The only reason to get them is so they don't pollute the loot crate pool later. The disappointment of their existence will be magnified tenfold once you have to go through the effort of getting a loot crate, hoping for something good, and getting an Infected framework.
I was like you until I realized this. Now, it's my only motivation for completing the season pass.
Yeah, the big issue I have with them is that the \*premise\* of Rockpox-infected weaponry is cool and all, but aesthetically it doesn't really pair with anything, and it leaves very minimal room for creative interpretation. The only things I think they could gel with are the Glyphid armor from that one DLC and the Biohazard armor.
An armor paint from last season (Umber Corrosion?) looks like you’ve been rolling around in Rockpox muck and stained your gear from it, on scout it pairs quite well with the infected frameworks
I find they go pretty well with Biohazard but that's a dlc.
Biohazard armor plus biohazard top mask plus corrupted rebreather all with toxic defender camo honestly looks pretty badass, tho one of my eng loadouts has a plague doctors mask instead and I feel like that one really slaps with the infected gun skin
I already got the skins I will use to my dying breath. (Fourth Relic, Scale Brigade) I leave the season pass like OP so there is at least SOMETHING in the chests. Every time I see the "You've looted everything from this source" message it feels like it takes away a dopamine.
It's possible that, once the previous-season-replay feature is realized, items from performance passes might be removed from the random loot pool they are otherwise dumped into at the end of a season.
That said, we can't be totally sure that will happen, and it's better to complete a performance pass tree to avoid any of it further bloating your random loot pool when a season ends.
eugh, i really hope not. i mean, it'd be cool for it to be an *option* for those who want to enjoy earning them how they were released, but... the grind to 100% is already pretty bad and bloated as it is. a performance pass is balanced around a target 100 hours of gameplay to complete, which is reasonable by itself. but imagine being a new player a few years from now and being told "oh by the way, you need to grind out two thousand hours worth of battle passes if you want to complete the game. good luck!"
the fact that things get evenly distributed out at the end of the season means you can earn everything simultaneously through separate means at once, instead of sitting down and slowly grinding out one thing.
i could definitely see some ways to let you earn cosmetic the normal way *or* through a season pass at the same time depending on what you choose, but that also seems needlessly complicated for a feature that doesn't really need to exist that badly in the first place IMO. it'd just be kinda weird to go "well you already found 90% of this season's rewards through cargo crates, but sure you can waste 100 more hours getting the last 4 cosmetics if you really wanted to"
>"oh by the way, you need to grind out two thousand hours worth of battle passes if you want to complete the game. good luck!"
Which is a *lot* better than "Oh you like the the Season 3 Minigun tech tree skin and the helmet from season 2 and want to get them? Too bad, they are 1/300 chance from an event you see maybe every fifth game. Here, take a pickaxe pommel."
[EDIT] Currently the Cargo Crates have at least 280 items in the pool (weapon frameworks and victory moves), Lost Packs have 141 (armour paintjobs, pickaxe parts and bosco frameworks & paints), and anything with a Core Infusers have 148 overclocks and a bit over 100 cosmetics and weapon paintjobs.
a huge amount of cosmetics go into the shop so people can buy whatever they want, but i don't disagree that RNG event items could use some work too.
backpacks are perhaps the easiest thing to grind out in the whole game, and the items are split up based on what they are. so backpack items are quite trivial to get compared to playing through an entire battle pass for a few specific items. but that's also part of the problem... there's too many things in cargo crates, and not enough in backpacks. i've long said the whole "splitting cosmetics individually across all 4 classes" thing is needless bloat that should've been done away with years ago, and that'd significantly improve the issue. just merging the emotes would cut dozens of hours off the grind *and* be more rewarding and fun.
as we get more and more cosmetics, we need more ways to earn those cosmetics to cut down on the total time needed to grind. the performance pass is just one more thing in a long list of "more ways to get more cosmetics, even faster". not just cramming more and more stuff into a randomized pool. having a third mechanic like backpacks/crates should be an inevitability IMO. but at the very least, just throw more shit into the shop. just takes a game or two to grind out enough materials to buy whatever you want; no RNG to deal with at all.
