Fight Randomized Opponents and Buffs in Sinister Labs!

Summoners!

Mister Sinister is continuing his work with genetic modification, and has begun performing experiments on the Champions of the Contest in an attempt to enhance their abilities and further his research!

Log in daily to take on the Sinister Labs Event Quest, and receive items from the Sinister Labs Event Login Calendar including Randomizers and brand new “Sense Boosts” to enhance your own Champions' Abilities (only usable in the Sinister Labs),

Special Solo Objectives are also available this month, and will target the use of Mutant Champions in unique and challenging ways to earn additional Sense Boosts, Randomizers and Gold!

What are Sinister Labs?

Sinister Labs are short quests that consist of 2 paths, each with 6 fights on them. Sounds straightforward? Not exactly… Mr Sinister’s Experimentation has left these encounters unpredictable!

All Fights in these quests will feature a number of Randomized Buffs! Some of these Buffs are more potent on certain Champions, and some may even benefit the Summoner, but don’t be fooled into thinking you can start the fight without reading what you’ll be up against!

Really don’t like the Buffs you’re encountering? You can use a Randomizer to reset them, but that doesn’t guarantee that all of them will be different, or any easier!

This quest uses Entry Limits, meaning Summoners can only enter a 10 times each day across all Difficulties. There are 4 difficulties that can be done daily, each with 2 paths. There is no point in doing any difficulty of the Quest more than twice. You will only receive Completion and Exploration rewards once.

Heighten your Senses!

For the first time ever, we’re adding a new dimension to Lab quests, Senses! Senses are mode specific Boosts that can only be used in Sinister Labs. You can only activate these Boosts from the Quest Map Screen. There are 6 Boosts that Summoners may activate:

Sense: Tactile - When inflicted with any Shock, Coldsnap, Poison or Bleed effect, your Champion builds immunity to the effect over 9 seconds. This time is reduced to 3 seconds while playing as a Mutant.

Sense: Auditory - Incoming Special Attacks have a 20% chance to trigger an Evasion Passive, granting a 100% chance to Evade all incoming attacks for the duration of the Special Attack. The chance to trigger this Passive is increased to 50% while playing as a Mutant.

Sense: Olfactory - All attacks have a 20% chance to deal True Damage, ignoring all of the Opponent's Armor. This chance increases to 50% while playing as a Mutant.

Sense: Visual - While playing as a Mutant, attacks cannot Miss.

Sense: Gustatory - When the Opponent is inflicted with a damaging Debuff, your Champion gains a Regeneration Buff, granting 5% of their missing health over 4 seconds.

Sense: Rage - When playing as a Mutant, while at or below 20% max health, gain a Fury Passive granting 300% increased Base Attack.

Rewards:

Starting Soon!

Sinister Labs will be available on August 7th at 10am PDT, and runs until September 4th! You must update to the newest version of the game before being able to participate.

All information subject to change prior to release.

Comments

DNA3000

So you think someone's feedback should be judged based on where they're at in the game?

Well, to be candid, I do. This cuts in all directions. Someone who just started yesterday can have an opinion of the endgame, but I wouldn't give it much credibility. Conversely someone who's been at or near the end game for years may have no idea what the current leveling situation is today, because they have no experience with the leveling game in its current state.

If you think the difficulty is too high for you, the best person to judge that is you. I assign that opinion a lot of credibility. Does that mean the difficulty is too high for the game overall? I probably wouldn't extrapolate someone's opinion in that way that didn't have a lot of experience with high level difficulty in general. Only two kinds of people can have a really well-informed opinion of the state of high tier difficulty: someone with a lot of direct experience, and someone with an extremely well-developed design intuition. And the forums statistically speaking probably have more posters that are Publishers Clearing House contest winners than are expert game designers.

Rougeknight87

I’d still like to know what the thought process is in having rewards regress when the game has never been more advanced.
The difficulty hasn’t really worried me personally but unless the devs have intended the reward to be fun, interactive and challenging content more so then resources to help roster advancement I’m struggling to grasp their difficulty to reward ratio.

TheTalents

I’d still like to know what the thought process is in having rewards regress when the game has never been more advanced.
The difficulty hasn’t really worried me personally but unless the devs have intended the reward to be fun, interactive and difficult content more so then resources to help roster advancement I’m struggling to grasp their difficulty to reward ratio.

In this particular case I think Kabam was out of touch. They don't realize the impact that map 7 and updated map 6 crystals have had on the game. So they think that they can have basically the same rewards from the previous iteration and just add a little t5 basic and 6 star shards and we'll be happy. The sig stones being taken away was a business decision because its a huge add in revenue right now. Plus we know they don't test things so they probably didn't realize the significant increase in difficulty.

