August 31, 2012 Patch Notes

Marvel: Avengers Alliance Updates (for the week of 8/31)

Hero Updates
Hawkeye
 * To celebrate this month’s DVD & Blu-ray release of Marvel’s The Avengers, the Avengers Hawkeye uniform is now available for a Limited Time.
 * Uniform Passive “Avengers Assemble”
 * Grants “Coordinated Attack” to all allies
 * This is a chance to attack after an ally attacks.
 * Grants “Cooperative Defense” with two Avengers present
 * This is a chance to attack after an ally is attacked.

Black Widow
 * To celebrate this month’s DVD & Blu-ray release of Marvel’s The Avengers, the Avengers Black Widow uniform is now available for a Limited Time.
 * Uniform Passive “Avengers Assemble”
 * Grants “Coordinated Attack” to all allies
 * This is a chance to attack after an ally attacks.
 * Grants “Cooperative Defense” with two Avengers present
 * This is a chance to attack after an ally is attacked.

Spider-Man

New Uniform - “Future Foundation Spider-Man”
 * Uniform classes available: Scrapper & Infiltrator
 * Uniform Passive “Tingling Senses” - Permanently increases Evasion when attacked. (This comes in the form of “Awareness” and can stack up to 20 times.)
 * Uniform Passive “Share the Future” - Grants “Tingling Senses” to all teammates.
 * Grants “Future Countdown” with two Future Foundation members
 * On round 4, grants “The Future is Now” - Increasing Attack and Accuracy by 35% for the remainder of the battle.
 * As of this update, Spider-Man, Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic and Thing have Future Foundation alternate costumes.

Invisible Woman
 * Invisible Woman’s “Combat Reflexes” (Counter-Attacks) now behave as follows:
 * If Invisible Woman does not have a “shield” active when she is attacked, she will counter with the Force Field ability
 * If Invisible Woman has a “shield” active when she is attacked, she will counter with Force Spheres
 * “Fourth Field” does not count as a “shield” in this case
 * “shields” that do count are:
 * “Force Field”
 * “Shield of the Seraphim”
 * “Magic Shield”
 * “Magnetic Field”
 * “Mirror Field”
 * “Construct Matrix”
 * “Reflective Shield”
 * “Shield”
 * “Norton Shield”
 * Force Cage has been changed to the following:
 * Can only use “Subtle” or defensive abilities
 * Can only be hit by “Subtle” or defensive abilities
 * Can't “Protect” or “Counter” attacks

Gear Updates
Traumatic Post
 * Traumatic Post is now available for a Limited Time
 * Targets One Enemy
 * Melee Psychic Attack
 * “Counter-Attack” - Has a 50% chance to counter single target attacks
 * “Psychic Attack” - Ignores most evasion, shield, counter, and protect effects
 * “Customized” Power is set by Agent Level when acquired
 * “Mental Anguish” - Takes heavy damage after performing the next offensive action. Removed after any action other than a quick action.

Miscellaneous Updates

 * Spec Ops 2 has concluded, Thanks for Playing!
 * Emma Frost can no longer be recruited
 * All Unstable Iso-8 has been removed from gifting and inventories
 * Fixed an issue where characters deployed in Spec Ops 2 were showing as busy after Spec Ops 2 ended
 * PVP
 * Fixed an issue where players’ rating could randomly reset to 800
 * UI
 * Fixed an issue where class descriptions were too long for the News Page
 * Bug fixes
 * Fixed several cases where placing Force Cage on certain enemies would create an infinite loop
 * Fixed several cases where Mental Anguish was being removed without triggering and wasn’t doing the correct amount of damage in PvP
 * Known Issues
 * In some cases, a hero’s class bonus is incorrectly not given on the first turn attack for a hero with a Future Foundation uniform.
 * When a player starts the first challenge fight in PvP for a new tournament, the client does not display the default Elo rating of 800 correctly at the beginning of the fight. (Subsequent fights are not affected by this.)

Reference

 * Game Updates for the Week of 8 31 2012