Back Issues #8: Deadpoolooza!

Once upon a time, I made the best quest ever!

That's right, you thought some stuffy old designer was going to write this message, but it was ME!

It’s time for Back Issues #8, smacking you in the face on Wednesday, November 10th!

Just like those other dusty old Back Issues we dig out of the closest, THE EXCEPTIONAL DEADPOOLOOZA will let all of my lovely little Summoners relive a classic quest from the good 'ol days, available in TWO TASTY FLAVOURS:

The 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. Look back with smug impunity at how easy the game used to be and flex those muscles!

The variant difficulty is a new spin on the quest, available for Summoners level 45 and up. This version features difficult challenges, new opponents, some map layout updates, and buffs that will empower your #Mercenary Champions... and ME!

... as well as those other slackers who're biting the Deadpool brand.

That means all your #Mercenary and Deadpool-family buddies are going to be juiced up and ready to fight, but all other Champions can't do much more than show up! That's right, it's MY quest, so I made it exclusively for those with excellent taste, dubious morals, or both!

The Variant Challenge

Like I literally just said, this Quest is all about me and all the wannabes. So here’s the sitch, we’ve got Global buffs for me and my homies, and we’ve got new Cross Fight buffs for all the other Mercs. Check em out!

Global Buffs

Mercs for Money: The Defender reduces all incoming damage by {95}%, unless the Attacker is #Mercenary, Deadpool, Deadpool (X-Force), Goldpool, Platinumpool, Gwenpool, Venompool, or Masacre.

Star of the Show: Obviously I should get a huge buff in these quests, I'm the original! Let's pump up all my stats, and finally put something on my SP1. (This buff supplies Deadpool (and ONLY Deadpool) bonus attack, bonus armor, bonus crit rate, increased regeneration potency, and applies a Degen effect to the Defender on a successful SP1)

We Should All Have This Power Anyways: This doesn't make sense. Why don't all my copies have the same abilities as me!? Grant Attacking Deadpool (X-Force), Goldpool, Platinumpool, Gwenpool, Venompool, or Masacre permanent Passive Regeneration of [120]% of their Max Health per minute, scaling with their Power.

Cross Fight Ability Buffs

“But Mr Thrillson!”, you might say, and I would say “Yes my sweet little cherub?”, “These don’t benefit the other #Mercenaries at all!”. And you’d be right! I did things differently this time since this is my quest and will be better than all of the other Back Issues, periodt.

Defeating Deadpooloids throughout the Quest will grant you special abilities that you can carry forward into the rest of the quest, making your Mercs stronger and stronger!

Here’s what you’ve got:

Strapped Up (Skill Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Strapped Up" Cross-Fight ability. "Strapped Up" causes the Attacker's Special Attacks to randomly inflict additional Debuffs for the remainder of the quest.

Starlight Acrobatics (Cosmic Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Starlight Acrobatics" Cross-Fight ability. "Starlight Acrobatics" grants the Attacker a Phase Passive when they dash back and hold block, causing incoming Attacks to Miss.

Bad Breath (Science Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Bad Breath" Cross-Fight ability. "Bad Breath" causes the Attacker to inflict Poison Debuffs on Opponents who are near them.

Sucker Punch (Mutant Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Sucker Punch" Cross-Fight ability. "Sucker Punch" makes the Attacker permanently Unblockable while the Opponent is above a certain HP threshold.

You Shall Not Cast (Mystic Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "You Shall Not Cast" Cross-Fight ability. "You Shall Not Cast" grants Power Steal to the Attacker's Heavy and Special Attacks.

Cyber Hive (Tech Deadpooloid): Defeating this Defender grants the Attacker a permanent "Cyber Hive" Cross-Fight ability. "Cyber Hive" grants all of the Attacker's attacks a chance to Poison and Shock the Opponent.
Rewards
For Total Completion and Mastery of Classic Difficulty, I’ll give you...

Tier 3 Basic ISO x5
Tier 4 Basic ISO x7
Tier 2 Skill ISO x5
Tier 2 Science ISO x5
Tier 2 Tech ISO x5
Tier 2 Cosmic ISO x5
Tier 2 Mystic ISO x5
Tier 2 Mutant ISO x5
Tier 2 Basic Catalyst x3
Tier 1 Alpha Catalyst x1
Tier 4 Basic Catalyst Fragments x2700
3-Star Venom x1
Gold x9575
Units x150
Premium Hero Crystal Shards x4600
3-Star Hero Crystal Shards x2000

For Total Completion and Mastery of Variant Difficulty, you’ll score…

5-Star Rank 2 → 3 Gem x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem (<2017 Champions) x3
5-Star Rank 4 → 5 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Awakening Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Crystal Shards x25000
Tier 5 Basic Catalysts x3
Tier 5 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystal (25%) x1
6-Star Crystal Shards x5000
5-Star Signature Stone Crystal x48
Gold x4,000,000
Units x360

See you soon,

XOXO Thrillhouse

Comments

StevieManWonder

Rewards are weak for state of game
This isn't endgame content anymore either. If you're looking for T6B and T3A, ask Carina for a new Challenge!

