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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.

It's still happening. About 30 minutes ago against kingpin and several hours ago against vox.

**8.1.1**

**STRYFE** - prowler and ironheart

**RED SKULL** -BWCV, Minoru?

**The Hood** - Any bleed immune



**8.1.2**

**She Hulk**- Cheelith

**War Machine**- Kingpin

**BPCW**-serpent, hercules



**8.1.3**

**Mr.Sinister**- any tech champion

**DIablo**- doom (slow option), BWDO, Scorpion(MVP)

**psycho man**- knull (true focus mediums), serpent, odin



**8.1.4**

**Ebony**- any champ with hard dmg on heavy (doom, domino, jack, colossus)

**Corvus**- Doom, SHathra, white tiger

**Proxima**- warlock, human torch, colossus (not ice man cuz he will heal her)



**8.1.5**

**Daredevil HK**- Storm, storm x, bishop

**Hercules**-jack, g99 guardian (non crit champs basically bypass the node)

**Wasp**-titania, Og spiderman, spider ham, nick fury, silver sable, cheeilith



**8.1.6**

**Scytalis**- apoc, storm og \& pyramid x, bishop









# **8.2**

#

### **8.2.1**

**Vision OG-** spiral(best counter), odin, Hercules, CGR
**Black Panther OG-** vision(aarkus), hyperion,storm og
**Sigil Witch-** HT, Overseer, titania

8.2.2
Elektra-any incinerate champ, bishop
DOmino- shuri, silver sable
DPX-sentinel, nimrod

8.2.3
Joe fixit-cheeilith, nick fury, zemo, Jabari (have purify to purify weakness), OG black panther, black cat
Nimrod- BWCV,tigra
Ronan- Hercules

8.2.4
morningstar- warlock, ice man
scorpion- valk(mvp), parry stun for other champs mostly
massacre- any bleed immune champ, sentinel zola (not sure just the ones who came up in mind first)

8.2.5
sersi-longshot, shathra kushala, mordo
kitty-nimrod, jack, ironheart
peni-venom and galan, vox, hulkling

8.2.6
BAHAMET- cheeilith, kingpin, valk mvp( any other works too)



# **8.3**
8.3.1
vulture- hulkling venom, venompool terrax galan
gorr- shathra, Morningstar, bwcv longshot
Omega sent- galan hulkling, terrax

8.3.2
mephisto- human torch, sunspot
attuma- shuri, stryfe
dormammu- any science champ, spider ham mvp

8.3.3
knull-abs man (mvp), doom,
anti venom- silver sable, cheeilith, ironheart, zemo, aarkus, bwdo
venompool-any champ works, wait out the stun immune phase then parry hit

8.3.4
wong- normal wong fight, any science champ/ counter works
misty knight- diablo, bishop, sunspot, hit monkey morbius
thing- silver sable, Valkyrie, cross bones

8.3.5
quicksilver-kate bishop, monkey
bishop-idoom, sentinel? (sp1 spam maybe)
havok- colossus(makes it just a simple fight with havok)

8.3.6
CERASTES- Any cosmic with a number of buffs and a striker (prerably 6*)

# **8.4**

8.4.1
Howard the duck- serpent ironheart, hyperion, gorr
chavez- dont take a buff immune champ and you'd its just a normal Chavez fight with icarus type of node
aegon- bishop, og storm, storm x

8.4.2
Ikaris- tigra (would be fun interaction here), Morningstar shathra,
prof x- spiral(mvp), prof x
black cat- ebony maw (cheese)

8.4.3
valk- any champ, just match with turn the tide special
sasquatch- count nefaria, titania spider ham, overseer (any champ works tbh)
emma frost- juggernaut, scorpion fantman

8.4.4
spot- any works, pretty much normal spot fight
omega red-Nimmo, warlock omega sent, viv vision. shuri
terrax-serpent shathra, abs man

8.4.5
jessica-cheeilith
spidey supreme- human torch, titania, ham, domino
captain falcon- venom, terrax

8.4.6
GLYKHAN- storm og, storm pyramid x, magneto, cyclops

made this sheet a few days ago
pls only suggest champs that are not mentioned for the bosses on the list and they worked well if possible keep it in a format like
Boss name - spot(8.4.4)
Champion - (champion you used and if there's a specific rotation that works for the boss)

LETS NOT FLOOD THIS WITH UNNECCESSARY STUFF AND HELP OUT OTHERS

Watched on Saturday

1 - Fantastic movie, no pun intended, but the word Fantastic express what was this one

2 - The 60's feel with high Technology was great

3 - Best representation of FF4 ever

4 - They proved along the movie ,its a great Hero squad, as the Avengers in our Multiverse

Spoiler Zone

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the simplest logic is often the answer. The “new mode” opens to an external browser and the Fantastic Four movie is coming out. That kinda tells me someone from an office many floors higher than the game team made them put this in. most likely for data collection, to test a new game they’re gonna launch, and/or promotion for the movie. some mix of those three things. if i had to guess someone had this made and they wanted it thrown in in time for the movie.

i think our guys knew everybody would hate this. why ? Think about it Kabam will sell you everything under the sun, but for this they gave away a FULL titan AND units? just to play this slog ? $10 pretty much gets you through the entire thing. One thing i’ve realized about this company is if they can sell something, they will. but they went ultra light on the monetization and threw in a full titan. Meanwhile in game they’re selling 150 titan shards for what ? 150 units i think.. (math check)

the external browser is another piece of evidence that tells you somebody else made this mode and decision. if not why not just add it in with the rest of the stuff? the launcher is in a tiny little box under the SDE. no big tab under the Fight screen.. if i wasn’t watching Vega’s stream when it dropped i would have had no idea where to find it. just a little tab, an external browser and a free titan. that’s not the Kabam/MCOC we know.

I’m open to the idea that this is just a miss and i’m trying to make sense out of it nonsense. but this doesn’t follow their usual steps to horrible decisions.

Before everybody jumps down my throat, i don’t care about Kabam. I play the game for fun. I spent modestly. i haven’t touched the mode after the first day because.. i just don’t want to 🤷🏾‍♂️ i think that covers all the usual talking points so let’s have a good conversation.


TLDR; The big bosses made this mode happen, our guys knew we would hate it and gave out some pre-compensation in the form of a Titan and Units.