Hey Splash Damage! You're doing 1st Edition weeks wrong

(Xenithos) #1

I can’t say how many times both I and other players have asked you to PLEASE offer 1st Edition weeks at the same time as crafting weeks. Trying to craft specific 1st edition cards without that week causes constant decreasing on what we’ve managed to make already. Takes about 3 cobalts sacrificed to make 2 AND 100,000 credits - simply put, it’s actually painful to see my time and work kinda drained, sometimes without results. Luckily though, this time I managed to get the card I wanted! However, during that week it’s brought to a 1:1 with the 50,000 credits cost per cobalt you try to trade out… I’m really, really fudging tired of that.
To repeat what Shoe said on Reddit… “We’ve talked about this, come on guys…”

With that out of the way, I’ve finally managed, FINALLY managed, to craft a cr42 Sawbonez. I love it:

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I sacked my Cobalt Redeye, Cobalt Rhino, and my Cobalt Nader to make this… Gambled and paid out at the end by sacking my other two sawbonez’ I’d crafted instead of settling, managed to get this with 12,000 or so frags left as a consequence… Took 150,000 credits ofc. Good news about the cobalt nader and redeye is that I have those skins in ranked s4 and obsidian now. :smiley: However my Rhino, ice cold quickslash trolli rhino… gonna miss the old fart.

(nokiII) #2

Hope you’ve fun with the upcoming event that’ll need a boatload of credits according to shoes stream today.

(Xenithos) #3

@nokiII said:
Hope you’ve fun with the upcoming event that’ll need a boatload of credits according to shoes stream today.

I really hate Splash Damage’s lack of concurrent announcements…
How many credits is boatload? 200,000? 1,000,000?

(nokiII) #4

@Xenithos said:

@nokiII said:
Hope you’ve fun with the upcoming event that’ll need a boatload of credits according to shoes stream today.

I really hate Splash Damage’s lack of concurrent announcements…
How many credits is boatload? 200,000? 1,000,000?

He didn’t specify. Apparently there is an announcement coming in tomorrows video.

(kittz0r) #5

@Xenithos said:

@nokiII said:
Hope you’ve fun with the upcoming event that’ll need a boatload of credits according to shoes stream today.

I really hate Splash Damage’s lack of concurrent announcements…
How many credits is boatload? 200,000? 1,000,000?

you must be new around here

(Ptiloui) #6

Honestly, i don’t understand this event. When they released the obsidian operative aimee, they said there was only one loadout because of the future loadout system they are working on. As for me, this implied that we could be able to mix any skin with any loadout we own. So… what the purpose of crafting a gen1 cobalt card (or any other rarity/skins) if you can already have a gen2 one ??

The two only things i can see are, either the future loadout system will still be stuck with the same skins being tied with loadout cards (in which case i would be disapointed), or it only makes you spend all your credits now so you don’t have them any during the next event, so you’re “forced” to spend real credits (which is evil).

(n-x) #7

@Ptiloui said:
Honestly, i don’t understand this event. When they released the obsidian operative aimee, they said there was only one loadout because of the future loadout system they are working on. As for me, this implied that we could be able to mix any skin with any loadout we own.

Afaik, they never directly stated that. The community just assumed that, from what they said, and ran with it.

(Ptiloui) #8

@n-x said:

@Ptiloui said:
Honestly, i don’t understand this event. When they released the obsidian operative aimee, they said there was only one loadout because of the future loadout system they are working on. As for me, this implied that we could be able to mix any skin with any loadout we own.

Afaik, they never directly stated that. The community just assumed that, from what they said, and ran with it.

Indeed, but the way it was said, it implies this sort of things :

(About Aimee’s Obsidian Operative) : “There’s only one Obsidian Operative Loadout available this time round as we have greater plans for the Loadout Card system which will give you more flexibility and choice with your loadouts”.

I agree I maybe forecasting too much when i said “any loadout with any skin” but, I still didn’t get the purpose of crafting higher rarity gen1 cards if we will have more flexibility with them.

But after thinking more about this, the other thing i can see, is that we will be able to choose different weapons for any loadout. And now, crafting gen1 loadout is meaningful :wink:

(n-x) #9

@Ptiloui I would just be careful with interpreting too much into it. It is still SD we are talking about. Just remember the limited edition obsidian operatives they re-released, where they more or less only got off on a technicality.

I would just not get my hopes up too much. For all we know, the new flexibility could be minimal, have almost impossible to meet requirements, or even cost real cash.

(Unrivaled) #10

@Xenithos said:

@nokiII said:
Hope you’ve fun with the upcoming event that’ll need a boatload of credits according to shoes stream today.

I really hate Splash Damage’s lack of concurrent announcements…
How many credits is boatload? 200,000? 1,000,000?

