November 27, 2013 Patch Notes

Season 2 Chapter 3: Crisis of Leadership
New Villain: Sin

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

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.

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 * Swashbuckler Nightcrawler now correctly applies Bleeding on Shadow Dance

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 * Class change moves are now a multi-action

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 * Class change moves are now a multi-action

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

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 * Soul Kiss now provides extra healing if the target dies

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 * 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%)

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 * 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

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 * 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
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Prototype Cube Warbringer Axe Vigilante Toolkit
 * Atom Smasher now correctly has 100% hit chance (Catastrophic)
 * 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
 * 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.