Not sure how it compares to the other loadouts you can buy with real money, but I know you can't get these founder loadouts any more. Looks pretty awesome though.
Anybody know how they are restricting this for league play?
ur opsidian card is just a skin card, ur card is same good as the bronze card m92, nothing special about it and definitely not op/broken.
and now to levins question.
WTF why it should be a pay2win game...
1st u DONT need the loadouts cards and if u think that a stupid loadout card improves ur aim/gamesense then well, im speechless
2nd the loadout cards give u only 2 things
- different weapon (primary/secondary) and every weapon got pros/cons there arent rly op weapons..
- and perks (Lead 1 perk, Iron 2 perks, bronze 3 perks, everything above bronze also 3 perks JUST the skin is different), and the perks dont give u such an amazing advantage, only things like one more extra ammo clip or a warning that there is an airstrike or sth but if u got eyes u dont need it or reduction of the reload time and so on
3rd u can buy everything with INGAME coins... or would u also say that LoL is also a pay2win game? well then i will just buy a skin and think im new faker or sth...
Are you trying to imply that his 20% reduced reload time isn't a major advantage? That's almost the same as the average reload perk in CoD games and should make a pretty big difference.
Founder cards are just limited edition skins, the card you have is available exactly the same at bronze silver gold cobalt :p its called M92 best Skyhammer card there is atm so you got lucky that its that Obsidian card :D
Restrictions for league play used to be 1 of each assault to prevent spam, but is going to be reverted to 1 of each merc rule(kinda like mobas use without the pick and ban tho. but SD has 'confirmed' that drafting/pick and ban will come.
shoe(sd community manager) confirmed to me on steam that draft is 100% coming, but as an option so there will be different MM modes. But I would expect tournaments to get drafting tbh as its very 'pleasing' to casuals/viewers and adds a ton of depth fo things like casting etc. Personally i dont want it but oh well
draft cups now would just result in vassili, fragger, and then 3rd ban will be skyhammer on EV maps or nader on others and meta will turn into non spam aim only
Each merc has a loadout which is defined by the loadout card. Lead and Iron cards are shitty cuz you only get 1-2 perks/augments so you want to start with the bronze cards. Each merc has 1 (maybe 2) loadout cards which are better than the rest due to weapons/perks etc etc. Realistically you just wanna buy the merc and then buy the specific loadout card instead of opening the cases which provide some shitty tier card.
Honestly, the game isn't pay2win at all. Literally there is no pay2win, you could argue there is 'pay2avoidgrind' but there is no advantage gained from spending real money in the game. It allows you to take away some RNG factors but there is no advantage vs (what i feel is a small grind compared to f.e LoL) what you can unlock by playing the game. If you play average skill or better you can gain ~ 5000Credits in a 3/4 hour play session. You won't achieve this number at the start but once you get the hang of how to effeciently play for missions in pubs you can grind those things down FAST. There are 3 missions every 3 hours(refreshed every 3 hours) and those can earn you upto 3000 per 3 missions(so if u nerd hard 12 hours in the weekend you can grind max grind 12000 from missions alone) then there are first win of the day, first objective match, first stopwatch match which all gain you 500 each aswell so another 1500 on top of that 3000 for the missions, plus all the normal base credits you get for playing the game which for about 3 hours I'd say average at 2000 if you play effecient :P.
Currently there is quite the issue with botters since the anticheat is pretty fucking horrible atm, but that is mostly in matchmaking.
tl;dr, there is literally zero ingame advantage by paying vs a little 'grind' in DB atm. all 'most optimal loadout cards(weapons+perks for mercs) are all obtainable, imo, very easily
I remember seeing my first cheater a bit later on in the closed beta stage, from then I haven't really encountered any obvious cheaters playing pub. Only done one MM so can't comment on that,
I think you put it best with 'pay2avoidgrind', only thing I wish I had bought was Vassili (still don't have him) but back when all the mercs were available in the earlier beta I loved playing with him, and still the reason I play a little ET cause of sniping x)
As some have said, you only need to trade up for bronze cards (if you are like me and constantly draw iron cards with the free cases). What differs is the gun and augments, two primary guns and the augments are randomly allocated from a pot of augments available to that merc (e.g. sawbones will typically get healing related perks and one or two "common" perks).
What can cost you money is if you don't want to grind out in-game credits to pay for mercs you don't own (or want). If you just target to complete the daily challenges (they refresh every 2 hours or so) then you will earn the 50k odd credits needed fairly quickly.
theres very marginal advantage in having the right weapons and perks. classes a little bit more so. the thing is it doesnt take long to grind the few classes that you are gonna play (atleast at the start) and same for the cards. when you have put 1-100h at the game the last thing you should care about is having some really marginal advantage from loadouts, since you have so much bigger things to improve on
when you have played long enough to start thinking about that stuff, you already have plenty of credits to get everything
From my personnal experience, the game is not pay to win you can play everything with character rotation. But if you want to unlock everything you'll have to play very much and if you suck you won't win these 1000 credits per game more like 300. (50000 to unlock a new character and then you have to craft a card that will give you additional bonus on the character u bought)
People who pay with irl money get things faster than you but you can get everything by playing. If you choose not to pay, you'll have to use ur first credits to buy characters or you can use it to craft interesting cards but to do both you'll need to play a lot like I said.
