IMPORTANT NOTE PLEASE READ: This thread contains lots of compiled info. Please note that ETA's aren't set in stone and often change(sometimes daily), as this is the way of game development. So keep in mind that when you see an ETA it's only an estimate and nothing is final till it's actually on the live server. This is the process used from start to finish for those wondering: 1. Implementation. 2. Testing, 3. Q&A. 4. Whitelist testing, 5. TC testing, 6. Public Release.
https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/183014/about-dates-development-and-devs/p1
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Scheduled Events | Hinted Events | 2016 Playables And General Info |
Quality Of Life Improvements And Tuning
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Team Ups | Other Characters Mentioned
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Costumes General Information | Visual Updates And Material Pass Info |
Upcoming Costumes
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Travel Powers | Dynamic Combat Level | Crafting/Gear/Starktech |
Leaderboards, Seasons, Tournaments And Ladders |
Omega System | User Interface | Boss And Mob Improvements
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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 |
Player Vs Player
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Other Stuff - Here you can find everything else that doesn't fit in the above topics.
8/13 - Mystic Mayhem
8/20 - Cosmic Chaos
8/27 - Operation OMEGA
9/3 - Odin's Bounty
Normally, Mystic Mayhem would start this week after Odin's Bounty, but due to our early publish this week (tomorrow!) we will have to wait until next weeks tentatively scheduled publish(8/11).
There will also be a super special Summer event for one weekend this month, I am working with marketing to lock down the dates and will have details for you soon!
Omega Changes - 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."
She will be the next playable character.
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.”
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.
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.
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 ☆
Stat and Tuning Changes - Agent Vapor posted on 07/20/16 on the TC Forums "As mentioned last week in the Blessings thread, we will be making changes in the next patch that eliminate most all "overcap" stat bonuses which ignore diminishing returns. Blessing of Hela is the main change in this context, but there are other sources of these kind of overcap stat bonuses which have proven to be a problem and are being changed at the same time as Blessing of Hela to once again respect diminishing returns.
The other bonuses being changed at this time are:
Cable Hero Synergy
Star-Lord Hero Synergy
Ghost Rider Hero Synergy
Moon Knight Hero Synergy
Wolverine Hero Synergy
Midtown Patrol Vest slot 2 Unique item affix
As we mentioned we'd be doing in the last Test Center phase, enemy health has been adjusted game-wide in conjunction with these changes to account for the overall lower Brutal Strike chance.
Hero powers are being reviewed in this process as well; for the case of hero powers, only powers that conferred a passive overcap bonus to Critical Hit or Brutal Strike chance are being changed.
This only affects two Rogue passives, stolen from Drax and Hawkeye respectively. These will be changed similarly to the Hero Synergy bonuses above, and converted to 4% rating multipliers. Powers that confer a temporary overcap bonus, or bonuses that only affect a single power (such as powers that always result in a Brutal Strike) will not be changed.
Omega system nodes are not planned to be changed as a part of this update.
07/13/16 Hero Unique Changes - The short answer is that we have many large system changes being worked on right now that will require us to touch every unique in the game, so doing short term work on them right now would be duplicate or additional work. As you can see with systems like DCL, we are changing some of the functionality of specific game systems in different ways, and that includes itemization. We are still finalizing designs right now, so nothing to announce - but we are working on some pretty big things.
Tenacity Revamp - On 02/01/16 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.
Dr. Strange
MichaelMayhem on 06/03/16 stream: "I'm happy that Strange has held up for so long without much change. he's aged well. but i could see us doing a little something. we'll see. yeah, his third tree could use some polish to make it more viable."
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/p1