You know what’s RNG? Missions!
The event starts. Suddenly, your choice of merc means oh so much more - which of the four do I want to represent this week? And then…
First set of missions: Play Arty.
Second set of missions: Play Arty.
YOU CAN’T MAKE ME ୧༼ಠ益ಠ༽୨
[quote=“Ctrix;165753”][quote=“MTLMortis;165508”]You can buy any bronze loadout with in-game credits and they’re cheap. That keeps things fair, balanced, and not pay to win.
If you’re looking for a specific cosmetic loadout, that has nothing to do with the actual gameplay.
If they put up cosmetic loadouts for 5€ would you buy it or complain that they’re being money grubbing leeches?[/quote]
No see, the stupid part is I’d pay money for the skins. Specifically the gold red skins. But I can’t. And the current system is so unbelievable consumer unfriendly it’s stupid.
With the same argument you could argue for one million dollar mercs.[/quote]
Except no reasonable person would say they wanted to pay more and have the price climb. My statement is based on what requests/demands are being made in reality. Not the dream world where everybody has millions of dollars and having less money is considered a good thing. Realistic expectations.
They still need to follow the demand curve. since supply is unlimited, price is dictated by demand.
The only thing I would change are duplicates from Trade-Ins. Everything besides that is fine for me. (And I’m one of those who traded up 17 Gold Auras, 4 Gold Phantoms, 1 Gold Rhino, 4 Gold Stoker to get the loadout I want. Bushwhacker still ongoing with 5 Trade-ups and 1 Trade-In).
The gambling is a non-essential, but cool side-part of the game.
The RNG would be fine if the rewardpool wasn’t so goddamned huge compared to the price. To get a cobalt from elite cases, it’s 1/20 (5%), so that’s ~$57 (480 NOK) for a chance to get the 1 card out of 162 (9 mercs x 9 loadouts x 2 camos) possible cards I want. That’s a steep price for a skin. I don’t mind $10 for a merc, but I’m not paying what equals a full game for a CHANCE (and a slim one at that) to get the skin I want. I might be more willing if each merc had their own case, but fat chance that’s gonna happen.
This might be less of a problem for some mercs, but for i.e. Phantom, there’s barely 2 loadouts that are useful, the other 7 are basically just trade-in fodder.
[quote=“Love2Camp;165805”]This might be less of a problem for some mercs, but for i.e. Phantom, there’s barely 2 loadouts that are useful, the other 7 are basically just trade-in fodder.[/quote]Yeah, well, if they didn’t put all the damn Undercover perks on the katana/S&W cards we probably would have plenty of useful Phantom cards.