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DC Universe Online devs are making a Marvel MMO

The studio behind DC Universe Online is swapping comic book multiverses to create a triple-A Marvel MMO for its next project, and it's being headed by City of Heroes lead designer Jack Emmert - who has been trying to get a Marvel Universe Online game going since at least 2006.


DC Universe Online - the DC Comics MMO by Dimensional Ink Games and Daybreak Game Company - will be 11 years old in January, so it's perhaps not a surprise that these studios are looking ahead to their next game. While DC Universe Online will continue to be supported, Dimensional Ink Games has started work on its next unannounced project - which we now know to be a Marvel MMO.


The Q3 2021 investor presentation for Enad Global 7 - the holding company that owns Daybreak - reveals that the unannounced massively multiplayer online game at Dimensional Ink will be "Marvel IP based" and "triple-A", and will be led by City of Heroes designer Jack Emmert, who is also currently heading up DC Universe Online.


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New Episode: House of Legends

[h2]New Episode: House of Legends[/h2]

Answer The Monitor's call and travel to his House of Legends, a new shared hero and villain hub at the center of all worlds.

A vast threat approaches, and you - with your allies - will need to be stronger than you are now to face it. To get stronger, everything must change.

House of Legends features this new shared hub, an updated On Duty menu with Quick Play missions, Omnibus scaling content with full rewards and with no loot locks, Save the Universe up-leveled classic content, the Allies system, new rewards, access level upgrades, Doctor Fate's Daily Rewards, and more.

For a limited time, the standard (not up-leveled) versions of Save the Universe content are also available with increased rewards. Look for both in your On Duty menu. 

This episode and all episodes are free for all players.





New Hub: The House of Legends
The Monitor calls all heroes and villains to his House of Legends to train, coordinate, and prepare for a looming multiversal threat. The House of Legends sits in The Bleed, a plane in between universes, where Tempus Fuginaut, Harbinger, and others from numerous universes watch over the multiverse.

Look for a wide array of useful and practical tools throughout the House of Legends, including the Orrery of Worlds to teleport you across dimensions, the Training Hall for peacefully practicing your combat skills, the Archives, and more. 
  • The House of Legends is a new hub or headquarters shared by both factions, an alternative to the Watchtower and the Hall of Doom
  • Use the Orrery of Worlds teleporter to easily travel to all of the game's open world zones.
  • Visit style vendors for a one-stop-shop to finding episode gear styles from our past
  • Find Chang Tzu in the main observation deck to browse his selection of Combat Pets
  • Talk to Tempus Fuginaut to find gear most important for you (previously Mechanical Supply Vendor)
  • Look for "Together Unbroken" in your Journal to get started exploring this new hub
New Content: Save the Universe Part One - Superman Classics
Mend time itself with Rip Hunter and travel back (or is it forward?) in time to play up-leveled and updated classic adventures!
  • Choose between event (the original), regular, and elite versions of each Save the Universe instance
  • Use the On Duty menu to queue up for The Science Spire (duo), Phantom Zone (alert), and Power Core (raid) under the Save the Universe category
  • Look for "Call to Save the Universe" in your Journal, then visit Rip Hunter in the House of Legends to get started
  • Make sure you pick up your daily and weekly missions "Perpetual Preparation" and "Save the Universe"
  • Stay tuned for Batman Classics and Wonder Woman Classics coming in parts two and three of Save the Universe later this fall
New System: Allies
Summon powerful and iconic DC Super-Heroes and Supervillains as your Allies in battle!
  • Collect and unlock Allies including Tier 1 Oracle-Bot, Calc-Bot, House of Legends Bot, and Tier 2 Professor Zoom, The Flash, and Cyborg 
  • Tier 3 Allies Queen Diana, Flashpoint Batman, and Emperor Aquaman will launch at a later date
  • Collect Ally Favor to rank up your relationships with your Allies
  • Open the new Allies UI from your PDA to rank up and then equip active and passive Allies
  • Look for "Call for Allies" in your Journal and visit Cyborg to get started
Updated UI: On Duty and Quick Play
Use an updated On Duty menu to queue and play faster than ever before. Easily select your preferences for type of content and jump right in.
  • Quick Play will queue for for every eligible instance based on your selections and randomly place you into the next available
  • Choose from Latest Episodes, Save the Universe, Omnibus, Seasonals, or Custom Play (the old On Duty menu)
  • Earn extra rewards by completing automatically granted daily and weekly Quick Play Omnibus missions  
New System: Omnibus 
Get into DCUO in a whole new way with the Omnibus system. Play any content your character is eligible for, prior to our latest three episodes, for full rewards and without loot locks. Player stats will be scaled to appropriate levels for all Omnibus content.
  • Omnibus Combat Rating requirements have been reorganized into tiers for simplicity and each tier will unlock in full at once
  • Player stats will scale to about ten levels higher than NPCs in whichever instance
  • Stats from Skill Points, Artifacts, Augments, Leagues, Generator Mods, and certain Movement Mode, Iconic, and Allies abilities will scale proportionally afterwards, which means increasing these will always add power to your character (even in Omnibus content)
  • Missions in the Mission Journal have had their Combat Ratings/Levels updated to correspond to the new Tiers
New Rewards
  • Earn new feats, gear, and styles inspired by Tempus Fuginaut and The Monitor.
Doctor Fate's Daily Rewards
Get ready for an all-new, easy system to claim your daily rewards. This system replaces the vault and the stabilizer duo, adds many new rewards each day, and introduces new currencies for the new daily rewards store - run by Doctor Fate!
  • Earn and claim rewards for each day you log in every calendar month
  • Log in enough days (around 21) to obtain a special rare style or item
  • Rewards include new Fate Tokens and Destiny Tokens for Doctor Fate's store, as well as Artifact XP, Ally Favor, Stabilizers, and more
  • Note: August's rewards are a shortened month with non-standard days
Access Levels and Free Episodes
Each access level (free, premium, member) have new and updated benefits. Most notably, all episodes are now free for all players!
Changes for every access level include:
  • Free episodes
  • Free Doctor Fate's Daily Login Rewards
  • Full access to lair and utility belt systems
  • Cash cap increased from 2,000 to 50,000
  • +7 additional inventory slots

