More QoL Updates and Beta Features coming in v33.0!

Hey Everyone

Kabam Zero here and today I’m really excited to be able to share with you 3 QoL features and one beta feature that will be coming with the upcoming 33.0 release on November 1st. Going to start off small but they’ll keep getting better and better, so strap in and let’s get to it!

Smaller Quest Portraits

There’s often been the complaint that occasionally in certain maps, the boss portrait will block the path, making it hard to tap on. We actively try to avoid putting this type of layout in newer quests but there are still quests that have this issue. To help address this we’ve now resized the portraits to be slightly shorter which should allow you to tap behind it easier.

Boost Menu Popup Improvements

Boosts are incredibly helpful for tackling tough content but the current way we present boosts to summoners can sometimes make it a cumbersome process. This is especially true in the case of those who have acquired a vast amount of different boosts. To help make this flow better we have split up all the boosts into 4 different tabs with the following logic.

Common, All standard Attack, Health, Champion, and XP boosts
War, All Boosts specifically restricted to Alliance War
Class, Any boost that has a Class restriction
Other, Any boost not in the above 3 categories

The resulting screen will look like this.

If you have no boosts in a particular category and none of them can be purchased, then the tab will be hidden.
Another note is that we’ve removed the Loyalty Tab here, but all of those boosts are still purchasable in the Store.

Skip SP3 Animation Button

Special Attack 3 animations are one of the most amazing parts of MCOC. The artists here work really hard on them, and it shows when you see them. As awesome as they are, after the 1000th time seeing Hyperion throw your opponent into the sky, the charm does wear off a bit. In these cases, we’d like to just get on with the fight and the SP3 Animation can drag the fight on longer than it should. To this end, we’ve now added an option in the settings menu to show the Skip SP3 button.

When enabled, shortly after an SP3 is launched the button will show up allowing you to skip it.

The only restriction will be in timed fights, where we are currently disabling it until we determine the effect on game balance.

Beta Feature - Fight Summary Overhaul

Continuing with one of our goals of improving players’ knowledge and comprehension of the core fight spine of the game we took aim at the Fight Summary screen. Currently, when you lose a fight it looks like this.

This doesn’t tell summoners what killed them or guide them in any way on how to improve. To fix this we set out to completely redesign the screen into something more like this.

Since there’s a lot of new things I will break it down part by part starting from the top.

Health Bars and Character Portraits

In this section, we’ve added the health bar so you’ll be able to see how the health of both fighters was at the end. In addition, you can tap the hero portrait of either champion to open their respective detailed abilities popup. This means you can dig into their abilities without leaving the screen.
Top Damage Sources

In this section you’ll see the top 3 damage sources each champion received while in the fight. As we can see Human Torch does a lot of incinerate damage, with some basic hits and special damage thrown in.

Clicking on any of the damage sources will open a tooltip explaining the damage, like so

Finishing Blows

This section shows the damage received by the KO’d champion in the last 10 seconds of the fight with a max entry amount of 5. It will be in order of occurrence, so those on the top will be the most recent damage received. The goal here is to take a snapshot of the last moments of the fight.

It is also really cool when you win because you get to see the last burst of damage that finished off your opponent. On a slightly technical note, it will group together all damage of a specific type done in the 10 second period and show it in one entry. For example, the incinerate damage was likely done across the entire 10 seconds period with the other types of damage but one of its ticks of damage was the last to happen and thus it shows up top.
Stats

We’ve kept Successful Hits, Hits Received, and Highest Combo, removed Successful Combos as it wasn’t that useful, and then added two new stats. “Biggest Hit” tracks the biggest single tick of damage that you did to the opponent. Fight Duration shows just how long the fight took. It’s a pretty simple addition but these new stats should hopefully give better context on how well you did.
Bottom Buttons

Due to the more interactive nature of the Fight Summary, there will always be a button that needs to be tapped in order to continue from the screen. In the Standard quest fight, it will just be a continue button. For duels and Practice fights, we’ve added a replay button to allow you to instantly redo the fights.
Other Panels
There will be additional panels handling Rewards, PVP, and Alliance based content but they are mostly self-explanatory so won’t go into detail for them here.

