Announcing: Danger Rooms

LET’S GET DANGEROUS

Greetings Summoners, A new type of event quest is coming to The Contest for a limited time! Danger Rooms will be available to test your skills starting September 5th, 10:00 AM PDT and running until October 3rd, 10:00 AM PDT

NEW QUEST FEATURE: CHAMPION REQUIREMENTS

Danger Rooms are Daily Quests that test your skills and your roster! Each day a new Danger Room will be available with new Champion Requirements that will affect which Champions you can bring into the Quest. When a Champion Requirement is on a Quest, only Champions that meet those requirements can be used in that Quest.

For Example, the first Danger Room that releases will require Science Champions. No other classes will be able to enter that day’s Danger Room. There are also requirements on what Rarity (Star level) of Champion can be brought in. So keep a close eye on what the Champion Requirement each day is, as the specific requirement will depend on your Difficulty. Summoners with wide rosters of 2-Stars and 3-Stars will be well rewarded for their efforts! So how many of these Danger Rooms are there exactly?

These Danger Rooms will run on a weekly schedule and reset after the 7th Day. The full schedule and all requirements can be found below. Danger Rooms will have 3 Difficulties (Beginner, Normal, Heroic) While Level 30+ Summoners will be able to access GIFTED Danger Rooms, which contain Master and Epic difficulty, and greater rewards.

THE FINAL EXAM

The 7th Day also holds something special! An UNCANNY Danger Room will be available on the 7th Day each week. This Quest has ENTRY COSTS and requires 3 Uncanny Passes to enter, which can be gained from the previous weeks Danger Rooms. 1 Danger Room Completed = 1 Uncanny Pass. Save up through the week and spend your Passes to enter and take on these tougher challenges for even greater Rewards! Passes are Difficulty specific, so if you want to complete the Epic Difficulty of the Uncanny Danger Room, you’ll need Epic Uncanny Pass. After the 7th day, the schedule will reset back to Day 1.

The 7th Day will also have a Regular Danger Room for you to participate in and earn Passes, but the UNCANNY Danger Room DOES NOT have Champion Requirements. So be CAREFUL who you bring in as your Passes are CONSUMED upon entry. Similar to our previous Quests with Entry Costs.

SOLO AND ALLIANCE EVENTS

DANGER ROOM COMPLETION ALLIANCE EVENT

Alongside the Danger Room Quests, 7-Day Danger Room Completion Alliance Event will be running every week for the duration of the event. All you need to do to gain points is complete Danger Room Quests, with more difficult quests awarding more points! Achieve milestones to get rewards for your whole Alliance to get additional Uncanny Passes for the Uncanny Danger Room Quests!

There are minimum contribution requirements for this Alliance events and there are no Rank rewards.

There are 4 rounds of Alliance events:

Week 1 09/05 10 AM PDT - 09/12 10 AM PDT
Week 2 09/12 10 AM PDT - 09/19 10 AM PDT
Week 3 09/19 10 AM PDT - 09/26 10 AM PDT
Week 4 09/26 10 AM PDT - 10/03 10 AM PDT

UNCANNY DANGER ROOM COMPLETION SOLO EVENT

Every week on Day 7 of the Danger Room Event, an additional Uncanny Danger Room Completion Solo Event will be available for 24 hours. Complete Uncanny Danger Room Quests to to gain points for this event!

There are no Rank Rewards for this event.

There are 4 rounds of this Solo events total:

Week 1: 09/11 10 AM PDT - 09/12 10 AM PDT
Week 2: 09/18 10 AM PDT - 09/19 10 AM PDT
Week 3: 09/25 10 AM PDT - 09/26 10 AM PDT
Week 4: 10/02 10 AM PDT - 10/03 10 AM PDT

REWARDS BREAKDOWN

Here is an outline for what you can earn from each version of Danger Rooms. Remember, you can earn Regular and Gifted Danger Room Rewards daily, 7 times a week for the duration of the event, and can potentially enter Uncanny Danger Rooms TWICE a week each week if you get enough passes!

