January 21, 2016 Patch Notes

Spec Op 32: Follow the Leader

Family and friends are always in danger when Hulks are involved. But will S.H.I.E.L.D. be able to keep playing follow the leader while contending with gamma fueled family feuds and mind control? One thing is for sure, S.H.I.E.L.D. has its work cut out for it.

Features

Spec Op 32 features Red She-Hulk and Winter Soldier.

Dates

Start: 1/21/2016

End: 2/18/2016 @ 14:00 Pacific (21:00 UTC)

Rewards

• Red She-Hulk
• Contaminated Set

Details

Spec Op 32 Reward Hero: Red She-Hulk

Bio – Betty Ross's life has been consumed by a battle between two men, her father and Bruce Banner. Even before the gamma accident turned Bruce Banner into the Hulk, Betty's attraction to him led to her father developing a disdain for the brilliant scientist. Despite her father's best efforts, Betty and Bruce were eventually married. But after her father was transformed into the Red Hulk and the Abomination tried to poison her, Betty and Bruce's relationship suffered, and they separated. Betty was later abducted and transformed into the Red She-Hulk by the Leader.

Class: Generalist

• Passive: Beat the Heat
  • Protects against Single Target Energy and Radiation Attacks
• Passive: Gamma Girl
  • Gains Gamma Energy when Attacked
  • Immune to Radiation Effects
• Passive: Gamma Energy
  • Increases Attack, Defense, Accuracy and Evasion
  • Restores some health and stamina when gained

Action 1: Body Blow

• Unlocked at Level 1
• Targets One Enemy
• Type: Unarmed, Melee
• One Enemy
  • Exhausted (1 round)
    • Cannot take extra turns
    • Quick Actions become Normal Actions
    • Free Actions become Quick Actions
• Self
  • Gamma Energy
    • Increases Attack, Defense, Accuracy and Evasion
    • Restores some health and stamina when gained

Action 2: Cage Fight

• Unlocked at Level 2
• Targets One Enemy
• Type: Unarmed, Melee
• One Enemy
  • Flanked (1 round)
    • Single-target attacks against this target grant a follow-up attack
  • Staggered (3 rounds)
    • Cannot dodge most attacks
    • Ignores most Avoidance effects
  • Off-balance (1 round)
    • Removes and prevents Counter-Attack effects
• Self
  • Gamma Energy
    • Increases Attack, Defense, Accuracy and Evasion
    • Restores some health and stamina when gained

Action 3: Curb Stomp

• Unlocked at Level 6
• Targets All Enemies
• 1 Round Cooldown
• Type: Melee, Ground
• Special Properties
  • Ground Attack
    • Ignores most protect and Avoidance effects
• All Enemies
  • Aftershock (2 rounds)
    • Deals Ground Damage to affected character's team before the next action
    • Removed after Aftershock is triggered
  • Hobbled (1 round)
    • Attacks cannot be Stealthy
  • Winded (1 round)
    • Removes and prevents Follow-Up attacks
• Self
  • Gamma Energy
    • Increases Attack, Defense, Accuracy and Evasion
    • Restores some health and stamina when gained

Action 4: Savage Strike

• Unlocked at Level 9
• Targets One Enemy
• 2 round cooldown
• Type: Unarmed, Melee
• Special Properties
  • Exploit Opportunity
    • Deals increased damage against targets with Cornered, Exhausted, Impaired, Neutralized, Off-Balance, Staggered, or Winded
  • Ignore Defense
    • Damage ignores enemy's Defense stat
    • Attacks penetrate Shield statuses
  • Unleash Anger
    • Consumes all stacks of Gamma Energy to deal extra damage

New Lockbox Hero: Winter Soldier

Bio - James "Bucky" Barnes became fast friends with Steve Rogers after rescuing the scrawny Steve from bullies. After Pearl Harbor, the two friends enlisted in the army where Bucky became a Sergeant in the 107th infantry. Bucky was captured by HYDRA, and this time it was Steve, as Captain America, who rescued Bucky. Bucky fought alongside Captain America as a member of Cap's Howling Commandos, an elite crew fighting against HYDRA and the Nazis. Once believed to have been killed in action, Bucky was captured and brainwashed by HYDRA and the Soviets, becoming the assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

