War Spoils - Open Beta

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 08:46 AMJohnnyB

Agreed, bulletins should mean something now, not to much of course but something.
And the cost of some items like commanders should be lower. Nice post.

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 08:50 AMPr3d4t0rS

Considering that you get 2k points for a victory (as shown in the screenshot) I think the prices are kinda fair. A new commander every 6th game...

The only think they should change is that duplicate commanders give more currency than duplicate bulletins

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 08:57 AMCyanara

Especially when, as Pr3d4t0rS says, it only takes 7.5 wins to buy a commander. Honestly, I would have made it closer to 20 wins. Why would anyone buy a commander with real money if they're that easy to get?

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 08:55 AMHighfiveeeee

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Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 09:01 AMKatitof

You have mentioned in the very relic announcement that you can get spoils OR currency through spoil drops.

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 08:59 AMHighfiveeeee

You do NOT get a commander after said amount of wins. The counter on the top right is NOT for the supply currency but for the time until the next war spoil drop. It takes way more time (and luck) to get a commander and it's mostly pure RNG again.

(This post is based of my Alpha experience and if this system has changed I'm very sorry and I'm gonna edit my posts)

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 08:55 AMHighfiveeeee

I haven't played the Beta, but the Alpha, were the points meant only the time until your next war spoil drop.

You cannot get any "currency" in other ways than salvaging double bulletins/commanders/skins.

(In the Alpha)

So yeah. That sucked. Nice to be able to talk about it now.
The new system is bad. You can't reliably accumulate points by playing games, you still have to "hope" for duplicates. This is simply stupid.

(Please remember that everything I wrote is based on my Alpha experiences, not Beta.)

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 09:04 AMCyanara

Haha, caught me out just before I could come back and edit it Yes, I just went and re-read it. Points do not equal supply currency, just the amount of time until you get a reward of some type, although supply dollars are now one of those rewards.

• Supply currency (implemented in the Beta), but not in the way they did it, but that the old RNG based drop system is abandoned. You get an amount of supply currency after a game based on how "intense" the game was (50 - 300 I would suggest). If you played a long, close game with many casualties, then you get more points instead of the 50 when playing a 5 minute 'surrender, gg'.
  
• 'Commanders on time' - you get a commander (you don't own yet obviously) and can try it for free for a week. After that the purchase of said commander is 25% cheaper.
  
• Boosters - You can get boosters that give you 10% - 50% more currency, or drops, or whatever (people who play WarThunder know what this is about)
  
• Boosters for your mates - Same stuff as above but also affecting your mates in team games.
  
• Sometimes, SOMETIMES the RNG drops as they exist now just for the mix. So you have a 10-20% chance to simply get an item after a game. (That you DO NOT own!)
  
  

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 09:16 AMHighfiveeeee

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Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 10:01 AM0ld_Shatterhand

So as a new player you wont get any duplicates, so no Supply coins (except via Warspoils) and no progress towards a commander.This lack of continuous progression was a major critic point back in the alpha, sad the did do so little to solve it.

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 10:05 AMHighfiveeeee

'Es muss demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.'


Relic doesn't want to change much because in their blind view of the gaming market they think that CoH2 will still get them a lot of money through purchases.

Jump back to quoted post4 May 2016, 10:16 AMJohnSmith

Because it's open to any user who is interested. You have to sign up, did you expect to get food stuffed in your mouth directly?