Marvel Avengers continue to correct the wrong problems

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Having spent more than 150 hours in Marvel’s Avengers, his main combat and the way he makes each character’s skills feel what got me back, despite the lack of content. Whether it’s new mission types, enemy types, or even locations. Everything is missing. Case in point: six months after launch, there are still only four bosses available to fight, and it has been the same since launch. Only half of them, Taskmaster and Abomination, are really supervillains.

For many who haven’t spent all that time playing the component online and grinding their heroes, but maybe they were considering jumping in with the release of the next generation version or new content in the Hawkeye story, that time will now be even more strenuous.

As you take your heroes up through each of the 50 levels, you unlock skills that really show the fun you can have with the Avengers, and gaining access to these new powers regularly is what keeps them from becoming completely obsolete. The development team recently announced a rework of XP that will make heroin levels a slower process than before, making an already repetitive process even longer. As detailed in a blog post, the reevaluation of how fast XP was born out of concerns about this pace:

“XP’s current ‘curve’ is not really a curve. In most RPGs, the amount of XP you need to level up increases as you gain levels in a curve, but our system is a straight line. This led to rhythm problems, as skill points are currently being rewarded very quickly, which can be confusing and overwhelming for younger players. “

While most of the RPGs I’ve played require more XP per level than the previous ones, they tend to offer a level or variety and playability that the Avengers simply don’t have. In fact, the speed with which you level up and gain new superpowers was one of the most welcoming aspects of the Avengers post-game. For an experience designed to allow you to play as one of the most loved superheroes of all time, constantly gaining new skills and mixing and combining them to create your own versions of these heroes is what has kept me playing continuously since the beginning, and I never found it too heavy.

This decision is somewhat disconcerting, especially when combined with the minimal amount of content added since launch. XP’s rework wouldn’t seem like an unnecessary change if there was enough variety in the gameplay to support it, but without it it seems like a step in the wrong direction. Adding more grind to a game that is at least enjoyable when grind is not what anyone is looking for.

It is especially frustrating because I remained hopeful – on the eve of every War Table flow that appeared, I thought to myself, “maybe this is where problems are solved”. That thought has not yet come true.

There was no word on Secret Lab missions designed to test high-level characters, and without them, there is very little incentive to seek better items. Months went by with no sign of a script for their addition, and it’s hard not to worry about it – especially when, bizarrely, some players managed accidentally was part of the Secret Lab’s missions in September.

Considering the state of the world now, there are certainly very valid reasons for delays in some of the advertised content. But it is the lack of communication with the Marvel Avengers dedicated player base, along with the speed of ads like these, that are frustrating.

March 18 may have been a time when the Marvel Avengers rewrote some of their mistakes to bring back lost players and attract a new group of players, as Hawkeye enters the fight along with his series of story missions plus versions arrival of the PS5 and the X Series. But many can now be discouraged by the increased routine that awaits them. The change in the XP curve will not apply until that date, which means that there is an incentive for players who currently own the game to play now if they want an easier ride to level 50, and even the developers seem to know that. .

“If you have a character who is not at level 50 and you want to speed up your progress, take the opportunity to do this before the update on March 18,” says the ad.

This will leave many trapped between deciding to play the same missions in a lower version of the game now, or waiting to play a technically enhanced version, but for much longer. What should have been an exciting new start for the Marvel Avengers may well turn into a faltering restart with a player base of tired veterans and confused newcomers.

I want to love the Marvel Avengers. In a year, I want to look back and see how successful it has become. However, for this to happen, there needs to be better communication with the fans and a genuine back-and-forth in relation to the problems that the fans have with the game. Of all the complaints I saw about the Marvel Avengers, none were about how surprisingly fast leveling your heroes can be, but almost all were about the lack of fun after doing that.

Hopefully, the “too big to fail” theory will materialize and I will be enjoying this game for years to come, but this week’s announcement seemed like a useless shift in the chain before a potential iceberg arrived on March 18.

Simon Cardy currently has a power level of 150 Iron Man, Thor and Black Widow, but there is no reason to use them. Please sympathize with him on Twitter at @CardySimon.