Nojokejaym

My sinister lab didn’t restart

Kobster84

The regeneration boost for mutants doesn’t work it’s meant to be 5% health only gives 1% and for some reason there’s a cooldown even though it’s not stated

TheTalents

I agree as well. The end game is a whole other level to what I would consider a casual player. So experience matters when talking about difficulty vs rewards really matter for specific game modes. Look at what Brian Grant has to do to keep up as a free to play player. He doesn't even want to spend units on act 6.2.6 because he needs them for sig stones and in game unit offers to keep up.

CoatHang3r

Look at what Brian Grant has to do to keep up as a free to play player. He doesn't even want to spend units on act 6.2.6 because he needs them for sig stones and in game unit offers to keep up.

Thanks for the laughs. 🤣🤣😂🤣

Lvernon15

I agree as well. The end game is a whole other level to what I would consider a casual player. So experience matters when talking about difficulty vs rewards really matter for specific game modes. Look at what Brian Grant has to do to keep up as a free to play player. He doesn't even want to spend units on act 6.2.6 because he needs them for sig stones and in game unit offers to keep up.

Bg is doing it itemless because that’s what he enjoys I believe, but I definitely agree that the endgame is completely different to your ‘casual’ player who is maybe trying to do act 5

allinashes

With the labs still not fixed, it's getting to a point where I may have to skip today. They take a bit of a time commitment and I usually do them in the morning/afternoon on my breaks/lunch. C'mon Kabam I got a life to attend to on Friday nite.

Lvernon15

With the labs still not fixed, it's getting to a point where I may have to skip today. They take a bit of a time commitment and I usually do them in the morning/afternoon on my breaks/lunch. C'mon Kabam I got a life to attend to on Friday nite.

They should give compensation for the rewards of today (hopefully)

DNA3000

I agree as well. The end game is a whole other level to what I would consider a casual player. So experience matters when talking about difficulty vs rewards really matter for specific game modes. Look at what Brian Grant has to do to keep up as a free to play player. He doesn't even want to spend units on act 6.2.6 because he needs them for sig stones and in game unit offers to keep up.

Brian is doing 6.2 itemless because he likes challenges and he operates a Youtube channel that doesn't do a ton of crystal openings so he also needs to do interesting things for his viewers. Itemless runs are basically crazy Brian being crazy Brian on camera.

He does have to do a lot of efficient gameplay to "keep up" but honestly I think that kind of resource juggling is also something he wants from the game: forcing him to make consequential choices regarding his own game progress.

DNA3000

I agree as well. The end game is a whole other level to what I would consider a casual player. So experience matters when talking about difficulty vs rewards really matter for specific game modes. Look at what Brian Grant has to do to keep up as a free to play player. He doesn't even want to spend units on act 6.2.6 because he needs them for sig stones and in game unit offers to keep up.
Bg is doing it itemless because that’s what he enjoys I believe, but I definitely agree that the endgame is completely different to your ‘casual’ player who is maybe trying to do act 5

I think the biggest difference between the end game and the mid game that I think even many end game players don't fully appreciate is that in the mid game there's always supposed to be an avenue for you to progress through the content. It might not be as fast as you want it to be and it may have requirements you don't want to acknowledge, but it is there.

There's no such requirement in the end game. They can make content like LoL that they don't presume anyone necessarily can complete in any reasonable amount of time or with any reasonable expense when it is first released. Or things like the Maze that seem ridiculous to most players. Sometimes the end game content is hard but doable, and sometimes it just isn't doable by even most end game players and they are waiting for someone to climb far enough up the ladder to eventually bring it down, but it doesn't have to be today.

When someone says they did everything up to now and now they are stuck and that's wrong, that's an end game player that doesn't understand the end game.

I've seen it said many times that the biggest challenge college (American) football players face when they get drafted by the NFL is that by definition they've been among the best of the best of the best all their life in football, and almost all of them discover that for the first time in their life they are only average, because they are now surrounded by the best of the best of the best of the best. You have to be one of the best of the best in this game to reach the end game, but when you get there you may discover you're a below average end game player and you have to fight your way just to reach average. Many players of both games can't accept that.

GroundedWisdom

So you think someone's feedback should be judged based on where they're at in the game?
Well, to be candid, I do. This cuts in all directions. Someone who just started yesterday can have an opinion of the endgame, but I wouldn't give it much credibility. Conversely someone who's been at or near the end game for years may have no idea what the current leveling situation is today, because they have no experience with the leveling game in its current state.

