Introducing the All-New Cover Exchange System!

S0kun · 13 December 2024, 22:32

What is Cover Exchange?

The Cover Exchange system is a brand new system for players to swap their excess covers to acquire covers of their choice! Exchange covers that are pending in your in-game inbox to acquire the covers you need to strengthen your heroes and build up your roster!

How Does Cover Exchange Work?

When a player obtains a Max Leveled Champion or Ascended character of any rarity, they will unlock the ability to Exchange excess covers of that character in their inbox for other covers of their choice within that character’s natural rarity. There are some exceptions like Limited & Latest Legends characters in the current rotation which we’ve detailed at the end of this blog.

Max Champed Cover Exchanges

For example, if a player has a Max Champed 3-Star Squirrel Girl (Unbeatable), any additional 3-Star Squirrel Girl covers in their inbox will appear with an orange “Exchange” button in the bottom right corner.

After selecting this “Exchange” button, players will access the new Exchange Menu. In this menu, players can choose the exact number of Squirrel Girl covers they want to exchange and what covers (and color) they would like to swap to. In this case, we’re swapping to purple covers for 3-Star Agatha Harkness (Governess).

Each cover swap has a flat per-cover Hero Point (HP) cost that scales with the cover’s rarity. 1-Stars will have the lowest per-cover Exchange cost, while 5-Stars will have the highest. If a cover has a 200 HP Exchange cost, exchanging 2 covers will cost 400 HP, exchanging 3 will cost 600 HP, and so on.

After selecting a new cover to Exchange to and spending the required amount of HP, the covers will be Exchanged and the new covers will appear in the in-game inbox!

(Note: New covers may appear scattered across the inbox after an Exchange is complete. Please review the whole inbox to see all of your new covers.)

Ascended Character Cover Exchanges

Any Ascended character, no matter their rarity, can also have their covers Exchanged. Any additional covers acquired for a character that is already Ascended can be used to level up that character or be Exchanged for other covers within that character’s natural rarity.

For example, if a player has 2-Star-3 Ascended Ares (Dark Avengers) and obtains additional Ares covers in their inbox, they will have two options for these covers:

Use these covers to Train and level up their 2-Star-3 Ascended Ares
Exchange these Ares covers for other 2-Star character covers via the Cover Exchange system (such as purple covers for 2-Star Daken (Dark Avengers))

The choice is yours!

Swapping Between Cover Colors

The Cover Exchange system also allows for swapping from one cover color to another on the same character. Using the same Ascended 2-Star-3 Ares scenario from above as an example, players can swap his Green covers for Yellow or Red covers instead. The per-cover Exchange cost applies to these Exchanges as well.

TL;DR

The Cover Exchange system is straightforward: After getting extra covers for a Max Level Champion or Ascended character in your inbox, choose the number of extra covers you would like to Exchange from your inbox, choose the character covers you’d like to Exchange for, and spend the requisite amount of HP to complete the Exchange. Finally, enjoy your new covers and level up your roster!

FAQs

1. WHAT’S THE PER-COVER EXCHANGE COST FOR EACH RARITY?
1-Star Exchange - 75 HP (per cover)
2-Star Exchange - 100 HP (per cover)
3-Star Exchange - 200 HP (per cover)
4-Star Exchange - 500 HP (per cover)
5-Star Exchange - 1250 HP (per cover)

2. ARE THERE ANY CHARACTERS/COVERS THAT I CAN’T SWAP TO?
The Cover Exchange system will have a short list of covers that will be restricted from the Exchange. These include 2 categories:
LIMITED CHARACTER COVERS

Bag-Man

Spider-Ham

Taskmaster

Devil Dino

Howard the Duck

CURRENT LATEST LEGENDS CHARACTERS COVERS

Any characters currently in Latest Legends will be restricted from the Cover Exchange system. Once a character rotates out of Latest Legends, they will be unrestricted and join the roster of covers that players can swap to!

3. CAN I BREAK DOWN/PULL COVERS OUT OF A CHARACTER AND EXCHANGE THEM?
No, the Cover Exchange system only applies to covers for already Max Champed or Ascended characters that are pending in a player’s in-game inbox.

