From the thud of Thor's hammer to the clank of Captain America's shield, moderate gamers might assume Marvel's Avengers is a straightforward action role-playing brawler. To their credit, there's nothing to dislike about waving enemies around like ragdolls with the Hulk or delivering a perfect helicopter attack with Kamala Khan's flailing arms. But when Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix are involved in a game, one can be certain that there's more than just mashing buttons to achieve greatness.
Don't settle for a boring grind in a thrilling game! This list has a few tips, techniques, and secrets to amplify the journey.
10 Talk To The Team Between Missions
The writers do a great job of creating a sense of urgency and importance for the main story. Stellar voice acting performances from industry veterans like Troy Baker and Nolan North await but are often unknowingly skipped.
The whole team is available for conversation in different parts of the outpost even when they haven't gathered around in the central hub. There are many unique dialogues that are time-sensitive to the story. Finding these wandering heroes might seem like a hassle, but the payoff is a rich and immersive story.
PS: There are some hilarious interactions to be had with Thor's unattended hammer.
9 Increase The Odds Of Legendary Items
No matter what looter game is being discussed, increasing the chance of getting the best equipment in the game is critical. And Marvel's Avengers has a very tricky mechanic for how often these top-tier items drop.
Keep an eye on those stars during the missions. If the team doesn't go down, the objectives are met, and the enemies bite the dust, a well-earned five-star rating lies in wait. But undisclosed to the player is an increased chance of a legendary item drop with a five-star mission grade. Rares and epics are great, but there's nothing quite like a best in slot item for your hard work.
8 Access The Locker Remotely
One dozen inventory slots are borderline criminal in a game with frequent loot drops. Early on, the player is given a locker to hoard items, but it's located in an out-of-the-way place on the Chimera and when there's a team of friends who want to keep doing missions, nobody wants to be the guy that says, "Wait! I need to organize!"
Good news! At the end of every expedition, a screen that permits access to this locker with the click of an R2 button will appear. Sort and organize from here so that the team can queue up to thrash more baddies right away.
7 Get Extra DNA Keys
DNA Keys for chests are an integral part of advancement. With such a low drop rate, the average gamer might believe a lack of them is unavoidable bad luck.
But they can be found in ways that aren't random at all. Mechanical drones and minions, as one might expect, are not exactly hoarding these highly coveted prizes. Humanoid enemies have a much higher likelihood of dropping them.
Additionally, Bosses in Villain Sectors are clutching DNA Keys, and once per day per faction, the player can select these missions. Make these missions a priority when starting a session!
6 Permanently Increase Base Stats
In a game like Fallout 76 or The Outer Worlds, dead ends are often filled with a handful of currency, maybe a couple of insignificant items, and a good deal of trash. Marvel's Avengers has invented a rather sneaky way to make improvements that is skewed toward completionists.
The Comic Books are not just a collectible side quest, each one increases a base statistic. So exploring dead ends is much more profitable.
And remember that Comic Books can also be received from completing each character's Harm Training, including a few that are impossible to find randomly outside of these challenges.
5 Visit Old Outposts
Players have been impressed that each location and each base has its own unique feel and artwork. The designers put so much love into each area to make them feel like they are a part of the environment, just as much as the level is. While the Chimera is beautifully crafted, there's a sense of sadness when the mission progresses past the Utah Badlands or the Pacific Northwest.
There's a way to make this feeling of loss completely unnecessary. When hovering over the card in the Avengers Initiative War Zones, holding the square button will pack up the band of heroes and move them to these previous areas until completing another mission.
4 Kill The Fastest Enemies First
MMO players are all too familiar with the way the average mob of enemies works. But there is a fundamentally different element at play than a traditional World of Warcraft mob. There are enemies in this game who teleport and fly as fast as the character can run and this "strength" can be turned against them.
By attacking and running off, the quick and easy to kill enemies get to the rest of the companions first. Having outrun the rest of the mob, they are easily dispatched in an ambush. Afterward, the slow, shielded combatants finally catch up and they can then be eliminated without all of the damage dealers that made them difficult to face.
3 Complete Daily Objectives In Mere Minutes
After completing a character's Harm Training, is there really any use in going back and doing it again? The answer to that question is an emphatic... kind of! Trying to fit in daily objectives during major missions means using inferior moves at inconvenient moments which leads to embarrassment. You can spare your dignity and save yourself some time, plus, it's so easy that it feels like a cheat code!
Enter your Harm Room, charge up your heroic abilities, find the ideal enemy mob, and before the encounter finishes, hit "Reload Checkpoint." And just like that, there's no more waiting around for ultimate abilities to refresh.
2 Open Those "Unlockable" Doors
A locked door in something like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is usually a subtle way of telling the player that there is an order in which to complete a dungeon and the player has found themselves too far ahead.
Most players use Tactical Awareness as seen in the tutorial, don't see anything, and assume, incorrectly, that the door opens later.
Open them now! These tough to find buttons can be located on the tops of buildings or behind destructible environments. Every time the map is conquered, that's an extra room full of treasure for your favorite hero. It's an easy way to be the most popular person in the group!
1 Play The Game Backwards
The instinct in almost every online game is to play through the single-player story and then to jump in online. If this works in Call of Duty, how much can the formula change for this game? Going against this natural mentality yields a substantial advantage to progression.
Upon launching the Avengers Initiative before the single-player, the gamer will be given a few spoilers by seeing who and what survived (or didn't survive) the campaign. It's a price to pay, but the payoff is unlocking a huge amount of objectives that will all be easily accomplished during the campaign itself.