"What The Dickens?" Update - December 16, 2015

[Atagi]

Removed the Win Execution Rounds missions

Finally!

[SaulWolfden]

Well it seems I will have to test the GSR and Dreiss on Redeye when maintenance is over. I have to question why the MK46 was left untouched, but I’ll just test out Thunder with the Timik loadout I have to see if he’s better to play as.

Bomb Squad and Guardian Angel should be interesting to see the changes of since both Redeye cards I use have them.

[Drac0rion]

Great job on the patch. Trinkets seem like a nice addition.

BUT, Trade up discount BEFORE the event? While it’s still a discount, why would you want to waste your credits BEFORE the event when those who want to grind the cases will only spend credits that they earn and have earned on the cases during the event. I will have absolutely no use for these discounts since I will do trade ups with my 100% lead chance AFTER the event is over… when I feel like playing and earning some credits again to do any trade ups.

The chances of limited edition loadouts… again…
I’m not the one who’s really excited about the holiday skins myself, but, it’s going to be just as bad for probably everyone who desperately wants at least one limited edition loadout.
Even your paying customers can ONLY get one guaranteed if they pay enough… that’s just low.

I wouldn’t mind being another paying customer in this game, but honestly, this RNG, especially for events is made extremely ridiculous.

[SiegeFace]

Bravo, you managed to make me not want to play with this update. An exact replica of the meltdown event is definitely not going to make me play, especially after all the frustration that event brought.

I have said this before and I will say it again, If you are playing for cosmetics, then you are playing for all the wrong reasons…

Yes it sucks, but looking at them creamy patch notes I could feel more and more anxious to play after reading every line, so many amazing balance changes in this update, at least on paper and personally cannot wait to play… shame I have to be in work in 3 hours and the servers are still down ; (

Literally will be getting every merc with pineapple juggler and a cricket bat and just bat all throwable deployables out of the map, could we get the baseball charge theme to play if we managed to do that and maybe a text notification “HOME RUN” for doing this?

Also would love to see if these shotguns are alot less random now, as they were inconsistent as all hell before the update, and the blishlock might be now balanced enough to be a more viable weapon even though the changes seem quite minor, and after I traded up the majority of blishlock loadouts for my mercs earlier today! god damnit SD xD

[phila_delphia]

How about giving us a balanced matchmaking instead of this "%#?
And what about dedicated servers? No, we need more bling!
Sorry to say, but I think DB is going the wrong way.

Best regards

phila

[worldwideBurger]

patchnotes are where? People talking about buffs to Proxy and pineapple juggler. Where do you find these stuffz…?

[GiantGiant]

-Removed the Win Execution Rounds missions WHAT?!
It was only Execusion mission I enjoyed…

MoA SNPR-1 Increased rate of fire to 50 RPM (from 46) - Vas more spammy… ;/

Timik-47 Reduced recoil by ~10% - I expected spread reduction, recoil was very ez to control

Im very happy about augment changes though

And Dreis buff again, I think I will dust off some dreiss cards

Shame there are no changes to MK46

Also there is no fix to C4 duplication bug in Execution…

[PsychoDonut]

Why is the downtime five hours! I’m at least glad they waited to release the patch notes I’d have gone crazy if I had to wait five hours with these patch notes. I’m a little bummed you made the drop 0.3% hopefully my 60 hours these next couple weeks will get me at least one, but I am doubtful. Thank God for the Thunder buffs they are welcome. Can’t wait to use pineapple juggler!

[CaRe]

patchnotes are where? People talking about buffs to Proxy and pineapple juggler. Where do you find these stuffz…?

For the full update notes, please click here.

[Mc1412013]

I’m saddened that nothing was learned from the low drop rates of the CW event. But hell yeah Proxy and Thunder buffs!

yeah .03% of it showing up but a .00000001% of actually getting one if your lucky. im still trying to figure out how people got so many cw loadout card when i so many people couldnt get 1 no matter how much we tried. 20 cases dropped 30 purchased(in game credits not real money thank god) wasted

@RazielWarmonic every one should get 1 card or at least a lot higher than .3% chance for being involved during the event and then the rest can be the alleged .3% i would have been happy with just one cw card to show i was active and for being during the event

[Backuplight]

Now if only people didn’t actually have families they’re going to visit during the extra case drop week - if anything having them drop for the second week would have been nicer imo. Trinkets are great, but I guess we should all be prepared for more forum rage about RNG and poor loadout card handling.