Danger Rooms / Gifted Danger Rooms

Beginner
Beginner Uncanny Ticket x1
Premium Hero Crystal Shards x200
Tier 2 Basic Catalyst Fragments x80
Tier 1 Basic Catalyst Fragments x100

Normal
Normal Uncanny Ticket x1
3-Star Shards x100
Tier 2 Basic Fragments x150
Tier 3 Basic Fragments x200

Heroic
Heroic Uncanny Ticket x1
4-Star Shards x50
Tier 1 Alpha Fragments x140
Tier 4 Basic Fragments x180
Tier 3 Basic Fragments x600

Master
Master Uncanny Ticket x1
5-Star Shards x50
Tier 4 Basic Fragments x360
Tier 4 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystal x1

Epic
Epic Uncanny Ticket x1
5-Star Shards x100
Tier 2 Alpha Fragments x180
Tier 4 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystal x1
Tier 4 Basic Fragments x720

Uncanny Danger Rooms
Beginner
Premium Hero Crystal Shards x500
Tier 1 Class Catalyst Crystal x1
Tier 1 Basic Catalyst Fragments x150

Normal
3-Star Shards x400
Tier 2 Basic Fragments x325
Tier 3 Basic Fragments x1400
Tier 2 Class Catalyst Crystal x1

Heroic
4-Star shards x150
Tier 1 Alpha Fragments x280
Tier 4 Basic Fragments x720
Tier 3 Class Catalyst Crystal x1

Master
5-Star Shards x100
Tier 2 Alpha Fragments x180
TIer 4 Basic Fragments x1800
Tier 4 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystal x1

Epic
5-Star Shards x200
Tier 2 Alpha Fragments x540
Tier 4 Class Catalyst Fragment Crystal x2

Comments

GroundedWisdom

Kabam Miike wrote: »

Hey Everybody,

I wanted to give you all a heads up on some refinements/fixes coming to Danger Rooms tomorrow. We're seeing a lot of feedback on the difficulty curve in Master and Epic. While we want to address the difficulty in Master, we also need to make a fix that will affect the difficulty of Epic as well. These changes will take effect tomorrow:

- Reducing the Champion Boost on the Boss of Master Difficulty from 150% to 100%.
- Increasing the Champion Boost on Epic from 200% to 400%, and enabling a global "WARNING" Buff for the quest.

The Boss in Epic was intended to be a 4-Star Champion, however, do to a limitation, we are not able to have a different Rarity Champion as the boss in the Epic difficulty level. To compensate for this, we are boosting the Node Buffs on the Epic Boss to bring it more in line with a 4-Star 5/50 Champion. This will make it more difficult, but will bring it in line with the Difficulty that it was intended to be.

Additionally, we're rearranging the schedule of the Danger Rooms to match the Daily Quests. This way, if you need to pick up a Catalyst or 2 to take your Champion to the Next Rank to tackle the Danger Room, you'll be able to do so that same day.

This means the new Schedule is:
Science
Mystic
Cosmic
Tech
Hero (Use Hero Champions)
Mutant
Skill + Uncanny

Thank you all for your feedback on our first day of Danger Rooms!

Thanks Miike. Hoping Epic isn't too cray cray.

Championcritic

Epic difficulty was fine. It was master difficulty that was like scaled way out of proportion in my opinion. A max 2* facing a Max 3* with a class disadvantage, is roughly 800ish pi value 3500 ish pi. The difference is like way too much. Besides, since the rewards are very stingy, the challenge honestly shouldn't be too difficult if you want people to play them, unless you want to buff the rewards to a degree that is worth taking up the challenge.