Why is this a Beta Feature and what does that mean?
We have decided to make this a beta feature which means you’ll have to opt-in to it on the settings screen with the following toggle. If this isn’t ticked you will still go through the same flow as before this change.

The reason why we decided on doing this as a beta is that the scope of this feature is massive.

Many of our damage types were never built to be displayable and thus when it’s tracked as doing damage, they are often missing a name or icon or tooltip description that will be needed to properly display on this screen. In addition to this, we don’t just want to stop here, there are potentially many more visual passes and additional information that we’ll want to add but we want to get player feedback on it before going in any particular direction.

Releasing this as a beta allows us to gather feedback and also track whenever we have one of these unhandled damage types. Whenever there is an unhandled damage type found by any player we track that information automatically and generate a report of all the missing data. This allows us to identify and fix the issues faster. This means that by playing the beta and coming across any of the following

You have now helped us identify a damage type for us to fix. You won’t need to write up a report or file a bug as it is all done automatically.

Lastly, we don’t want to subject any of our players to an unfinished experience and thus we have made this opt-in. At the same time, we do believe it will present many Summoners a better experience and hope you decide to opt-in when it comes out on November 1st. There will be a separate forum post to gather feedback on the new Fight Summary Screen when it comes out, so once you get your hands on it please let us know what you think there.

That’s all for now. Thanks for taking the time to read and I hope you enjoy all these new features. Let me know which of the above features you’re most excited about as I'm eager to hear what you think.

Cheers
KabamZero

Comments

Keonex

is the NEW super BRIGHT glare from earning shiny gold after winning a fight an IMPROVEMENT qol change cuz i feel its making me blind lol
it sucks if a new game feature thats so annoying it triggers migraines and would make me stop playing by force

LEGIONER

Your new functions do not work, errors are given out in the arena after the battle, some players are given 2000 game currencies for the deadpool crystals , while others do not have 500, what happens?

Carlyle

Dear Kabam,

so far I know none of my friends can see the possibility of turning Sp3 animations. Both Apple and Android users. I can not see it too. What is the problem?

Shadowstrike

Dear Kabam,

so far I know none of my friends can see the possibility of turning Sp3 animations. Both Apple and Android users. I can not see it too. What is the problem?

They deactivated skip SP3 due to a visual bug.

ricobl

I just fought with Prof X and it showed around 90-something% special damage even though I haven't thrown any special. It's misleading, it would be better categorised as energy damage (as opposed to physical damage).

ricobl

I just fought with Prof X and it showed around 90-something% special damage even though I haven't thrown any special. It's misleading, it would be better categorised as energy damage (as opposed to physical damage).

Actually, I might have been looking at the wrong column and thinking about damage caused and not damage taken.

Kabam Zero

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious Enabling the BETA OPT IN option screws up AQ fights. As soon as we hit fight the match will end. This happens as many time as you try to fight in AQ until you turn off BETA OPT IN option.

Video URL : https://youtu.be/uNNpZJ6w7sI

Thanks so much for this video. I'm currently looking into the issue and this helps a lot.

Kabam Zero

@Kabam Zero I really like the stats feature after the fights but I have currently turned this feature off for 1 reason only. It really slows down the arena grind. I hope that when this feature is put permanently in the game that we have the option to activate it for specific modes. When turned off w/ this update, transitioning into fight 1, from 1 to 2, and 2 to 3, the load times really fly and are an incredible enhancement. But when I activate this beta feature, the transition and load times between fights are noticeably slower. I'm not as interested in my arena fight stats, I want the whole process to go as quickly as possible. In my mind, these stats are more useful for AQ, AW, and questing. I hope we can select which modes we see if for. Thanks for your consideration. 👍🏼

I have heard similar feedback elsewhere on this on so looking for solutions. Ideally, the solution is just to make it quicker/skippable. When I was a new user arena was one of the best ways to get exposure to new champs and their abilities so I don't want to take that completely away from them. On the flip side, I totally get the arena grinders goal of getting the most champs through fights as fast as possible so if you have ideas on that, would love to hear it.

