MCoC Roadmap: Prelude

Summoners!

We want to thank you all for your patience as we worked not only to get a Roadmap together, but also commit to the changes we want to make to the future of our Development Roadmap in order to create the best Contest of Champions possible for all of you.

Click here to read "What's Coming In The Contest: Prelude."

This Roadmap will be made public in a series of 4 blog posts. Today, we're sharing with you a prelude of what to expect. This covers very high-level topics and gives you an insight into what is coming. There won't be a lot of information here, but the individual posts covering those topics will dive deeper into each of the topics, and more.

If you feel that we've missed something, let us know in this thread. It may already be in one of the posts and not called out here, we may still have time to add it to one of these, or it may just not be on the radar at this time.

We won't have answers to any questions regarding details or particulars today, so please hold them for the individual posts that are still to come.

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Bugmat78

This all sounds good. Looking forward to the breakdown of Section 1 next week.

slacker

Is 2 new champs per month still happen when 2 champs is rework came along ? or seperate ?
Also, hell yes, new soundtrack, love to hear some if good

Colinwhitworth69

The 1 thing I really wanted is still not happening. It’s been a long..... time since we were told multi mastery build swapping was coming. What’s the deal?

Also why did you wait so long to release champions? Is it gonna happen with 6*s as well? Seems shady and gross withholding champions and not giving us any reason.

In the videos they released earlier this year, they said it was being worked on and was a challenge to implement. Which makes sense considering the complexity of it.

Nacroblix

Yes,Yes, Yes!

Aomine_Daiki10

This is wonderful I hope the changes are implemented sooner after the roadmap. it was worth the wait and kabaam did no wrong for once and it is amazing how they dealt with all the pain points at once.

Kaspy

Miike, I understand the post for Champions is set for June 29th but there is one thing I am wondering about - 2 champion buffs per month does seem ambitious to say the least. I mean we barely had 3 champion buffs this year. Are you guys sure you’ll be able to handle that pressure? Although we want these changes, will they come in excellent quality?

I think they specially used the word buff and not rework for a reason. The HB rework has taken months, but that is because they are starting from scratch. My guess is that these buffs will be more minor changes, but will bring them them more inline with other champs. A perfect example is Hawkeye. I dont think he needs a total rework, but he is a one tricky pony with his special 1. If they add a little utility to him like true strike he would become more viable for end game content.

ESF

Miike, I understand the post for Champions is set for June 29th but there is one thing I am wondering about - 2 champion buffs per month does seem ambitious to say the least. I mean we barely had 3 champion buffs this year. Are you guys sure you’ll be able to handle that pressure? Although we want these changes, will they come in excellent quality?
I think they specially used the word buff and not rework for a reason. The HB rework has taken months, but that is because they are starting from scratch. My guess is that these buffs will be more minor changes, but will bring them them more inline with other champs. A perfect example is Hawkeye. I dont think he needs a total rework, but he is a one tricky pony with his special 1. If they add a little utility to him like true strike he would become more viable for end game content.

I agree with this in one huge way: Reworks aren’t needed for all but a bare handful of characters.

They can buff two characters a month and make them viable and fun to play, not OP, because they obviously create Synergies each month.

If they just put the Synergies alone on the characters themselves, many of the characters that don’t get used would immediately become usable. Not the best, but usable in harder content instead of just sitting on rosters and never getting ranked up

A_NAZ

Roadmap looks great, hopefully it is executed well too. As for things I didn’t see that I’d like to have seen: mastery presets (multiple mastery layouts allowed for different setups and free changes allowed too), 1*s added to low level content for anyone needing them for V4 and also units added to the uncollected/cavalier difficulty EQs.

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Stagedear85

A wise man once said, 'Trust but verify.' Kabam has promised great things before and failed to deliver. How ironic they are talking about changes right before the 4th of July sales. So I'll hold my wallet until I actually see them. But atleast they acknowledge changes need to come.

lol true but lets be honest every day we come on the forum and all i see is when, when, when and now that we finally get some promise its like man why before 4th of July, its like they're in a lose/ lose situation here, damn if you do damn if you don't..

Etm34

I think this roadmap to the roadmap is great, and I’m genuinely excited again for what this game has in store. The new crystals will hopefully be a blessing. I’m expecting more class-based crystals, which will help tons in trying to get that one white whale character.

As for champion buffs, I’m guessing a lot of them will be fine-tunes of abilities. I still expect a few total reworks, but others I think will just be tweaks to pre-existing buffs. Things like upping say the fury potency on the hulk, or just even upping attack value in general. And I’m excited to see if they do things like play with pre-fight abilities. Like adding one to Star-Lord where I can select his ray gun buff effect

Amadeo01

The 1 thing I really wanted is still not happening. It’s been a long..... time since we were told multi mastery build swapping was coming. What’s the deal?

Also why did you wait so long to release champions? Is it gonna happen with 6*s as well? Seems shady and gross withholding champions and not giving us any reason.
In the videos they released earlier this year, they said it was being worked on and was a challenge to implement. Which makes sense considering the complexity of it.

Ehhhh, I don't know about that. I don't know how complex it is to enable multiple mastery loadouts, but making mastery switches free is basically zero work.

