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.