Medals cap at 250? wtf?

[SuddenImpact]

So apparently the medals cap at 250 because I didn't get any medals from the major order that was just completed, my daily order, or the mission I completed. That's quite a large amount of currency which is needed to unlock new gear. 250 is complete BS considering how many missions you have to run for the higher tier unlocks.

[Amaranth]

Originally posted by CritMasterFlex:

Next warbond drops 4/11

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/04/04/helldivers-2-gets-an-explosive-new-warbond-on-april-11/?sf272544282=1

https://twitter.com/PlayStationUK/status/1775916856475312567

Nice. The armor seems to be fire resistant

[Ando]

I've had max cap of medals for weeks now, it does kind of make the game not even worth playing, when all the stuff your gaining is just going into the void

[AuraFlash]

Originally posted by Amaranth:

Originally posted by CritMasterFlex:

Next warbond drops 4/11

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/04/04/helldivers-2-gets-an-explosive-new-warbond-on-april-11/?sf272544282=1

https://twitter.com/PlayStationUK/status/1775916856475312567

Nice. The armor seems to be fire resistant

it's gonna be explosive resistant, notice how 3 weapons do explosions.

[Celgaming]

Caps are:
50,000 for R credits
500 for normal samples
250 for rare samples
100 for super samples
150 for levels
infinite for super credits

[Sasha Mason]

Originally posted by Deep Rock Galactic:

Why would they cap that? It must be very graphically intensive to show a 4 digit number

Samples are limited like that too, at 500, 250 and 100, for Common, Rare and Supers respectively. My guess is they do that so that players who have been grinding the game lots dont just logon when new content drops and instant unlock everything with their like 5k medals and 10k samples.

Sea of Thieves has that problem, any new content they drop that you pay for with money is just instant unlocked by veteran players.

[Jhea]

Originally posted by grzesiek9229:

Originally posted by That person:

The medals are capped for a very good reason, to ensure that players can't buy an entire warbond when it comes out and will have to play games in order to obtain the last medals they need
Good idea if you ask me

Its ok idead but still the cap is too small. With 50k money its reasonable. With full cap you can buy many things. With 250 medal? Pfff, two armors and see you later...

looks like you can buy the first full page of a warbone with this, or cherry pick the first 2 pages of the new warbond.

don't see a problem there

[jim]

It would be helpful if the caps were clearly shown in the game. For example, 145/150 medals. That way, those, like myself, who weren't aware there was a cap would be better informed.

[Sanglaine]

This is a common practice for games like this. Games have been doing it as far back as WoW and possibly before that with tokens and honor caps. It's done to prevent you from just stacking up stuff too much.

In reality, this is a bad practice which causes people to go 'well, I'm not getting anything, so I guess I am done playing'. It's weird that people think that by locking the amount of tokens that it will boost their player numbers. In actuality, this causes an increased chance the player will find something else to do in between and not come back at all.

[AuraFlash]

Originally posted by Sanglaine:

This is a common practice for games like this. Games have been doing it as far back as WoW and possibly before that with tokens and honor caps. It's done to prevent you from just stacking up stuff too much.

In reality, this is a bad practice which causes people to go 'well, I'm not getting anything, so I guess I am done playing'. It's weird that people think that by locking the amount of tokens that it will boost their player numbers. In actuality, this causes an increased chance the player will find something else to do in between and not come back at all.

so you rather them get all of the ♥♥♥♥ in one go and not have anything to do/work towards. this is the EXACT problem with people in Destiny 2. they max out everything, prep for the next season with a bunch of completed bounties, then basically get to level 100 in one go and BOOM, in less then a week they have nothing to do because they maxed out the season. Then they ♥♥♥♥♥ and whine about not having anything to do.

[JuX]

Why didn't you simply spend the medals before it got that high?

Having unlimited cap for medals would be bad design choice as people would unlock entire new content the moment it arrives.

[Babyfaced Beauty]

Originally posted by SuddenImpact:

So apparently the medals cap at 250 because I didn't get any medals from the major order that was just completed, my daily order, or the mission I completed. That's quite a large amount of currency which is needed to unlock new gear. 250 is complete BS considering how many missions you have to run for the higher tier unlocks.

So far, premium warbonds take about 680 medals to complete.
You can farm 250 medals just playing the game, over the course of a week, or less if you play it LOTS.

Just because the weapons/armour are unlocked does not mean you get to use them all at the same time all of the time, you still have to pick your loadout, and oftentimes, you only use 1-2 of the new warbond.

The main new content are usually just the weapons and grenade, armour is usually something that you already own effects wise, and most people don't really care about cosmetics as all the armour look very similar to one another.

if just unlocking weapons and grenades, there's usually no problem with just 250 medals, maybe a little more, which would be easily achieved with 2 daily order and 1 major order.

Essentially, everything worth unlocking can be done within the first week of normal standard play if you've already banked everything to max.

[Babyfaced Beauty]

Originally posted by Sanglaine:

This is a common practice for games like this. Games have been doing it as far back as WoW and possibly before that with tokens and honor caps. It's done to prevent you from just stacking up stuff too much.

In reality, this is a bad practice which causes people to go 'well, I'm not getting anything, so I guess I am done playing'. It's weird that people think that by locking the amount of tokens that it will boost their player numbers. In actuality, this causes an increased chance the player will find something else to do in between and not come back at all.

They should leave and find something else to do if the only thing they look forward to is to complete some inconsequential 'list' that does not add anything beyond different coloured pixels.

You play a game to have fun, not complete worthless lists that nobody gives a crap about 10 years later.

Right now, I still reminisce about the times I played dota or left4dead 2 with friends. I don't remember how many of whatever skins or items I collected, just the fun times when we did ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Even couch coop games like overcooked I have far fonder memories than the current wow expansion.

I had more fun in the original WoW prior to any expansions. And same with diablo 2.

Those games retained my attention not because of novelty, but because of replayability and FUN. Novelty does not equate to fun. Look at Fortnite - no longer fun.

[Cotton Hill]

Originally posted by Hampamatta:

Originally posted by Deep Rock Galactic:

Why would they cap that? It must be very graphically intensive to show a 4 digit number

because they dont want people to just bank medals high enough so they can unlock the whole warbonds the second it drops.

Lol, they're probably pulling ungodly long workdays to provide an incredibly fun game. At least we have free will and can not purchase it right? And I've banked enough in game currency so I can get it for free. That'll teach em.

[Mu'Ammar of Carthus]

You people complain about cap if there is one.
And you would complain about "nothing left to do" if there's no cap and you can unlock everything the minute it releases.

Explain to me what they're supposed to do?

[Dedsmell]

Don't know about the medal cap but I've received really random amounts of medals - liberated Troost? I got 7 medals - Liberated the Creek? I got 1 medal - the only ones that I've had that seem to give you the exact amounts are the Personal Orders, probably because they can generally be completed in one game time frame