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Last year featured a fair share of highs and lows for Marvel's Avengers, a game that has certainly seen its fair share of controversy since its launch in 2020. A number of new characters were added to the superhero roster, including new excursions with Hawkeye and Kate Bishop, as well as the PlayStation exclusive hero, Spider-man, who arrived right before the end of the year. Developer Crystal Dynamics even removed Pay-To-Win XP boosts, a promise fans felt was broken by the studio when they were originally added to the online store.

While fans continually ask for new content to play through, the high point for many players came during the Summer of last year when the War for Wakanda expansion finally launched free for all players who owned the game. The big addition was Black Panther and a new campaign through the locales of Wakanda. New enemies were added to fight, new damage types in Sonic and Vibranium, as well as a new raid called Discordant Sound. With players reporting some issues with the raid content, Crystal Dynamics has announced fixes are now live in game.

While this latest update for January 19, 2022 is a massive one, the Discordant Sound raid received the bulk of the updates. Crystal Dynamics fixed a number of reported bugs related to players getting trapped or stuck, such as being on the outside of Shuri's Control Room area. Enemies spawns have also been adjusted, and even a rare issue where an extreme amount of Echo portals spawning during the Klaw fight has been fixed.

In addition to the Raid, the update touches a lot of the content inside of Marvel's Avengers including fixes for the main campaign, visual updates for characters like Iron Man, as well as a fix for a user interface issue with the gear tutorial screen that makes the game unresponsive. The recently added Spider-Man also received a number of updates and fixes to deal with some bugged combat surrounding Vibranium and Sonic damage, animation issues related to some of his other suits like the Mark IV Outfit, and more.

Overall, there's a little something for everyone in this week's huge update. However, it does seem that some Marvel's Avengers fans are less than thrilled about the adjustment to comic bonuses to armor being reduced, effectively preventing players from reaching 100%. Either way, here are the full patch notes:

Reassemble Campaign & Avengers Initiative

Game no longer freezes or crashes after completing the Reassemble Campaign.
In the Discordant Sound Raid during the Klaw fight with Zawavari, the platforms that appear when Klaw is down no longer leave invisible areas of collision.
In the Discordant Sound Raid in the first jungle area, enemies no longer spawn in rocks or stairs.
In the Discordant Sound Raid in the final indoor area the Vibranium Exposure debuff now fills the entire area so fliers cannot avoid it.
In the Discordant Sound Raid, the Command Crawler no longer stands completely still if it’s hit by Kamala’s hand while she’s holding on to another enemy.
In the Discordant Sound Raid, an extreme amount of Echo portals no longer appears on some occasions during the final Klaw fight.
In the Discordant Sound Raid, enemies after the puzzle door phase no longer get trapped, which previously prevented progress.
In the Discordant Sound Raid, fixed an issue where players couldn’t move if an Iron Man summons the Hulkbuster right as the elevator opens up to the Control Room.
In the Discordant Sound Raid in the door button area, if players use Emotes or Ranged Attacks, they buttons no longer deactivate.
[PS4/PS5] Mouths animate correctly in cutscenes after completing The Amazing Spider-Man Mission Chain.
[PS4/PS5] Fixed an issue where any Hero can complete Spider-Man's Cosmic Threat Web Bomb Heroic objective.

Multiplayer & Matchmaking

In the Discordant Sound Raid in the Control Room area with Shuri, if all players are on the outer area with no way back in, they will now be properly teleported back in.
In the Discordant Sound Raid, players no longer spawn behind a wall after completing the Control Room if the host migrates during the loading screen.

Art & Animation

Black spheres no longer appear when Iron Man has Muon or Missile Reverberation gear equipped.
The camera now follows Iron Man correctly when he uses a Takedown on a Hunter Crawler in Here Comes the Pain.
[PS4/PS5] Spider-Man can no longer wall crawl on invisible walls in specific maps.
[PS4/PS5] Spider-Man's Underground Suit’s eyes now match the icon where it glows white instead of red.
[PS4/PS5] Sound effects are present when Spider-Man tries to pick up Mjolnir on the helicarrier.
[PS4/PS5] Spider-Man's Mark IV Outfit no longer clips during idle animations.
[PS4/PS5] Spider-Man's Wrestler Outfits’ hoodie no longer clips near the bottom.

User Interface

The game no longer becomes unresponsive when dismissing the Gear Upgrade tutorial if the Shipments message is present.
[PS4/PS5] Various text improvements for Spider-Man's Skills and Perks.

Combat

When Hunter Echoes are invisible, their rocket attacks are now visible.
Using Black Panther’s King’s Mercy in the underground area in Beating the Odds where you need to defeat 3 Prime Adept Synthoids no longer sends enemies through the door.
Comic bonuses related to armor lowered to prevent players from obtaining 100% armor, which negated all damage.
- The tiers used to be 1.1% / 12% / 13% / 14% / 15%
- They are now 1% / 2% / 3% / 4% / 5%
[PS4/PS5] When moving the camera horizontal during Spider-Man's web launch ability, the screen no longer shakes upon landing.
[PS4/PS5] Spider-Man's Hit the Sky Skill properly increases Melee Damage while airborne.
[PS4/PS5] When Spider-Man attaches to a wall to begin wall running, he no longer goes straight up and instead in the direction of the controller.

Gear, Challenges, & Rewards

When upgrading gear, the correct amount of Upgrade Modules is now used up.
[PS4/PS5] With Spider-Man's Balanced Reverberation Perk, Rapid Spin now properly deals Vibranium damage.
[PS4/PS5] With Spider-Man's Balanced Scream Perk, Rapid Spin now properly deals Sonic damage.
[PS4/PS5] Spider-Man's Wrecking Ball Overdrive Perk now properly grants the right amount of Wreckage regeneration.

Known Issues & Workarounds

In the Discordant Sound Raid, the sonic barrier does not show up in the first button section, halting progress. We are still in active investigation and thank you for all the reports we've received.
Various crash and hang issues during the Raid and OLT.
In the Discordant Sound Raid, the Command Crawler’s webs visually appear on Strike Team members even after they have broken out.

Marvel’s Avengers is available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.