R117 Hot Fixes *Updated (1/10/2017)

Summer Glau wrote:

Nice Fix/Buff to Thanos (at least now it's Feasible for Daken and X-23 to Regenerate the damage back quickly)
too bad the next event is a heroic with no opportunity to use any of them

Thanos may still fall under the "New Character" umbrella for Dark Avengers

Can you hotfix Customer Service too?
The last 2 or 3 times I've e-mailed in and included my username within the first sentence, they reply back to me with...

"In order for us to procede... please provide your current username."
If CS is swamped with requests it's only because half the time they're not reading e-mails properly and causing people to reply back with information that was already included in the initial message.

I sold my Thanos and recruited another sans black. I demand compensation in the form of 1 million legendary tokens and 1 billion ISO.

I just tried out Thanos with his fix, partnering him with Patch and Daken for The Big Enchilada, and burned through each wave with Court Death even faster than when I use Dr. Strange and his goon-eating yellow. Patch and Daken's healing were more than capable of dealing with Court Death's damage, and their strike tiles were adding to Court Death's damage to enemies. Ouch.

Thank you for this fix.

Alphabeta is absolutely right.

The buff to 3* thanos was much needed and is totally welcome. Thanks to demi for pushing this out immediately after the holidays.

Saying thay the character did more damage than expected is absurd and disingenuous at best. He did exactly what his character description said he would do. The devs can say that he turned out worse than they had expected in real-world play, or that they didnt think through the ramifications of his initial build and had to change him after looking at usage data. But they cant say that they didnt know what he would do.

I would very much like to think that we players are sensible enough community to appreciate honest communication, even it it contains bad or disappointing news. Please trust ys to do so demi and d3. There will of course be some jerks, but have faith in the majority of us!

This was not a BUFF. This was a FIX.

And all of y'all are welcome. :+p

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Vhailorx wrote:

Saying thay the character did more damage than expected is absurd and disingenuous at best. He did exactly what his character description said he would do.

People keep saying this and...I wonder if you realise how those numbers are displayed.

It calculates that number due to a set of parameters dictated by the programmers. If they did the math wrong then the numbers will calculate incorrectly. That doesn't mean it's by design, they didn't sit there and type up 1000+ versions of the description so it can change depending on which level he is and how many covers he has. It's a calculation.

And if the devs went "Aw ****, we multiplied it by 15 instead of 1.5!" then that's more damage than expected...because they didn't realise the mistake at first.

True, some amount of testing would have revealed this and it's baffling that such things keep slipping through when the community discovers them within minutes (even dumb-**** like me spot some of this stuff quickly).

Nexus, Thanos did exactly as much damage as his power descriptions said. the game literally stated the exact amount of damage that he did. Moreover, several days before thanos went live he was announced in a marvel.com "interview." In that interview someone from d3 (not demi, d3) said that, in contrast to the 5* version, 3* thanos' black did the same damage to allies and enemies. This was essentially true (he did slightly more self damage at 3 or 4 covers and slightly less at 5).

Do you really think that a demi had no idea how much damage thanos was doing when (1) the ability was working exactly as described in-game, and (2) accurate information about his powerset had been distributed by demi to d3 in advance of marketing hype?

That seems extremely unlikely to me. They would basically have to design the character, implement him in game, and send the new build to d3, and release thanos to the public all without ever playing a single match with the character. If that is really their design process than the game has much more serious problems.

They should just admit that he was bad as released and needed a buff. Everyone is happy! Instead they are couching it as a bug fix.

Brigby wrote:

*Updated post with January 10, 2017 hotfixes

This isn't just a hotfix, this should be included in the rebalancing thread! Holy moly, major buff to Sentry.