R117 Hot Fixes *Updated (1/10/2017)

Hi everyone,

Here are the updates for today’s R117 hot fix patch:

January 6, 2017

  • • Invisible Woman’s power Force Bubble's next level text at Power Level four now properly states that the power will target enemy Countdown tiles at Power Level five.
    • Daken (Dark Avengers) and Daken (Classic)'s power Chemical Reaction now plays an animation again.
    • Thanos (Modern)'s power Court Death power was dealing more damage to allies than expected. The damage done to allies has been reduced for all power levels.
    • Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)'s power Executive Decision can no longer activate from Colossus (Classic)'s power Fastball Special.

January 10, 2017 New Update

  • • Captain Marvel (Ms. Marvel)'s power Sonic Boom no longer drains Team-Up AP.
    • Sentry (Dark Avengers)'s Power World Rupture no longer damages himself.
    • Sentry (Dark Avengers)'s Power Supernova no longer damages himself.
    • Ragnarok (Dark Avengers)'s Power Godlike Power no longer damages himself.
    • Thor (Goddess of Thunder)'s power Smite no longer counts Locked Charged tiles when calculating additional damage.
    • Squirrel Girl (Unbeatable)'s power Furry Friends will convert a Locked tile to a basic tile if it is randomly selected by the power.
    • Mystique (Raven Darkholme)'s power Shapeshift can longer be fired if the last enemy is invisible.
    • Spider-Man (Bag-Man)'s power Web-Slinger now has the correct tense for power levels 2 through 5.
    • The countdown tile created by Gorgon’s power Awaken the Hand now displays the correct description.
    • Defender Doombot’s power Hubris now displays a power banner.

While it may be too late for his pvp, I’m glad you guys got Thanos’s Black fixed.

It’s about 2/7ths of the previous amount. I’d estimate about 1060 to each ally at 5 covers at 166

What exactly is 3.5x less than something? How do you do that math? If it did 2000 before, does it do -5000 now?

Seems to be on par with the 5 star version now

Fine, fine. It does about (previous amount)/3.5 as much damage. A three-and-a-halfth, if you will icon_e_smile.gif

But I really liked the Daken change. Can they just add the animation to fire 1 time a match and the rest it does as it does now?

Thanks to the powers that be for the change to Thanos; that power as previously constructed just made for an awful playing experience.

Could you please look into Quakes broken Yellow passive (seems to only cover damage at cover level 1 even when covered higher)?

(Sidenote: I loved not seeing Dakens frequent animations…)

My level 140 Thanos is now doing 953 damage. Before he was doing 3300 damage so this is 2/3 reduction roughly which is good. When he is essential and buffed that means it will do 2K damage to allies instead of 6k+. Also at 140 he is doing 3722 damage AOE on a kill. Buffed it will be 7-8k damage which will be nasty. 7-8k for 2k isn’t a bad trade especially if you bring true healers.

All right, that makes much more sense. So 2000/3.5 = ~572. Thanks!

And honestly, I wasn’t being snarky, I just never understood what people meant by “X times less”. icon_e_biggrin.gif

I accept the chastisement with dignity.

I had a feeling Thanos’ black was bugged or just miscalculated. It made no sense at all that they could have designed him to do more damage to you at 3 and 4 covers than he did to the enemy.

This is what giving someone the benefit of the doubt gets you. Sometimes they reward you by acknowledging a mistake.

I’m cranky today and see the fact that it happened at all more evidence that they don’t give a shit about the quality of the product they produce.

/super cranky

I’m glad Court Death got fixed, but this was “more damage than expected” doesn’t that mean that nobody tested this new character, like, AT ALL?

Making games is hard. Stuff just happens sometimes.

when I read that I figured it was in regards to the fact 3/4 covers was doing extra damage to allies.

did not remotely expect them to put him in line with the 5 star and actually make people stop debating if they wanted to go 0/5/5 on him.

Yep, I thought it was just the 3 & 4 covers issue at first too.

Hi Doc,

Yes, it does. But when this much happens (and much of it easily noticed by playing a few missions), one has to wonder how hard they’re trying.

Doc

I’m happy to see they fixed Thanos. I gave up on his PvE essential and didn’t bother with PvP.. the fix was alittle too late but at least now I’ll actually try to cover him. Thanks!