Introducing Back Issue #1: Ultron's Assault

Summoners!

Let’s take a trip way back in time! Back to a time where a maniacal machine was on the path to destroying the Battlerealm, but several courageous Champions and Summoners stopped his rampage!

Introducing, Back Issue #1: Ultron’s Assault!

As the Contest has grown and evolved, we’ve introduced many Event Quests, each with their own unique stories, and many that have expanded on the mythos of the Battle Realm and the Contest of Champions. We want to give Veteran Summoners a way to relive those moments, and to give Summoners that weren’t with us at the time a chance to experience the stories of the Contest that they had missed out on!

This Event Quest is available in TWO difficulties:

CLASSIC difficulty is a recreation of the original quest. While not completely 1:1, the layouts, difficulty, and dialogue are all the same as you remember. Take a stroll down memory lane and see how far you've come, or experience a quest you never got the chance to play!

VARIANT difficulty is a new spin on the quest, available for Summoners level 40 and up. This version features extreme challenge, new opponents, updated map layouts, and new combat effects for the boss fights. This quest will test even the mightiest of Summoners, so be prepared! You can find out more about the challenges you will face in Variant Difficulty in our latest Dev Diary post here: https://playcontestofchampions.com/dev-diary-added-difficulty/

Each Chapter of Variant Difficulty requires that you only bring Champions from 2 specific classes. These Quests will test not only your skills, but your knowledge of Champion’s abilities, immunities, resistances, and counters! Those who rely on only a few Champions will find the need to diversify, even outside of the Champion Requirements in place.

Remember Summoners, Variant Difficulty is going to be HARD! We’re stressing the use of a varied roster in this iteration. The good news is that Back Issues are permanent content, so if you’re not able to take Variant Difficulty on right now, take all the time you need and come back to it when you feel you are better equipped!

As the name suggests, this is our first iteration of our Back Issue Quests. Our goal is to periodically release more Event Quests for our Summoners to relive! Keep an eye out as we go back and explore more of the history of the Contest of Champions!

Rewards:

For completing and mastering all of the Classic quests, you earn:

Tier 2 Generic ISO x4
Tier 3 Generic ISO x22
Tier 4 Generic ISO x6
Gold x12250
Units x225
Tier 1 Alpha Catalyst x1
Premium Hero Crystal x3
3-Star Hero Crystal x1

For completing and mastering all of the Variant quests, you earn:

5-Star Rank 2 → 3 Gem Crystal x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal (2015 Champions Only) x3
5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Rank 4 → 5 Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Awakening Gem Crystal x1
5-Star Crystal x2
Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments x21600
6-Star Crystal Shards x2250
5-Star Signature Stone Crystal x48
Gold x2,100,000
Units x360

You’re probably wondering about those 5-Star Rank 3 → 4 Gems for 2015 Champions only. Those crystals contain class specific 5-Star Rank Up Gems that can only be used on Champions that were available upon release and those released until the end of 2015!

Here are all of the Champions that these Rank Up Gems will work on. NOTE: Some of these Champions are not available at the 5-Star Rarity. This list does not necessarily indicate that they will be released.

Captain Marvel
Drax
Ms.Marvel
Spider-Man (Symbiote)
Venom
Ronan
Gamora
Groot
Superior Iron-Man
Thor
Black Bolt
Storm
Cyclops (Red Team)
Colossus
Magneto
Deadpool
Wolverine
Magneto (Marvel Now!)
Deadpool (X-Force)
Magik
Guillotine
Iron Fist
Juggernaut
Thor (Jane Foster)
Dr. Strange
Scarlet Witch
Unstoppable Colossus
Luke Cage
Electro
Ant-Man
Yellowjacket
Spider-Man
Captain America
Spider-Gwen
Rhino
Hulk
Abomination
Joe Fixit
Captain America (WW2)
Black Panther
Moon Knight
Elektra
Punisher
Daredevil
Winter Soldier
Hawkeye
Black Widow
Daredevil (Classic)
Rocket Raccoon
Hulkbuster
Ultron
Iron Patriot
Star-Lord
Kang
Iron-Man
Vision (AoU)
War Machine
Vision

This Quest will be available starting tomorrow, November 14th at 10 am PST! Remember, this is permanent content, so you can take your time completing this throwback!

