Announcing: Micro-Realms

BIG PYMING

A breakthrough in Pym’s molecular technology has led to the discovery of new Micro-Realms in the Contest! These Realms may be small, but they’re packed full of rewards for the taking. Using Pym Particle Disks, Summoners can shrink down and snatch up these newly discovered treasures. Be careful, as you’ll only be able to stay in these Micro-Realms for 1 hour!

Micro-Realms will be available from July 3rd, 10:00 AM PDT until August 1st, 10:00 AM PDT. You will need to be on our forthcoming build to see and participate in them.

Micro-Realms run in a very similar fashion to our previous Rift events. Not sure what that means? All of the details on this event can be found below!

WHAT ARE MICRO-REALMS?

Micro-Realms are Quests that have ENTRY COSTS. That means you won’t be able to enter them until you collect the respective PYM PARTICLE DISK for that difficulty and spend them to enter. Like previous Rifts, there are 4 Tiers of Micro-Realms, and 4 corresponding Particle Disks. This means you’ll need to collect the right Particle Disk to enter your Micro-Realm of choice.

How do you get those disks? Particle Disk can be purchased from the store with PYM CANISTERS which can be collected from many places in the Contest (Outlined further below). Pym Canisters can buy ANY of the Particle Disks, you’ll just need to earn enough to cannisters to trade for it!

Once you spend your Pym Particle Disk to enter the Micro-Realm, you’ll have 1 hour to collect your prize and defeat the final boss, but it’s not so simple! The path you’ll be sent to is determined by a RANDOM PORTAL, so you won’t know what prize you’ll receive until you enter! Micro-Realms of different tiers contain different rarities of prizes, with the highest tier containing large bunches of T2 Alpha Catalyst Fragments and 5-Star Shards!

So, that’s the gist of it. Collect Pym Canisters and use them to buy Particle Disks which open Micro-Realms of the corresponding Tier, then claim cool prizes. Here’s a handy breakdown of some key info:

BEGINNER: 1x Tier 1 Particle Disk (50,000 Pym Canisters) - 2 Energy per step - (24 energy per play)
NORMAL: 1x Tier 2 Particle Disk (125,000 Pym Canisters) - 3 Energy per step - (36 energy per play)
HEROIC: 1x Tier 3 Particle Disk (325,000 Pym Canisters) - 4 Energy per step - (48 energy per play)
MASTER: 1x Tier 4 Particle Disk (500,000 Pym Canisters) - 5 Energy per step -(60 energy per play)

HOW DO I GET PYM CANISTERS/PARTICLE DISKS?
There’s 4 places you can collect Pym Canisters: The Monthly Event Quest and Arenas are going to be your best source, and they can also be found in the Login Calendar, Starting July 18th they will also be available in Daily Quests.

Pym Particle Disks can be purchased from the Store throughout the event. However, you can only buy each disk a certain number of times. Those numbers are outlined along with rewards below.

HOW MUCH ENERGY DOES THIS COST?
Micro-Realms, like previous Rift Events, cost 2-5 Energy per step, depending on difficulty:

BEGINNER: 2 Energy per step - (24 energy per play)
NORMAL: 3 Energy per step - (36 energy per play)
HEROIC: 4 Energy per step - (48 energy per play)
MASTER: 5 Energy per step - (60 energy per play)

HOW HARD ARE THE QUESTS?
You’ll face off against 5 Enemies in Micro-Realms, all of whom are randomized from a select pool, followed by a final boss. Their difficulty is roughly equivalent to the corresponding Event Quest Difficulty. As a rule, if you can beat a certain difficulty of the Event Quest, you should have no issues completing a Micro-Realm of the same difficulty. Here’s a quick breakdown of what Buffs are present in each difficulty (note that unless a Buff is marked as Global, it only applies to the final Boss):

WHAT IF I FAIL THE QUEST?
Just to be SUPER clear: QUITTING OR NOT COMPLETING THE QUEST WITHIN THE 1 HOUR TIME LIMIT WILL RESULT IN THE LOSS OF BOTH THE PYM PARTICLE DISK USED TO ENTER THE QUEST AS WELL AS ANY REWARDS EARNED INSIDE THE QUEST.

WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO DO THE QUEST?
Great Question! We know that even if you’re unable to beat a certain Event Quest Difficulty, you may end up with enough Pym Canisters to acquire a Particle Disk. If you’re not so keen on doing that, though, you can always use those Canisters to Open a PYM CRYSTAL.

Pym Crystals award SOME of the prizes a Micro-Realm. The Pym Crystal only contains the following items:

- Premium Hero Crystal Shards
- 3-Star Hero Crystal Shards
- 4-Star Hero Crystal Shards
- 5-Star Hero Crystal Shards

These amounts will be LOWER than what is available from a Micro-Realm . It is ALWAYS more lucrative to play a Micro-Realm instead of opening a Pym Crystal.

