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Is the team radio silent right now? There have been some very good and relevant suggestions and discussions in forums recently and no communication. There’s also still unaddressed bugs. Here’s an overview from last 2 weeks to this week:

Unaddressed:
- If you didn’t wait to claim the twitch drops until after the event started, you didn’t get the points
- Still no cumulative comp the team was “discussing”
- No news on Titania (wasted r3/r4s with the AI). Still whiffing hits on SP1 as well.
- AI is probably the worst it’s ever been (at least I can intercept now) by holding specials until debuffs fall off, etc. It’s almost as if they react to what’s in their kit/counters and it’s learning. But it should never be to the point of unregistered hits landing and then after the second one AI throws a special to the face…
- Lack of mysterium for first two weeks of crossover
- QOL request pertaining battle groups (they seem to be just suggestions at the moment)

Not asking for all the answers, but some insight/acknowledgement from the team would be nice. Even just a blanket statement saying “we hear you as a player base”.

• If you didn’t wait to claim the twitch drops until after the event started, you didn’t get the points
  

This was addressed. We will be comping the points.

• No news on Titania (wasted r3/r4s with the AI). Still whiffing hits on SP1 as well.
  

Wasted is a very, very, very strong word here.
Her Special 1 is still whiffing, I'll poke on that one, but in general there are many cases resulting from 60 FPS where this is happening, and an overall fix is being worked on, this has been on Trello and addressed many times.

• The AI bit
  

I don't exactly understand what you're saying on this one, in any case, the AI is not "learning."

• Lack of mysterium for first two weeks of crossover
  

Mysterium has been addressed multiple times. It wasn't around for 1 week in the build, and the quantities were increased in the latter weeks. The discontent for the Mysterium shift has been passed along to the team.

• QOL request pertaining battle groups
  

I will also need specific examples here if you want something addressed.

The "wasted" part is from intimidate working as a taunt, not from whiffing 1 hit of her sp1.

Her Intimidate is not "working as a taunt."

This has been talked about countless times on the forums at this point - Intimidate is not a Special Lock.
It decreases the chance for the Opponent to use a Special, but it isn't guaranteed - and the potency of this chance does not stack with multiple Debuffs.

Try chaining heavy in the corner with Champions who don't have Intimidate, and then do so with Titania - I guarantee you, Titania will prevent it significantly more times than a Champion without the debuff.

Titania, above all other Intimidate users, has added safety built into her kit with her Unstoppable and Indestructible, where if the Opponent uses a Special, you're pretty much in the clear.

From a player POV, I recommend going for a 4 hit combo after SP3 before going for a heavy, as I anecdotally find it has a strong chance to get the Defender to turtle up for the incoming Heavy.

I just can't understand why you guys are introducing these new game modes?

Mcoc Poker and Turn based autorun, they take away from the core of MCOC for the last 10-years of building your skill, expanding your roster and these game modes come away from this completely.

I feel like something like this might be a good if the rest of the game wasn't flawed; we still have input issues from 4 years ago you never fixed, an overtuned AI that can skip frames, recover exceptional fast and is still ringing the game. Not to mention the promises to add variety to Batllegrounds, that game mode that hasn't changed since it was released 2 years ago.

How much resources and money went into these modes that could have been put into improving the game? Nobody asked for this, everybody asked for a properly working game

To expand on what Pinwheel said above, most of the issues you list (input problems, overtuned AI, defender reaction time, skipped frames). are gameplay engineering problems. There were zero gameplay engineering resources spent on the Recruitment and Doom Cycle modes.

He only regens if you out debuffs on him and when he has the regen buff ready to trigger. So the plan here would be to neutralize his buffs or just don't trigger a debuffs. This includes parry. So you want to plan to visit a heavy, or intercept, to get your openings.

All the champs you have selected on your team trigger debuffs in some way so that's your first problem. I don't know much about white tiger but I don't think she puts debuffs on the defender. Her and abs man may be ones to look at ranking.

Lastly check out MCOC NOOB on YouTube. He has great guides for story content and will cover this in more detail. Good luck!

Actually negasonics whole unique trail is she uses no debuffs whats so ever, so she could be a decent option. Tho class disadvantage could slightly weaken her.