R122 Release Notes (3/13/17)

Brigby

Hey Everyone,

Here are the Release Notes for the R122 update!

MPQ 122!

"Waves Piling On"

What's Changed:
-Fixes to Bonus Heroes

-Bonus Heroes message now displays correctly if a player gained XP solely from recruiting new characters. -When first gaining access to Bonus Heroes, the favorite status will be properly applied to each starting Bonus Hero

-VIP Streaks now properly award when renewing VIP Status
-Game no longer incorrectly tries to support landscape mode
-Fixed a Facebook loading screen issue
-Heroes that can't be stunned are now able to be targeted by powers that stun a random enemy
-Improved passive and countdown tile effect timing

*New Update*
-Added a small animation when increasing the level of a character
-Fix to special tile tutorials to prevent players from getting stuck.
-Join Forces mission will now choose a provided character if the player’s character is a lower level.
-Black Widow (Modern)'s power Widow's Sting will no longer incorrectly stun all enemies at power levels lower than 5
-Characters that prevent damage will no longer take the increased damage from Strike tiles.

*Updated to Final Release Notes

whycantwesyncpc

Looks for a vaulting fix, sees nothing, goes back to wondering why I should still play the game...

snlf25

Waves piling on.....waves piling on...we are always piling on Craig about Dazzler and how she isn't going to make it into the game. ...piling on. In waves every Thursday.....

Not Dazzler! Confirmed.!

zodiac339

"Waves piling on"
Waves of water? Hydroman?
Waves in the ocean? Namor?
Waves. You surf on waves. What do you also surf on? Crowds. Crowd surfing at a bangin' concert! Dazzler inbound!
Also, poor Silver Surfer. The one thing really unique about him, and it's just randomly thrown a nerf.

Moon Roach

Landscape mode?!?!?!? Are you saying that it now correctly tries to support landscape, or that it no longer tries at all. Pretty please the former, my tablet has been crying out for that since forever. But almost certainly the latter.

And can someone please parse the stun one for me, my brain hurts.

pheregas

Did Surfer just get nerfed?

notamutant

Strange hint. I was expecting an Iron Fist release with the show coming out next week, but now it is another 2 weeks with Hawkeye release, and this hint doesn't sound like Iron Fist. Waves piling on sounds like a surfing reference, but Silver Surfer is already here. Water based character? No clue who this could be.

phaseetious4me

pheregas wrote:

Did Surfer just get nerfed?

My guess is that it was weirdly phrased and it is a slight buff to Surfer. Currently, if Scarlet Witch fires her power, it will never try to stun Surfer. With the change, if Scarlet Witch fires her power, it may try to stun Surfer and fail since he is immune.

CyberVenom2001

"Waves piling on"?

That means stacks of water. Like the Mariana Trench.

Trench as in trench coat.

5* Hitman confirmed!

In all seriousness, I'm hoping they finally release Gorgon as a playable character

Infrared

phaseetious4me wrote:

My guess is that it was weirdly phrased and it is a slight buff to Surfer. Currently, if Scarlet Witch fires her power, it will never try to stun Surfer. With the change, if Scarlet Witch fires her power, it may try to stun Surfer and fail since he is immune.

That would be the case if it said "chance to be targeted by powers that stun a random enemy". To me, it seems to say instead that the random stun will now override any stun immunity.

Brigby wrote:

-Heroes that can't be stunned now have a chance to be stunned by powers that stun a random enemy

I'm interested in whether this also affects bosses like Ultron. If so, that is a huge buff to Scarlet Witch.

Brigby

Moon Roach wrote:

Landscape mode?!?!?!? Are you saying that it now correctly tries to support landscape, or that it no longer tries at all. Pretty please the former, my tablet has been crying out for that since forever. But almost certainly the latter.

And can someone please parse the stun one for me, my brain hurts.

1) Landscape mode is not a mode that the game supports. The fix was to prevent the game from trying to switch to landscape mode.

2) Correction: Heroes that can't be stunned are now able to be targeted by powers that stun a random enemy, but those with stun-immunity will simply ignore the stun effect.

hodayathink

Yup, that's a Switch buff. Helps Gamora and Spider-Gwen as well.

Moon Roach

Brigby wrote:

Moon Roach wrote:

Landscape mode?!?!?!? Are you saying that it now correctly tries to support landscape, or that it no longer tries at all. Pretty please the former, my tablet has been crying out for that since forever. But almost certainly the latter.

And can someone please parse the stun one for me, my brain hurts.

1) Landscape mode is not a mode that the game supports. The fix was to prevent the game from trying to switch to landscape mode.

2) Characters with stun immunity are now able to be stunned if the ability that stuns it is a random-target ability.
(Kind of like how in MTG an ability that affects all creatures will still affect creatures with hexproof/shroud)

Thank you for this. So, in Avengers vs Ultron, unstunnable Ultron can be stunned?

:edit: Not this run, it's before the release, but next run.

Stax the Foyer

It's clearly a person who will wave at a pylon as he scores a touchdown.



Finally, NFL Superpro's time has come.

aa25

I hope to hear something about the 4Cyke/SW/QS nerf from TU tiles change two weeks ago. I guess it is a history now.

fmftint

Does this mean unstunnable bosses can now be stunned?

TLCstormz

*sigh

I'll reserve the rest of my comments, only because the buffs to Gwendolyn and Jan are well done and the Ultron fix is amazing.........

Thanos

-Improved passive and countdown tile effect timing

This ^^. Passives are way out of control. They need to be sped up. I'm tired of waiting 10 - 15 seconds every turn for multiple passives to complete. Really hope this fixes that.

Anon

CyberVenom2001 wrote:

"Waves piling on"?

That means stacks of water. Like the Mariana Trench.

Trench as in trench coat.

5* Hitman confirmed!

In all seriousness, I'm hoping they finally release Gorgon as a playable character

At first I thought Namor, but "Waves piling on" Could be waves of enemies as well.

Could also be waves of hair... Rogue confirmed!

DrDevilDinosaur

"Waves piling on" is almost certainly a clue for Iron Fist, right?

I mean, other than being the latest worst kept secret and the Netflix series about to land, I'm feel like I've read a reference to "waves [of Chi energy] piling on" in at least one of the IF books.

Edit: The Iron Fist Netflix episodes have titles like "Snow Gives Way" and "Lead Horse Back to Stable", meant to evoke various kung fu mantras. "Waves Piling On" absolutely fits that same motif.

Dayv

Brigby wrote:

Characters with stun immunity are now able to be stunned if the ability that stuns it is a random-target ability.
(Kind of like how in MTG an ability that affects all creatures will still affect creatures with hexproof/shroud)

Brigby, could you please verify this with Demiurge? I strongly suspect that second instance of "stunned" should say "targeted".

This would fix a bug that Silver Surfer had on release, got fixed once already, and then broke again several months ago.