The Gears Pop Community needs more help from The Coalition / MediaTonic

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#756

Sup my dudes.

As I stated before, If I upgrade my current pins (3 days ago, of course), i’d probably get to lv 17. I’ve been talking to @Wriggy a bit and the thing is: there’s no other day way. Grinding IS a reality. On this weekend, I’ve done around 400 hordes (more, I’m basing myself on my fellow clan dudes that got that achiev of 500 hordes, they were in the 136 mark.) and got 200k of coins in these 2 days. I’ll try to stick to 100 hordes a day and 500 + on weekends. Yes, I won’t focus on any other game that I have (I’ll miss you Rise of the tomb raider and WWZ :frowning: ) in order to get this thing done. I’ve made the calcs, in order to get one of my pins to lv 20, I’ll need to do 2,700 hordes. If I do 100 per day, maybe next month i’ll get it. I think that xp won’t be a problem, but coins will. I think i’ll need around 4kk to get to lv 20, I really dunno the maths regarding this. Also, there’s the gold league problems. I still have 570 kills (I was at 500 in the beginning of the month) and I also need Golden League.

What really would come handy is:

*Lowering coins cost or raising a bit on hordes.
*Excluding the cooldown of boxes (man, this would be a real deal!)
*Lowering the requirements to get to Golden League ( 3,200)

I know that some will say that I’m complaining and ■■■■, but, I believe that these changes would be a 10/10 to finish the game.

I’ll play the game and I’ll try to get to golden league/1k mark on the next month when I get my pins OP as f***. I’ll dedicate myself to get this thing done. I promise, If I get this, I’ll strive to get Seriously 3.0.

Also, thanks again @TC_Kilo1062! You’re the chaddest chad!

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#757

It’s so strange that people are on here trying to get the game to be as hard as possible. Just cause you could complete it well done stop knocking others for not being able to play for 8 hours a day.

YES THE GRIND IS EASIER, but the grind is still HUGE

I’ve played since day one regularly, Saturday morning this was my position. Low Level 16 and my highest pin was about 1000 short of level 16, I have played horde all weekend and today, I have unlocked 98214 pins. My highest common pin is at level 16 6733, I still need 74,000 pins.

Again yes the grind may be a lot less than it was before I’m not arguing that but when they make the changes and most people are still looking at well over 100-150 hours of grinding and the end date is getting closer they could have done more.

Oh yeah I completely forgot after the 100+ hours to get one pin to max I might still need more coins so would still have to play more.

Even if they doubled the amount of pins in loot boxes at the rate I’m going I would still have to grind for around 50-75 hours so I could still argue you still have a massive grind. So people saying you have to put the work in, YOU STILL ARE PUTTING A LOT OF WORK IN !!!

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#758

Well said @ccliffy90 its not the time we aren’t willing to put in its the time some of us physically don’t have.

Its like at a workplace those who have no families taking all the overtime and saying those who have families should have worked harder.

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#759

The main problem here is not the community but TC / MT because they have integrated such an incompetent system into a game. We shouldn’t accuse each other here because we didn’t want this robbery system.

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#760

Not going to go on cause salty people go funny but at the end of the day there were 4 achievements people wanted help with.

Seriously and gold league come together and to get to gold they could have reduced gear total but from what I’ve seen last two days I think it harder now to get Gold cause of people upgrading.

Major achievement massive improvement cause you now need half as much coins and get double XP.

Pinnacle 4 this time last week for a common pin you needed 96077 pins and 2,019,890 coins after the update you now need 96077 pins and 1,009,945 coins.

You unlock pins at basically the same rate as before, so for most of us the update hasn’t really had the desired affect. Really it hasn’t done anything cause by the time you grind away to get the massive amount of pins the coins would have come anyway.

All i have to say about it now really would go back to grinding but I bored to death of it :joy::joy::joy:

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#761

Thinking about it…i would only be okay if they increased pin drop rates instead of decrease pin upgrade requirements at this point. If they do decide something else is needed to assist more people to max.

  1. A drop in pins required to upgrade means people would not have to play anymore. Many would already have the pins required to upgrade (if the drop in upgrade cost were substantial enough). And coins would come out the nose with dupes turning to coin for them.

  2. Increasing earnings from crates means people would still need to play…just even less than now.

As it is, this is a steep climb. But instead of trying to scale a steep flat wall before the update, the current changes gave you some rocks to climb on and made the wall shorter.

If you believe additional changes will come…DO NOT STOP PLAYING WHAT YOU ARE WILLING TO PLAY. Play what you can and dont spend for upgrades until down the road. If nothing changes, that sucks if you dont make the cut, but if it does change, you have another month of play in the bank to be closer to the completion.

Edit: This is coming from a fresh lv18 without a single max pin…i need to boost hard still too.

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#762

there were 4 achievements people wanted help with.