Comments

bdawg923

Kabam Miike wrote: »

GladiatorMatt26 wrote: »

@Kabam Miike

This is my bad. I was under the assumption that this Quest used the same Energy Requirements as our current event quests, but I didn't know that way back when it was released we had it at 1,3,3. Sorry about that guys

What about the fact that it's partially completed? Is it showing progress from 2015?

Vdh2008

I consider myself close to "end game"... I am Elder's Bane, 2 paths of LOL, UC every month... I am not even going to attempt this *&%$show of a quest. It's definitely pay to play (whether it's $$ or X000 units that take time to grind).

I do hope that guys who are able to (or pay to) do it enjoy it, but I'll just sit out and hope against hope that T2A becomes more available somewhere else, because I'm nowhere near ready for this even with 2 R5s, and 6 R4s.

V1PER1987

I’ve done 2 paths already and I haven’t used any items yet. These quests (for now) seem doable. I only have 1 R5 and 4 R4 champs and my 6* are useless so I think it can be done.

mum_m2

Same here. End game player etc - but i thought Kabam wanted to make new exciting content. this is just power gain nodes every where. It's not hard, just tedious. this is the exact opposite of what the community is looking for. rewards are awesome but the content is terrible. all this power gain has pretty much reduced it to using the same power control champs over and over again. defeats the entire purpose of what they are trying to do.

KOSH

bdawg923 wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

GladiatorMatt26 wrote: »

@Kabam Miike

This is my bad. I was under the assumption that this Quest used the same Energy Requirements as our current event quests, but I didn't know that way back when it was released we had it at 1,3,3. Sorry about that guys

What about the fact that it's partially completed? Is it showing progress from 2015?

@Kabam Vydious

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Eb0ny-O-M4w

Anyone tested Daredevil with crit team and spam sp1 on the first quest?

RagamugginGunner

This is more annoying than hard.

Neck_up

Not sure who comes up with this stuff, variant is extremely disappointing. Thought the idea was to make the game fun, not expensive

Voltolos

Neck_up wrote: »

Not sure who comes up with this stuff, variant is extremely disappointing. Thought the idea was to make the game fun, not expensive

If it is expensive for you to complete variant, the difficulty is not made for you

Kabam Miike

Hey All,

Noticed a mistake in the original forum post regarding the rewards. I've updated it now, but originally the post said Mastery and Completion of the event will award 1 5-Star Crystal, but it's actually 2!

Liss_Bliss_

V1PER1987 wrote: »

I’ve done 2 paths already and I haven’t used any items yet. These quests (for now) seem doable. I only have 1 R5 and 4 R4 champs and my 6* are useless so I think it can be done.

I find that hard to believe. Either you spent a ton of units or the champs you do have are top gods. Would love to see the champs used and the completion %

V1PER1987

Liss_Bliss_ wrote: »

V1PER1987 wrote: »

I’ve done 2 paths already and I haven’t used any items yet. These quests (for now) seem doable. I only have 1 R5 and 4 R4 champs and my 6* are useless so I think it can be done.

I find that hard to believe. Either you spent a ton of units or the champs you do have are top gods. Would love to see the champs used and the completion %

I just completed the first chapter. My team consisted of 5/65 Sabretooth, 4/55 Blade, 4/55 GP, 3/45 Domino, and 5/50 Killmonger.

EDIT: I did not use one single item.

Soup071506

Why does the classic difficulty show I’ve alresdy completed most of it but I haven’t even ran any of it yet

Helicopter_dugdugdug

Difficulty is just about right ... thanks and more of this type of content

Hansen_NBC

I can honestly say I was excited for the Ultron quests but was immediately let down.. I tried to go into variant difficulty but cannot event attempt it because I "do not meet the requirements". So I check out classic difficulty and is a complete joke. The rewards are totally useless to me, someone that doesn't need 3* heroes anymore. Where is the difficulty for intermediate players? The rewards for classic are trash and a waste of time, it's not going to help me progress at all. It doesn't make sense to have such a large gap of difficulty and rewards from classic straight to variant.. like... HUH?!?!