Changes for the premium access level include:
  • Cash cap increased from 3,000 to unlimited

Changes for membership include:
  • Member Doctor Fate's Daily Login Rewards
  • 3x more rewards, in addition to the free rewards
  • +50% bonus to timed drops of Artifact XP and Ally favor
  • +7 (more) Inventory slots
  • +8 (more) Bank slots
  • +7 (more) Shared Bank slots

All other membership benefits remain, including the monthly grants of 150 Replay Badges and 500 Daybreak Cash (PC) or Loyalty Points (consoles). Membership cost has not increased.


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Springtime Event

Spring is in the air! Poison Ivy is back to wreak havoc on the people of Gotham City! We’ve added four new Feats, new bee-themed Base items, chromas and style items.

Collect Seed Pods and purchase Spring items from “Arborist Louis” next to Swamp Thing in the Watchtower or “The Misgiving Tree” next to Poison Ivy in the Hall of Doom.

Villains can learn more about Poison Ivy’s plans by speaking to her in the Hall of Doom’s Pit, while Heroes can speak to Swamp Thing in the Watchtower’s Aquacultural Area to help bring down Ivy and her minions. Speak to Veronica Cale (Villains) or Doctor Sarah Charles (Heroes) to find out more about taking on Swamp Thing.

Level Requirement: 10

New Feats!
  • Leader of the Swarm
  • Buzz About Town
  • Just Bee Yourself
  • Building a Hive










New Episode: World of Flashpoint!

Inspired by the iconic Flashpoint storyline, World of Flashpoint opens a window into this altered timeline.

The Flash's time travel has caused everything to be darker and different. Atlantis, led by Emperor Aquaman, and New Themyscira, led by Flashpoint Wonder Woman, are locked in a bitter war. Thomas Wayne - Flashpoint Batman - has become a violent vigilante as Gotham City descends into greater suffering. 

It will be up to you to travel into this chaotic timeline to set things right. 

World of Flashpoint features new daily and weekly Open World missions, with expert and elite versions of a Duo, an Alert, and two Raids. Plus, the final raid features five additional levels of challenge! 

For a limited time, special event versions of all content in World of Flashpoint will be available to all players level 15+ as well! Look for these Event versions in the Events tab of your On Duty menu.

Best of all, this episode is FREE to EVERYONE, permanently. 





