Marvel’s Avengers’ 2.3 Patch Is About New Player
Marvel’s Avengers players have been waiting for both a roadmap about future content and a new hero, they will have to wait a little longer. March 24 marks the release of patch 2.3, and the major changes that have been laid out have nothing to do with introducing a new hero or story elements. Rather, they’re a pretty grand overhaul of the War Table, and in turn, the new player onboarding process.
The timing is…odd, considering we’re 19 months into the release of the game, and Avengers, with its base campaign, actually has one of the better “openers” in this genre, while games like Destiny 2 struggle with that. With the way things are going I’m not quite clear on how many brand new players Avengers expects to attract at this point (maybe the whole game is going F2P soon?), but here we are, and this is what’s changing.
The War Table now no longer confusingly shifts around its missions every 15 minutes, something I never really understood. Now the different zones are divided up into power levels, indicating where you should be hanging out as you increase your gear score.
- Eastern Seaboard – power level 1-25
- Pacific Northwest – power level 25-50
- Utah Badlands – power level 50-75
- Snowy Tundra – power level 75-100
- Future Wastelands – power level 100-125
- Wakanda – power level 100-140
In addition to the power changes, Villain Sectors and Vaults are now always on the table and don’t have to be acquired elsewhere. Flashback missions will no longer end with Villain Sector-style boss fights.
Marvel's Avengers Delays Patch 2.3
Marvel's Avengers' newest patch, which is set to reintroduce Nick Fury with War Table on-boarding and remodel gear loadout viability, is delayed. Marvel's Avengers players have complained about the game's lack of new content and a roadmap about what content they can expect to arrive in the future. This has been a repeated concern since last year's launch of Spider-Man in Marvel's Avengers, where a new roadmap had been teased for an official announcement in early 2022.
While that roadmap has not yet appeared, the announcement of a new and comprehensive patch has been detailed for Marvel's Avengers. Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix revealed that Patch 2.3 will effectively reprise Nick Fury and restructure the War Table to streamline Marvel's Avengers' mission selection process. The new update will also rebalance gear to make more builds viable. Until recently, Marvel's Avengers' Patch 2.3 was supposed to launch tomorrow, March 24. Unfortunately, this is no longer the case.
As more MCU-inspired skins are offered in Marvel's Avengers' Marketplace, Patch 2.3 has been pushed back to an undisclosed date. The patch has been delayed to ensure that the "tuning and mission on-boarding are ready-to-go" for when it eventually does go live, and it is stated that its future release date will be shared as soon as it can be confirmed. Many players will be happy to know that the developers wish for it launch with an ideal quality, but of course there will be players who are upset and want to see these updates sooner rather than later.
MCU Secret Avengers Team Would Solve 2
Another new Avengers team in the MCU would solve a major superhero powers problem and also finally fix one huge Marvel character injustice. The MCU's introduction of a new Secret Avengers team would solve 2 major problems: the power imbalance between some Marvel heroes and the ongoing injustice suffered by Cobie Smulders' deputy SHIELD director Maria Hill.
She may be reappearing once more alongside Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury in the upcoming Secret Invasion TV show on Disney+ - reviving a 5-movies-long partnership, but she has been chronically underused since her debut in The Avengers.
The MCU already looks poised to introduce multiple superhero teams, in the wake of the Avengers, Captain America's proto-Secret Avengers, the Revengers, and the Guardians of the Galaxy (and the Multiverse). Teams work in the MCU and are the best way to frame a crossover event, which is why Kevin Feige's comments that Endgame was "the last Avengers movie" make so little sense.
On top of a likely reformed Avengers line-up for whatever Avengers 5 is, the MCU could see the Dark Avengers, Thunderbolts, Young Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men all boosting the teams roster in the franchise.
MCU problems but which would address the problem with having so many possible Avengers from across the powers spectrum: the Secret Avengers. In the comics, Maria Hill led the Secret Avengers, a stealthy task force including Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Taskmaster. The MCU would have a fantastic time with a Secret Avengers setup, as Hawkeye demonstrated that Marvel Studios can brilliantly handle smaller-scale skirmishes and knockabout humor and Winter Soldier showed just how well the franchise can tackle the espionage genre.
Plus, the roster of heroes is now so large, and the number of properties expanding monthly that the addition of another team for a crossover event build makes a lot of sense. Hill can become a savvy, likeable, but occasionally brutal lynchpin for the different moving parts of the universe.
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