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V1PER1987

V1PER1987 wrote: »

Liss_Bliss_ wrote: »

V1PER1987 wrote: »

I’ve done 2 paths already and I haven’t used any items yet. These quests (for now) seem doable. I only have 1 R5 and 4 R4 champs and my 6* are useless so I think it can be done.

I find that hard to believe. Either you spent a ton of units or the champs you do have are top gods. Would love to see the champs used and the completion %

I just completed the first chapter. My team consisted of 5/65 Sabretooth, 4/55 Blade, 4/55 GP, 3/45 Domino, and 5/50 Killmonger.

EDIT: I did not use one single item.

I will say that while chapter 1 is relatively easy and I will most likely be able to explore it, it’s only because I have some great mutant and skill champs. I attempted chapter two (tech/mystic) and was completely destroyed. Since my mystic champs are absolute trash and I cannot get one decent mystic to save my life I can really only bring tech champs and I only have a couple that could even hold up for a couple fights. So needless to say these quests require you to have a very diverse roster which is difficult when you only pull the same champs time and time again.

Hansen_NBC

OneManArmy wrote: »

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

I can honestly say I was excited for the Ultron quests but was immediately let down.. I tried to go into variant difficulty but cannot event attempt it because I "do not meet the requirements". So I check out classic difficulty and is a complete joke. The rewards are totally useless to me, someone that doesn't need 3* heroes anymore. Where is the difficulty for intermediate players? The rewards for classic are trash and a waste of time, it's not going to help me progress at all. It doesn't make sense to have such a large gap of difficulty and rewards from classic straight to variant.. like... HUH?!?!

Its class spesific. First one is mutant and skills only

Thank you for clarifying that, either way, my main argument was that they didn't implement a difficulty for the middle guys. Classic is not really worth the rewards and variant is obviously tailored for higher endgame players. It wouldn't be such a bother if they at least made classic rewards worth while.

bdawg923

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

OneManArmy wrote: »

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

I can honestly say I was excited for the Ultron quests but was immediately let down.. I tried to go into variant difficulty but cannot event attempt it because I "do not meet the requirements". So I check out classic difficulty and is a complete joke. The rewards are totally useless to me, someone that doesn't need 3* heroes anymore. Where is the difficulty for intermediate players? The rewards for classic are trash and a waste of time, it's not going to help me progress at all. It doesn't make sense to have such a large gap of difficulty and rewards from classic straight to variant.. like... HUH?!?!

Its class spesific. First one is mutant and skills only

Thank you for clarifying that, either way, my main argument was that they didn't implement a difficulty for the middle guys. Classic is not really worth the rewards and variant is obviously tailored for higher endgame players. It wouldn't be such a bother if they at least made classic rewards worth while.

THE REWARDS ARE THE SAME AS THEY WERE IN 2015. WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU GET

Turkey_Tone83

V1PER1987 wrote: »

Liss_Bliss_ wrote: »

V1PER1987 wrote: »

I’ve done 2 paths already and I haven’t used any items yet. These quests (for now) seem doable. I only have 1 R5 and 4 R4 champs and my 6* are useless so I think it can be done.

I find that hard to believe. Either you spent a ton of units or the champs you do have are top gods. Would love to see the champs used and the completion %

I just completed the first chapter. My team consisted of 5/65 Sabretooth, 4/55 Blade, 4/55 GP, 3/45 Domino, and 5/50 Killmonger.

EDIT: I did not use one single item.

You have the type of champs at that level most don't have. That's why you didn't use any items haha

The average player doesn't and that's why it's ridiculous

Voltolos

Turkey_Tone83 wrote: »

V1PER1987 wrote: »

Liss_Bliss_ wrote: »

V1PER1987 wrote: »

I’ve done 2 paths already and I haven’t used any items yet. These quests (for now) seem doable. I only have 1 R5 and 4 R4 champs and my 6* are useless so I think it can be done.

