making the costume & calling it something else, therefore avoiding the Timely Inc. name which is a separate company.
- Fear Itself Wolverine is in the pipeline now!
This image has been resized to fit in the page. Click to enlarge.- Gambit as Death will be in the works soon & will be for the normal enhanced price on release.
- Bearded Punisher is the next Punisher costume in the pipeline but he has a lot of heroes in front of him. Rachel Cole-Alves costume is 90% coming for him.
- Active players have been growing fairly aggressively since the Thor movie.
- An official update on Mac compatability is coming in 2 weeks.
- They are considering a companion app for mobile but their focus is still to add more great stuff to the main game first.
- Havok will replace Nightcrawler as the Xavier School NPC. Longshot is likely to replace Domino as the Fortune Card NPC after Domino's release.
- They don't ahve a specific goal for he number of heroes they want to cap at. They may slow down at 100, but have loads they really want to do before then.
- Brian Bendis has only written the storyline up to Doom.
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Marvel Heroes (MH)
Secret Identity Studios | Official Site
MMORPG | Genre:Super-Hero | Status:Final (rel 06/04/13) | Pub:Gazillion Entertainment
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Marvel Heroes Column: Developers Answer a Ton of Questions
on January 25, 2014, Gazillion brought down the Marvel Heroes game in order to apply content update 2.14. The downtime for the patch was extended for several hours, during which time Doomsaw, Ryolnir, and a number of Gazillion developers participated in a marathon “Ask Gazillion Anything” session. Several hours, eighty-plus pages of posts, and hundreds of questions later, we learned a lot of interesting things regarding the present and near future for Marvel Heroes.
1. New Heroes on the horizon
This isn’t terribly surprising, Gazillion has added a number of heroes to the game since launch (Emma Frost, Like Cage, Gambit, Ghost Rider, and Squirrel Girl for example) and they currently have Nightcrawler up on the Test Center ready for launch in the imminent future. On deck is Moon Knight and Doctor Strange, each likely to come out this spring. From there, we can expect Silver Surfer and Starlord, with Blade and Ice-Man referenced as a late 2014 or early 2015 addition.
2. Playable Villains on the horizon
The addition of Loki as a playable character with Chapter 9, opened the door for a host of other playable villains. Venom, Juggernaut, and Magneto were each referenced in the question and answer section. Magneto, in particular, will come following a storyline addition to the game clarifying why he’s available to assist S.H.I.E.L.D. The developers also mentioned that villain Magneto would have a specific line of dialog that would come up when he comes into battle with player-character Magneto.
3. More Enhanced Costumes
Enhanced costumes for a hero provide a new look and a completely different dialog bank. Recently, Gazillion has begun using these enhanced costumes to broaden out the hero choices by adding in other Marvel denizens who have temporarily acted as that hero. For example, the Beta Ray Bill enhanced Thor costume allows you to turn Thor into Beta Ray Bill. Hawkeye will be getting a Hope Bishop costume very soon, allowing fans of the Young Avenger to play her instead of Clint Barton. Similar work is afoot to bring in Shuri, the Black Panther’s sister and American Dream, a female take on Captain America. These gender swap costumes have been pretty popular, I know the Kate Bishop one is going to be an immediate for us, both my wife and daughter were happy to see that addition.
4. The Raid Zone
A number of references were made regarding the raid zone in development, although details here are far more sketchy at this time. There seems to be a lot of excitement around the first two bosses of the raid zone, but we don’t yet know who they will be. There were some reveals regarding loot in the raid. It appears that a new form of token or currency will be added which enables players to raise the item-level of gear in the game. Unique gear and artifacts should be part of the reward system. Achievements were also referenced.
5. New Gear Slots
The teaser for Nightcrawler a few weeks back made it clear that Uru-forged gear is coming soon. We learned a bit more about that today. This will be a new gear slot and has the potential to add blessings to several existing gear slots. Additional discussion touched on forthcoming StarkTech gear, possibly adding another slot of gear to your hero’s inventory.
6. In-Game Population is Growing
Specifically, since the game population has grown steadily since the Thor 2 movie. Doomsaw noted that, with the game now incorporating many of the play-features they have in mind (eternity shards, Midtown Manhattan, X-Defense, Legendary Quests, Asgard, etc.), Gazillion is beginning to promote the title more actively.
There was a lot of additional discussion. Quality of life features like auto-stacking relics, an overhaul of the supergroup (guild) system, and a number of other important topics were addressed (apparently Frito’s is highly recommended on pizza?). Overall it was a very informative day and there are lots of things to be excited about if you are a fan of the Marvel Universe!
