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Big post incoming

Let's address everyone's points here. It's 2am, so forgive any slight errors.

Mysterium

It was stated that Mysterium would be absent from the build in the first week of the month, yet the overall amount of Mysterium would remain the same throughout the month.
The feedback is heard that you don't like the lack of Mysterium during the first week of the month - that has been passed onto the team a few times now.

Intimidate

Intimidate reduces the Opponents chance of throwing a Special by 30%.
The additional potency listed is for block penetration - if multiple stacks exits, the block penetration increases.
Intimidate simply is not a Special Lock - that effect exists and is different from Intimidate.
If we ever do a Tech version of Titania 2099, there's a solid chance she'd have a Special Lock instead of Falter & Intimidate (no, this is not a WOW LEAKS moment).

I don't understand why multiple people are referencing her Deep Dive.
The Deep Dive states "take advantage of her Intimidate to KO the Opponent," and that's about it, while showcasing her utilizing her heavy attacks after her Special 3 with an appropriate amount of Power on the Opponent.

Silk Lock Knock-ons

This is absolutely a valid concern and something I brought up internally.
At this time, the team feels the changes made to prevent Silk (and others) from breaking the game are too important to revert, even if it's impacting Titania if she happens to push the Opponent red. As an avid Titania user, I fully understand the impact when closing out a fight and you need to continue using your Heavy after your Haymakers have come and gone.
I can poke at this again, but I would recommend using her Special 3 when the Opponent isn't at 3 bars of power.

Further AI Concerns

I understand the AI can be frustrating at times - it can be frustrating often. Don't forget, I'm a very high level player as well and run into all the same AI, I believe the kids call it "clown fiesta moments" that you all do. "Fixing the AI" is a very touchy subject, and as outlined in our previous AI Dev Diary, there are lots of talented people working behind the scenes to try and make this as amazing an experience as possible. That reminds me, we need to get a follow up to that Dev Diary out soon. All that being said, the AI is not "learning" or waiting for debuffs to fall off before using Specials. I understand why it could feel that way, and I've often found myself saying "oh, come on now" when it happens to me. Think about how many fights you do in MCOC per day; if you're on the forums, you probably play a lot. The times when the AI feels bad are, unfortunately, going to be more memorable to you than the times things go smoothly and as expected.

QOL Requests

These requests are larger than you might imagine. Unfortunately, there isn't just a "lock players to the Battlegroup" button we could press to make that happen overnight. There are additional knock-ons to consider as well. What happens if, for some reason, a player needs to join a different Battlegroup due to backup concerns?
Unlikely, I know - but it's something that needs to be considered if that imaginary button did exist.
Fwiw, I understand the request and I agree it would be better if it operated that way.

Conclusion

If you think you're being ignored, or we aren't reading what you're saying - that's incorrect.
Again, it's 2am, and instead of winding down for bed I'm sitting at my desk trying my best to address everyone's concerns and make sure they know they're heard.

We aren't always going to be able to address the same questions or topics in multiple threads when multiple exist.
The forums are huge, and things get lost easily. I think a solution for that could be combining threads more often, but regardless, the point here is that I'm actively scanning the forums all day, all of your concerns are always heard, and passed along where they need to be.

All of THAT being said, goodnight, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite.

Thanks for the write up ... One thing i also want to point out is that there are other persistent or reoccurring bugs that are was resolved for a couple of weeks but have since returned..
One example is the Kingpin on the AW mutant showcase map. Degen in the node is applying to the attacker again after this was fixed.

I'm suspecting one of the bug fixes mid month brought this back as the code for the degen fix was not tracked into the code push and reverted that segment back.

Can you please look into this again? thanks.

This is happening recently?

Yes last night.
There was a seperate reddit thread on this issue too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ContestOfChampions/comments/1m8d9mw/taking_degen_dmg_instead_of_opponent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

*siiiiiigh* how did that get reverted

Okay, thank you - I'll get that sorted.

This much outrage on simply a gamemode that you can easily ignore is crazy,
It also gives good rewards for minimal effort so won't advice to ignore.

you completely missed the point or chose to ignore it. it’s not just ‘something you can easily ignore’ — they purposely stuffed it with great rewards so we can’t ignore it. that’s the issue. it’s low-effort, off-brand content shoved into the game with insane rewards to force engagement, not because it’s fun or good.

acting like that’s fine is how we keep getting more of this lazy design.

“We can’t ignore it”?.
I have since last Wednesday when it was released,..did one run of it for 15-20 minutes and I haven’t been back since,.,and I won’t for the remaining tine it’s available.
I don’t think the rewards make it worth playing the mode,.,(it’s that bad),.,so i don’t.
…see?,.., it’s easy.

okay, you proudly missed the point, downplayed the problem, and acted like disengaging makes you wise, when in reality, it just makes you irrelevant to the discussion. here’s why:

i’m pointing out that kabam jammed valuable, top-tier rewards into garbage content specifically to force players — especially competitive ones — into engaging with it, whether they like it or not. It’s not about skipping it, it’s about how this tactic degrades the game design and sets a horrible precedent.

kabam’s entire goal with this kind of content is to test how little effort they can put in and still get engagement by attaching bait-tier rewards. players like you ignoring it does nothing if thousands more cave and buy arcade tickets.

You're not competitive to begin with, if you were you wouldn't whine about people having bigger decks than yours in BGs 🤡

As for all the whining, if you don't like it don't do it, miss out on the rewards nobody's forcing you to do anything you don't want to do lol.

you’re the same guy who said 'i don’t care if the content is trash, just make it easy and give me rewards' — so yeah, we’re clearly not expecting thoughtful takes from you. some of us actually care about the game staying good.

