Fantastic and Doom Invasions! (Updated Nov 4th)

Summoners!

The final member of the Fantastic Four has been found trapped in a prison constructed by their greatest Enemy! Now, it’s time for you to fight alongside them in Fantastic Invasions and Doom Invasions!

Invasions!

On alternating days, you’ll be able to participate in either FANTASTIC INVASIONS or DOOM INVASIONS. These Quests will face you off against Villain, Hero, and Mercenary Champions on behalf of two of the greatest minds in The Battlerealm, Reed Richards and Doctor Doom!

Fantastic Invasions will reward Crystal Shards to help you expand your team of friends, while Doom Invasions will reward Catalysts and Fragments to make your Champions know true power!

Switch Sides Every Day!

These quests exist in 2 Variations that are available for 24 hours at a time, and alternate daily.

During Fantastic Assignments, you’ll challenge the Villains that aim to destroy our Heroic Champions! During Doom Assignments, you’ll stop at nothing to conquer the so-called “Heroes” that stand in the way of the Villains of the Battlerealm!

These quests each consist of 3 paths of 7 nodes each (1 energy per step), with 5 fights per path (including the Boss). There are 4 difficulties for Summoners to explore: Normal, Heroic, Master, and Epic!

Watch out, Summoner! These Champions each have special Buffs to increase the Difficulty of the encounter!

Rewards: NOTE: These Rewards have been updated. See below.

Prepare to help Doctor Doom and Mister Fantastic thwart their enemies!

This event will be active from November 6th - December 4th! You must update to version 25.0 to be able to see or participate in this event!

Don’t forget to check out our post on the Fantastic Family Community Milestones, and the Fantastic Family and Foes Solo Objectives! Find that here!

UPDATE:

Summoners,

After having many discussions on the subject with you all, and amongst the team, we will be moving forward with some changes to the rewards of Fantastic and Doom Invasions. We heard from our players that they do not believe that the current rewards accurately reflect the time and effort that is required to complete this content, and that the rewards don’t help push the needle on Summoner progression in a meaningful way. While side events are not the place we intend for Top Tier rewards to be gained, we do still want the rewards to be meaningful.

While we don’t usually make adjustments to content before it’s in our Players’ hands, and you had time to experience it, we agree with much of what you have said. We have decided that we will be updating the rewards to include more T5B Fragments, T2A Fragments, 5-Star Shards, 4-Star Shards, and 3-Star Shards. These are the newly updated rewards:

While we always aim to choose a selection of rewards that our players will find valuable and get excited about, hitting the sweet spot for all players is difficult. This month, we chose to include 5-Star Signature Stone Crystals, which is not usually a Side Event Reward, and not always valued as much as items such as 5-Star or 6-Star Hero Crystal Shards.

We do need to make it clear that this increase in rewards is based on multiple factors, and that going forward, you will still see fluctuations in rewards and events. Some events will be more rewarding than others, and some will require more time and effort than others. We will be taking more care to assess the effort that our Summoners put into that Content, and not just the intended difficulty.

Additionally, we’re adding 250,000 Gold to the Gold Arena in our Fantastic Family Milestones for a total of 750,000.

Comments

Matty_Ice

This is such fantastic news! A big thank you. I’m excited to jump in and make sure I don’t miss a day playing the side quests now.

SDP

Even so with the rewards being slightly buffed i still aint doing the side quest. I like to spend less time on the game rather then spend more of it. I already am bored as it is and this aint gonna make me go unbored

Two T2As. Three including the calendar. You’re not gonna snag those? Dang. I’m all over that business.

Hulk_77

Just popping in to say kudos to the Kabam team for updating the rewards, it was desperately needed. Also, while you're in there examining rewards, maybe take a look at UC rewards which have also gotten stale. Thanks!

ddom

Kudos to kabam for this response to player feedback

Sceptilemaniac

Ok this really puts a smile on my face.

Graydrox

Even so with the rewards being slightly buffed i still aint doing the side quest. I like to spend less time on the game rather then spend more of it. I already am bored as it is and this aint gonna make me go unbored

Just stop playing then. Find something you like to do more. Why are you complaining over here likes it's Kabam's responsibility to entertain you.

Nah01

Really really nice Kabam. Thank you.

Nah01

(Part of me thinking that this leads to a new era that rank 4 5* will be the norm and rank 3 6* will be new height.).

Wayde0wilson

Thanks kabam, now I will do them( or atleast try to, if they aren't hard),I do have one question and I read the description but wasn't able to understand that are there any champ requirements?

NoobGaming

Thanks kabam for the good rewards!

Halley

Could anyone calculate the total rewards? 😄

Jwallace25

Awesome update to the rewards! Thank you for listening to us. I can confirm that the excitement needle has in fact moved and that the rewards definitely seem worth the time and effort now. Again, THANKS!

