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

Deadshot260

I think that this is a really good idea and that modok taskmaster will be epic playable charectors

ETURTLE73

This looks FUN.....especially after 3 years of playing. It'll be nice to have a NEW look to an old quest.

Richdane1

Interesting...so this is not the actual event quest right?

Sweet as

looks cool

Yes I am ready fight

I'm not sure I understand the part about the entries. We can only enter one difficulty every 8 hours? And if we want to do another difficultly after we finished one we have to wait 8 hours? Or can we do all difficulties every 8 hours?

LeNoirFaineant

@Nitro422 you can do every difficulty level every time it's up. Every 8 hours it resets and you can run it again.

Azrael459

So apart from the special quest..what will be the special event quest..the mini-story and all that??

xNig

Monday announcement bro.

Jevan

I'm a little bit confused
Does the timer reset every 8 hours even if you don't play or when you play does the 8 hour timer star

Kabam Zibiit

Jevan wrote: »

I'm a little bit confused
Does the timer reset every 8 hours even if you don't play or when you play does the 8 hour timer star

It's on a set schedule, so it'll reset every 8 hours, even if you don't play.

Swe_wolfis

Kabam Zibiit wrote: »

Jevan wrote: »

I'm a little bit confused
Does the timer reset every 8 hours even if you don't play or when you play does the 8 hour timer star

It's on a set schedule, so it'll reset every 8 hours, even if you don't play.

And that is based on 10AM sever time right? So even if patch is delayed on a platform the timer is running?

Hella

Queremos pedras de rebaixamento 4 e 5*

Hella

Precisamoa xe missão de ouro

Jaded

The_Prankster16 wrote: »

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

They will announce that Monday

Flaco

Loving December

Wdgzfhdf

I am ready for war

unknown

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Heliu

Modok Will be disponible in the arenas?

gohard123

Kestrelle wrote: »

Sp3edD3m0n wrote: »

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

I'm curious how you decided this was $840k value. For some reason that seems just a wee bit high

Perhaps you meant 840k gold

lol only "a wee bit high"?

NoOnexRO

Quick question @Kabam Miike : the heroes set in alliance wars (defense and attack) can also be used in the M.O.D.O.K. event or they are "locked" to AW?
Thank you in advance for an answer.

The1_NuclearOnion

I kind of locked in on this:
"...There’s going to be LOTS of things to spend Energy on in December,..."
Gold realm? Maybe?

Игорь199723

Интересно конечно

Meshil

I feel the game it become more complicated 😔

nst43437

will uncollected event be available for those who become uncollected after the event has started in the month?

Carmel1

if i enter into a fight and lose, can i use Randomizers or i must use it before the first fight? and if it can use it after the first fight, the health of the opponent will stay as it was or back to full?

Kabam DK

Carmel1 wrote: »

if i enter into a fight and lose, can i use Randomizers or i must use it before the first fight? and if it can use it after the first fight, the health of the opponent will stay as it was or back to full?

1) You can use Randomizers at the pre-fight screen at any point, so if you go in, lose, then need to re-roll, you can do that.

2) Health will persist between re-rolls, so if you took 45% of their health, lost, re-rolled, and went back in, they won't have gained any health UNLESS you get a different Champion Boost, in which case they will still have lost 45% of their health, but they'll have more health, so in pure numerical values, they'll have more health.

DraytonSawyer_33

Sounds lame... it's gonna get old quick

DeathBringer77

Coming strong on the rewards for the December events. Well done kabam.