Fun Fact: This is the 3rd Future of Marvel Heroes thread. The first was created back on May 20th, 2014.
IMPORTANT NOTE PLEASE READ: This thread contains a variety of info from 2013 to now. It's VERY IMPORTANT to understand that things at Gazillion change from day to day sometimes, so what you see in this thread could of changed the next day. ETA are exactly that, they are only estimates and are not 100%. As of late the devs have slowed down on giving ETAs for various reasons. NOTHING IS FINAL TILL IT'S ON THE LIVE SERVER. I urge you read the post Doomsaw made in the link below explaining things about ETAs on things.
https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/183014/about-dates-development-and-devs/p1
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Post 1
Scheduled Events | Hinted Events | 2016 Playables And General Info |
Quality Of Life Improvements And Tuning
Post 2
Team Ups | Other Characters Mentioned
Post 3
Costumes General Information | Visual Updates | Upcoming Costumes
Post 4
Crafting/Gear/Starktech | Travel Powers |
Leaderboards, Seasons, Tournaments And Ladders | Omega System |
User Interface | Boss Improvements
Post 5
Modes/Zones General Info | Story Mode/Missions | Terminals |
HighTown Patrol Zone | Industry City Patrol Zone | Savage Land Patrol Zone | X Defense | Holo Sim | Age Of Ultron Game Mode | The Danger Room | One Shots |
Raids General Info | Axis Raid | Secret Invasion Raid | Hardcore Mode |
Player Vs Player
Post 6
Other Stuff - Here you can find everything else that doesn't fit in the above topics.
On 05/20/16 Asros addressed a thread about some of the issues with the event which includes him extending the Civil War event one extra week to July 3rd. Here's exactly what he stated "Unfortunately, these achievements were not able to track retroactive completions, which is why you are seeing what you are seeing. Our engineers are trying to track down the reason the weekly reset with the patches this week. Due to this, the issues with the Anti-Reg dailies and other bugs that should now be ironed out with the event, we will be extending it for an additional week. There is no planned publish/patch next week, so there should not be any issues with unintended weekly resets. The event will reset at noon today, requiring players to choose their side again, and that will run through 5/27 at noon. The event will then reset one more time, allowing players to choose a side again, and will run until we patch the following week for the anniversary (tentatively targeting an early morning publish on 6/3). We will keep the Civil War character XP bonus at 150% for the extra week. This will allow players an additional week to try to finish any achievements as well as any other event content. As a reminder, this event will be coming back in the future. Thanks for your patience, we hope this will be able to help."
On 05/20/16 Asros also mentioned the that the Odin's Bounty that was replaced by the extended week of the Civil War event will be merged into one of the anniversary event weeks along with other events.
On 05/25/16 Asros posted some info about MH's 3rd anniversary - You can expect big sales like you would normally see with the previous big 10/12 events from the past, including a Hero/Costume BOGO AND Bonus G sale starting TOMORROW(05/26/16)! When we sat down to design the in game portion of the Anniversary event, we wanted to look at what players liked about Big 10/12 and give that without doing the things that didn't work that well. Having all of our rotating events on at once was great when we only had a few of them, now with 6, it gets a bit difficult to manage. We know players love having multiple events going on as well as pretty big XP bonuses, so we are making sure we are doing that without just turning everything on for a month, which would get a little boring. You'll be getting some pretty awesome freebies, including ways to get old anniversary gifts that you may have missed out on (as well as duplicate ones, like Potted Groot, if you want more than 1)with the event, some bonkers XP bonuses, including cosmic and omega bonuses, some new, but familiar mechanics to earn cake slices and several other things. We are also going to make sure that the new giveaways aren't tied to only logging in on one specific day to give players much more flexibility on how they can get them. I'm personally excited for the anniversary event, even after all the craziness of the past month with all the Civil War event components. I think you all will really enjoy it.
Civil War - They plan on bringing back the Civil War event several times throughout the course of the rest of the year but it won't be a weekly event.
Event Changes, Civil War and Anniversary events: Asros said on 04/07/16: "We are targeting late summer for an Omega Event Update which will also be paired with a Holo-Sim update as the two are closely tied with each other. There isn't any time to do it sooner as we have Civil War and Anniversary events to plan between now and June."
