All the DLC weapons are free :(

[rolypoly]

I probably shouldn't complain, but I was actually looking forward to unlocking them with level or weapon score and saving up money for them like for the base game weapons. It seems kinda disappointing that you just get them all for free.

[Gared]

It's not that lol-worthy, when you think about it this way: I'm sure people wouldn't like it if you buy the Witcher DLC (which is a huge addon, really, with hours of content and great story) and just get top-notch sword for free.

Or let's say you get a DLC for that extra story and progression for your shooter, like Destiny 2.
And just go to your stash and get free weapons.

Or .. I don't know, Diablo. Or EVE Online.. Or what have you

It's not an outlandish thought, a DLC should never break progression, I think.
It just feels better.

You've paid real money for a game experience.
The game experience could be better if getting those guns was a part of progression.

If there was a box in the settings to tick, like "hardcore mode" - where you need to get guns through.. you know, hunting and achievement - I'd gladly tick it

And just let people who want immediate access to weaponry have their immediate access.

[Jonathan911217]

Sadly what the devs said was that they did have the in-game money in the beginning when you bought the DLC, but the yot negative feedback from players? They said that they didn't think it was fair that they bought something that they still needed to buy in game.....

which I don't agree with at all, but some people apparently don't like it, so why do they only please one side of the community?

So our solution is an option in the menu, to make DLC progression with in-game currency like a OFF and ON thing for those who wants to free guns for DLC and those who want to grind and buy it with in-game money.

So that would mean we can still buy all DLC's to support the game and also get our wish for us who wants to progression

[DRunkCoWBoy]

weapon dlc question

was about to buy the whole thing, really wondering if when i buy the weapon DLC's is it going to just give me the weapons or is it going to make me buy them?

[~D3FCON~]

You will have them, only if you have the required levels to use them though "Usually"

[Vazc0]

you'll be able to get them for free in the shop.

id really like to have an option to be able to purchase them though.

[DRunkCoWBoy]

Цитата допису Vazc0:

you'll be able to get them for free in the shop.

id really like to have an option to be able to purchase them though.

same

[Gared]

There are different views on this, but it completely makes sense.

You pay for a game experience that was created and placed by the development team.
This is how you support the game and it's future updates.
This is how you participate.

I would like my game experience to be meaningful and achievable, having a sense of progression. Because when something comes easily to you - you don't value it as much.

I enjoy something much more when I earned it and didn't just throw bucks in the air.
So, when the "hunter-me" gets a load of guns out of the blue - it feels like cheating.

[luckz]

Цитата допису Arkendight:

gets a load of guns out of the blue - it feels like cheating.

In that sense it's literally pay to win, and perhaps the game should ask you whether to unlock them for free or have you obtain some in-game money first to get these items later in the game.
Pre-order / DLC weapons have this issue that they have to be more relevant in the long run than whatever peashooter you start with, yet if they are the best end game choices, you might end up skipping the entire weapon progression.
Recent Assassins Creed games would be an example: by paying more for a 'Gold Edition' game you get a weapon that can serve you for dozens of hours and effectively reduces your motivation to try all the other weapon archetypes (available to you only in their basic, "bad" form). Why try a basic halberd, axe, dagger when your Legendary Fire Sword does at least twice the damage?

Since CotW is a sandbox game anyway, maybe you just have to do the next best thing and create a sandbox rule for yourself that you won't touch DLC weapons in the first 5-15 hours.

[Vazc0]

Цитата допису cwattyeso:

Цитата допису Vazc0:

you'll be able to get them for free in the shop.

id really like to have an option to be able to purchase them though.

You have purchased them, when you used real money or a steam gift card to buy the DLC. Thats when you paid for the guns. No sense in making you pay for them twice by then making you pay for them in game.

to me its not like ''making me buy it twice'' it feels like ubisofts timesavers to me. its like paying for a cheat. i like progression and a feel like money isnt worth anything anymore in this game. some more OPTIONAL moneysinks wouldnt hurt anyone.

[Jonathan911217]

Agree, please can more speak up on this, maybe the devs can finally give us an option to buy the guns with in-game money and progress through weapon score and yet also buy the weapon packs, so we can support the devs, but also for other people who like to buy the DLC and get the weapons right away. So why not give us the option that would benefit both players?

ON - In-game money and progress (get the guns through weapon score and in-game currency)
OFF - Free guns and no progress (get them right away, only needing to buy ammo)

[El Poto]

If you are a rich boy it might feel like cheating or "pay to win". I earn every single penny and living in Costa Rica means it literally takes me hours, so I don't want to waste my time in game. There are enough ways to expend your ingame cash. Unless, again, you are a rich boy that plays this 6 hours a day and you have hoarded millions already.

[Cederic]

Weapons that come as part of a reserve DLC you have to buy using in-game currency - e.g. the frighteningly expensive .470 that comes with Fernando.

Weapons that come with weapon packs need to be 'purchased' from the in-game store but are classed as 'free'. You do still end up spending a lot of money on ammo though.

[Vazc0]

Цитата допису El Poto:

If you are a rich boy it might feel like cheating or "pay to win". I earn every single penny and living in Costa Rica means it literally takes me hours, so I don't want to waste my time in game. There are enough ways to expend your ingame cash. Unless, again, you are a rich boy that plays this 6 hours a day and you have hoarded millions already.

progression is a really fun and important part of a game for many people. not everyone sees it as a waste of time.

thats why i said that id like to have an option. so everyone could choose if they want to get things for free or earn them.

[Jonathan911217]

well I agree on getting them for free or earn them....however, I won't not want to get them by earning them only and not by the DLC, because in doing so they wouldn't be able to pay themselves doing the game, so am all for paying for DLC's in order to keep making the game, but I do also expect them to listen to us community, because they have nothing to loose in doing like that, unless it's some coding or game issue that make it so that is not possible, but I wish they would give us an answer to this and really make it clear if it is possible in the future or not

[XLjedi]

Currently pay-to-win is literally the default on the DLC weapons.

It should be optional, and the checkbox should NOT default to the way it is now. Let the I-paid-Twice whiners ask their question and people can respond with, "So go check the box!"

Do these people play any other games at all with DLC expansions? That "I paid twice argument" boggles the mind. No... you paid real money once. Is there any other game out there that follows this model? I dunno, maybe it's just this genre for the non-gamer hunter-folk?

Most games I play have startup options, or cheat menus to specifically manage this sort of thing. Odd that they have taken this path. Must be something stupid in their code structure blocking it.