November 27, 2013 Patch Notes

Season 2 Chapter 3: Crisis of Leadership

New Villain: Sin

• Desiring to have an heir, the Red Skull indoctrinated and trained his daughter mercilessly, hammering her into the shape he wished. He got what he wanted: Sinthia Schmidt is just as brutal and immoral as her father.

New Heroic Battles, Empowered Iso-8, and Customized Gear

Original Daredevil Costume

• Get the Original Daredevil Costume by completing Chapter 3 Mastery. Original Daredevil has the following passive:
  • Master Assassin
    • 20% chance to perform a preemptive counter against melee attacks
    • Avoids attacks that are countered this way

Character Redesigns

• In addition to the below changes, damage done by these heroes has been adjusted.

Daredevil

• Blindsight (Passive)
  • Has been modified to give all of Daredevil’s moves True Strike
• Man Without Fear (Passive)
  • New Passive makes Daredevil immune to Fear effects like Intimidated, Cower, or Broken Will
• Billy Club (Level 1)
  • Now causes Internal Bleeding and Pressure Points
  • No longer causes Combo Setup
• Radar Sense (Level 2)
  • Radar Sense’s counter-attack has been removed
  • Radar Sense now causes all attacks to gain Stealthy
• Snap Kick (Level 6)
  • Now causes Fumbling and Hobbled
  • No longer causes Weakened
• Manrikigusari (Level 9)
  • Gains Deadly Crits and Paragon Exploiter
  • No longer causes Exposed

Hank Pym

• Smartest Man in the Room (Passive)
  • Now triggers on the first round
  • Now guarantees that attacks hit
  • Several other geniuses now wish to share in the discussion
• Growing Pains (Level 1)
  • Now causes Cornered and Exhausted
  • No longer causes Dizzy
• Goliath Punch (Level 2)
  • Now causes Staggered and Fumbling
  • No longer has Exploit Opportunity
• Army of Ants (Level 6)
  • Now causes Off-Balance and Neutralized
  • No longer tagged as a Summon attack
• Bug Squashing (Level 9)
  • Now has Exploit Opportunity
    • Deals extra damage against opponents with Cornered, Exhausted, Impaired, Neutralized, Off-balance, Staggered, or Winded

Wasp

• Opportunist (Passive)
  • Has a chance to counter any enemy with Cornered, Exhausted, Impaired, Neutralized, Off-balance, Staggered, or Winded
  • This attack has Exploit Opportunity
• Bioenergy Blast (Level 1)
  • No longer a “Bio” attack
  • Causes Biofeedback and Impaired
  • No longer causes Weakened
• Disrupting Shot (Level 2)
  • Now causes Distraction and Remove Buffs
  • No longer causes Staggered
• Skirmish Scramble (Level 6)
  • Now causes Staggered in addition to Nimble and Off-Balance
• Fist Bump (Level 9)
  • Now causes Cornered and Winded
  • Now has Exploit Opportunity

Hero Bug Fixes and Balance Changes

Black Widow

• Widow’s Bite now causes Incapacitation

Black Panther

• Vibranium Claws and Vibranium Daggers now have Ethereal Strike
  • Ignores Avoidance and Incorporeal effects
• Vibranium Daggers now has a 1 round cooldown

Cable

• Mode change moves now extend from Recharge instead of replacing it

Constrictor

• Distress Call now has a chance of summoning any lockbox hero

Daimon Hellstrom

• Netheranium Spire now correctly animates and prevents magic damage

Dr. Strange

• Modern Dr. Strange now correctly applies Bane on Vapors of Valtorr

Dr. Voodoo

• Staff of Legba now works correctly with avoidance and shield effects

Gambit

• Bo Roulette now correctly gives 2-4 charges of Kinetic Energy

Havok

• Havok’s Uncanny Coordination now grants a maximum of one extra turn per round

Heimdall

• Halt (Vigilance) now works correctly against all moves
• Follow-up attacks in combats with Heimdall now work correctly

Human Torch

• Blazing Speed can now avoid Melee as well as Ranged attacks

Kitty Pryde

• Phased from the Shadowcat costume can now be removed properly

Magik

• Now correctly removes Stepping Razor after use
• Will not trigger other Avoidance effects while Stepping Razor is active

Ms. Marvel

• Hidden Potential now also grants Stored Energy when Ms. Marvel is struck by energy attacks.
• Stored Energy increases the damage of her attacks by 20%. Stacks 3 times.

