Marvel Avenger Alliance: Game Update: 07/12/2012

New Gear - Blade of the Corruptor

• Customized
• Melee Single Target
• Stealthy - Does not trigger counter-attacks or protect abilities
• Exploits Protect - Deals extra damage against targets that are Protecting
• Boon Buster - Deals increased damage against targets with Strengthened, Fortified, Focused, Agile, Shield, or Regen effects.

New Hero - Tigra

All new 90 CP Character

• Infiltrator
• Razor Claws

Cable Revealed!

• Blaster
• Passive: Cone of Silence
  • Has a chance to spawn a Shield around Cable before an attack
  • Like Modern Dr. Strange for Cable only
• Passive: Mental Resilience
  • Chance to block Psychic attacks
• MOVE SWAPPING
  • Cable does not have a recharge ability
  • Instead of Recharge, the fifth button allows Cable to switch between T-O Control mode and T-O Overdrive mode
  • Must be below 40% to go into T-O Overdrive mode
  • Must be above 70% to go into T-O Control mode
  • Does not consume Cable's turn
• T-O Control Mode
  • Basic mode, Cable has access to his futuristic arsenal
  • Automatically switches to T-O Overdrive mode if Stamina falls below 15%
  • 1. Plasma Rifle
    • Single Target Energy Ranged Gun
    • True strike
      • Ignores most Avoidance effects
  • 2. Bodyslide
    • Area Energy Ranged Gun
    • Causes Distraction on enemies
    • Grants Mirror Images to Cable
  • 3. Askani Arts
    • Single Target Unarmed Melee
    • Migraine
      • The next attack does reduced damage
    • Off-Balance
      • Removes and prevents counter-attack effects
  • 4. Temporal Shift
    • 2 round cooldown
    • Quick Action
      • Grants an extra turn to one ally
• T-O Overdrive Mode
  • Cable gains access to four new moves but cannot access his normal moves
  • While in T-O Overdrive mode, all moves restore Stamina instead of costing it
  • Automatically switches to T-O Control mode if Stamina hits 100%
  • Cable loses health constantly while in T-O Overdrive mode
  • 1. Psionic Spikes
    • Single Target Psychic
    • Exploits Migraine
  • 2. Telekinetic Slam
    • Area Ranged
    • Stealthy
    • 60% chance to Stun
  • 3. Techno-Organic Rampage
    • Single Target Melee
    • Causes Pressure Points on target
      • Has a chance to cause Weakened, Exposed, Dizzy, and Slowed
    • Grants Power Contained to Cable
      • Cable's non-Psychic attacks deal increased damage and ignore defense
  • 4. Force of Will
    • Psychic attack
    • Mind Control
      • Causes target to sometimes protect enemies from their teammates' attacks

Combat

Status Effects

• Shred
  • Shred is applied to targets that are immune to Bleeding
  • Reduces Defense
  • Counts as Bleeding for the purposes of attacks that affect Bleeding targets
    • For instance, an attack that Exploits Bleeding will do extra damage
    • This enables Tigra’s moves to function against robots
  • This effect can be applied 3 times
• Bleeding
  • Bleeding has been redesigned
  • Bleeding deals damage once per round
  • Bleeding also deals damage whenever a character performs an offensive action
  • Bleeding now only stacks up to 3 times

Bug Fixes

• Hercules will no longer Protect Catastrophic attacks with Gift of Battle
• Emma Frost’s War Diamond will now correctly cause Stun 60% of the time
• The Arc Lightning ability of Storm’s Elemental Mastery will now only cause Static Charge on all enemies if the initial Lightning attack hits
• Emma Frost will no longer counter with Psychic Tap if the target already has Mental Anguish
• The Hoarfrost Mace now grants Sacrificial Strength instead of Super Heroic to the Agent’s team when the death effect triggers
  • Sacrificial Strength increases damage done by 50%
• The Hoarfrost Mace will now correctly prevent the agent from dying only once
• Third Charm (from Cane of Odin and Staff of Odin) will not increase someone’s health if they are below 25%.
• Third Charm is no longer removed by getting extra turns
• Ghost Rider’s Infernal Contract passive ability will now correctly fire 50% of the time in all cases
• Black Widow’s Scorn damage increased slightly
• Goblin Glider now only does double damage on a crit to bring it in line with other Deadly Crit actions. Its base damage has been adjusted accordingly
• The Power of Four will now correctly kill the agent in all cases
• Bane is now correctly tagged as a debuff
• Cursed Mirror is now correctly tagged as a debuff
• Magnetic Field is now correctly tagged as a buff
• Blade of the Guardian now will never counter Stealthy attacks
• The Knight now will never counter Stealthy attacks
• Quicksilver’s Quickness now will never counter Stealthy attacks
• Svalinn Defender now will never protect or counter Stealthy attacks
• Infiltrators no longer gain Combat Reflexes after being using or being targeted with Subtle actions