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Everyones talking about Burnout, what about ‘Catch up’
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So a large portion of the player base are talking about burnout, in particular endgame burnout, when you run out of content and ultimately motivation in the game, Act 6 explored, EQ is too easy and AW/AQ don’t yield enough rewards for the stress. However I’d say that a large percentage of the player base aren’t endgame players who have pretty much finished the game. I am part of that percentage and I’m suddenly being struck by something I call ‘Catch up’
Catch up is basically where you’ve progressed quickly and under below-ideal circumstances, meaning you have not many options other than to wait.
Here’s my longer explanation. I joined the game almost exactly 2 years ago. I played once a day on the bus and back, it was more of a small side game I played. I soon got bored seeing as it was taking me weeks to get 4* champions and when i did they were all bad and i basically didn’t know what to do, i didn’t know about the forums or the YT community and my only 4*s were Symbiote Spider Man and a Duped Loki (tragic), so then I deleted it and played some other games for a while. When I got a new phone a year later I went to download some games and I rediscovered MCOC. I downloaded it thinking it was harmless, boy was I wrong! Just in that 1 year gap I could tell, progression was WAY faster. I got lucky out of PHCs and got 2 4*s early on and from there I was getting a 4* every few days, it felt like a completely different game. Then I discovered the forums etc. and a year later I’ve done Act 5 and I’m moving towards Cavalier (which I’m pretty sure didn’t exist when I first started)
So in just a year I’ve managed to get all the way to the end of Act 5, crazy right? However getting there took some different times. Act 1 and 2 were done within days of each other, on my mini I sat down and cleared through the whole of Act 1 in 2 hours, it’s EASY. Act 2 was a walk in the park and nothing special to be said. Act 3 took me maybe a week or 2 after that, it was my longest venture. However between act 3 and 4 there was a month or so break and act 4 itself was far harder, I couldn’t just use rewards I had retrieved from story mode I had to dip into EQ and stuff like that (fun fact it was only until Act 4 chapter 3 I bought dexterity, I just didn’t see it’s value until the unblockable specials nodes etc.) between Act 4 and 5 was an even larger gap, I got my first R5 4* and waited months until I dipped my toe into act 5.1. 5,1 was far easier then it seems yet in 5,2 the difficulty really ramps up. I spend 3 moths waiting until I finally beat the Collector. After that 5.3 and 5.4 seemed easy. However now I’m at Act 6. Sadly it’s only recently I’ve got a full team of good 5/6* champions, at the end of Act 5 it was only IMIW/AA that could be considered not meme tier of my 5*s. But now I need to wait until I’ve got 5/65 champions before Act 6 (ive tried it was brutal), i know what to do, glory store, EQ, Act 5 etc. but now it’s just a waiting game.
So ‘Catch up’ is where a player has progressed through content at a speed meaning the next piece of content is pretty much un touchable, this can happen because of a lack of 5* luck or for many other reasons. In my case it was because 5/65 champions will take a long time to get, not that it’s impossible to do act 6 without them just that I don’t feel comfortable doing it without good counters.
So can we please discuss this, I feel like it’s so overlooked, the fact that some players are stuck not just at the 6.2 champion but also in all forms of story mode, before taking on act 4 or 5 for example, or at the collector, not everyone is burnt out bc they’ve literally got nothing to do.
Catch up is basically where you’ve progressed quickly and under below-ideal circumstances, meaning you have not many options other than to wait.
Here’s my longer explanation. I joined the game almost exactly 2 years ago. I played once a day on the bus and back, it was more of a small side game I played. I soon got bored seeing as it was taking me weeks to get 4* champions and when i did they were all bad and i basically didn’t know what to do, i didn’t know about the forums or the YT community and my only 4*s were Symbiote Spider Man and a Duped Loki (tragic), so then I deleted it and played some other games for a while. When I got a new phone a year later I went to download some games and I rediscovered MCOC. I downloaded it thinking it was harmless, boy was I wrong! Just in that 1 year gap I could tell, progression was WAY faster. I got lucky out of PHCs and got 2 4*s early on and from there I was getting a 4* every few days, it felt like a completely different game. Then I discovered the forums etc. and a year later I’ve done Act 5 and I’m moving towards Cavalier (which I’m pretty sure didn’t exist when I first started)
So in just a year I’ve managed to get all the way to the end of Act 5, crazy right? However getting there took some different times. Act 1 and 2 were done within days of each other, on my mini I sat down and cleared through the whole of Act 1 in 2 hours, it’s EASY. Act 2 was a walk in the park and nothing special to be said. Act 3 took me maybe a week or 2 after that, it was my longest venture. However between act 3 and 4 there was a month or so break and act 4 itself was far harder, I couldn’t just use rewards I had retrieved from story mode I had to dip into EQ and stuff like that (fun fact it was only until Act 4 chapter 3 I bought dexterity, I just didn’t see it’s value until the unblockable specials nodes etc.) between Act 4 and 5 was an even larger gap, I got my first R5 4* and waited months until I dipped my toe into act 5.1. 5,1 was far easier then it seems yet in 5,2 the difficulty really ramps up. I spend 3 moths waiting until I finally beat the Collector. After that 5.3 and 5.4 seemed easy. However now I’m at Act 6. Sadly it’s only recently I’ve got a full team of good 5/6* champions, at the end of Act 5 it was only IMIW/AA that could be considered not meme tier of my 5*s. But now I need to wait until I’ve got 5/65 champions before Act 6 (ive tried it was brutal), i know what to do, glory store, EQ, Act 5 etc. but now it’s just a waiting game.
So ‘Catch up’ is where a player has progressed through content at a speed meaning the next piece of content is pretty much un touchable, this can happen because of a lack of 5* luck or for many other reasons. In my case it was because 5/65 champions will take a long time to get, not that it’s impossible to do act 6 without them just that I don’t feel comfortable doing it without good counters.
So can we please discuss this, I feel like it’s so overlooked, the fact that some players are stuck not just at the 6.2 champion but also in all forms of story mode, before taking on act 4 or 5 for example, or at the collector, not everyone is burnt out bc they’ve literally got nothing to do.
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Can't get from point A to D without going through B and C. Trying to "catch up" to youtubers who've literally spent years building their accounts is a fool's errand.
However I am suffering from what you have explained as I blasted through act 4 and the beginning of act 5 with a single r4 4*. Now I’m a bit stuck.