The celebration continues with the new 4th Anniversary Lockbox, including a new VTOL jet, Legion gear and more! Plus: Every lockbox has a chance to include anniversary toys like party bombs and permanent water balloons!
Legion Gear is incredibly powerful, and is only available in lockboxes. With four slots for MODs, its stats can be extremely high, allowing you to specialize to exactly the build you want. This gear is level-appropriate, so you may want to open it on a Level 40 character.
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Scales to player size, I hope.
However, I do see a note of hope here - this VTOL design was one of the things that showed up in concept art. So now I get to still hold out hope that the Guitar Axe Heavy Weapon might still show up one day...
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Thanks for nothing.
All costume pieces that came with the lockboxes has something "linked" with the event that they start dropping or the lockboxes itself...
For the little pic of the Robot Samurai, it has some new costume pieces as well...
So... why the heck are we getting shark pieces??? I'm really confused...
Not complaining... just wondering...
Because we've reached the "F*** it, put 'em ALL in gambleboxes" stage of CO's downfall. Themes don't matter, rarity doesn't matter, the ability to sell the same set of items for a fixed price in C-Store as it's been done for years doesn't matter. Be prepared to feed $50 to the key dispenser for the chance to get what you paid $5 to acquire in the past, and still not receive everything you wanted to pay for.
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Or maybe Dr.Destroyer teams up with Hi Pan and outfits Hi Pan's Red Banner clan with Destrium Tech? And Sharks?
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Just random guessing on my part, though.
Yep, God forbid they just give us the stuff we want in the C-Store so we can just be happy.
Pretty much spot on......RIP C-Store Costume Sets
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I don't think she is, but she sure does. Honestly, I'd like Destroyer to give confirmation on that one way or another.
What was her name again? I am totally blanking on it, I think it may be due my Rage meteor hitting MAX.
I will try to see if I can find lore that states she is his daughter or not.
Madam Mayhem. She was one of the Design A Villain contest winners, so I doubt you'll find anything.
ooooh, I thought you guys were talking about the one who took over the robots on Monster island.
You may not like it, but Cryptic IS listening to its customers. They put out the lockboxes because they sell better than anything else.
Personally, I think that they should be doing more direct purchase items in the store while still keeping the lockboxes going, and I hope that the new team has its sea legs now, and will start doing just that. Time will tell.
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Course they sell better, the only thing they have been up against since they showed up were repainted vehicles and an emote pack, that actually had nothing new, just stuff that was on the Test server a year ago.
It is easy to say Lockboxes sell more than costumes when we havnt had costumes in the C-Store for over a year.
and technically it would be the keys-I do get that, but they are only used on Lockboxes so "I" consider them the same thing.
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Ah, so I'm not the only one who noticed that immediately.
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Here's a lockbox with a new costume that you can't afford with your stipend! In fact, you could probably spend double your stipend and not get half the pieces because of the horrible drop rate! Enjoy it while you play through a completely rehashed event they had to cut short last year because in typical Cryptic fashion they broke it in a catastrophic way! It's nice for the game you're supporting to get some basic attention.
At least we have bug fixes on the way (possibly). Maybe they'll get some of the bugs that have been hanging around since launch or make the adventure packs and comic series playable without running into something that completely blocks progress. Maybe lairs will work without them having to take content out of them (like the Destroid building puzzle in Destroyers Robot Factory). Hey, if we're lucky, these bug fixes might come without crippling bugs of their own as they try to patch up this mangled car crash of a game.
It's always nice to see loyalty rewarded.
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We'll get bug fixes until they find that it will take too much work on the engine in order to truely fix anything. -_-
If I were a dev for CO, half of the community that posts on the forums would make me not wanna do a damn thing for y'all. Just sayin.
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Alas... it was not meant to be.
Again, more keys I'm not going to be buying. What a shame.
Wow you fixed devices that effects 1% of the community, awesome. How about some costume fixes, lie the chest pieces that make your arms disappear? of the borked missions?
oh well.
STOP PUTTING COSTUME PARTS IN BECOME 'SOMETHINGS', and not give us a chance to get them in anyway. Atleast unlock the pieces when/if you get the Become 'Something'. It could even raise keys bought by peoples. Maybe. Probably.
Not interested about Sharkman Costume enough to open a Box.
Not interested a bit about Become RoboSamurai to open a Box.
Not interested even a little about VTOL to open a Box.
Zero sales.
Zero Dollars spend.
Good day.
Hope the froobs spend enough dollars so we can atleast get some bugs fixed.
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Lol. Epic. :biggrin:
It indeed looks like Cryptic is running out from things to put in lockboxes. Literally, scraping the barrel. :X
Then, there was a discount on the price of master keys.
Then, there were 2 weeks of discount sale in one of the stores. And players got to vote for which item got to get -40%, and the items that didn't win or weren't in the poll still got -15%. And when during the second week, two items were very close in votes, they decided to put BOTH on -40% sale).
