What are the in-app purchases about

[Careful, I got a reputation.]

I noticed that the game has an In-App Purchases tag applied to it, can someone describe what they are

[Scamdiver]

There is currency, called SuperCredits. This currency can be obtained with MTX(buy with real money) and while playing the game. With this currency you can purchase 2 things:

1)Armor sets, 1 armor set is around 500-600 SC
2) Premium Warbond (1000SC) - it is something like BattlePass that allows you to unlock more items.

Even though the currency can be collected while playing the game. You usually collect around 10-20 SC per game (20-40min), unless you farm them intentionally.

[ImHelping]

There are super credits used to buy armor from a rotating list (usually with a combo of armor size + perk not in the standard unlocks, sometimes purely cosmetic). and also you can grind up to buy the DLC warbond.

A warbond is the wacky term for "This is your equipment and emotes unlock tree" which you feed standard mission rewards into.

While it is true you "never have to pay money" if you get lucky enough with finding mission loot. the most expensive costumes are 600, and if you don't outright buy the steel veteran warbond that is 1k credits.

And each pile you find is only worth +10, while the limited amount you get from warbond unlocks dries up. Also as the difficulty increases while there are more loot spots, RNG can still fill them with mid mission weapon pickups, basic medals or basic non cash shop unlock currency, or ♥♥♥♥ all when it is replaced with rubble.

Sometimes you get 30 credits in a easy difficulty mission with only a few loot spots. Other times you scour an extreme map under fire and find none.

Finally, you can pay for supercredit packs outright ($20 for 2,100 biggest). which is the in app purchase. But it seems trying to buy those is buggy as ♥♥♥♥.

I HAVE ground up for my favorite rotating shop costumes, but yeah. It is both much better than other games (allowed to grind at all, possible solo on baby difficulty if you really want to grind for em), And also worse (It will never be as generous as people tell you it is).

Luckily, one of the big deals they are making out of the system is that none of the stuff they come out with will expire... whenever they come out with new ones, anyways.

God only knows how long the "two costumes rotate every two days" wait will be once they start adding new suits to that. But Supposedly the big stuff like more warbonds will always be for sale instead of limited time.

[Jiffypop]

Pay to win, no matter what people try to say or spin it about.

[Oro]

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Pay to win, no matter what people try to say or spin it about.

illiterate

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Pay to win, no matter what people try to say or spin it about.

Originally posted by Oro:

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Pay to win, no matter what people try to say or spin it about.

illiterate

I mean, the knight SMG from the super pack IS literally better than the starter assault rifle, because the assault rifles are all disappointing call of duty trash.

"oh my! unlocked the medium piercing assault rifle that will not bounce off of weakspot radiator vent on sniper towers!"
*4 mags later it isn't even smoking*
"....♥♥♥♥ this I'm calling in a nuke"

The guns inside the warbond you have to grind medals for are the ones that are all to """"trade off"""" cursed to be worth it. But the SMG they just hand you by default? So good it really is pay2win compared to your assault rifle.

Defender SMG in the default unlocks is also real good and basically functions like the assault should. It is more accurate in 3rd person while crouch strafing than the assault rifles are standing still with the scope zoomed in, jesus.

[Ghost from warp]

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Pay to win, no matter what people try to say or spin it about.

its not, you can buy access to prebium bond, not items in it. and sc armor is basicaly the same as regular armor you can buy in standard warbond. just with different cosmetic to it.

you can also buy premium warbond after you finish regular one. Ofcourse, if you playing only medium - you will do it in 500 years, but high difficulty pays some fat stacks of medals

[Jiffypop]

Originally posted by Ghost from warp:

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Pay to win, no matter what people try to say or spin it about.

its not, you can buy access to prebium bond, not items in it. and sc armor is basicaly the same as regular armor you can buy in standard warbond. just with different cosmetic to it.

you can also buy premium warbond after you finish regular one. Ofcourse, if you playing only medium - you will do it in 500 years, but high difficulty pays some fat stacks of medals

Being ABLE to unlock the premium warbond doesn't mean a whole lot when it takes hours and hours to get the necessary premium currency for it. I'm 60 hours in, and I'm 30 away from 1000 super credits (I haven't spent any at all.). I exclusively play Helldive as well, so unless drops are boosted there, you're penalized for playing on a higher difficulty.

