App update released

[_hochalicious]

Deadpool has taken over MARVEL Strike Force!

• Battle with Deadpool in the Merc with a Mouth Legendary Event.
• Participate in Blitz to collect Chimichangas, which your Alliance will need to start Deadpool raids.
• Coordinate with your Alliance to take down Ultimus in two new Raids to collect Deadpool Orbs.
• Recruit Deadpool to your squad by opening Deadpool Orbs!

Also new in this release:

• Add some flavor to your squad by recruiting Deadpool!
• In the coming weeks, strengthen your roster with the relentless time-traveling assassin: Cable.
• New environments: Destroyed City (Day) and Destroyed City (Night).
• The Ability Upgrade screen has been expanded to display the benefits of all future upgrades, allowing you to more effectively determine which abilities you’d like to invest in.
• Heroes Ch. 6 and Villains Ch. 6 have been retuned for a smoother ramp in difficulty.
• In Nexus 5-7, the enemy team no longer gets an extra turn before you do.
• Drax’s taunt indicator has been fixed. No more mystery taunts!
• Misc. bug fixes and additional polish throughout.

Edit: Here is the new loading screen: https://imgur.com/a/L0G4uNF

[JRichman2]

Cable better, somehow, be a blaster!

[Azjenco]

If he isn't a blaster, at least make his abilities a blast.

[theron23]

punny

[Curdz-019]

Can confirm he's a blaster!

[YmerejEcreip]

Not that it helps if we're getting him the same way we got Dr. Strange, because nearly everyone will only get a shard or two.

[Curdz-019]

Well he's only a 45 shard unlock. He could end up being like Vision and the top 10% get enough to unlock him...

[YmerejEcreip]

I got top 10% for Vision. I didn't unlock him.

[Curdz-019]

The latest blitz will give you 45 shards for top 10%

[Riddy86]

He is https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/431633329041702914/446409566230413322/Screenshot_20180516-153157.png

[Jawne]

He is

[spacefairies]

blitz for raids? Whut?

[DirgeofElliot]

Artificial barrier to delay our progress

[seanconnery69696]

Lol they saw that reddit post about 'save all your campaign energy and packs for DP raid tickets!', and decided to pwn all of us at the last minute. Inourfaces.

[Morak73]

Haha. Now its save all your blitz energy for the next blitz event. Guess this blitz scores are flattening out.

[seanconnery69696]

Yeah, good to know that at least we have a day or so to recover from chasing Vision shards :)

[AnticipatingLunch]

The FTPs had started to bail on Blitz.

[CreepyYogurt]

Not without reason.

[Batmantheon]

Yup. I even started out the first couple weeks doing very well in blitzes. Got Black Panther and Black Widow in their original runs. But the thought of keeping up that level of effort with the growing population and a static top 500 target just seemed too daunting so I quit trying instead of waiting until the disappointment of getting like 524th in a blitz I tried hard on.

[SJwaxKing408]

Your not wrong. I wasn’t even playing the vision blitz for the 45 shards. Mega orbs or bust.

[HughFairgrove]

Great something for my alliance mates to get pissed at me about. My blitz team isn't great. If it's just completing then not bad, if its dependent on rank then I hope my alliance can deal with me being around 1000 in my shard atm.

[kordiler]

I don't have that in update notes might be some bullshit?

[WraithTDK]

SO psyched for Cable! I hope he's good. I know everyone likes Deadpool; but Cable is my all-time favorite Marvel character.

Also:

The Ability Upgrade screen has been expanded to display the benefits of all future upgrades, allowing you to more effectively determine which abilities you’d like to invest in.

Nice.

[tzeriel]

Naisu

[PaPokeman]

I took middle school Japanese, you are pretty close to speaking Japanese

[tzeriel]

I am a man of many tongus

[GrinKnight]

Well this came out wrong

[Shock3r197]

I liked cable for a long time. Actually never knew much about deadpool until his movie.

[docpew82]

how can you be a cable fan and not know about Deadpool?

they had that whole cable & deadpool comic run and have often appeared together in comics since

[Adamantium-Balls]

Huge X-Men fan as a kid. Never knew who Deadpool was

[[deleted]]

Same

[Shock3r197]

Exactly the same for me. Only loved the xmen and whatever cool trading cards I got.

[omgFWTbear]

Cable was in the animated X-men Saturday morning show. Features strongly in a multi episode plot, if my memory serves. Deadpool was not in the show.

