DIMENSIONAL ARCADE, DOOM CYCLE - CHECK IN!

Hey there folks!

It's been a few hours since the newest Game Mode in MCOC, Dimensional Arcade, has opened its doors -
Summoners have been bashing Doombots and Questing with their favorite Fantastic Family!

So, what’s your verdict on Dimensional Arcade?
Are you vibing with the nostalgic arcade style?
Interested in the Mastery system or finding those Doombot battles a bit tricky?

An important thing to note is that this is a first-time iteration of a mode like this -
Meant to lean into the rogue-like elements of Idle RPGS.
This won't replace any core gameplay of MCOC.

Drop all your thoughts - positive, negative, and everything in between - below.
I want to hear you on how you think this new mode is shaping up in the Battlerealm so far!

Comments

Cuchulainn

I love this as an alternative to decent rewards vs time invested as it gives my repetitive stress in my thumbs a break. Would be very happy to see it as a permanent addition.

Borkstein

Doom Cycle has a major glitch, I select Shatter mode, and I’m taken to Story mode instead. I’m not receiving credit for Shatter completions, & not receiving the Shatter mode rewards. Any fix coming for this latest error?

RiderofHell

Are there plans to make the arcade revolve around each saga? I think it be really cool.

Huenas

Truly awful and huge waste of time. Not only can i not run shatter mode but it’s just clicking buttons to OK next level. What a waste of time. Now I find out the last week I’ve been running story mode and wondering why I haven’t completed the 15/15 for the 200 units. God this is awful. I think I’m going to retire again. Best few months of my life being away from the game and it’s nice you’re encouraging folks to do the same.

jaydub

I think there should have been a login calendar associated with this "game", to earn tokens or tickets.

iDestroyerZ

Why is this mode extremely laggy on the pc version? Seriously, i can play black myth wukong with 60+ fps easy but this mode runs like 15 fps wtf

Jeromix_2nd

All right, so after much of the event, a small review:
- poor design (mini-browser window) is the biggest pain. Closing the window means that the game is clever enough to remember spent daily token and mastery points - but dumb enough not to remember which masteries have been unlocked/upgraded and which levels have been completed. Clearly player-unfriendly.
- Compensation tickets helped a lot - this way there may be significantly smaller group of F2Ps complaining about not having enough daily tokens to get the rewards (see above). However, not having designed the game so poorly in the first place would be preferable.
- Rewards are very good. And they ought to be as playing this game mode to generate enough data for analysis is not very enjoyable.
- Replayability is close to zero. Once you complete the story mode and a few runs of shatter mode, there is virtually no variation attractive enough to make it an enjoyable game mode. Nothing rewards you for using more than one character - in fact, focusing on improving a single one seems to be the best tactics.

All in all, I’m grateful for the rewards and it was mildly interesting to explore this game mode. But honestly, I would see it as off-putting deterioration of the game if similar mechanics would be used again in the future.

Finalfuryk

Will get the last of the rewards today. While I didn't hate it the way it seems everyone else did, I think there are several ways to improve the mode. There were plenty of times where I ended up with 40+ points by the end of a quest and kept pulling 1 point buffs to buy. If it wasn't trivial to beat after upgrading masteries. A more robust buy system not relying so much on luck where we could actually spend points consistently to power up characters would help improve it.