Coliseum - Kabamed

If you ever wanted an example of Kabam "Kabamming" content, Coliseum is a perfect example. They made this great looking mode that "should" be a lot of fun, engaging, competitive, and ruined it.

1. Adam Warlock might be the most annoying champ to fight against on a timer. Power gain, long annoying special 2, pod
2. Too Passive: Not only is Adam Warlock annoying with power gain/special2, but the AI has been adjusted to be sooooo Passive, worst part of this game has always been baiting specials. If he doesn't throw sp1 not much you can do about it. Shouldn't need champs like DShe SHulk, Pavitr to get the AI to throw a Sp1.
3. To go with the passive AI, they conveniently introduced Pavitr Prabhakar- who you can buy right now - that has similar taunt ability
4. Coliseum XP is a long grind. What should have been maybe 3 fights per podium (best score counts) turned into 100+ fights for small XP. The idea being you spend units to upgrade the podium faster

Welcome to more complaints, but similar to Battlegrounds, Arena, monthly EQ, AQ, this game mode is repetitive and boring. Day 2 and I'm already bored/don't want to play anymore.

Comments

JESUSCHRIST

Power gain + Special 3 enabled = Kabammed

HungaryHippo

Perfect example of why the community shouldn't have relented on AI 2.0 post. We will continue to suffer with this AI for a while because people bought into it.

Herbal_Taxman

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2906862#Comment_2906862

how did we relent bro? Did you sign a settlement or something?

Jan_McFly_

Far too grindy and time-consuming. On top of that, it gets boring quickly. Doing the same fight over and over again against the same opponent… landing a few hits, dodging Adam Warlock’s SP1, and then starting all over again.

That’s only fun for the first five minutes.

I’m not into it at all.

Bugmat78

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2906860#Comment_2906860

You know I thought the initial stream on this said there was no sp3 in this mode, just a timer…. I must have been mistaken or they were talking about the easy level. Those two factors I think kind of ruins it as a purely fun experience - an annoying champ with built in defensive features AND a node with timed power gain.

Magrailothos

I agree that Adam was a poor choice of initial champ; with constant power gain and really, really time-consuming SP2

It's incredibly repetitive constantly baiting SP1s, which you've got to do because the SP2s wastes huge amounts of time, and doesn't even give you an opening…

Once you get into the 'Land xxx attacks' territory, if Adam doesn't throw SP1s constantly, you're basically dead because the SP2 is so long you almost inevitably pick up a Sleep passive, with no way to get rid of it; meaning all you can do is try to hit him at low power and hope that a full combo to the face doesn't kill you. Which it usually will.

Deathless She-Hulk was a blessing!

Wolf911

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2907300#Comment_2907300

you can hit him during pod as he is unawakened

still poor choice for defender

Magrailothos

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2907314#Comment_2907314

You can, if you want to get credit for a single medium or light attack. But that's not enormously helpful, really.

Putting a champ with such ridiculously long SP2 in a time-limited fight, with additional quite short active timers within the fight was a deliberate choice, calculated to frustrate players.

Now, challenging and frustrating the players is fine, if it's a "Summer of Pain"-type of Everest event: the clue is in the name.

But putting a really tedious, grindy, frustrating defender in the brand new game mode that you want people to be enthusiastic about?

That seems like less of a good idea...

Stellar

too much time involved in this mode compared to AQ

Would have been better with only 3 fights per day, only keeping the best score each day

SirGamesBond

Bugmat78

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2907372#Comment_2907372

Agreed.

Dontsellthem

it’s just a really dumb game mode. “How can we get them to NEVER put the phone down?”….”I know!”

I already don’t have to do EQ since the new changes I haven’t touched it and never will. Side quest are hit or miss. I can get away with not playing them most months. What keeps me coming back…the addiction they created🤪

HungaryHippo

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2907412#Comment_2907412

You do have to put the phone down, when you run out of entry tickets.

Dontsellthem

@HungaryHippo how long is the timer. I think it’s minutes. Maybe less than 4? Those fights, you are expected to last long to maximize points. By the time you finish one fight, you have another try , right.

Penzito

My favorite part was the double prestige, as if it was not P2W enough. They said well lets give them even more boost cause original prestige is not enough, it has to be 2x. Why stop there guys, make it 10x prestige bonus next time.

FirstAvenger

Repetition is part of almost every mode in this game. The difference is whether you engage on your terms or feel dragged along. Stepping away is sometimes the smarter move than pushing through frustration.

WhoDaPoo

Op forgot about the sales Kabam where you can spend money to grind less. And not to be outdone by the sales team, the classic bug team Kabammed the sales team. This is the perfect conclusion to 2025. Everyone gets Kabammed.