The action MMO Marvel Heroes is facing a huge update that aims to simplify and improve the game.
Marvel Heroes is the brainchild of David Brevik, the father of Diablo. He left the company last year, and now his successors are working on streamlining the action MMO.
Marvel Heroes parts ways with old Diablo ideas, adapts new ones
Many somewhat bloated systems from the past will now be streamlined and replaced with the “Biggest Update Ever“. By parting with some “old” ideas that became popular through Blizzard, Marvel Heroes is also becoming more similar to the “new” Blizzard.
The new systems in Marvel Heroes strongly resemble the Paragon and Greater Rift systems from Diablo 3. The skill streamlining looks like what happened in WoW: Marvel Heroes had a system where certain points were “mandatory” if players wanted to optimally play heroes. This ideal building, where players put points into skills on 3 trees, is now replaced with “Traits” where players can allocate points.
“Biggest Update Ever” for Marvel Heroes reinvents the action MMO
On Thursday, January 19th, the patch will arrive. Seven months of work have gone into this:
- the endgame progression system “Omega”, where players could choose from an endless array of sub-talents, is now replaced by the “Infinity System”. Instead of 170 nodes across 14 pages, there are now only 6 nodes where points can be allocated. Similar to the Paragon system in Diablo or the Champion Points in The Elder Scrolls Online.
- Instead of the 59 heroes each having several different skills that players could allocate points to, this has been significantly streamlined – players can no longer put points into individual skills, but choose Talents and Traits – these changes are reminiscent of the talent streamlining in WoW a few years ago
- This also means that players use fewer skills; each hero should manage with one hotbar and 8 skills, but they can switch to different loadouts for other situations.
- And a “difficulty slider” is coming, which works like the Greater Rift level in Diablo 3 or the world rank in The Division … these systems are also currently popular and are being adopted by other games.
- Numerous additional upgrades and changes in details are also part of the update – it is a gigantic rework.
- Additionally, Gazillion is planning a wardrobe system where costumes can be stored and unlocked – this is the wardrobe from Guild Wars 2, where we once wondered why not every game has it
The US site MMORPG has provided Gazillion with this exclusive trailer:
Those who have followed the changes will not be surprised that rumors are swirling, Marvel Heroes could be coming to PS4. It actually makes sense with all these changes:
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