To emphasize again, if you want us to challenge a 3* with the power of a 4* 5/50 as you intended, you need to bring up the rewards to make them worth doing

Markjv81

Kabam Miike wrote: »

Hey Everybody,

I wanted to give you all a heads up on some refinements/fixes coming to Danger Rooms tomorrow. We're seeing a lot of feedback on the difficulty curve in Master and Epic. While we want to address the difficulty in Master, we also need to make a fix that will affect the difficulty of Epic as well. These changes will take effect tomorrow:

- Reducing the Champion Boost on the Boss of Master Difficulty from 150% to 100%.
- Increasing the Champion Boost on Epic from 200% to 400%, and enabling a global "WARNING" Buff for the quest.

The Boss in Epic was intended to be a 4-Star Champion, however, do to a limitation, we are not able to have a different Rarity Champion as the boss in the Epic difficulty level. To compensate for this, we are boosting the Node Buffs on the Epic Boss to bring it more in line with a 4-Star 5/50 Champion. This will make it more difficult, but will bring it in line with the Difficulty that it was intended to be.

Additionally, we're rearranging the schedule of the Danger Rooms to match the Daily Quests. This way, if you need to pick up a Catalyst or 2 to take your Champion to the Next Rank to tackle the Danger Room, you'll be able to do so that same day.

This means the new Schedule is:
Science
Mystic
Cosmic
Tech
Hero (Use Hero Champions)
Mutant
Skill + Uncanny

Thank you all for your feedback on our first day of Danger Rooms!

So now the rewards for epic aren't worth while, you turned the complaint on its head, we weren't saying epic was too easy compared to master, we were saying master is too difficult for the rewards.

Seriously do you guys ever test anything?

I'm dreading the season 5 AQ release.

LeNoirFaineant

Markjv81 wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

Hey Everybody,

I wanted to give you all a heads up on some refinements/fixes coming to Danger Rooms tomorrow. We're seeing a lot of feedback on the difficulty curve in Master and Epic. While we want to address the difficulty in Master, we also need to make a fix that will affect the difficulty of Epic as well. These changes will take effect tomorrow:

- Reducing the Champion Boost on the Boss of Master Difficulty from 150% to 100%.
- Increasing the Champion Boost on Epic from 200% to 400%, and enabling a global "WARNING" Buff for the quest.

The Boss in Epic was intended to be a 4-Star Champion, however, do to a limitation, we are not able to have a different Rarity Champion as the boss in the Epic difficulty level. To compensate for this, we are boosting the Node Buffs on the Epic Boss to bring it more in line with a 4-Star 5/50 Champion. This will make it more difficult, but will bring it in line with the Difficulty that it was intended to be.

Additionally, we're rearranging the schedule of the Danger Rooms to match the Daily Quests. This way, if you need to pick up a Catalyst or 2 to take your Champion to the Next Rank to tackle the Danger Room, you'll be able to do so that same day.

This means the new Schedule is:
Science
Mystic
Cosmic
Tech
Hero (Use Hero Champions)
Mutant
Skill + Uncanny

Thank you all for your feedback on our first day of Danger Rooms!

So now the rewards for epic aren't worth while, you turned the complaint on its head, we weren't saying epic was too easy compared to master, we were saying master is too difficult for the rewards.

Seriously do you guys ever test anything?

I'm dreading the season 5 AQ release.

Epic wasn’t very epic. Master was fun.

GroundedWisdom

LeNoirFaineant wrote: »

Markjv81 wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

Hey Everybody,

I wanted to give you all a heads up on some refinements/fixes coming to Danger Rooms tomorrow. We're seeing a lot of feedback on the difficulty curve in Master and Epic. While we want to address the difficulty in Master, we also need to make a fix that will affect the difficulty of Epic as well. These changes will take effect tomorrow:

- Reducing the Champion Boost on the Boss of Master Difficulty from 150% to 100%.
- Increasing the Champion Boost on Epic from 200% to 400%, and enabling a global "WARNING" Buff for the quest.

The Boss in Epic was intended to be a 4-Star Champion, however, do to a limitation, we are not able to have a different Rarity Champion as the boss in the Epic difficulty level. To compensate for this, we are boosting the Node Buffs on the Epic Boss to bring it more in line with a 4-Star 5/50 Champion. This will make it more difficult, but will bring it in line with the Difficulty that it was intended to be.

