Prestige -> "additional Loadout Slot"?

[® | rubbel.]

Hello all,

As part of the roadmap leading up to the Ascension Update, the team wrote:

"Levelling and prestiging

Each level's required experience increases as you level, and that amount increases further the closer you get to level 100. For example; you'll need 100xp to get from level 1 to 2, but over 5000xp to get from level 99 to 100.

When you finally reach level 100 you'll be presented with a choice:
Continue playing as you are, levelling past 100*
Or at any time, you can opt to prestige; resetting your money, level and equipment, in favour of gaining an additional Loadout Slot, a new unique badge and title for your ID card, and a new patch for your player's arm"

I don't care about the cosmetics, but what does "Loadout Slot" mean? Before the update was released, I thought it meant I could carry 4 items instead of 3 (+ headcam).

However, whenever I see people discussing prestige, it seems like everyone is experiencing NOTHING but a badge, or they're discussing an upcoming level rework in the next updates.

So?

Has anyone figured out what the Loadout Slot actually means? Please don't tell me it's just the main menu/item loadout menu? :D

Thanks.

[Emurinus]

Loadout refers to the equipment you bring into a contract, not how many items you can carry.

[WolfLink0370]

It has always meant loadout in the context of the loadout system... every time you prestige you get another configuration slot you can customize to your liking. The actual carrying capacity was never affected as that is a conflict of interest in terms of overall game balance.

So yeah... in other words... it's EXACTLY what you didn't want to be told.

[® | rubbel.]

sad :D

im not a native english speaker so i got that wrong at the beginning.


ok thx, no need for prestige i guess, until i MAY want to start from cratch

thank you guys

[Xaks32]

Originally posted by ® | rubbel.:

Has anyone figured out what the Loadout Slot actually means? Please don't tell me it's just the main menu/item loadout menu? :D

Thanks.

Currently, there's 8 Slots to which you can save equipments to, each these allow you to setup and load different equipments for different occasions, for example currently you can have tier 1 equipments for when you get a new prestige level and need to start from level 0 again with tier 1 equips; at the same time you can have a different loadout for online game, only buying tier 1 smudge sticks for playing random players and have a different loadout with tier 3 smudge sticks for when you want to play actual friends on steam.

So what the devs mean is that when the new patch come, we'll all start with only 1 loadout available and get new loadouts as you get more prestige levels.

[Xaks32]

Originally posted by ® | rubbel.:

sad :D

im not a native english speaker so i got that wrong at the beginning.


ok thx, no need for prestige i guess, until i MAY want to start from cratch

thank you guys

Prestige levels let other players know how much experience you have at the game. That's important if you want players to listen to what you have to say for example.

Having a low prestige level may lead you to get kicked from multiple room/lobbies where people are trying to play harder modes like Insanity, custom or even bigger maps.

If the room owner thinks you have nothing to bring into the game he's starting, then he also might kick a low-prestige player solely based on that decision.

With a low prestige, most of the time you'll be stuck to playing low-level players who just want to troll and grief the game for you.

[Cosmoros]

For anyone who prestiged more than few times load outs have only one button. Its "add everything".

If you dont die there is no difference carrying entire load out or just few items.

[halflife2]

Originally posted by Order Prerogative:

For anyone who prestiged more than few times load outs have only one button. Its "add everything".

If you dont die there is no difference carrying entire load out or just few items.

...which is exactly why adding a loadout slot for "prestiging" is a complete nonsense; the extra slots would have far more worth to starting-out players than those with lots of experience (and cash). It seems to me that the artificial limiting of the number of slots and adding one whenever someone increases prestige seems an afterthought just to give players *something* for the increase in prestige.

[Cosmoros]

Originally posted by halflife2:

Originally posted by Order Prerogative:

For anyone who prestiged more than few times load outs have only one button. Its "add everything".

If you dont die there is no difference carrying entire load out or just few items.

...which is exactly why adding a loadout slot for "prestiging" is a complete nonsense; the extra slots would have far more worth to starting-out players than those with lots of experience (and cash). It seems to me that the artificial limiting of the number of slots and adding one whenever someone increases prestige seems an afterthought just to give players *something* for the increase in prestige.

Well there isn't really much of a point in this and also would require lobbies overhaul.

I mean as of now you can bring much more instruments than you need. Having ability to bring extra 20 smudge sticks will just make people burn them for funzies lmao.

Also the truck isnt made for this. You can't even fit more than set amount of items it accepts.

[WolfLink0370]

Originally posted by halflife2:

Originally posted by Order Prerogative:

For anyone who prestiged more than few times load outs have only one button. Its "add everything".

If you dont die there is no difference carrying entire load out or just few items.

...which is exactly why adding a loadout slot for "prestiging" is a complete nonsense; the extra slots would have far more worth to starting-out players than those with lots of experience (and cash). It seems to me that the artificial limiting of the number of slots and adding one whenever someone increases prestige seems an afterthought just to give players *something* for the increase in prestige.

Well one has to also keep in mind that prestige will unlock player customization options later on... once that feature is eventually implemented. Regardless though, they are never really going to be impacting gameplay directly... and for the sake of argument... yes, I'm taking into account the upcoming Ascension Adjustments experience/money boosts when saying that, and also considering both an indirect impact which ultimately does not matter in terms of the gameplay itself.

And there is a bit of merit to having multiple loadout configurations for more creative players now that we can rename them - for example... say you like doing those player made challenge runs, well for some that require a specific loadout setup... such as "Flames and Raves", you can just simply dedicate one or two of those custom loadout slots to being built for that challenge.

[halflife2]

Originally posted by WolfLink0370:

And there is a bit of merit to having multiple loadout configurations for more creative players now that we can rename them - for example... say you like doing those player made challenge runs, well for some that require a specific loadout setup... such as "Flames and Raves", you can just simply dedicate one or two of those custom loadout slots to being built for that challenge.

Yes - that is a good use case for them. It just seems unfair that they're only available to experienced players and not to new players where it could be particularly useful in micro-managing their gear.

[WolfLink0370]

Originally posted by halflife2:

Originally posted by WolfLink0370:

And there is a bit of merit to having multiple loadout configurations for more creative players now that we can rename them - for example... say you like doing those player made challenge runs, well for some that require a specific loadout setup... such as "Flames and Raves", you can just simply dedicate one or two of those custom loadout slots to being built for that challenge.

Yes - that is a good use case for them. It just seems unfair that they're only available to experienced players and not to new players where it could be particularly useful in micro-managing their gear.

well here's the thing with that as well... I have purposefully chosen to slow roll my prestige ranking and not focus on it too terribly much. With the limited slots I have available, I have three loadouts:

-one loadout designed specifically for solo play
-one loadout designed for a T1 Challenge (which will double as an early game loadout due to how the system doesn't auto update the selected tiers)
-and one loadout for a T2 challenge (basically not allowing myself to be super overpowered... which I feel would be a nice middle ground)

In most regards though... you can just get by with the provided ALL loadout for everything in terms of early prestige.