The Wealth of Kings County event - Asros mentioned on his 04/16/16 stream that it may come around again in the future but don't expect it to become a weekly event.
Infinity Gauntlet - "We will do Infinity Gauntlet in the future, it is discussed fairly often."
Terminal Tuesdays - It's been mentioned several times in the past to be coming. 02/01/16 Ryolnir said "It's something we've talked about but there's no definitive design for it. We're focused on updating existing events and rewards."
☆☆ 2016 ANNOUNCED PLAYABLES AND GENERAL INFO ☆☆
Ryolnir said on 04/11/16 "The next hero won't be until June at the earliest, yes. It's unconfirmed who that is at this time, but we'll announce fairly soon."
On 04/16/16 Asros said on his stream that Angela isn't the next playable character.
On 03/28/16 Ryolnir said "there will not be a hero in April or May as we focus on other elements." He also said "That picture was just placed together to look nice. Everything after the first two were totally random." Referring to the AP3 pic above.
Asros said on the 05/12/16 stream Ultron is the next playable and his ETA is late June. When asked about his powers he said Ultron is heavily in development but it's fairly safe to say he will have lasers, some gravity stuff and summoning lots of robots.
On 05/18/16 Ryolnir said "Ultron will not be Hank Pym. But it'd be a cool Enhanced costume."
There was a thread asking if playable Nick Fury will be black or white. The white Fury has been Senior and black has been Junior(Google it). Ryolnir said on 03/28/16 "He's not Nick Fury Jr. in our universe, since it's a slight amalgamation of 616/Ultimate/various others, FWIW."
On 03/23/16 a Newsarama article was posted featuring Ryolnir: “With Nick Fury you’re going to see some S.H.I.E.L.D. summoning, some L.M.D. action, some of his crazy gadgets like jetpacks, the needle gun, all the goodness from the classic Steranko days, as well as some newer tech and weaponry. Probably some movie-inspired stuff as well because how could we not?”
He will still be voiced by Keith David.
Fred Tatasciore will do the voice over for Beast.
On 02/25/16 it was publicly announced that Beast would be in the AP3. His default with be the current one from the comics, shown in the pic.
On 02/22/16 TheDink revealed that she is the one who is working on this character.
On 03/23/16 a Newsarama article was posted featuring Ryolnir: With Beast, Collins said that he’s one of his favorites so far and he’s so versatile with offensive and defensive attacks. “I’m so excited for him! He’s going to be very bombastic as you’d expect I’m sure he’ll go crazy on people, but his designs are on paper right now so we’re figuring what mechanics we can do with him right now, but his designs aren’t as locked down as others.” Collins mentioned that while he was going over the voice recording of the character that Beast’s costumes each have him looking different. “He definitely doesn’t have the Squirrel Girl problem where he has only a few costumes.”
03/07/15 Cat Beast is currently our official Beast, similar to the NPC, yes. In the future, we may update him. I can't speak to the costumes for a playable Beast as there's no official plans for one right now, but I'd guess they'd be Cat Beast + Classic Beast, with NuBeast or All New X-Men as the third alt.
On 03/23/16 a Newsarama article was posted featuring Ryolnir: Angela was the character Collins seemed the most excited about. Talk about keeping up with current comics, right? Growing up reading 90’s comics, I don’t think this is something I ever expected. She’s just awesome. She has the two blades, but she won’t be like Elektra, all stealthy, but more warrior-like. We really haven’t gotten to do anybody in this style just yet.”
He has been officially announced as a 2016 playable.
On 03/23/16 a Newsarama article was posted featuring Ryolnir: When Collins got around to talking about Black Bolt, he mentioned the scale of how powerful he is in the game. “Black Bolt is obviously going to be a fun one to do, what with his power set. Although I will say if you’ve read any of the recent Uncanny Inhumans stuff they actually portray his powers has having visual beams and such.” Collins mentioned he’ll have some really powerful AoEs that will allow players to destroy thugs really quickly, but he doesn’t have a lot of trademark abilities that focus on one person. “He’ll still be good at that, but we try to keep these characters in the same band of powers.”
