Murderworld Incursions Challenge Sector - Tuning changes and adjustments

July is here and we're adding a new Incursions Challenge into the Arcade Games Saga!

We're introducing a new Sector that requires the use of Saga champions along with new and exclusive Arcade Games Saga Rewards that can only be found in the Challenge Sector. Shocker (Tech) and The Overseer (Science) will be showcased as the new Themed Zone bosses with Tech and Science champions fighting alongside them. To help with this new threat, we have worked toremove and retune some overly punishing buffs that have both plagued runs and created unwinnable scenarios for the players.

This Incursions Event will run for the second month of Arcade Games and the themed Zone bosses & champions will remain after the event ends. We will also be removing the Saga Sector difficulty to return the mode back to normal.

Timeline

Regular Incursions Ends: Monday, Jul 8, 2024

Murderworld Incursions Starts: Wednesday, Jul 10, 2024

Murderworld Incursions Ends: Wednesday, Aug 4, 2024

Incursions with Updates (Themed Zones & Survival Hacks) Resumes: Friday, Aug 7, 2024

Content Updates

We wanted to reduce the risk of Summoners being thrown into unwinnable situations as a result of the way that we tuned some of the Defender Buff Pools.

Having buffs that look at Defender’s Base Attack is great in content where the values are controlled, but in Incursions, they can lead to insane amounts of unavoidable damage by way of an unlucky hit, or a lack of an RPG immunity. As a result, we have removed some problematic buffs from the pool, and have retuned some interesting Buffs that scale off of the Attackers Base Health instead.

Defender Buff Updates

Each one of the above buffs will be replacing their counterparts within the removal list in one way or another. We’ve tuned these Defender Buffs in such a way that allows them to be friendlier in later zones than before, as well as give Summoners more options to tailor their run. Instead of a Heal Block Passive for example, now it’s a Spectre Passive, allowing for more interaction and a less binary challenge.
With the Damage being keyed off of Attacker health means that players who start getting into higher and higher Zones will run into far fewer unwinnable situations as a result of unlucky Buff rolls, or debuffs that they weren’t able to account for. Now Summoners should be more able to survive an encounter within Incursions if one of these buffs is present.

Defender Buff Removal

We have removed the above buffs. Some of them because we weren't satisfied with the state of them after retuning. For others, we removed them because they didn’t play well with what the core loop of Incursions is meant to encourage. We may revisit some of these Defender buffs in future, but for the time being, we’ve removed them from rotation.

Defender Removal

We are removing problematic Defenders from the Defender Pool for a smoother Summoner experience. With the high randomness in the mode, with few ways to plan for RPG specific Champions, we’ve opted to remove Champions from the pool rather than subject Summoners to dealing with them. Here is your list of Removed Champions:

There are some Champions in this list that may come as a shock to you, but for new characters such as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, we have opted to play it safe and bench her from the Defender pool till we have better data on how difficult she might be in the wild. Other champions, such as Taskmaster, have been benched because his core RPG threat (Debuff Immunity) goes against what Incursions is about, which is high damage through any means necessary.
Others, such as Sersi, mitigate damage through Glancing which isn’t fun to play against unless you have a viable way to counter her.

Tweaking the Saga Sector (Sector 7)

The performance of the previous Saga Sector did hit the goals we were aiming for. However, we recognize some of the issues regarding the length of time it takes to get through these zones, so we have made the following changes to ensure a smooth playing experience.

ONLY for the Saga Sector (Sector 7)

Remaining Unchanged:

The extra Survival based Hack pickup node in the Saga Sector will remain as well as the other Boss Hack node that has all 28 Boss Hacks to choose from.
Only Arcade Saga tagged champions will be able to enter the Saga Sector.

Changes:

Top Zone rewards will be distributed from Zones 1 to 15
Due to the drop in Zones required to complete a Saga run we will be tuning the initial difficulty up slightly
Zone 1 will start at the tuning that Zone 5 usually is for Sector 6
Zone 15 will end at the tuning that Zone 19 has for Sector 6

Themed Zones

Themed Zones will showcase new Bosses and defending champion pools.

The new bosses will be: The Overseer (Science) and Shocker (Tech). These bosses will stay after the Saga event ends until the next Saga update.

The Defending champion pools will showcase the entirety of the Science & Tech rosters minus the Defender Removal list of the relevant Class Defenders, a total of 91 champions.

Sector Access Changes

We are opening up access to all Sectors no matter your roster PI, the recommendations won’t affect your ability to access them.