Ryahl / Ryahl is a columnist for MMORPG.Com. He is also the host and primary author for Eorzea Reborn and TSWGuides. He has been playing MMO’s since 1999 but periodically dabbles in ARPG’s. You can follow him on Twitter @EorzeaReborn or just argue with him in comments anywhere he posts.
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Source:https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/63421/first-two-new-designers-hired/p1First Two New Designers Hired
Doomsaw
GazillionLocationdefending the Racoon'iverseStaff
January 29
Hi all,
In December I posted this announcement that we were hiring more people for the team:https://forums.marvelheroes.com/dis...ing-experience-join-the-gazillion-team#latest
We got over 100 applicants and sent design tests to about 50 of the top applicants. After many interviews and tests, we narrowed the search down to a few top applicants.
We've hired our first two additions to the team, which will help in various these areas:
As you can guess, with us coming up on 30 playable classes, many modes and a ton of items and systems, we always have more on our "to do" list than we can finish in a month. These new team members will help a ton with that.
- Updating existing heroes
- Review game systems. (We like to review everything from enemies, damage, defense, TTK, TTL, powers tuning, playability, fun, etc)
- Assist with item additions and item reviews.
- Assist with level 52 reviews (and work with the community to gather and process feedback from everyone).
- Work to identify and prioritize the biggest quality of life improvements for every hero.
- Work on the pvp system and upcoming raid system (along with various tuners)
So, please welcome @Psilocke and @Amthua as the next two additions to the team.
Along with @MichaelMayhem, this will be the 3rd designer that we hired straight from the community.-
Welcome guys!
And to everyone who applied, thank you very much and stay in touch because we aren't done yet.
source:https://forums.marvelheroes.com/dis...ear-lunar-festival-holiday-celebration#latestChinese New Year / Lunar Festival Holiday Celebration
Doomsaw
GazillionLocationdefending the Racoon'iverseStaff
January 28
Hi!
We worked on some stuff for you guys for the Chinese New Year / Lunar Festival Holiday.
The red envelope could contain one of the following things:
- Every day you login from Friday to the next two weeks after that, you will receive a daily gift of a Red Envelope.
In addition the following limited-time holiday items can drop anywhere:
- A Chinese Holiday Lantern worth 888 credits (to sell or donate)
- A Chinese Dragon worth 8888 credits (to sell or donate)
- 8 Cube Shards
- 8 Eternity Splinters
- 8 Two Hour Credit Find Boost potions (+20 credits per potion)
- A Fireworks Launcher Artifact that gives you and your allies a large group buff of credit find when used.
And The Mandarin will get the holiday boss treatment and drop greatly increased loot for the entire holiday period. (Any of the terminal versions)
- A Chinese Holiday Lantern worth 888 credits (to sell or donate)
- A Chinese Dragon worth 8888 credits (to sell or donate)
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Mr. Fantastic still not in the game yet?
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well how long ago was that? if it was some months ago like just after launch
Doomsaw's AMA recap! DD's New Costume! Dr. Strange (hopefully) on March 28th!
Ducklett
ALL THE DEADPOOLSLocationUNDER THE BOOTYMighty
6:22PM
Hey guys. I was thinking that a thread like this to put all of Doomsaw's answers and discuss them would be a good idea. I will try and keep this updated between games of ARAM/Ranked and rounds of X-Def, so if you see one I missed please reply/message me and I will update it as frequently as time allows. Enjoy!
Daredevil's new costume spoil!:
OK, got permission to tease this:
http://marvel.wikia.com/Daredevil_Noir_Vol_1_2
Extra pricture from Fiendsly:https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/comment/870391/#Comment_870391
Dr. Strange Release Date and more!:
Dr. Strange will release on March 28th according to the current schedule, but we could keep him a week longer on test center if we find anything that we want to improve.
The way we have new heroes set up, we can easily move around the dates to iterate more if needed.
Dr. Strange should be a really fun ranged hero with some impressive visuals and a fairly unique feel to his gameplay. I will definitely be leveling him to 60.
On Magik and Red Hulk LETS GO MAGIK IN 2014!!!
Totally 100% agree on both.
Magik will definitely be released one day and already has some work done.
Red Hulk will either be playable or an enhanced Hulk costume. We are 50/50 on that.
On Odin Marks, Relics, and Runes:
Doomsaw: Relics and runes will auto-stack next patch and you will be able to split them.
Odin Marks will only drop from Legendary Quests and sometimes daily rewards.
We are looking at options to expand the Quest system to include an opt-in for other modes, but that is something for later in the year.
