Gather Intel in Nick Fury's Recon Initiatives

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Summoners!

The Battlerealm is full of countless Allies and Enemies, and Nick Fury wants to know everything about all of them! Join him in a month long Event to gather Intel on the Champions of the Battlerealm!

Assist Nick Fury in gathering Intel, and trade that Intel for rewards such as Catalyst Fragments, Crystal Shards, and Hero Crystals! Assist him in all of his recon missions, and you’ll have enough Intel to trade for a 5-Star Awakening Gem Crystal!

Your Mission, if you choose to accept it…

Over the next 4 weeks, we will introduce 1 Quest per week with 5 different Difficulty Levels. Each of these Quests is only 2 paths, with a buffed up Boss at the end!

Easy right? Here’s where it gets interesting… Each of these Quests feature Champion Requirements, and each week your team will be limited to which Champions that you can bring in!

Champions will be limited based on their Universe Tags (which can be found on a Champion’s info page). This means each weekly Quest can only be completed with Champions of that Tag.

Week 1: Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy
Week 2: X-Men and X-Force
Week 3: Spider-verse Heroes, Sinister Six, and Symbiote
Week 4: Mercenaries and Robots

All Chapters will remain open until the end of the event, so you'll have time to 100% Explore the previous weeks Quest.

You'll need to complete harder difficulties to get more rewards, so make sure the Champions on your roster with those Tags are ready for a Challenge! We'll also be sending out another message each week outlining which Champions fall under said Tags.

For those of you that may need to expand your roster, special Crystals containing Champions that can enter these Quests will be available each week of the Event. Yes, that includes unreleased 2 Star Version of some of these Champions! This doesn’t include Champions who are not in the base pool, such as Deadpool, Goldpool, Havok, Ultron (Classic), Vision, or special rarity exclusives such as 4-Star Rhino or Cyclops, 5-Star Gamora or Thor.

If you’ve become Uncollected, a Grandmaster version of these Crystals will also be available. Make sure you check out the crystal descriptions to see exactly which Champions are included in these Crystals.

Knowledge is Power!

The task is great, but the rewards are greater! Use your Intel in the Store to purchase rewards to assist you in your own missions across The Contest!

You’ll find items such as Tier 5 Basic Catalyst Fragments, 5-Star and 6-Star Hero Crystal Shards, Awakening Gem Crystals, 4-Star Hero Crystals, and much more!

While Intel will mostly only be available in Nick Fury’s Recon Initiatives, there will also be a Special Calendar that will award you a small amount for logging in every day! But don’t miss a single day, because if you do, you’ll be reset to Day 1!

Each of these items have purchase limits. Some, you’ll be able to purchase up to 20 times, while others you’ll only be able to purchase once.

For those that want to chase the 5-Star Awakening Gem Crystal, you’ll need to complete every Difficulty of the event, and log in every day to claim your daily Intel from the Calendar! The Crystal costs 5000 Intel, and it’s only possible to get 5740 Intel from normal play.

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Nick Fury's Recon Initiative begins March 6, 10:00 AM PST. With a new Chapter releasing each Wednesday after that. All Chapters will remain open until the end of the event on April 3, 10:00 AM PDT. So you'll have time to 100% Explore the previous weeks Quest.

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EDIT: If you're curious as the list of Champions that you can use, check out this list here. But keep in mind, the Crystals will not contain all of these Champions. Make sure you check out the list of Champions in the Crystal before you purchase it!

Comments

imShakib

This event is extremly difficult for people like us who've been in the game for just a year and don't have such a matured champ roster. Gwenpool goes to movies event was actually way different than this one. The Challenge was just to have a specific champion during that time, not having it maxed out to fight a 45k pi boss. Gwenpool goes to movies was by far the best event of the year and this one is simply a frustrating event. Turns people like us away from the game.

phillgreen

No one is obliged to fight a level harder than they can manage and it costs nothing to try and about the same to quit and restart/back out.

Fred_Joeity

BTW, isn't Stark Spidey an Avenger. Why was he not a champion in the first week of the event?

Technically he rejected Tony Stark’s offer, so he’s more of a Pre-Avenger (Going by MCU here)

LeNoirFaineant

This event is extremly difficult for people like us who've been in the game for just a year and don't have such a matured champ roster. Gwenpool goes to movies event was actually way different than this one. The Challenge was just to have a specific champion during that time, not having it maxed out to fight a 45k pi boss. Gwenpool goes to movies was by far the best event of the year and this one is simply a frustrating event. Turns people like us away from the game.

