Announcing: M.O.D.O.K.'s Lab

MAD SCIENTIST

The Grandmaster has been so focused on his grand machinations that M.O.D.O.K. has renovated his Laboratory right beneath The Grandmaster’s nose in order to test his new device: M.O.D.O.K.’s Randomizer! Enter M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab and see how the dice rolls as you face off against 6 random opponents with their own set of completely random Buffs! Use M.O.D.O.K.’s Randomizer to spin the wheel again and try to land your ideal set of Buffs! M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab opens for business on December 6th at 10:00 AM PST. You will need to update to Version 16.1 to be able to see or access M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab, which will be available December 6th. Please note, there is a chance that 16.1 will not be available until after 10 AM PST.

THAT’S SO RANDOM

In M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab, there are 4 difficulties. Each Difficulty has 1 path with 6 fights on it. Each fight is a random Champion from 1 of the 6 classes (i.e. the first is a random Mutant , the second is a random Mystic, etc.), and each fight has the same Rarity, Rank, Level, and Signature Level as all the other fights in the same difficulty. Here’s where things get interesting:

Each fight also has a number of random Buffs. The number of random Buffs is always the same on every fight in a given difficulty, but is different between difficulties (i.e. Easy has 1 random buff, Expert has 6). There are over 150 potential Buffs you can encounter, and several million possible combinations. While not every Buff in the game is included in this list of potential Buffs, it does include most of them.

ROLL THE DEFINITELY-NOT-DICE

We know it’s very possible that, especially on harder difficulties, you’ll run into a combo of Buffs that’s just ridiculous. That’s why we have The Randomizer. This item can be used in the pre-fight screen while viewing the Random Active Buffs on a fight to re-randomize all Buffs on that fight. This can be done as many times as you have Randomizers, and we will be including 12 Randomizers in a welcome message when M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab releases. You can also collect 1 from each completion of any difficulty of M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab, so you can collect another 4 every 8 hours (12 each Day). Randomizers will ALSO be purchasable for 2500 Gold up to 12 times per day.

THE WAY IS SHUT

There’s going to be LOTS of things to spend Energy on in December, so we’ve made the Energy requirement for M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab 0. That’s right, absolutely 0. This doesn’t mean you can infinitely farm for rewards, however (you’ll understand why when you see the rewards). Instead, M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab features something new called Entry Limits. Every 8 Hours, you will be able to ENTER each difficulty of M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab 1 time. When the timer on the quest hits 0, your entries will refresh, and you’ll be able to enter each difficulty another time.

Q&A

Why are you doing this?

Because we want there to be something fun, a little more out-there, but also more rewarding that a typical special quest like this. We’re also genuinely interested in observing some of the less-utilized combinations of Buffs to see how you guys handle them!

EDIT: 12/06/2017 @ 10:56 AM PST: Auto-Fight is intentionally NOT enabled in M.O.D.O.K.'s Lab. The main reason is that we want to see how PLAYERS handle the random Buffs, not how the AI does.

So, all the fights are Random?

Yes. This doesn’t work any different from, let’s say, Class Daily quests where there’s a range of potential enemies on a node that change every time you enter the quest. Here’s what it looks like in-game:

But when you re-enter, it might look like this:

As you can see, each node is always the same Class, just a different character from that Class.

So, how hard are the fights then?

This depends significantly on which Buffs appear on a given fight, and which character you’re fighting. As a general rule, any character that can be collected by players can appear as an opponent, so character like Weapon X Wolverine or Dark Phoenix aren’t there. Here’s how the fights are tuned:

Easy
- 2-Star Champions
- Rank 1
- Level 10
- Signature 0

Medium
- 3-Star Champions
- Rank 2
- Level 20
- Signature 10

Hard
- 4-Star Champions
- Rank 3
- Level 30
- Signature 50

Expert
- 5-Star Champions
- Rank 4
- Level 55
- Signature 200

What about the Buffs, are all the Buffs random too?

Yes. This is new, unlike random Champions. Essentially, each Node has a number of Buffs (the number is determined based on whichever difficulty you’re playing) applied to it. The specific Buff(s) are determined based on a Pool of Buffs, which for M.O.D.O.K.’s Lab contains over 150 Buffs. Here’s what that translates to in-game:

As you can see, this fight has a few Buffs on it, but nothing too outrageous, however once you re-enter the quest, these Buffs might look like this:

Comments

TheBaldAvenger

Uncollected level added to monthly event quest after master level. Pretty much confirmed in scoring for quest completion

Juggerneyks

could it be the year of science?

Nomarigerol

TheBaldAvenger wrote: »

Uncollected level added to monthly event quest after master level. Pretty much confirmed in scoring for quest completion

Indeed

Omni

does it run every 8 hours on a set schedule or does it reset every 8 hours after you complete it.

So 10am-6PM / 6PM-2AM / 2AM-10AM

or I run it at 2PM and I cant run it again until 10PM?

Thebgj

I know people are saying it’s not the regular event quest, has Kabam said that this is not replacing this months event quest?

Jim0172

Sp3edD3m0n wrote: »

***Sig crystals and Iso will vary depending what you pull.

FYI: T2A should be .35. You have one extra zero.

Thanks for the info!

Sirnoob

Kabam DK wrote: »

NOOOOOOOOPEEEEE wrote: »

So no Title this EQ, a little disappointed but nothing to worrisome

It's not the Event Quest -this is a bonus Special Quest that runs alongside it!

Sp3edD3m0n

My bad. It is.

Sirnoob

Thebgj wrote: »

I know people are saying it’s not the regular event quest, has Kabam said that this is not replacing this months event quest?

Ment to tag u but above this comment mod said it’s not the regular event quest

Anonymous

Sirnoob wrote: »

Thebgj wrote: »

I know people are saying it’s not the regular event quest, has Kabam said that this is not replacing this months event quest?

