I feel like i’m the only person not upset about “Doom Cycle”

SooperSouljer

the simplest logic is often the answer. The “new mode” opens to an external browser and the Fantastic Four movie is coming out. That kinda tells me someone from an office many floors higher than the game team made them put this in. most likely for data collection, to test a new game they’re gonna launch, and/or promotion for the movie. some mix of those three things. if i had to guess someone had this made and they wanted it thrown in in time for the movie.

i think our guys knew everybody would hate this. why ? Think about it Kabam will sell you everything under the sun, but for this they gave away a FULL titan AND units? just to play this slog ? $10 pretty much gets you through the entire thing. One thing i’ve realized about this company is if they can sell something, they will. but they went ultra light on the monetization and threw in a full titan. Meanwhile in game they’re selling 150 titan shards for what ? 150 units i think.. (math check)

the external browser is another piece of evidence that tells you somebody else made this mode and decision. if not why not just add it in with the rest of the stuff? the launcher is in a tiny little box under the SDE. no big tab under the Fight screen.. if i wasn’t watching Vega’s stream when it dropped i would have had no idea where to find it. just a little tab, an external browser and a free titan. that’s not the Kabam/MCOC we know.

I’m open to the idea that this is just a miss and i’m trying to make sense out of it nonsense. but this doesn’t follow their usual steps to horrible decisions.

Before everybody jumps down my throat, i don’t care about Kabam. I play the game for fun. I spent modestly. i haven’t touched the mode after the first day because.. i just don’t want to 🤷🏾‍♂️ i think that covers all the usual talking points so let’s have a good conversation.


TLDR; The big bosses made this mode happen, our guys knew we would hate it and gave out some pre-compensation in the form of a Titan and Units.

SooperSouljer

The main problem is that it's a serious slow burn that only really comes into its own until the Shatter mode opens up, so I have no idea who thought it would be a good idea to put a three-round limit during the Story mode when everything was boring as heck no matter where you put the mastery points.

Basically:

Day 1: This is novel, but kinda boring.

Day 2: Yeah, this is boring. Less novel now, though.

Day 3: Boooooring.

Day 4: At least I'm out of the story. Huh, I've gotten quite a mastery few points by now.

Day 5: Okay, I begin to see what the point of this game mode is.

Day 6: Am I...having fun?

The secondary problem is that the four characters come, basically, without any abilities of their own from the outset. I spent a lot of points in the Teamwork tree since those benefit every character, but that meant that all of them felt very samey. I feel like the game mode could have really benefit from a deep dive. Not necessarily one for each champion, but a single "here's how these guys work and what they do and how they differ from one another" video.

The third problem is that the individual characters can become so OP that it's usually better to simply invest into a single champ than it is to spread out points between the lot of them. I'm fairly certain that I could simply start a Shatter run with Invisible Woman and then just go and make dinner or something while she steamrolls all eight rounds. There's no need for me to play that little special attack mini game or to choose boosts, because she'll crush everything no matter what.

I think there is potential in the game mode and I don't think it's something that some poor sap at Kabam had to do in an afternoon just because their bosses wanted something new for whatever reason. However, I think we've basically been beta testing both this mode and the poker one this month. Which is fine, but it would be nice to know that this is a beta test since I tend to give more grace to those types of tests than when I play finished products.

It just feels as if we're mostly testing out a very bare-bones version of both new modes, that will both hopefully be expanded upon in the future when they launch properly. At least I hope that's the case, because I've found both quite lacking in terms of genuine engagement from me. I can see the vision for both modes, but just hope there's ultimately more to it than I've been allowed to partake in up until now.

I agree with everything you just said ! I didn’t play it the first few days after that first run but i broke down and spent $10 just to get it over because hella 7* shards, a titan and almost 1k units seemed very much worth it. I used the strat of doing Wave 1,2 and 3 with 3 different champs and then finishing with IW and putting my phone down lol. Made it much more bearable.

But yea i just didn’t see what all the fuss was about when it was obviously a beta test. And they gave great rewards to collect some data.