That’s the point of these events…

They don’t allow people to get 1st edition cards just to be nice, they do it because they know people are gonna pay for it, or they’re gonna use all of their credits, and by draining credits by successive events, they make sure people will have to pay real money to get all that they want in the next event.

But it’s a perfectly acceptable way to monetize a game, and also rewards the very active and/or faithful players who can probably afford anything they want with the credits they piled up during the years.

(FalC_16) #11

Gen 1 cards should be craftable permanently!! I want that sawbones so freakin much! SD pleaaaaaase!

(GatoCommodore) #12

tfw

i did question it myself, maybe im just feeding my gambling addiction by playing DB…

(ThePigVomit) #13

@Ptiloui said:
Honestly, i don’t understand this event. When they released the obsidian operative aimee, they said there was only one loadout because of the future loadout system they are working on. As for me, this implied that we could be able to mix any skin with any loadout we own. So… what the purpose of crafting a gen1 cobalt card (or any other rarity/skins) if you can already have a gen2 one ??

The two only things i can see are, either the future loadout system will still be stuck with the same skins being tied with loadout cards (in which case i would be disapointed), or it only makes you spend all your credits now so you don’t have them any during the next event, so you’re “forced” to spend real credits (which is evil).

How I envision the revamped loadout system going, based on all of the hints, what they have said they won’t do until it is released, etc.

The character skins and augments will be non-movable. The weapons will have defined interchangability (if that is even a word) provided you have an independent weapon skin to assign to a card.

For instance, you have a SE Kira that has nice augments but also uses the Stark, but you h8 the Stark. You will be able to swap the Stark out for a Driess. provided you have a Dreiss Skin.

This is my reasoning why they have not yet allowed us to do anything with the SE cards ( like recycle or re-roll dupes) as they don’t want a mass wipe of cards only to have them become useful and deal with the associated flamewar.

TBH, it is the only logical reasoning for them dragging their feet with th SE duplicate C.F…

(Xenithos) #14

So… you guys are ticked too, right? RIGHT!? :s

(n-x) #15

@nokiII said:
He didn’t specify. Apparently there is an announcement coming in tomorrows video.

And what an announcement that was…

(ThePigVomit) #16

@FalC_16 said:
Gen 1 cards should be craftable permanently!! I want that sawbones so freakin much! SD pleaaaaaase!

While not craftable, you can buy any bronze gen 1 card from the store at any time for credits or hard currency.

(ThePigVomit) #17

@n-x said:

@nokiII said:
He didn’t specify. Apparently there is an announcement coming in tomorrows video.

And what an announcement that was…

Knives…we get knife skins…woo…
…

(JonBongNoJovi) #18

How are people able to craft ? obtaining Loadout Cases is like finding rocking horse shit , and the amount of fragments given out is a joke , in fact crafting in general is a joke :confused:

(FalC_16) #19

@ThePigVomit said:

@FalC_16 said:
Gen 1 cards should be craftable permanently!! I want that sawbones so freakin much! SD pleaaaaaase!

While not craftable, you can buy any bronze gen 1 card from the store at any time for credits or hard currency.

I have gen 1 silver. I want it in cobalt budd;)

(Ptiloui) #20

@ThePigVomit said:

@Ptiloui said:
Honestly, i don’t understand this event. When they released the obsidian operative aimee, they said there was only one loadout because of the future loadout system they are working on. As for me, this implied that we could be able to mix any skin with any loadout we own. So… what the purpose of crafting a gen1 cobalt card (or any other rarity/skins) if you can already have a gen2 one ??

The two only things i can see are, either the future loadout system will still be stuck with the same skins being tied with loadout cards (in which case i would be disapointed), or it only makes you spend all your credits now so you don’t have them any during the next event, so you’re “forced” to spend real credits (which is evil).

How I envision the revamped loadout system going, based on all of the hints, what they have said they won’t do until it is released, etc.

The character skins and augments will be non-movable. The weapons will have defined interchangability (if that is even a word) provided you have an independent weapon skin to assign to a card.

For instance, you have a SE Kira that has nice augments but also uses the Stark, but you h8 the Stark. You will be able to swap the Stark out for a Driess. provided you have a Dreiss Skin.

This is my reasoning why they have not yet allowed us to do anything with the SE cards ( like recycle or re-roll dupes) as they don’t want a mass wipe of cards only to have them become useful and deal with the associated flamewar.

TBH, it is the only logical reasoning for them dragging their feet with th SE duplicate C.F…

I don’t think they’ll do that for a simple reason : weapon skins are actually behind a pay-wall. So unless they too add a reliable way to get unlocked weapon cases or keys (and by reliable I mean no grindy-limited-event and no-rng-disappointment-case aka arsenal crate), weapon skins being the only way to swap weapons on a loadout card is no-no.