Update:Marvel’sAvengersV1.3.3Patch is now live! Some early quality-of-life fixes are readily apparent: Faster character traversal through bases like the Helicarrier and Ant Hill, cosmetic preview options in vendor stores, and even shortcut menus for each faction in existing hubs. These are great changes for QoL, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to other updates, including bug fixes and more content:
Patch 1.3.3 introduces Tachyon Rifts and SHIELD Substation Zero to the Avengers Initiative (starting 10/15) as well as addresses bugs, tuning, and adds several highly requested quality of life and playability improvements across both the Reassemble Campaign and throughout the Avengers Initiative. Below are the highlights of what is addressed in Patch 1.3.3.
Patch 1.3.4 is already underway, which will include several quick match fixes and improvements, further reward tuning, and new UI options!
you’re able to check out the full patch notes hereor read a few of the highlights below:
New Content:
Our previous write-up follow below:
Marvel’sAvengers, the superhero smash-‘em-up game from Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix, has becomea daily play for me. But that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. For casual players out there, the early hype surrounding the release might have been enough to check it out during August’s Beta release, but even the hardcore players are starting to drift away from the relatively new title. That’s a problem for a few reasons: First, with a dwindling player base, it’s going to be hard for the game studios to greenlight additional updates in the months to come. Secondly, the compounding issue of fewer and fewer players is that online multiplayer matchmaking gets harder and harder to complete, giving players more of an excuse to bail. Crystal Dynamics hopes that the first major content update might turn things around.
ThoughMarvel’s Avengerscurrently lacks enough content to keep the daily players and marathon streamers happy – a tough task for any modern game developer to keep up with, honestly – it seems that even casual players are opting for other titles over the superhero story. New content could change that. At the very least, a detailed and dated roadmap of content to come would give players something to look forward to, to plan for, and to re-embrace the grind in anticipation of what’s ahead.
In a statement provided toKotaku, Crystal Dynamics studio headScot Amosteased new mission types coming, a new Outpost where a new storyline will kick off, and the anticipated arrival of Hawkeyes, Kate Bishop and Clint Barton. Here are some of the highlights:
To our players: every day we fight to make the best game possible for our community. We have a great community management team at Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix who funnel all of your concerns, suggestions, and feedback to the development team daily. We are listening. We are making fixes, improvements, and additions as fast as we safely can to make Marvel’s Avengers the game we all aspire it to be.
New content arriving in the weeks ahead includes:
As for the new character content:
The main Reassemble campaign’s end is the launching point for the new Operations’ story. That story will continue forward, introduce “new mysteries and villains, as well as new multi-player content.” New content is also coming to the game in the months ahead, but to call that content reveal vague would be an understatement.
At least there’s reassurance of the typical and expected continued “tuning and bug fixing to enhance the overall experience,” and a focus on “issues and overall game balance, including loot distribution and quality of life features everyone is clamoring for to improve our day-to-day experience from accessibility to co-op communication tools to balancing the economy” as Amos puts it. These days, however, it’s not enough to say, “We’re working on it; please continue playing!” [My words, not Amos'.] You’ve got to keep the content coming, as difficult as it is.
Perhaps a tweaked version of a multiplayer game that isn’t mission or story-dependent but allows players and streamers to go head-to-head, making their own clippable content as they go. Perhaps a race or a capture-the-flag game or something like a Gambit-style mini-game fromDestinycould be a relatively simple, temporary fix. Maybe none of the above would work. But despite the current content issues ofMarvel’s Avengers, it’s a game with tremendous upside and possibility; it just remains to be seen whether players will give it a chance and if the devs behind the title will reward them for doing so. Stay tuned!