Well damn, give us more Carina's Challenges then. It's been a long time since the first ones came out

danielmath

the hardest resource by far for end game players to acquire is t5b, and this quest gives 3 full t5b!
Maybe for you, I'm constantly having an abundance of t5b, what I'm always lacking is the right t4cc class for any given rank up

really? i've been able to stay around 250 t4cc crystals, but i try to be somewhat careful and not waste it on 5*

Venomblasted_0622

Wire=greedy

Chikel

What frustrates me (and others) is the rankup gem restriction.

As posted in the announcement, the gem is applicable to <2017 champs—which would mean champs from 2015-2016.

Several sources like Trucos have changed the wording to ≤2017 but that’s not how it’s written in this thread.

What’s the issue? Which champs from 2017-2018 are so dangerous at 5* R4 they shouldn’t be targeted by a rankup gem? Aegon? Blade? Corvus? OR? Most have been out for 4+ years.

Honestly, it’s hard to think there’s anyone on the bottom two rows in the chart above that would be game-breaking if players with the ability to explore a chapter of variant could take them to R4.

At this point, it feels like it’s just a lack of understanding of where the game is at this point. Keep the other rewards as they are (assuming there’s no BS path that requires mystics to complete it) but update the gems.

Dr. Zola</blockquote>
Trucos is right. I mean even V6 and V7 have gems for 2017 and below so it doesn't make sense for V8 to be <2017

Wiredawg1

Wire=greedy

@Venomblasted_0622 so you want call me out and not any of the others that posted who where in agreement that the rewards are 2019 rewards? Yea do me a favor get lost

DrZola

What frustrates me (and others) is the rankup gem restriction.

As posted in the announcement, the gem is applicable to <2017 champs—which would mean champs from 2015-2016.

Several sources like Trucos have changed the wording to ≤2017 but that’s not how it’s written in this thread.

What’s the issue? Which champs from 2017-2018 are so dangerous at 5* R4 they shouldn’t be targeted by a rankup gem? Aegon? Blade? Corvus? OR? Most have been out for 4+ years.

Honestly, it’s hard to think there’s anyone on the bottom two rows in the chart above that would be game-breaking if players with the ability to explore a chapter of variant could take them to R4.

At this point, it feels like it’s just a lack of understanding of where the game is at this point. Keep the other rewards as they are (assuming there’s no BS path that requires mystics to complete it) but update the gems.

Dr. Zola</blockquote>
Trucos is right. I mean even V6 and V7 have gems for 2017 and below so it doesn't make sense for V8 to be <2017</blockquote>

That’s the only way it makes sense, of course. So why not just say so here in the thread?

Dr. Zola

Polygon

I’ll say it again, jumping from variant to carina to justify the rewards is illogical as thats a drastic jump. We arent expecting variants to have t6b or t3a, just rewards that are more tailored to 6* as the game has evolved significantly since the earlier variants. Some 6* shards or sig stone crystals , maybe a 6* 1->2 crystal, would be nice.

Wozzle007

I think Kabam really need to clarify are the rewards for champions released before 2017 or released to equal to an before 2017 like the previous 2 variants.

The problem with variants are the difficulty doesn’t really justify a huge change in rewards. But now we have 8 of these variants, do we really need more of these rewards in the game? Even if you’re a brand new player, after you’ve completed 3 or 4 of the existing variants you’ll likely be pushing on for mainly 6* level resources. So do people really need these rewards? We seem to get the opportunity for 5* awakening gem every month so the draw of this a reward appears to have significantly diminished (at least to me). I think the exploration rewards are fine, but completion probably needs drop the awakening gem, 5* shards and T5B and give a class based 6* 1>2 rank up gem, 5K in 6* shards and keep the gold the same.

Chrisco66

Outdated rewards. More 6* stuff needed. This isn’t 2017

TyEdge

What frustrates me (and others) is the rankup gem restriction.

As posted in the announcement, the gem is applicable to <2017 champs—which would mean champs from 2015-2016.

Several sources like Trucos have changed the wording to ≤2017 but that’s not how it’s written in this thread.

