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

MiamiHeat

Is anyone not getting their 5 star signature stones? It doesn't look like I received my 5 star signature stone crystals from completing the current modok lab and the previous one 2 hours ago.

Raganator

MiamiHeat wrote: »

Is anyone not getting their 5 star signature stones? It doesn't look like I received my 5 star signature stone crystals from completing the current modok lab and the previous one 2 hours ago.

It's not guaranteed. You get either 5* sig stones or iso.

MiamiHeat

Raganator wrote: »

MiamiHeat wrote: »

Is anyone not getting their 5 star signature stones? It doesn't look like I received my 5 star signature stone crystals from completing the current modok lab and the previous one 2 hours ago.

It's not guaranteed. You get either 5* sig stones or iso.

Thanks. I should have read first lol

DNA3000

Raganator wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Hey folks! Looks like we incorrectly stated that Heroic would award 25 5-Star Shards in our original post... in actual fact, the number is 50. We're gonna leave it at 50 though, so enjoy those extra 5-Star Shards!

Lol..so which is it? The original post was wrong and should have said 50, or, it was incorrectly giving 50 and should have been 25, and therefore we get to "enjoy those extra 5-Star Shards? If the post was wrong (as you mentioned), it isn't extra anything.

Are we really going to quibble over whether the word "extra" properly encapsulates the thought "more than was originally stated and anyone likely therefore expected?"

Raganator

DNA3000 wrote: »

Raganator wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Hey folks! Looks like we incorrectly stated that Heroic would award 25 5-Star Shards in our original post... in actual fact, the number is 50. We're gonna leave it at 50 though, so enjoy those extra 5-Star Shards!

Lol..so which is it? The original post was wrong and should have said 50, or, it was incorrectly giving 50 and should have been 25, and therefore we get to "enjoy those extra 5-Star Shards? If the post was wrong (as you mentioned), it isn't extra anything.

Are we really going to quibble over whether the word "extra" properly encapsulates the thought "more than was originally stated and anyone likely therefore expected?"

It wasn't a serious post. Let's calm down a little. 25 less or more shards isn't going to make or break anything.

DNA3000

Raganator wrote: »

DNA3000 wrote: »

Raganator wrote: »

Kabam DK wrote: »

Hey folks! Looks like we incorrectly stated that Heroic would award 25 5-Star Shards in our original post... in actual fact, the number is 50. We're gonna leave it at 50 though, so enjoy those extra 5-Star Shards!

Lol..so which is it? The original post was wrong and should have said 50, or, it was incorrectly giving 50 and should have been 25, and therefore we get to "enjoy those extra 5-Star Shards? If the post was wrong (as you mentioned), it isn't extra anything.

Are we really going to quibble over whether the word "extra" properly encapsulates the thought "more than was originally stated and anyone likely therefore expected?"

It wasn't a serious post. Let's calm down a little. 25 less or more shards isn't going to make or break anything.

Is there a specific emoji I should be using to make sure the words are read in a calm voice?

$Photo of Frigafrack$ Frigafrack

Could you please clarify: Do the buffs affect me, my opponent, or both of us? I'm just a little confused on that count. (Maybe it's just my brain is trying to process too much with the holidays! LOL)

Edit: Nvm, I just paid a little more attention in the fight and figured out they just affect my opponent.

DNA3000

Frigafrack wrote: »

Could you please clarify: Do the buffs affect me, my opponent, or both of us? I'm just a little confused on that count. (Maybe it's just my brain is trying to process too much with the holidays! LOL)

Edit: Nvm, I just paid a little more attention in the fight and figured out they just affect my opponent.

In general, yes. However, there are a few that affect you so you should read them carefully. For example, the "wrath" buffs and the ones that reduce attack for all but one class do affect you. The power lock ones affect you. There's a buff that increases power gain by 200% for both you and the opponent.

I'm actually having more fun than I should reading the buffs. For example, this morning my opponent drew (among other buffs) enhanced special 2 (sp2 is buffed and unblockable) and immunity to bleed. The opponent was Groot. I could picture him saying "I am Groot" meaning "I've been Kabammed."

Badrose

This event need to stay FOREVER!

kpkumardts

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)

Dear @Kabam Miike as u said it will convert to 2500 gold but after 24 hours of modok lab compilation it is still not converted and my some of the randomizers are expired what about that?

jovanic

It's hard to understand. Maybe I'm generation old, wkwkwkw