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

FoldinBoxes

Kabam, first I want to say thanks for fixing those 2 fights. KT1 pointed out in one of his latest videos that the attack values for this Variant content are nearly twice those in Act 7 fights. Those attack values need to come way down, even if health pools are increased to compensate. It's unreal how much block damage you take in these fights and with parry issues still present, a single mistake can easily KO you.

It's not just those 2 bosses, please comment on any additional fixes you plan to make, if any.

Kingkong1977

Anybody having issues with Lifecycle on the first boss.? Really frustrating. Cant kill him with sp3 when shield is clearly down…. Happens a few times now.

Chrisco66

Rewards are garbage related to the difficulty

Rotelly

For not being endgame content it sure requires some niche attackers and strategy to clear this content….

ccrider474

Anybody having issues with Lifecycle on the first boss.? Really frustrating. Cant kill him with sp3 when shield is clearly down…. Happens a few times now.

He has life cycle and a nick fury type regen. It's his sig ability. That could be your problem. Way I read it once per fight, so I would assume that means every time you die he gets it again.

This could be your problem, I personally 100 his map no bugs noticed by me.

Rotelly

How is this fun?

Rotelly

Sunny2

Can someone please explain to me how this is midgame content when the attack values for individual fights (not boss fights) are nearly double the attack values in endgame content 7.3? Does that make any sense to anyone?

Sunny2

Just for reference 7.3.6 you are in the 8 to 9k range while in variant chapter 3 you are in the 15k attack range.. I don't get what makes this midgame content if 7.3 is endgame.. rewards should be buffed or attack values nerfed to fit the rewards

MiStaLova

Just make platpool same in variant like redpool

Kossukose

Chapter 1 Lifecycle IS down but boss dont die!

xLunatiXx

For the lifecycle boss, disable the shield while he's degen. He will kill himself. If you missed the window, disable the shield and hit into block

Biggp54

Did they fix any bugs or just fix the dpx and the final VP boss? Life cycle I still can't get down.

Grootman1294

Tips for that stupid Havok in quest 3? The power steal cross fight helps but I still get plasma'd to death

Rotelly

Tips for that stupid Havok in quest 3? The power steal cross fight helps but I still get plasma'd to death

It was an annoying fight, I brought in double dominos and sacrificed one of them to him for the first 50%

AverageDesi

Tips for that stupid Havok in quest 3? The power steal cross fight helps but I still get plasma'd to death

@Grootman1294 I used taskmaster. He pretty much ignores the fight

Else with the crossfight land only heavies. Bait heavies only sp2 bait and so on. What your Merc roster

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benshb

Whoever the hell designed this disgusting, crappy joke path (invade+200% energize), I hope from the bottom of my heart that you will get the worst RNGs in the history of MCOC and you will suffer with every piece of content in the game.
Why?
WHY?!?!

te_dua_shum

Tips for that stupid Havok in quest 3? The power steal cross fight helps but I still get plasma'd to death

Venompool with Iceman/Vision Aarkus, the Ice armor can prevent the detonation damage, it's just a bit RNG dependent because it's only 75% chance to procs when you reach 100 cookin' meter but a 5* R5 VP can tank a detonation and heal back to full if needed ^_^

Errang

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!

I’d very much like to understand what passes for “end game content” now… I personally find Abyss easier than this variant.

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AverageDesi

Beyond the bugs and clearly untested VP fight, I'm struggling with wanting to do this variant. It isn't the difficulty, I really don't mind a challenge, it's that it just isn't fun. I'm all for encouraging the use of different champs, but the pool is very small to begin with, plus a solid portion of these champs are just not good at all. There are some that excel, but overall it's a very weak group of champs.

I'm looking at the content and judging whether or not it is worth my time and effort to do. Some of that is rewards. Most of that is fun and entertaining content with champs I enjoy playing. I could see this being fun and entertaining content if it didn't punish players so hard if they made a single mistake. The attack values are pre-nerf Act 6 level which causes immense block damage if you use a 5* and that's what Variants are designed to be completed by(based on the Kabam employee who said these are midtier content). You have rewards that are designed for Cavalier level players, but the content isn't designed for them.

If this is "midtier content" now, the rewards should help them get to the next tier and the content itself should be designed with their rosters in mind. It's currently stuck in the area that the tier of players it's designed for don't have the champs to do it and the tier that has the roster to do it has no real reason to do it. The only rewards in the content that I have any real desire to get are the t5b.

Why have a ridiculous -95% damage penalty for non-merc champs? Why not give merc champs some kind of flat bonus? You still encourage people to use those champs, but if you don't have a good merc counter for that Havok, you can still use someone else and get through it. It's just poorly thought out content from top to bottom. It's sad because I used to look forward to new Variants coming out, but after seeing this one I just don't have the drive to explore it. The content and the rewards don't justify the effort currently. I'm all for the content being aimed at Cavalier/early TB players, but the rewards need to reflect what they need to advance. Right now, this Variant is neither.

Was this in AOA? vp has been changed and overall variant is fine

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Rotelly

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!
I’d very much like to understand what passes for “end game content” now… I personally find Abyss easier than this variant.

Serious one mistake and you are KO in v8

Ironman3000

I gotta say that after compleating it 100% and seeing zero 6* shards was not very fufilling.

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PirateJon

Did not enjoy the content. Difficulty does not match rewards. Attack values too high, too much power gain, limited champs to use. I did enjoy using Deadpool champs.

Oliverb1980

So I got 1 40% revive and 1 lvl5 health for the bugged DPX as compensation. Anyone got better?

Ltopher87

So I got 1 40% revive and 1 lvl5 health for the bugged DPX as compensation. Anyone got better?

I got 2 revives and 4 health potions lol

DiazAl01

This is my first time writting a post in the forums.

For all of us is well know about the issues that affected Deadpool X-Force and Venompool in Variant 8 difficulty.
And I imagine that a lot of player try to overcome the issues and try their best to get the victory (especially against Venompool) I was one of those players.

The thing is that I never imagine I will spend around 2,000 units that I was farming for cyber weekend to defeat Venompool. After I defeated him I was thinking: "maybe kabam already know about this issue and will compensate"

I genuinely thought: "Kabam will admit their mistake for this, and compensate the player that spend their units". (I honestly believed that you will send us the units we spend)

But not even in the worst case scenario I imagine the compensation that they send today: 40% revive orb (x5) and 10,000 health potion (x7).

Let's do the math's here:
40 units * 5 = 200 units. (value of the revive orbs)
28 units * 7 = 196 units (value of the heatlh potion)
TOTAL OF "UNITS" = 396 UNITS

THE WORST PART IS THAT WE DIDN'T EVEN RECEIVED THE UNITS, WE RECEIVED THE ORBS.AND THERE IS NO CHANCE TO CHANGE THEM TO UNITS.

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Zibiit @Kabam Porthos @Kabam Vydious @Kabam Lyra and every other member of the Kabam Community: This compensation is an insult and a slap in their face to those who spend almost every unit they had trying to overcome your own mistakes. I know guys that you already have a lot with all the issues that had been around the game the past few months, but this type of actions will only get players more angrier than they already are. This type of things are the reason players are quitting this game. Is almost like you didn't understand what player suffer for your own mistakes (I know is not the case)

It will be great that you guys take a step and compensate the players in proportion of what they spend in those particular fights. I know that you guys can track how the players were affected by these issues and also how much they spend.

believe me when I tell you guys: The players will be more comprehensive with you if you really compensate in proportion to the spend we made.

I hope you take this comment in consideration for this and for the future as well.

Sincerely
DiazAl01