You only have to look at the TrueAchievements leaderboards to see that the update has helped people get both the Max Pin and Max Level achievements within days of the new update going live

Other replies in this thread have summarised why lowering the cogs for Gold league isn’t the solution

Would go back to grinding but I bored to death of it :joy::joy::joy:

If you’re bored of grinding, you don’t have to do it, but you also won’t get the achievements

If getting the achievements is a big deal for you, then you’re going to have to play the game for a few hours a day at least

The devs have said they’re monitoring feedback and that further changes may happen down the line, but sitting around waiting for an update that may or may not happen is slowing down progress you could have been making otherwise

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#763

Wriggy if you wouldn’t mind me asking you have the 1000g you got pinnacle 4 on November 2020 and got the major achievement on January 21st this year.

Why are you hanging around most gears pop forums about the update constantly defending it. Is it a case of cause you have it you don’t want others to get it. I find it strange that as a dead game and one you have finished you have such a interest in the update.

This isn’t me being nasty I’m just generally interested ?

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#764

Thanks for the tip. I was wondering what I needed to upgrade first when I have the coins.

The idea about crystals is for the other players who still need the 4 most difficult/grind achievements (and if TC/MT do some changes before February, I will be a beneficiary too). I’m getting a great amount of coins in comparison before getting 3 maxed bronze pins. I just imagine how much coins will you gain if you have at least 1 maxed gold :open_mouth:

#765

The reason I’m still around the forums is to give advice to people also looking to get the achievements

In the game itself, I’ve also been handing out wins in versus and helping my crew complete thumpers

I don’t know how many times I’ve typed “play horde” over the last few days

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#766

If you max all bronze pins, it’s around ~5k coins per Brumak/Thunderland, which jumps up to ~7k with max silvers and ~10k with max golds

Max silvers and max golds are probably out of reach for a lot of players now, but there’s still a lot of coin to be earned from max bronze pins

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#767

@Wriggy you’re the awesomest awesome dude

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#768

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#769

I know brumaks are the go to boost for everyone. But if you and your partner are competent and have the higher level pins for surviving to avoid some RNG hiccups. Winter 12s are by far better even though they can take like 10 more seconds in total on average. They give out bronze in bigger chunks and more coins. But you need to know what to play w3 or it becomes a slog compared to brumaks. playing a Sid one cover back in between 28/29 seconds at just the right time gives him a speed boost that pushes him to the boss for a finish at 31 seconds.

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#770

I see. I dunno, I’m so used to Brumaks. But, do you know in numbers the difference?

#771

Better pin drops. I forget the numbers now, but a good set higher. 280 common up 400 maybe?

However. Brumak has a smaller reward pool.
16 choices of common rather than 19.
If your max pin aim, is in a Brumak then I guess you’ll get him more often.
And same for upgrading the others, epics etc.

#772

I would have to find the reddit post that broke all the average rewards down. But winter isnt even close to brumak if you keep it clean.

At a minimum its like 500+ coins more per run compared brumak. Since coins are the real problem, i find winter so much better.

#773

Also the one point everyone has to realize about Gold league.
And feedback Kilo would have to take on board if that is something the even devs want to help with.

Some people are saying drop it down to 3200 for instance (is that what it started as? I forget now)

It will always be 800 cogs needed to ease through to get there.
The new gold at 3200, all the good players will just sit there instead of 3600.

It would only work if it went to new tiers, which it should have always been instead of moving goal posts I think.
3600: Gold to Diamond
3200: Silver to Platinum
2800: Bronze to Gold
2400: Arena 8? to Silver
2000: Arena 7? To Bronze

If the new tiers had even higher rewards for people pins wise. Those best players would still push on and sit higher for fantastic rewards. And the lesser leveled players would be lower down but have a chance (still have to try, and get wins, etc).

But. That’s if they are even looking at gold league as one to change. They may or may not.

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#774

Here you go @Vinicius_Prey

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Better in every aspect except it takes all of 10 more seconds to finish if you know what you’re doing haha

Note: Pretty sure these are rewards EXCLUDING having a pin maxed. As pins get maxed, if they are in the pool of rewards, your average pin rewards would go down while your average coin rewards would go up.

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#775

Brumak 8 gives:
1,9612-2,647 coins
294 Common
27 Rare
4.15 (average) Epic

Thunderland 12 gives:
2,473-3,326 coins
370 Common
34 Rare
5.15 (average) Epic

If you could run either non-stop, then Thunderland 12 is hands down the better choice. With the additional pins given, you could theoretically max all Common pins faster than just maxing the 16 by running Brumaks.

HOWEVER, the issue I have is that you get far fewer replacement Thunderland thumpers, so you will eventually run out and have to run Big Butcher 12 to farm more Thunderland thumpers. This is where the efficiency of Thunderland goes out the window.

Big Butcher 12 gives:
832-1,121 coins
200 Common
15 Rare
0.15 (average) Epic

When you factor the amount of farming you have to do by running Butcher, Thunderland becomes less efficient. But Brumak gives so many replacement Brumak thumpers that you could literally never stop to farm in another thumper.