Additionally, we're rearranging the schedule of the Danger Rooms to match the Daily Quests. This way, if you need to pick up a Catalyst or 2 to take your Champion to the Next Rank to tackle the Danger Room, you'll be able to do so that same day.

This means the new Schedule is:
Science
Mystic
Cosmic
Tech
Hero (Use Hero Champions)
Mutant
Skill + Uncanny

Thank you all for your feedback on our first day of Danger Rooms!

So now the rewards for epic aren't worth while, you turned the complaint on its head, we weren't saying epic was too easy compared to master, we were saying master is too difficult for the rewards.

Seriously do you guys ever test anything?

I'm dreading the season 5 AQ release.

Epic wasn’t very epic. Master was fun.

I agree. However, I'm a bit apprehensive about Epic now. Guess we'll see tomorrow. Lol.

Markjv81

LeNoirFaineant wrote: »

Markjv81 wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

Hey Everybody,

I wanted to give you all a heads up on some refinements/fixes coming to Danger Rooms tomorrow. We're seeing a lot of feedback on the difficulty curve in Master and Epic. While we want to address the difficulty in Master, we also need to make a fix that will affect the difficulty of Epic as well. These changes will take effect tomorrow:

- Reducing the Champion Boost on the Boss of Master Difficulty from 150% to 100%.
- Increasing the Champion Boost on Epic from 200% to 400%, and enabling a global "WARNING" Buff for the quest.

The Boss in Epic was intended to be a 4-Star Champion, however, do to a limitation, we are not able to have a different Rarity Champion as the boss in the Epic difficulty level. To compensate for this, we are boosting the Node Buffs on the Epic Boss to bring it more in line with a 4-Star 5/50 Champion. This will make it more difficult, but will bring it in line with the Difficulty that it was intended to be.

Additionally, we're rearranging the schedule of the Danger Rooms to match the Daily Quests. This way, if you need to pick up a Catalyst or 2 to take your Champion to the Next Rank to tackle the Danger Room, you'll be able to do so that same day.

This means the new Schedule is:
Science
Mystic
Cosmic
Tech
Hero (Use Hero Champions)
Mutant
Skill + Uncanny

Thank you all for your feedback on our first day of Danger Rooms!

So now the rewards for epic aren't worth while, you turned the complaint on its head, we weren't saying epic was too easy compared to master, we were saying master is too difficult for the rewards.

Seriously do you guys ever test anything?

I'm dreading the season 5 AQ release.

Epic wasn’t very epic. Master was fun.

Epic GGTTM wasn't very epic either but everyone happy to take much better rewards.

Crushtest

nice rework :-)

Helicopter_dugdugdug

Kabam Miike wrote: »

Hey Everybody,

I wanted to give you all a heads up on some refinements/fixes coming to Danger Rooms tomorrow. We're seeing a lot of feedback on the difficulty curve in Master and Epic. While we want to address the difficulty in Master, we also need to make a fix that will affect the difficulty of Epic as well. These changes will take effect tomorrow:

- Reducing the Champion Boost on the Boss of Master Difficulty from 150% to 100%.
- Increasing the Champion Boost on Epic from 200% to 400%, and enabling a global "WARNING" Buff for the quest.

The Boss in Epic was intended to be a 4-Star Champion, however, do to a limitation, we are not able to have a different Rarity Champion as the boss in the Epic difficulty level. To compensate for this, we are boosting the Node Buffs on the Epic Boss to bring it more in line with a 4-Star 5/50 Champion. This will make it more difficult, but will bring it in line with the Difficulty that it was intended to be.

Additionally, we're rearranging the schedule of the Danger Rooms to match the Daily Quests. This way, if you need to pick up a Catalyst or 2 to take your Champion to the Next Rank to tackle the Danger Room, you'll be able to do so that same day.

This means the new Schedule is:
Science
Mystic
Cosmic
Tech
Hero (Use Hero Champions)
Mutant
Skill + Uncanny

Thank you all for your feedback on our first day of Danger Rooms!