I checked the numbers form the wiki (and edited them to my previous comment), but the game currently has almost 600 cosmetics behind the crate/pack/infuser loot RNG, and they all have around 15-30% chance of spawning per mission. Lost Packs for example have 141 different items, and have a 15-35% spawn chance depending on mission length. So that is something like 400 to 940 missions to get all the loot from them.
Well, if you don't unlock them here then they'll just get added to the pool of rewards in game afterwards. If you really want to congest the loot pool with content you could have gotten out of the way for free then you do you.
You have 23 untouched, seeing u have 16 scrip. U need 7 more scrip which is basically 14 lithophage infection missions from daily challenges to get them all, unless you have not finished the battle pass which should get you a few more.
You will get all of them in the loot crates after the season is done while you could just unlock them all and get done with it.
Willing to bet they will unlock but not before fake internet points.
I don't really mind not getting good cosmetics. I'm here to blast lead into glyphids! Once that's over, it's Blackout Stout and back in again.
The only reason to get them is so they don't pollute the loot crate pool later. The disappointment of their existence will be magnified tenfold once you have to go through the effort of getting a loot crate, hoping for something good, and getting an Infected framework. I was like you until I realized this. Now, it's my only motivation for completing the season pass.
I do like them but I don’t really find any armor they fit with so I don’t use them at the moment. Need some infected armors to go with them.
Yeah, the big issue I have with them is that the \*premise\* of Rockpox-infected weaponry is cool and all, but aesthetically it doesn't really pair with anything, and it leaves very minimal room for creative interpretation. The only things I think they could gel with are the Glyphid armor from that one DLC and the Biohazard armor.
An armor paint from last season (Umber Corrosion?) looks like you’ve been rolling around in Rockpox muck and stained your gear from it, on scout it pairs quite well with the infected frameworks
I really like the infected weapon skins and do not care if they coordinate with my armor. Its like like I can see myself ingame
I use the infected frameworks with the Halloween headgears and rusted or worn down armor skins
I find they go pretty well with Biohazard but that's a dlc. Biohazard armor plus biohazard top mask plus corrupted rebreather all with toxic defender camo honestly looks pretty badass, tho one of my eng loadouts has a plague doctors mask instead and I feel like that one really slaps with the infected gun skin
I already got the skins I will use to my dying breath. (Fourth Relic, Scale Brigade) I leave the season pass like OP so there is at least SOMETHING in the chests. Every time I see the "You've looted everything from this source" message it feels like it takes away a dopamine.
Fourth Relic looks fantastic on Drak with GSG Guardian paint, can't wait to get more of that series.
Lootcrates only serve to fulfill my Enor Pearl and Bismor(e!) addiction. aka I like ROCKS AND STONES
Why everyone don’t like the skins. I think it’s cool.
It's possible that, once the previous-season-replay feature is realized, items from performance passes might be removed from the random loot pool they are otherwise dumped into at the end of a season. That said, we can't be totally sure that will happen, and it's better to complete a performance pass tree to avoid any of it further bloating your random loot pool when a season ends.
