Character Release Dates

TimGunn

In case anyone needs it, here are all the release dates for 4-star and 5-star.  Some of the older ones are estimated (or guesstimated in the case of OML).  

FOUR STARS

Wolverine (x-force)	10/24/2013
Invisible Woman classic	12/2/2013
Nick Fury (shield)	4/23/2014
Thor (goddess)	11/26/2014
Electra (unkillable)	12/15/2014
Star-Lord (outlaw)	1/30/2015
Professor X (charles x)	3/12/2015
Kingpin (wilson fisk)	4/4/2015
Iron Man (hulkbuster)	4/29/2015
Carnage (cletus kasady)	6/4/2015
The Thing (classic)	6/25/2015
Ant-Man (scott lang)	7/10/2015
Jean Grey (all new)	7/23/2015
Deadpool (x-force)	8/10/2015
Sam Wilson (c america)	8/20/2015
Mr. Fantastic (reed r)	9/3/2015
Iceman (all new x-men)	9/17/2015
Cyclops (classic)	10/8/2015
Red Hulk (thunderbolt r)	10/15/2015
X-23 (all new wolverine)	10/29/2015
Ghost Rider (j blaze)	11/26/2015
The Hulk (totally ave)	12/3/2015
Miles Morales (spiderm)	12/17/2015
Venom (eddie brock)	12/24/2015
Nova (sam alexander)	1/28/2016
Spider-Gwen (g stacy)	2/11/2016
Quake (daisy johnson)	3/10/2016
The Punisher (max)	3/24/2016
Howard The Duck (had)	4/7/2016
Drax (the destroyer)	4/21/2016
Winter Soldier (bbarnes)	4/28/2016
War Machine (j rhodes)	5/19/2016
Kate Bishop (hawkeye)	6/2/2016
Moon Knight (m spec)	6/16/2016
Peggy Carter (cap am)	6/26/2016
Wasp (janet van dyne)	7/28/2016
Spider-Woman (j drew)	8/25/2016
Luke Cage (power man)	9/22/2016
Gwenpool (gwen poole)	10/6/2016
Blade (modern)	10/20/2016
Venom (agent venom)	11/17/2016
Medusa (inh queen)	12/1/2016
Captain Marvel (carol)	1/5/2017
Riri Williams (ironheart)	1/19/2017
Mordo (master mystic)	2/9/2017
Agent Coulson (shield)	2/23/2017
Iron Fist (danny rand)	3/23/2017
Cloak & Dagger (classic)	4/6/2017
Rocket & Groot (vol 2)	5/4/2017
Gamora (mix vol 2)	5/18/2017
Sandman (flint marko)	6/15/2017
Vulture (adrian toomes)	7/13/2017
Mockingbird (bobbi m)	7/27/2017
Yondu (mix vol 2)	8/10/2017

FIVE STARS

Silver Surfer (sky rider)	9/10/2015
Wolverine (oml)	10/5/2015
Jean Grey (phoenix)	11/12/2015
Spider-Man (black)	1/14/2016
Green Goblin (n osborn)	2/25/2016
Iron Man (mark xlv)	5/5/2016
Steve Rogers (1st av)	5/5/2016
The Hulk (bruce banner)	7/14/2016
Black Bolt (inhuman k)	8/11/2016
Black Widow (nat rom)	9/1/2016
Doctor Strange (sorc)	11/3/2016
Thanos (the mad titan)	12/22/2016
Black Panther (civil war)	2/2/2017
Hawkeye (clint barton)	3/9/2017
Star-Lord (mix vol 2)	4/27/2017
Doctor Octopus (classic)	6/1/2017
Spider-Man (peter prkr)	7/6/2017

madsalad

ahhh, the good ol' days with MONTHS between major character releases.

TimGunn

madsalad said:

ahhh, the good ol' days with MONTHS between major character releases.

well, for a lot of those earlier months, there would have been 1 or more three-star release in between the four-star releases.  And back then three-star releases were MAJOR

xidragonxi

Haha, four months between Invisible Woman and Fury, and SEVEN months between Fury and Thor.  What a world.

Dormammu

As TimGunn stated above, this was when a lot of the 3-stars were being released. There weren't many 3-stars when the game launched.

Brigby

@TimGunn
Thanks for posting this info! Certainly quite intriguing to see the release dates of older characters, and what the schedule used to be.

I think the players over at the Character Discussion sub-category would appreciate it too!

dave7099

Sure has been a long time since we've gotten a mutants...

Felonius

Excellent list, thank you.

Hyposphere6234

Thank you for posting this! My priorities in championing 4*s these days are by release date regardless of usefulness. If vaulting is going to be a thing ever again I'd rather be prepared.

Ducky

Fury also took 3 seasons to have all his covers distributed as they were rewards for top 100 alliance placement for the first 3 seasons. 