Fit_Fun9329

@Kabam Zero I really like the stats feature after the fights but I have currently turned this feature off for 1 reason only. It really slows down the arena grind. I hope that when this feature is put permanently in the game that we have the option to activate it for specific modes. When turned off w/ this update, transitioning into fight 1, from 1 to 2, and 2 to 3, the load times really fly and are an incredible enhancement. But when I activate this beta feature, the transition and load times between fights are noticeably slower. I'm not as interested in my arena fight stats, I want the whole process to go as quickly as possible. In my mind, these stats are more useful for AQ, AW, and questing. I hope we can select which modes we see if for. Thanks for your consideration. 👍🏼
I have heard similar feedback elsewhere on this on so looking for solutions. Ideally, the solution is just to make it quicker/skippable. When I was a new user arena was one of the best ways to get exposure to new champs and their abilities so I don't want to take that completely away from them. On the flip side, I totally get the arena grinders goal of getting the most champs through fights as fast as possible so if you have ideas on that, would love to hear it.

What about an additional Option in settings for arena? Maybe the system can somehow differentiate between arena and the rest of the game? Hmm difficult

mostlyharmlessn

@Kabam ZeroOn the flip side, I totally get the arena grinders goal of getting the most champs through fights as fast as possible so if you have ideas on that, would love to hear it.

How about in Arena's after the KO pops up you can tap and skip to the next figtht/round screen?

Crine60

@Kabam Zero I really like the stats feature after the fights but I have currently turned this feature off for 1 reason only. It really slows down the arena grind. I hope that when this feature is put permanently in the game that we have the option to activate it for specific modes. When turned off w/ this update, transitioning into fight 1, from 1 to 2, and 2 to 3, the load times really fly and are an incredible enhancement. But when I activate this beta feature, the transition and load times between fights are noticeably slower. I'm not as interested in my arena fight stats, I want the whole process to go as quickly as possible. In my mind, these stats are more useful for AQ, AW, and questing. I hope we can select which modes we see if for. Thanks for your consideration. 👍🏼
I have heard similar feedback elsewhere on this on so looking for solutions. Ideally, the solution is just to make it quicker/skippable. When I was a new user arena was one of the best ways to get exposure to new champs and their abilities so I don't want to take that completely away from them. On the flip side, I totally get the arena grinders goal of getting the most champs through fights as fast as possible so if you have ideas on that, would love to hear it.

Can you respond to some of our requests to change the fading power bar and special button to just fade the special button and leave the power bar visible for us at all times? I know on my device the bar is almost invisible when this happens and I need to be able to see the bar at all times to decide what attack/special to use next but also to be able to see it quickly so I can get my eyes back to the fight. If I have to spend extra time trying to discern the faint power bar I can get hit or miss taking an action I need to.

Kabam Zero

@Kabam Zero I really like the stats feature after the fights but I have currently turned this feature off for 1 reason only. It really slows down the arena grind. I hope that when this feature is put permanently in the game that we have the option to activate it for specific modes. When turned off w/ this update, transitioning into fight 1, from 1 to 2, and 2 to 3, the load times really fly and are an incredible enhancement. But when I activate this beta feature, the transition and load times between fights are noticeably slower. I'm not as interested in my arena fight stats, I want the whole process to go as quickly as possible. In my mind, these stats are more useful for AQ, AW, and questing. I hope we can select which modes we see if for. Thanks for your consideration. 👍🏼
I have heard similar feedback elsewhere on this on so looking for solutions. Ideally, the solution is just to make it quicker/skippable. When I was a new user arena was one of the best ways to get exposure to new champs and their abilities so I don't want to take that completely away from them. On the flip side, I totally get the arena grinders goal of getting the most champs through fights as fast as possible so if you have ideas on that, would love to hear it.
Can you respond to some of our requests to change the fading power bar and special button to just fade the special button and leave the power bar visible for us at all times? I know on my device the bar is almost invisible when this happens and I need to be able to see the bar at all times to decide what attack/special to use next but also to be able to see it quickly so I can get my eyes back to the fight. If I have to spend extra time trying to discern the faint power bar I can get hit or miss taking an action I need to.

