Deluxe edition early unlocks?

[That Dodogama]

Do we know what, exactly, this means? Are the parts just going to be available earlier in the story missions than they normally would be?

[tvtim]

Considering that the early unlocks all appear to be primary gundams from various series, I'm going to assume it's just unlocking them before you'd run into them in the game. I highly doubt they'd leave main character gundams in a pre-order...or at least they ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ better not.

[That Dodogama]

Originally posted by tvtim:

Considering that the early unlocks all appear to be primary gundams from various series, I'm going to assume it's just unlocking them before you'd run into them in the game. I highly doubt they'd leave main character gundams in a pre-order...or at least they ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ better not.

Mostly I'm worried they're going to do something like leave some mobile suits out of the game, and trickle them in over time and try to do like 'live service' games.

[FentaRino]

Originally posted by tvtim:

Considering that the early unlocks all appear to be primary gundams from various series, I'm going to assume it's just unlocking them before you'd run into them in the game. I highly doubt they'd leave main character gundams in a pre-order...or at least they ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ better not.

They are just early unlocks, pretty sure I saw parts of some of these in the demo videos

[Outsider]

I'm more concerned about 5 story missions, that seem to be straight up cut from the standard edition.

[FentaRino]

Originally posted by Outsider:

I'm more concerned about 5 story missions, that seem to be straight up cut from the standard edition.

Unless you are talking about season pass ones, these are probably to farm HG/MGs

[Albertobi]

iirc GB3 locked suits behind "story" DLCs, especially new ones

[D-Lusional]

Originally posted by That Dodogama:

Do we know what, exactly, this means? Are the parts just going to be available earlier in the story missions than they normally would be?

They'll most likely to be placed into our inventory as HG models as soon as we boot up the game. If the EX Skill system in GB4 is the same as GB3 we can use skills like Moonlight Butterfly or Trans-AM to master them earlier to be usable with other gunpla that don't use the gunpla body parts required for the skills.

Originally posted by Albertobi:

iirc GB3 locked suits behind "story" DLCs, especially new ones

They also locked new builder parts behind those DLC side missions. But we've more or less got all the builder parts that're bound to be in GB4 so I wonder if new dioramas are going to be unlocked instead.

[FentaRino]

Originally posted by D-Lusional:

Originally posted by That Dodogama:

Do we know what, exactly, this means? Are the parts just going to be available earlier in the story missions than they normally would be?

They'll most likely to be placed into our inventory as HG models as soon as we boot up the game. If the EX Skill system in GB4 is the same as GB3 we can use skills like Moonlight Butterfly or Trans-AM to master them earlier to be usable with other gunpla that don't use the gunpla body parts required for the skills.

Originally posted by Albertobi:

iirc GB3 locked suits behind "story" DLCs, especially new ones

They also locked new builder parts behind those DLC side missions. But we've more or less got all the builder parts that're bound to be in GB4 so I wonder if new dioramas are going to be unlocked instead.

Oh I'll be mastering Trans am first thing or super mode, those come handy

[Silver Nightbane]

I'm guessing what that means if they're giving you the Gunpla that is shown in the "Early Unlock" right out the gate.

[deuxhero]

In the previous games the options for Gunpla you could buy in the in-game store was limited by your story progress. The lack of the original Gundam on the early unlocks implies the same or similar. Presumably they either hand you a set of each kit, or literally just let you buy them in the store right away.

[Deiser]

My guess is the 5 story missions is how we will get the early unlock parts, or at least duplicates of them (if we accidentally melt what we got for leveling other parts or for other uses). 3 base kits in five levels seems pretty rational.

[FentaRino]

Originally posted by Deiser:

My guess is the 5 story missions is how we will get the early unlock parts, or at least duplicates of them (if we accidentally melt what we got for leveling other parts or for other uses). 3 base kits in five levels seems pretty rational.

These are season pass with new units

[FentaRino]

Originally posted by deuxhero:

In the previous games the options for Gunpla you could buy in the in-game store was limited by your story progress. The lack of the original Gundam on the early unlocks implies the same or similar. Presumably they either hand you a set of each kit, or literally just let you buy them in the store right away.

It was limited by what unit parts you got from drops

[Shakky Git]

The Early unlock simply means you will start with one of each of these gunpla. But they are all going to be lvl 1. So you would have to upgrade them if you want to use them while you play. You will also run into them through simply playing. The only thing thats actually exclusive to any preorder is the Gunbarrel Strike Gundam. But odds are that will be added as a buyable DLC later. However the only reason to preorder is to guarantee the Gunbarrel Strike parts. Which to be fair is only 2 rifles, a backpack and some stickers exclusive to that suit since the actual suit is just the Strike Gundam with different weapons.