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If they don’t change it up (and by that basically I mean revert it back to what it was), I really think the game will fold. So much of the player base seems on the brink of leaving now with everything going on. I think players will give them this month, but if it’s still this garbage next month, they’ll bolt for good.

Personally, I MIGHT do the “classic” difficulty. You couldn’t pay me to do the elder difficulty. It’s all boring, way too difficult, and honestly, feels like Kabam is just trying to go cheap with the rewards.

Yes agree 100%.
I cannot believe that the whole Kabam gang is silent.

This should have / could have been a gem, but turned out a total sh*t.

Short guy, do you even play MCOC?

I stopped looking at the offer the moment I saw that relic thing 🥱

I hope it was bastion

One challenge is fairness for those who completed some or all of EQ already at this horrendous difficulty level.

Here’s my solution: hard reset so they can re-do the content in the scaled-down format and get the rewards a second time. Good for them if they were willing to slog through this garbage!

And one more thing —whoever cooked up this nonsense clearly deserves a medal… for single-handedly ruining everyone’s sanity and making a mockery of game design. Whoever designed this dumpster fire should be fired immediately. Like, escorted out of the building and never allowed near a keyboard again. Did this person even play the game? Do they even know how it works?

They basically took players’ base hero rating and set it equal to defenders’ attack. Are you kidding me? How did this not get tested? Are they that ignorant, or just lazy? No testing, no thought, nothing— just pure chaos dumped on players. Whoever cooked this up clearly has zero clue how the game works.

Rewatching the live stream, and I didn't realize they got the Kabam guy who does all the hardest endgame content to design this. Maybe in hindsight it wasn't the best idea to get the dude who creates the hardest content in the game to work the monthly quest.

I'm really curious what happened. I seem to recall something similar happening once before when they introduced a new difficulty level and it came out insanely overtuned, but the weird thing here is that they'd already come out with a new difficulty level that - while people had some opinions regarding which was the best format - still worked well.

My guess is that the whole "an algorithm (I'm guessing) is looking at your prestige and sets the difficulty accordingly" doesn't take into account that you're not really just using your top 30 prestige champions in the quest. Since you need 16 champions for each of the 6 quests, that's 96 champions. Furthermore, since all of your top-ranked Mutants probably aren't bleed immune/resistant, and your top-ranked Tech champions all probably don't have at least one armor up buff, you're moving even further down the prestige tree in order to find champions to use. That means that the "top 30 prestige" is somewhat misleading in terms of what kind of champions you'll have available for the content, and basing the difficulty on only your top champions (even quite a lot of them) is probably what led to this whole mess.

If this had been the old EQ format and I could have brought a team of my most well-suited and highest-ranked champions into each chapter, it would probably have been significantly less of an issue. I still think the attack values are insane - regular path defenders have higher attack values than both Epoch of Pain's Ares and Wheel of Fate's Deathless Thanos, for example - but insane attack values are significantly less of a risk-factor if you're not running around with an r1 7* just because you need a bleed immune Mutant and you don't have 15 of those ranked up.

I don't think Kabam will do anything, not because they're lazy or just don't want to, but because I don't think they'll be able to just pull a switch and lower the attack values. As they said during the debate about the Valiant EQ format, they can't even make any massive changes on a month-to-month basis. Small tweaks, maybe, but I reckon that this is something that they'll have to go back to the drawing board for and have a good long think about.