The problem is that playing a lot on this game is boring to my mind since MM is broken and publics are full of inexperienced players sometimes even if on lv 10+ servs. When I mean MM is broken, if you choose to play alone you can get filled with 100% low- players who play call of duty and decided to buy dirty bomb looking only for frags and camping. In the other hand you can play with rly good players but it's just about luck, the system is not perfect yet pretty far from it. The retards can also be in front of you and same for the good players of course.
The solution is easy, just play with people you know and don't start MM alone, but once you do that, MM will be too easy and boring (it was my problem, I'm not saying it's everyone's problem).
If you got a good team, you can do scrims on private servers against some other good teams and the game is interesting that way I guess.
And I rly rarely saw aimboters, most of people whining are just not that good. cu
Not sure how it compares to the other loadouts you can buy with real money, but I know you can't get these founder loadouts any more. Looks pretty awesome though.
Anybody know how they are restricting this for league play?
and now to levins question.
WTF why it should be a pay2win game...
1st u DONT need the loadouts cards and if u think that a stupid loadout card improves ur aim/gamesense then well, im speechless
2nd the loadout cards give u only 2 things
- different weapon (primary/secondary) and every weapon got pros/cons there arent rly op weapons..
- and perks (Lead 1 perk, Iron 2 perks, bronze 3 perks, everything above bronze also 3 perks JUST the skin is different), and the perks dont give u such an amazing advantage, only things like one more extra ammo clip or a warning that there is an airstrike or sth but if u got eyes u dont need it or reduction of the reload time and so on
3rd u can buy everything with INGAME coins... or would u also say that LoL is also a pay2win game? well then i will just buy a skin and think im new faker or sth...
all i see is dolla signs when i start the game
Restrictions for league play used to be 1 of each assault to prevent spam, but is going to be reverted to 1 of each merc rule(kinda like mobas use without the pick and ban tho. but SD has 'confirmed' that drafting/pick and ban will come.
all in for draft cups
Each merc has a loadout which is defined by the loadout card. Lead and Iron cards are shitty cuz you only get 1-2 perks/augments so you want to start with the bronze cards. Each merc has 1 (maybe 2) loadout cards which are better than the rest due to weapons/perks etc etc. Realistically you just wanna buy the merc and then buy the specific loadout card instead of opening the cases which provide some shitty tier card.
Add me on steam if you need help you cunt
http://steamcommunity.com/id/fantasd/
ResX and ResY, dunno if you need to set it to read only.
Currently there is quite the issue with botters since the anticheat is pretty fucking horrible atm, but that is mostly in matchmaking.
tl;dr, there is literally zero ingame advantage by paying vs a little 'grind' in DB atm. all 'most optimal loadout cards(weapons+perks for mercs) are all obtainable, imo, very easily
I think you put it best with 'pay2avoidgrind', only thing I wish I had bought was Vassili (still don't have him) but back when all the mercs were available in the earlier beta I loved playing with him, and still the reason I play a little ET cause of sniping x)
What can cost you money is if you don't want to grind out in-game credits to pay for mercs you don't own (or want). If you just target to complete the daily challenges (they refresh every 2 hours or so) then you will earn the 50k odd credits needed fairly quickly.
link source:
http://dirtybomb.gamepedia.com
when you have played long enough to start thinking about that stuff, you already have plenty of credits to get everything
People who pay with irl money get things faster than you but you can get everything by playing. If you choose not to pay, you'll have to use ur first credits to buy characters or you can use it to craft interesting cards but to do both you'll need to play a lot like I said.
The problem is that playing a lot on this game is boring to my mind since MM is broken and publics are full of inexperienced players sometimes even if on lv 10+ servs. When I mean MM is broken, if you choose to play alone you can get filled with 100% low- players who play call of duty and decided to buy dirty bomb looking only for frags and camping. In the other hand you can play with rly good players but it's just about luck, the system is not perfect yet pretty far from it. The retards can also be in front of you and same for the good players of course.
The solution is easy, just play with people you know and don't start MM alone, but once you do that, MM will be too easy and boring (it was my problem, I'm not saying it's everyone's problem).
If you got a good team, you can do scrims on private servers against some other good teams and the game is interesting that way I guess.
And I rly rarely saw aimboters, most of people whining are just not that good. cu