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May 14, 2015 Patch Notes

Bug and Balance Fixes

• Cannonball’s Kinetic Field now grants Breakthrough
• Cannonball’s Kinetic Field now prevents new harmful effects from being applied
• Cannonball’s Cleared For Take Off now grants Wind-Up

The following characters have had their actions adjusted:

• Cannonball
  • Comin’ Through:
    • Stamina Cost increased
    • Damage increased
  • Nothin’s Impossible:
    • Stamina Cost increased
    • Damage increased
  • Crash Landing:
    • Stamina Cost increased
    • Damage increased
  • Cleared For Take Off:
    • Stamina Cost reduced
    • Damage increased

October 16, 2014 Patch Notes

Bug & Balance Fixes:

• Characters
  • Fixed an issue with Cannonball not restoring his Kinetic Field after defeating an opponent with Nothin's Impossible

July 24, 2014 Patch Notes

Undocumented Change

• Updated bio
  • From:
    • Sam Guthrie is a mutant with the power to discharge thermo-chemical energy from his body, becoming a near-invulnerable human rocket. Though he is most-known as a founding member of the New Mutants, he has joined many teams since, always bringing his courage and sense of justice with him.
  • To:
    • Sam Guthrie is a mutant with the ability to generate and release thermo-chemical energy through his body, transforming into a virtually invulnerable human rocket. While he is well-known as a founding member of the New Mutants, he has since brought his courage and sense of justice to many heroic teams.

July 10, 2014 Patch Notes

Release

• Spec Ops 19 reward
• Bio – Sam Guthrie is a mutant with the power to discharge thermo-chemical energy from his body, becoming a near-invulnerable human rocket. Though he is most-known as a founding member of the New Mutants, he has joined many teams since, always bringing his courage and sense of justice with him.

• Class: Blaster
  • Self Passives
    • Blast Off
      • 20% chance to dodge an attack
      • Immune to ground attacks
      • Attacks dodged this way grant Rising Up
    • Last Man Standing
      • Increases Accuracy, Attack, Defense and Evasion when an ally is KO'ed

• Action 1 : Comin' Through
  • Unlocked at Level 1
  • Unarmed, Melee,Kinetic
  • Targets One Enemy
  • Special Properties
    • Exploits Shields
      • Bypasses and deals extra damage against targets that are protected by Shields
    • High Crits
      • Increased chance of critical hits
    • Expanded Field
      • While Kinetic Field is active, this action gains Shield Slam
      • This action consumes Kinetic Field
  • One Enemy
    • Shield Breaker
      • Removes and prevents new shields

• Action 2A : Kinetic Field
  • Unlocked at Level 2
  • Buff
  • 3 Round Cooldown
  • Special Properties
    • Cry Uncle
      • While Kinetic Field is active, this action is replaced with Nothin's Impossible
  • Self
    • Kinetic Field
      • Reduces damage taken by attacks to 0
      • Does not affect Ignore Defense, Magic, or Psychic attacks
      • Counts as a Shield for the purposes of attacks

• Action 2B : Nothin's Impossible
  • Unlocked at Level 2
  • Unarmed, Melee, Kinetic
  • 3 Round Cooldown
  • Special Properties
    • Brutal Strike
      • Damage cannot be prevented by resurrection effects
    • Deadly Crits
      • Deals extra damage on critical hits
    • Finest Hour!
      • Deals extra damage while Agile, Focused, Fortified, Strengthened, Shielded or Healing
    • Matter of Perspective
      • While Kinetic Field is inactive, this action is replaced with Kinetic Field
      • This action consumes Kinetic Field
      • Knocking Out an enemy with this attack grants Kinetic Field

• Action 3 : Crash Landing
  • Unlocked at Level 6
  • Ground, Kinetic
  • 2 Round Cooldown
  • Targets All Enemies
  • Special Properties
    • Ground Attack
      • Ignores most protect and Avoidance effects
    • Crash Course
      • While Kinetic Field is active, this action gains Breakthrough
      • This action consumes Kinetic Field
  • All Enemies
    • Winded
      • Removes and prevents Follow-Up attacks
    • Off-balance
      • Removes and prevents Counter-Attack effects
    • Exhausted
      • Cannot take extra turns
      • Quick Actions become normal actions

• Action 4 : Cleared For Take Off
  • Unlocked at Level 9
  • Melee, Kinetic, Fire
  • 2 Round Cooldown
  • Targets One Enemy
  • One Enemy
    • Melt Armor
      • All attacks against this target ignore defense
  • Self
    • Afterburners
      • Grants an extra turn