☆ QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS AND TUNING CHANGES ☆
Defense to Damage Modifiers - On 05/05/16 Psilocke said "We just wanted to give players a heads up that we are currently reviewing the live server DPS metrics and they clearly show that defensive-affix-to-damage modifiers (such as the ones Emma Frost, Spider-Man, and Colossus have) are overtuned and will likely need adjustments in the near future. I'm posting here in the Emma forums because it has been two weeks since we last completely bugfixing/tuning for her and that has given us some time to review her current performance on live servers (with both Diamond and non-Diamond builds), but this also applies to any hero who has a similar affix (e.g. gain 1% damage for every X defense/dodge/health) It's pretty clear that what was meant to be a smaller tradeoff between offense and defense has turned into a "become unkillable and deal top DPS too" mechanic. That's not intended and we're announcing this now so players can have time to adjust their gearing and expectations. We know sometimes players hate when we wait "forever" to make these type of changes, but our perspective is to announce it as soon as possible so no one is blindsided, so we can open a productive discussion on potential solutions. Thanks for your understanding and we'll have more details soon.
Tenacity Revamp - On February 1st 2016 I asked Ryolnir about the Tenacity revamp and he responded with "Crowd Control Revamp is important to us still".
On 02/16/16 MichaelMayhem said: Also a quality of life update for this guy" and had an arrow pointing at his avatar of Ghostrider. He then continued on with: "Just dropped that news on Ryolnir a few hours ago. As if this patch wasn't stocked enough as is! And before we get the inevitable questions - there's many different resource requirement levels of hero updates. This one has zero art or engineering requirements, which makes it easy to slide in as an extra for a patch like this. Emma's is dropping a bunch of new powers, including an expensive new Ultimate, which takes longer. This is why it's never as clean as "we're doing all these people in this exact order", because of the resource requirement differences. The other ones we've made public (Nightcrawler & Tasky) will definitely need art and are still planned, and this little update for the Rider doesn't take away from that or move them down in the schedule.
During the MH stream on 01/29/16 Micheal Mayhem and Asros mentioned that Luke Cage, Nightcrawler, Emma, and Taskmaster are on a list for quality of life improvements. Please note that these are in no particular order and there is more on the list than those mentioned.
When it comes to Luke Cage they brought up the he was the "Team Up Guy" before Team Ups were an actual thing in MH. There are a lot of questions they need to ask and answer, such as "Does he retain his permanent summons?", "Do we remove Jessica Jones and make her, her own team up?, but then that makes her not unique to Luke Cage." "There's a lot of weird things like this that they have to answer but they stated they will get the community involved to answer these questions concerning Luke.
Nightcrawler Quality Of Life
On 04/18/16 Chufmoney posted "I have taken your feedback and my own insights from playing him and designing other characters and put down a potential new paper design for him that includes new powers, revisions to old powers, and up-to-date additions like specializations instead of "stances." It's all on paper right now and will then be evaluated by the rest of the team for things I overlooked. After it's approved, then I or another designer will begin implementation, working with art as needed to create new animations, visual fx, etc. After that it's on to test center. It's all in the queue, it's just that we have many other things in the queue right now. Things I think people are going to like even if it means Kurt and others have to wait a bit longer."
Colossus Quality Of Life
On 02/22/16 Chufmoney is collecting feedback for a QoL for Colossus. "I'm reading feedback at this point and gathering the best/most useful parts of it to add into a QoL update. Unfortunately, I have no exact dates when we'd be putting this out. All I can say is it is planned and we are working on it.
Squirrel Girl Quality Of Life
MichaelMayhem said on 02/27/16 that she does need some updates but don't expect them to happen in the next few months.
On 03/07/16 Asros posted that he is looking to get feedback for a unique review in the near future for her.
A community member asked this: Hey quick question, is there any chance for creating new uniques? I mean how some heroes have 2 sets of uniques for certain slots. And Asros replied: If it is needed, sure. I don't think I would go as far as creating a whole 2nd set of uniques, but 1 or 2 new ones are possible if there is a need for them.
http://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/267245/official-squirrel-girl-unique-update-feedback