gift box RNG question

[Agarillobob]

Hello, I was searching on this forum to no avail and I even consulted a search engine, but searching anything specific for this game is neigh impossible due to the popularity and amount of clickbait.

My main question is, if the loot in a gift box is predetermined or if it is randomised upon opening. So for example can I pick up 3-4 gift boxes on easy moons and bring them and open them on a hard moon to potentially receive better items?

[Mac]

This ...... is genius if it actually works that way, get a bunch of gifts, leave them alone but then go to titan and open them, if it works that way, thats some next level quota gaming lol.

[gabgab01]

i feel like the loot box contents are predetermined upon spawning of the loot box itself.

had a bug multiple times now where the loot box was bugged for someone and he could keep opening it, but it just dropped the same item over and over again.

but i think one way to test your theory would be to, well, test your theory.
you already proposed an easily executable experiment, so why don't you just maybe grab a few friends, go to titan to find a lootbox, and bring that to experimentation and open it up there?

maybe do that a bunch of times and note the items and their value. maybe open titan loot boxes on titan ten times and record their value, then bring a titan lootbox to experimentation and open it there ten times and record what you see, and compare the numbers.

then you can share your findings here^^

[Derpykat5]

It would make more sense to have their contents determined upon spawning and not when opened, otherwise opening them while in orbit would be weird.

[Mac]

Originally posted by gabgab01:

i feel like the loot box contents are predetermined upon spawning of the loot box itself.

maybe do that a bunch of times and note the items and their value. maybe open titan loot boxes on titan ten times and record their value, then bring a titan lootbox to experimentation and open it there ten times and record what you see, and compare the numbers.

And keep note of what comes out of them, so open the same 4 boxes in 2 different locations and record if the item is different as well.

If its the same item each time, then yeah, the loot is predetermined and it has no purpose in storing them as boxes etc

[Nanikos]

No, the item's inside of the gift boxes are pre-determined the moment scrap spawns in on the moon that you are landing on, the item inside the gift box will use scrap from the moons loot table that you find it on, aswell as the rarities that the particular items are in a given moon's lootpool.

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by gabgab01:

i feel like the loot box contents are predetermined upon spawning of the loot box itself.

had a bug multiple times now where the loot box was bugged for someone and he could keep opening it, but it just dropped the same item over and over again.

but i think one way to test your theory would be to, well, test your theory.
you already proposed an easily executable experiment, so why don't you just maybe grab a few friends, go to titan to find a lootbox, and bring that to experimentation and open it up there?

maybe do that a bunch of times and note the items and their value. maybe open titan loot boxes on titan ten times and record their value, then bring a titan lootbox to experimentation and open it there ten times and record what you see, and compare the numbers.

then you can share your findings here^^

yea I came up with that idea today and will surely test it the next time I play if I can stop my friends from opening them on sight that is lol

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by Nanikos:

No, the item's inside of the gift boxes are pre-determined the moment scrap spawns in on the moon that you are landing on, the item inside the gift box will use scrap from the moons loot table that you find it on, aswell as the rarities that the particular items are in a given moon's lootpool.

okay that answers my question then thank you