Patch Notes - R42 - 11/18 Discussion

IceIX

Providing a place for general R42 discussion. Patch notes are here.

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I'm most excited for the Facebook fixes. Hopefully it works better.

Thanks for the continued support of the game.

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- A nefarious H.A.M.M.E.R. plot to randomly heal teams that had been damaged in a previous try in Tournaments has been fixed.

The hell does this even mean? what bug was this, out of curiosity. Does this mean if we wipe to the enemy team, they'll reappear as damaged til we beat them again?

IceIX

forgrim wrote:

- A nefarious H.A.M.M.E.R. plot to randomly heal teams that had been damaged in a previous try in Tournaments has been fixed.

The hell does this even mean? what bug was this, out of curiosity. Does this mean if we wipe to the enemy team, they'll reappear as damaged til we beat them again?

Sometimes when you fought a team and lost, they would look damaged on the pre-match Select and Boost Screen but have full health when you went into battle against them a second/third time.

Nemek

I think the new UI is really sleek.

It's going to take a little while to get used to, though. Switching from the thought process of 'Ok, I have to pick between these two red abilities' to 'Ok, I have to pick between these two Iron Man abilities' is a bit of a difference. I also have to get used to not going by the pulsing tiles to know whether or not an ability is ready. Since I don't naturally look at the character buttons while playing, it's not going to be as obvious that a power is ready. (And, specifically, a power of a certain color.)

All things that I will just have to get used to. Overall, I like it, though.

Unknown

My first impression of this update is really good. There's nothing that overtly annoys me.

There's 2 things that I noticed that may need some polish though. You can no longer sell covers when you first claim them. An admittedly small annoyance. The other thing is, the ap values on the sides *look* squashed. There appears to be space for them to extend downward but they don't. I'm not sure if this would be different for other handsets though. I'm on a note 2 for reference.

Apart from those, great patch!

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Ultimately for the best. There have been too many times when I accidentally picked mHawkeye's blue power over cStorms just because I don't pay attention. I think this will help that. Will take some getting used to but I'm happy with the update and if it had been this way the whole time none of us would think twice about it.

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First impression of UI changes is really good, now it's matter to get used to them.
Roster is great!

Was buffing IM35 in Heroic tournament intentional or accidental?

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I'm impressed with how the new animations and UI look

I thought gaining mission rewards should be easier now, but I don't see any difference. 2/4 mission after 4 tries I still get 20 Iso-8 every time.

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And isn't 'buffed' treated differently since this upgrade? The 200% buff of IM-40 also applies to his health now, fairly sure that wasn't the case before?

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BosjeR wrote:

And isn't 'buffed' treated differently since this upgrade? The 200% buff of IM-40 also applies to his health now, fairly sure that wasn't the case before?

It's been reduced to 150% too.



Also, I noticed a lot of really annoying pop ups are gone! THANK YOU!

Nemek

BosjeR wrote:

And isn't 'buffed' treated differently since this upgrade? The 200% buff of IM-40 also applies to his health now, fairly sure that wasn't the case before?

Wow. That's crazy...not sure if intentional or not. Fortunately, the 3 star tourney doesn't have any buffed characters, so if that's not intentional, then we're not immediately affected (other than Heroic, but that didn't matter too much, anyway.)

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i haven't seen this behavbior yet, since i can't dl the patch til i get on wifi (which is several hours), but that's hilarious.

imagine lightning tourneys with 200% buffed villains. ragnarok with 18k hp.

game over everyone.

IceIX

Whoops. Missed a couple notes. Now added.

- Stunned characters will no longer have their Countdown tiles decrease while stunned. S.H.I.E.L.D. still mystified as to how H.A.M.M.E.R. Snipers managed to line up shots with active concussions. - New Iso-8 breakthrough has allowed characters buffed by Events to also increase their Health by the buff amount.

Unknown

That health buff is clearly meant to counter classic storm (and it works), but LOL please never buff ragnarok in any event again.

18k health....that'll take eternity to kill.

Nemek

Interesting. Yeah, the good news is that it limits classic storm and encourages people to use the characters they haven't used before with the health buff.

I kind of hope that means we're going to stop seeing the 200% buffs to tank characters (IM, Thor, Rag) here on out, though. Otherwise, we're going to see some shocking health amounts. I suspect that's why IM40 went from 200% to 150%. The 50% buff we saw to Thor during the first tournament is probably more realistic.

My 16K health IM40 is already getting ridiculous...

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Still waiting for the patch here in Sweden Sounds like a good one!

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vaargen wrote:

Still waiting for the patch here in Sweden Sounds like a good one!

Try checking store directly and update it from there.

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IceIX wrote:

Whoops. Missed a couple notes. Now added.

- Stunned characters will no longer have their Countdown tiles decrease while stunned. S.H.I.E.L.D. still mystified as to how H.A.M.M.E.R. Snipers managed to line up shots with active concussions. - New Iso-8 breakthrough has allowed characters buffed by Events to also increase their Health by the buff amount.

Awesome on the stuns. This will help us agents who like to use people with stuns!

Unknown

Duplicate covers have been moved to the "rewards" screen - cool!

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I think the "bug" where the game checks unboosted stats to determine who attacks is gone... My boosted Iron Man is attacking over my lvl 62 Thor, even tho Thor has higher base stats.