Nightcrawler

• Swashbuckler Nightcrawler now correctly applies Bleeding on Shadow Dance

Omega Sentinel

• Class change moves are now a multi-action

Punisher

• Class change moves are now a multi-action

Sabretooth

• Berserker is now a Quick Action with a 4 round cooldown

Satana

• Soul Kiss now provides extra healing if the target dies

Spider-Man

• Moves that exploit Webbed now properly indicate that they deal extra damage
• Webbed Slingshot’s tooltip now displays correctly
• Webbed now reduces Attack and Defense by 20% (up from 15%)

Thane

• Amber Field now has a 2 round cooldown
• Black Hand no longer has a 100% hit chance
• Black Hand is now Stealthy and not Subtle
• Life and Death no longer has a 100% hit chance

Thor

• Corrected a bug causing Summon Thunder and Hammer Toss to deal above-normal damage
• Reduced the damage bonus granted from Might of Mjolnir slightly

Gear & Combat Changes

Gear

Prototype Cube

• Atom Smasher now correctly has 100% hit chance (Catastrophic)

Warbringer Axe

• Warbringer Axe no longer gives an extra stack of War Frenzy at the start of combat
• Fixed a bug where War Frenzy was not being removed after attacking

Vigilante Toolkit

• The Retractable Claw counter-attack now does correct damage and animations

Combat Changes

• Incapacitation now has a 50% chance to spawn Stun (up from 35%)
• Biofeedback now has a 20% chance to spawn Stun (up from 15%)
• Bleeding will no longer replace Internal Bleeding if the total Internal Bleeding count is 3

Bug Fixes

• Staff of Legba’s heal tag has been replaced with the buff tag.
• Black Widow’s real name was incorrect and has been fixed in her bio.
• Fixed an issue with Heimdall recharging too often in PvP when he doesn’t have access to his Level 9 ability.
• Caducite plays its visual effects on the target instead of the character using it
• The Numbing Needle can no longer apply Stun to Phased targets
• Season 1 locations now have music tracks
• Broken Will will now correctly be considered a fear effect
• Kitty Pryde’s Shadowcat Costume now uses the correct Phased status

Bug Fixes 2

A second patch was released on the same day in order to address several critical bugs that affect gameplay experience:

Challenge Mode

• Season 2 Chapter 3 Challenge mode has been increased to the correct difficulty

Hero Level-up

• We had a client/server mismatch for hero experience which resulted in players not being able to train their heroes correctly. We have corrected the issue.

Infiltrator Armor Recharge

• We have fixed an issue with the Empowered Infiltrator Armor’s quick action not functioning properly.

Punisher

• Punisher will now properly change classes when controlled by the AI

Sabretooth Blood Rage

• Sabretooth will now properly gain “Blood Rage” after attacking targets that are bleeding.

Empowered ISO-8 Foreced refresh

• We fixed an issue that resulted in a forced refresh error when attempting to slot Empowered ISO-8.

Heimdall causing Combat Validation Errors

• Heimdall’s “Farsight” has been corrected to no longer cause combat validation errors.

Daimon Hellstrom negating Damage

• Preemptive counters will no longer block Daimon Hellstrom from Nullifying Magic attacks.

Punisher and Omega Sentinel AI fixes

• Punisher and Omega Sentinel now correctly change classes in PVP

Season 2: Chapter 4 Premium mission display issue

• The premium mission in Chapter 4 was improperly displaying Wanda (Scarlet Witch) as the required hero. This has been corrected to the proper hero, Black Panther

Known Issues:

• While working on the Dare Devil task “Extra-Sensory”, players who have his “Typhlotic” empowered ISO equipped will not properly get credited for using his “Radar Senses”. Players will have to unequip this E-ISO to get credit for the tasks.

External Links

• Original patch note #1 on Playdom forum.
• Original patch note #2 on Playdom forum.