4. DOES THE COVER EXPIRATION TIMER RESET AFTER AN EXCHANGE?
Yes, if a cover from the inbox is Exchanged, the newly Exchanged cover will have its expiration timer reset to the maximum of 14 days.

5. CAN WE COMBINE ASCENDED CHARACTERS WITH THIS SYSTEM?
No, but combining Ascended characters is something we may do in the future.

6. WHEN WILL THE COVER EXCHANGE FEATURE BE AVAILABLE?
Cover Exchanges will be released as part of our R317 patch the week of December 16th.

7. WILL THIS MEAN WE CAN'T DO COVER SWAPS THROUGH CS ANYMORE?
Correct. All swaps are available in-game, so Customer Support will not be handling that aspect.

8. WHY ARE THE COSTS SO HIGH FOR 5-STARS?
Costs are predicated on the rewards from Champion Levels, with a little loss built into the cost compared to naturally gaining that cover. As this system will essentially let you get a Champion level for any other character at any time if you can swap, that needed to be taken into account in the costs.

9. DOES THIS MEAN THAT WE'RE PAYING 16,250 HP FOR A FULL COVERED 5 EVERY TIME THEY COME OUT OF LATEST LEGENDS TO FULL COVER THEM? THAT'S AN INSANE AMOUNT.
Yes and no. Sure, if you don't have the character rostered at all, and are doing full swaps over to this character from scratch, yes. But players do not generally start from complete scratch on a character that's been available through Events, Offers, and Latest Legends. A couple covers short of a full build at that point, sure. But unless you were literally away from the game for a couple months, you have usually picked up at least a couple covers of a character before they hit Classic Legends (and would be available for this service). As well, this isn't replacing cover earning at all, it's providing an additional method of acquiring covers you haven't managed to pick up. So to say that you now need to pay a bunch to full cover a character is incorrect.

10. DOES THIS REPLACE THE SAVED COVER SYSTEM? WHY WOULD I WANT TO SAVE COVERS OVER USING ONE COVER HERE?
It does not replace the Saved Cover system. That system allows you to save copies of a single character and recycle them into a different ability at the cost of several covers of that character. Or it allows for "storage" of covers so that they immediately become Champ rewards when the character is Champed. It's a similar, but different system with a different use case.

11. WILL THIS MEAN WE CAN'T DO COVER SWAPS THROUGH CS ANYMORE?
Correct. All swaps are available in-game, so Customer Support will not be handling that aspect.

12. WHY ARE THE COSTS SO HIGH FOR 5-STARS?
Costs are predicated on the rewards from Champion Levels, with a little loss built into the cost compared to naturally gaining that cover. As this system will essentially let you get a Champion level for any other character at any time if you can swap, that needed to be taken into account in the costs.

13. DOES THIS MEAN THAT WE'RE PAYING 16,250 HP FOR A FULL COVERED 5 EVERY TIME THEY COME OUT OF LATEST LEGENDS TO FULL COVER THEM? THAT'S AN INSANE AMOUNT.
Yes and no. Sure, if you don't have the character rostered at all, and are doing full swaps over to this character from scratch, yes. But players do not generally start from complete scratch on a character that's been available through Events, Offers, and Latest Legends. A couple covers short of a full build at that point, sure. But unless you were literally away from the game for a couple months, you have usually picked up at least a couple covers of a character before they hit Classic Legends (and would be available for this service). As well, this isn't replacing cover earning at all, it's providing an additional method of acquiring covers you haven't managed to pick up. So to say that you now need to pay a bunch to full cover a character is incorrect.

14. DOES THIS REPLACE THE SAVED COVER SYSTEM? WHY WOULD I WANT TO SAVE COVERS OVER USING ONE COVER HERE?
It does not replace the Saved Cover system. That system allows you to save copies of a single character and recycle them into a different ability at the cost of several covers of that character. Or it allows for "storage" of covers so that they immediately become Champ rewards when the character is Champed. It's a similar, but different system with a different use case.