Hawkeye himself is joining the roster, too. At the moment, the Weakest Avenger doesn’t seem to have any shiny new powers outside of “bearing a strong resemblance to Commander Shepard from the first Mass Effect.” He’ll come with his own dedicated Operation, too, called “Future Imperfect.” Square Enix hasn’t announced a release date for these characters but did describe their two respective missions as a “double feature.”

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Spider-Man will come to the game early next year, but only for PlayStation players.

Beyond characters, a new hub area is en route. Called Substation Zero, it’s helmed by SHIELD commander Maria Hill and will launch alongside a narrative element involving temporal anomalies. Presumably, this will introduce a bunch of mind-bending quests. In the department of moonshots, I’m hoping you’ll finally be able to talk to both SHIELD and Inhuman faction vendors in one spot, as opposed to the current system that requires you to travel to the Helicarrier, talk to Alisande Morales, snag all of the SHIELD assignments, head back to the War Table, load up the Ant Hill, find Sarah Garza, and accept all of the Inhuman assignments, just so you can earn some faction points in the background as you tackle other tasks. But hey, maybe that’s just me.

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A raid-like mode called AIM’s Secret Lab will be available at a soon but unspecified date. It’ll only be available once per week and is billed as a “true test of late-game co-op gameplay,” culminating in a boss fight that Square Enix says will call for more strategy than simply unleashing a torrent of superpowers. Best increase those Power levels now!

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