March 7, 2013 Patch Notes

SPECIAL OPERATION 7: “Ghost in the Machine”
Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym has been brought in to help S.H.I.E.L.D. capture a rogue artificial intelligence created by the Pulse. This is an asset that S.H.I.E.L.D. needs to control before it falls into the hands of A.I.M. or worse!

Reward Hero: Hank Pym

 * Class Tactician
 * Passive - Smartest Man in the Room
 * Each new round grants a new Analysis
 * After the 1st Round, Analysis: Conjecture
 * Attacks ignore most avoidance effects
 * After the 2nd Round, Analysis: Hypothesis
 * Attacks ignore most avoidance effects
 * Attacks always crit
 * After the 3rd Round, Analysis: Theory
 * Attacks ignore most avoidance effects
 * Attacks always crit
 * Attacks ignore Defense
 * 1. Growing Pains
 * Attacks a Single Target
 * Stealthy
 * Does not trigger counter-attacks or protect abilities
 * Cornered
 * Removes and prevents Protect effects
 * Dizzy
 * Accuracy reduced by 25%
 * 2. Goliath Punch
 * Attacks a Single Target
 * Exploit Opportunity
 * Deals increased damage against targets with Staggered, Distraction, Off-Balance, Poison, or Dizzy
 * Staggered
 * Greatly reduced chance to dodge the next attack
 * 3. Army of Ants
 * Attacks All Enemies
 * Stealthy
 * Does not trigger counter-attacks or protect abilities
 * Off-Balance
 * Removes and prevents Counter-Attack effects
 * 4. Bug Squashing
 * Attacks All Enemies
 * 3 Round Cooldown
 * Catastrophic
 * Can't be Protected against
 * Ignores most Avoidance effects
 * Guaranteed to hit
 * Deadly Crits
 * Deals extra damage on critical hits

Featured Spec Op 7 Bosses

 * MODOK (Mission 1)
 * Chance to drop the ADVANCED IDEA
 * After 3 rounds the Agent will strike all enemies with a massive psychic attack.
 * Fixer (Mission 2)
 * Chance to drop the SOLDERING IRON
 * Customized
 * Crits metal targets
 * Slows metal targets
 * Kang (Mission 3)
 * Chance to drop BALTAG’S BLASTER
 * Creates the Energy Feedback status
 * Heals allies that use energy attacks
 * Does damage to enemies that use energy attacks

New Daily Bonus Rewards

 * New Gadget: Temporal Shielding
 * Absorbs incoming damage
 * All attacks become Temporal
 * Immune to Temporal attacks and debuffs
 * Research Notebook
 * Grants all allies Epiphany
 * High PVP Bonus
 * Integrated Iso Circuit
 * Increases Tech Damage
 * High PVP Bonus

Hawkeye Update

 * New Passive: Hawkeye’s Initiative
 * Hawkeye has a 50% chance to gain a follow up attack against targets with Pinpoint Target
 * This works with other similar marked target effects as well
 * This works on all of Hawkeye’s attacks, including Arrow Volley
 * The follow-up attack can trigger yet another follow-up attack as well!
 * Heroic Age Hawkeye Uniform - New Passive: Loaded Quiver
 * Randomly pulls out arrows that cause a variety of effects
 * This effect can be combined with the extra attacks from Hawkeye’s Initiative!
 * The following arrows can be pulled at random:
 * Net Arrow
 * Causes Slow and Exposed
 * Sonic Arrow
 * Causes Dizzy and Weakened
 * Impact Arrow
 * Causes Staggered and Off Balance
 * Incendiary Arrow
 * Causes Burning and Pyrophoric
 * Toxic Gas Arrow
 * Causes Poisoned and Incapacitated
 * Freezing Arrow
 * Causes Chilled and Frozen
 * Magno-volt Arrow
 * Causes Fried Circuits and Magnetized
 * Smoke Bomb Arrow
 * Causes Blind and Disoriented
 * Disoriented causes an enemy to sometimes attack his teammates
 * Shrapnel Arrow
 * Causes Bleeding + Ravaged
 * Adamantium Arrow
 * Adamantium
 * Damage ignores the target’s defense stat
 * Brutal Strike
 * Damage cannot be prevented by resurrection effects
 * Fatal Blow
 * Defeats normal enemies and deals great damage to boss enemies below 30%
 * Electric Arrow
 * Causes Static Charge and drains Stamina
 * Glue Arrow
 * Causes Webbed and Constricted

Other Changes

 * Facebook only: Boss defeat images that appear on your Timeline have been updated
 * Facebook only: Research Complete, Mission Complete, Agent Level Up, and Hero Level Up images that appear on your Timeline for the “Share Bonus” and “Share” buttons throughout the game have been updated.
 * Added two new attack types - Tech and Temporal

Known Issues

 * Hawkeye’s Electric Volley and Arrow are not properly triggering static charge
 * Kang’s Temporal Armory attack will proc 2 stacks of Timestream Displacement