I find that hard to believe. Either you spent a ton of units or the champs you do have are top gods. Would love to see the champs used and the completion %

I just completed the first chapter. My team consisted of 5/65 Sabretooth, 4/55 Blade, 4/55 GP, 3/45 Domino, and 5/50 Killmonger.

EDIT: I did not use one single item.

You have the type of champs at that level most don't have. That's why you didn't use any items haha

The average player doesn't and that's why it's ridiculous

The average Player isn't supposed to do this quest now. You should focus on eq

Lynnix

Awesome rewards...but borderline unattainable. Basically we're going to be paying for these rank up gems with actual money if we aren't fortunate enough to have at least 5 4/5 5 star champs..maybe not even then. I don't know I respect the idea but the rewards for classic are lame imo and the other rewards are just out of reach. It would be nice to have a middle ground instead of two extremes.

Robeen

The difficulty wouldn’t be so bad if you weren’t steered into 2 classes. Nice scam, won’t be doing this.

Hansen_NBC

bdawg923 wrote: »

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

OneManArmy wrote: »

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

I can honestly say I was excited for the Ultron quests but was immediately let down.. I tried to go into variant difficulty but cannot event attempt it because I "do not meet the requirements". So I check out classic difficulty and is a complete joke. The rewards are totally useless to me, someone that doesn't need 3* heroes anymore. Where is the difficulty for intermediate players? The rewards for classic are trash and a waste of time, it's not going to help me progress at all. It doesn't make sense to have such a large gap of difficulty and rewards from classic straight to variant.. like... HUH?!?!

Its class spesific. First one is mutant and skills only

Thank you for clarifying that, either way, my main argument was that they didn't implement a difficulty for the middle guys. Classic is not really worth the rewards and variant is obviously tailored for higher endgame players. It wouldn't be such a bother if they at least made classic rewards worth while.

THE REWARDS ARE THE SAME AS THEY WERE IN 2015. WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU GET

Nothing I don't understand about that, but go ahead and hit the caps lock a little harder, just for fun. My argument as I said earlier is that they should have done an intermediate difficulty at least. Why make a super hard difficulty with great rewards if they were supposed to be rewards from 2015? They basically threw the middle finger to intermediate guys and did something for beginners and experts. Understand my view point?

Hansen_NBC

Lynnix wrote: »

Awesome rewards...but borderline unattainable. Basically we're going to be paying for these rank up gems with actual money if we aren't fortunate enough to have at least 5 4/5 5 star champs..maybe not even then. I don't know I respect the idea but the rewards for classic are lame imo and the other rewards are just out of reach. It would be nice to have a middle ground instead of two extremes.

Exactly the point I'm making but everyone thinks it's hilarious, apparently.

V1PER1987

Turkey_Tone83 wrote: »

V1PER1987 wrote: »

Liss_Bliss_ wrote: »

V1PER1987 wrote: »

I’ve done 2 paths already and I haven’t used any items yet. These quests (for now) seem doable. I only have 1 R5 and 4 R4 champs and my 6* are useless so I think it can be done.

I find that hard to believe. Either you spent a ton of units or the champs you do have are top gods. Would love to see the champs used and the completion %

I just completed the first chapter. My team consisted of 5/65 Sabretooth, 4/55 Blade, 4/55 GP, 3/45 Domino, and 5/50 Killmonger.

EDIT: I did not use one single item.

You have the type of champs at that level most don't have. That's why you didn't use any items haha

The average player doesn't and that's why it's ridiculous

This isn’t for the average player. Read the announcement.

DNA3000

BuddyGuyFriend wrote: »

hahahahahah hilarious

kabam you're too funny.

this thing is on some crazy crack. I"m almost 700k and played for 4 years now and I made it three fights in.

If you think this isn't intended as a handout to those top players who ALREADY HAD A STACKED ROSTER AND DIDN'T NEED THESE RANK UP ITEMS ANYWAY, just to give them something to do so they will quit whining, so they can make new you tube videos with their ALREADY STACKED ROSTER taking it down in one day, you're kidding yourself.

You can keep it. It will sit undone. For a lot of others as well. Ugh this company sometimes man. All of that BS before about balance and champs being OP, all of it was just words. You don't care about anything but money.