My team wasn't in charge of the change but I can forward your feedback to them.

Crine60

@Kabam Zero I really like the stats feature after the fights but I have currently turned this feature off for 1 reason only. It really slows down the arena grind. I hope that when this feature is put permanently in the game that we have the option to activate it for specific modes. When turned off w/ this update, transitioning into fight 1, from 1 to 2, and 2 to 3, the load times really fly and are an incredible enhancement. But when I activate this beta feature, the transition and load times between fights are noticeably slower. I'm not as interested in my arena fight stats, I want the whole process to go as quickly as possible. In my mind, these stats are more useful for AQ, AW, and questing. I hope we can select which modes we see if for. Thanks for your consideration. 👍🏼
I have heard similar feedback elsewhere on this on so looking for solutions. Ideally, the solution is just to make it quicker/skippable. When I was a new user arena was one of the best ways to get exposure to new champs and their abilities so I don't want to take that completely away from them. On the flip side, I totally get the arena grinders goal of getting the most champs through fights as fast as possible so if you have ideas on that, would love to hear it.
Can you respond to some of our requests to change the fading power bar and special button to just fade the special button and leave the power bar visible for us at all times? I know on my device the bar is almost invisible when this happens and I need to be able to see the bar at all times to decide what attack/special to use next but also to be able to see it quickly so I can get my eyes back to the fight. If I have to spend extra time trying to discern the faint power bar I can get hit or miss taking an action I need to.
My team wasn't in charge of the change but I can forward your feedback to them.

Thanks. Can you also let us know, or ask them to let us know, if the fading is the bug fix mentioned in the update notes for the special button causing block sometimes because that issue hasn't stopped for me with that change since it wasn't an issue of trying to use a special when the enemy was but it blocking sometimes when I try to activate special after my combo or when intercepting the enemy?

Gamer

@Kabam Zero I really like the stats feature after the fights but I have currently turned this feature off for 1 reason only. It really slows down the arena grind. I hope that when this feature is put permanently in the game that we have the option to activate it for specific modes. When turned off w/ this update, transitioning into fight 1, from 1 to 2, and 2 to 3, the load times really fly and are an incredible enhancement. But when I activate this beta feature, the transition and load times between fights are noticeably slower. I'm not as interested in my arena fight stats, I want the whole process to go as quickly as possible. In my mind, these stats are more useful for AQ, AW, and questing. I hope we can select which modes we see if for. Thanks for your consideration. 👍🏼
I have heard similar feedback elsewhere on this on so looking for solutions. Ideally, the solution is just to make it quicker/skippable. When I was a new user arena was one of the best ways to get exposure to new champs and their abilities so I don't want to take that completely away from them. On the flip side, I totally get the arena grinders goal of getting the most champs through fights as fast as possible so if you have ideas on that, would love to hear it.

Mabye disable it in arena all together if that’s a possibility because ideally you like to just move to the next fight I’m really like it in offer game mode but aren’t arena I’m trying to be arena grinding this change make me realize why isn’t fun. Another ide is as your saying let us skip it with click atm only way to click is one continue no offer way and I’m having 110 6 star giv op one arena

WadeWatts

When is back issue 8 available?

ricobl

I've found some issues with arenas. Hitting continue after losing a fight took me back to the active daily quest.