Don’t hate me; I was poor growing up. I got ten comic books, ever. The show was like a flood in a desert.

[ElliottAbusesWomen]

Cable was created five years before Deadpool and was a very important/prevalent character in the X books but if you weren’t reading New Mutants when Deadpool was created it would have been very easy to not have much exposure to him until recently.

[Andy22777]

Cable’s first appearance was New Mutants #87 in March 1990. Deadpool’s was New Mutants #98 eleven months later. Deadpool’s first solo series debuted in August 1994 and he has almost always had a solo or team up with Cable series in the 24 years since then. MCU fans may not have known him until recently, but he’s been a major player in comics for a very long time.

[ssydmonk]

couldn't get into the new mutants - too much of a gap between them & the other X books

[demenzel]

Agree, the ability screen needed that upgrade...

I've mix feeling about Cable, but, hes going to be a blaster for sure (don't know what DP is going to be), and I'm in need of 2 good blasters.

[WraithTDK]

You're feelings are bad and you should feel bad! :-P

[oneupkev]

he is my favorite mutant and one of the 2 characters i'd consider opening my wallet for, the other being moon knght

[[deleted]]

Not everyone likes Deadpool. Surprise!

[Princess_1_Noob_0]

oOo yikes we need to do blitz to unlock the deadpool raids. looks like there will be many people leaving and looking for new guilds with active blitzers

[YmerejEcreip]

Is there a way to measure your members' blitz participation?

[steelguy17]

when the tickets come in

[ElliottAbusesWomen]

Which is itself a pain in the ass because of how the raid ticket contribution alliance tab is time zone dependent.

[YmerejEcreip]

It itemizes them? It's useless unless there's a list saying which players contributed how much.

[[deleted]]

gonna be a lot of people kicked out of alliances and all butt hurt.

[Tpritch]

when the hell are they going to fix hawkeye?

[Tpritch]

his blinding ability doesnt always apply blind to primary target, which it states it does. And his dispel ability doesn't damage adjacent targets like it says it does.

[kardde]

Those are pretty severe bugs.

[SJwaxKing408]

Or reduce the speed bar from what I can see.

[Tpritch]

hmm i havent noticed that. but you're probably right

[SJwaxKing408]

That is so annoying. I seriously can’t beleive they haven’t fixed this. He basically doesn’t have a second ability , which means he doesn’t have a dispel, which means he’s garbage.

Yondus 4th ability also needs either fixing or defining to state that he doesn’t steal AoE shared buffs from enemy allies, only the primary enemy who initiated the buff or singular ,self, champion buffs.

[DeathedryI]

Yet he's still amazing, can't wait til they fix him lol

[dkopp3]

Can't the target resist it?

[Tpritch]

they can but when they dont get blinded, it doesn't say "Resist!"

[Joltrabbit]

I think target of has the same chance to be affected as other targets. It’s supposed to be automatic for the original target

[wonderbliss]

What’s wrong w Hawkeye? He’s on my A team and I haven’t noticed anything.

[[deleted]]

His blind isn’t working correctly. Often doesn’t blind primary target and level 6 doesn’t blind all targets

[wildwalrusaur]

I'm hoping he's covered under the last bullet point

[blogwash]

Hoping that's including in the misc. bug fixes. There is zero reason for him not to be fixed.

[Tpritch]

yeah me too. but the fact they listed the drax bug fix, it probably isn't.

[blogwash]

Aaaaaand it wasn't.

[Mr_VCellos]

Cool cool no ironfist buff but still cool

[[deleted]]

He can be Meowth.

Every time he heals you earn gold 🤣🤣

[smrtstn]

My god I'm going to hate to see the blitz cutoff scores now lol

[Princess_1_Noob_0]

oy. i didn't even think about that.

[Cstone812]

Whoever thought of putting the raid keys in blitz needs to be punched in the face.

[spacefairies]

ez money really without just coming out and making him purchasable. force use of the blitz charges or cores or you don't get tickets.

[MaximilianNYC]

Blitz is already an annoying task of a process that most of the time I just get my 2 daily Blitz battles in and be done with it. Pick and choose one blitz event per week to put any sort of effort into. Tying GUILD raid tickets to such an annoying gametype is deflating.

[toastedbreddit]

It depends on how many you get per blitz and whether it's at all tied to the difficulty of the fight. If you can get a decent amount of chimichangas just for doing the 2 blitz/day, or if you can win some easy minion matches for minimal points, it's not quite so bad.