[dronev4]

Oh great… 0.3% again. even though most people voted in previous poll it should have been higher during CW event. Guess They decided to not listen to their players when it came to “event” Cases. Call them what they really are “Better hope you have RNGesus on your side or you’ll never get one of these skins ever unless you wanna pay 30+ dollars!”

[SereneFlight1]

Dickens Equipment Cases drop instead of regular Equipment Cases, and can be bought in the store for the same price as the regular Equipment Case, giving a 0.3% chance of scoring a ‘What the Dickens’ Loadout Card
Dickens Elite Cases can be bought in the store for the same price as the regular Elite Case, and give a 10% chance of scoring a ‘What the Dickens’ Loadout Card

You gotta be fucking kidding me… well, I think I told you that all those surveys are nothing but bullshit.

…please… PLEASE! AT LEAST STOP TAKING A PISS ON PAYING CUSTOMERS FFS! DO YOU GUYS REALLY HATE PEOPLE WHO ARE GIVING YOU MONEY!?

I’m saddened that nothing was learned from the low drop rates of the CW event.

They would have learned if they wanted to (just like the chances would have got higher during the CW even because people were complaining ever since the day one).

[BananaSlug]

but the special cases will be dropping for one week… ONE WEEK

[Csquared]

Augment changes are great, removing execution missions is great, reverting objective to the first mode is great

The gun and merc balance changes for the most part all went to stuff that needed it. I have no idea why in the world they’d buff the remburg though. A lot of higher level players already think shotguns are broken and that one in particular just really did not need a buff.

As someone who has played a ton of comp, I was looking forward to this update quite a bit. They’ve let the mode just completely wither and die over the last month and a halfish for no real reason and I was excited to see it get revived.

A lot of the changes are good. Friendly fire was called for for a long time, and vote kick is nice now that we’re probably going to see a huge resurgence in hackers now that there’s actually a reason for doing so. Being able to see your wins/losses is really cool too, I hope eventually they split the regular stats page between regular pubs and comp. I also figured they would revert the algorithm to find games - maybe not to the “you get a game within 5 minutes no matter what” point of old but something more frequent than what we have now.

Increased matchmaking search times to focus on finding closer-skilled players

…what? Are they just ignoring that cobalts are reguarly waiting an hour in queue only to not get a game? That the only way to consistently get games as a cobalt is to stack with low golds and silvers? That even unrankeds and golds were complaining about 20+ min queue times since the system wasn’t finding them any games. Longer queue times…was not what the mode needed.

Also I sorta hate to be that guy since I frequently say I don’t really care about my rank, but it’s kinda silly to make rank ups easier now instead of just waiting a couple weeks and doing it for the new seasons. The pre-season badge could’ve been a nice throwback/momento to the old system when it could take 50 wins just for one rank up. If the system works and good players are elevated to cobalt faster though I guess that means it might be easier to find cobalt games and it’s whatever

[adultaoryMinx]

After this update i can’t set the hq materials on low graphics why? Before this update i could play with this setting help me

[BomBaKlaK]

What about content ? Maps ?
Cause clearly I don’t care about all the christmas skin (really uggly by the way)

[CCP1151]

Guys, SD did learn from their previous event.

They knew that noone wanted to buy their elite cases (except Sniff) so they added buyable trinkets to instead make money!

It’s dumb, but it works enough. I’ll be buying 1 trinket. Congratulations SD, you actually managed to get me to buy something. Hopefully this is the first of many.

[SpinnerzNQ]

Now if only people didn’t actually have families they’re going to visit during the extra case drop week - if anything having them drop for the second week would have been nicer imo. Trinkets are great, but I guess we should all be prepared for more forum rage about RNG and poor loadout card handling.

Well at least it’s an entire week instead of 3 days

[SpinnerzNQ]

Also I’m waiting for @Sniff to post about how many WTD card repeats he has.