WHAT ARE THE REWARDS?
Below is a breakdown of what the potential rewards are for each difficulty of Micro-Realm and the Pym Crystal, as well as the drop rates and total number of runs possible through the quest. These percentages for the Micro-Realms will also be available to view in-game as labels on the Random Portals.

Comments

Pratham

So are there going to be daily quests in addition to these rift events??

Aquama

This is game progression? Call it “summoner depreciation event”.

Aquama

BrandJenn wrote: »

Its FREE extra stuff. No one is being forced to run extra quests. If they’re so horrible, just don’t run them

Pleade look around. The community has reached a boiling point. And for good reason. It ain’t just the canisters

Northwestbrosef

Nick_Caine_32 wrote: »

I thought this months event was underwhelming, and then I saw this rollout and wondered if someone fell asleep at the wheel there. Or maybe copied and pasted the announcement from 2015 and mixed it with the first rifts announcement. That would be the only way to explain why the rewards keep getting lower compared to the time, effort, energy required in game, and complete inbalance compared to current game requirements. This is just...terrible. I have barely run any of these assignments this month, and I honestly probably wont run any of this either. This is coming off of doing every event for the infinity war month and getting the 5 star awakening gem with my dust. You guys are just so completely off your rockers with the last week or so of announcements. From the war changes to this event and rewards, to just blatantly ignoring cheating groups in war, it's honestly sad. Another company could make this game amazing and instead the player base has to beg you to care and play your own game. Ive played this for 3 years and the relations between the company and the player base has never been lower than right now, and I'm not sure why you all can't see that.

They can't see it because of the 100 folks spending a grand a month to get or stay at the top. Which is understandable, it's hard to see the 100,000 people in the back when 100 people are throwing buckets of money at you...

KyrieRed

Why you guys can’t increase little by little the rewards every month. It always feels like you guys take a step forward and then 3 steps backwards

Hollywood_

Kabam Doot wrote: »

BIG PYMING

A breakthrough in Pym’s molecular technology has led to the discovery of new Micro-Realms in the Contest! These Realms may be small, but they’re packed full of rewards for the taking. Using Pym Particle Disks, Summoners can shrink down and snatch up these newly discovered treasures. Be careful, as you’ll only be able to stay in these Micro-Realms for 1 hour!

Micro-Realms will be available from July 3rd, 10:00 AM PDT until August 1st, 10:00 AM PDT. You will need to be on our forthcoming build to see and participate in them.

Micro-Realms run in a very similar fashion to our previous Rift events. Not sure what that means? All of the details on this event can be found below!

WHAT ARE MICRO-REALMS?

Micro-Realms are Quests that have ENTRY COSTS. That means you won’t be able to enter them until you collect the respective PYM PARTICLE DISK for that difficulty and spend them to enter. Like previous Rifts, there are 4 Tiers of Micro-Realms, and 4 corresponding Particle Disks. This means you’ll need to collect the right Particle Disk to enter your Micro-Realm of choice.

How do you get those disks? Particle Disk can be purchased from the store with PYM CANISTERS which can be collected from many places in the Contest (Outlined further below). Pym Canisters can buy ANY of the Particle Disks, you’ll just need to earn enough to cannisters to trade for it!

Once you spend your Pym Particle Disk to enter the Micro-Realm, you’ll have 1 hour to collect your prize and defeat the final boss, but it’s not so simple! The path you’ll be sent to is determined by a RANDOM PORTAL, so you won’t know what prize you’ll receive until you enter! Micro-Realms of different tiers contain different rarities of prizes, with the highest tier containing large bunches of T2 Alpha Catalyst Fragments and 5-Star Shards!

So, that’s the gist of it. Collect Pym Canisters and use them to buy Particle Disks which open Micro-Realms of the corresponding Tier, then claim cool prizes. Here’s a handy breakdown of some key info:

BEGINNER: 1x Tier 1 Particle Disk (50,000 Pym Canisters) - 2 Energy per step - (24 energy per play)
NORMAL: 1x Tier 2 Particle Disk (125,000 Pym Canisters) - 3 Energy per step - (36 energy per play)
HEROIC: 1x Tier 3 Particle Disk (325,000 Pym Canisters) - 4 Energy per step - (48 energy per play)
MASTER: 1x Tier 4 Particle Disk (500,000 Pym Canisters) - 5 Energy per step -(60 energy per play)

HOW DO I GET PYM CANISTERS/PARTICLE DISKS?
There’s 4 places you can collect Pym Canisters: The Monthly Event Quest and Arenas are going to be your best source, and they can also be found in the Login Calendar, Starting July 18th they will also be available in Daily Quests.

