Release Notes - May 31, 2012

Changes to Heroes

• Black Widow’s Revenge Tactics no longer provokes counter-attacks when it procs. This fixes problems with infinite loops between two Black Widows using Revenge Tactics.
• Human Torch’s Nova Blast damage has been increased
• Storm’s Blizzard damage has been increased
• Captain America’s Shield Guard ability restored to a 2-round cooldown
• Several minor balance tweaks to Mockingbird’s stats

Changes to Weapons

• New “Customized” weapons are available.
• Weapons marked as “Customized” set their Power Level based on the Agent’s current level at the time that the weapon is acquired. (Either through purchase or loot drop.)
• Target Pistol, The Toolbox, Taste of Thunder and Enchanted Crowbar are now considered “Customized” weapons.
• Energy weapons that do beam animations have had their animations improved.
• Attacks that ignore defense have had their damage reduced slightly.

Other Changes

• Various PvE enemy AI improvements and fixes

Unannounced Changes

• Sales of some Avenger uniforms have been extended for 3 (?) days.
• Heavy Ion Beam's damage nerfed.  Supposedly, this is a bug, but it's not encouraging that it comes to a former premium weapon on the same day a new premium weapon is released for sale.

Source: Playdom (except for unannounced changes)

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