What about feedback regarding rewards? Ignored?

Hfchang

Championcritic wrote: »

Epic difficulty was fine. It was master difficulty that was like scaled way out of proportion in my opinion. A max 2* facing a Max 3* with a class disadvantage, is roughly 800ish pi value 3500 ish pi. The difference is like way too much. Besides, since the rewards are very stingy, the challenge honestly shouldn't be too difficult if you want people to play them, unless you want to buff the rewards to a degree that is worth taking up the challenge.

To emphasize again, if you want us to challenge a 3* with the power of a 4* 5/50 as you intended, you need to bring up the rewards to make them worth doing

Yes, definitely. Epic was achievable but Master's scaling was complete balls

KoperBoy

Epic difficulty was really easy and even now with buffed boss, it won't be very hard at all.

Those of us who like to max every 3* for solo class advancement events probably won't have much problems with it, as maxed out god tier 3* stars champs still kick the hell out of maxed 4* champs. Blade, GP, Starlord, Archangel, Iceman, Hyperion, Void, Medusa, Dr.Voodoo... can deal with any 4* without much problems.

Werewrym

200% boost to 400% boost... Not sure how I fell about that... Guess I will know after today.

TheLegend27

For a long time I've been planning on switching alliances today after summoner advancement ends, but will that mess up my ability to participate in the Danger Room Alliance Event in the new alliance I join?

RagamugginGunner

There's a fine line between fun and a hassle. Kabam almost never gets on the right side of that line.

Bapoi

I didn't feel changes were needed myself, but I also can't really say I mind them.
How often do you quest where the opponent is a fair bit higher? It's a challenge, meant to not be easy.
And the rewards will add up over a month. I'm sure many (most) will disagree, but I'm still as okay as I was to begin with with this event.

Werewrym

Bapoi wrote: »

I didn't feel changes were needed myself, but I also can't really say I mind them.
How often do you quest where the opponent is a fair bit higher? It's a challenge, meant to not be easy.
And the rewards will add up over a month. I'm sure many (most) will disagree, but I'm still as okay as I was to begin with with this event.

Honestly my biggest complaint about this event after playing it is the energy cost. I was relieved to see it was only a few fights, but with the energy cost I can see it really delaying my completion of the monthly EQ. I feel like 1 energy per step would have been a whole lot better.

RagamugginGunner

Werewrym wrote: »

Bapoi wrote: »

I didn't feel changes were needed myself, but I also can't really say I mind them.
How often do you quest where the opponent is a fair bit higher? It's a challenge, meant to not be easy.
And the rewards will add up over a month. I'm sure many (most) will disagree, but I'm still as okay as I was to begin with with this event.

Honestly my biggest complaint about this event after playing it is the energy cost. I was relieved to see it was only a few fights, but with the energy cost I can see it really delaying my completion of the monthly EQ. I feel like 1 energy per step would have been a whole lot better.

This is my biggest issue as well. 18 energy for 3 fights? Ugh, Kabam. Make it one energy a tile or better yet free.

Stewman

Kabam Miike wrote: »

Hey Everybody,

I wanted to give you all a heads up on some refinements/fixes coming to Danger Rooms tomorrow. We're seeing a lot of feedback on the difficulty curve in Master and Epic. While we want to address the difficulty in Master, we also need to make a fix that will affect the difficulty of Epic as well. These changes will take effect tomorrow:

- Reducing the Champion Boost on the Boss of Master Difficulty from 150% to 100%.
- Increasing the Champion Boost on Epic from 200% to 400%, and enabling a global "WARNING" Buff for the quest.

The Boss in Epic was intended to be a 4-Star Champion, however, do to a limitation, we are not able to have a different Rarity Champion as the boss in the Epic difficulty level. To compensate for this, we are boosting the Node Buffs on the Epic Boss to bring it more in line with a 4-Star 5/50 Champion. This will make it more difficult, but will bring it in line with the Difficulty that it was intended to be.

