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
Post 2
Team Ups | Other Characters Mentioned
Post 3
Costumes General Information | Visual Updates And Material Pass Info |
Upcoming Costumes
Post 4
Crafting/Gear/Starktech | Travel Powers |
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.
Info has been posted entailing lots of details about the anniversary. Please click the link below.
https://forums.marvelheroes.com/discussion/281551/official-june-event-schedule-3rd-anniversary-party
Civil War - They plan on bringing back the Civil War event several times throughout the course of the rest of the year but it won't be a weekly event.
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."
The Wealth of Kings County event - Asros mentioned on his 04/16/16 stream that it may come around again in the future but don't expect it to become a weekly event.
Terminal Tuesdays - 02/01/16 Ryolnir said "It's something we've talked about but there's no definitive design for it. We're focused on updating existing events and rewards."
☆☆ 2016 ANNOUNCED PLAYABLES AND GENERAL INFO ☆☆
Asros said on the 05/12/16 stream Ultron is the next playable and his ETA is late June. When asked about his powers he said Ultron is heavily in development but it's fairly safe to say he will have lasers, some gravity stuff and summoning lots of robots.
Chufmoney mentioned on 06/03/16 stream said He is kind of similar to Dr. Doom in the sense that he has a summon tree, a ranged energy tree, and a semi ranged/melee physical tree." AlexWilliams stated: The secondary resource(spirit) would be known as bandwidth.
On 05/18/16 Ryolnir said "Ultron will not be Hank Pym. But it'd be a cool Enhanced costume."
Chufmoney addressed some posted on the forums on 06/09/16 No, there is no Jocasta summoning. Jocasta is too precious for us to let you throw her life away like that. Instead you'll be summoning the masses of drones that you can let get ripped apart and, like Ultron would, not blink an eye. Ultron will not have a teleport.
When being asked if the Encelphalo Beam will do Mental Damage here's what he replied. Encephalo beam COULD deal mental, but that wouldn't be very good for gearing purposes. That's really his only power that potentially does mental damage, so you'd have gear for a bunch of energy and physical powers and then ONE mental. I think we will make it Energy damage.
When the suggestion came up about having a power that will let him refresh after being defeated, Chufmoney responded with. That wouldn't exactly be fair to any other hero if he could just die forever and have no penalty. Like what about raids, where deaths matter? It just would be a feel-bad mechanic at that point for the larger community. That being said, he can be defeated, losing the body he was in as a fresh one flies in for him to take over. But it's not a cooldown-less power.
Ultron Powers revealed in a datamine(this appears to be not accurate from what Chufmoney mentioned above - Bladed Drone, Range Drone, Melee Drone, Micro Drone Swarm, Destroy Drones, Dash, Encephalo Beam, Evolution, Finger Laser, Finger Laser Blasts, Laser Sweep, Leap Strike version 1, Leap Strike version 2, Melee Strike, Prime, Radiation Blast, Repair Protocol, Slam, Chunk of Concrete, Flight, Ultimate.
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.
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.
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.”
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 ☆
Tenacity Revamp - On February 1st 2016 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