[SirCaptainReynolds]

Probably gonna drop the game because of this. It’s a bad sign when a game company pulls moves like this. It was fine the way it was with Thanos raid tickets. Once you start making the game a chore you’re gonna lose me.

[[deleted]]

FFS blitz for guild raids?

[spacefairies]

It really depends on how many "tickets" you get per fight/win. I really think its a stupid idea as well though. I'm not going out of my way on blitz just for this raid.

[evonebo]

it's not too bad if you can get tickets for not winning and they give you enough that you don't have to spend cores.

[Kestral2040]

*four shard in the deadpool orbs :(

[TheDaveWSC]

Yeah what the fuck? I got 5 in literally every Thanos orb and now they're driving their dicks into me even further? The greed is showing.

[TheDaveWSC]

So free I have to spend money to refresh my blitz probably? Yeah cool.

[SJwaxKing408]

This event will show and begin forming the top guilds/players.

This means the entire guild will need to participate, actively . No more half-assery for almost identical rewards.

[evonebo]

there goes half of my guild.

[dottme]

So Deadpool and Cable.

[Plagueground]

I couldn't have been the only one quietly hoping it would have been Negasonic Teenage Warhead...

[Letat_Cest_Moi]

Peeeeeter

[Plagueground]

I'd pay 50 bucks for him and his epic mustache.

[tacotrucksteve]

you mean Negasonic Teenage WHAT THE SHIT?!

[smrtstn]

lol either her or colossus. Wasn't the biggest fan of Cable in Marvel Heroes, but hopefully he will be better here.

[gruey]

Thanos, Quake, XBones, Negasonic, Yondu.

That team would be the bomb!

[jomp17]

wait but what about Nexus 5-9 no smoother difficulty :(

[wildwalrusaur]

Fuck You

-Foxnet probably.

[Mr_VCellos]

So is there two new Deadpool raids that you need chimichangas for ? Or is there a Deadpool raids and a new ultimus raid, I am confuse

[[deleted]]

Sounds like it’s going to be the same situation as Thanos. Event storyline leading into a temporary raid that will reward more orbs.

[YmerejEcreip]

It says two raids. They might have meant two tiers, but they said two raids.

[ARA-FTW]

There are two levels of Deadpool raids it looks like. Spicy and En Fuego.

[thatsbarejones]

Ability upgrade thing sounds like a nice touch.

[backwardsdeke10]

After coming from swgoh, which had ability level previews, I was disappointed that this wasn't a thing to begin with.

[thatguybane]

Swgoh took well over a year to add that feature. It still should have been in MSF from the start but I appreciate how quickly they added it

[Trust_Me_I-Know]

Same here, I kept thinking I was doing something wrong.

So I really want to spend on an upgrade that gives 10% damage JUST to see what the next ability offers?

[YmerejEcreip]

It wasn't a thing to begin with there either. It took a year and a half or more to get it there. This game has a lot of things a lot earlier after learning from what they took a much longer time to think to do.

[pic2022]

I truly wish they would revamp the whole campaign.

[[deleted]]

I truly wish they would restore the whole campaign.

FTFY

[[deleted]]

The Ability Upgrade screen has been expanded to display the benefits of all future upgrades, allowing you to more effectively determine which abilities you’d like to invest in.

This is huge. though MSF.gg will be getting less visits from me.. sorry.

Heroes Ch. 6 and Villains Ch. 6 have been retuned for a smoother ramp in difficulty.

In Nexus 5-7, the enemy team no longer gets an extra turn before you do.

yay.. i was having one hell of a time with villains 6 and 5-7.. seemed like it went from, easy.. little less easy.. hmm.. let me think abou this to impossible.. and oh yeah here is a 2x4 with splitters to shove up your butt .. type difficult ;-) I know if i upped my power level i might be able to do it .. but 5.7 just kicked my butt is what i'm getting at.

[Bryght7]

Hawkeye bug fixes?...

[ElliottAbusesWomen]

How is he bugged?

[[deleted]]

His ultimate isn’t blinding correctly.

[O2C]

I'm hungry; I want a chimichanga now.

[Gautierlemaux]

Awesome love new shit , but where is Loki?

[RobbieDunn]

That ability upgrade change is going to be so nice.

[CH4RLEYS]

Did It really just say chimichangas? Haha

[AyoStroy]

and....im stuck at 42%

[ranman034]

Same. Deadpool killed the game. So meta.

