October 17, 2012 Patch Notes

Chapter 9

"Hints of a broader alliance among traditional enemies emerge: the Hand, HYDRA, and AIM are all using the dark portals first opened by the Hood. Who's in charge and what is the Syndicate?"

Featured Chapter 9 Bosses:

• Mission 1 - Fixer
• Mission 2 - Crimson Cowl
• Mission 3 - Constrictor
• Mission 4 - Abomination
• Mission 5 - The Hood
• Mission 6 (requires Dr. Strange) - Dormammu

Challenge Mode

• Chapter 9 Only For Now. Plan to bring to other chapters in the future.
• Choose to fight through Chapter 9 missions on a dynamic difficulty for a greater challenge, more XP, and brand new customized rewards.
• This is the “Challenge Mode” announced at New York Comic Con 2012.

New Hero: Hercules

• Class: Bruiser
• Passive - Likes it Rough
  • Chance to restore Stamina when hit by attacks
• Passive - Son of Zeus
  • Takes increasingly less damage and deals increasingly more damage when Strengthened, Fortified, Agile, or Focused
  • This effect increases based on the number of different buffs he has
• Gains Blessing of Olympus if Strengthened, Fortified, Agile, or Focused
  • Hercules’s attacks are guaranteed to crit
  • Restores a small amount of health
• Level 1 - Pankration Pummel
  • Hercules punches a single target with both fists
  • Causes Cerberus Bite (1 turn) to the target
    • Melee damage reduced by 40%
  • Grants Fortified (3 turns) to Hercules
    • Defense increased by 25%
• Level 2 - Gift of Battle
  • Hercules laughs and gives himself the following effects:
  • Grants Gift of Battle (1 turn) to Hercules
    • Protects allies from single target or area attacks
  • Counters melee attacks with Pankration Pummel
  • Counters ranged attacks with Rock of Ages
  • Grants Agile (3 turns) to Hercules
    • Evasion increased by 25%
• Level 6 - Rock of Ages
  • Hercules hurls a rock at one target
  • Exploits Flying
    • Deals extra damage against Flying targets
  • Causes Wound of Cerynitis (1 turn) to the target
    • Ranged damage reduced by 40%
  • Grants Focused (3 turns) to Hercules
    • Accuracy increased by 25%
• Level 9 - Column Down
  • Hercules grabs a giant Greek column and smashes it over all enemies
  • Deadly Crits
    • Deals extra damage on critical hits
  • Catastrophic
    • Can't be Protected against
    • Ignores most Avoidance effects
  • Guaranteed to hit
  • Causes Impact of the Cretan Bull (1 turn) on target
    • 30% chance to stun each target
  • Grants Strengthened (3 turns) to Hercules
    • Attack increased by 25%

Magik

• Increased the damage of Stepping Disc and Soulflare
• Damage from Fiery Retribution should no longer remove characters from Invisible (Invisible Woman), Phased (Kitty Pryde), or consume Kinetic Charges (Gambit)

Flight Deck

• Flight Deck 3 minute mission reward has been slightly reduced
• Flight Deck 20 minute mission reward has been slightly increased

Fixes

• M.O.D.O.K. has been made slightly easier in Chapter 1 Mission 4
• Deadpool’s initial introduction to PVP that plays on the flight deck has been updated with information on how to make it go away
• Using Recharge or another non-Quick Action will now correctly remove Mental Anguish
• The Transcranial Stimulator should no longer hurt you when used
• Combat Expertise (Infiltrator class bonus) will no longer display every time the character attacks

Known Issues

• There is known confusion over the PVP league requirements. The fight requirements under each league are the required number of fights the player initiates - also known as “Attacks”. Successful defenses do not count toward this total. We will be updating the reward page and adding a count for “Attacks” in the future that will help solve this.
• There is a known issue with completing Chapter 9 unlock mission quests
• An error may occur at the end of any chapter 9 mission if
• You have not collected the required items to unlock the next mission during a mission playthrough
• Then switch to a different mode and play the same mission again (for example, you played mission 1 in normal mode, completed it, and then play it again on Challenge mode)
• To work around this issue play through the mission in the same difficulty mode until the quest is completed.