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Ending Collaboration with "Marvel Insider"
Hello Summoners! As of last month, we have stopped creating Marvel Insider Bundles for Marvel Contest of Champions. Ultimately, it was a lot of work for something that very few users took part in. It required a lot of time each month to create and implement these packages. Upon evaluating our reach through this initiative,…
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Marvel Contest of Champions Changelog
Hey folks! Here is the shiny new Changelog thread. We're including the archived patch notes from the old forums, so that they are preserved for anyone that would like to reference back to them. We will continue to update this thread with new notes as the patches are released.
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Balance Update: Kate Bishop and Viv Vision
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Viv Vision and Kate Bishop!Viv Vision Viv’s design has a specific vision: by sacrificing Ease of Use, Survivability, and sustainable damage, she brings exceptional control and fast damage in short fights like Battlegrounds! We…
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Re: The Root Situation
Hey everybody, As many of you might know, there was recently a Bug fix that went out without the level of communication necessary that affected how Champions react when rooted. First, we want to apologize for this situation. It was not our intent to leave any of this information out of our release notes or make any changes…
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New Batch of Relics Coming July 14th!
Hello Summoners! The next trio of Relics will be coming to the contest on July 14th! For an early peak and more information on upcoming Relics please visit our official website! Thanks!
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Addressing Latency: One Step at a Time.
Greetings Summoners, Over the past months, our team has been working to investigate and remedy the latency issues that have been present in the Contest and we want to announce that last night, we pushed out some potential fixes that we hope address some of these server latency issues. Server latency issues were most…
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Battlegrounds Season 9 - Boosting Rewards, Scoring Adjustment and Season Meta
OVERVIEW For Season 9, we’re supercharging rewards in the events for this season as well as opening up Season 9 to Conqueror-level Summoners. These changes are going to be exclusive to Season 9 so get them while you can! Along with all these exciting rewards changes, we’ll also be moving the Gladiators Circuit down to 2…
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Alliance War Season 43 - Persistent Placement Phase, Extended Offseason & Temp. BG Reward Bump
Foreword Hello Summoners! We have a lot of interconnecting, exciting, Alliance War news to share with you! Starting with Alliance War Season 43, we will be introducing our Persistent Placement Phase (formally referred to as ‘Set and Forget’)! We will be removing Alliance War for two weeks to ensure a smooth feature launch.…
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Followup on Cassie Lang Balancing - New Information
Update on Cassie Lang Hey everyone, we have an update that we’d like to share regarding Cassie Lang’s Balance Review. We recently discovered a bug in her kit which unfortunately affects her performance. We understand the timing of this discovery is frustrating. We’ll list the bug below followed by how we’d like to address…
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Battlegrounds Store Update - Coming June 22nd
Please refer to the below table to see all the goodies in the Battlegrounds Store as of June 22nd!
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Cassie Lang and Ant-Man (Future) Balancing Updates!
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on Cassie Lang and Ant-Man (Future) Cassie Lang As an attacker, Cassie features Power Stings, strong tank abilities and immunities with access to solid damage in the right matchup. On defense, she has a few tricks to look out for but can be easily answered by the Skill class…
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Battlegrounds Season 8 - Addressing Latency in S7, Major Medal AND Reward Updates!
Addressing Issues in Season 7 Season 7 saw a particularly egregious spike in latency issues for an extended period of time. We tried to work as quickly as possible to resolve the server issues, but the impact was undeniable. As a result, we will be refunding BG items spent between Friday, April 28th 10:00am PDT and…
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May 19th - Latency Issues Consumables Package
Hello Summoners! Earlier this month, with the release of our 39.0 build, we saw a peak in latency issues that negatively impacted Summoners' experiences in the Contest. As a result, today, we will be sending a consumables package to all Summoners containing the following items:* 2x Full Energy Refills * 2x Reroll * 2x…
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Aw Season 42 Changelog
Forward Welcome to another season of Alliance War! We are coming at you with a bigger update and a look into the future of what mini bosses mean to the map as a whole, however they don’t feel like mini bosses. Hopefully with this new coming series of updates, we’ll be able to help bolster their identity, and make them feel…
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WARNING: If you’re Constantly Queueing and Rejecting Matches in Battlegrounds, Stop!
Summoners, It has come to our attention that some Summoners have taken to constantly entering Matchmaking in Battlegrounds, and then rejecting all matches. While this behaviour existed in earlier seasons, it has become too prevalent. While we work on new tech that allows us to remove the ability to reject matches…
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Balancing Update: Baron Zemo and Absorbing Man
Hey all, Balance Team here with an update on Absorbing Man and Baron Zemo! Absorbing Man On Attack, Absorbing Man had some specific targets to hit in the current Meta: Path 9 in AW, as well as some annoying Cosmic defenders such as Terrax, Knull, and Annihilus. So far we’re happy seeing players use Absorbing Man very…
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Relics in Act 8
Summoners, we're flipping the switch on Relics in Act 8! Starting today, you'll be able to equip Relics to the Champs you're bringing into Act 8.1 and 8.2. Good luck out there in the Battlerealm!