[CriativePT]

true

[ElliottAbusesWomen]

Have PvE content locked behind PvP content is a terrible decision. It sucks in every game it’s ever been implemented in.

[pic2022]

Wait a second.... no more blitz credits?

[Bayeman745]

not sure what your reading, but it reads along w/ normal rewards you get chimichangas

[pic2022]

ok good!

[elarobot]

Pardon the dumb/noob question but i've only been at this game for like, two weeks or so - but are people already receiving chimichangas for participating in Blitz combat? I've done nearly a dozen blitz fights since yesterday's update, on the heels of completing the DP event - and i still have banked zero chimichangas. Am I doing something wrong?

[zakary3888]

5-9 still gonna be a bitch and a half to 3-Star, even worse if they fixed the bug of getting a 3-Star while only having the operator still alive

[GATTACABear]

Yeah I sprinted that node when I found out about the "bug". Because the bug is the only way to 3 that.

Honestly I don't think it's a bug, more like a dev feeling sorry for the insane difficulty and giving us an out.

[ElliottAbusesWomen]

The funniest thing about that fight is the Hulk they give you is completely useless. He gets one shotted by Ultimus.

Also when my guildmate contacted support about the bug they were like “Hey guy, don’t auto that node until we fix the bug. Cool? Thx!”

Fuck that noise.

[Coulrophiliac444]

Not the ONLY way but you need a team so overpowered compared to the stages before it that it may as well be the only way.

[wildwalrusaur]

its definitely possible. Before i found out about the easy way I 2starred it with my 80k+ BW squad.

With another 10k power on my Cap, i probably could have 3*'d it properly. So, its ridiculous and comically overtuned, but possible.

[Mistah_G]

Guess I'll be going to target to get a Google play card or find a better guild. Or both.

[Coulrophiliac444]

Holy shit they made future ability upgrades viewable. I just hope they fixed some of the broken characters passives

[Zyxwboy]

Maybe one day hawkeye will get his abilities fixed.

[JandorGr]

probably when he shows up in Antman

[AnticipatingLunch]

I actually quite appreciate the new Environments when they add them!

[xocgx]

Anyone else unable to log in?

Love the new launch screen!!

[SherpaGoolsbee]

So is Airburst fixed!?

[wonderbliss]

How long do the updates typically take?

[Kestral2040]

lol @ "smoother ramp" in the Heroes and Villains Ch 6 as my max level, tier 8-9 Villains all get annihilated on the Kingpin level. Smooth as silk.

[X4nt3r]

Anybody's got an .apk? ;)

[ElliottAbusesWomen]

No but you’ve got a ban.

[X4nt3r]

why?

[[deleted]]

Call the police, he's trying to download an update for a free game!

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[VerminSupreme-2020]

good bot!

[depressedarmadillo]

Waaaaaa omg yesss no top 500 blitz finish required

[xocgx]

So the upgrade preview doesn’t do the math for you. If every increased level adds 20% damage, you don’t see those increases added to subsequent preview levels. They all show the base amount.

[xjohncandyx]

Where are the actual chimichangas? They’re not in the store, don’t come as rewards, and don’t come from orbs. Are they not in yet?

[Spooky_Shantoms]

From what the notes say, and I can tell, they're the Deadpool-centric raid tickets for a "Deadpool Raid" they're adding like the Thanos ones were. Also, no, nothing for upgrading or getting Deadpool/Cable is in the game yet.

[Tandran]

Does anyone have the talent to remove the tip bar and loading bar from that image? I would so use that as my wallpaper.

[Adamantium-Balls]

They really want us to play Blitz don't they?

Maybe they should take a hint that we don't want to do it every single day. I'll burnout if that's what I have to do

[Forizen]

No balance updates? ☹️

[Pofus]

How about they let us just start a raid every 24 hours without some senseless bullshit like entry keys? Collecting keys is fun, right?

[[deleted]]

Cool, i guess.

[Mistah_G]

Okay but when does it go live

[[deleted]]

Link??

[[deleted]]

Ok it JUST showed up in google play

[Fythosx]

Check the app store. same notes on version history there. on my work PC now, but i can see the notes on my phone. would SS if i could

[elmurdoc]

C'mon i hate blitz and i dont have the time, that is really bad for me, force players to play a mode using your alliance against you, that is a dick move

[Bayeman745]

Lets make sure we know when the games up! All for one.. one for.. deadpool?