And I've seen this screen after every third arena win:

No crashes or data loss though.

Kabam Zero

I've found some issues with arenas. Hitting continue after losing a fight took me back to the active daily quest.

And I've seen this screen after every third arena win:

No crashes or data loss though.

Known issue but thanks for bringing it up. Will be fixed in the next release.

Kabam Miike

@Kabam Zero I really like the stats feature after the fights but I have currently turned this feature off for 1 reason only. It really slows down the arena grind. I hope that when this feature is put permanently in the game that we have the option to activate it for specific modes. When turned off w/ this update, transitioning into fight 1, from 1 to 2, and 2 to 3, the load times really fly and are an incredible enhancement. But when I activate this beta feature, the transition and load times between fights are noticeably slower. I'm not as interested in my arena fight stats, I want the whole process to go as quickly as possible. In my mind, these stats are more useful for AQ, AW, and questing. I hope we can select which modes we see if for. Thanks for your consideration. 👍🏼
I have heard similar feedback elsewhere on this on so looking for solutions. Ideally, the solution is just to make it quicker/skippable. When I was a new user arena was one of the best ways to get exposure to new champs and their abilities so I don't want to take that completely away from them. On the flip side, I totally get the arena grinders goal of getting the most champs through fights as fast as possible so if you have ideas on that, would love to hear it.
Can you respond to some of our requests to change the fading power bar and special button to just fade the special button and leave the power bar visible for us at all times? I know on my device the bar is almost invisible when this happens and I need to be able to see the bar at all times to decide what attack/special to use next but also to be able to see it quickly so I can get my eyes back to the fight. If I have to spend extra time trying to discern the faint power bar I can get hit or miss taking an action I need to.
My team wasn't in charge of the change but I can forward your feedback to them.
Thanks. Can you also let us know, or ask them to let us know, if the fading is the bug fix mentioned in the update notes for the special button causing block sometimes because that issue hasn't stopped for me with that change since it wasn't an issue of trying to use a special when the enemy was but it blocking sometimes when I try to activate special after my combo or when intercepting the enemy?

This is not the fix for the issue where you can't throw a Special and Block instead. That is still an issue and we are continuing to work on it, as it is kind of tied to other control issues in-game at the moment. However, it is to help differentiate between when you could and could not throw a special to begin with, which is meant to teach newer players when a Special Attack is available to them.

becauseicant

A solution could be to have an option in the settings menu for "Post-fight Quick Skip" which would include the following:
1. The animation of rewards being displayed before the stats screen would be skipped and it would go immediately into the stats screen (which includes the rewards on the bottom)
2. The post fight screen can be cleared by tapping anywhere on the screen instead of just by clicking the middle button
3. The stat screen wouldn't show up in Arena fights at all

This option would be off by default so newer players would get the full experience of being shown the stats and veterans who are used to the game flow can continue at a faster pace while still being able to see the stats if desired.

2StarKing

The shiny gold that appears after each fight is driving me crazy. It is cool once in a while. The way I play I see it like every 30 seconds. Not fun to burn my retinas. Seriously this is like looking at the sun!

A better solution is a sublet backlight of the gold to create mostly transparent outline of the gold that fades away.

Kabam Zero

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious Enabling the BETA OPT IN option screws up AQ fights. As soon as we hit fight the match will end. This happens as many time as you try to fight in AQ until you turn off BETA OPT IN option.

Video URL : https://youtu.be/uNNpZJ6w7sI
Thanks so much for this video. I'm currently looking into the issue and this helps a lot.

To follow up on this issue. The cause of this issue is if you die with the Beta opt-in in a quest with multiple people in it (AvE, AvA, Incursions) the fight summary will return you to the prefight screen when it shouldn't be(The typical flow in these modes returns you to the questboard). This means that if you re-enter the fight, it causes a server error and tries to boot you back out. While this appears as a timeout in-game it doesn't actually penalize you(no health loss) as this is the way the game goes about handling this error. If you press back on the prefight after losing it will bring you to the home screen(not sure why it's the home screen, it just is) you can then re-enter the quest and it will work as expected. We will be fixing this in upcoming releases.

