When will Hawkeye be available in Marvel's Avengers?

Prototype via Square Enix

Always since Square Enix and developer Crystal Dynamics first unveiled Marvel's Avengers, Marvel fans take been wondering when the earth's greatest marksman would become a playable character on the superhero roster. Six months afterward, and original Eagle Clint Barton volition finally become playable in the multiplayer game, coming with a mission line chosen Futurity Imperfect.

Barton will arrive on Thursday, March eighteen, alongside the next-gen versions of Curiosity's Avengers. He will be the second new character added to the game post-launch, the first being her protégé Kate Bishop. While both characters are equipped with a bow and pointer, along with a sword, Barton'south moveset will exist more focused on the former, while Bishop'southward abilities middle effectually teleportation abilities she gained from AIM engineering science. Equally with Kate Bishop and all future characters, Hawkeye will exist free to play as.

Operation Hawkeye – Future Imperfect will center effectually Barton's quest to find Nick Fury, the managing director of S.H.I.E.L.D. This baroque journey takes Eagle through time, courtesy of some experiments from AIM's Monica Rappaccini, equally seen in Bishop'south Taking AIM mission line. Future Imperfect will show Barton in a postal service-apocalyptic Globe, where he'll encounter a hyper-intelligent and sinister version of the Blob named Maestro.

The March xviii update to Curiosity's Avengers volition likewise come up with a controversial change to progression. Leveling upward your heroes from ane to l will take more than XP after this update, as Crystal Dynamics accounted progression to exist as well quick and "overwhelming," apparently disallowing players to brand sense of all of the character upgrades and additional skill points they get in a brusque amount of time. Players counter by saying that this move will brand Marvel's Avengers a more grindy experience, and many have taken the game up again to level their characters up to 50 before this modify is enacted.