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

Viper1987

The_Prankster16 wrote: »

But what's the ACTUAL event quest, because this looks like just another test of valor or stark assignment

It will be revealed closer to the release date. It's been mentioned they will unveil on Monday.

DNA3000

Wajmeister wrote: »

DNA3000 wrote: »

Wajmeister wrote: »

I'm a noob, so hard and expert are out of the question for now, and easy & normal aren't worth the rewards. Thanks Kabam.

If your roster isn't strong enough to do hard tier yet, you shouldn't be thinking the easy and medium tier rewards aren't worth it. They are worth it to anyone that can't complete hard mode yet. Hard tier has 4* 3/30s in it according to the announcement. 3* 4/40s should be able to take that tier. If you don't have a strong maxed team of 3* 4/40s, you should be trying to get all the 3* crystals you can. Doing medium tier 3x 28 is about 8 and a half 3* crystals.

If you can't do hard mode but you think the only rewards worth your time are 4* and 5* category rewards, you're going to be stuck at the bottom for a very long time while everyone else passes you by. Everyone has to start at the bottom and work their way up. Getting as many PHCs and 3* crystals is the key to working your way up to the higher tiers.

Heck, since the energy costs are zero I'm likely to do all four tiers myself. Most of my 2* and 3* champs are max sig, so I can always use more double dup sets of 3* and 4* fragments. Its likely to take only a couple minutes to complete those tiers, so that's actually a decent amount of rewards for almost zero time.

I have a team rating of 13k with about 20 different 4*, many are only 2/20, with about 10 that are 3/30 and 1 @ 4/40. Recommended team is 16k. So I dunno if it's doable, but we'll see

Ignore recommended team ratings. The only way to know if you can do the content is to try. The recommended team rating is just a guide, and not a great one.

The recommended team rating for Realm of Legends is 9,999,999. Just saying.

Kabam Miike

Fingfangfoomfanes wrote: »

sorry for this question, but will there be a minimum participation? coz the downside of the bounty mission was that it takes minimum 15 participation to get the bonus reward. will there be such a mechanic for this one? I hope not...

This is not an Alliance Event, but solo quests. No minimum participation!

MH2804

Can you just release the montly quest info now? @Kabam Miike .

TheSOURA

Thnk u for this quest.

Kickenwing306

Just throwing this out there, but could I have some free hero crystals 😜

TheSOURA

Three questions:
1) The 50% iso reward is basic or random class?
2) What will happen if somehow connection lost or server down in between fight?
3) What will happen if i be in between that modok quest and the given 8hr timer finish b4 i finish the quest?

ManojRajput

Awesome

Imran

Looks awesome. I have a question. Can we fight onc time from 4 difficulties or one time from each difficulties total 4.

TBJ1118

Imran wrote: »

Looks awesome. I have a question. Can we fight onc time from 4 difficulties or one time from each difficulties total 4.

It has been replied already, once per difficulty, each 8 hours

Le1

Hola

Assassin007

Наконец поменял аватар

Assassin007

А сколько примерно по времени займет проход на легенду в 5 акте 4глва??

Assassin007

И дополнительный вопрос, сколько пополнений энергии уйдет примерно???

Sivarior

Ich finde es Power */*

Spidey076

Permanent or temporary?
Its just like a training quest.those player who have difficulty playing hatmrd quest can easily train here.love the idea
Hope it could be permanent even with no rewards.

MostWanted

So, if you have 50% chance winning a 5* signature stone

Kabam DK wrote: »

CoatHang3r wrote: »

Are the rewards only random for the 50% and the rest guaranteed? I’m guessing the reroll item let’s you reroll the 50% chance items once per completion? Or is it that you get one item like frags or shards and can reroll that once?

The 50% Chance is exclusive, so there's a 50% chance you'll get ISO, and a 50% chance to get 1 Signature Stone/Signature Stone Crystal.

You ALWAYS get a Randomizer from completing the Quest but it's not used to reroll the rewards at all, it's used to reroll the Buffs on each fight.