Talk about a long release party, lol. 

Beer40

   Wow, this list made me realize I've been playing this game forever!

broll

Fun game, post the first new character release after you started.

Me:

3/14/2016

****

Punisher, The

MAX

I started on 3/11/16 and ironically PunMax was one of my first 4* champs (I say one of because I champed my first five all at once and it's Ironic because 4* covers weren't being released from progression back then so I'm pretty sure him being released then had nothing to do with my covering him first)

Dormammu

Whatever day the game was available on Android was when I started playing. I remember seeing an announcement for it and having to wait until it became available in the Google store.

For some reason my memory is stuck on Daken being the first character I saw released, but that doesn't jibe with the date (Nov 2013) above as I believe MPQ was available on Android in October 2013.

That was a long time ago. I remember there would be days between events and the only thing we could do was grind the repeatable Prologue nodes for 20 ISO a match. 3-star Punsher was the king of the PvP hill and to challenge a level-maxed version of him was to invite doom. He held that throne until 3-star Thor came along and he was fearsome. 2-star Storm's yellow was so overpowered that it was its own winfinite all by itself. Spider-Man was the OML of his day and could true-heal his entire team to max right before the end of every match, with just a little micro-management. Cap and Thor were 'lazy', we also called Cap 'shieldbro', Sue Storm was 'baglady', and OBW challenged all-comers. Heroic Juggernaut wasn't just a challenge, it was dang near impossible, and when the Hulk was first released the community came together so fast (to earn global 3-star covers) that the developers quickly had to retcon how many progression points it required. Team-up tiles were called 'environmental' tiles and if you lost a PvP match you had two more tries to beat the opposing team - and they didn't regenerate health from the prior match! Not that it mattered because there was no skip tax.

DarthDeVo

It was either Drax or Winter Soldier. I can't remember exactly when I started, but it was pretty close to that point.

Twl7569

broll said:

Fun game, post the first new character release after you started.

Two answers for me- I played right from the beginning. I remember the IM40 release.

I quit for a time after Nick Fury was released- couldn't keep up with the release schedule. 

Shortly after i started again, they released Riri. 

revskip

broll said:

Fun game, post the first new character release after you started.

1/21/2016 **** Nova Sam Alexander

I joined earlier but didn't play any PVE events before Sam's release PVE.  I remember thinking "Man this game is easy" when I got a top 5 finish in his event not realizing at the time that I was enjoying the wonder that was the noob bracket.  He ended up being my 29th 4* champ, had terrible luck pulling his covers and didn't finish him off until well after vaulting had been enacted and he was a reward in a boss event.  

SkadenFrudee

10/10/2016

****

Gwenpool

I remember that single green covered Gwen saving my life sooooo many times. I got lucky and pulled her a week after I started playing. That 3779 in health was like 10x my other toons, the damage from Chekov's Gun incredible compared to my one and two star, days old roster.

I wonder if a five star has that effect when acquired that early?

JHawkInc

broll said:

Fun game, post the first new character release after you started.

This is a good game.


For me, 

4/22/2015		***	Scarlet Witch			Wanda Maximoff
4/22/2015		****	Iron Man			Hulkbuster

More significantly, I had like, a day or so from when I started to the first Boss event, Avengers vs Ultron. 

DarthDeVo

JHawkInc said:

broll said:

Fun game, post the first new character release after you started.

This is a good game.


For me, 

4/22/2015		***	Scarlet Witch			Wanda Maximoff
4/22/2015		****	Iron Man			Hulkbuster

More significantly, I had like, a day or so from when I started to the first Boss event, Avengers vs Ultron. 

I started right before the first run of Civil War myself. If I remember right, I was in a super casual alliance that had only like 6 or 7 active people and wasn't even full. Needless to say, we didn't get far, I could hardly contribute anything, and I didn't even understand how the event really worked. 

killercool

For me it was

4/28/2014

***

She-Hulk

Modern

Back when Wolverine X-Force was referred to as Wolverine X-Farce.  Sad to have watched him boosted to greatness and then nerfed to oblivion again.

vcorsac

@aesthetocyst nice list, but I think 3* Daken's date is wrong. He came out a few months after Psylocke. I think he also had the now standard no guaranteed featured 10-packs which were definitely later (I think 3* Cap was the event where you could buy 2 different kinds of 10 packs). Looks like sometime in May 2014 based on https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/5799/daken-classic but the thread started in early April 2014.


Here's my "start", i.e. when I started playing daily, started playing more than just the prologue, and started paying attention to the forum.

2/11/2014		***	Psylocke			Classic
2/21/2014		***	Black Panther			T'Challa

I'm pretty sure I started sometime in January 2014, maybe a little after Patch's release. I do remember 2* Thor's and 2* Wolvie's powers changing once I actually had a decent number of covers for them.