When the war ended in 1989, I was a Major and in command of the squadron, still flying F-4s. Did mostly air-to-ground stuff, but didn't mind lopping off the occasional MiG, Sukhoi, or helicopter that came my way (ended the war with 12 kills). Some refresher training at Nellis and I was soon back in the air-as a Captain. One of the Marines stayed behind to advise the group, but the rest of us got back to our squadrons.
When May came around, and the snow in the high country melted, the guerillas sent us across the Rockies with a few members as guides, until we got to Sallida, where the Army's 7th Infantry Division was HQ'd. We had to go on some raids and ambushes with them, and the three Marines in the bunch had to help us AF and Navy types with the basics of infantry combat. Our squadron (335th TFS) had gone from Seymour-Johnson AFB in North Carolina to Nellis AFB for a Red Flag, and we hadn't been there more than two days when the balloon went up! We flew out of Nellis down to Williams AFB in Arizona, (east of Phoenix), and flew nonstop combat for the next six months, though I missed the last three, as I was shot down in Southern Colorado at the beginning of December '85, and spent five months on the ground with a few other downed pilots and aircrew who were being helped by a Resistance group. I was a brand-new USAF F-4E pilot, just happy to have made 1st Lt. With Resistance Day having come and gone, just what did all of you out there do during the war, for those of you who were around from 1985-89? The timeline isn’t set in stone just yet, but players should expect at least some of the overhauled heroes on the test server in October.(OOC: this is a spinoff of the Red Dawn Resistance Day thread) This will get you to the meat of the game much faster than tediously assigning Power points and scrolling through multiple action bars during combat.” The intended play dynamic from the Hero Talent Updates is to choose and slot eight Powers that you enjoy and want to use, and five Talents that will support those decisions. The restrictions we had been trying to install on a per-Hero basis needed to be a clear part of the game’s mechanics, so we can freely design Heroes without trying to solve core game issues in the Powers system. The solution was clear, and has been clear for some time, but it could only be paired with a very large-scale Hero design change such as these Hero Talent Updates. “To put it simply, we do not feel that needing to press more than 8 active buttons in a rotation is enjoyable for the vast majority of players, and it needlessly adds complexity without adding any real depth. Talents will replace specializations, power point bonuses will be removed from items, trait passives will be merged, and you’re not going to have five million buttons to make your character go ’round, so extra action bars are gone too. “We want to enable you to more quickly dive into playing your Heroes the way you want to play them, without spending a lot of time ‘balancing your Power Point checkbook,'” explains TheArtofRawr.
Of note, every single hero - that’s 59 of them - is being updated all at the same time, with an eye toward simplifying and streamlining character development into “meaningful choices.” Lead Systems Designer TheArtofRawr says the team is planning a series of updates to hero powers, items, the Omega system, and the personal difficulty slider. Marvel Heroes is due for a massive overhaul, one Gazillion is calling “ the biggest systems update in the history of” the game.
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