The rest of the rewards (Crystal Shard, Catalyst Fragments) are guaranteed i.e. you will always receive 900 T4 Basic Fragments, 200 5-Star Shards, and 150 T2 Alpha Fragments for completing Expert Difficulty)

If it's really random and it's a true 50% chance.... We could find several signature Stones in a week! And it Will be almost impossible not ti find amy signature Stone (if you end the Quest many times)

Farazz

Is the uncollected difficulty only for this month or it will be there every month

xNig

Question..

Does the 8 hour timer restart after you’ve completed the quest or does it restart at fixed hours?

Superman69

xNig wrote: »

Question..

Does the 8 hour timer restart after you’ve completed the quest or does it restart at fixed hours?

They answered that somewhere earlier, it has fixed timings throughout the day. Upto you whenever you do them, but can't change the reset time.

Avikshay

New modok formus

Kabam DK

Phresh88 wrote: »

Will we be able to spectate and see all info before starting the quest?

Nope (which is kinda the point).

Kabam DK

TheSOURA wrote: »

Three questions:
1) The 50% iso reward is basic or random class?
2) What will happen if somehow connection lost or server down in between fight?
3) What will happen if i be in between that modok quest and the given 8hr timer finish b4 i finish the quest?

1) Random Class for the crystals, but the 2-Star Sig Stone is generic. The ISO is also Generic.
2) If you disconnect during a fight, it works the same as disconnecting during any other Quest.
3) If you are in the Quest when the 8 Hour timer resets, the quest will expire and you will be booted back to the Event Quests screen. There should be a timer in the Quest below your Summoner profile letting you know how much time you have left. We reset the quests every 8 hours alongside the timer mainly because we have to also reset rewards. Otherwise, you'd run it once, and have claimed all the rewards and even if your entries reset, the rewards wouldn't.

Kabam DK

MostWanted wrote: »

So, if you have 50% chance winning a 5* signature stone

Kabam DK wrote: »

CoatHang3r wrote: »

Are the rewards only random for the 50% and the rest guaranteed? I’m guessing the reroll item let’s you reroll the 50% chance items once per completion? Or is it that you get one item like frags or shards and can reroll that once?

The 50% Chance is exclusive, so there's a 50% chance you'll get ISO, and a 50% chance to get 1 Signature Stone/Signature Stone Crystal.

You ALWAYS get a Randomizer from completing the Quest but it's not used to reroll the rewards at all, it's used to reroll the Buffs on each fight.

The rest of the rewards (Crystal Shard, Catalyst Fragments) are guaranteed i.e. you will always receive 900 T4 Basic Fragments, 200 5-Star Shards, and 150 T2 Alpha Fragments for completing Expert Difficulty)

If it's really random and it's a true 50% chance.... We could find several signature Stones in a week! And it Will be almost impossible not ti find amy signature Stone (if you end the Quest many times)

You definitely SHOULD be finding several a week! That's the idea!

Kabam DK

Spidey076 wrote: »

Permanent or temporary?
Its just like a training quest.those player who have difficulty playing hatmrd quest can easily train here.love the idea
Hope it could be permanent even with no rewards.

Random Buffs might come back at some point, but there's no plans right now. As for the Lab, we have no plans to bring it back in the future either, so it's a temporary thing for December.

Hulk_77

Hey DK, any chance a randomizer concept was considered for War? Like the map is randomized each match up (but both Alliances fight on the same map).

It would certainly make that format less stale. Doesn't fix the D kill aspect, but it might give another layer of competition if it was hard enough, if alliances could figure out placements that worked real well.

Gryphon

This has a staggering amount of info. I'm very excited to play and see how far I can go. The randomizer sounds unique and quite interesting! Can't wait to see just how it plays out.

looks like you guys spent a lot of time working this out!

DONZALOOG1234

Will thanos and kang be up for grabs.
I know kang is in the legends run but I will not be able to play that I dont have strong enought champs.

NEUROPLEXUS

@Kabam Miike @Kabam DK this is awesome! This is the kind of stuff that is perfect for everyone, at any level of progression. The way the game is now it is harder for newer players to progress in time to catch up with most players. this upcoming month looks like it will allow for Vet players to add a few people to their rosters, and will help people catch up and clear content they may not have been able to before. Great move guys!

We as a community can be quite critical and at times overly harsh. But i like to think thats because we love what you guys have created and look forward to whats next. Thanks for putting up with us

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