Please note: This only lets you access different Sectors such as the Saga Sector, if you don’t meet the reward tier requirements for a Sector by having the required number of champions you won’t be eligible for Top Zone rewards when playing on it. Below are the Champion requirements for each tier of rewards.
Sector Reward Tier Requirements:

Tier 1 = 24 > 6-Star champions
Tier 2 = 16 > 6-Star Champions
Tier 3 = 8 > 6-Star Champions
Tier 4 = 8 > 5-Star Champions
Tier 5 = 16 > 4-Star Champions
Tier 6 = 8 > 4-Star Champions
Tier 7 = No requirement

You can find this info in game by tapping on the “View Rewards” button then select “Milestone Rewards” and “View All”
Your Tier will determine what Top Zone rewards you can obtain. You are only eligible for three reward tiers at one time. For example if you are in the Tier 1 bracket you are eligible for rewards from Sectors 5-7. To view this info tap on the same "View Rewards” button, you will be taken to the Top Zone rewards page. Tap between each tier to see what Sectors Top Zone rewards you are eligible for. Grayed out rewards mean you aren’t eligible for them.

Rewards

The Saga Sector Top Zone rewards are the only updates to rewards as represented below. Do note, the Top Zone will only have 15 Zones, and the rewards will reflect that:

Comments

SummonerNR

Gonna assume the in-game timers are correct.

Of which, the initial Incursions Panel with 2 day timer (so this Sunday) would be the MILESTONE POINT refresh on this Sunday. (In game Milestone Rewards also shows reset of 2 days).

And ultimately the TOP ZONE (aka, MurderWorld) ending point would be as in-game says for Top Zone, which is 1 week from now (7 days) on Friday the 9th.

Even though none of them line up with days of week or date #'s in that orig announcement at top, I assume copy/paste from earlier month announcements and then incorrect edits of those before posting it, is what resulted in confusion of dates here.

Usagicassidy

Gonna assume the in-game timers are correct.

Of which, the initial Incursions Panel with 2 day timer (so this Sunday) would be the MILESTONE POINT refresh on this Sunday. (In game Milestone Rewards also shows reset of 2 days).

And ultimately the TOP ZONE (aka, MurderWorld) ending point would be as in-game says for Top Zone, which is 1 week from now (7 days) on Friday the 9th.

Even though none of them line up with days of week or date #'s in that orig announcement at top, I assume copy/paste from earlier month announcements and then incorrect edits of those before posting it, is what resulted in confusion of dates here.

No because they said it ended on the 4th. And would come back as the regular incursions (with updates) on the 9th.

SummonerNR

Gonna assume the in-game timers are correct.

Of which, the initial Incursions Panel with 2 day timer (so this Sunday) would be the MILESTONE POINT refresh on this Sunday. (In game Milestone Rewards also shows reset of 2 days).

And ultimately the TOP ZONE (aka, MurderWorld) ending point would be as in-game says for Top Zone, which is 1 week from now (7 days) on Friday the 9th.

Even though none of them line up with days of week or date #'s in that orig announcement at top, I assume copy/paste from earlier month announcements and then incorrect edits of those before posting it, is what resulted in confusion of dates here.
No because they said it ended on the 4th. And would come back as the regular incursions (with updates) on the 9th.

But re-read the wording of days/dates in announcement. Nothing lines up even within it's own sentences..
Tell me that Aug 4th is on a Wed. ??
And that Aug 7th is on a Fri. ??

Even you are sort of mixing things (unless they clarified this somewhere else ???)
You say ends on 4th (which matches the date # in announcement, but which is Sunday), and then resumes on 9th (ok, it is the day of week Friday that matches this time, even though it isn’t the 7th as in announcement).

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Murderworld Incursions Ends: Wednesday, Aug 4, 2024
Incursions with Updates (Themed Zones & Survival Hacks) Resumes: Friday, Aug 7, 2024

Schaggydog

I guess 4th was correct and not Wednesday. Tried to do a run just now and the rewards are gone. No Captain Marvel for me. What a joke.

Bendy

I guess 4th was correct and not Wednesday. Tried to do a run just now and the rewards are gone. No Captain Marvel for me. What a joke.

I just entered fine

JLordVileJ

It says restart friday 7th, friday will be 9th

JLordVileJ

Want to know, cuz when it restarts I can get my first incursions crystal

JLordVileJ

Is incursions ending today or not guys

captain_rogers

Where is incursions

JLordVileJ

WHERE R INCURSIONS pls gimme my incursions bro

Jonnii90

Omg when it is coming? Im really starting to get HULK angry here 🤣😤 why cant they tell us?!

Caz2006

It is passed Friday the 7th and still no sign of incursions resuming. I assume the date is wrong since Friday was the 9th and not the 7th. Does this mean its resuming Wednesday the 14th?

JLordVileJ

Its the weekend, they won't respond today

JLordVileJ

It is passed Friday the 7th and still no sign of incursions resuming. I assume the date is wrong since Friday was the 9th and not the 7th. Does this mean its resuming Wednesday the 14th?

Made a whole thread on this. Got a whole bunch of disagrees. Bet not a lot of people gonna be disagreeing now lol

JLordVileJ

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/373380/exactly-when-do-incursions-restart#latest

Godsmack_600

Error in murderworld incursion can't knock out champios due health 0 issue, kindly give my spent units back 600-700 spent on revive.