Marvel Avengers Alliance Wiki:News/4.27.12

Major Changes - Release Notes - 2012.04.27

Chapter 7 released

• Access to Chapter 7 has been unlocked, granting access to 6 new missions

Complete full mastery to gain access to the powerful Golden T.Q. 5000

Avengers Movie Costumes

• To celebrate the release of the Avengers movie worldwide, we are releasing costumes based on the characters’ appearance in the movie
• Both Hawkeye and Black Widow have new costumes
• Hawkeye’s new costume comes in Infiltrator and Tactician varieties
• Black Widow’s new costume also comes in Infiltrator and Tactician varieties
• These costumes come with the unique Avengers Assemble passive ability
  • Having one Avenger on the team grants Coordinated Attacks
    • Teammates have a chance in joining in on single-target attacks
  • Having two Avengers on the team grants Cooperative Defense as well
    • Teammates have a chance of countering when a teammate is hit by a single-target attack
• Expect the rest of the Avengers to assemble soon!
• These costumes are only available for a limited time!

Combat Engine Improvements

• These changes resolve the following PVP issues:
  • Quantum Jumper
  • Quick Action weapons
  • “Looping” techniques
• Action Cooldowns
  • Cooldowns on all actions (from agent gear or heroes’ abilities) now decrement each round instead of each turn
  • A round is a collection of each character getting a turn
  • Extra turns happen within the same round
  • This prevents characters with many extra turns getting their moves off of cooldown faster, which over-values items that produce extra turns
• Extra Turns
  • Extra turns granted from items and agent gear now give the character Exhaustion, preventing that character from gaining additional extra turns in a round
  • This prevents “stacking” extra turns in a single round or infinitely “looping” extra turns
  • This does not affect extra turns from Quick Action abilities or Tactician bonus turns
• Ignore Defense
  • Attacks that ignore defense (such as the Blaster class bonus) now properly deal increased damage against all targets, regardless of their level
  • The tooltip has been clarified to indicate that attacks that ignore defense also ignore shield-like statuses (such as Invisible Woman’s Force Field)

• Many Bosses and Mini-bosses are now immune to Stun
  • This should make certain boss fights more challenging
  • This fixes several issues with Stun interfering with boss mechanics

• Various graphical improvements and bug fixes