If it's a monthly quest yes I don't care cause monthly quests have been trash for years regardless. At least the rewards finally improved since they clearly can't keep monthly side quests interesting without making them repetitive and grindy. Also before you take this out of context again, I don't think Doom Cycle is trash I like mini games in general, what I didn't like was how grindy it was.

All endgame content done and you're struggling in Arcane? Like I said, you're not competitive to begin with stop pretending you are lmfao.

you keep obsessing over whether i’m competitive like i specifically even said i was — i never claimed to be. i’m pointing out a design flaw that affects everyone who plays this game seriously. if your only filter for feedback is ‘you not competitive bruh lmfao bruh,’ maybe you’re not actually equipped with the mental aptitude to have this conversation.

Good so we got that out of the way, you're not competitive, you just whine about BGs constantly.

I play this game seriously, so do other people you just can't fathom the fact that some people actually liked something you disliked. You have the mental aptitude of a six year old, grow up and accept that some people will like the things you don't like, which is perfectly fine.

i said competitive players (not just bg players, players who want to stay at the top of the game for wars and join top alliances with all of the new meta characters ranked up) are being forced into bad content with top-tier rewards. you somehow turned that into a bg rant, made it personal, ignored all context, and still think you’re making a point. you’re not.

The thing is, I personally don't think it was bad, it was meh, neither good nor bad. Someone else said they liked it and you told them they have Stockholm Syndrome lmfao you want everyone on these forums to agree with you. You're not looking for a debate or a discussion cause you've already made up your mind.

how do you have a discussion when every reply from someone who disagrees boils down to ‘you don’t have to do it’? that’s not an argument, it’s a dodge. if no one pushed back on bad content, we’d be swimming in it. disagreeing isn’t the issue — refusing to engage with the actual point is.

This much outrage on simply a gamemode that you can easily ignore is crazy,
It also gives good rewards for minimal effort so won't advice to ignore.

you completely missed the point or chose to ignore it. it’s not just ‘something you can easily ignore’ — they purposely stuffed it with great rewards so we can’t ignore it. that’s the issue. it’s low-effort, off-brand content shoved into the game with insane rewards to force engagement, not because it’s fun or good.

acting like that’s fine is how we keep getting more of this lazy design.

“We can’t ignore it”?.
I have since last Wednesday when it was released,..did one run of it for 15-20 minutes and I haven’t been back since,.,and I won’t for the remaining tine it’s available.
I don’t think the rewards make it worth playing the mode,.,(it’s that bad),.,so i don’t.
…see?,.., it’s easy.

okay, you proudly missed the point, downplayed the problem, and acted like disengaging makes you wise, when in reality, it just makes you irrelevant to the discussion. here’s why:

i’m pointing out that kabam jammed valuable, top-tier rewards into garbage content specifically to force players — especially competitive ones — into engaging with it, whether they like it or not. It’s not about skipping it, it’s about how this tactic degrades the game design and sets a horrible precedent.

kabam’s entire goal with this kind of content is to test how little effort they can put in and still get engagement by attaching bait-tier rewards. players like you ignoring it does nothing if thousands more cave and buy arcade tickets.

No one is forced to do it.

you're not forced to brush your teeth either, but there are consequences if you don't

Consequences to missing a couple 7*s, some 2* Doombots, a few Units, and a Titan? I'd be curious to know what they are.

They are the consequences lol.

There definitely are consequences but it's not like he's missing out on a r4 or even a r3. Op is acting like he is 100% forced to grind for the rewards even if he doesn't like the game mode, he's not at all, the rewards aren't really game changing. They're insane considering how easy the mode is but I'm sure he'll survive if he doesn't go for them.

it's about not rewarding lazy, off-brand content so kabam doesn’t keep pushing MORE of it. you thinking ‘it’s not that bad’ is exactly why it’ll keep happening.

not whether or not i need to do it to get it the rewards, i don’t think we need any more content like this in the game.

So overall despite the various bugs, I think that the raid month was a successful event. The extra rewards each week and the change-up in bosses were big pluses in my opinion. And was such a refreshing time versus the monotony that is map 8.
However I do want to bring up a change that should be made if it ever comes back again, which my alliance became an extreme edge case example of. There should be a break each week when people can get rewards and still move to another alliance.

In our case, one of our members sadly passed away. Which was obviously a tragedy and our whole alliance is in shock and saddened by losing someone we played with for years. I am absolutely not trying to make light of the situation here, simply stating what happened to us as an alliance. With his passing we were then unable to make any membership changes as no one was willing to lose out on a weeks worth of rewards to move alliances, even to be in a top 5 raid alliance.

Now I know that Kabam do not want to make it easy for people to alliance hop, but it would not take an event as extreme as this one to be as problematic for alliances. A broken phone could do it.

So all I would ask for is that if you bring it back, next time make each raid 6 days long so there is at least a few hours break in the middle so people can move without giving up everything they worked that week for.

So I went into a casino.

In between flop turn and river I had to fight a mma fighter sitting in the vip room.
Since I'm so damn powerful I defeated them easy.

I played 5 hands
Got two nothing hands first two rounds as I didnt know what I was doing.
Now i know what i had to do...
The next three hands i played got me
2 pair
A Flush
And a frigging, royal flush draw.
Somthing tells me it's rigged.


You can't make me believe, if you walk into a casino play 5 hands and get a royal flush draw.

Bro kabam. If you want us to play poker why are we wasting time fighting week mma fighters in between the cards.
Just take the energy and let us draw.

Damn casinos and their weirdass gimmics man.