Training Montage Community Challenge 2024

MPQBlaine
MPQBlaine ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 189 Tile Toppler
edited 22 February 2024, 19:30 in MPQ General Discussion

Every Super Hero needs a good old-fashioned training montage to become truly great. We decided the time has come for you to start your own leveling adventure with an all-new Community Challenge!

Progress Dashboard
https://mpq.social/tmcc

Training Montage Challenge:

Earn 10 Million Montage points by training your heroes! Points can be earned by executing any of the following actions:

  • Leveling UP
  • Adding Covers
  • Championing
  • Max Championing
  • Ascending

Duration:

  • February 22 at 12am PST - March 6 at 11:59pm PST

In-Game Boosts:

  • Double ISO during the challenge.
  • increased opportunities to recruit 2* Nightcrawler.
  • Chain Event Quests rewarding ISO.

Rewards:

Tier 1: 1M Points Earned

  • 10,000 Iso-8
  • 5000 Red Iso-8
  • 3 Star: Magneto (Classic) Yellow, Red, Blue cover
  • Rank 1: Stepford Cuckoos Support

Tier 2: 2M Points Earned

  • 10,000 Iso-8
  • 5000 Red Iso-8
  • 3 Star: Emma Frost (New X-Men) Yellow, Blue, Purple cover
  • Rank 1: Lockheed Support

Tier 3: 4.5M Points Earned

  • 10,000 Iso-8
  • 5000 Red Iso-8
  • 4 Star: Cyclops (Classic) Yellow Cover
  • Rank 2: Krakoa Support

Tier 4: 7M Points Earned

  • 10,000 Iso-8
  • 5000 Red Iso-8
  • 4 Star: Nightcrawler (Classic) Purple cover
  • 200 Shards 5 Star: Storm (Ororo Munroe)
  • Rank 2: Hellfire Club Support

Tier 5: 10M Points Earned

  • 50,000 Iso-8
  • 25000 Red Iso-8
  • 200 Shards 5 Star: Professor X (Classic)
  • Rank 4: The Blackbird (X-Jet)

Race to 100

With the return of 2-Stars, we wanted to provide a small side challenge for our more experienced players to take part in. Get ready to head off to the races to see who can introduce Nightcrawler (Uncanny Spider-Man) to our Champs 2.0 feature the fastest!

*Separate from the main Training Montage Community Challenge, but still contributing points to the wider challenge.

Challenge:

Ascend the new 2-Star Nightcrawler (Uncanny Spider-Man) to 5-Star status!

Duration:

  • February 22 at 12am PST - March 6 at 11:59pm PST

Rewards:

The first 100 players to complete their Training Montage with Nightcrawler will earn the following:

  • Rank 3: Reality Stone
  • Ascended 2 Star: Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men) -> 4*
  • 100,000 Iso-8
  • 50,000 Red Iso-8

FAQs:

Nightcrawler Questions:

1. Did Nightcrawler (Uncanny Spider-Man) 2* replace the normal 4* release coming on Feb 22nd?
Yes. Our main release cadence will still be every two weeks with the regular rotation of 4-Stars followed by 3/5-Star characters but will feature a 2-Star release in lieu of a 4-Star periodically. We currently don’t have plans to consistently release 2-Star characters as a regular

2. Will Nightcrawler be getting his own PVP event? If so, will it join the regular rotation of PVP events?
Yes to both questions. His event titled Webs and Shadows is planned on 02/25/24 - 02/28/24 and will also be put into the regular PVP rotation. We’re trying something different with this PVP too; Nightcrawler will be available as an Ascended 4-Star loaner for this PVP event. On the one hand, this makes him more usable in teams at about any SCL. On the other, it means that it’s almost certain that just about every Nightcrawler you face is going to be a loaner instead of one that someone has built up quickly. We’ll see how it goes!

3. Will SCL 10 events get 2-Star covers since they aren’t typically featured in either progression or placement rewards?
All SCL levels will have opportunities to get Nightcrawler. 2-Stars in general are designed to be relatively easily obtainable, and the rewards in the release event(s) will reflect that. We’re not going to be taking away from 3/4/5 reward cadence to do this, as that would then put a hitch in required characters for subsequent events, so the reward schedule is largely parallel.

4. What mechanics are in place for increased ways to acquire Nightcrawler (Uncanny Spider-Man) 2?
Mostly answered above, but think tokens to Cover Pack/Vaults that contain the 2-Star and related stuff that is put in in addition to the “standard” items you’d see in an event.

Training Montage Community Challenge 2024

1. How are points tallied for the Training Montage per activity?
Total points for the community challenge will be cumulative so unlocking Tier 1 will automatically continue counting towards the next tier without resetting the total.

2. How many points is each Training Montage activity worth?
Each action taken is worth a certain amount of points towards completion. These actions are all weighted so that they all would make up an equal amount of player activity (meaning that we’re expecting players to level up characters roughly 50 times as often as they Ascend them). So points are added according to that ratio. There’s then a little magic formula to make the overall points add up to an “even” 10 million instead of being some random number that raw data would normally provide. The overall basic ratios are:

Approximate Point Ratios

  • Ability Covers: 1
  • Standard Levels: 2
  • Character Championed: 15
  • Character Max Champed: 40
  • Character Ascended: 50

3. What is the duration of the Race to 100?
The same as the main Training Montage challenge.
February 22 at 12am PST - March 6 at 11:59pm PST

4. Are the rewards for the Training Montage event cumulative, or based on the highest tier unlocked? If cumulative, does the total reset after each reward?
The point totals will not reset, and are cumulative. If the community reaches 10 million Training Montage points, all 5 rewards will be given.

