Fisk Companions

Characters defend with shields. They raise their shield when:

• a projectile flies at them;
• an opponent swings at them up close;
• someone has just hit them.

They block in short bursts and turn to face the threat, so they still fight back. They don't attack while the shield is up.

• Suit shields and protective fields: Iron Man Mk50/Mk85 nanite shields, Doctor Strange's shield, wide energy fields, and any heropack suit with a shield power.
• Captain America's shield, held like a player blocks: right arm across the chest, shield over the body.
• Fisk's rules apply: only hits from the covered side are stopped, shields take damage and can break, and melee attackers are knocked back.

Ender Dragon: characters now really fight it. Before, it took no damage from them (vanilla only lets players and explosions hurt it), and heroes rarely picked it as a target.

• Melee hits land. A hero close to the head hits the head for full damage; elsewhere it's a body hit.
• Blasts and beams count as body hits (a quarter of the damage + 1), the same as a player's arrow.
• Unowned heroes target the dragon and ghasts, and look for bosses up to 96 blocks away.
• A hero follows its owner's attack even when the owner hits a dragon part.

One power over and over: characters with several ranged powers now rotate them, firing the one used longest ago. Before, Hulkbuster fired only its repulsors.

Stuck in walls (Nether):

• Characters that end up inside blocks move to the nearest free spot after half a second, or to their owner.
• Teleporting to the owner checks that the character's full (scaled) size fits.
• Growing characters (Hulk, Hulkbuster, Ant-Man) don't grow when there's no room.

Fliers don't take off under a low ceiling. They land and walk when flight keeps hitting walls, or when the owner can be reached on foot through a tunnel.


Flight animation:

• Fliers no longer take off and land again every time the owner jumps.
• They take off only when they need to: the owner is flying, or is really high up or far away.
• Their pose no longer flickers between flying and standing.
• The boost pose has a dead zone, so it doesn't switch on and off.
• Turning and pitch are smoothed, and hovering is steady about a block above the ground.