GP goes to the movies was essentially a free 5*. You can get some nice things without running epic. If this event turns people away from the game they were going to leave anyway.

V1PER1987

This event is extremly difficult for people like us who've been in the game for just a year and don't have such a matured champ roster. Gwenpool goes to movies event was actually way different than this one. The Challenge was just to have a specific champion during that time, not having it maxed out to fight a 45k pi boss. Gwenpool goes to movies was by far the best event of the year and this one is simply a frustrating event. Turns people like us away from the game.

You can’t compare every single side quest to GPGTTM because that was a special quest Kabam did in order to circulate some 5* throughout the whole community. Epic is supposed to be challenging because it’s the highest difficulty level in the game and designed for those at or near end game. GPGTTM was a one-off that should not be the gauge for how difficult normal content is.

xGoldeneyes12x

@Kabam Miike
Why isnt crossbones eligible for week 4? His bio literally says "this dangerous mercenary calling himself crossbones," but he doesn't have a mercenary tag. Was this an oversight?

DNA3000

This event is extremly difficult for people like us who've been in the game for just a year and don't have such a matured champ roster. Gwenpool goes to movies event was actually way different than this one. The Challenge was just to have a specific champion during that time, not having it maxed out to fight a 45k pi boss. Gwenpool goes to movies was by far the best event of the year and this one is simply a frustrating event. Turns people like us away from the game.

This was the situation I was in when Coulson's event came out. I was in no position to do anything more than scratch the surface of that event. It prompted me to increase my efforts to improving my roster. So events like this turn people like you away from the game, but they encourage people like me to put more effort into the game. I'm not saying I'm any more deserving of the game's attention than anyone else, but I do think it is a rational decision to make for developers to target a game at the players less likely to be easily discouraged by challenges above their current ability to accomplish.

winterthur

This event is extremly difficult for people like us who've been in the game for just a year and don't have such a matured champ roster. Gwenpool goes to movies event was actually way different than this one. The Challenge was just to have a specific champion during that time, not having it maxed out to fight a 45k pi boss. Gwenpool goes to movies was by far the best event of the year and this one is simply a frustrating event. Turns people like us away from the game.

If you are still reading responses to your post, GGTTM was a tie-in to 10 year anniversary of Marvel Cinematic Universe.

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/84967/announcing-gwenpool-goes-to-the-movies/p1

The quests made was relatively easier for that reason.

Can I clear the current quest? Not yet, but I am looking at my champs and try to bring a better counter.

You should too.

CeresCPH

anyone feeling very kind and wants to make a list of champs with these tags? 😅

I can do that. Here's week 1:

AGENT VENOM
ANT-MAN
BLACK PANTHER
BLACK PANTHER (CIVIL WAR)
BLACK WIDOW
CAPTAIN AMERICA
CAPTAIN AMERICA (INFINITY WAR)
DRAX
FALCON
GAMORA
GROOT
HAWKEYE
HULK
HULK (RAGNAROK)
IRON MAN
IRON MAN (INFINITY WAR)
ROCKET RACCOON
SCARLET WITCH
STAR-LORD
THOR
THOR (RAGNAROK)
VISION
VISION (AGE OF ULTRON)

Here's week 2:

ARCHANGEL
BEAST
BISHOP
CABLE
COLOSSUS
CYCLOPS (BLUE TEAM)
CYCLOPS (NEW XAVIER SCHOOL)
DEADPOOL
DEADPOOL (X-FORCE)
DOMINO
EMMA FROST
GAMBIT
HAVOK
ICEMAN
MAGIK
MAGNETO
MAGNETO (MARVEL NOW!)
NIGHTCRAWLER
OLD MAN LOGAN
PHOENIX
PSYLOCKE
ROGUE
STORM
UNSTOPPABLE COLOSSUS
WOLVERINE
WOLVERINE (X-23)

Here's Week 3 (This one is the smallest Pool):

AGENT VENOM
CARNAGE
DOCTOR OCTOPUS
ELECTRO
GREEN GOBLIN
IRON PATRIOT
RHINO
SPIDER-GWEN
SPIDER-MAN (CLASSIC)
SPIDER-MAN (MILES MORALES)
SPIDER-MAN (STARK ENHANCED)
SPIDER-MAN (SYMBIOTE)
SYMBIOTE SUPREME
VENOM
VENOM THE DUCK
VENOMPOOL