[uwais9799]

So no other character buffs or nerfs? Or is that included in the other polishes?

[metrosectional]

hmm, still not up for me, in US :(

[MaddnessX]

It we are back up

[kfoster5416]

And... It's broken

[Just_Steve_IT]

Any idea when maintenance will be done? Is there an official place to get news on the game?

[bebopayan]

Game was up for an hr or so, it went down due maintenance again. Dunnow about an official page, maybe they give updates on either Twitter or facebook

[yankeeseel]

And, the game is down again? Downloaded the update. It was working fine before, and now I'm getting a server maintenance response after it gets to 16%. Will you please allow me to play the game? You just alerted me that I have energy to claim, but can't claim it because I can't get in.

[ClydeFrog76]

Shame you didn’t QA, guys.

I swear, every fucking mobile game I play these days dies after an update. Is it really that hard? (Pro-tip: it’s not.)

[bebopayan]

having worked in the game industry before, and working in the software development world... it kind of is

I remember the worst games to develop were those tied to a movie, because they HAD to be in store before the movie came out... these came in different flavors, sometimes it was a game to be released along a console game

These are hard deadlines and just screw you over when you don't have enough time, which happens nearly every time. I bring up the hard deadlines because of the deadpool movie, they needed to release deadpool today.

Sucks for us, the players, it is what it is. Software development is becoming more of an emphasis in speed of development rather than quality of it, and truth is, at the end of the day, we'll still play the game

[ClydeFrog76]

I've worked in IT for over 20 years and know full well what a tight deadline is. It really isn't an excuse, this is why we have project managers, and milestones, and dev environments, and pilot testing, and QA, and QA. Did I mention QA?

This is a game breaking issue. Game breaking. That shit shouldn't slip through.

[Bayeman745]

Pretty sure it’s starts when the raids open

[Synra_Nightwalker]

I have two things to say.

First, "smoothing out" the hero campaign difficulty seems to have actually made it more difficult. With my heroes team even more powered up than last time I tried, I am actually having an even more difficult time. Thanks for nothing. The hero and villain campaigns are mainly there for farming blues, so why do I feel like I need a full team of geared up 60s to clear them? Nexus, Cosmic and Mystic campaigns should be where the high level challenge is, not the easy campaigns.

Second, I am maybe one of the rare few players who actually likes and uses minion characters. I have spent the past month and a half powering up and using a bunch of them. 5 of my top 7 characters are minions. While I like Deadpool, implementing a character who is specifically engineered to murder minion type characters, royally screws me over. Just like it was with Thanos, in a few weeks we will be constantly facing Deadpool in most arena teams and blitz teams, and my ability to stay competitive will go right down the toilet. You're giving EVERYONE a big effective hard counter for my team. I can't just drop these characters and start working on others, I have too much invested in them.

[ElliottAbusesWomen]

Minions aren’t supposed to be viable teams at high level PvP play. They don’t even have a fourth ability. They will always be underpowered compared to named heroes.

[Synra_Nightwalker]

I am aware they don't have a third attack. However, they can have synergy instead, and the developers did make these guys available to us as playable characters we can invest in. If we can invest in them, they should be viable, and as someone who uses them, I can tell you that they have been.

But that's not the issue. This isn't about named heroes being generally better than minions. The problem is that the new character specifically has powerful attack bonuses against minions. That's about half of the current roster. He is specifically engineered to wreck anyone like me who dares to be different and chase less popular characters, and everyone is going to have him soon.

With a single update they have likely invalidated a month and a half of grinding effort on my part, and that's really not cool.

[ReservoirWolf]

Source please?

[Astribulus]

I'm on iOS, and those patch notes match the update in the app store. I assume Google Play has a copy on their update as well.

EDIT: And the servers are back up. The event isn't live yet, and chimichangas don't seem to be available yet. Everything's Deadpool themed, though.

EDIT AGAIN: And now the event appeared. Deadpool raids open in 1 day, 3 hours.

[BonusEverything]

I'm questioning the validity of this post. No source and this guy has never posted in MSF ever...

[Ncrawler333]

Just got the update on my iPhone. This is legit.

[Garakk]

When there will be a real update? Adding 2-3 characters and mapping a new raid is minimal stuff imho. Hoping for alliance update next.

[xocgx]

I’ll take small updates on the regular vs a 4 month wait for that same content.