Marvel rival players were invited to the Krakoa Coast on April 11, Season 2. This game abandons the first trailer of the new season, giving us our first official look at the new hero, and one Developer videos Give up the main news about the future of hero releases.
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The trailer features Emma Frost Slightly More than usual clothes, people from the various timetables of competitors are invited to the Krakoa mutant country where everyone dresses up as a fancy party – even Wolverines have white tuxedoes. However, when Ultron showed up to preach the extinction, the incident was unceremoniously interrupted.
Emma Frost’s abilities reveal
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Emma Frost joins the roster as the Pioneer, who can project shields forward and reduces his own damage by entering his own diamond form while insulting them. We caught a glimpse of her abilities in her hero trailer and confirmed her full set of tools at Friday’s streamer event.
In Frost’s default form, her main fire is a beam that rises over time, and her alternative fire extends forward with obstacles. Frost has a psychological spear capability in her normal form that can bring enemy perceptions into crystal form, damaging them by attacking and crushing crystals.
But when Frost transforms into diamond form, all of these abilities change, reducing damage and making her unstoppable. In the form of diamonds, her main fire becomes a fist, while her alt fire kicks the enemy back, causing additional damage if they hit the wall. Diamond Form Cream no longer attacks people’s perceptions, but she can move forward to grab the enemy and slam it into the ground.
Her heart-lung temptation ultimately had different effects. It damages enemies within range and locks them outside of activation final ability. Additionally, enemies caught in the explosion long enough will be psychologically forced to move towards the frost, making it easier for her to catch them, kick them, slam them, etc. Opponent Devs has seen the players’ desire and seems to be leaning towards it.
Ultron will be updated in season 2.5, which should be in late May.
Maybe Ultron just wonders why he wasn’t invited.
Team changes and other season 2 balance adjustments
Some teams are changing in Season 2, including three new team features previewed in the latest developer Vision Video.
- Emma Frost allows Magneto and Psylocke to have fantasy about themselves.
- Dr. Strange built a team with Scarlet Witch, allowing her to use a small portal to increase her damage output through a replacement fire with a quick shot.
- Cap eventually worked with Bucky to get winter soldiers to fly to allies.
Emma Frost’s team adds some deception to the allies’ gameplay.
Some existing teams are making adjustments, while Psylocke, Winter Sersier and Strange Doctor will be removed from older teams and move to new ones, while Namor is working with Luna’s anchors, turning to Hulk’s work to empower him with the squid abilities Gamma Energy has. Two times the team was completely removed: Magneto can no longer team up with Scarlet Witch, and Thor is no longer an anchor hat and storm.
Competitors announce full list of season 2 Equilibrium changeincluding to Peni’s fans, Mr. Fantasy and Moon Knight, strangely dealt some damage to gain more viability (via his new anchor buff) and the Rockets made several adjustments, while Loki and Adam Warlock gained their regeneration domain and soul bond abilities.
The seasons ahead will be short, which means more new heroes
One of the most surprising moments in the developer video was the announcement that starting with Season 3, the season will be two months instead of about three. There have been many discussions about whether the competitor’s new hero rhythm (about eight according to the three-month season) is sustainable. Well, obviously, the competitor developers embraced this in person and raised that step up for a new hero every month, which means 12 new heroes per year.
This feels ridiculous compared to other hero shooters, with an average of three new heroes a year, and even a MOBA like League of Legends, which has an average of about four new champions per year over the past five years. Competitors benefit from having a stable Miracle character that can thus not stand out from the hero concept of inventing themselves, and developers seem less worried about the mechanical overlap of their heroes compared to Overwatch, which can be seen in many ultimate aspects of support. Still, for hero shooters, the new heroes of each month are unheard of.
Luna is one of the heroes who get a new skin for the Hellfire Party.
New Krakoa map and competitive changes
Season 2 is adding two new maps, including the dominance map with Krakoa theme at the start of the season. YGGSGARD: Royal Palace (Reign) and Tokyo 2099: Shin-Shibuya (Convergence) will rotate from the map pool to get ranking modes, although they are still available in fast games and custom games.
The threshold for competitive draft picks and bans that currently occur only in the halls of diamond rankings will be lowered to Gold 3. Eternal players or players above all rankings can only queue up, not queue up, rather than line up with larger groups – this measure may prevent senior teams from avoiding stomping on the hall.
Speaking of levels, Season 2 will drop everyone into 9 divisions, equaling 3 rankings. This means that eternal players will fall on the diamonds, and any player with Platinum 3 or below will start climbing from Bronze 3 again. (Again…again.)
Competitors’ developers also announced that individual players will perform better when determining the progress of competition after a game, meaning that if your stats outperform your team, you will get more wins and less losses. This change can help boost Smurfs and other highly skilled players in the lower halls, allowing them to get into the proper team faster. However, this can also lead to statistical funding from players rather than playing in the most effective way to win the game. Overall, given that the competitors are not using any type of competition to place the game, this should be a net effect of the game.
Other announcements
Competitors are adding new skin heavy colors to certain hero skins and (finally) give players the option to give friends a gift outfit so they can be surprised by their birthdays that you will never forget.
The mission is changing as the weekly missions increase and the timing tokens for battle passes are reassigned. The developers have made it a “smoother expectation” of how to get the timing token, but the surface level description sounds like it’s making progress in combat passes throughout the season more difficult as more progress has been made under shorter time-limited tasks.
The visual updates from the developers also gave us a first look at the competitive distribution, showing how many competitors each level has as of Season 1.5.
Based on this chart, the 50th percentile appears to be high gold medals, with 48.3% of players in Platinum or higher ranks.
The Hellfire Gala trailer says that season 2 will begin on April 11 UTC. While it does not give a specific start time, it hopes to complete the seasonal maintenance sometime in the middle of the night in the United States.
For more information about Marvel competitors, check out What heroes and characters should you play and How to get free skins.