Translation: if I can't finish it on day one, it is broken.

You don't have to do the content, you can just, I don't know, be stuck at whatever progress and skill level you are forever, and never get better, and never get stronger, and never be able to overcome the content eventually. But most players get better over time, most players improve their roster over time, and most players eventually are able to do content that they couldn't do before, and for most players that's probably part of the fun of the game.

bdawg923

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

OneManArmy wrote: »

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

I can honestly say I was excited for the Ultron quests but was immediately let down.. I tried to go into variant difficulty but cannot event attempt it because I "do not meet the requirements". So I check out classic difficulty and is a complete joke. The rewards are totally useless to me, someone that doesn't need 3* heroes anymore. Where is the difficulty for intermediate players? The rewards for classic are trash and a waste of time, it's not going to help me progress at all. It doesn't make sense to have such a large gap of difficulty and rewards from classic straight to variant.. like... HUH?!?!

Its class spesific. First one is mutant and skills only

Thank you for clarifying that, either way, my main argument was that they didn't implement a difficulty for the middle guys. Classic is not really worth the rewards and variant is obviously tailored for higher endgame players. It wouldn't be such a bother if they at least made classic rewards worth while.

THE REWARDS ARE THE SAME AS THEY WERE IN 2015. WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU GET

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

bdawg923 wrote: »

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

OneManArmy wrote: »

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

I can honestly say I was excited for the Ultron quests but was immediately let down.. I tried to go into variant difficulty but cannot event attempt it because I "do not meet the requirements". So I check out classic difficulty and is a complete joke. The rewards are totally useless to me, someone that doesn't need 3* heroes anymore. Where is the difficulty for intermediate players? The rewards for classic are trash and a waste of time, it's not going to help me progress at all. It doesn't make sense to have such a large gap of difficulty and rewards from classic straight to variant.. like... HUH?!?!

Its class spesific. First one is mutant and skills only

Thank you for clarifying that, either way, my main argument was that they didn't implement a difficulty for the middle guys. Classic is not really worth the rewards and variant is obviously tailored for higher endgame players. It wouldn't be such a bother if they at least made classic rewards worth while.

THE REWARDS ARE THE SAME AS THEY WERE IN 2015. WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU GET

Nothing I don't understand about that, but go ahead and hit the caps lock a little harder, just for fun. My argument as I said earlier is that they should have done an intermediate difficulty at least. Why make a super hard difficulty with great rewards if they were supposed to be rewards from 2015? They basically threw the middle finger to intermediate guys and did something for beginners and experts. Understand my view point?

Because intermediate players have tons of content and end game players do not, hence the need for more end game content.

mum_m2

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

bdawg923 wrote: »

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

OneManArmy wrote: »

Hansen_NBC wrote: »

I can honestly say I was excited for the Ultron quests but was immediately let down.. I tried to go into variant difficulty but cannot event attempt it because I "do not meet the requirements". So I check out classic difficulty and is a complete joke. The rewards are totally useless to me, someone that doesn't need 3* heroes anymore. Where is the difficulty for intermediate players? The rewards for classic are trash and a waste of time, it's not going to help me progress at all. It doesn't make sense to have such a large gap of difficulty and rewards from classic straight to variant.. like... HUH?!?!

Its class spesific. First one is mutant and skills only

Thank you for clarifying that, either way, my main argument was that they didn't implement a difficulty for the middle guys. Classic is not really worth the rewards and variant is obviously tailored for higher endgame players. It wouldn't be such a bother if they at least made classic rewards worth while.

THE REWARDS ARE THE SAME AS THEY WERE IN 2015. WHAT PART OF THAT DON'T YOU GET

Nothing I don't understand about that, but go ahead and hit the caps lock a little harder, just for fun. My argument as I said earlier is that they should have done an intermediate difficulty at least. Why make a super hard difficulty with great rewards if they were supposed to be rewards from 2015? They basically threw the middle finger to intermediate guys and did something for beginners and experts. Understand my view point?

That's totally not the case for intermediate players. This actually helps mid level players because it allows you to me to grow your roster and do other content.