A new Marvel Cosmic Invasion update has gone live with palettes inspired by elsewhere in the Marvel video games universe, Hero Lab upgrades, and further gameplay improvements.
As a retro-inspired beat ’em up, Marvel Cosmic Invasion launched to high acclaim. Being just four months into its life cycle, it’s likely that more updates will continue to roll out.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion update
Here are all the key changes introduced by the latest patch.
Marvel games collaborations
Tributes to Marvel Games experiences, including palettes for:
- MARVEL Rivals – Spider-Man and Venom
- MARVEL Snap– Black Panther and Rocket Raccoon
- MARVEL Strike Force– She-Hulk and Wolverine
- MARVEL Future Fight – Captain America and Nova
- MARVEL Contest of Champions – Phyla-Vell and Beta Ray Bill
- MARVEL Puzzle Quest – Storm and Iron Man
New features
- Hero Lab Upgrades – with new palette previews to help you get a great view of new cosmetic options, and a new Team Level indicator.
- Tweaked Arcade Modifiers – swinging into danger with modifications. The Double HP modifier is now an HP Multiplier – where enemy HP can now be multiplied by 0.5, 1, 2 or 3 times their standard amount!
Gameplay improvements
We’ve made a number of visual changes based on your feedback, designed to make it easier for you to keep up with the on-screen action, including:
- Heroes will now be highlighted when HP is low
- The Focus bar has been split to make it easier to read
- Special Damage number visuals have been changed to red – making them easier to identify
- The Heteropteron Level Larva Bug has been tweaked to make the enemy stand out. In addition, we’ve added flashes on the Larva during throw animations and introduced colour cycling effects on the attack!
We’ve also taken some time to go back for further balancing on boss fights, tweaking these to provide a little more fair play:
- Hela – Increasing cooldowns for both Grudge and Hellblades attacks.
- Venom – Reducing block and parry actions and removing combo parry, increasing reaction cooldown, lowering damage on the Bite attack and removing some post-Grudge attacks.
- Phyla-Vell – Reducing block actions and lowering chance of using Cosmic Attack. We’ve also added cooldown on some attacks, increased the cooldown on cosmic Fury and lengthened the initial block action to prevent instant parry.
A laundry list of bug fixes and tweaks also arrived with the Marvel Cosmic Invasion update, all of which can be viewed here.