On Raid development progress:
The first raid is still in development in the following ways: The whitebox of the level is 90% done, but needs a few tweaks based on testing for distance of encounters, encounter flow, etc.
The environment art of the level will need a month or two of work, so each encounter looks good and the environment helps explain the mechanics of the fight. Several of the environment hazards are interesting and will need a lot of iteration so they can be quickly parsed.
The main raid boss is actually almost done, but many of the bosses leading up to him still need several months of work to be complete. This will be the critical path to completion.
Itemization still needs to be done, but that is not on the critical path and is relatively easy. A few new Runewords, several new uniques and artifacts. All of those should take less than 6 weeks to complete, start to finish.
The raid grouping system is complete, along with UI. It will require several weeks of testing, but won't hold anything up.
Tuning and balancing the encounters will likely take 8 weeks, since this is the most complicated content we've ever created. It's actually the first time an ARPG has done a serious, massive raid encounter so I expect it to be very fun and require a good amount of iteration before launch.
All told, I would expect another 16 weeks of work is likely needed, plus or minus 4 weeks in either direction.
On Silver Surfer and other future characters:
This is a good question.
I spent a lot of time rereading Silver Surfer and reviewing all the known information about him to make sure he could have a variety of powers and interesting mechanics.
Based on all of the things he's done over the years, I am sure we can make a balanced and fun hero out of him with several unique builds.
As for unreleased heroes: I am very excited about Rogue, Star-Lord, Juggernaut and Moon Knight + a few others I can't officially mention yet.
On Q2 Hero releases:
After Moon Knight and Dr. Strange, we are looking at some combination of Invisible Woman, Psylocke, Star Lord and 1-2 others.
On open slots in the character sheet (His own question to himself):
Team Ups for sure.
StarkTech for sure.
The other two are still up for discussion with many good ideas (visual artifacts, account-wide items, story items have all been discussed)
On Legendary Item switching:
Absolutely, since we did a huge DPS pass of the game and we are planning on having the players we recently hired spearhead a thorough item pass for the game, we think it's fair to allow people to trade in their Legendaries for a limited time.
This should start with the Moon Knight patch and last until a complete pass is done on items and attributes. After that, you won't be able to switch for free.
On story development with villians/anti-heroes releasing soon:
Yes, this is in the works for later this year as part of the natural progression.
BTW, we don't charge anything for expansions of story content, we use the League of Legends style business model where you buy costumes (and heroes), but the actual game modes are free.
On population growth and player retention:
Our player base has grown pretty crazily since the Thor movie and we've been growing the company to accomodate it. We've really ramped up the marketing (as you can tell if you watch anything on Twitch). The growth recently has been extremely aggressive and I think our weekly small patches and monthly large patches will help keep existing players interested.
We are working on one new system which is pretty cool that is an evolution of other games Weekly Challenges where the server is given a weekend challenge that is tracked in-game and on the web, with repurcussions if they succeed or fail.
Example: Galactus is invading earth, defeat his minions in these 5 zones over the weekend. If you succeed, the Earth rejoices and new vendors are added everywhere with cool stuff, if you fail, his minions now appear in Midtown, X-Defense and terminals to harass you during the week.
On Dazzler:
Since Valentine's Day is coming, let her know that Dazzler is someone we could do one day as a Team Up or even playable after we've done the top 50-100 heroes.
She actually has enough potential uses of her powers that she could be a full playable class assuming you design a unique mechanic for her.
On Legendary Sharing:
Legendary Quest sharing should be ready for live in a few weeks, we want to test it and get it perfect before it goes live, but it's a high priority.
Yes, Psylocke is Q2 and awesome.
On Starting Hero selection UI:
I saw this post also and was very surprised, the interface has huge arrows, a simple line of clear text and 9 heroes prominently displayed.
I could see someone who is very excited just clicking "Start" without reading anything, so maybe I'll add an "Are you sure?" confirmation.
On PoE/D3 expansions:
We are just going to keep releasing stuff every week and major patches every month.
If people want to take take off to play D3 expansion, they are more than welcome to, we will always be here and always putting out new stuff every week.
On Polaris and Magneto:
Yes, he is in Marvel movies and is much more well known.
We could definitely do Polaris one day as a playable hero since she is cool and we could easily give her a unique game mechanic.
On End Game content:
Yes, more and more end-game content is the lifeblood of a good game and we will never stop adding more and making existing stuff more fun.
We have about 6 modes/chapters/add-ons coming out this year alone that we've teased or are in early development on.
On turning down a redditor's marriage proposal (Gratz @Doomsaw):
I can't marry you because I'm engaged and getting married in Pennsylvania this year.
