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Ryolnir
GazillionLocation The Battle Van Staff
March 15
And I figured I'd list what content we're working on (schedule be damned):
- Onslaught Raid
- Cosmic Midtown & ICP
- Cosmic X-Defense & Holo-Sim
- Achievements
- Ultron Game Mode (Perhaps to be converted into a raid in the future)
- Danger Room (Currently being expanded to be more diverse)
- Unified Story Mode
- Limbo (Completely revamped)
- [REDACTED] (Not the traditional kind of content)
- Perhaps a new form of Terminal with some advanced features.
- Secret Invasion (New story content, new patrol zone)
- More stuff.
That's not to speak of the System changes coming through, such as the Team-Up Revamp (which is coming in hot this month, may be spilling into April - will have details on a livestream this week). And of course there's always 52 Reviews (not content), Design Updates (like IW coming up soon), and boss reworks.
(Did @Ryolnir just spoil an Invisible Woman update will be on TC next week? Yes he did.)
I'd like to level with all of you personally in that we also find it frustrating that things keep getting pushed back and are looking to group their release dates to be as effective as possible going forth in a way that makes sense instead of pushing them back one week at a time. Once we lock down that schedule, I'll be posting it in a Content Update Thread similar to our 52 Review Tracker.
Ryan 'Ryolnir' Collins - Community Manager, Creative Designer
Ask me about: Forums, Story (& Any Lore), Costumes, Voice Over, everything.
NullRage
March 30
Location In Mordor, Simply Walking. Cosmic
Hey guys, as per usual I wanted to put together some video previews of what you can expect to see in today's patch. Click here for continuous play, Or find what you seek in the list below. Enjoy!
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And I made this one special for anyone that want's to see her beautiful ult over and over again like me,
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Invisible Woman
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Cosmic Midtown
Aight, real talk. I tried to get some footage for cosmic midtown...but dang doods! DAT PLACE HURTS! Even with my Cap, who's rocking absolutely amazing gear and over 5k omegas, They aint playin around in there!!! Now, I figure...It's a patrol zone...usually you want at least 10 people in there right? So maybe the difficulty isn't actually that bad when you're not tryin to solo it? So despite the fact that I would like to have a video up before it goes live, what I'm gonna do is, wait till after the patch. Then I'll record some footage, maybe even "an extended gameplay session" with live commentary like what I did with ICP way back when. Not perfect, but I think this is the best way to do things. Otherwise it's just a video of me dying every 10-30 seconds, or running around like a chicken with his head cut off to avoid said 10~30 second deaths.
Continue readingSorry folks for the missed update last week. I was on vacation myself and missed out on all the great odin's bounty. In any case, here's what's new now (meow?)!
Easter Event
You get a special 1 time quest for the Easter egg hunt! Check your notifications to get this started. This will be available for the entire week so if you happen to miss it over the Easter weekend, you'll have 5 more days to do this. Go get your candies!
Operation Omega
I assume same thing as before. Come on, you know what to do. Get those omega files and points!
Axis Raid
The newest raid is here! This is the first public test but luckily, and according to the devs, the loot is all there. Additionally, the content has been slightly tuned down so you can give it a shot. This is the story about Red Onslaught, Red Skill + Onslaught, and he's out to occupy Genosha. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to take him out and and get loots....er.. I mean, restore Genosha. To access this raid, talk to Beast in Xavier's School.
Influence System Mechanic
Okay, so there's quite a bit to read about this new system, but basically, it's the new currency for Raid items. Previously it was Demon Hearts and Eyes but those are being converted to SHIELD Commendations. Eyes will be Hero's Commendations and Hearts will be Protector's Commendations. Champion's Commendations will be newly introduced for Red AXIS raid and the most difficult freshest raid. There is a weekly cap of 250 commendations from each source. Influence, for now, is basically attained the same way you attain the current eyes and hearts. Do Raids, Dailys, a weekly Mission, get a 24hr buff and kill stuff.
Published: 03 April 2015
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5:18 Sorry for yet another late update. I guess I may need some help here. But before I get into that, here's the newest patch info!
