Marvel’s Avengers patch 1.42 notes revealed

February 9, launched for Marvel’s Avengers. The update brings new resource limits and several bug and quality of life fixes to Crystal Dynamics’ superhero simulation.

Due to the continued exploration and defense of Earth, the resource caps for Polychoron, Upgrade Mods, DNA Keys, Fragments, and Units have all been increased. Additionally, several tweaks have been made to correct issues in side and campaign missions to make the experience smoother.

Marvel’s Avengers patch notes 1.42

New features

Due to the continued exploration and defense of Earth, we have increased the resource caps to the following:

• Polychore = 999
• Upgrade Modules = 999
• DNA Keys = 99
• Fragments = 99,999
• Units = 999,999

Re-assemble the Avengers campaign and initiative

• Operation AIM
  • Kate’s HARM Room is now replayable for anyone who has already completed it
  • Switching to Operation Taking AIM and then returning to the Reassembly Campaign will no longer prevent players from interacting with the next Campaign’s interaction prompt.
  • Improved the lighting on Getz during the cutscene before fighting him in Masks
• More than inhuman
  • The More Than Inhuman mission no longer disappears from the war table
• Reassemble the campaign
  • New normal
    • Using the swing of the grapple before it is unlocked in the tutorial no longer gets the camera stuck in the wrong position on some occasions
  • The way back
    • Fixed an infinite black screen when transitioning to Kamala waking up after the battle on the helipad deck
  • To find Olympia
• Fixed a rare issue where Kamala could not interact with the 3rd console when trying to power the archive doors
• Be alone
  • Fixed an issue where Black Widow could not interact with the first console
  • Fixed an issue where the control panel would not come out of the ground after the Veil of Shadows tutorial
  • Fixed a rare issue where combat would not progress after fighting the first Adaptoid in the lobby
  • Fixed an area with a missing collision and a hidden safe
• Once an avenger
  • Fixed a rare issue where enemies would not appear after transitioning into the room after Kamala broke the door
• By Force of Mind
  • Fixed a rare issue where the second combat encounter would not progress after defeating the first wave
  • Fixed an infinite black screen if a player jumped off the platform of the first combat zone just as the final enemy was killed
  • Fixed a rare issue where the Hulk would not smash the door, preventing progression after the chase sequence
• Fixed an issue where players could not complete the Rockets’ Red Glare mission objective

Multiplayer and matchmaking

• The message “Unable to join the attacking team” is no longer displayed incorrectly when trying to join a player who had already been matched
• Fixed an issue where a player could be invisible to members of their strike team
• SPIN Exo delete fields are now visible to all players
• Various optimizations and matchmaking fixes

Art and animation

• Fixed text / images and textures used on … And We’re Back !, Mayhem Over Manhattan and Rockets Red Glare
• Black Widow’s hair now displays correctly on her Classic Stealth outfit
• Iron Man’s low battery emote now displays correctly

User interface

• Players with mobile or dynamic controller layouts no longer need to double tap when attempting to ping for this to work
• Tooltips now display correctly when hovering over minor / major artifacts
• Items marked for mass disassembly are now correctly indicated by a red square preceding disassembly
• Fixed an issue where tracking an excursion on the War Table would highlight completed missions as well as missions that still needed to be completed
• Fixed a rare issue that caused unintentional text to appear when selecting a challenge level through the War Table
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from switching heroes in Quinjet for Hive missions
• Various crash, black screen and infinite loading screen fixes
• Fixed an issue that could prevent Iconic Missions from displaying correctly

Campaign

• Kate’s Explosive Arrow landing indicator now displays correctly with her trajectory indicator
• Kate’s Quantum Field skill now correctly displays the area of ​​effect indicator when used near walls
• Warship flamethrower turrets now correctly target and engage players.
• Fixed a rare issue that caused adaptoids to sometimes catch players, despite attack dodging perfectly
• Improved the notification players receive when targeted by Adaptoid Beam attacks
• Pressure Plates now activate correctly after fighting around them
• Kate Bishop now properly activates pressure plates
• Fixed an issue that resulted in a player’s hero getting immobilized when starting an Elite Hive mission in multiplayer
• Kate is no longer invulnerable during Quantum Surge with the benefit of the Overload Regenerator equipped.
• The Quantum Regenerator perk now works as intended, granting additional health and energy.
• Blink Shroud perk correctly activates Kate’s Heroic Ultimate rather than Quantum Shroud
• Kate Bishop can no longer “fly” while jumping after blinking in the air
• Kate can now be properly revived as a mate after being downed by an adaptoid
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Hulkbuster to lose functionality when Thor was using his Heroic Support
• Fixed various issues that allowed players to go out of bounds
• Fixed several issues with enemies spawning out of bounds

Equipment, challenges and rewards

• Iconic Ms. Marvel outfit is no longer locked after completing the Gorgeous Ms. Marvel chain of missions
• Fixed an issue where tracking the Global Offensive Mission Chain would sometimes give incorrect objective direction
• Priority mission descriptions now show the correct Legendary gear rewards, not Hivemind Exotic gear.
• Mods and resource rewards are now affected by the difficulty modifier
• Chests no longer drop rare material if you are above power level 80 as mission completion rewards. Instead, Epic Gear or Legendary Hero Set Gear will now be rewarded
• Hivemind equipment:
  • Kate’s Hivemind Gear will now use her ensemble names
  • Melee and ranged items will now have their third benefit related to the status effect rolls they have as their first and second benefit. Example: if you have 2 plasma perks, the third will be plasma boost or related to Jarvis
  • Cosmic damage perks can now appear on Hivemind Gear
• Tachyon Surge Equipment:
  • Defensive Perks will now appear more often on Defensive Gear
  • Distance-focused benefits will now appear more often on remote equipment
• Cosmic Equipment:
  • Added more Cosmic Arrow perks for Kate
• Last avenger standing:
  • Equipment dropped after the first Global Completion will always be Legendary Jarvis Equipment or Exotic Hero Equipment with chance equal to either
• Fixed an issue where players could not obtain the item required to complete Harvesting: Wiring Harness Assignment
• Due to future refocus efforts, players can no longer complete challenges in the HARM room that require defeating a specific enemy or defeating enemies using a specific type of attack / damage.
• Rescuing all hostages now correctly counts towards challenges and faction assignments.

Known issues and workarounds

• SHIELD Daily Villain Sectors are incorrectly shown as Completed

Despite the losses of its games division, Square Enix remained profitable. Marvel’s Avengers will even receive a Hawkeye DLC which will be revealed alongside other news on February 16.