Special Notes regarding Mines:

• Fixer and Winter Soldier can detonate each other's mines
• Winter Soldiers magnetic mines will replace Fixers regular mines
• Magnetic Mines can be detonated by Magnetism (i.e. Magneto)

Class: Infiltrator

• Passive: Cold War
  • Allies gain Advantage, Dealing Increased damage to enemies with Locked-out moves
• Passive: Counter Offensive
  • Counter-Attacks and Follow-Up Attacks deal increased damage
• Passive: Sense of Control
  • Immune to Delirium Effects

Action 1: Aimed Shot

• Unlocked at Level 1
• Targets One Enemy
• Type: Ranged, Gun
• One Enemy
  • Pain (3 rounds)
    • Increases damage taken by 15%
    • This effect stacks up to 3 times
  • Hobbled (1 round)
    • Attacks cannot be Stealthy
• Self
  • Retaliation (2 rounds)
    • Counter-attacks when an ally is attacked

Action 2: Revolutionary Strike

• Unlocked at Level 2
• Targets One Enemy
• Type: Melee, Unarmed
• One Enemy
  • Reduced Potential (2 rounds)
    • Chance to Lock Out Melee, Range, Buff, or Debuff Abilities
• Self
  • Revolution (2 rounds)
    • Joins in on an ally's single-target attack

Action 3: Magnetized Mines

• Unlocked at Level 6
• Special Properties
  • Multi-Function
    • Can be used to perform different actions
  • Magnetized Mines (Magnetized Blast Mine, Magnetized Irradiated Frag Mine, Magnetized Chemical Mine)
    • Detonates if Magnetized or Detonated

Magnetized Blast Mine

• Targets All Enemies
• 1 Round Cooldown
• Type: Debuff, Tech
• Special Properties
  • Subtle
    • Does not trigger most status effects
• All Enemies
  • Magnetized Blast Mine
    • Surrounded by blast explosives
    • Explodes when Magnetized or Detonated
    • Does not detonate on counter-attacks or follow-ups
    • Triggered Explosion gains Paragon Exploiter, Exploit Attrition, and ignores defense

Magnetized Irradiated Frag Mine

• Targets All Enemies
• 1 round cooldown
• Type: Debuff, Tech
• Special Properties
  • Subtle
    • Does not trigger most status effects
• All Enemies
  • Magnetized Irradiated Frag Mine
    • Surrounded by irradiated explosives
    • Explodes when Magnetized or Detonated
    • Does not detonate on counter-attacks of follow-ups
    • Target gains 1-2 applications of Radiation Exposure and Bleeding when detonated

Magnetized Chemical Mine

• Targets All Enemies
• 1 round cooldown
• Type: Debuff, Tech
• Special Properties
  • Subtle
    • Does not trigger most status effects
• All Enemies
  • Magnetized Chemical Mine
    • Surrounded by chemical explosives
    • Explodes when Magnetized or Detonated
    • Does not detonate on counter-attacks or follow-ups
    • Target gains Dizzy, Exposed, Slowed, Weakened, and Incapacitation when detonated

Detonate

• Targets One Enemy
• 1 round cooldown
• Type: Tech
• Special Properties
  • Detonator
    • Detonates explosives on enemy targets
  • Subtle
    • Does not trigger most status effects

Action 4: Knife Assault

• Unlocked at Level 9
• Targets One Enemy
• Type: Melee
• Special Properties
  • Brutal Strike
    • Damage cannot be prevented by resurrection effects
  • Guaranteed Hit
    • 100% chance to hit… usually
  • Ignore Defense
    • Damage ignores enemy's Defense stat
    • Attacks penetrate Shield statuses
• One Enemy
  • Fatal Blow
    • Defeats normal enemies with less than 20% health
    • Greatly damages bosses with less than 20% health

Group Boss: Zzzax

Zzzax was created in an accident at a nuclear power plant. The psionic being incinerated everyone nearby, absorbing their collective intelligence. Zzzax sought to kill more people to increase its intelligence further, often conflicting with the Hulk.

New Villain: The Leader

High school dropout, Samuel Sterns, worked in a chemical plant when an accident exposed him to gamma radiation, leaving him with a voracity for knowledge. Now as the Leader, he seeks to conquer the world; shaping it as he sees fit.

