Marvel’s Avengers had it’s first Beta weekend, and with a few more coming before release, questions are coming with what is going to get carried over when it fully launches. The Beta is allowing players to have small tastes of different aspects of the game. It’s also letting players use different characters to get familiar with the different play-styles each hero has. There are a lot of enhancements and changes that might make it in the final product, and it’s only fair to know which are here to stay.
With Betas, they are usually very close to what the actual game will end up being. With Marvel’s Avengers, this is especially true although, some changes are expected, with Playstation having exclusive rights to Spider-Man on release. Another difference is that the Beta has Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Captain America, Iron Man, and Black Widow, while the full release will introduce Hawkeye as well. With all the different characters available to play, we’ll go through the changes to expect going from the Beta to full launch.
What Changes From Beta To Full Launch In Marvel’s Avengers
In the Beta, there are a few things players will test, such as leveling up heroes, cosmetics, and story progress. Unfortunately, none of these are going to carry from the Beta to the main game. By playing, leveling up is a necessity, and this happens while going through the story missions, of course. The progress of the story missions will reset because they are bite-sized pieces. There isn’t much of a connection between them, for now, and that will change on release. Leveling up and gear is all for testing, so it can be manipulated to different playing styles for now and could go through some changes. Hero gear does use resources to upgrade and won’t follow to the main game, so upgrade without impunity during the Beta. The cosmetics are going hand-in-hand with the purchases where there are no in-game purchases in the Beta. The credits given for the moment are for players to try out different costumes during gameplay with no fear of having to buy anything. The Beta itself does go on for each weekend in August until launch. All the progress during the Beta from week to week does get carried over. The only things that carry over from the Beta to the full release are two nameplates. The first one collected is by participating in the Beta. By completing the three HARM (Holographic Augmented Reality Machine) room challenges, players get the second nameplate. To get the nameplates, players must also have signed up for a Square Enix Members Account to get them.
Marvel’s Avengers is available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on September 4th, 2020.
