I think I am done for now with the Closed Beta. I had a lot of fun tried several characters and as a completely new person to the game I put together some thoughts on them:
Deadpool
-Fun to play, its a blast to mow down enemies with miniguns, bazookas, decoy bombs.
-Uses no resources, seriously this guy feels so broken. Enter a room, send the decoy, use bazooka and pop canadian devil.... everything is dead.
-He can play melee or ranged but I personally had more fun and feel that a ranged build is more appropriate for him.
-I cleared his heroic trial, with no problem and completed an operation on heroic, the first one, and only died once as i did not know the boss patterns.
-Feels like a ridiculous OP character.
-He is very chatty, always making jokes and makes some of the funniest remarks when near other players.
-His transportation skill is a red scooter.
Blade
-Very cool looking character.
-You need to manage two resources - Ammo and Thirst.
-I think with the different melee and ranged skills they really nailed the Blade archetype and a lot of movies will be recognised if you watched the movies.
-You can build him ranged or melee, I found that he was very "balanced" in the way that both builds seemed very efficient and a blast to play.
-Completed the Heroic trial and the same patrol as I did with dead pool. Did not die and was fairly easy. I used a melee build.
-His transportation skill is a black motorcycle. (I would have liked to see the car from the movies)
Ghost rider
-One of the surprising characters for me.
-Great design, skills look awesome.
-Had tons of fun playing him as a ranged glass cannon with fire skills. You clear rooms fast and feel like a boss doing it. Melee is slower but way more durable, you have life on hit on skills, and the skills where you call in your bike was super nice and crazy.
-I played him the longest, until lv 42 all others until lv 30, because his ranged fire build is just pure joy to play.
-I cleared the heroic operation and the heroic patrol but I had problems managing his mana is hard (at least for me) and if you don't use the chains powers for self healing you are quite squishy.
-His transportation skill is his bike, which leaves behind a fire trail and you can kill most enemies by just riding around
Hulk
-"The" surprise of the Beta for me. I wanted to play a strong archetype but Cage was trash and they made one of my favourite characters, Colossus, a pet class?.... I'm glad it turned out this way as Hulk was pretty dam fun.
-They really nailed the feel of being the Hulk. From his dash skill, to his meteor crash, the scream, the multi punches, the jumps, grabbing a car splitting it in to and using it to hit your opponent will never get old... This character was awesome to play. I actually felt I wanted to use more than 8 skills on my bar because they were all so freaking cool.
-His signature skill seemed a bit underwhelming compared to the others I tried but he's an amazingly cool, and strong character to play.
-Cleared heroic operation and heroic trial with no problems, was a breeze.
-His transportation skill is running.
War Machine
-Bought him after playing with a random guy online in a party for a while.
-Fun character, very flashy, you feel like a walking arsenal with miniguns, shoulder mounted rocket launchers, chainguns.
-You have to manage 2 resources, Heat and Suit Power.
-You can play him melee or ranged, his ranged abilities are super cool. I had a blast playing him both ways, although it seemed that for me it was much harder to pull off the all ranged build.
-I had the most trouble with this character clearing his heroic trial, I failed it once by dieing against the last boss and the second run was pretty close. I lost count how many times I died in the heroic operation.... I need to tweak more things...
I tried other Characters but only until 10, from those a few standouts will be:
-Spidey.
-Psylock.
-Nova.
-Gambit.
-Angela.
