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Ascended
Back half of the Red Room stuff hit this week, and as with the first half I am disappointed. Not as disappointed as I was with the first half, but still.
You get some new HARM rooms, which are all red and filled with environmental hazards. You get some mission assignments with objectives you actually have to keep half an eye on, stuff like "throw X enemies into the lava" and "defeat X enemies while invisible." And you do it solo; no multiplayer, no AI companions. You don't have to use Widow, though the "invisible" stuff is hard to do without her (there is that major artifact that makes you invisible, you can use that). It's just enough of a challenge to be engaging but not nearly hard enough to be frustrating. The new HARM rooms scale to your level but cap out at 120, so characters above that can crush these things and flex their badassery. Finishing a mission objective rewards you with a quality legendary item, usually a chest piece built around the "cosmic" damage/healing buff, but I think I got something different once or twice too.
The major mission objective involves finishing five of the other mission chains (and a few other things) and gives you some damn fine rewards; a piece of the exotic gear set that provides a Jarvis Barrier, a ton of those polygrath/polygon/whatever-they-are that you need for upgrading your major artifact, some upgrade modules, and I think a name plate I haven't bothered to look at yet. And like with the tachyon event, every character gets a piece of gear, which is cool.
But you don't fight Yelena. No new villain sector, no skin, nothing. Hell you don't even *see* her! And that felt like a total cop out; you get this big two part event that drags on for weeks and you don't even get to lay eyes on the person responsible! I didn't really expect a new villain sector or anything, but I had hoped we'd get more than a HARM room with new colors on the walls! Once again, the devs seem to half-ass their efforts and give us something that has the seeds of greatness within it but fails to live up to any of its potential. This thing is gonna last until the end of the month, so *maybe* there's a secret mission or something for next week, but I wouldn't bet on it.
The rewards are worth doing the event for, and you can finish all of it pretty quick (I'm already done and this hit yesterday) but....what the hell, Crystal Dynamics?
Marketplace stuff was cool though. We get a couple animated nameplates for free to hype up the debut of Hulu's MODOK show, we get the Endgame skins for Hulk and Iron Man, and those look good even if Hulk doesn't have the glasses. Even the people who've been bitching about the Widow and Hawkeye MCU skins like Iron Man's, and that positivity is nice to see. We get a bunch of new non-movie skins for everybody, and some of those are pretty nice.