Marvel's Avengers patch 1.11 patch notes
- Strengths of the patch
- Remote faction terminals have been added to Outposts, making it possible to collect faction assignments and sector bounties from villains without the need to visit each faction coordinator in person.
- Extended pickup radius for rewards.
- The ability to preview items from cosmetics suppliers.
- Option to scale the text size of closed captions / closed captions.
- Subtitles will no longer be displayed automatically in cutscenes when subtitles are displayed.
- Movement speed increased in outposts during the Avengers Initiative
- Improvements to AI companions, including support when the player needs to be revived.
- Improved Mega Hive rewards. They are now guaranteed to drop two exclusive exotic gear items and an increased amount of upgrade mods upon completion.
- Implemented a fix that will retroactively grant the Iconic Iron Man Outfit to players who previously lost it due to a bug.
- New content
- SHIELD Zero Substation Outpost: SHIELD opened the Zero Substation to investigate new temporal anomalies that have started to form across the world. A space that offers new stories, characters and content, you can find SHIELD Substation Zero in the Pacific Northwest on the WAR table.
- Tachyon Rift Missions: You'll investigate temporal anomalies by participating in the new Tachyon Rift missions, which are the first place players can get Cosmic Gear. Storm Tachyon will damage players over time, but charges up heroic energy at an increased rate. With the "Meridian" modifier active, players can go through temporal anomalies to extend the time you can spend in a Tachyon Rift. An end-of-game offering, Tachyon Rift missions require 140 power level superheroes or higher to play. These missions are available once per day and rotate daily.
- Reassemble the Avengers campaign and initiative
- Fixed several causes of "infinite loading screens".
- Several crash issues fixed.
- Improvements to safeguard data integrity.
- Improved the reliability of backup saves used immediately after the reassembly campaign ends.
- Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented Abomination from responding in Warzones.
- Reduced the frequency with which Inhumans and trapped SHIELD Agents will seek help. *
- Companions will now help hold a zone in War Zone missions during the code validation phase. Note: They still won't activate small code terminals to prevent them from accidentally disrupting your progress.
- Improvements to companion assistance when the player needs to be revived.
- Increased the chance of a successful parry by companions.
- Fixed an issue where companions Thor and Iron Man would get stuck while hovering.
- Movement speed has been increased in Outposts in Avengers Initiative mode.
- Remote faction terminals are now available in Outposts. These devices allow you to collect faction assignments and villain sector bounties without the need to visit each faction coordinator in person. *
- Removed the requirement to purchase an item from Chastity McBride on her first visit.
- Prevented the majority of enemy cases from getting stuck behind doors during missions. We are actively working to resolve the remaining bug triggers.
- Fixed an issue with "destroy core" objectives in Warzone missions where players could complete stages out of order, interrupting the progress of objectives.
- Fixed a bug where the Elite Exo could teleport "out of the world".
- Multiplayer and matchmaking
- The "Start Mission" button was renamed to "Ready" when mapping in the Quinjet to clarify the button's function. *
- Improved text clarity related to matchmaking options in Quinjet.
- Addressed an issue that prevented players from finding an Attacking Team as a Selected Hero via Quick Match after naturally matching for a previous Mission.
- Improved stability after the host has left a match.
- Pause disabled in Quinjet to avoid loading issues.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused Heroes to get stuck when invited directly from a Reassemble Campaign Mission to an Attack Team
- Fixed an issue where requested companions would not disappear - resulting in duplicate heroes - when a player disconnects.
- The integrity of the strike team is maintained when reloading the checkpoint in Hives.
- User interface
- Players can now preview items from cosmetics vendors. *
- Tactical awareness now stays active longer. *
- Removed unnecessary shooting and typing tutorials. *
- Fixed various localization issues in Arabic, Italian and Polish.
- Added accessibility menu to settings for easy access to these options.
- Added option to scale caption / closed caption text size. *
- Subtitles will no longer automatically display in cutscenes when subtitles are displayed. *
- Fighting
- Fixed an issue that prevented some players from being invulnerable immediately after reviving.
- Fixed a rare issue where Black Widow would lose the Shadow Veil buff shortly after triggering.
- Fixed an issue with Iron Man where Counterfire would not always trigger after dodging.
- Setting:
- Improved the flow of Captain America's melee combos.
- Refactored Fisticuffs & Torpedo modifiers to improve player only, not enemies.
- Heroic drain set inflicted by SPIN drones. *
- Difficulty resolved in the mission "Alone against AIM". *
- Set defensive effects of blue Overshield on enemies.
- Optimized Cryo Adaptoid slam attack. *
- Equipment, challenges and rewards
- Implemented a fix that will retroactively grant the Iconic Iron Man Outfit to players who previously lost it due to a bug.
- Fixed an issue where the Hero Challenge Card rewards were increased based on difficulty.
- Reactivating jumping challenges from the Hero Challenge map screen.
- Fixed several issues with tracking various hero challenges.
- Fixed an issue with Thor's Grip from Fenrir's Maw, where boosting was not properly unlocking perk.
- Extended pickup radius rewards
- Fixed several issues where deciphering rare models on the crafting machine would not reward a cosmetic item.
- The "Fractured" Hulk skin is now properly unlocked and accessible in the outfit menu when assigned.
- The “unbroken” Hulk skin should no longer disappear from a player's inventory after being awarded.
- Fixed the appearance of the two Talisman artifacts in the Equipment menu.
- Fixed an issue where one of Kamala's pieces of gear was dropping an Iron Man Perk.
- Fixed the 'Abundant' artifact perk so that it had a chance to trigger when opening safes in the Helicarrier during the reassembly campaign.
- Fixed an issue where DNA keys were not deducted from inventory when opening a DNA. safe in Hulkbuster. It also prevents players from losing their DNA keys after death.
- Reward setting:
- Adjusted some Exotic Gear to be at the appropriate power level when gained.
- Improved Mega Hive rewards. They are now guaranteed to drop two exclusive exotic gear items and an increased number of upgrade mods upon completion. *
- Players will no longer occasionally obtain power level 1 gear from Elite Hives.
- Improved Exotic Gear Attributes. *
- Improved reliability of Norn Stone perks that increased drop chance / added additional rewards to loot tables.
- Xbox
- Fixed an issue where the "Try Perfection" achievement rewarded "See the Stars".
- Fixed an instance of the "Best Defense" achievement not triggering correctly.
- PC
- Added support for Nvidia's DLSS upscaling technology.
- Fixed issues with mouse and keyboard sprinting, when the sprint option is enabled.
- Fixed Thor and Captain America's ranged abilities when using the seesaw to aim.
For more information on this update, check out the official Marvel Avengers website. All changes marked with an asterisk are based on player feedback.