Pym Particle Disks can be purchased from the Store throughout the event. However, you can only buy each disk a certain number of times. Those numbers are outlined along with rewards below.

HOW MUCH ENERGY DOES THIS COST?
Micro-Realms, like previous Rift Events, cost 2-5 Energy per step, depending on difficulty:

BEGINNER: 2 Energy per step - (24 energy per play)
NORMAL: 3 Energy per step - (36 energy per play)
HEROIC: 4 Energy per step - (48 energy per play)
MASTER: 5 Energy per step - (60 energy per play)

HOW HARD ARE THE QUESTS?
You’ll face off against 5 Enemies in Micro-Realms, all of whom are randomized from a select pool, followed by a final boss. Their difficulty is roughly equivalent to the corresponding Event Quest Difficulty. As a rule, if you can beat a certain difficulty of the Event Quest, you should have no issues completing a Micro-Realm of the same difficulty. Here’s a quick breakdown of what Buffs are present in each difficulty (note that unless a Buff is marked as Global, it only applies to the final Boss):

WHAT IF I FAIL THE QUEST?
Just to be SUPER clear: QUITTING OR NOT COMPLETING THE QUEST WITHIN THE 1 HOUR TIME LIMIT WILL RESULT IN THE LOSS OF BOTH THE PYM PARTICLE DISK USED TO ENTER THE QUEST AS WELL AS ANY REWARDS EARNED INSIDE THE QUEST.

WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO DO THE QUEST?
Great Question! We know that even if you’re unable to beat a certain Event Quest Difficulty, you may end up with enough Pym Canisters to acquire a Particle Disk. If you’re not so keen on doing that, though, you can always use those Canisters to Open a PYM CRYSTAL.

Pym Crystals award SOME of the prizes a Micro-Realm. The Pym Crystal only contains the following items:

- Premium Hero Crystal Shards
- 3-Star Hero Crystal Shards
- 4-Star Hero Crystal Shards
- 5-Star Hero Crystal Shards

These amounts will be LOWER than what is available from a Micro-Realm . It is ALWAYS more lucrative to play a Micro-Realm instead of opening a Pym Crystal.

WHAT ARE THE REWARDS?
Below is a breakdown of what the potential rewards are for each difficulty of Micro-Realm and the Pym Crystal, as well as the drop rates and total number of runs possible through the quest. These percentages for the Micro-Realms will also be available to view in-game as labels on the Random Portals.

Wondering why kabam not creating new contents with better rewards, micro releam is also sucks without 5* awakening gem, in last 6 months my interest has been lower and lower such as your boring content and running out of gold and getting some back to back ridiculous 5*. And main thing you never keep on words, that's shameful for company.

Hammerbro_64

FallingKingdoms wrote: »

This looks similar to the rifts. This should be fun! Hopefully the rewards and content will adjust slightly according to feedback you guys got last time!

To the complainers - stop it... if you don’t like it don’t play it... if you have constructive criticism that’s great, but whining is annoying and counterproductive.

I like your positivity, I used to be kinda like u, but kabam, as compared to other companies, doesn’t listen much at all and isn’t really focused on fun. It’s kind of a trap....legitimately if it wasn’t the biggest marvel game on the App Store, I would bet most people would leave.

To other people, I’ve just stopped caring and accepted that’s I won’t ever win because I’m not spending my life’s savings on a mobile game with no possible money out of it unless I become a Youtuber....which I don’t have the equipment for or the personality...I just log in and play around and hope I get lucky with my shards.

Carames

They've probably just gotten to the point where, since they know that no matter what they do, there will be an entitled group of players that will whine and cry, that they don't feel the need to go over the top with rewards.

Don't like the rewards and don't feel like they're worth the effort. Don't do them. Why cry about it? They'd see that they aren't being done and adjust things accordingly in the future.

LukeTINmcoc

The master one should at LEAST have a chance for 6 star shards.

Gamergirl1211

I didn't even do the rifts why would I waste my time on one with less rewards?

Voryawa

No T4CC or 5* AG? then a little desire to do them

allinashes

Unfortunately, this isn't 'free' stuff. It will take substantial energy and the number of fights is also non-trivial. To do this at the same time as EQ or story will require refills.

'Free' would be no energy costs and a small number of fights, no greater than three, definitely. There's already constraints in the need for Pym canisters; time and energy are just overkill. I will probably still do it because I'm F2P this year cuz of life stuff, so anything that gives 5* shards gets attention.