Ment to tag u but above this comment mod said it’s not the regular event quest

I believe he's referring to this

roberto94

Anonymous wrote: »

Sirnoob wrote: »

Thebgj wrote: »

I know people are saying it’s not the regular event quest, has Kabam said that this is not replacing this months event quest?

Ment to tag u but above this comment mod said it’s not the regular event quest

I believe he's referring to this

sorry to ask but where you'd find that in what type of quest?

Sirnoob

roberto94 wrote: »

Anonymous wrote: »

Sirnoob wrote: »

Thebgj wrote: »

I know people are saying it’s not the regular event quest, has Kabam said that this is not replacing this months event quest?

Ment to tag u but above this comment mod said it’s not the regular event quest

I believe he's referring to this

sorry to ask but where you'd find that in what type of quest?

http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/35454/can-it-be-we-the-uncollected-will-have#latest

Kabam Miike

MH2804 wrote: »

So this is a special quest that will run alongside a new monthly quest correct? @Kabam Miike ? I’ve seen some pictures that shows a new difficulty coming up “uncollected” is that true!!?!?

You got it! This is not the regular Monthly quest, but something to run alongside. As for the "uncollected difficulty"... Well, we'll have more information on Monday

MH2804

Sweet.

TheLegendKCG

Kabam DK wrote: »

Qwerty wrote: »

are there any plans for left over randomizer dice after the event is over?

They'll be converted to 2500 Gold Each (their purchase cost)

So the rewards can be farmed every 8hrs correct

OhGodYes

Any reason we left out T1 Alphas?

DNA3000

So far, what I'm seeing is really good. The rewards seem good relative to the difficulty and effort. The timer gate and zero energy costs make it much more convenient to run than the Valor missions which took anywhere from 28 energy (top two difficulties) to 40 energy (all difficulties). I like that it is a concentrated map with no filler: just six fights and you're done. I think the randomizer mechanic is interesting. I really like that the reroll tokens are refunded at cost, so there's zero risk in just buying a bunch and either using them or not using them - since the buffs are random there's no way to know if or how many you'll need.

One thought I had that I think is cool about this event, if I understand how the buff mechanics work. If we see a totally whacked buff set, we can use the randomizer to swap it up, or we could actually try to see if we can take it down. If we fail miserably, we can still randomize the buffs when we reenter with another champion.

Is that correct Kabam? If so, that would make it an interesting meta game to see what the *worst* possible buffs you can draw are, that you can actually still beat.

Anonymous

roberto94 wrote: »

Anonymous wrote: »

Sirnoob wrote: »

Thebgj wrote: »

I know people are saying it’s not the regular event quest, has Kabam said that this is not replacing this months event quest?

Ment to tag u but above this comment mod said it’s not the regular event quest

I believe he's referring to this

sorry to ask but where you'd find that in what type of quest?

No problem, look under alliance event, event quest completion, and select how to get points. Then scroll all the way down.

Crushtest

There are over 150 potential Buffs you can encounter, and several million possible combinations. While not every Buff in the game is included in this list of potential Buffs, it does include most of them.

several millions?
formula to count amount of possible combinations is n!/((n−k)!⋅k!), where n is amount of buffs, k is amount of objects. so it's 14 297 000 725. little bit more than several millions :-)

Darkness82

Is there gonna be a new event quest in December alongside M O D O K S lab

Darkness82

Just wondering if there is one in dumber aprt from this

Evican

This looks great. Also... TASKMASTER!!

BrianGrant

Sounds cool. Looking forward to it!

Reminds me - I had an idea I called MODOKs Lab once. Was a cross between the NYCC Beat the Boss challenge and Tavern Brawls from Hearthstone. Still think it would be a cool little way to add some unique weekly competition to MCOC!

Spurgeon14

MH2804 wrote: »

So this is a special quest that will run alongside a new monthly quest correct? @Kabam Miike ? I’ve seen some pictures that shows a new difficulty coming up “uncollected” is that true!!?!?

Where did you see this?! Hope its true!!

Kabam DK

Omni wrote: »

does it run every 8 hours on a set schedule or does it reset every 8 hours after you complete it.

So 10am-6PM / 6PM-2AM / 2AM-10AM

or I run it at 2PM and I cant run it again until 10PM?

It's on a set schedule, so if it starts at 10AM and you run it at 5:30 PM, you can run it again at 6PM

Vavasour

Fantastic!

Kabam Miike

BrianGrant wrote: »

Sounds cool. Looking forward to it!

Reminds me - I had an idea I called MODOKs Lab once. Was a cross between the NYCC Beat the Boss challenge and Tavern Brawls from Hearthstone. Still think it would be a cool little way to add some unique weekly competition to MCOC!

We remembered that video you posted pretty soon after we had this mode locked down, and were just silent when we watched the video again. You were very close to what we ended up coming up with!

BrianGrant

Kabam Miike wrote: »

BrianGrant wrote: »

Sounds cool. Looking forward to it!

Reminds me - I had an idea I called MODOKs Lab once. Was a cross between the NYCC Beat the Boss challenge and Tavern Brawls from Hearthstone. Still think it would be a cool little way to add some unique weekly competition to MCOC!

We remembered that video you posted pretty soon after we had this mode locked down, and were just silent when we watched the video again. You were very close to what we ended up coming up with!

Thats really cool that you guys watched it.

I tried to go back and watch it again just now but admittedly I couldnt make it past the initial rambling haha

kabbage_21614

I can't see the rewards list

becauseicant

Well done to everyone involved in making the announcement post, all the pictures and animations make it very clear how the quest will work and what we can expect. Also gives you guys a chance to tease the upcoming champs which people from the community may or may not already know about but is very awesome to see regardless