Speeds80

Love it, people like me who used to 100% everything can’t be bothered even doing act 6 after initial run because of fights like the champion no retreat node. And how hard sinister was etc. biggest question I still have though QUALITY OF LIFE equals gold, since completing act 6 and since t5b and t2a have become much more abundant I’ve worked out we have to spend well over an hour a day in arena to keep enough gold to not have resources expire.
After nearly five years playing the game it’s disgusting that arena has gone from what it was, a free unit gathering excercise, for f2p to gather units to do game progression, through mindless grind, to something necessary to not have resources expire. Act 6 rewards had rankup materials requiring about 9m gold, people that grind every day say they have enough, But their hundreds of thousands of Mindless arena fights is not something for new gamers to aspire to. The grind should not be compulsory, those who lead alliances and recruit and do war diversity and placement And organising aq paths like myself already spend so much time on alliance work before we get to grind every day. The game quickly becomes a chore.

Panda504337

soooooo.its gonna be a dull time in the contest

doctorb

5* wolverine and SW!!!

Anyway they game make this game playable as 3D or VR would be nice😋

doctorb

I hope they let us do multiple quests and challenges at same time as long as we dont use same hero in multiple quests. I just dont see myself putting everything else on hold while grinding through AoL.

Lvernon15

If the stuff on this roadmap is implemented well and in a good time frame this game could really make a comeback and be far better than it ever was, this looks really promising, the only things I could really ask to be on it that aren’t are relatively minor things like masteries. If this is implemented well i can see this game going for many more years, especially if they keep it up in the long term

Thecurler

The roadmap looks really positive.

Fingers crossed it's still positive when more details are released. If it is, they've nailed it.

TheInfinty

This looks great I’m proud of this game for actually working to improve their game I’m optimistic and holding out hope for a juggernaut buff!

Magrailothos

@Kabam Miike for me most important is a change to actual RNG crystals. But if you will update 2 champs every month will mitigate the disappointment.
About Magneto buff. Will be release the 29th of June or will you announce the date this day?
We'll be announcing it on the 29th! We want to move quickly, but moving THAT quickly is impossible.

Any chance you guys might plan on taking inspiration for those 'two champions per month' from the Champion Improvement Thread?

I reckon there's some good stuff in there; even if other people came up with the best ideas!

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Doomsfist79

you had me at ... Act 6 – All the changes coming to Act 6, bye-bye attack values, hello fresh Champion fight. and this is from someone who has already defeated the Champion.

i'm excited about the overall player base not having to feel the frustration that is Act 6 and moreover that Champion fight.
I’m very excited to go in a fight the new champion. I already finished Act 6 100%, but he sounds exciting.

How does the new champion fight sound exciting considering there are no details yet as to what will be changed.

__Tony_Stark_42

I am really happy 'bout this and looking forward to these changes.We needed it for a very long time and now finally it's here.Most of the things are bit surprising like new GAME MODE , NEW GAMEPLAY, hope it will be good.
And thanks for nerfing Act 6 attack too I had a really hard time completing it.Hope there will be some compensation for that but again thanks for these all changes

TheMightyJon

you had me at ... Act 6 – All the changes coming to Act 6, bye-bye attack values, hello fresh Champion fight. and this is from someone who has already defeated the Champion.

i'm excited about the overall player base not having to feel the frustration that is Act 6 and moreover that Champion fight.
I’m very excited to go in a fight the new champion. I already finished Act 6 100%, but he sounds exciting.
How does the new champion fight sound exciting considering there are no details yet as to what will be changed.

That it's different lol.

__Tony_Stark_42

I am PRAYING that quality of life includes mastery resets and costs going away. Kabam has been able to turn them off before. This would be a huge win for a lot of people. Hopefully this is coming

Yes indeed.Masteries are soo expensive

Gregdagr8

So if the announcement of act 6 changes come out on 6/23, any idea when they go live? I would love to get some paths done before next alliance war season comes out so my champs aren't locked!

Oh there's another suggestion! Not locking champs in AQ/AW for questing would be a phenomenal QOL addition!

Polygon

Crystal Update – More control and brand new Crystals are coming to MCoC — wonder if these will be Nexus crystals. I’ll start hoarding shards again.

Good to see kabam adhering to the community’s wants, job well done

StevieManWonder

you had me at ... Act 6 – All the changes coming to Act 6, bye-bye attack values, hello fresh Champion fight. and this is from someone who has already defeated the Champion.

i'm excited about the overall player base not having to feel the frustration that is Act 6 and moreover that Champion fight.
I’m very excited to go in a fight the new champion. I already finished Act 6 100%, but he sounds exciting.
How does the new champion fight sound exciting considering there are no details yet as to what will be changed.

Because it's new and different? Duh

StevieManWonder

Crystal Update – More control and brand new Crystals are coming to MCoC — wonder if these will be Nexus crystals. I’ll start hoarding shards again.

Good to see kabam adhering to the community’s wants, job well done

As soon as I read that they're adding in the four stars that haven't been added into the five star pool yet, I decided to start hoarding shards and sig stones. Five star sig200 Scarlet Witch, here I come.