And finally, Week 4:

BLACK WIDOW
DARKHAWK
DEADPOOL
DEADPOOL (X-FORCE)
DOMINO
ELEKTRA
GOLDPOOL
GWENPOOL
KARNAK
LUKE CAGE
MASACRE
MOON KNIGHT
NEBULA
SABRETOOTH
SENTINEL
TASKMASTER
ULTRON
ULTRON (CLASSIC)
VISION
VISION (AGE OF ULTRON)
WINTER SOLDIER
YONDU

Why is Volture not included in the list?

He has the sinister six tag.

Fred_Joeity

anyone feeling very kind and wants to make a list of champs with these tags? 😅

I can do that. Here's week 1:

AGENT VENOM
ANT-MAN
BLACK PANTHER
BLACK PANTHER (CIVIL WAR)
BLACK WIDOW
CAPTAIN AMERICA
CAPTAIN AMERICA (INFINITY WAR)
DRAX
FALCON
GAMORA
GROOT
HAWKEYE
HULK
HULK (RAGNAROK)
IRON MAN
IRON MAN (INFINITY WAR)
ROCKET RACCOON
SCARLET WITCH
STAR-LORD
THOR
THOR (RAGNAROK)
VISION
VISION (AGE OF ULTRON)

Here's week 2:

ARCHANGEL
BEAST
BISHOP
CABLE
COLOSSUS
CYCLOPS (BLUE TEAM)
CYCLOPS (NEW XAVIER SCHOOL)
DEADPOOL
DEADPOOL (X-FORCE)
DOMINO
EMMA FROST
GAMBIT
HAVOK
ICEMAN
MAGIK
MAGNETO
MAGNETO (MARVEL NOW!)
NIGHTCRAWLER
OLD MAN LOGAN
PHOENIX
PSYLOCKE
ROGUE
STORM
UNSTOPPABLE COLOSSUS
WOLVERINE
WOLVERINE (X-23)

Here's Week 3 (This one is the smallest Pool):

AGENT VENOM
CARNAGE
DOCTOR OCTOPUS
ELECTRO
GREEN GOBLIN
IRON PATRIOT
RHINO
SPIDER-GWEN
SPIDER-MAN (CLASSIC)
SPIDER-MAN (MILES MORALES)
SPIDER-MAN (STARK ENHANCED)
SPIDER-MAN (SYMBIOTE)
SYMBIOTE SUPREME
VENOM
VENOM THE DUCK
VENOMPOOL

And finally, Week 4:

BLACK WIDOW
DARKHAWK
DEADPOOL
DEADPOOL (X-FORCE)
DOMINO
ELEKTRA
GOLDPOOL
GWENPOOL
KARNAK
LUKE CAGE
MASACRE
MOON KNIGHT
NEBULA
SABRETOOTH
SENTINEL
TASKMASTER
ULTRON
ULTRON (CLASSIC)
VISION
VISION (AGE OF ULTRON)
WINTER SOLDIER
YONDU

Why is Volture not included in the list?

He has the sinister six tag.

Vulture is allowed. Kabam Miike probably just forgot

Fred_Joeity

On a side note, it looks like this week is pretty easy. All the fights are pretty straightforward, and the boss isn’t too bad. Only hard part is having a decent roster out of a smaller pool, but all the Spider-Verse champions are pretty good

Fred_Joeity

Update: Stun Immune Kingpin is a bit trickier than I expected, but it’s still mostly fine once you get used to managing his rage and sp1. Knowing how to evade his sp2 is also pretty useful, as is figuring out the timing to heavy intercept his heavy. Intercepting is also a pretty critical skill.

Cranky_Trump

Don't let him get to SP2...Dex his heavies and dodge SP1, rinse and repeat

Fred_Joeity

Don't let him get to SP2...Dex his heavies and dodge SP1, rinse and repeat

You can actually fully evade his sp2, and I don’t believe he has his sp3, so if you really wanted to, you could push him as far as needed, though the sp2 timing takes a while to get down

solmyrair

He has sp 3..

Fred_Joeity

He has sp 3..