SunilDarur

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious Enabling the BETA OPT IN option screws up AQ fights. As soon as we hit fight the match will end. This happens as many time as you try to fight in AQ until you turn off BETA OPT IN option.

Video URL : https://youtu.be/uNNpZJ6w7sI
Thanks so much for this video. I'm currently looking into the issue and this helps a lot.
To follow up on this issue. The cause of this issue is if you die with the Beta opt-in in a quest with multiple people in it (AvE, AvA, Incursions) the fight summary will return you to the prefight screen when it shouldn't be(The typical flow in these modes returns you to the questboard). This means that if you re-enter the fight, it causes a server error and tries to boot you back out. While this appears as a timeout in-game it doesn't actually penalize you(no health loss) as this is the way the game goes about handling this error. If you press back on the prefight after losing it will bring you to the home screen(not sure why it's the home screen, it just is) you can then re-enter the quest and it will work as expected. We will be fixing this in upcoming releases.

Thanks for taking this issue in to consideration and providing update @Kabam Zero.

Stellar

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Vydious Enabling the BETA OPT IN option screws up AQ fights. As soon as we hit fight the match will end. This happens as many time as you try to fight in AQ until you turn off BETA OPT IN option.

Video URL : https://youtu.be/uNNpZJ6w7sI
Thanks so much for this video. I'm currently looking into the issue and this helps a lot.
To follow up on this issue. The cause of this issue is if you die with the Beta opt-in in a quest with multiple people in it (AvE, AvA, Incursions) the fight summary will return you to the prefight screen when it shouldn't be(The typical flow in these modes returns you to the questboard). This means that if you re-enter the fight, it causes a server error and tries to boot you back out. While this appears as a timeout in-game it doesn't actually penalize you(no health loss) as this is the way the game goes about handling this error. If you press back on the prefight after losing it will bring you to the home screen(not sure why it's the home screen, it just is) you can then re-enter the quest and it will work as expected. We will be fixing this in upcoming releases.

I had to disable the beta today. here are the reasons:

- in arena when you loose a fight you are bring back to the start screen or even inside the quest you started some times ago.
- in AQ, lost a fight and after revives i was unable to re-enter the fight. each time i pressed the fight button i had a time out screen (3 times). no life loss but still unable to enter the fight without disabling the beta.

Will leave the beta disable for the season to avoid any problem of that kind

SpagNidus

I have heard similar feedback elsewhere on this on so looking for solutions. Ideally, the solution is just to make it quicker/skippable. When I was a new user arena was one of the best ways to get exposure to new champs and their abilities so I don't want to take that completely away from them. On the flip side, I totally get the arena grinders goal of getting the most champs through fights as fast as possible so if you have ideas on that, would love to hear it.

A huge difference would be to kill the fade in transitions.this just adds time to the already long 2 part screen.just splash the data up and make it one tap instead of: animation, tap, animation, continue tap. The buttons and data "appearing" like a PowerPoint slows us way down.

Carmel1

Talking about QOL updates, please make smaller maps or allow to zoom out a bit more. It’s annoying to zoom out to the maximum allowed and still have to scroll left/right/up/down A LOT to view the paths, especially when there are many portals.

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Ash21_akki

Pink Cyclops

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Colonaut123

I really tried @Kabam Zero, but after a couple of fights I had to turn the beta off. This whole analysis thing is great if you want to know it, but in a lot of fights I don't care. Computing the stats just takes more time and adds little benefit to my playing experience. When this is live, can I shut it off?

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AverageDesi

The biggest issue with this is time. It's okay if every fight has it. But the transition from this to the next screen should take the same time and previous if I tap rapidly like usual