Not a fan of the upcoming past season reward changes

[GFJ]

I'm not so hot on the changes to past seasonal rewards. I'd rather they kept the current system of putting previous rewards into the already existing sources, rather than having players work on past seasonal progression pass tracks.

To clarify, I'm all down for letting us change the content and face more bots and pox, that's something I'm in favour of, it's just the reward tracks I'm not.

And I should preface this by saying that I'm an old greybeard, who has been playing since before 1.0, and I've finished every progression pass as it came out, so this won't affect me, and I'm only speculating as to the effect on others, and how they feel about the current system.

My biggest fear is that DRG already has a bunch of reward systems and currencies. We have bonus objectives, assignments, KPIs, cargo crates, lost equipment, machine events, progression passes, deep dives, the forge, the shop, the equipment terminal, the skins from that, credits, minerals, brewing ingredients and barley bulbs, phazyonite, overclocks, character, profile and progression pass EXP, scrip...

And I've probably forgotten a bunch. I fear a new player will be overwhelmed and wondering what to focus on first.

Now, I will hand it to the devs, pretty much all of these can be acquired by just playing the game normally. I know of some games where you have to play or grind a specific mode, and DRG really doesn't have that.

But, this is adding another system, namely having to swap your progression pass, which I feel is unnecessary, as I kinda like what is currently already in place.

I know it's probably too late to backtrack. But I would hope the devs would do so and keep this part of the game as is.

[Nightwolf]

Eh it was necessary. For reasons beyond comprehension gsg can’t seem to hire anyone with innovation talent so they just kind of have to crash the bus into the wall over and over until they get it right.

What they are trying to do is right they just have not figured out how to do it in a user friendly way

They have all these seasons and it was inevitable for these seasons to be in a simultaneous rotation they just have not figured out how to make that work. So this is them crashing the bus into the wall. It will go through iterations before they get it right

[Smetrix]

I find it to be less overwhelming than previous, since items from past seasons were just placed into cosmetic cores and cargo crates, which only unlocks the cosmetics for one class at a time.

This way, you can also play seasons you missed out on, and can get cosmetics that you want without praying to RNGsus (subtracting those that existed before seasons).

[💾Mimind💾]

Nah..

[Tyyne]

Pushing one more button is overwhelming?

[kestrel]

if anything the current system is extremely hostile against new players already. loot is divided across multiple different pools and there's no way to tell which specific reward is available from what pool unless you look it up externally. and then you have to hope to randomly get the one (1) item you want out of the dozens of other items in the pool

this new system of choosing your pass is ultimately better as it grants players more control over the rewards they get and how quickly they get them. you see something you like, you find which pass it's in, and you work through the pass until you get it. much simpler and easier

i will say it's not a perfect implementation - i think old passes should have a slight boost to XP gain (+%20 would be appropriate imo) so you can work through them faster - but it's so much better than what we have now

[Naii Starwing]

Oh, when these drop, you bet your beard I'll be working for it. Just glad this game won't have hard FOMO anymore. Wish more game devs did this.

[GIRL]

Originally posted by kestrel:

i will say it's not a perfect implementation - i think old passes should have a slight boost to XP gain (+%20 would be appropriate imo) so you can work through them faster - but it's so much better than what we have now

That sounds nice on paper, but then new players who are also weirdly obsessed with min-maxing rewards would just avoid the new season entirely because they "should just wait until it's an old season and gets a 20% xp boost" or something.

[Blargo]

For some perspective on the opposite side of the spectrum:
I only started playing this game in season 4. Over 800 hours of playtime later, I am still not done obtaining cosmetics from crates, lost packs, & overclocks, and I'm not sure how many more there are left to obtain.

There was one specific beard I found early on that I thought would fit well with my Engineer's style, and I only just recently obtained it from a cosmetic overclock a couple months ago.

[pix]

Originally posted by Blargo:

For some perspective on the opposite side of the spectrum:
I only started playing this game in season 4. Over 800 hours of playtime later, I am still not done obtaining cosmetics from crates, lost packs, & overclocks, and I'm not sure how many more there are left to obtain.

There was one specific beard I found early on that I thought would fit well with my Engineer's style, and I only just recently obtained it from a cosmetic overclock a couple months ago.

yeah this is pretty much why they are doing it this way. im at 400 hours and I still dont have a scout armor paintjob i have been wanting since i seen it ona guy in one of my first missons T-T

[Derpykat5]

The loot pool bloat was a far greater issue. We have seasons running anyway, being able to switch between them isn't going to cause more decision fatigue, but even if it does this is the lesser of two evils.

[Frisky]

Originally posted by Frisky:

I've cleaned out every battlepass so the system doesn't affect me regardless

but personally if i was a new player I'd rather grind a battlepass of my choice knowing I'll consistently earn progress towards what I want instead of slogging through cargo crates and lost packs only spawning sometimes and giving me 1 items out an absurdly bloated lootpool

[Chibbity]

Originally posted by Frisky:

Originally posted by Frisky:

I've cleaned out every battlepass so the system doesn't affect me regardless

but personally if i was a new player I'd rather grind a battlepass of my choice knowing I'll consistently earn progress towards what I want instead of slogging through cargo crates and lost packs only spawning sometimes and giving me 1 items out an absurdly bloated lootpool

Same.

[Scuzz MB]

Okay, don’t pelt me with fruit for saying this. They should do exactly what they’re doing allowing the past seasons to be played, but offer previous season’s cosmetic to ALSO be paid DLC for like 2-4 dollars US each per season or something like that.

It doesnt violate their only cosmetic paid DLC pledge, and still allows players to grind for it if they want rather than pay.

I mean, if you’re just starting and wanted to grind through 4 season past plus the live season in progress it would take an immense amount of hours to be able to grind through it all. Unless they accelerate PP point collection for old seasons.

Does anyone know can you flip flop between seasons and keep progress for the one that isn’t active?

[Jimmy Hunter]

Originally posted by Scuzz MB:

Okay, don’t pelt me with fruit for saying this. They should do exactly what they’re doing allowing the past seasons to be played, but offer previous season’s cosmetic to ALSO be paid DLC for like 2-4 dollars US each per season or something like that.

Such a take should absolutely be pelted with fruit. Asking to be nickle and dimed is how we got to this place in video gaming in the first place. Just send them a check if you want to donate to them and play the game.

[kestrel]

Originally posted by Femboy Thighs:

That sounds nice on paper, but then new players who are also weirdly obsessed with min-maxing rewards would just avoid the new season entirely because they "should just wait until it's an old season and gets a 20% xp boost" or something.

i mean, ignoring the fact those players are a weird minority, i doubt anyone's gonna think that way when new updates for DRG are years apart at this point