By now you know what to expect from Marvel’s Avengers on day one:

• A Full-length campaign featuring an original Avengers narrative
  
• 6 Heroes, each with 50+ skills to upgrade + gear/outfits to unlock
  
• 80+ War Zones/Drop Zones to play with friends or your AI Avengers
  
• Regularly updated Priority HARM Challenges & Priority Missions
  
• Later game mission types like Hives and Villain Sectors
  
• 50+ enemy types to master
  
• And in the future, new playable Avengers like Hawkeye, as well as new story content and regions – all at no additional cost

In addition to all of the above, we wanted to arm you with other important info that ensures you’re ready to go on September 4. This week we’re dropping daily blog posts that outline Everything You Need to Know about Marvel’s Avengers. Today, we are starting with details on Square Enix Membership requirements, the Day One Patch, and more! Let’s go!

BEFORE LAUNCH
SIGNING UP FOR A SQUARE ENIX MEMBERS ACCOUNT
For those of you who played the Marvel’s Avengers Beta, you’ll already have a free Square Enix Members account tied to your game profile.

Your Square Enix Members account is the gateway to redeem promotional pre-launch codes, and for Marvel’s Avengers post-launch content, including new heroes, new missions, and new regions at no additional cost. While not required for Reassemble campaign single-player missions, the free account is required for entering the Avengers Initiative to play co-op with your friends in the full game.

We recommend that anyone planning on buying the game should register their account early, so you’re not caught in potential launch-day email delays. In fact, everyone who signs up for an account will receive an exclusive Thor nameplate!



Visit https://membership.square-enix.com/register to sign up for your Square Enix Members account.

While Marvel’s Avengers’ launch is officially September 4, 72-hour Early Access is granted for those who pre-order the Deluxe Edition.

For early-access eligible digital editions of Marvel’s Avengers, the game will unlock at on September 1 - 9:00 AM PDT


PRE-ORDER PERKS

You can pre-order Marvel’s Avengers any time prior to the September 4 launch and still get access to the pre-order perks.

PC: September 4 - 9:00 AM PDT

We know fans are most excited about unlocking the Marvel Legacy Outfits, inspired by moments from the comics that defined each Avenger on their journey to becoming the icons they are today.



AT LAUNCH
DAY-ONE PATCH

While we were able to adjust development to a work-from-home environment quickly, we did lose a bit of production time in the transition. As hard as we tried, there were several updates and refinements that we could not get into the game, but plan to address with the Day One Patch to ensure everyone has the same great experience at launch.

The Day One Patch includes several updates and refinements that are required for play. Additionally, the patch includes localization files for the game’s dialogue, which are quite extensive, as we are localizing Marvel’s Avengers in 15 different languages.

The Day One Patch is also important as it includes lots of fixes, feedback, updates, and tuning from our Beta weekends. Over the last three weekends, millions of you have played the game for tens of millions of hours and killed hundreds of millions of AIM enemies. Your participation has been of immense value to us as we work to squash bugs, tune performance, and finalize game balance. We hope you will see and feel it when you play the final game!

WHEN CAN I GET IT?
We also wanted to give you an update on when global servers will go live and you can start playing the game!

From the beginning, our overall vision for Marvel’s Avengers has always been one where players would assemble online to protect the Earth and battle the forces of AIM as a team. While the entire game can be played solo with companion AI, the game has been designed as a seamless online experience, where players would transition from the single-player campaign to joining with friends in co-op missions as part of the Avengers Initiative.

As a result, everyone will need to wait until the servers officially go live on September 1st to start playing. It is important for us that matchmaking servers are populated because co-op is a fully integrated part of the experience.

Still have questions about Square Enix Members, the Day One Patch, or Pre-order Perks? Let us know on social!

Tomorrow we’ll run through Everything you Need to Know about accessibility in Marvel’s Avengers, followed by an overview of online play on Thursday, a rundown of gear and cosmetics on Friday, a Beta postmortem on Saturday, and a look at the weekly gameplay ritual on Sunday!

It's not too late to participate in the BETA and play Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Download the BETA now for free and give it a go!

We built the Marvel’s Avengers BETA to give you a slice of the full game experience: single-player content from the original campaign, co-op War Zone missions, hero and world progress, and even more! Check out our Beta Deep Dive Video for the scoop.

Hero progression is one of Marvel’s Avengers main systems, and the BETA gives a taste of earning experience to level up your unique Hero. In the BETA, you’ll have access to the starting Skill page for Iron Man, Hulk, Kamala, and Black Widow. You can reach up to a Hero Level of 15 and a Power Level of 45 in the BETA.

You can also unlock two exclusive Nameplates for participating in the Marvel’s Avengers BETA, which will be carried over to launch.

It's time to take flight! The Marvel's Avengers Open BETA is now LIVE until August 23 on Steam! Invite your friends to build your Strike Team. Download for free now!

Tomorrow we will be releasing a patch for Marvel’s Avengers Beta, build 26.1. We have been paying close attention during the Beta last weekend and this patch aims to address a lot of player feedback and issues players ran into during that first closed Beta.

Fixes included:

• We have seen how some people struggled with severe stutters/lag and irregular performance and we have made several fixes that will solve or at least improve those.
  
• A variety of fixes for crashes seen during last weekend have been implemented, which includes certain older systems not being able to launch at all, but also some that occurred rarely during gameplay. We will keep monitoring for other crashes and will release updates as we have them.
  
• Multiple improvements and optimizations made to matchmaking.
  
• Changed default settings to wide combat camera distance, heavy targeting assistance (for gamepad) and matchmaking disabled.
  
• Added an option in Settings to adjust Camera Shake Sensitivity.
  
• Decreased amount of motion blur during sprint and flight.
  
• We have made fixes for issues surrounding microphone handling and muting other players.
  
• We have addressed some graphical issues, for example when using SSSR while having TAA turned off.
  
• We have solved issues with the Dynamic Screen Resolution feature, especially when it was combined with HBAO+. With those fixes we recommend turning on Dynamic Screen Resolution again (at your desired minimum frame-rate) to ensure you are able to stick to your desired frame-rate no matter how hectic the game gets.
  
• Improvements to vaulting.
  
• Decreased delay of loot drops.
  
• We have brought in some initial improvements to our support for ultra-wide and super-ultrawide screens, with us planning more for launch.
  
• Various other smaller fixes and improvements.

During the weekend we will keep monitoring for feedback and will release further patches as it seems required. We always welcome your feedback!

Pre-loading for the Marvel's Avengers Open BETA is now live on Steam! Pre-load the BETA so you're all set when it's live from August 21st to August 23rd.

TWO DAYS until the final Marvel's Avengers Open Beta for Steam opens up! We have updates and patch notes coming that will fix issues from last week's Beta. We'll be posting them before the Open Beta begins.

Sign up early for a Square Enix Member's account, which is required for the BETA: playavengers.games/6j3

A picture is worth a thousand Arc Reactors.

Show us the moments in time you captured in Photographer Mode while playing the BETA! Photographer Mode can be found in the main menu and contains options to amp up each picture you take.

Assemble your team of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, embrace your powers, and live your Super Hero dreams.

August 14 – 16

Planning to stream the Marvel's Avengers BETA? Download our streamer kit, which includes overlays you can use to Embrace Your Powers while streaming!

➡️ Direct Download Link: playavengers.games/2k2

Pre-loading for the Marvel's Avengers Pre-order BETA is now live on Steam! Pre-load the BETA so you're all set when it begins on August 14.

What's in the BETA? Take a look at our deep dive below!