What’s the issue? Which champs from 2017-2018 are so dangerous at 5* R4 they shouldn’t be targeted by a rankup gem? Aegon? Blade? Corvus? OR? Most have been out for 4+ years.

Honestly, it’s hard to think there’s anyone on the bottom two rows in the chart above that would be game-breaking if players with the ability to explore a chapter of variant could take them to R4.

At this point, it feels like it’s just a lack of understanding of where the game is at this point. Keep the other rewards as they are (assuming there’s no BS path that requires mystics to complete it) but update the gems.

Dr. Zola</blockquote>
Trucos is right. I mean even V6 and V7 have gems for 2017 and below so it doesn't make sense for V8 to be <2017</blockquote>

The other day, it was a > sign, which I interpreted as an arrow meaning “through 2017” (same as the last 3 variants) and not as a math notation.

unknown

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Bulmkt

I’m very much looking forward to using my main man Deadpool in this Variant…

As for the loot, it’s fine.

unknown

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JC10100

is the variant live?

KILLMФИGЕЯ

Rewards are weak for state of game
This isn't endgame content anymore either. If you're looking for T6B and T3A, ask Carina for a new Challenge!

We would love more Carinas challenges! As soon as she learns what “challenge” actually means lol
Making somebody use 4*s in labrynth isn’t a challenge, it’s called a waste of units when you can’t solo any of the fights.

benshb

1.2 deadpool x already bugged?

Maratox

Hey Kabam fundamentals node on DP XForce in 1.2 is bugged. He throws his SP3 as soon as he gets it

DrDrill

Xforce boss is heavily bugged, he should not throw any specials, yet he throw sp3 as soon as he gets it!! how I'm supposed to do with that since he won't' use sp1 nor 2??
also first boss with lifecycle, if he has it when dies, he heal to full then act like NF LMD but back to 1% then ~15%, after that he can't die at all, and all your hits deal 0 damage even if his shield is down

AverageDesi

Xforce boss is heavily bugged, he should not throw any specials, yet he throw sp3 as soon as he gets it!! how I'm supposed to do with that since he won't' use sp1 nor 2??
also first boss with lifecycle, if he has it when dies, he heal to full then act like NF LMD but back to 1% then ~15%, after that he can't die at all, and all your hits deal 0 damage even if his shield is down

I faced that. I threw a special when shield was down and he died

Maratox

Xforce boss is heavily bugged, he should not throw any specials, yet he throw sp3 as soon as he gets it!! how I'm supposed to do with that since he won't' use sp1 nor 2??
also first boss with lifecycle, if he has it when dies, he heal to full then act like NF LMD but back to 1% then ~15%, after that he can't die at all, and all your hits deal 0 damage even if his shield is down
I faced that. I threw a special when shield was down and he died

He wouldn’t die for me. Kept himself at exactly 1 hp through three of my attackers

DoomGB

So the first boss fight in this variant appears to be bugged. When I got the boss down to 1% health, I knocked him down to disable Lifecycle, and then all of my hits death 0 damage. Also, saw KarateMike's livestream and the first boss's champion abilities do not mention anything related to dealing 0 damage

DoomGB

The boss abilities I read mention that when he dies, he regains all of his health. Also he deal a very tiny bleed on his special attacks. Was looking forward to this Variant now I'm just put off. Feels like another bug fiesta

DoomGB

Unless I'm wrong, what is happening with this fight?

Erebo

BUG BUG BUG!

I want my resourses back!

... Please.

LibertyPrimeV1

How will the old players 4* red Deadpool’s stack up. Useable at all? Lol
I'm more interested if the 1 Star we got from those Event Basic Unit Deals will have an Use 😂 imagine if the 1 Star Version get a Double Bonus of Attack and Health.

Holy carp the Deadpool Boosts in V8 actually make the 1 Star Version Viable, I'm getting 4k Crit Mediums and the Sp2 Bleed is dealing 2k a Tick! 🤣
Looks like our Summoned Symbioid isn't the Only Super 1 Star Anymore! (The Block Damage is still fairly high but it's a Variant so you usually avoid Blocking anyways)

dukedevill4412

So the Deadpool Xforce boss is supposed to have a -100% of launching specials. Then he launches a SP3. Good to know you are still releasing bugged content

Wiredawg1

Not end game content huh kabam. Then why is venom pool having act 7 nodes on it.

Valentinos13

Definitely one of the worse variants, Atleast on release

KILLMФИGЕЯ

“Variant 8 is not end game content” kabam proceeds to release high attack values, crazy nodes, insanely limits your roster. Large healthpools and broken node combos with an end boss that has to be defeated using champs that have -95% attack hahahaha good job boys!