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

Wiredawg1

Hey everybody, here's an update regarding two of the Boss Fights that Summoners have given us a lot of feedback on: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/287449/bug-fixes-and-changes-for-back-issues-8-variant-difficulty

@Kabam Miike by later today that means when exactly? An hour from now or 12am pacific

DrZola

Hey everybody, here's an update regarding two of the Boss Fights that Summoners have given us a lot of feedback on: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/287449/bug-fixes-and-changes-for-back-issues-8-variant-difficulty

Sounds promising. Thanks for being responsive as soon as you were able and taking concerns seriously. I’m a little bummed I couldn’t pull it off before the change, but I will definitely take it.

Dr. Zola

Epistriatus

Hey everybody, here's an update regarding two of the Boss Fights that Summoners have given us a lot of feedback on: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/287449/bug-fixes-and-changes-for-back-issues-8-variant-difficulty

Adressing the two biggest issues in a proper way 👍 Really glad to see it’s been handled this way in a timely fashion 👍
Good luck dealing with all the threads demanding compensation in 3, 2, 1 🤷‍♂️

Trafalgarwar96

So am i the only one that experienced a bug on the first boss of the v8? The life cycle node doesnt work as should do.....

Gamer

Hey everybody, here's an update regarding two of the Boss Fights that Summoners have given us a lot of feedback on: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/287449/bug-fixes-and-changes-for-back-issues-8-variant-difficulty

The first boss is also bug lifecycle doesn’t kill them before you hit in to he’s blocked

benshb

Hey everybody, here's an update regarding two of the Boss Fights that Summoners have given us a lot of feedback on: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/287449/bug-fixes-and-changes-for-back-issues-8-variant-difficulty

Sounds awesome. I guess we shouldn't expect any compensation for the "quick-cleaners"

TyEdge

Does red Deadpool’s damage scale based on star level or are all red Deadpool’s performing the same?

Eb0ny-O-M4w

How about the other boss bugs?

The first boss isn't taking damage while at 1 HP, and the sym spider sometimes gets power from any hit given

Gamer

@Kabam Miike can we getting this one fixed to

https://youtu.be/r0QF7O6x9PI

Gamer

How about the other boss bugs?

The first boss isn't taking damage while at 1 HP, and the sym spider sometimes gets power from any hit given

He do u just hav to kil him one block

Deacon

Hey everybody, here's an update regarding two of the Boss Fights that Summoners have given us a lot of feedback on: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/287449/bug-fixes-and-changes-for-back-issues-8-variant-difficulty
Adressing the two biggest issues in a proper way 👍 Really glad to see it’s been handled this way in a timely fashion 👍
Good luck dealing with all the threads demanding compensation in 3, 2, 1 🤷‍♂️

as they should though. a bugged fight i'd say warrants it. as well as the improperly balanced fight.

Eb0ny-O-M4w

How about the other boss bugs?

The first boss isn't taking damage while at 1 HP, and the sym spider sometimes gets power from any hit given
He do u just hav to kil him one block

I've already did the boss after some attempts.
He was also getting damage from incinerate debuffs, despite being immune due to lifecycle

Ironman3000

ETA on the fix? DPX still has WARNING

Gamer

How about the other boss bugs?

The first boss isn't taking damage while at 1 HP, and the sym spider sometimes gets power from any hit given
He do u just hav to kil him one block
I've already did the boss after some attempts.
He was also getting damage from incinerate debuffs, despite being immune due to lifecycle

Jep I’m hav a video op above with where’s he reg all the way back then take damage

CoMinow

@Kabam Miike can we getting this one fixed to

https://youtu.be/r0QF7O6x9PI

Is he Not supposed to be like Nick fury? I assumed that was as intended?. He’s easy to bring back down either way

SKIRMISHER

Vp has changed now

SKIRMISHER

Not too bad. 2 team revives and im a rubbish player. Bwdo was best

Wiredawg1

I know a lot won’t agree with this but I going to post this anyway from 1 end gamers prospective.

When you make content and restrict it to where only 20 champs can do full damage. It’s not designed for mid level players. And most of those 20 don’t get any added benefits like do in some of the other variants…. Mid game players are not going to rank a task master, a cage, a moon knight, or a dpx for content. So realistically 14-15 useable champs. You are in fact targeting end game players with the depth and range of champ pools to do this. So the rewards don’t match. And thrillson I still waiting for you to explain how this not end game content in its original form before change to venompool. You one who said it not so you can explain how it isn’t

Akj007

Who makes these stupid node combinations...
You are required to take block damage with over 15k attack values and life transfer and linbo on top of that...

And with the passive AI on top of that which does not want to throw Special after reaching SP2 ... Makes this a fun fight for the unit man

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MiStaLova

Why 1* deadpool is better than him ? Kabam balance deadpools in variant plz 😘🍑

amarc21

Why is Variant 8 still giving Rank Up Gems for champs until 2017? I'm slowly running out of champs or I don't need such old champs anymore. apart from that, rank 4 is almost too unusable for most content. shouldn't they at least also apply to all champs?

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Gercas

With the attack values, one mistake you get practically dead. This remind me pre nerf act 6

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Eb0ny-O-M4w

There is another bug, where the red deadpooloid is able to purify debuffs,

Nowhere does it state on his abilities that he is able to do that

Joker1976

Rewards aren’t even decent anyway. Glad that I passed on this broken content .

MiStaLova

Dear Kabam where is compensations for yours fault ? I spend 600 units .

xLunatiXx

There is another bug, where the red deadpooloid is able to purify debuffs,

Nowhere does it state on his abilities that he is able to do that

That. Looks like they copy pasted the adaptoid or smt and forgot to remove some abilities

AverageDesi

There is another bug, where the red deadpooloid is able to purify debuffs,

Nowhere does it state on his abilities that he is able to do that

Mutants specials are insta KO