Just bought to try - 2 immediate concerns

[Troy Muni]

1 - Needs single player viability.
2 - Game just launched and already has DLC with coins. Please tell me that the coins will only be used to purchase skins?

There are a number of these "survivor" games with upgraded graphics dropping daily at this point without any pay-to-win mechanics. You might as well take your ball and bat and go home now if that's the plan for Blackout Protocol.

[Raiser 💤]

What dlc? Does it have an in-game cash shop or what?

[bmcarbaugh]

I think there might be some confusion here :)

There is no f2P currency in this game. Period. Credits are an in-game currency only. You collect them from enemies during a run, and use them to buy single-run weapons/upgrades in safe rooms, as is the case in most games in the genre (e.g. getting coins in Hades and buying a short-term upgrade in Charon's shop). Persistent upgrades are obtained by turning in a different in-game currency, Data Nugs, which drop during play. Persistent weapon unlocks you get by finding and turning in blueprints.

There's no pay-to-win/cash-shop functionality *whatsoever* in Blackout Protocol.

[CryonicSuspension]

The zombies drop coins and you use them to unlock better guns.

[Troy Muni]

So the coins in the DLC are used to buy one-time use upgrades to weapons and armor. That means I have to keep spending coins if I want to maintain those upgrades on my character. If those coins can be bought over and over again with real $, what should we call that?

[EastX]

Originally posted by Troy Muni:

So the coins in the DLC are used to buy one-time use upgrades to weapons and armor. That means I have to keep spending coins if I want to maintain those upgrades on my character. If those coins can be bought over and over again with real $, what should we call that?

There's no DLC. Blackout Protocol is a roguelike and has that genre's typical metagame mechanics. Are you playing the game and viewing the store page in a different language than your native language?

[bmcarbaugh]

"So the coins in the DLC are used to buy one-time use upgrades to weapons and armor. That means I have to keep spending coins if I want to maintain those upgrades on my character. If those coins can be bought over and over again with real $, what should we call that? "

They can't. You can't purchase in-game Credits, Data Nugs, or Blueprints with real earth money. There is no real money involved, at ANY point in playing this game, aside from the initial purchase price of the game itself.

[CryonicSuspension]

Originally posted by Troy Muni:

So the coins in the DLC are used to buy one-time use upgrades to weapons and armor. That means I have to keep spending coins if I want to maintain those upgrades on my character. If those coins can be bought over and over again with real $, what should we call that?

Post a link to the DLC.

[Troy Muni]

Originally posted by bmcarbaugh:

"So the coins in the DLC are used to buy one-time use upgrades to weapons and armor. That means I have to keep spending coins if I want to maintain those upgrades on my character. If those coins can be bought over and over again with real $, what should we call that? "

They can't. You can't purchase in-game Credits, Data Nugs, or Blueprints with real earth money. There is no real money involved, at ANY point in playing this game, aside from the initial purchase price of the game itself.

That's good and i also no longer see it listed on Steam.

Originally posted by CryonicSuspension:

Originally posted by Troy Muni:

So the coins in the DLC are used to buy one-time use upgrades to weapons and armor. That means I have to keep spending coins if I want to maintain those upgrades on my character. If those coins can be bought over and over again with real $, what should we call that?

Post a link to the DLC.

It was 100% there when I bought the game this morning but I didn't add it to my cart. I believe it was listed as DLC but may have been packaged with soundtracks. I remember for a fact seeing it with 2500 coins, but I had no idea what the coins were for at the time.

[ODS_Jungsoo]

Originally posted by Troy Muni:

Originally posted by bmcarbaugh:

"So the coins in the DLC are used to buy one-time use upgrades to weapons and armor. That means I have to keep spending coins if I want to maintain those upgrades on my character. If those coins can be bought over and over again with real $, what should we call that? "

They can't. You can't purchase in-game Credits, Data Nugs, or Blueprints with real earth money. There is no real money involved, at ANY point in playing this game, aside from the initial purchase price of the game itself.

That's good and i also no longer see it listed on Steam.

Originally posted by CryonicSuspension:

Post a link to the DLC.

It was 100% there when I bought the game this morning but I didn't add it to my cart. I believe it was listed as DLC but may have been packaged with soundtracks. I remember for a fact seeing it with 2500 coins, but I had no idea what the coins were for at the time.

I am glad we resolved your concern. Also, we have never had DLC to sell credits(we call it credits not coins) as DLC - and as others have described credits doesn't exist outside of one session so that is not even possible to sell credits.

[Silent]

Bro over here writing some fan fiction about devs removing some magical DLC file in his review loooool