Additionally, we're rearranging the schedule of the Danger Rooms to match the Daily Quests. This way, if you need to pick up a Catalyst or 2 to take your Champion to the Next Rank to tackle the Danger Room, you'll be able to do so that same day.

This means the new Schedule is:
Science
Mystic
Cosmic
Tech
Hero (Use Hero Champions)
Mutant
Skill + Uncanny

Thank you all for your feedback on our first day of Danger Rooms!

Maybe I am salty because I pulled a 6* JF from a featured crystal yesterday after saving for nearly 3 months.

but...
the complaints were that master was too difficulty for the rewards.
Epic was fine.
So then, you increase the difficulty of Epic to make it more in line with master.
Epic fail. I am not doing this nonsense everyday for not even a full 5* by the end of the month.
(of which will end up being some garbage champ I don't want anyway)
Hard pass.

Solvseus

Meh. Glad I sold the 2*s from Gwen goes to the movies. Rewards for this don’t seem worth it. Blew through Beginner for the other event, seems like a better use of resources.

SknZn

Bad event, if you guys wanna makes 2* 3* usable just make 2* aw 3* aw in that way it might be really good

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csexton00

These need to cost less energy or no energy at all. There is too much going on to have to waste energy for these each day.

Cptnkillr_89

Champ requirements is what made marvel strike force the dumpster fire it is now. You thought it was a good idea to copy that formula? What’s the plan 6 months from now there will be 5-6* requirements that next to nobody can attain without spending.

GroundedWisdom

It's Class Requirements so far. For that matter, there have been a couple Champs required throughout Storymode. It's a fun Event that allows us to use our 2 and 3*s for once. Not that foreboding.

Bonze9

Just gonna leave this out there. Did the new gifted danger rooms. 36ish total energy for 150 5* shards and some other goodies. Energy to reward output is starting to look better and I steam rolled both quest without drama. I took screen recordings of both boss fights for anyone that’s a nonbeliever lol.

Tarzan041

Here are the bosses for epic and master, neither were very difficult. I got 150 5 star shards and some other items for less than 5 minutes of playing. These quest are fun, I hope we get more like these in the future. Plus we have the alliance completion rewards, we are getting rewards for not doing much, the best part is anyone can do them.

GroundedWisdom

Much mote proportionate today. I heard 400% last night and was concerned, but it's not that bad.

Werewrym

The last thing that needs changed I think is the energy requirements... No way should it be 18 energy to run the quest. If you are running all of them it takes a large chunk of energy away that you would normally be using on EQ. Makes it difficult for those of us who can only go through their energy a couple times a day. Not the end of the world, but it would be nice if the team took this into consideration @Kabam Miike

Still not saying this is my favorite event ever... I really wish the rewards were slightly more for the effort we put in, but I guess you can't have everything... At least they are not the mindless black hole that Modok's lab or merc missions were.

Bonze9

Werewrym wrote: »

The last thing that needs changed I think is the energy requirements... No way should it be 18 energy to run the quest. If you are running all of them it takes a large chunk of energy away that you would normally be using on EQ. Makes it difficult for those of us who can only go through their energy a couple times a day. Not the end of the world, but it would be nice if the team took this into consideration @Kabam Miike

Still not saying this is my favorite event ever... I really wish the rewards were slightly more for the effort we put in, but I guess you can't have everything... At least they are not the mindless black hole that Modok's lab or merc missions were.

I wouldn’t turn down lower energy cost but I’ve got to say this. Where else in the game can you get 150 5* shards, some t2a frags and some other decent rank up materials for only 36 moves? Daily....

djr17

Not a serious issue, just an annoyance. During the Danger Rooms today, instead of auto selecting the highest pi character, it was taking whoever was at the top of the list. I don't know if the issue was there yesterday, as my highest pi was at the top yesterday.

Krumbledkookie

Yup, Master was definitely doable today. Today was harder on Epic but definitely doable for even intermediate level players, as long as you have the champs.