However, my fiance is a nurse and she will be working all weekend, so I'll group with you for Cosmics and X-Defense this weekend. Or better yet Midtown legendaries since I really need to get a legendary for Deadpool.
On Moon Knight's interaction with Khonshu artifacts and more (Dr. Strange/Relics):
Moon Knight will definitely benefit from the Knoshu artifacts in the game.
We are still talking about relic changes but don't have anything planned for this patch.
Doctor Strange does not summon minions much in the comics, so he won't be a summoner, but he has some interactions with mystical beings (all taken directly from comics and Marvel lore).
I will do a separate Team Up response since it's long and distinguised.
On Achievements:
Achievements are going throught the back-end engineering design as we speak.
The engineering team is creating an entirely new tracking system for it so it can be efficient and tracked on the web, in-game, etc.
I expect achievements to launch this year 100%. Exact month is TBD, but progress is made every day so it's sooner rather than later.
We are taking the best parts of the achievement systems we have played over the years. Something clean, easy-to-understand and rewarding.
We are giving each hero individual, flavorful achievements like "Emma Frost - Enslave Cyclops in the Mister Sinister Terminal" or "Hulk - Score a brutal strike on Wolverine in PVP for the killing blow".
We have a bunch of solo content in development from Chaos Terminals (randomized stuff like POE but more accessible), endless dungeons, the SHIELD Holo-Sim and a few things for next year that are still in Marvel discussions and based on storyline content they have launched over the years.
On new Daredevil costume:
I will see if Marvel has approved this so I can spoil it here (I REALLY want to).
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On new Chapters:
Great question.
As you know, we have the Marvel MMO license for a very, very long time, so we are planning a long way into the future.
Each year, we would want to do something like this:
At least one new PVE mode for players the presents an interesting tactical challenge. (X-Defense, Danger Room, Midtown, Endless Dungeon, etc)
At least one or more raid encounters for players. We want to push the envelope of raids in action RPGs. It hasn't really been done before and least not on a grand level, so we are breaking new ground. I am personally excited to play a raid where I don't need X tanks, Y healers and Z DPS. Once our first raid is done, I can easily see two raids a year. At least one new story chapter that advances the storyline (this is planned out for quite a long time with some interesting twists and turns).
One PVP mode per year (with monthly ladders, tournaments, etc). Once we get 4-5 PVP modes per year we would likely not add many more but continue to add new features and options.
On group XP bonus:
50% if you are grouped, even if it's just 1 person.
We just added this toggle and we are testing how interesting it is.
Note that grouping with players is already good for Legendary Quest sharing, but we don't want to make it mandatory in the game since we want to support solo play as much as group play.
On Bronx Zoo and inventory spacing:
I will check out your stream later tonight.
Bronx Zoo was designed fairly recently, so it uses some new technology and is visually amazing. My favorite part is the huge aquarium and the Spider-Man villains which always have an ecclectic feel to them.
We are going to change the UI to allow for 20 more inventory spots (which should cover every relic and more) AND add some more inventory slots carried by your Team-Up.
On Norn Stones and other Legendaries:
Norn Stones could be better or worse after we do a pass on attributes, depending on who you are playing.
Hopefully they are better, but lots of details need to be worked out.
Regardless, we will let people trade in Legendaries for free for a time until the dust settles.
On Kid Omega and other future heroes/villians:
Perhaps someday, but low on the list. Maybe as a Team-Up?
Five villains (without a huge analysis) would be: Galactus, Thanos, Super-Skrull, Omega Red and ABSORBING MAN (complete with with a cool set of enviornments).
On PS/XBox ports:
Perhaps one day, we've been approached and had talks, but we are focusing on PC 100% right now, along with a small team for Mac integration
Marvel Heroes Livestream this Friday @ 3pm PST / 6pm EST / 11pm GMT
mykol
Staff
6:50PM
Hey Everybody!
We have another livestream scheduled for this Friday @ 3pm PST / 6pm EST / 11pm GMT.
Ryolnir plans to play some Moonknight and S.H.I.E.L.D Holo-SIM!
This livestream will be less formal and less focused on spoilers.
We do plan to do giveaways in the twitch chat. Periodically, we will randomly select a winner from chat for a Random Hero or Random Costume box, there will NOT be a keyword required to enter.
0Heretic
LocationYellowstone SupervolcanoStaff
from here: https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/69649/guild-unity-just-doop-it/p1Doomsaw
GazillionLocationHell's KitchenStaff
February 20
I strongly support Supergroups and we have many new features of quality of life enhancements coming for supergroups.
Heretic is just a loner, which is also good to have since we want to support solo players as well as groups of players.