Additional Commendation Awards
Genosha Daily Missions now award 4 Hero and 3 Protector's Commendations!
Genosha Weekly Missions now award 40 Hero and 30 Protector's Commendations!
Influence Genosha Liberation Force has been disabled. This looks like this has some problems and their time frame for fixing this is within the next two weeks. Let's see how this plays out.
And of course, hit the link for the full patch (which isn't too long anyway). LINK
Finally, I'm looking for one other person to help out with posts. There are definitely some benefits for someone to help me here as I will go into detail with them. If you're interested in helping this site grow, please send Ben an email at [email protected]
Published: 16 April 2015
Ohhh boy. Here's a good way to spend your tax return
Looks like it's 50% off all Heroes and Costumes. Damn. This is a pretty good deal. I'd get on this now while you can. Do it Do it Do it.
Published: 17 April 2015
Permalink | [URL="http://www.mmorpg.com/newsroom.cfm/read/34655/Michael-Bitton-Black-Widow-Rework-First-Impressions.html#comments"]11 comments[/URL]Gazillion has been hard at work at a massive push of content for Marvel Heroes themed around the Avengers: Age of Ultron film release set for next week. The update will add a new Age of Ultron game mode, quality-of-life reworks for both Black Widow and Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch’s long awaited level 52 review, and The Vision as an entirely new playable character. There’s also a suite of new Age of Ultron themed costumes coming for all of the characters above, as well as The Hulk, Thor, and Iron Man.
Scarlet Witch’s level 52 review, as well as Black Widow and Hawkeye's quality-of-life reworks, hit Test Center yesterday. I wanted to take this week’s column to discuss my first impressions of Black Widow as she somewhat recently became my new main on live. While I do understand that this is her first iteration on Test Center and as such nothing is final, I have to say that I’m overall disappointed with the changes, even though I get why a lot of them were made. Let’s take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of Black Widow’s rework.
The Good
Natasha’s updated uniques aren’t in this build yet, but I’m going to give the benefit of the doubt to Gazillion on this one as just about every unique worked on for a while now has ended up in a much better spot. I’m confident at this point that Widow’s uniques will be no different. Kit wise, Gaz has really cleaned things up overall and they’ve given Widow’s signature ability, Twilight Initiative, some solid buffs in the form of a DoT and stun component as well as a reset for all other powers on cooldown. Additionally, I’m glad the designers maintained the remote explosive build paths for those who were interested in that. I’m also particularly intrigued by the potential for a build centered on her reworked Covert Sniper ability. Her sniper attack has a four-second cooldown that resets whenever you enter stealth. This change makes it possible to snipe, roll (enter stealth), and snipe over and over as long as you have the spirit to keep it going. I don’t know if this is something that will catch on, but I’ve had fun playing around with it on Test Center so far.
Oh, and I definitely love the new ride.
The Bad
I play Natasha as a primarily melee character on live, and I feel like this build has been completely ruined for me now for a number of reasons. Major changes to her kit aside (more on that in the next section), my biggest beef is with Gaz’s positioning of Widow’s new Electric Batons power as her melee spirit dump. Yes, the batons are cool, I get it. But I don’t want to spam them. They’re just not iconic to Black Widow. If I wanted to hit people with batons all day, I’d play Daredevil. Unfortunately, Deadly Blade seems to have been relegated to being nothing more than a melee damage layering power that you hit every four seconds to keep its bleed going instead of a major source of melee damage as it is on live. I’m as excited as the next guy for the new film and to see Widow lay down some pain with her new weapons, but I don’t think the primary visual for the character in melee should be themed after a gimmick pulled out from one film of the many in which she has appeared.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always seen Black Widow as an often lethal character, and taser batons just don’t scream that to me. I’m hoping Gaz will re-position the power as something to layer into your rotation (perhaps add a debuff that is exploited by Deadly Blade?) instead of serving as your main spirit dump. Even if Gaz does want to retain Electric Batons as a spirit dump, I feel Deadly Blade should at least be a viable alternative a la Punisher’s Burst Fire vs. Buckshot Blast. The designers did a great job with Punisher in that regard.