5. Why does the community challenge end on March 6th? If it extended even 1 more day, there would be a lot of points earned from people opening Legendary Tokens at the start of the season.

That’s a very keen observation, but it wasn’t our original intent since this challenge was focused around Nightcrawler (Uncanny Spider-Man) 2* and we wanted to keep all activities around this challenge within that to keep the focus on him.

That being said, the points totals were created based on data for player activities during that normal timeframe, so IF we were to end it later, the activities that take place after token/Legendary changes would ALSO have been taken into account, changing the overall math. We hope players enjoy this new community activity and definitely send us feedback so we can continue to evolve and improve

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  • JMAXWELLJR02
    JMAXWELLJR02 Posts: 13 Just Dropped In

    Thanks for the update

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,816 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 19 February 2024, 19:53

    A challenge for whales? Why not, I guess.

    Or am I misreading? Is it the first 100 players to get all the points? Or to get a 5* Nightcrawler?

    Either way I'm sure the spenders get there long before any people who are mostly FTP.

    EDIT: Having read it again, it seems like you need to get 2NC to a 5 to get the limited goodies. The thing I'm trying to figure out is how many players will do that unless they have a lot of bundles for sale since there don't seem to be that many people with 2-5s among the older ones.

  • DyingLegend
    DyingLegend Posts: 1,208 Chairperson of the Boards

    Lmao the whales are gonna love this challenge.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    Reads like you need to ascend 2* Nightcrawler to 3*, nothing more.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,272 Chairperson of the Boards

    But won't the rewards be mostly entirely useless to whatever godforsaken roster can achieve this? This challenge almost seems sarcastic in nature, like haha players you will jump through ANY hoops we have! Unless of course 5* Night-Spider is super awesome or whatever.

  • St_Bernadus
    St_Bernadus Posts: 637 Critical Contributor

    @Bowgentle said:
    Reads like you need to ascend 2* Nightcrawler to 3*, nothing more.

    I think you need to re-read. Definitely says 5 star.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,235 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 19 February 2024, 20:29

    @Bowgentle said:
    Reads like you need to ascend 2* Nightcrawler to 3*, nothing more.

    Pretty sure it's ascend the 2* Nightcrawler to 5*.

    Challenge:

    Ascend the new 2-Star Nightcrawler (Uncanny Spider-Man) to 5-Star status!

    The question is whether or not this continues on if 100 people don't have it done in the time frame of the community challenge because this is a lot of covers even for whales.

    KGB

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    Ok I overlooked that bolded challenge thing yeah.
    5* it is.

  • slidecage
    slidecage Posts: 3,447 Chairperson of the Boards

    Why attempt it they will sell it in store in a few months lol

  • GrimSkald
    GrimSkald Posts: 2,639 Chairperson of the Boards

    Um. I don't see how it will be possible to ascend a 2★ to a 5★ in a few weeks. Heck, it's been several months and I haven't even gotten any of my 2★s to 4★ status yet (pretty much all of them 3★ though.)

    Maybe the people who have been hoarding for years, but even then -- 2★s don't get shards so it's strictly going to be based on how much you can pull.

    Still, whatever. Either they mean the first 100 ascending him to 3★ status, or else they'll be giving us opportunities to level him more -- either way it's interesting at least.

  • First311
    First311 Posts: 28 Just Dropped In

    Interesting, seems straightforward:

    "Challenge: Ascend the new 2-Star Nightcrawler (Uncanny Spider-Man) to 5-Star status!"

    So first 100 to ascend new Nightcrawler up to 5* right?

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,820 Chairperson of the Boards

    I imagine they'll start selling him pretty quickly. I hope there's another crazy underpriced vault!

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,816 Chairperson of the Boards

    Having thought further, given the lack of information on the release of 2NC, they could possibly be rewarding an ascended one in PVE and/or PVP to get people going.

    To pull the 1004 covers to go from unrostered to ascended 450 would require approx 71 Uncanny SM covers a day over the 2 week challenge period, or 994 2s from tokens with even distribution, which if you slept 8 hours would be opening a 2* every minute the rest of the day on average.

    So some shortcuts must necessarily be provided to make this a challenge for the first 100 people, suggesting over 100 can get there in the timeframe.

  • Jash735
    Jash735 Posts: 90 Match Maker
    edited 19 February 2024, 22:28

    I wish they would have started this challenge 2 weeks ago. 🤨

    I just finished spending about 6 million in ISO to get my last 14 fully covered 4’s champed (only Spider-Ham and Angela left, both at 7 covers).

    Not that I will manage to ascend 2NC5, but still…

  • Godzillafan67
    Godzillafan67 Posts: 596 Critical Contributor

    @bluewolf said:
    It’s fun to complain and question but…

    DOUBLE ISO

    Nuff said!

    Agreed. I feel like I've already won.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,272 Chairperson of the Boards

    Double iso is also super sweet for me.

  • LFChikarason
    LFChikarason Posts: 402 Mover and Shaker

    I got one more pass at the Heir to Ultron vault tomorrow, but I'm not leveling anyone up until the 22nd!

  • TheVulture
    TheVulture Posts: 439 Mover and Shaker

    Nice, I certainly need all the ISO I can get.
    Appreciate a bit of warning, time to start saving pulls/covers.

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