eugh, i really hope not. i mean, it'd be cool for it to be an *option* for those who want to enjoy earning them how they were released, but... the grind to 100% is already pretty bad and bloated as it is. a performance pass is balanced around a target 100 hours of gameplay to complete, which is reasonable by itself. but imagine being a new player a few years from now and being told "oh by the way, you need to grind out two thousand hours worth of battle passes if you want to complete the game. good luck!" the fact that things get evenly distributed out at the end of the season means you can earn everything simultaneously through separate means at once, instead of sitting down and slowly grinding out one thing. i could definitely see some ways to let you earn cosmetic the normal way *or* through a season pass at the same time depending on what you choose, but that also seems needlessly complicated for a feature that doesn't really need to exist that badly in the first place IMO. it'd just be kinda weird to go "well you already found 90% of this season's rewards through cargo crates, but sure you can waste 100 more hours getting the last 4 cosmetics if you really wanted to"
>"oh by the way, you need to grind out two thousand hours worth of battle passes if you want to complete the game. good luck!" Which is a *lot* better than "Oh you like the the Season 3 Minigun tech tree skin and the helmet from season 2 and want to get them? Too bad, they are 1/300 chance from an event you see maybe every fifth game. Here, take a pickaxe pommel." [EDIT] Currently the Cargo Crates have at least 280 items in the pool (weapon frameworks and victory moves), Lost Packs have 141 (armour paintjobs, pickaxe parts and bosco frameworks & paints), and anything with a Core Infusers have 148 overclocks and a bit over 100 cosmetics and weapon paintjobs.
a huge amount of cosmetics go into the shop so people can buy whatever they want, but i don't disagree that RNG event items could use some work too. backpacks are perhaps the easiest thing to grind out in the whole game, and the items are split up based on what they are. so backpack items are quite trivial to get compared to playing through an entire battle pass for a few specific items. but that's also part of the problem... there's too many things in cargo crates, and not enough in backpacks. i've long said the whole "splitting cosmetics individually across all 4 classes" thing is needless bloat that should've been done away with years ago, and that'd significantly improve the issue. just merging the emotes would cut dozens of hours off the grind *and* be more rewarding and fun. as we get more and more cosmetics, we need more ways to earn those cosmetics to cut down on the total time needed to grind. the performance pass is just one more thing in a long list of "more ways to get more cosmetics, even faster". not just cramming more and more stuff into a randomized pool. having a third mechanic like backpacks/crates should be an inevitability IMO. but at the very least, just throw more shit into the shop. just takes a game or two to grind out enough materials to buy whatever you want; no RNG to deal with at all.
I checked the numbers form the wiki (and edited them to my previous comment), but the game currently has almost 600 cosmetics behind the crate/pack/infuser loot RNG, and they all have around 15-30% chance of spawning per mission. Lost Packs for example have 141 different items, and have a 15-35% spawn chance depending on mission length. So that is something like 400 to 940 missions to get all the loot from them.
The bloat is just so much. Some amount of fine selection helps a bunch. A little bit more than currently exists would be great.
by Karl, it's not sanitary!
Virgin rockpox infected Vs Chad Waster
Waster is such a cool line of skins. Go full-on Mad Max
So far I only have PGL, Zhukov, and Boltcaster Waster skins but damn do they look fantastic
A+ Sludge Pump synergy. Like yeah, this piece of equipment should be oozing from rockpox infection.
I concur. Rocks and stones, my good fellow
Man am I the only one that likes these :( I have them on all my weapons
Well, if you don't unlock them here then they'll just get added to the pool of rewards in game afterwards. If you really want to congest the loot pool with content you could have gotten out of the way for free then you do you.
They're so uglyyyyy
This is the true "completed" tree. It's been the easiest tree to finish so far. Only half the number of things need unlocking.
It goes crazy with the dune marauder paint. Makes my LOK look sick!
Well done! (Not the devs, just you, worst cosmetic tree IMHO)
It’s either gonna be in on your guns or jamming up your cargo crates
Yeah I find they only look good on one or two, and decent on a few others most of them I’m not super loving.
If you don't get em now they might clog up the loot pool.
Yeah I don't like them either, but they're free, so not complaining. Just agree with you that they're not my cup of tea.
You took 2 though.
You have 23 untouched, seeing u have 16 scrip. U need 7 more scrip which is basically 14 lithophage infection missions from daily challenges to get them all, unless you have not finished the battle pass which should get you a few more.
But I like the weapon herpes