Marvel Heroes 2015 Patch 1.34
So you've been playing Marvel Heroes 2015 for a while - but still don't know what Odin's Bounty is? It runs from tomorrow until Sunday/Monday depending on your time zone and... well let us tell you, as Gazillion have on the blog!
Just like before, Odin's Bounty features an amazing bonus loot game mode rotation (check out the full schedule here). However, instead of bosses having boosted loot, they will now drop Chests of Odin's Bounty. These chests are loot boxes that you can collect and then open later for an epic lootsplosion! Chests of Odin's Bounty have a high chance to contain Runes and Odin Marks, as well as a chance to drop the Mysterious Crimson Box, which contains rare boss-specific artifacts. Odin's Bounty Boosts are back as well and now include an increased jackpot chance!
During the applicable rotation phase, bosses will drop Odin's Bounty Chests depending on difficulty & location:
Green Bosses - 1 Chest
Red Bosses - 2 Chests
Cosmic Bosses - 3 Chests (2 from the boss & 1 from the completion chest)
X-Defense & Holo-Sim - Drop an escalating number of chests depending on wave completion
Additionally, everyone has a rare chance to receive Odin's Blessing, which gives your chests special jackpot loot! Odin's Bounty Potions have been known to increase your chances of receiving Odin's Blessing.
A new daily mission has been added for this event: Deliver Odin's Wrath! Serve as Odin’s champion and conquer enemies of Asgard each day for a special reward. Head to Lady Sif in Avengers Tower (located near the waypoint) to receive this mission. This mission can be completed once per day during the course of the event and will return for each subsequent Odin’s Bounty.
For the schedule, see further down the post, or click here.
Now, the patch notes for 1.34:
NEW HERO: WINTER SOLDIER
Though most of the intelligence agency doesn’t even believe he exists, The Winter Soldier has joined the Marvel Heroes 2015 roster! Voiced by the iconic David Hayter, Bucky Barnes is locked and loaded with a deadly arsenal, his powerful bionic arm, and tactical espionage skills that allow him to get in, take down the target, and get out!
CAPTAIN AMERICA DESIGN REVIEW
The Sentinel of Liberty himself, Captain America has received a design review! With this review, the design team focused on improving Cap’s damage, mechanics and general feel. This is not a full update or rework such as a 52 review, but simply a pass on all of his mechanics and a few new powers (with some being reworked).
Here are the changes:
-Power Condensation & Master of Team Buffs
-Signature Improvement
-Cleaner Cooldown Mechanics - Super Soldier Serum
-Better Defensive Profile
-Better Offensive Profile
-New Travel Power: On Your Left
Other Changes
- Cap's passives have received an overhaul.
- Athletic Leap and Stunning Backflip are migrating into the Super Soldier tree, emphasizing that tree's identity as Steve's incredible stamina and agility as a result of his Serum.
- Shield Strike is being altered to a single target spirit spender alternative to Vibranium Bash, and will increase Cap's block chance by an extra 8% on hit and grant bonus Serum when attacks are blocked for a brief duration.
- Meteor Kick is an entirely new power in the Living Legend tree - this power grants 5 Serum when used without any Serum available, but when used at or above 5 Serum it deals double damage and gains an Execute bonus.
- Shield Bash no longer has the Execute bonus, instead gaining bonus damage based on your Defense rating.
- Airborne Assault will consume an additional 4 pips of Serum if available to deal double damage.
- Avengers Assemble now grants the Empowered team buff, and deals entirely Physical damage.
- Captain America’s items have also been reviewed as well.
MR. FANTASTIC CHANGE
All component’s of Mr. Fantastic’s Ultimate attack now deal Physical damage.
X-23 CHANGES
Bleed effects have been restructured to no longer require points in Cleaving Claws. Each source of bleed now fuels its own damage with ranks in its own power. Bleed effects still stack up to 3 times with any application methods, which are now referred to as 'Grievous Wounds' effects.
Dancing Blades has been altered to move directly behind a target if you have a target under your mouse cursor, and now allows the hotkey to be held for repeat activations. This will allow the power to be smoother to use against single targets, while keeping its functionality similar when used with no target under the mouse cursor
Lethal and Cleaving Claws now both restore 75 Wrath per hit.
Capoeira Wrath cost reduced to 50.
Rogue's version of Crimson Sweep now applies Vulnerability, to more accurately mimic X-23's.
Twirling Lunge now restores all of its base Wrath cost if you hit an enemy.
Heart of a Beast now revives X-23 if she would be defeated.
Overview
Greetings! The Insignia Review is now live!
Many existing Insignas have been reviewed and changed to provide more options for players when it comes to itemization. We wanted to look at specific teams and provide itemization options where those options did not previously exist. We have also added NEW Insignias and two new team affiliations, Marvel Knights and Defenders. Most auras now activate as proc effects, which should improve server performance.
I. Buff Existing Built In Auras and add NEW! Insignias
II. Review existing Random Affix Rolls
MIDTOWN RETROFIT
Midtown Manhattan Patrol has been retrofitted!
In addition to new tech which should provide more stable performance in Midtown Manhattan Patrol, there are now new discoveries, new versions of boss waves, and even super villain reinforcements such as Man-Ape and Mole Man! Check it out!
A-SYNC LOADING
We have made significant changes to how your client loads the game! You may see other players ‘pop’ into view more slowly, but rest assured - this is intended! Similar to other large scale games, we now load each character one at a time rather than all at once, giving your machine a chance to catch up to the action and prevent load hitching!
ITEM CHANGES
Not Droppable
Many very rare items have been marked with a new tag: not droppable. These items cannot be dropped on the ground in any case (trying to do so will destroy them), but can be traded as per usual via the Trade menu.
BUG FIXES
Fixed an issue where receiving a Spider-Man Team-Up as a gift would erroneously reward a second token that did nothing.
Fixed an issue where the Firestar Team-Up Hero would have two different Eternity Splinter prices depending on where you purchased her.
Herald of Dread (from Industry City Patrol) no longer drops the incorrect boss-specific artifact.
The Dum-Dum Dugan Insignia can now correctly be used in crafting recipes.
Black Panther's Vibranium Trap is no longer targetable and will no longer unintentionally get attacked by enemies.
Adjusted some of Wiccan’s remaining pink VFX to be blue.
Fixed an issue that caused Legendary items to draw their XP bar past the edge of the item tooltip when at maximum rank.
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