Attention fellow Agents, the holidays are right around the corner! Every year, the day of Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated with a bird. However, this year in MPQ we’re doing things a little bit differently. There won’t be any turkeys this time around, but hawks instead! That’s right, as a tie-in to Hawkeye’s new TV series, we will be running Hawkeye themed events all week long! So get your bows and (seemingly) endless arrows ready, dust off your archery skills, and don’t forget to check back for updates!
VERSUS EVENTS:
Hawkeye (Hawkguy) - No Good News
November 23-27
Kate Bishop (Hawkeye) - Hard Nock Life
November 25-29
PVE EVENTS:
The Hunt
November 25-29
Cosmic Chaos
November 28 - December 3
SPECIAL BUFF LIST:
November 25 - December 1
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)
Hawkeye (Hawkguy)
Hawkeye (Classic)
December 2 - December 8
Hawkeye (Ronin)
Echo (Maya Lopez)
OFFERS:
5-star Hawkeye (Clint Barton) Bundle - November 24
Super Weekend Special Kate Bishop Bundle - November 25
That makes me nervous after so many of the past rebalances. He doesn’t need a nerf like Cap and Bishop got, but I can imagine a rebalance that removes the blue/red generation while boosting his other numbers. He doesn’t hit hard, but I like his niche Blue/Red generation
I guess there never was one in the first place? They could make one up like they did for the Ghost Rider rebalance but I guess we have enough other Hawkeye’s to manage.
Including “TBA- New character” in a Hawkeye themed event thread also seems to let the Echo outta the room maybe…
Both 3* and 4* Hawkeye have their own pvps, and the celebration seems to last for approximately two weeks. Maybe they could sneak him both Ronin and 5* Hawkeye pvp next week.
They’ve already let 2 of the Hawkeyes have their own featured pvps. So, giving some spotlight to 5* Hawkeye will be nice. If there are too many Hawkeyes PvPs in a row, players will probably feel nauseated.
Hawkeye and Hawkguy launched during the Avengers vs Ultron alliance event way back when. For some reason I thought there might have been a System Reboot or 12 Days of MPQ style side event that featured Hawkeye prominently at one point, but now I can’t recall if that was made up or not. I guess I might have been thinking of one of the Boss Nodes in the old Support Circuit having him on it even?
Hawkeye in my opinion is a very well designed character who is just old. There are plenty of others who need a lot of help to be viable, whether that be damage, AP cost, or just fundamentally not having a usable kit from the start, and for those I wouldn’t mind more of a rethink. I really hope HE isn’t on track for one of those types of remakes personally.
It’s a weird situation because Hawkeye’s passive is objectively totally busted, but nobody really uses him for anything. I’m not sure if that’s because nobody has him, or because there’s not a great partner/team for him currently.
He was used quite a bit with 4* Cap before Cap got killed, and he was the only reason 4* Cap had to get killed (without Hawkeye, Cap was mildly annoying at best).
If they chose to rebalance him I have no idea what’d happen. I used to think his passive prevented them from doing certain kinds of abilities (basically any passive countdown spam should be off the table) but then they made Blob, so who knows.
Exactly. This is really how most reworkings should be approached. Unfortunately, health and match-damage inflation is a key driver for needing to acquire new releases and disincentives such changes.