Undocumented

New Empowered Iso-8

• Gamma Inducing E-Iso-8
• Radiation Charge E-Iso-8
• Radiation Resistant E-Iso-8
• Strong Will E-Iso-8

New Augmented Iso-8

• Gamma Blade A-Iso
• Gamma Charged A-Iso
• Irradiated A-Iso
• Isotope Focused A-Iso
• Mine Master Radiant A-Iso
• Radiologic Knowledge A-Iso

Gear

Hammer Pistol

• Damage increased
• Combo breaker damage reduced
• Combo breaker hit chance increased
• Combo breaker no longer applies Rattled and Cognitive Strain

Maggia Tommy Gun

• Damage reduced

Effects

 Blast Mine

• Changed description
  • From: • Triggered Explosion gains Paragon Exploiter, Exploit Attrition, and ignores the defense stat
  • To: • Triggered Explosion gains Paragon Exploiter, Exploit Attrition, and ignores defense
• Blast Wave damage reduced

 Combo Breaker

• Changed description
  • From: • When an enemy attempts to perform a counter-attack or follow-up attack, Character has a chance to prevent and counter that attack.
  • To: • Chance to prevent and counter enemy counter-attacks and follow-ups

 Exploit Radiation

• Changed description
  • From: • Deals extra damage against targets with Radiation Exposure
  • To: • Deals extra damage against targets with Radiation Exposure, Irradiated, or Radiation Fatigue

 Irradiated Frag Mine

• Changed description
  • From: • Enemies caught in the explosion gain 1-2 applications of Radiation Exposure and Bleeding
  • To: • Target gains 1-2 applications of Radiation Exposure and Bleeding when detonated
• Irradiated Shrapnel Blast added Radiation type.

 Radiation Resilience

• Changed description
  • From: • Taking less damage from Radiation Exposure
  • To: • Taking less damage from Radiation Effects

 Resist Radiation Effects

• Changed name from Resist Radiation Exposure to Resist Radiation Effects
• Changed description
  • From: • Prevents new applications of Radiation Exposure
  • To: • Prevents new applications of Radiation Effects

Heroes

• Added Radiation type to the following hero abilities:

Hero	Ability
Boomerang	Isorang
Chase Stein	X-Ray Goggles
Fixer	Irradiated Frag Mine
Havok	Shattering Punch Plasma Wave Plasma Spheres
Human Torch	Nova Blast
Hyperion	Atomic Vision
Iron Man	Repulsor Cannons Heartbreaker Unibeam
Iron Man	Repulsor Ray Unibeam
Kang	Tachyon Blast Quantum Purge Timestream Burst Ripple Effect
Karolina Dean	Beautiful Beam Lucy In The Sky Empyrean Flare
Kate Bishop	EMP Arrow
Moonstone	Blinding Attraction
Ms. Marvel	Photon Blast
Nova	Nova Blasts Big Bang Blast Finger Laser
Omega Sentinel	HE Targeting Laser
Punisher	EMP Grenade
Red Hulk	Gamma Bomb Meltdown
Rocket Raccoon	BLAM BLAM BLAM! KERPLOWIE!
Sunfire	Moeagare! Kyokujitsuken Taiyou Flare
Vision	Microwave Pulse
War Machine	Repulsor Beam 21-Gun Salute

Villains

Abomination

• Quaff Iso-Ade
  • Added Stealthy
• Radiate
  • Added Stealthy

Team-Up Bonuses

TUBs Added:

• SHIELD BEARERS
  • Added to Falcon, Captain America
• MAN ON THE WALL
  • Added to Quake
• FELLOW TRAVELERS
  • Added to Black Widow
• CODE RED
  • Added to Thundra, Elektra, Deadpool
• TILL DEATH DO US PART
  • Added to Hulk
• RED RELATION
  • Added to Red Hulk
• RED HERRING
  • Added to Thundra, Elektra
• EXPLOSIVE RELATION
  • Added to Red Hulk, Hulk

Miscellaneous

• Duck-in-a-Box sorts correctly on the Collections page.

External Links

• Original Patch Notes on Playdom Forums.