Jwallace25

Could anyone calculate the total rewards? 😄

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/1028976/#Comment_1028976

Silver_Saga

Very pleasantly surprised by these upgraded rewards ! Credit where it's due, this type of decision will help restore faith in you Kabam, no doubt about that. First step in the right direction ? Hopefully

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XdSpoodermanxD

Ya done good.👍

cowgirlup80

Thanks for the update Kabam. It's very much appreciated. If you could tone down the energy use a little bit, that would make this side quest stellar. Thanks again.

phillgreen

Im sorry if I missed it but am I locked to a side for the event and unable to switch?

Im sitting on 12 T2A and really unsure what to do because more 5* shards might snag me someone worthy of the T2A I already have but more T2A helps broaden the roster for variants/5.3 onwards etc.

Jwallace25

Im sorry if I missed it but am I locked to a side for the event and unable to switch?

Im sitting on 12 T2A and really unsure what to do because more 5* shards might snag me someone worthy of the T2A I already have but more T2A helps broaden the roster for variants/5.3 onwards etc.

You don't technically "get to choose" which sides you are on. They alternate daily. So you will be on Fantastic 4's side one day and the Dr. Doom the next, which means you will get to earn both rewards.

Snurris

Thanks KABAM!
This is great news. The first time in a while the side quest is interesting and seems worth the effort. Thanks for listening.

solmyrair

Great quests this month I see:-)

DNA3000

Now that I've seen the difficulty level of the invasions, I think it was definitely a good idea to bump the rewards. They would have been wildly too low. At the current levels, about triple what they were initially, the event is probably a bit generous, but not outside the range of reasonable rewards. Anything between two and three times the original rewards would have probably been fine.

solmyrair

Nodes are heavy but quest doable. All depends of choosing right champs to the right nodes.

TheTalents

Now that I've seen the difficulty level of the invasions, I think it was definitely a good idea to bump the rewards. They would have been wildly too low. At the current levels, about triple what they were initially, the event is probably a bit generous, but not outside the range of reasonable rewards. Anything between two and three times the original rewards would have probably been fine.

Yeah I think this sums it up very well. I wish it was 0 energy because I'll need it for act 6.3 next week but the increase in rewards definitely make it worth it.

xNig

I would say, similar comments to the prior month’s, rewards are good, quest design is good. Only issue is how tedious exploring the map is. It’s not “hard” per se..

phillgreen

Im sorry if I missed it but am I locked to a side for the event and unable to switch?

Im sitting on 12 T2A and really unsure what to do because more 5* shards might snag me someone worthy of the T2A I already have but more T2A helps broaden the roster for variants/5.3 onwards etc.
You don't technically "get to choose" which sides you are on. They alternate daily. So you will be on Fantastic 4's side one day and the Dr. Doom the next, which means you will get to earn both rewards.

Thanks!

xNig

To add on my above comment,

I believe doing the following will alleviate the “tedious-ness” of this event.

- Instead of 3 Paths, remove 1 and have 2 paths.
- Remove 1-2 fights per path.
- Keep one path as it is now (for example, the rightmost path).
- On the other path, have an incoming node from the boss that boosts attack / health and additional nodes (in essence it’s combining the removed path with the remaining one).
- Increase the energy consumption to 2 per tile (keeping the total energy use constant, if that’s a concern)

This way, players with less stacked rosters can go for completion and get some rewards, while end game players can enjoy the challenge of relatively harder content, but without the tediousness of it (which takes away the fun).

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Werewrym

To add on my above comment,

I believe doing the following will alleviate the “tedious-ness” of this event.

- Instead of 3 Paths, remove 1 and have 2 paths.
- Remove 1-2 fights per path.
- Keep one path as it is now (for example, the rightmost path).
- On the other path, have an incoming node from the boss that boosts attack / health and additional nodes (in essence it’s combining the removed path with the remaining one).
- Increase the energy consumption to 2 per tile (keeping the total energy use constant, if that’s a concern)

This way, players with less stacked rosters can go for completion and get some rewards, while end game players can enjoy the challenge of relatively harder content, but without the tediousness of it (which takes away the fun).
Agreed. Last good non-tedious side-event was probably Nick Fury's intel. After that, they have been relentless in pushing long boring slogs as side events.

On the plus side maybe this will help us rack up fights faster through the month...? Not that the community wide event is all that rewarding.

xNig

To add on my above comment,

I believe doing the following will alleviate the “tedious-ness” of this event.

- Instead of 3 Paths, remove 1 and have 2 paths.
- Remove 1-2 fights per path.
- Keep one path as it is now (for example, the rightmost path).
- On the other path, have an incoming node from the boss that boosts attack / health and additional nodes (in essence it’s combining the removed path with the remaining one).
- Increase the energy consumption to 2 per tile (keeping the total energy use constant, if that’s a concern)

This way, players with less stacked rosters can go for completion and get some rewards, while end game players can enjoy the challenge of relatively harder content, but without the tediousness of it (which takes away the fun).
Agreed. Last good non-tedious side-event was probably Nick Fury's intel. After that, they have been relentless in pushing long boring slogs as side events.
On the plus side maybe this will help us rack up fights faster through the month...? Not that the community wide event is all that rewarding.

I’m sure the community event milestones aren’t a big concern. As what Miike already mentioned, 250m is what the community does in a slow week.