Marvel Heroes 2016 Adds Angela As Latest Playable Character

The 59th playable character is now available for the smash hit PC MMO, Marvel Heroes 2016, Angela, the long lost sister of Loki and Thor. The character is now available to purchase within the game store for either 400 ES or 900 G. There is also a bundle for $17.99 which includes:

• Angela
• 2 Costumes Angela Asgard’s Assassin (Default), Angela TBA Costume
• Angela Hero S.T.A.S.H. (extra Hero specific inventory)
• 6x Fortune Cards (One each of Mark 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)
• 2 XP Boosts

About Angela

When the Angels of the Tenth Realm—Heven—waged war on Asgard, Odin’s daughter and heir to Asgard’s throne was kidnapped by the Queen of Angels. But Odin would not be extorted by the Angels, and his daughter, Aldrif, was seemingly slain. Odin retaliated by severing Heven from Yggdrasil and closed it off from the other Nine Realms. While sealed away, Aldrif was discovered to have survived and was then raised— hidden from her true heritage— as Angela, Huntress of Heven.

As all secrets eventually come to light, Angela uncovered the truth of her upbringing. Now, shunned from Heven and branded a traitor to Asgard, Angela roams across the realms to find her place within it—continuing her hunt wherever it takes her.

Here is a look at her two costumes:

 

There has also been a large update to the game including two new events and a change to the first chapter.   Here are the details:

Chapter 1 Story Mode Update

Chapter 1 of the Story Mode has been updated as we continue to work on improving the Story Mode experience.

Some of the changes for Chapter 1 include:

• Completely redesigned mission progression, including new areas to explore! Missions now follow a much more direct progression, rather than separating out side missions and minor missions from main story missions.
• Updated treasure rooms – these rooms will now spawn their reward chest near the exit portal once you complete the encounter within.
• Supervillain fights updated – some bosses will now have new powers in their arsenal!
• Supervillain encounters previously in public areas are being moved to their own instance within the zone. These are still tougher encounters, and will allow you to use the auto-party function to form a group to take them down, though you are still welcome to take the challenge on solo! For Chapter 1, this applies to the Electro encounter previously seen in Crumbling Brownstones.

For heroes that have already completed the Intrepid Reporter mission in Chapter 1, the updated missions will auto-complete and you will not need to do these missions again. For those that have not yet completed the Intrepid Reporter mission however, mission progress will be reset for Chapter 1 so players can properly experience the new mission progression within the chapter.

End of Summer Event

This past summer has been a scorcher so Dr. Pym and Mr. Fantastic put their great minds together to make Never Melting Ice Cream Bars for their fellow heroes to help keep them cool. Jealous that they didn’t have access to this new tasty technology, villains banded together and stole all of the Ice Cream Bars for themselves and stole the secret Never Melting Cores!

Help our heroes survive the hot summer by recovering the Never Melting Ice Cream Bars and Never Melting Cores from those dastardly villains.

Defeat enemies for a chance to get a Never Melting Ice Cream Bar which will give you a temporary boost! Bosses also have a small chance at dropping Cupcakes!

Also defeat enemies to collect the Never Melting Cores back from them and turn them into the Special Events Vendor for some fun in the sun rewards!

The event begins today, August 25th and will run until September 2nd, including:

• 100% Increased XP, and increased Cosmic Prestige leveling rate
• Daily log-in gifts that include Never Melting Cores
• A new Achievement for being a true summertime food connoisseur
• New Summer Fortune Card that can drop in-game with all manner of goodies and summer-themed items!
• Summertime Buffs – collect 5 of these to receive an instant lootsplosion!

End of Summer Tournament – Defeat Bosses and collect Never Melting Cores to earn Tournament points. The top spots on the leaderboard will earn Summer Fortune Cards and Never Melting Cores to exchange at the event vendor!

• 1 point per regular Boss defeat
• 3 points per Cosmic boss defeat
• 1 point per Never Melting Core collected

Tournament rewards:

• Top 10%: 2 Summer Fortune Card, 5 Never Melting Ice Cream Bars, 25 Never Melting Cores
• Top 20%: 1 Summer Fortune Card, 3 Never Melting Ice Cream Bars, 20 Never Melting Cores
• Top 50%: 2 Never Melting Ice Cream Bars, 10 Never Melting Cores
• Placement: 1 Never Melting Ice Cream Bar, 5 Never Melting Cores

The End of Summer event vendor will have a variety of rewards to exchange for Never Melting Cores recovered, including some returning summer-themed items like The Big Kahuna, The Perfect Wave and Brutally Awesome Summer Shades!

• Crimson Box (200 Never Melting Cores)
• Mysterious Blue Box (200 Never Melting Cores)
• Box of Crafting Elements (20 Never Melting Cores)
• Cosmic Reliquary of Rarity (40 Never Melting Cores)
• Ghost Box (20 Never Melting Cores)
• Brutally Awesome Summer Shades (150 Never Melting Cores)
• The Perfect Wave (150 Never Melting Cores)
• The Big Kahuna (200 Never Melting Cores)
• Costume Core Box (40 Never Melting Cores)

Event: Operation Omega

Operation Omega will run alongside the End of Summer event starting Friday, August 26th, and runs through September 2nd!

Note that while this event runs alongside the End of Summer event, the XP bonuses will not be active. Server-side XP bonuses are being granted through the End of Summer event.

Join your fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. recruits for omega level loot, bosses, leveling and more!

• During Operation Omega, the first time you complete a Shared Quest each day will reward double Omega Orb rewards.
• Agent Coulson offers a mission during Operation Omega week. Each day, you can complete five or more waves in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Holo-Sim to receive a reward from him. This will help hone your skills to be prepared for Omega-Level threats.
• During the event, any enemy can drop a powerful artifact called The Omega Drive.
• Omega-Level Boosts Return – pair this with our server-wide boost for even greater returns!

Minor Changes & Bug Fixes

• Colossus’ Modern Costume (default) has received a visual update.
• Legendary Quests will now appear for Chapter 1 story content.
• Item tooltip comparisons will once again display the stat change differences for the currently equipped item.
• Added a new context menu item labeled “Report as Spam” to allow players to report another player for spam and cast a chat ban vote, equivalent to /chatbanvote chat command.

Our Take:

It’s great to see the game add a lesser known playable character to the game, plus she is a strong female character and by adding these lesser known characters to game, it increases people’s awareness.  Throw in a few events and some more tweaks to improve the game, making this a great opportunity to jump in for the first time or back into the game.

I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the new character, along with gameplay over the weekend and on our next Infinity & Beyond Video Game podcast.

Are you going to be downloading Angela?