Major Changes: Release Notes, April 27, 2012

Chapter 7 Released

• Access to Chapter 7 has been unlocked, granting access to 6 new missions.
• Complete full mastery to gain access to the powerful Golden T.Q. 5000.

Avengers Movie Costumes

• To celebrate the release of the Avengers movie worldwide, we are releasing costumes based on the characters’ appearances in the movie.
• Both Hawkeye and Black Widow have new costumes.
• Hawkeye’s new costume comes in Infiltrator and Tactician varieties.
• Black Widow’s new costume also comes in Infiltrator and Tactician varieties.
• These costumes come with the unique Avengers Assemble passive ability.
• Having one Avenger on the team grants Coordinated Attacks.
• Teammates have a chance in joining in on single-target attacks.
• Having two Avengers on the team grants Cooperative Defense as well.
• Teammates have a chance of countering when a teammate is hit by a single-target attack.
• Expect the rest of the Avengers to assemble soon!
• These costumes are only available for a limited time!

Combat Engine Improvements

These changes resolve the following PVP issues:

• Quantum Jumper
• Quick Action weapons
• “Looping” techniques

Action Cooldowns

• Cooldowns on all actions (from agent gear or heroes’ abilities) now decrement each round instead of each turn
• A round is a collection of each character getting a turn
• Extra turns happen within the same round
• This prevents characters with many extra turns getting their moves off of cooldown faster, which over-values items that produce extra turns

Extra Turns

• Extra turns granted from items and agent gear now give the character Exhaustion, preventing that character from gaining additional extra turns in a round
• This prevents “stacking” extra turns in a single round or infinitely “looping” extra turns
• This does not affect extra turns from Quick Action abilities or Tactician bonus turns

Ignore Defense

• Attacks that ignore defense (such as the Blaster class bonus) now properly deal increased damage against all targets, regardless of their level
• The tooltip has been clarified to indicate that attacks that ignore defense also ignore shield-like statuses (such as Invisible Woman’s Force Field)

Many Bosses and Mini-bosses are now immune to Stun

• This should make certain boss fights more challenging
• This fixes several issues with Stun interfering with boss mechanics

Other

• Various graphical improvements and bug fixes
• The PVP bonus granted by the Chrono Boost was accidentally reduced. This will be fixed in an upcoming patch.

Source: Playdom