Introducing Back Issue #1: Ultron's Assault

Summoners!

Let’s take a trip way back in time! Back to a time where a maniacal machine was on the path to destroying the Battlerealm, but several courageous Champions and Summoners stopped his rampage!

Introducing, Back Issue #1: Ultron’s Assault!

As the Contest has grown and evolved, we’ve introduced many Event Quests, each with their own unique stories, and many that have expanded on the mythos of the Battle Realm and the Contest of Champions. We want to give Veteran Summoners a way to relive those moments, and to give Summoners that weren’t with us at the time a chance to experience the stories of the Contest that they had missed out on!

This Event Quest is available in TWO difficulties:

CLASSIC difficulty is a recreation of the original quest. While not completely 1:1, the layouts, difficulty, and dialogue are all the same as you remember. Take a stroll down memory lane and see how far you've come, or experience a quest you never got the chance to play!

VARIANT difficulty is a new spin on the quest, available for Summoners level 40 and up. This version features extreme challenge, new opponents, updated map layouts, and new combat effects for the boss fights. This quest will test even the mightiest of Summoners, so be prepared! You can find out more about the challenges you will face in Variant Difficulty in our latest Dev Diary post here: https://playcontestofchampions.com/dev-diary-added-difficulty/

Each Chapter of Variant Difficulty requires that you only bring Champions from 2 specific classes. These Quests will test not only your skills, but your knowledge of Champion’s abilities, immunities, resistances, and counters! Those who rely on only a few Champions will find the need to diversify, even outside of the Champion Requirements in place.

Remember Summoners, Variant Difficulty is going to be HARD! We’re stressing the use of a varied roster in this iteration. The good news is that Back Issues are permanent content, so if you’re not able to take Variant Difficulty on right now, take all the time you need and come back to it when you feel you are better equipped!

As the name suggests, this is our first iteration of our Back Issue Quests. Our goal is to periodically release more Event Quests for our Summoners to relive! Keep an eye out as we go back and explore more of the history of the Contest of Champions!

Rewards:

For completing and mastering all of the Classic quests, you earn:

Tier 2 Generic ISO x4
Tier 3 Generic ISO x22
Tier 4 Generic ISO x6
Gold x12250
Units x225
Tier 1 Alpha Catalyst x1
Premium Hero Crystal x3
3-Star Hero Crystal x1

For completing and mastering all of the Variant quests, you earn:

5-Star Rank 2 → 3 Gem Crystal x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal (2015 Champions Only) x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Rank 4 → 5 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Awakening Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Crystal x2
Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments x21600
6-Star Crystal Shards x2250
5-Star Signature Stone Crystal x48
Gold x2,100,000
Units x360

You’re probably wondering about those 5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gems for 2015 Champions only. Those crystals contain class specific 5-Star Rank Up Gems that can only be used on Champions that were available upon release and those released until the end of 2015!

Here are all of the Champions that these Rank Up Gems will work on. NOTE: Some of these Champions are not available at the 5-Star Rarity. This list does not necessarily indicate that they will be released.

Captain Marvel
Drax
Ms.Marvel
Spider-Man (Symbiote)
Venom
Ronan
Gamora
Groot
Superior Iron-Man
Thor
Black Bolt
Storm
Cyclops (Red Team)
Colossus
Magneto
Deadpool
Wolverine
Magneto (Marvel Now!)
Deadpool (X-Force)
Magik
Guillotine
Iron Fist
Juggernaut
Thor (Jane Foster)
Dr. Strange
Scarlet Witch
Unstoppable Colossus
Luke Cage
Electro
Ant-Man
Yellowjacket
Spider-Man
Captain America
Spider-Gwen
Rhino
Hulk
Abomination
Joe Fixit
Captain America (WW2)
Black Panther
Moon Knight
Elektra
Punisher
Daredevil
Winter Soldier
Hawkeye
Black Widow
Daredevil (Classic)
Rocket Raccoon
Hulkbuster
Ultron
Iron Patriot
Star-Lord
Kang
Iron-Man
Vision (AoU)
War Machine
Vision

This Quest will be available starting tomorrow, November 14th at 10 am PST! Remember, this is permanent content, so you can take your time completing this throwback!

Comments

DTMelodicMetal

Archit_Tandon498 wrote: »

Hoping to use my Starkey, is there something wrong with using him?

No that was a joke, 5* Sparky is a great option for that fight

xNig

Yup. Had a few members take that 2.3 Drone down with R5 Spark using 3-4 revives. Still quite manageable.

GroundedWisdom

Good to know.

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Vale84

DTMelodicMetal wrote: »

blindside493 wrote: »

Please keep in mind that this company just said .008% is more important that the rest. That doing the right things doesn’t matter on its own basis. Remember this on a Friday and Monday. Do not give them your money. Go spend your money on a different game or do something with friends.

.008% can be misleading. If MCOC has 100,000+ created accounts, .008% is 800+ players.

It's still easy to rollback any account 24 hrs prior, and EXPECIALLY cause the abusers were 0.0008%, t should have been done no sweat.

