August 31, 2012 Patch Notes

Marvel: Avengers Alliance Updates (for the week of 8/31)

Hero Updates

Hawkeye

• To celebrate this month’s DVD & Blu-ray release of Marvel’s The Avengers, the Avengers Hawkeye uniform is now available for a Limited Time.
• Uniform Passive “Avengers Assemble”
• Grants “Coordinated Attack” to all allies
• This is a chance to attack after an ally attacks.
• Grants “Cooperative Defense” with two Avengers present
• This is a chance to attack after an ally is attacked.

Black Widow

• To celebrate this month’s DVD & Blu-ray release of Marvel’s The Avengers, the Avengers Black Widow uniform is now available for a Limited Time.
• Uniform Passive “Avengers Assemble”
• Grants “Coordinated Attack” to all allies
• This is a chance to attack after an ally attacks.
• Grants “Cooperative Defense” with two Avengers present
• This is a chance to attack after an ally is attacked.

Spider-Man
New Uniform - “Future Foundation Spider-Man”

• Uniform classes available: Scrapper & Infiltrator
• Uniform Passive “Tingling Senses” - Permanently increases Evasion when attacked. (This comes in the form of “Awareness” and can stack up to 20 times.)
• Uniform Passive “Share the Future” - Grants “Tingling Senses” to all teammates.
• Grants “Future Countdown” with two Future Foundation members
• On round 4, grants “The Future is Now” - Increasing Attack and Accuracy by 35% for the remainder of the battle.
• As of this update, Spider-Man, Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic and Thing have Future Foundation alternate costumes.

Invisible Woman

• Invisible Woman’s “Combat Reflexes” (Counter-Attacks) now behave as follows:
  • If Invisible Woman does not have a “shield” active when she is attacked, she will counter with the Force Field ability
  • If Invisible Woman has a “shield” active when she is attacked, she will counter with Force Spheres
  • “Fourth Field” does not count as a “shield” in this case
  • “shields” that do count are:
    • “Force Field”
    • “Shield of the Seraphim”
    • “Magic Shield”
    • “Magnetic Field”
    • “Mirror Field”
    • “Construct Matrix”
    • “Reflective Shield”
    • “Shield”
    • “Norton Shield”
• Force Cage has been changed to the following:
  • Can only use “Subtle” or defensive abilities
  • Can only be hit by “Subtle” or defensive abilities
  • Can't “Protect” or “Counter” attacks

Gear Updates

Traumatic Post

• Traumatic Post is now available for a Limited Time
  • Targets One Enemy
  • Melee Psychic Attack
  • “Counter-Attack” - Has a 50% chance to counter single target attacks
  • “Psychic Attack” - Ignores most evasion, shield, counter, and protect effects
  • “Customized” Power is set by Agent Level when acquired
  • “Mental Anguish” - Takes heavy damage after performing the next offensive action. Removed after any action other than a quick action.

Miscellaneous Updates

• Spec Ops 2 has concluded, Thanks for Playing!
  • Emma Frost can no longer be recruited
  • All Unstable Iso-8 has been removed from gifting and inventories
  • Fixed an issue where characters deployed in Spec Ops 2 were showing as busy after Spec Ops 2 ended
• PVP
  • Fixed an issue where players’ rating could randomly reset to 800
• UI
  • Fixed an issue where class descriptions were too long for the News Page
• Bug fixes
  • Fixed several cases where placing Force Cage on certain enemies would create an infinite loop
  • Fixed several cases where Mental Anguish was being removed without triggering and wasn’t doing the correct amount of damage in PvP
• Known Issues
  • In some cases, a hero’s class bonus is incorrectly not given on the first turn attack for a hero with a Future Foundation uniform.
  • When a player starts the first challenge fight in PvP for a new tournament, the client does not display the default Elo rating of 800 correctly at the beginning of the fight. (Subsequent fights are not affected by this.)

Reference

• Game Updates for the Week of 8 31 2012