[Botji]

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Originally posted by Ghost from warp:

its not, you can buy access to prebium bond, not items in it. and sc armor is basicaly the same as regular armor you can buy in standard warbond. just with different cosmetic to it.

you can also buy premium warbond after you finish regular one. Ofcourse, if you playing only medium - you will do it in 500 years, but high difficulty pays some fat stacks of medals

Being ABLE to unlock the premium warbond doesn't mean a whole lot when it takes hours and hours to get the necessary premium currency for it. I'm 60 hours in, and I'm 30 away from 1000 super credits (I haven't spent any at all.). I exclusively play Helldive as well, so unless drops are boosted there, you're penalized for playing on a higher difficulty.

I am 33.8 hours in and have already unlocked the last page and the 80 medal gun on the premium warbond without paying anything for it.

So pretty much got the 1000 premium cash quite a few hours ago since I have since then been able to gain the required few hundred medals to progress through almost the entire thing already which is included in those 34 hours.

Admittedly a large chunk of that premium cash comes from the normal warbond that gives you like a few 100 premium and 50 premium 'unlocks' in it but the premium warbond also has some of those so I have gained back 200 with another 100 I can 'unlock' in the premium warbond I think?

Basically you pay gain like 500+ premium cash from the free warbond, gain the rest from missions 20-40 each, spend the 1000 premium cash on the premium warbond, gain 300(?) premium cash back from it.


Its really not as bad as you claim it to be.

[Eudicots]

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Being ABLE to unlock the premium warbond doesn't mean a whole lot when it takes hours and hours to get the necessary premium currency for it. I'm 60 hours in, and I'm 30 away from 1000 super credits (I haven't spent any at all.). I exclusively play Helldive as well, so unless drops are boosted there, you're penalized for playing on a higher difficulty.

You can easily farm 100-160 super credits in an hour. From my experience, you get the same amount of super credits regardless of difficulty. You also do not need to evac to take it with you. Players basically pay to skip about a 10-hour grind at most.

[Jiffypop]

Originally posted by Eudicots:

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Being ABLE to unlock the premium warbond doesn't mean a whole lot when it takes hours and hours to get the necessary premium currency for it. I'm 60 hours in, and I'm 30 away from 1000 super credits (I haven't spent any at all.). I exclusively play Helldive as well, so unless drops are boosted there, you're penalized for playing on a higher difficulty.

You can easily farm 100-160 super credits in an hour. From my experience, you get the same amount of super credits regardless of difficulty. You also do not need to evac to take it with you. Players basically pay to skip about a 10-hour grind at most.

But you're not playing the game. You're just grinding for super credits. I want to, you know, play the game? Fight bugs, play on hard difficulties, and extract. I don't want to run around the map on level 1 difficulty for 30-40 missions just to get super credits.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

Originally posted by Jiffypop:

Originally posted by Eudicots:

You can easily farm 100-160 super credits in an hour. From my experience, you get the same amount of super credits regardless of difficulty. You also do not need to evac to take it with you. Players basically pay to skip about a 10-hour grind at most.

But you're not playing the game. You're just grinding for super credits. I want to, you know, play the game? Fight bugs, play on hard difficulties, and extract. I don't want to run around the map on level 1 difficulty for 30-40 missions just to get super credits.

And that's your choice. Earn them in game or pay for them. I, personally, found them very easy to farm with friends. And I'm not doing it on Level 1 difficulty. I get them when I'm farming for samples at Level 7 or higher. Plus, you get some from every page of the War Metal shop.