FC.31.20200211.22 - High Noon

kaiserin · February 2020

Lockbox

New Perk: Unlocking the Heart emote on 5 characters grants you the Big Heart title and unlocks the emote on your account.
New Perk: Unlocking the Overwhelming Power Costume Transformation on 5 characters grants you the Overwhelming Power title and unlocks the costume transform on your account
New Perk: Unlocking the Beam of Light Costume Transformation on 5 characters grants you the Spotlight title and unlocks the costume transform on your account.
These new missions are retroactive. You will have to log into the character with the unlocked item for credit. It may take a few moments to give credit. If you unlock an item on a character, you may need to relog for it to properly credit.

High Noon

Added journal category for this event.
Event enemies no longer drop currency, costumes or action figures. All costumes removed will appear in the Trade Paperback store at a later date.

High Noon: Event Store
Removed many items from the event store:

Flintlock Pistol and Card Sleeve costume can now drop from Cowboy Robots.
Knife Strap costume can now drop from Red Banner.
Metal Auras have been moved to the Champion Recognition store.
Branding Iron and Yodel devices have been moved to the Champion Recognition store.
Pickaxe and Sickle costumes have been moved to the Nemesis store.
Steampunk Goggles, Mouth Cover, Mask, Dino Maw Helmet and Eye Blade will appear in the Trade Paperback store at a later date.
Added a variety of items to the Misc store.

High Noon: Open Mission
The following items can drop from the open mission:

Cannon, Rustbucket, Steampunk Swords, Cowboy Boots and Steampunk Pistol costumes.
Military Emote and Countdown Costume Transformation .
Piercing damage threat booster and threat reduction mods.
Various action figures.

High Noon: Missions

New Mission: Complete High Noon at Snake Gulch mission 5 times. Awards the Poncho costume.
New Perk: Unlocking the Military emote on 10 characters grants you the Militia title and unlocks the emote on your account.
New Perk: Unlocking the Whistle emote on 10 characters grants you the Whistler title and unlocks the emote on your account.
New Perk: Unlocking the Countdown Costume Transformation on 10 characters grants you the Final Countdown title and unlocks the costume transform on your account. Known issue: It is currently crediting after unlocking 1.
These new missions are retroactive. You will have to log into the character with the unlocked item for credit. It may take a few moments to give credit. If you unlock an item on a character, you may need to relog for it to properly credit.

Toy Master

Removed Toy Master exchange store for High Noon.
Perks removed from the store have been changed to grant when you unlock or use their respective items.

Alerts

Added Ascii Oakley as a new Grab alert boss.

spinnytop · February 2020

Clever girl. Bridging the gap between bind on pickup and bind to account.

speanoz · February 2020

Clever indeed! I kind of like that compromise.

avianos · February 2020

OOOOOOOOOOH THIS IS VERY NICE QUALITY OF LIFE and a way to close the gaps between Bound on Character and Account Wide costume transformation and Emotes

Now this motivates me to participate the event more to unlock them

Toy Master
Removed Toy Master exchange store for High Noon.
Perks removed from the store have been changed to grant when you unlock or use their respective items.

At this point, why even bothering keeping around Toy Master?
You took his job

Metal Auras have been moved to the Champion Recognition store.

G O O D
Getting those auras as rewards felt like a punishment, barely anyone uses them and I cannot even get to sell them to get rid of them

warcanch · February 2020

For all of these "do THIS on 5 chars" "do THAT on 10 chars" I hope you don't just remove any incomplete missions from characters after the event is over. Not everyone plays 168 straight hours to get everything before the event ends.

avianos · February 2020

BUG: Debugger's and Drifter's Snake Bucks are not regognized by the Updated Event Store

Suggestion: PLEASE create a new costume unlock for [Gear Sword] that unlocks it for Martial Art Blades, TK Blades and side costume! Please don't have this sword only available for Heavy Weapons
Im suggesting updating the original costume unlock, but creating brand new item!

The costume tab in the event shop feels so empty now... only 5 Costumes are available

In fact the event Token's value is non-existing if you already have everything from the store

Added a variety of items to the Misc store

Could use some more additions, also new mod

Did L1L-D0GG13 got replaced or renamed-updated?
The High Noon Sidekick: Override gives L1L-D0GG13 but a reverse-coloured of the sidekick is available in Drifter tab
Binding the Sidekick on a weekly mission is better, having only one week to gather Tokens for L1L-D0GG13 was terribly tight

New Mission: Complete High Noon at Snake Gulch mission 5 times. Awards the Poncho costume.