Really? He never used it against me when I pushed him to sp3. Maybe it was a weird bug with me

V1PER1987

He has sp 3..
Really? He never used it against me when I pushed him to sp3. Maybe it was a weird bug with me

At lower difficulties they do not have their L3 unlocked.

gahrling

He has sp 3..

Then on Epic difficulty he might be bugged. I pushed him to full power twice but on activation he went straight to SP2 on both occasions.

Gamer

He has sp 3..
Then on Epic difficulty he might be bugged. I pushed him to full power twice but on activation he went straight to SP2 on both occasions.

Jep he don’t hav the node with a sp3 active

SpiderCools

Yeah fought him in epic. Thought he had sp3 but only threw his sp2

Nojokejaym

I think kingpin is messed up forgot to activate sp3

Scarlett_

He has sp 3..
Really? He never used it against me when I pushed him to sp3. Maybe it was a weird bug with me

So your saying he never left you 200 bucks hush hush money

Legendsend

This week is pretty decent for me for completion, but I can’t get past the sentinel for completion. Any tips? My only usable champs for this event are all mutants
Same bruv, all mutants, all 2/35 and 4/40s.
No domino no magik.
Any tips, anyone?
Storm and X-23 can do decent damage with shock and cruelty, Magneto help a bit too
X-23 will become pretty useless gradually as the analysis builds up.

I'm late but x23 never becomes useless...

26456857

Oh that's good 😊

Marri_2

This event is extremly difficult for people like us who've been in the game for just a year and don't have such a matured champ roster. Gwenpool goes to movies event was actually way different than this one. The Challenge was just to have a specific champion during that time, not having it maxed out to fight a 45k pi boss. Gwenpool goes to movies was by far the best event of the year and this one is simply a frustrating event. Turns people like us away from the game.

My account started on the 16th of November 2017, so slightly older than a year, and I am raging through it easily. Could have done the same a few months ago considering most of the usable champs have been same rank/level for half a year.

Look at the rewards: Not meant to be easy. I think you need some UC experience first, topped off with some AQ bossfights.

Yes, GP was different, but you couldn't earn a 5* AG there. Plus all the T2a shards, T4cc...no, difficulty is fine and players who are good enough can easily tackle this one.

Sinister and Ultron though...they were a lot tougher without the right counter.

Thunderkam444

Can someone tell me how you come up with 2200 intel for epic quest

imShakib

Guys, just read through a lot of your reply posts over my last post. Thanks a lot to all of you for sharing your views. I appreciate all your comments. I understand what most of ya'll are trying to tell me that it's just a phase and I should see it as motivation to try to stregthen my roster and try to play better. Well, I can complete master alright but I believe being in the game for just a year and the way the game is evolving (Only 5 stars and 6 stars matter, rest are waste) - the side quests should always facillitate relatively new players a faster way to evolve through 5 star shards and all. I understand that all side quests can't be compared to Gwenpool Goes to Movies and I aint doing that either but GGTM is by far the best side event quest in a year I have been with the game and as a relative new player I'd urge Kabam to have such a greatly planned quest to be available at least twice a year. That would actually motivate newer players in repect to current evolution of the game. My simple point is, if 5 star champs will be the main driver through game then Kabam should facillitate getting 5 star heroes way faster otherwise it will get frustrating and will turn away newer players. If the game evolves then rewards and way of getting those should evolve too.

xGoldeneyes12x

I'm still waiting to find out why crossbones isn't included in the mercenary category. It straight up says it in his bio, so why isn't he included? I'm about to have to take my unduped luke cage to r3 and waste my gold to get a 5* awakening gem for a champ i cant upgrade due to lack of gold from upgrading luke cage.

Patchie93

I'm still waiting to find out why crossbones isn't included in the mercenary category. It straight up says it in his bio, so why isn't he included? I'm about to have to take my unduped luke cage to r3 and waste my gold to get a 5* awakening gem for a champ i cant upgrade due to lack of gold from upgrading luke cage.

He's a Merc who works for hydra. So now he is a villain because that's what they decided in this game

Also he isn't an option because he doesn't have the mercenary tag

xGoldeneyes12x

That's what I was asking in my previous post. Regardless of whether he primarily works for hydra, his bio says he's a mercenary who sells his skills to the highest bidder, so I was wondering why he didn't have a mercenary tag. I was asking kabam whether or not this was an oversight or a deliberate decision but have yet to get a response.