Jeeva21

I love you

abhishekthelegend

Don't give more quests give us more champions of different stars and new 5 star champions crystal or 4 star champions please marvel contest of champions sponsered

V1PER1987

Rifts was a much better idea with better payouts. But even then why must our rewards be random? We work hard enough for the resources (dimensional shards, pym canisters, etc) that getting random rewards suck. I think you guys hit gold with trials during the infinity War event. It was quick, didn’t suck up a lot of energy and gave decent rewards, especially on day 7. I like the ideas of the stores that you used for Valor, Scrap, and Infinity Dust, too. This allows us the choice to actually pick and choose our rewards which feels more... rewarding. I know you guys are trying to come up with new ideas, but honestly this is just a recycled idea, and not even a well recycled one. Bring back trials or come up with something fresh we can get excited about.

Spurgeon14

V1PER1987 wrote: »

Rifts was a much better idea with better payouts. But even then why must our rewards be random? We work hard enough for the resources (dimensional shards, pym canisters, etc) that getting random rewards suck. I think you guys hit gold with trials during the infinity War event. It was quick, didn’t suck up a lot of energy and gave decent rewards, especially on day 7. I like the ideas of the stores that you used for Valor, Scrap, and Infinity Dust, too. This allows us the choice to actually pick and choose our rewards which feels more... rewarding. I know you guys are trying to come up with new ideas, but honestly this is just a recycled idea, and not even a well recycled one. Bring back trials or come up with something fresh we can get excited about.

I agree 100%! There is a lot of randomness in this game. It's nice when we can CHOOSE what we get.

Aversion

V1PER1987 wrote: »

Rifts was a much better idea with better payouts. But even then why must our rewards be random? We work hard enough for the resources (dimensional shards, pym canisters, etc) that getting random rewards suck. I think you guys hit gold with trials during the infinity War event. It was quick, didn’t suck up a lot of energy and gave decent rewards, especially on day 7. I like the ideas of the stores that you used for Valor, Scrap, and Infinity Dust, too. This allows us the choice to actually pick and choose our rewards which feels more... rewarding. I know you guys are trying to come up with new ideas, but honestly this is just a recycled idea, and not even a well recycled one. Bring back trials or come up with something fresh we can get excited about.

100% Agreed!

Honey789

I am boss

Mandingowarya

Wowwwwwww

LeNoirFaineant

Armaganon00 wrote: »

I will not be doing this. Last rift i got t4b.. and shards. Im done with pay to play

But...you don't have to pay to enter. How is it pay to play? Rewards do seem underwhelming though.

Ice_shootah56

Love the game

DJYANKEENY

Well, it would have been nice if we could have kept what we had left from the last Ant-Man event and used them here. But nope...they were taken away. Sad...

chuiku2

Is there a time limit to participate in the quest to earn the pym particle? Like the quest from June which came in every 7 hours and lasted for 4 hours each time.

sd__white

WHAT IF I DON’T WANT TO DO THE QUEST?
Great Question! We know that even if you’re unable to beat a certain Event Quest Difficulty, you may end up with enough Pym Canisters to acquire a Particle Disk. If you’re not so keen on doing that, though, you can always use those Canisters to Open a PYM CRYSTAL.

Pym Crystals award SOME of the prizes a Micro-Realm. The Pym Crystal only contains the following items:

- Premium Hero Crystal Shards 90%
- 3-Star Hero Crystal Shards 6%
- 4-Star Hero Crystal Shards 3%
- 5-Star Hero Crystal Shards 1%

FineDog

@""Kabam Doot" The announcement mentions that we can get canisters from the arenas. Will this be added in the new arena that will launch on 7/5? Will they just be added to the milestone rewards or something?

Also, when it says that there are x number of runs possible for a given realm, I notice that that is a hard restriction on the number of discs that can be purchased, but is there some theoretical total amount of canisters that can be earned as well? That is, should we be saving them for the better realms, or is it possible to get enough canisters to actually max out each realm?

1haunted_memory

uhmmmm well I guess I wont get anything....

http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/79021/emergency-maintenance-and-loss-of-hank-pym-canisters#latest

Travulist

I want to try micro realm, afraid Im going to lose another Particle Disk. Are the servers ok now? Can I enter the micro realm without losing my resources?

Moletron

@Kabam Miike I just did the second to easiest micro realm quest, and upon completion I received the 3star awakening gem that I passed through on my random path, but then I also was rewarded 5000(I think thatw's the number) Chaos Shards....I didn't even think to take a screenshot at the time but I'm pretty sure that was a bug, and now I'm not seeing those shards anywhere, as there is no slot anymore for that form of currency

Moletron

^^^^^ My in game profile is Moletron

Chadhogan

Just done the normal realm twice first time didn't think to screenshot but this is my second no pym canisters just shards for a crystal that's nowhere to be seen what's going on ?