And in the same time, they brought back one of the most popular ships that was no longer available. And unlike with the lockboxes, the ship was an addition to a special pack that gave you all the advertised items no matter what. So, if you didn't get the ship, at least you got what you paid for, the ship was just a bonus. And even if you didn't get it, you were still getting another bonus: a FIXED high number of the STO equivalent of the Drifter Salvages (the same used in the store that was getting the -40% and -15% sale).
CO got the (pretty nice but short) FATAL ERR0R series.
Then, it got the same anniversary event with just a few new stuff, compared to last year (nothing wrong with that, though, plus the devices no longer have a timer before they expire).
Then, another lockbox...
"Thank you for supporting CO for 4 years, but if you want your gift, you need to pay a random amount of money!"
Please, for the love of God, just sell us ONE COSTUME outright. PLEASE?
Disagree!
They NEEDED to bring out another lockbox because the prices of keys were falling well below 100g per key, crippling trade on the market. (or course the real solution to that would be to not make lockboxes at all, but that's never gonna happen because and I quote TrailTurtle "keys are the most profitable thing we've done.")
Like it or not (in your case not), lockboxes are here to stay as long as people keep wanting them and are buying the keys for them.
That said, I can understand your angst with not wanting COSTUMES specifically to ONLY accessible from lockboxes. They (Cryptic/PWE) should give you a premium costume pack option to buy if you really REALLY want them, and price it according to market value (i.e.: the devs would actually have to check in on how much things sell for on the AH on a regular basis).
I tease, but seriously knock it off already. I for one am looking FORWARD to the bug fixes & polishing coming up. And that's definitely them (Cryptic/PWE) listening (took forever to get through to them though, that's for sure).
Devices don't affect 1% of the community. This is utter BULL****! It affects both PvP and PvE, and there's not a clear distinction (most people do some of both, some more one than another; in fact most hardcore PvP players must (by proxy) do PvE now for Questionite, Acclaim is useless), and there's no proof that PvP is 1% of the population nor any way to quantify that correctly.
Oh and yeah, I've always been one to criticize Cryptic's faults, often rather boisterously too. But this is going too far, shame on you Bwdares. Heck, the only part of your quote just here above that makes any merit is the "borked missions" part, but it seems like you just threw that in last minute to give your comment at least some faint semblance of credibility.
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Ok look. It all comes down to money.
The playerbase has show they are more interested in buying keys than anything else. The entire economy in the game now even seems to revolve around keys, which causes issues but I digress...
Consider that costume unlocks at least don't affect the gameplay balance of the game, and they're good things to trade. Unlike the Legacy Devices where you could get extremes of DPS and even invincibility (and that's finally going to be getting a fix soon, almost a year later)
Now, things you and I might agree on?
Would I prefer if they'd add the ability to select specific mods the the Recognition Vendors?
Absolutely yes!
Would I prefer if they'd add Legion gear to the Recognition Vendors at a fair price?
Absolutely yes! (I feel they should cost 10 times what Heroic Gear does, Silver Champ tokens)
Would I prefer that ANY costume unlock that is added into a lockboxes is also available for purchase as a pack from the Z-Store?
Absolutely yes!
See? There's a way to find solutions that benefit the whole of the community, bring in profits, maintain a focus on fun, AND go with the flow.
FYI: You do know you can buy costume unlocks other people get from lockboxes off the Auction House, right?
Consolidate the currencies! (Please!)
Does your Champion have a theme song? (share it!)
Got a funny in-game screenshot? (share it!)
Please fix the Overdrive energy unlock! (Should help promote thematic build diversity!)
where cryptic owns the IP, so doesn't have to please anyone.
That looks like the attackrs ships in the Nighthawk event
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An event like that would rock, but Chaelk / Cloudsatdawn has a point. There's no accountability.
Consolidate the currencies! (Please!)
Does your Champion have a theme song? (share it!)
Got a funny in-game screenshot? (share it!)
Please fix the Overdrive energy unlock! (Should help promote thematic build diversity!)
- Opened 39 of them and I do like the VTOL jet (I gave this to a friend who helped me farm the boxes )
- The Samurai looks interesting (not sure if it is bind to account or bind to character however, I don't want to bind it only for it to be bound to one toon :eek:)
- Infinite Party Bombs and Water balloons (I was right TT!! :biggrin:) are great!!
- Legion!! I am swamped with Legion and costume pieces lol
All in All, I like the new box!
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You have SO much potential and you're not doing thing to change it!
Just more Gambling!
That's Not even HUMAN to place such freaking Gambling in a game like this!
I'm AWEFULLY concidering stopping paying the Sub fee. So are OTHER people that play that I know. Cryptic. DO Something. Make CO -grow-.
If keys are gonna be the new standard, and costumes will only be delivered through chanceboxes (please god no), then Cryptic should really take a look at Champions Online's price models. They vary to such an extent it's kind of puzzling.