What is Cover Exchange?
The Cover Exchange system is a brand new system for players to swap their excess covers to acquire covers of their choice! Exchange covers that are pending in your in-game inbox to acquire the covers you need to strengthen your heroes and build up your roster!
How Does Cover Exchange Work?
When a player obtains a Max Leveled Champion or Ascended character of any rarity, they will unlock the ability to Exchange excess covers of that character in their inbox for other covers of their choice within that character’s natural rarity. There are some exceptions like Limited & Latest Legends characters in the current rotation which we’ve detailed at the end of this blog.
Max Champed Cover Exchanges
For example, if a player has a Max Champed 3-Star Squirrel Girl (Unbeatable), any additional 3-Star Squirrel Girl covers in their inbox will appear with an orange “Exchange” button in the bottom right corner.
After selecting this “Exchange” button, players will access the new Exchange Menu. In this menu, players can choose the exact number of Squirrel Girl covers they want to exchange and what covers (and color) they would like to swap to. In this case, we’re swapping to purple covers for 3-Star Agatha Harkness (Governess).
Each cover swap has a flat per-cover Hero Point (HP) cost that scales with the cover’s rarity. 1-Stars will have the lowest per-cover Exchange cost, while 5-Stars will have the highest. If a cover has a 200 HP Exchange cost, exchanging 2 covers will cost 400 HP, exchanging 3 will cost 600 HP, and so on.
After selecting a new cover to Exchange to and spending the required amount of HP, the covers will be Exchanged and the new covers will appear in the in-game inbox!
(Note: New covers may appear scattered across the inbox after an Exchange is complete. Please review the whole inbox to see all of your new covers.)
Ascended Character Cover Exchanges
Any Ascended character, no matter their rarity, can also have their covers Exchanged. Any additional covers acquired for a character that is already Ascended can be used to level up that character or be Exchanged for other covers within that character’s natural rarity.
For example, if a player has 2-Star-3 Ascended Ares (Dark Avengers) and obtains additional Ares covers in their inbox, they will have two options for these covers:
- Use these covers to Train and level up their 2-Star-3 Ascended Ares
- Exchange these Ares covers for other 2-Star character covers via the Cover Exchange system (such as purple covers for 2-Star Daken (Dark Avengers))
The choice is yours!
Swapping Between Cover Colors
The Cover Exchange system also allows for swapping from one cover color to another on the same character. Using the same Ascended 2-Star-3 Ares scenario from above as an example, players can swap his Green covers for Yellow or Red covers instead. The per-cover Exchange cost applies to these Exchanges as well.
TL;DR
The Cover Exchange system is straightforward: After getting extra covers for a Max Level Champion or Ascended character in your inbox, choose the number of extra covers you would like to Exchange from your inbox, choose the character covers you’d like to Exchange for, and spend the requisite amount of HP to complete the Exchange. Finally, enjoy your new covers and level up your roster!
FAQs
1. WHAT’S THE PER-COVER EXCHANGE COST FOR EACH RARITY?
1-Star Exchange - 75 HP (per cover)
2-Star Exchange - 100 HP (per cover)
3-Star Exchange - 200 HP (per cover)
4-Star Exchange - 500 HP (per cover)
5-Star Exchange - 1250 HP (per cover)
2. ARE THERE ANY CHARACTERS/COVERS THAT I CAN’T SWAP TO?
The Cover Exchange system will have a short list of covers that will be restricted from the Exchange. These include 2 categories:
LIMITED CHARACTER COVERS
- Bag-Man
- Spider-Ham
- Taskmaster
- Devil Dino
- Howard the Duck
CURRENT LATEST LEGENDS CHARACTERS COVERS
- Any characters currently in Latest Legends will be restricted from the Cover Exchange system. Once a character rotates out of Latest Legends, they will be unrestricted and join the roster of covers that players can swap to!
3. CAN I BREAK DOWN/PULL COVERS OUT OF A CHARACTER AND EXCHANGE THEM?
No, the Cover Exchange system only applies to covers for already Max Champed or Ascended characters that are pending in a player’s in-game inbox.
4. DOES THE COVER EXPIRATION TIMER RESET AFTER AN EXCHANGE?
Yes, if a cover from the inbox is Exchanged, the newly Exchanged cover will have its expiration timer reset to the maximum of 14 days.
5. CAN WE COMBINE ASCENDED CHARACTERS WITH THIS SYSTEM?
No, but combining Ascended characters is something we may do in the future.
6. WHEN WILL THE COVER EXCHANGE FEATURE BE AVAILABLE?
Cover Exchanges will be released as part of our R317 patch the week of December 16th.