The much awaited first DLC bundle of characters for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is arriving on 30th September. The pack, entitled Curse of the Vampire, contains a line up first revealed at San Diego Comic Con with Blade, Moon Knight, Punisher and Morbius joining the fray. That's not all you'll find included in the expansion, though.
A new Gauntlet Mode will enable up to four players to run a series of challenges in quick succession in order to earn rewards. There's also an Endurance Mode - no prizes for guessing what that entails!
Outside the DLC Expansion Pass content, there's also a bunch of free updates on the way which will bring alternate costumes for all the playable characters. This starts on the 30th August with new threads for Spider-Man, Hulk and Captain Marvel. That day will also see the release of Cyclops and Colossus as playable characters, too.
Marvel fans may be a little miffed at the news that Spider-Man is no longer planned to be part of the MCU, so perhaps diving into this full-fat Marvel melange would be a good way to forget all the bureaucracy surrounding the movie rights. Much like Smash Bros. Ultimate, everyone is here. Check out our guide for a look at the entire roster side-by-side with their most famous movie counterparts.
The Expansion Pass, which includes three packs (with the Fantastic Four and some X-Men scheduled next), is the only way to get your hands on this DLC. The packs aren't sold separately and the whole caboodle will cost you $19.99 / £17.99.
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So no idea on how much it will be?
@Kalmaro Don’t you have to buy the whole expansion pass even if you just want one?
@nessisonett so it's not a separate deal? You have to by a pass for all content at once? Sheesh. Wonder how much it was.
@Kalmaro the packs are not sold separately. Its £18 for the pass I think. 12 characters, 3 story missions and new modes/infinity trials.
Added a line at the end with the price - $19.99 / £17.99
@Kalmaro yeah they announced awhile back you can only buy the DLC in one big chunk. $20.
But where is Squirrel Girl?
Yes you have to buy all 3 passes together, they are not sold separately. I'm about 60 hours in with a friend and we haven't even completed the story lol. I'm addicted to upgrading all of my characters and trying to unlock their alternate costumes. The game is really fun and the DLC will just add many more hours to this game for me so I'm hyped.
@ShadJV Game seems pretty meaty so I suppose that isn't too bad.
@dartmonkey Thanks!
@Kalmaro meaty might be pushing it I would say good amount but not meaty.
@edgedino it looks like if you're trying to do EVERYTHING, you're pushing ≈60 hours.
Doing just the main story and sidecontent is about 20 hours
Main story is just about 12 hours or so.
That's hard, I'm more of a mainstory plus side content guy. 20ish hours doesn't impress me.
Going back and forth with this and Fire Emblem. I’ll buy the DLC at some point no doubt.
Im looking forward to getting Ghost Rider, Blade and Punisher together in a team.
That's nice, but honestly, I was really hoping for more than four characters per pack. Ah well.
Did not know that Barret is a Marvel Hero
I hope we get some alternate costumes for Ghost Rider to represent the Robbie Reyes version and the Cosmic Ghost Rider version. Even though spoiler is already in the game.
@Kalmaro have game, can confirm meatiness, recommend to any fan of Marvel, especially if you played and enjoyed X-Men Legends. Can’t speak for the DLC yet, isn’t out yet, but sounds like it’ll be worth the price?
@Kalmaro I would put main story a bit less maybe about 8-10 hours not 12 but all depends on who you use I just wrecked everything with venom.
@Kalmaro I don’t know what’s being counted as side content, but the Infinity Gauntlets alone have pushed me well past 20 hours and I’m not close to the end. Adds even more time if you take the time to play as lots of different characters (they each have their own play style).
It has also been confirmed that these DLC packs will contain story content. For some reason most sites are omitting this point.
add in Penny Parker and we have a deal
Nice. Add well known humans too lol
Love this game, already paid for the DLC. Cant wait for the contents of the other DLC packs to be announced.
Can’t wait to play as MK loved him in MUA1 and his Disney plus show will only make my Interest in him grow. I really hope people embrace him and we see “praise konshu“ merch like the “Wakanda Forever” Craze when BP is mentioned 🙂
@PsylockeRules Moon Knight is awesome! That’s the whole reason I bought the DLC when I got the game. The other midnight sons cool too. I’m interested to see if the new mission will fully feature them interacting with the others currently in the midnight sons group.
@edgedino I will say the story can be beaten pretty easily. It took me a little longer to beat since I had it on the highest Difficulty. what was your Difficulty set on when you used Venom to demolish everyone?
@Reigestugatensho right below second highiest.
@Kalmaro It mainly has to do with:
@edgedino That probably explains it. I kept it on the highest difficulty and by the Third to last Chapter I had to get help from my brother. I could no longer beat the game by myself. The bosses got so crazy! Infinity Trials more so!
@Reigestugatensho I got into the habit of dodging everything even using the portals of the final boss to dodge in different ways. but I had to solo do it all.
@edgedino You know using the portals is actually a good idea! I can't believe I never thought of that. I got my little bro, Black Panther/Doctor Strange/Ms.Marvel/Spider-Gwen and we just kinda rinse repeat until we beat it on our 3rd time.
@Reigestugatensho i ended up using venom, elsa bloodstone (both of which will be part of my ultimate team), black panther, and storm. storm has plenty of area based attacks and atleast half her special attacks give elemental type damage effects to the team when fully powered.
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