If you think the difficulty is too high for you, the best person to judge that is you. I assign that opinion a lot of credibility. Does that mean the difficulty is too high for the game overall? I probably wouldn't extrapolate someone's opinion in that way that didn't have a lot of experience with high level difficulty in general. Only two kinds of people can have a really well-informed opinion of the state of high tier difficulty: someone with a lot of direct experience, and someone with an extremely well-developed design intuition. And the forums statistically speaking probably have more posters that are Publishers Clearing House contest winners than are expert game designers.

The whole conversation began when someone said something along the lines of, "You know it's bad when GW has a problem with it.". Now, I get the tongue-in-cheek humor of that, but it was followed up with "He's not End-Game.". Only we're not talking about End-Game content. We're talking about Labs. If it's to be End-Game at the Epic level, that needs to be consistent so that people know that's what it is. Instead, which is what I spoke up agaisnt, we have a moving goal post. That's the consistency I'm referring to. When you have Epic that's a reasonable level of difficulty most months and you increase it to 12 UC Bosses with random Nodes the next, that creates an unstable environment for people to grow in. People make the arguments you can do lower ones, but that's really obvious. The point is, this is an added Special Quest, and people do these consistently over months. Which means they come to depend on knowing what is within their reach. If you jack it up within a month's variation, that excludes a large number of people who have been doing it all along. 30k Champs with these Nodes is overkill for the level that we know to be Epic. Therein lies the argument. We're not talking about End-Game content. We're talking about content that encompasses a number of Players. When you change the status quo from month to month, to add something for people who are for all intents and purposes in the minority at the top, you do so at the expense of other people growing into it. Overall, it's overdone. I've said countless times. If you're going to have Levels of Difficulty, there needs to be a relative consistency with them. Jacking them up on a whim is not only confusing, it affects the progress of people who are growing and depending on them. Bottom line is, pick a goal post.

Frivolousz21

Why don't you guys private message each other Jesus.

Fact that the labs are busted and I can't literally fix linen a couple keystrokes the set it so that they reset every 24 hours it's unbelievable...

I used to spend on this game.

Like 50-100$ a month.

I've spent 15$ since last Christmas

And I barely you can play anymore and 99% of that is because of stuff like this.

In the name of Earl of lemongrab....

UNACCEPTABLE

GroundedWisdom

They're adding another day of them.

X_Scott

I thought I was just way ahead of myself

themiki

These Buff Randomizers need to last the length of the event. I finished all the special objectives, now I worry I won’t have much of them in the end.

Duo_Kulio

Why you claim rewards?

phillgreen

Are they fixed yet or have I blown another day?

MrTicTac19992008

Still not fixed for me. 5 hours until they reset.

theMercenary

Ok still not working. 4 hours left. What you guys plan to do? Compensation or what? It should’ve been ended already.

winterthur

Do I have to run it still to be counted in or can I just leave it?

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themiki

Why you claim rewards?

Before you needed to claim the reward before starting the next one. I didn’t know they fixed that until it was too late.

GroundedWisdom

They're adding another day of them.
Was this stated by a mod? This is the first I've seen this said

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/153345/sinister-labs-did-not-reset-merged-threads/p3

Silver_Saga

If it's to be End-Game at the Epic level, that needs to be consistent so that people know that's what it is. Instead, which is what I spoke up agaisnt, we have a moving goal post. That's the consistency I'm referring to. When you have Epic that's a reasonable level of difficulty most months and you increase it to 12 UC Bosses with random Nodes the next, that creates an unstable environment for people to grow in. People make the arguments you can do lower ones, but that's really obvious. The point is, this is an added Special Quest, and people do these consistently over months. Which means they come to depend on knowing what is within their reach. If you jack it up within a month's variation, that excludes a large number of people who have been doing it all along.

Quoted for truth.

Started playing in september 2018, been doing master EQ 100% for the past 6 months or so, became uncollected last week with only 4 or 5 revives and no units spent, same with RoL last monday, even started the uncollected EQ and it's going along fine so far. I know I'm nowhere near the endgame content most of you are discussing here but I can hold my own. And yet I couldn't even do 100% of the Master Lab today because of BS nodes on BS champions like Korg or Thing (reroling and even exiting didn't help and gave even more BS... I could have with a revive but didn't want to). Go figure what this is supposed to be and where it lands in mid-tiers players progression but from my point of view, it makes no sense, sorry. And that point of view was born in the disappointment in something that looked so fun after the initial announcement but turned up to be very far from it.

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GroundedWisdom

They're adding another day of them.
Was this stated by a mod? This is the first I've seen this said
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/153345/sinister-labs-did-not-reset-merged-threads/p3
Thanks didn't see that prior

All good.

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