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Heroes & Heralds: The offline campaign unlocks cards

Posted by SFilp — December 14, 2011 at 2:54 p.m. PST

Capcom-Unity did a blog post talking about the offline campaign for the Heroes & Heralds mode. They discuss a few things from how to obtain cards to how to go about changing cards in between matches.

In the offline mode, the goal is to dominate each territory on this hexagonal grid. After choosing either the Hero or Herald faction, you then hop from place to place, either defending Earth as a Hero or trying to claim it as a Herald of Galactus. Each victory brings you closer to owning that territory, and if you achieve 100% ownership of a given battleground you're rewarded with a top-notch Ability Card. However... the final battle for the last 10% is a real doozy, with brutal AI opponents armed with particularly strong Ability Cards. A tough battle, but all that playing will yield many Ability Cards for the online portion, where you're facing down other players.

Thankfully, there's more to do in the offline mode than move a percentage bar. Notice the Hit List in the lower right corner - as you move from area to area, the Hit List alerts you as to which characters inhabit a given battleground. If you pay attention to this data and "take out" a full row of the Hit List, a bonus background will appear. This newly unlocked area will award even better Ability Cards, but if you lose a match on that stage, poof, the area disappears.

Comments

NyuBomber said on December 14, 2011 at 2:58 p.m.

Kewl beans.

xShonuffx said on December 14, 2011 at 2:58 p.m.

If they continue to roll out new content like this every year, it will keep the game alive for a long time.

roknin said on December 14, 2011 at 3:02 p.m.

This is pretty hype, looks like some offline fun to be had for me. Not taking UMvC3 seriously for now; maybe this mode will help me take some of my hatred from the game. :p

Anyway, looks like fun times.

phantomprince29 said on December 14, 2011 at 3:06 p.m.

WORLD TOUR IS BACK!!!!

Dygengar said on December 14, 2011 at 3:09 p.m.

Interesting kinda looking forward to it

Ninjanuity said on December 14, 2011 at 3:14 p.m.

I know Wesker is on everyone's hit list. :P

So hype for this mode. And Shonuff is right, so long as the DLC is free!

....

Not gonna happen.

FPSForcefulEntry said on December 14, 2011 at 3:15 p.m.

Nice I've had enough of the gems news today, really lookin forward to this mode.

ChunLi said on December 14, 2011 at 3:43 p.m.

Yes! A mode that turns us into hypocrites!

First week:
"I will defend the Earth from those Heralds!"

Next week:
"This world belongs to Galactus!"

All in all, this looks SO damn fun! The possibilities are near endless, and for a mode that is MEANT to be broken and unbalanced, I find this so entertaining.

roknin said on December 14, 2011 at 5:28 p.m.

@ ChunLi - honestly, that's what makes it interesting for me, the fact it's made to be unbalanced, just fun trying to get abilities and break the game.

I miss these kinds of modes in my fighters. Makes a nice break from the serious training and such.

bullitt23 said on December 14, 2011 at 5:31 p.m.

Sounds like a entertaining hopwever broken mode, If offline battle between friends is confirmed, and this mode will be perfect

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ChunLi said on December 14, 2011 at 6:31 p.m.

@10

I think there's a practice mode for it, and you can set the opponent to Player 2 and have their own cards.

If that's true, we got offline H&H.

#11

sprflyspdrguy said on December 14, 2011 at 7:01 p.m.

This will be mad cool. Can't wait for this!

#12

danny2times said on December 15, 2011 at 7:50 a.m.

what a stupid mode I mean why have a mechanic that destroys balance intentionally? Fun? Huh? Gems? Ooh sorry I mean cards. Lol no hate over here but saying the word gems seems to initiate all kinds of rage, yet over here they announce cards and the same people say it sounds fun. Go figure, I look forward to this update as well as the sfxtk gem system. Just making a point. Cheers.

#13

22Travail said on December 15, 2011 at 8:20 a.m.

I don't think they need to patch Wesker, people just need to find ways to deal with him. Its just like when Vanilla came out and Sentinel was the "Best character in the game"...eventually everyone found a way to deal with him and now he's not a threat. In actuality, Sentinel is still more of a threat then wesker...one hit from him and your toast. The only diffrence is wesker needs two chances to kill and Sentinel needs one. Any character can kill all three characters off of level 3 X-Factor. The only thing I agree on is bringing Weskers health down to 950K. Done... Patched!

#14

Trollinhard said on December 15, 2011 at 12:37 p.m.

@6
hahaha still mad about wesker? That's what happens when capcom makes a game that is targeted at noobs

#15

DarkPhoenixRises said on December 15, 2011 at 1:39 p.m.

@13 I don't think people are saying gems won't be fun, they are mad because 1. Gems are apart of standard gameplay, cards is not mandatory, and unlike gems if u don't have to request personally that your opponent don't use gems if u don't like them. and 2. All gems are not free....Special Gems will be available for DLC, some people think this will throw off balance if those Gems are really good...which if they cost money they better well damn be...

Now I don't give a damn what Capcom does with SFXT I was never going to get that game....It reminds me too much of Sf4, which is dead to me

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Cannon_Spook said on December 20, 2011 at 12:05 a.m.

Good comparison.

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