Contest of Champions Update 35.1 Patch Notes
Legacies
Nova and The Summoner discover a Skrull ship skulking through Kree territory helmed by Super-Skrull and WICCAN. Inside, the young wizard explains that he and The Skrulls are searching for HULKLING who has been abducted by Ronan The Accuser and asks for their help rescuing him. What are Ronan’s plans for Hulkling? Can Wiccan trust The Super-Skrull? Can Nova avoid a Kree-Skrull War? Find out this month in LEGACIES!
America’s All Stars
America Chavez has some new friends arriving in The Contest and she wants to make sure that the Summoner is up to the challenge of showing off what The Battlerealm has to offer! Each week you’ll be able to fight alongside WICCAN and HULKLING as they add some power to your fights as STRIKERS! Take advantage of your new friends’ powers as they offer a helping hand in all the challenges you’ll face. Show you have what it takes to become AMERICA’S ALL STARS!
Act 5 and 6 Updates
In an effort to make Act 6 more accessible and give it a more natural difficulty curve with the other Acts, we’ve made a number of changes:
- All Class and Rarity Gates in Act 6.2 have been removed
- Choice Nodes added just prior to Final Bosses for all of Act 6
- Energy Cost per Step reduced in Acts 5 and 6
- Removed Burden of Might, Aspect of Death, Dismay and Prove Yourself Link Nodes from Quest 6.2.6 to make The Champion less punishing on repeat playthroughs
- All fights (excluding the Grandmaster Boss of Act 6.4.6) have had their Attack and Health values retuned
New Features and QoL Improvements
- Stash Quantities on Item Tooltips: To help improve visibility on what items are currently in your Stash, item tooltips have been updated to show stashed quantities.
- Questboard Info Panel Improvements: When selecting a tile on the Questboard, you will now be able to view the defending Champion’s info page. Additionally, all Buff Node information will now be displayed in a single scrollview list.
- Rank Up Gem Improvement: When you select a Rank Up Gem from your Inventory, it will now take you to a pre-filtered list of Champions that can use that Rank Up Gem. Additionally, you will now be able to filter by Rank on the Champions screen.
- Signature Stone Improvement: When you select a Signature Stone from your Inventory, the Champions in the popup will now be sorted by Signature Level rather than PI, to make it easier to find the Champions you’re closest to maxing out.
- Email Preference Center: When you go into the Settings menu, there is now an option to customize what emails you will receive from Kabam.
Champion Updates
Deadpool (X-Force) and Yondu are receiving updates to their abilities! Check out their Spotlights for more information.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
- Captain Britain: Info page now calls out the Cruelty Buff stack limit of 4
- Deadpool (X-Force): Updated base attack, Special 1 and Special 2 Animations, and visual effects.
- Elsa Bloodstone and The Champion: Final node abilities now work on bosses that are not on the final node of the map, such as fights in Act 7.
- Mordo: Detonation will no longer trigger against True-Type Passive Effects
- King Groot’s synergy with Man-Thing will now correctly grant 5 additional Fury buffs
- Omega Sentinel: Pause timer will no longer overlap with Sunspot’s Solar Charge counter
- Peni Parker: Sync Shield will no longer Autoblock when at 0 power
- Power Shield 2.0: Will no longer prevent damage from Special 3 Attacks
- Romance Synergies: Updated to reference Combat Power Rate instead of Power Gain
- Storm (Classic): Disabled cape during Special 3 Animations to avoid Visual Bugs
- Venom: No longer immune to Power Steal when he should not be
- Venompool: “Favorite Food” persistent ability no longer displays description of ability on activation
- War Machine: Will no longer callout “Prowess Removed” at random against opponents with no Prowess effects
- Warlock and Archangel: Updated Info Page references from “Heal Block” to “The Opponent will not gain Health”
- Wombo Combo: Will now use passive Prowess effects
Gameplay Input System Fixes
- All players have moved to the new input system as the default
- Heavy Charge start frame is no longer inconsistent
- Dead zones at the upper corners of the screen which caused missed inputs have been removed
- Tapping the striker button no longer results in performing a block
- Input issues after suspending the app during a heavy charge have been greatly reduced
