the events themselves are a nice little gimmick so for what they want to do gameplay wise, they integrate quite well.
but the mats as rewards hardly matter if you play past a certain difficulty, so something “visual” would be appreciated.
still got my beta/preorder trinket on some weapons and while i wouldnt spend aquialas on something that small, it’d be an adequate reward for said event.
maybe a piece of the bad guy (armor, cloth fragment whatever) so you get reminded from where you got it in the first place after a while.
you could create “patches” for successful events/offensives that players add to their uniform/skin instead of the weapon, so others see it on character.
maybe some “special notches” on your barrel as a private sign of success.
there’s lots you could do to make your character stand out with stuff achieved after those events.
even tattoos would be nice, there hasnt been an update of those since ages.
Having frames/ titles as a reward for these events would be a nice change compared to crafting materials, a system like Vermintide 2 does with it’s yearly events giving a frame would be cool implementation to see in Darktide.^^
Also I’m not a fan of these “limited time only” events and I doubt I’m alone. They feel like a total waste of dev time for something we will see only for limited time. Why not start with an event and add both the condition and the new enemy type of the map roaster after the event is over?
Conditions like pox gas, lights out, rolling blackouts etc, they all should be mixed with high intensity + shock troop modifier, in the SAME game / match, to add more gameplay variety for those of us who care about intensity. Same with those new enemy types.
If it’s a time limited event I’d like it not to be something that is missable, like frames and titles… FOMO is a cancr that needs to die. If you have the option to add a frame or title with an event, but keep a challenge around afterwards, I’d much prefere that. In order not to invalidate the event you could add a x% progress modifier for the respective challenge during the event.
As for the current event rewards, they’re negligible at best for the vast majority of players that stuck with the game. Think of it this way: If the reward for 12 completed matches is 4500 plasteed, your average Damnation player will have gotten the same amount within 4-5 matches. Why should he bother?
If events were more regular, I think mostly they could get away with being normal materials (like for Helldivers 2) and no one would complain. But it’d be great to have special events peppered in, especially for things like Skulls, that offered cosmetics/frames like y’all have done in the past.
And, of course, people would lose their minds over Aquilas being a reward.
Id love cosmetics specific to the events, trinkets tattoos or head pieces / weapon skins. Would make events a lot more flavorful and memorable than currency personally, we get currency just by playing anyway
Noooooo… when the event will end?!
Can you keep it up till September?
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This is good feedback, thank you! The events will continue to be more regular but it would be nice to have more special rewards a couple few times a year. I’ll pass this along! (And everyone else’s feedback )
Terror in the dark sounds actually quite cool - dockets, diamantine and plasteel are still underwhelming rewards (maybe they’ll get more interesting after the itemisation update) - but I liked the dark missions - way way more then the fog missions.
Back in the day some dev justified fantasy money aquilae with the possibility to make them rewards for events or give them away in twitch streams an d stuff like that. How about making Aquilae the reward for such events?
I still believe that was just the usual PR bullsht on Martin’s part in order to justify moving away from the VT2 real money model. I’d actually change my review to positive if they actually did that.
I hope the condition won’t be global, lights out already is a completely dogshit modifier and I would like to not be made to play it for a week or however long the event will be going for.
Karnak twins were also really uninteresting to fight, so I fail to see the reason behind bringing Rinda back? You can already play the new condition with a mod, Rinda will be replacing the naturally spawning bosses while the modifier is active, which is not great.
Spawns are still not fixed.
More reasons to not play this game, thank You.
As veteran of this game sitting on pile of 400k plasteel and 200k diamntine I have nothing from those events but the rich getting richer.
And I want to say what this reward is good because its good for new folks to jump/stay in the game and with removing locks itd be better but amount of dockets is a joke, put there at least 1kk
Id really like to see something like titles or frames like they are in VT2 some for remembrance “You were here”. Im missed a one event with shark’s heads in VT2 and regretting till today
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