Let's make a quick example shall we? I got Korg, Aegon and champion. Normally it'd take what, 2 to 4 months to r4 them all on current t2a income. I can rankup for free them all abusing the exploit so that my ally gets a huge prestige boost and aid in aw that shouldnt happen.

And who cares for who we match getting destroyed.

10/10

DTMelodicMetal

Werewrym wrote: »

Has anyone been able to solo the Ultron 3.1 boss yet? I've been trying to but haven't managed it yet.

Proxima Midnight worked for me:

https://youtu.be/N3wu9D6mff4

Agent_099999

Nice. Love when we get new permanent Quests... And it's very cool to see the AoU Spotlight, since I wasn't playing the game when it first released.

About the new difficult, it's also nice to have time to build up so you can play it and get some leveled rewards.

@Kabam Miike But this is #1, right? Does it mean we'll have more of these comebacks soon? Any predictions?

DTMelodicMetal

Could we get an announcement about why the 2.2 and 2.3 bosses have been bugged for over a week whereas the rank up gem exploit was fixed within hours?

Buttehrs

Agent_099999 wrote: »

Nice. Love when we get new permanent Quests... And it's very cool to see the AoU Spotlight, since I wasn't playing the game when it first released.

About the new difficult, it's also nice to have time to build up so you can play it and get some leveled rewards.

@Kabam Miike But this is #1, right? Does it mean we'll have more of these comebacks soon? Any predictions?

They said they have plans for more just dont know when or the spacing they'll do them at

xNig

DTMelodicMetal wrote: »

Could we get an announcement about why the 2.2 and 2.3 bosses have been bugged for over a week whereas the rank up gem exploit was fixed within hours?

I’m quite sure the fight design is intentional (bug or no bug). I felt 2.2 was perfectly fine, 2.3 felt bugged until I ran the correct counter.

So I guess.. that’s the way it’s supposed to be? I mean.. if you are clearing Variant and able to reach 2.3, you should have at least a 4* counter that you can easily afford to rank up to 5/50 ya?

Amonthir

Yes, but we shouldn’t have to rank a specific champ because of a bug. I should be able to roll my already ranked 4* Dorm and not have to worry about getting Shocked to death because someone can’t code a node right.

DTMelodicMetal

xNig wrote: »

I’m quite sure the fight design is intentional (bug or no bug). I felt 2.2 was perfectly fine, 2.3 felt bugged until I ran the correct counter.

So I guess.. that’s the way it’s supposed to be? I mean.. if you are clearing Variant and able to reach 2.3, you should have at least a 4* counter that you can easily afford to rank up to 5/50 ya?

I wouldn't be surprised, though to me the more likely explanation is end-game content bugs fixes are a low priority. Labyrinth of Legends Agent Venom and Maestro have been bugged for over a year. And yes I have a 4* 5/50 Magik at max sig. I'd rather play Variant Difficulty "as intended" by MCOC developers, which as they said is by really understanding how to counter its nodes and champions. It's a sad day when MCOC developers "intend" for players to use in-game resources to clear content filled with bugs due to their coding errors.

Leopavan2007

DTMelodicMetal

2.3 boss bug is fixed! Thank you Kabam!

https://youtu.be/Q9m82QaMOQw

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DTMelodicMetal

Indrick781 wrote: »

I'm glad the bug is fixed but how can you stand playing in that level of slow mo?

That's not the actual speed of the game. I used iMovie to slow down the video clip so players can more easily see the bug got fixed.

Helicopter_dugdugdug

DTMelodicMetal wrote: »

2.3 boss bug is fixed! Thank you Kabam!

https://youtu.be/Q9m82QaMOQw

That’s just Dr Vodoo reducing AA by 50% and hence u not getting the damage

DTMelodicMetal

Helicopter_dugdugdug wrote: »

That’s just Dr Vodoo reducing AA by 50% and hence u not getting the damage

https://youtu.be/F2wAn6xhwrk

@Helicopter_dugdugdug Here’s slow motion video footage of Sentinel showing the fatigue boss bug is fixed

Gamer

Helicopter_dugdugdug wrote: »

DTMelodicMetal wrote: »

2.3 boss bug is fixed! Thank you Kabam!

https://youtu.be/Q9m82QaMOQw

That’s just Dr Vodoo reducing AA by 50% and hence u not getting the damage

Nop Can either be done becasse of the node ther hav

Ajitmo

Back issues disappeared with the new update. What’s up with this?

SarcasticTaurus

Ajitmo wrote: »

Back issues disappeared with the new update. What’s up with this?

Yes, and I'm wondering why the MODs deleted the thread letting you know this?

BigPoppaCBONE

Maybe next time, they can fill in a 2015 variant difficulty entirely with 2015 champs. Almost all those champs suck, and so it will serve as a mid-tier version and that crowd can stop whining.

Seriously though Kabam, why were there new champs that almost all are much stronger and more complex than old champs in this? Make the back issues quests a beta for enhancements to old trash champs.

Tim2697

Jh_Dez wrote: »

Nice rewards but not liking the 2015 champions

yeah but there are lots of good champs from 2015, luke cage magik star lord