[h2]New Episode: World of Flashpoint[/h2]

New Open World Missions – World of Flashpoint: Flashpoint Gotham City
  • Look for World of Flashpoint: Flashpoint Gotham City in your Warp Menu or use the teleporter in the Watchtower or Hall of Doom
  • New Daily and Weekly missions in Flashpoint Gotham City
  • Minimum Level: 15
New Duo – Flashpoint: Queen’s Row Penitentiary

Something isn't quite right with the Queen's Row Penitentiary, a floating prison above Flashpoint Gotham. Team up with Flashpoint Cyborg and Flashpoint Batman to find out what's going on.
  • Open your On Duty Menu and look for FP: Queen’s Row Penitentiary under Tier 10 of the 2 Player Tab. Combat Rating: 322
  • For the Event Version – look for FP: Queen’s Row Penitentiary (Event) in the On Duty Menu under the Events Tab. Minimum Level: 15
New Alert – Flashpoint: The Royal War

Flashpoint Batman has a strategy for dealing with the Royal War: break the impasse by taking away the super-weapon of Atlantis and the super-shield of New Themyscira. If he's right, that will be enough to convince his true target to reveal himself. You and the Flash are going to help.
  • Open your On Duty Menu and look for FP: The Royal War under Tier 10 of the 4 Player Tab. Combat Rating: 322
  • For the Event Version – look FP: The Royal War (Event) in the On Duty Menu under the Events Tab. Minimum Level: 15
New Raid – Flashpoint: Flashtastic Voyage

Flashpoint Cyborg thinks that the source of the chaos lies in the 31st Century, and needs a team to help track down the lead.
  • Open your On Duty Menu and look for FP: Flashtastic Voyage under Expert Tier 10 of the 8 Player Tab. Combat Rating: 322
  • For the Event Version – look for FP: Flashtastic Voyage (Event) in the On Duty Menu under the Events Tab. Minimum Level: 15
New Raid – Flashpoint: Flash to the Future

With the realisation that you were in Kid Flash's nightmare perpetuated by Brainiac, find and confront Brainiac to put an end to this!
  • Open your On Duty Menu and look for FP: Flash to the Future under Expert Tier 10 of the 8 Player Tab. Combat Rating: 322
  • For the Event Version – look for FP: Flash to the Future (Event) in the On Duty Menu under the Events Tab. Minimum Level: 15
New Gear, Base Items, Feats and More
  • Earn new event currency: Wayne Casino Chips!
  • New Artifacts and Augments!
  • Acquire new gear inspired by Heatwave and Doomsday!
  • New Limited Purchase Vendor Items, for when luck is not on your side.
  • Plus collect new base items, feats, and more!



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Questions or comments? Join the discussion on the official forums.


 

10th Anniversary Event Begins!



[h2]Attack of the Anti-Monitor 10th Anniversary Event[/h2]

The anniversary event is back this year for our 10th anniversary, and it is bigger than ever!

New Event Raid and Elite Raid: Speed Force Flux

This year, things have changed. The vindictive Anti-Monitor is trying to free himself using one of the Multiverse’s most powerful and destructive paradoxes. Even if we win, will this new Flashpoint world prove too much for The Flash and Professor Zoom?

Open your On Duty menu and queue for "Speed Force Flux" or "Speed Force Flux Elite" under the events tab. The elite version is a full end-game difficulty raid.

 


New Open World Missions

Revisit an updated Metropolis Anti-Matter Invasion Zone for brand-new daily, weekly, and bounty missions created just for this year's 10th Anniversary Event!

Open your Mission Journal and look for "Monitoring the Situation," or use the Warp Menu to go directly to the Metropolis Anti-Matter Invasion Zone.


New 10th Anniversary Rewards
  • Unlock new styles inspired by The Flash and Professor Zoom.
  • Earn scaling gear based on your character's Combat Rating up to Item Level 270.
    • Members and Long Live The Legion owners will earn scaling gear up to Item Level 283 in the Elite Raid.


  • Earn Qwardian Crowns (anniversary currency) to use at the anniversary vendor.
    • Members and Episode owners will additionally earn Lex Coins (Birds of Prey), Splintered Coins (Wonderverse), or Solar Credits (Long Live The Legion) in the new raid, determined by your character's Combat Rating.


  • Earn Elite Commendations from prior Episodes when successful in the Elite Raid.
  • Collect new Boss Triumph Statues (base items) from DCUO's most challenging foes from the last 10 years.
  • Plus, look for new base items, Henchmen, feats, and more!



Years Past

Of course, classic content from previous years is back, too. Open your On Duty menu to queue up for "Centennial Collapse" to get started. Plus, look for reduced costs on rewards from prior anniversaries! 

And remember, our 10th anniversary is January 11, 2021, so make sure to stop by again for gifts and more!