The Ugly
I’ve always wanted to play Black Widow in Marvel Heroes, but up until the last few months, I couldn’t really bring myself to level her and gear her up. Eventually, I pushed myself to slog through it, and after gearing her up I came to realize she was one of the most fun characters available in the game. Sure, her items and aspects of her kit were showing their age, but the overall flow of playing the character hit all the right marks for me.
If you play Black Widow as a primarily melee character on live, your goal is to debilitate your enemies with your Sweep kick and gadgets such as Widow’s Kiss and Anti-Personnel Grenades in order to set them up for a massive burst of damage from Coup de Grace. All of that setup is tied to Natasha’s Widowmaker secondary resource, as Coup de Grace deals additional damage to knocked down (Sweep kick) and stunned (Anti-Personnel Grenades) enemies. Once you’ve unleashed your full combo, you can pop Twilight Initiative to enter stealth, blast them again, and then dispatch them with your knife before they even know you’re there.
On live, the entire kit flows together well both in terms of mechanics and visuals. Black Widow isn’t a one-dimensional character that only fights in melee or ranged, and the above rotation mixes it all in together in a way that’s satisfying to play. You’re using your gun, your martial arts, your knives, and your gadgets, all in one build.
Now? Now Natasha is either fully melee or fully-ranged. The secondary resource, Widowmaker, has been completely removed in favor of adding cooldowns to Deadly Kick and Coup de Grace. Deadly Kick now grants players a 20% buff to melee damage for a duration while Coup de Grace grants the same buff for ranged damage. Both powers also share a cooldown, so they’re mutually exclusive. If you’re going melee, you’re going to be using Deadly Kick instead of Coup, period.
I’ve never been a fan of Gazillion’s implementation of secondary resources, most of the time they’ve been clunky, but Widowmaker was one of the few exceptions that I felt really added to the character. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind losing the resource itself; it is hard to take advantage of vs. certain enemies since not all enemies can be stunned or knocked down. My gripe is that the new buffs on the powers pigeon hole you into choosing one or the other based on your build. It doesn’t sound like a big deal. Lots of characters have a set up like this, and it does make perfect sense design wise.
The problem is that, at least in my opinion, this removes the unique flavor of Coup de Grace as an explosive burst of damage available to all Widow builds. Even as a melee Widow, Coup de Grace is just far more flavorful than Deadly Kick. It’s incredibly satisfying to weave in a massive close range gunshot into your melee rotation. Instead of trying to make Deadly Kick and Coup de Grace fill the same niche in the kit depending on whether you’re melee or ranged, I’d like to see Coup de Grace remain the build agnostic burst of damage it is now (retain the baked in damage buff and cooldown and make the damage buff build agnostic). Then something else should be done with Deadly Kick to make it attractive for melee builds. Maybe move the new stealth bonus damage from Sweep Kick to Deadly Kick to make it an analog to Covert Sniper as an optional power for melee builds that emphasize stealth?
#SaveCoup
Have you played around with Black Widow on Test Center? What’s your take so far?
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.
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It would ordinarily be pretty expensive to re-enact any of Age of Ultron’s setpieces in Marvel Heroes - since Gazillion’s Diablo-like MMO makes its megabucks selling superheroes one-by-one to players, and Whedon’s cast is more cramped with costumed individuals than the lift at Comic-Con.
But not today! Iron Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye are all temporarily playable for free - and Ultron-inspired random events have begun livening up the usual action.
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Boy oh boy. Looks like we got a big one here! There's a HUGE patch coming out today so get ready for a long download. What's in the patch you ask?
Starting Screen
Looks like Winter Soldier is out and the Avengers are in! Good to see something new while you're logging in... or got disconnected because you're idle.
50% XP Boost for the Avengers
You know who they are. But remember, we're only counting the ones from the movie otherwise I basically figure everyone has been an Avenger. Additionally, there's a new label in your conditions panel which will say "Server" and this will now let you know how much bonus XP you're getting server side.
Ultron Sentries!
OMG! They're everywhere! ... just like normal Sentries but now they're super super evil? Go to Midtown or ICP to find them!
Published: 24 April 2015
