green cases

(brian770) #1

i am trying to save up 1000 cases without opening them, will my “green” special boxes still be green when i open them or should i open them before they go back to the normal black ones?

(Your worst knifemare.) #2

The loadout you get is decided one you buy/earn a case. If you were supposed to get a special edition but wait until the events over, you’ll still get it.

(Xenithos) #3

Open your cases whenever you see fit. As far as I know the characters aren’t rolled until they are opened, HOWEVER, the cases are still locked to whatever the type is. Meaning, if you open the ghostclip case a year from now, you could theoretically still pull a ghostclip card.

You got 3 days left, good luck getting 1k cases bruh

(brian770) #4

thanks all,just what i wanted to hear.

(Xenithos) #5

@Lord_Coctus - Wait, legit the card you’ll get is rolled upon buying the case?

(Your worst knifemare.) #6

@Xenithos said:
@Lord_Coctus - Wait, legit the card you’ll get is rolled upon buying the case?

Thats what i’ve heard.

(Nail) #7

afaik, contents are set upon obtaining the case, a fun thing would be to save those thousand cases till trading appears, then auction them off, “may contain xyz event cards”

(AlbinMatt) #8

So, what you’re telling me is that purchasing stock cases now may yield special edition cards far after its event expiration? Now I get why they don’t have a marketplace. Imagine selling a year old ultra rare case, and charging folks exorbitant amounts for a mere CHANCE of a special card.

I suppose the same goes for Elite Cases then, which does sound smarter, if there is even any demand for it.

(MarsRover) #9

Possible results are tied to case type and don’t change. It doesn’t matter if the card is drawn upon buying or upon opening. The result is the same from the perspective of the user.
We don’t know which one it is unless one of the actual developer states. Not a PR-friendly statement for a nontechnical CM that gets a TLDR from a PM who gets an easy to understand version from a developer.

(DB Genome editor) #10

The only cases whose content can change are the “generic” ones since these “evolve” to include new mercs as they are added: I had a few old generic Elite and Expert cases dropped from Arsenal crates which I had not bothered to open and when I did Turtle and Javelin were part of the possible cards even though they were not released when those cases dropped.

Special event cases are locked to the original content odds, but can be opened at any time.

(Xenithos) #11

@Djiesse said:
The only cases whose content can change are the “generic” ones since these “evolve” to include new mercs as they are added: I had a few old generic Elite and Expert cases dropped from Arsenal crates which I had not bothered to open and when I did Turtle and Javelin were part of the possible cards even though they were not released when those cases dropped.

Special event cases are locked to the original content odds, but can be opened at any time.

Actually, thanks for posting dude. That answers the question. At a minimum, it should seem that the cards that drop from cases are not predetermined then since you can get loadouts from the same cases that would include those drops later.

(Teflon Love) #12

@MarsRover said:
Possible results are tied to case type and don’t change. It doesn’t matter if the card is drawn upon buying or upon opening. The result is the same from the perspective of the user.
We don’t know which one it is unless one of the actual developer states.

There’s no real advantage in deciding the loadout when obtaining the case. While storage wise it does not matter whether you store the case ID or laudout ID, storing a loadout ID opens up abuse scenarios.

For example, you could bribe a database admin into looking up which of your cases contain a cobalt or special loadout while leaving the others closed in the hope they might be tradeable some day.

Anyway, the trading discussions so far have only concerned loadouts excluding event loudouts. I don’t think it’s good idea if SD passes on the addictive RNG mechanics to player trades, which would probably create a black market where people pay real money to get their hands on Rev or Dickens cases.

(Teflon Love) #13

@Nail said:
afaik, contents are set upon obtaining the case
Yes, I specifically recall that when Gen 2 loadouts were announced SD stated that there is no point in hoarding dropped standard cases because they will keep containing Gen 1 loudouts even if opened after the Gen 2update.

(DB Genome editor) #14

@teflonlove said:

@Nail said:
afaik, contents are set upon obtaining the case
Yes, I specifically recall that when Gen 2 loadouts were announced SD stated that there is no point in hoarding dropped standard cases because they will keep containing Gen 1 loudouts even if opened after the Gen 2update.

But that’s because Gen1 generic equipment cases are actually different from Gen2 ones, different pictures in your inventory and different “stack” (i.e. separate counters, instead of a single one for the total).