More like a cape, Less thana Poncho to be honest! I was expecting the front part of the costume to cover more of the chest, even partially
SUGGESTION: PLEASE make available Poncho in the Neck accessories and Collar categories! More costume versiality

5 and 10 Character to account wide Unlock features

Hmmm kinda hard to test this in PTS with 2 Max character limit for Silvers
Bug: Unreletable for this update, But the 1 Character slot from Debugger can't be used despite only have 2 characters in PTS

jebidiahbeetus · February 2020

So you've removed a bunch of costumes from the event store, took away the ability to earn Snakebucks by trading action figures to Toy Master, removed any form of drop reward from farming event enemies, and created exactly one new costume piece for the duration of the event?

After we unlock the Poncho, what exactly is the motivation to participate in this event again?

bringmeaslab · February 2020

Is the whistling emote something new to this iteration of the event, or something I somehow missed on previous ones?

kaiserin · February 2020

You can delete a character, make a new one and unlock the item. Deleting a character with the emote/costume transform won't take away from the perk progress.

mordray001 · February 2020

kaiserin#0958 wrote: »

You can delete a character, make a new one and unlock the item. Deleting a character with the emote/costume transform won't take away from the perk progress.

Good to know, but that still seems like a lot of wasted time for those of us that don't even have eight characters... I can barely find the time to juggle three of them... lately not even one...

spookyspectre · February 2020

kaiserin#0958 wrote: »

Alerts
Added Ascii Oakley as a new Grab alert boss.

Nice! I think it's great that alerts are being updated with new bosses. Keep'em coming!

bluhman · February 2020

Not feeling it. I can basically make something that looks like this using a Takofanes Mantle or that Toy Soldier Collar piece.

Would prefer it if it was something similar to a chest or very-long-collar piece. Something that extends down past the chest and arms. Wouldn't use cape physics, but rather would use rigging to the upper-body area.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. Compare the T-pose to resting stand pose:

(stylistically not what we're going for but the principle of how this thing is rigged hopefully is pretty clear.)

Something like this is not a costume piece any existing piece can really achieve, so it'd be a really welcome addition compared to the faux-poncho above.

chaosdrgnz43 · February 2020

Shame we need to empty our overflow bag from YEARS and YEARS of uSeFuL items just to unlock bloody emotes and transformations. Please add a Discard All button in Overflow bag.

And it's nice to see that the account wide unlock will count for the new perk.

avianos · February 2020

When you said we were getting Poncho unlock
THIS IS what I had in mind, not just another cape variation

What a let down

qawsada · February 2020

I do hope this "Unlock 5 Lockbox emote/transformation" will be a thing for the previous Lockbox emote/transformation. Its worth mentioning Yodel require the Vigilance Committee perk and Iron Brand require Deputy. Both require 300 SCR. Each Metal Aura are 50 SCR and no perk. Archery/Munition Pierce now has a threat mod and a de-threat mods for 10 snake buck each.

As for the Ascii Oakley alert, are you going to give it a separate tab on the mission tab or are we going to have to wait for the Ascii Oakley alert to randomly pop up in the GRAB section?

aesica · February 2020

Work your way towards account-wide unlocks? You know, I actually really like this as long as there's no sneaky way to force-reset progress after an event is over.

jebidiahbeetus · February 2020

avianos wrote: »

When you said we were getting Poncho unlock
THIS IS what I had in mind, not just another cape variation

What a let down

Yeah, it's not a poncho. It's a scarf with a cape attachment.

avianos · February 2020

qawsada wrote: »

Its worth mentioning Yodel require the Vigilance Committee perk and Iron Brand require Deputy.

OOOOH that's interesting, Both of those perks are for 100 and 1000 Nemesis Cowboy Minions defeats!
I like this, spread more existing perks for item requirements

jaazaniah1 · February 2020

Just wait, soon there will be a "Complete Vigilance 5 times on 5 characters" reward. I.e. 25 total completions.

unexistant · February 2020

Just got around to testing on the PTS, and was REALLY shocked to see that the attachment back for the Poncho doesn't have a "None" option (at least for the male characters, haven't checked females). It's a really cute costume piece and could really benefit from having the cape attachment as optional.

Also noticed that the snakebucks you can obtain from the debugger do not work for the ingame event store. Hopefully this doesn't bleed over into live.
https://i.imgur.com/6uYXtTm.jpg

spinnytop · February 2020

avianos wrote: »

When you said we were getting Poncho unlock
THIS IS what I had in mind, not just another cape variation

What a let down

Yeah. There are many cool things that would unfortunately lead to super jank once our characters start moving around .-.

jaazaniah1 wrote: »

Just wait, soon there will be a "Complete Vigilance 5 times on 5 characters" reward. I.e. 25 total completions.

That'd just be a "do what you do normally" thing tho, so it doesn't really fit with what they've been doing. Now on the other hand if they added a "Extended War" thing that was "complete The Long War X times", now we're talking! of course that still doesn't make people do events.

FC.31.20200211.22 - High Noon

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