March 7, 2013 Patch Notes

SPECIAL OPERATION 7: “Ghost in the Machine”

Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym has been brought in to help S.H.I.E.L.D. capture a rogue artificial intelligence created by the Pulse. This is an asset that S.H.I.E.L.D. needs to control before it falls into the hands of A.I.M. or worse!

Reward Hero: Hank Pym

• Class Tactician
• Passive - Smartest Man in the Room
  • Each new round grants a new Analysis
  • After the 1st Round, Analysis: Conjecture
    • Attacks ignore most avoidance effects
  • After the 2nd Round, Analysis: Hypothesis
    • Attacks ignore most avoidance effects
    • Attacks always crit
  • After the 3rd Round, Analysis: Theory
    • Attacks ignore most avoidance effects
    • Attacks always crit
    • Attacks ignore Defense
• 1. Growing Pains
  • Attacks a Single Target
  • Stealthy
    • Does not trigger counter-attacks or protect abilities
  • Cornered
    • Removes and prevents Protect effects
  • Dizzy
    • Accuracy reduced by 25%
• 2. Goliath Punch
  • Attacks a Single Target
  • Exploit Opportunity
    • Deals increased damage against targets with Staggered, Distraction, Off-Balance, Poison, or Dizzy
  • Staggered
    • Greatly reduced chance to dodge the next attack
• 3. Army of Ants
  • Attacks All Enemies
  • Stealthy
    • Does not trigger counter-attacks or protect abilities
  • Off-Balance
    • Removes and prevents Counter-Attack effects
• 4. Bug Squashing
  • Attacks All Enemies
  • 3 Round Cooldown
  • Catastrophic
    • Can't be Protected against
    • Ignores most Avoidance effects
    • Guaranteed to hit
  • Deadly Crits
    • Deals extra damage on critical hits

Featured Spec Op 7 Bosses

• MODOK (Mission 1)
  • Chance to drop the ADVANCED IDEA
    • After 3 rounds the Agent will strike all enemies with a massive psychic attack.
• Fixer (Mission 2)
• Chance to drop the SOLDERING IRON
  • • Customized
    • Crits metal targets
    • Slows metal targets
• Kang (Mission 3)
  • Chance to drop BALTAG’S BLASTER
    • Creates the Energy Feedback status
      • Heals allies that use energy attacks
      • Does damage to enemies that use energy attacks

New Daily Bonus Rewards

• New Gadget: Temporal Shielding
  • Absorbs incoming damage
  • All attacks become Temporal
  • Immune to Temporal attacks and debuffs
• Research Notebook
  • Grants all allies Epiphany
  • High PVP Bonus
• Integrated Iso Circuit
  • Increases Tech Damage
  • High PVP Bonus

Hawkeye Update

• New Passive: Hawkeye’s Initiative
  • Hawkeye has a 50% chance to gain a follow up attack against targets with Pinpoint Target
    • This works with other similar marked target effects as well
    • This works on all of Hawkeye’s attacks, including Arrow Volley
    • The follow-up attack can trigger yet another follow-up attack as well!
• Heroic Age Hawkeye Uniform - New Passive: Loaded Quiver
  • Randomly pulls out arrows that cause a variety of effects
  • This effect can be combined with the extra attacks from Hawkeye’s Initiative!
  • The following arrows can be pulled at random:
    • Net Arrow
      • Causes Slow and Exposed
    • Sonic Arrow
      • Causes Dizzy and Weakened
    • Blunt Arrow
      • Causes Staggered and Off Balance
    • Incendiary Arrow
      • Causes Burning and Pyrophoric
    • Toxic Gas Arrow
      • Causes Poisoned and Incapacitated
    • Ice Arrow
      • Causes Chilled and Frozen
    • Magnetic Arrow
      • Causes Fried Circuits and Magnetized
    • Smoke Arrow
      • Causes Blind and Disoriented
        • Disoriented causes an enemy to sometimes attack his teammates
    • Shrapnel Arrow
      • Causes Bleeding + Ravaged
    • Adamantium Arrow
      • Adamantium
        • Damage ignores the target’s defense stat
      • Brutal Strike
        • Damage cannot be prevented by resurrection effects
      • Fatal Blow
        • Defeats normal enemies and deals great damage to boss enemies below 30%
    • Electric Arrow
      • Causes Static Charge and drains Stamina
    • Glue Arrow
      • Causes Webbed and Constricted

Other Changes

• Facebook only: Boss defeat images that appear on your Timeline have been updated
• Facebook only: Research Complete, Mission Complete, Agent Level Up, and Hero Level Up images that appear on your Timeline for the “Share Bonus” and “Share” buttons throughout the game have been updated.
• Added two new attack types - Tech and Temporal

Known Issues

• Hawkeye’s Electric Volley and Arrow are not properly triggering static charge
• Kang’s Temporal Armory attack will proc 2 stacks of Timestream Displacement

External links

• Original patch notes