I was mostly looking to have rewards be improved, but I’m not seeing a lot here tbh. One weapon skin set, two character skins, one of which is really just good for Versus, which I don’t play, and I don’t really care to play as Marcus. So in reality all this change has really done is make it somewhat easier to reach Reup 50, whatever the new requirement for it is and how far I’ll have left to go from where I’m at(Reup 30 level 74 or 75), which I’d only really have incentive for due to either the weapon skins or for personal achievement.
Yeah, but they skipped Re-Up 2.
I was hoping for coin rewards or something, eh I guess this is better then nothing.
I doubt it took the man power of hundreds of people to create a weapon skin, adjust XP requirements, and change reup rewards…
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this is great and all but I find it hard to care about any of this when the game still has squad restrictions, hardly any Ranked modes for full teams, bad tuning and laggy servers.
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Leaving aside how good or bad the skins are and if there is enough added, I wonder what people actually would like for the reups, honest question.
(Just leave out Gear Coins or Iron because that won’t happen)
Me personally, I wanted more rewards in general, but to be specific, character skins. I don’t want coins for them because as someone who doesn’t care about maxed skills - because honestly, for most of them the difference between levels 4-6 is not very big -, I have more coins than I know what to do with.
But mode specific aka Swarm/Locust skins for Reups? Hell no. Just make them Versus specific rewards because, like… you can only use them there anyway. Heroic Kantus is about as much of an incentive as a dog’s digestion remains for Reup 50. I don’t see why things that can be completed by any mode like doing the Tour have to reward things that can only be used in one mode, eg Swarm/Locust skins for General in the Tour, or the Kantus for Reup 50. Why can’t those be Versus medal rewards for example? Or some sort of Ranked reward for a high enough rank? Of course I’m speaking from a PvE player’s perspective but I fail to see why I should have any incentive to get a skin for something by finishing the progression system, when I literally won’t ever use it.
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Well since I do dabble a bit in PVP it doesn’t bother me too much but then I don’t care for swarm skins.
More Skins and maybe some new character ok that I find reasonable too.
I mean I’m ok with the changes but there could definitely be more and more special skins.
The rewards are still just skins, though? That’s a letdown.
And it sounds like if I don’t want to skip the results screen after a match, I still have to watch it painstakingly count out every single level I gained, since that wasn’t mentioned at all. I like watching my card drops get revealed one at a time and seeing my star meter go up, but watching the level ups get counted one at a time totally ruins that. Plus, it sounds like there’ll be more level ups per match, with the xp costs reduced.
I was just thinking maybe, just maybe after a year the additional rewards would be more significant. Now instead of 1 reward every Reup from 1 to 39 or something, it is more rewards from Reups 1-12, then it’s right back to one per reup with the exception of 49 giving you a whole two weapon skins of a set that might end up looking similar to the Heroic Venom weapon skins(that also no longer have much appeal and are not really unique since everyone can just have obtained them through some effectively mindless Surge/Clock running to the saferoom and repeating the act over and over while not even bothering to learn how to play the respective classes at all… albeit I don’t really care for it with the promo classes, they don’t offer any really unique playstyles to learn, not counting Slugger because realistically, throwing grenades all over the place isn’t hard with it besides not having your own frags kill you).
But I guess they have to keep something for the already coin overflowing Tours and Store drip feeding…
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Re up 50 should’ve been something like classic Golden Gear + gold omen weapon set + 10-20k coins
That would’ve been a much better incentive imo.
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Do you really want to grind that much to get that skin?
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Does 4 x All Xp mean double the normal boost value? Ie 4x normal? Or does it mean 4x boost value ie 8x normal?
And I assume “all xp” means character class too?
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Don’t bother me just a better incentive for people that do, that’s all.
Think the heroic stuff looks awful anyway, white just doesn’t fit the gears theme.
Normal Boost = 2x XP
Boost + 2x XP bonus event = 4x XP
I can’t wait to see games flooded with Reup 50s who just spent time doing ribbon grinding during those two weeks. It’ll be fine, I’m sure.
Edit : The XP bonus is actually only for a weekend, TC is just giving out two weeks worth of free Boost.
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Thanks. I knew I was right not to play the promo classes since the last boost event!
Yeah that’s the way I see it
The re-up changes start great with more stuff each re-up then it completely tapers off to how it was before, one weapon skin at a time. Rather dull.
They’ve bigged this up far too much considering when you look there’s only a handful of new skins and one new weapon set added, which is a poor mans heroic venom set, should’ve been far more exclusive character and weapon skins included & some coins along the way or even a free boost/iron here and there
I mean, that’s how I understand the XP bonus will be here as that’s how it worked in the past. I doubt TC would throw us an 8x XP at this point, it’s more of a thing I’d expect in the second year. Not to mention that it seems a bit weird they’re proceeding to reduce then requirements and boost XP gains for players to oblivion at the same time, but I guess it wouldn’t be as bad as the whole deal with class levels where incompetent players have a level 20 class with low level skills and no idea how to play it properly because they rushed it. The text leaves a margin of error though, it isn’t entirely clear to me.
Although I don’t feel the idea of handing the Reups out on a silver platter which this seems like it(the XP boost) is doing, I guess I’ll benefit from it while I don’t grind and just play as well…
I really like the heroic venom skins and they’re all I use.
Too bad these are just 99% copy and pasted from those. Thought I’d actually have a reason to go for re-ups at first.
are there not a bunch of leaked skins still unaccounted for?