After months of promises and leaks, Hawkeye finally hits Marvel’s Avengers on March 18, Crystal Dynamix and Square Enix announced in a new video on Tuesday. The update also includes the free PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X updates for the game and a new region.
A few months after Kate Bishop’s arrival on December 8, Clint Barton (AKA Hawkeye) will join the Avenger’s Initiative. In the War Table video, Crystal Dynamics outlines the similarities and differences between the original Hawkeye and its protégé. Clint and Kate both use a combination of sword and bow on the battlefield, but their active abilities and arrow types differ. They also traverse the map differently, with Kate teleporting and Clint with his grab arrows.
In addition to the new hero, admiresee Avengers‘March update adds the Future Imperfect Operation. This new mission set adds the Future Wasteland region, inspired by the Old Man Hawkeye series. The Wasteland is a future version of Earth 616, destroyed by nuclear war and a Kree invasion. The current Hawkeye timeline and the future Hawkeye will work with dog Kate and Lucky to defeat Maestro – a distant future supervillain version of the Hulk with brain and brain.
The next generation console version of Marvel’s Avengers includes the usual upgrades: increased footage, higher frame rate and faster loads. Operation Future Imperfect and Hawkeye are both free for everyone Marvel’s Avengers players.
Tuesday’s war table did not include Black Panther – the alleged next hero – or the absence of Marvel’s Avengers‘raid-like activity.