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Addressing Cheaters in Incursions, and More
Hello Summoners. As many of you know, cheaters have taken advantage of our Danger Rooms Incursions event to access rewards they have not earned, including the Legends title. Today we are taking action against the most obvious of these cheaters. These are accounts that were so blatant in their cheating that they don't…
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Battlegrounds Season 7 Changelog
Overview A new season of battlegrounds approaches! We’ve made some more tweaks to early VT matchmaking, as well as a few changes in the back end to hopefully help with some persistent disconnect issues causing matches to fizzle. Season 7 Dates Start April 19th, 2023 End May 17th 2023 Victory Track Entire Month Brute Force…
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Clarification: Sandman's Abilities Missing Information
Greetings Summoners, Before Sandman is released to you all, we wanted to give you all a heads up that there is currently a bit of missing information in his Abilities that we are working to fix in a future release. Sandman’s Burst damage when unstable is meant to scale with his Base Damage, but his abilities are missing…
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Changes to Champion Refresh Timers/Costs in Incursions and Arena - LIVE NOW
Greetings Summoners! With 7-Star Champions on the horizon (watch our live stream this Friday to find out when they’ll be released. Click here for more info), we wanted to take this opportunity to update the Refresh Timers on Champions in Incursions and Arenas and adjust the Unit Costs to refresh 5 and 6-Star Champions in…
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Further Updates to Consumable Acquisition (followup to revive farming/apothecary)
Overview Hello Summoners, After last week’s announced changes to revive farming in early-game content we have monitored the community conversation through numerous channels including these forums, our Content Creator Program, and various other social media and content creation platforms. We are aware of the community’s…
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Mantis and Jessica Jones Balancing Update!
Hey all, Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Mantis and Jessica Jones!Mantis Mantis is getting tuned up! Armed with a potent Guaranteed Crit Sp2, Mantis was designed to be most effective in shorter fights (i.e Alliance War and Battlegrounds). So far we’re seeing Mantis do…
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Anti-cheating Update: March 31st, 2023
Continuing the trend of ad hoc updates on the battle against cheaters, here is another message straight from the game team: On Monday we met, as planned, to review data for another Incursions ban wave. Our initial cut identified around 1500 likely cheaters. After review, we found a few accounts that had potentially…
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Update: 6-Star Romance items now include eligibility for 6-Star Wolverine!
Hey Summoners, We are updating 6-Star Romance items to allow you to use them on your shiny, new 6-Star Wolverine! The list of impacted items is as follows: 6-Star Romance Gem, Rank 1->2 6-Star Romance Gem, Rank 2->3 6-Star Romance Sig Stones 6-Star Romance Awakening Gem The descriptions for these items should be updated to…
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Changes to Consumable Availability & Introducing The Apothecary
Hello Summoners! With the release of our April build, we will be changing the availability of revives and potions in early-game content while simultaneously introducing a new way to earn consumables without having to rely on path RNG. We understand this may result in frustration but we hope you can see the necessity for…
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Alliance War Season 41 Changelog
Forward Welcome to another season of Alliance War! While we had a hiccup with the Alliance War Freeze from last season, we hope to bring you another stable season for you to enjoy. No major updates for Season 41, but hopefully we’ll have something for you to chew on for in Season 42! Timeline Wednesday, March 15th…
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Battlegrounds Season 6 Changelog - featuring previews of Season 7 & 8
Overview New Meta this season! We’re also introducing the all-new Meta Selector for Friendly Matches. With this new feature, players will be able to select either the Victory Track or Gladiators Circuit for their Friendly/invite matches. Season 6 Dates Start March 15th, 2023 End April 12 2023 Victory Track Entire Month…
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Attuma and Shuri Balance Update!
Hey all, Balance Team here with an update on Attuma and Shuri! Attuma Despite some unique utility and tricky defensive abilities, our review of Attuma’s fights so far has shown that he is underperforming compared to targets in a few areas. His Defender Strength attribute is top-tier, but a fairly wide number of Champions…
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Changes to AQ Maps 6 and 8!
Forward Hello, Summoners! We have recently been gathering data and Summoner feedback about Alliance Quest with the intention of making some changes to improve the Summoner experience. We have elected to make the following changes with the intention of alleviating frequently reported pain points for Maps 6 and 8. Changes…
