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NeoRaider

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Feb 7, 2018
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Just heads up if someone is interested Feudal Chests are 50% off (50 crystals) on PC (not sure about other platforms). There are total 8 items in it, i already had 2 items (emotes i think), so for 300 crystals i got 3 great exclusive epic skins.
I especially like Talus and Skye skins, they look great!
 

Alek

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Oct 28, 2017
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I'm on PS4 and trying to buy the latest Strix skin, the one that's star wars themed. But every time I click it it takes me to either the wrong page (the page for Rukus) or takes me to the Strix page with no option to purchase the skin. Anyone else have this issue?
 

NeoRaider

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Feb 7, 2018
7,365
I'm on PS4 and trying to buy the latest Strix skin, the one that's star wars themed. But every time I click it it takes me to either the wrong page (the page for Rukus) or takes me to the Strix page with no option to purchase the skin. Anyone else have this issue?

It was on sale on PC for 2 days, i think that it ended few hours ago (replaced by High Elf Lian) and i was able to buy it. Really not sure about PS4, maybe they will fix it later.
 

NeoRaider

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Feb 7, 2018
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It seems that a few recent skins have iffy voice work, either the acting isn't up to snuff, or the recorded lines have been overly compressed.

Fallen Androxus Sounds great, but, Hunstman does not.

Default Lian sounds clear and high quality, while Glalactic Scion does not.

Moji's really bad too.

Feels like HiRez is trying to do much cosmetic work with not enough QA

I noticed this too. Many of them sound like they are just edited VLs with some kind of voice effects added.
But i can't agree about Moji, i think that her voice is really cute and nicely acted. But they do sound compressed.
 

arimanius

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Oct 27, 2017
3,274
Decided to bite and get it on the Switch. Been having fun all morning with it. Had to adjust to the speed. Seems a lot slower than OW and even Realm Royale. As everyone said hope they reduce the load times. That's really my only complaint. I do have a couple of questions tho. Do you only mount at the beginning of a match? Is there away to report afk players? Are their chests to get with coins or battle pass really the only way to get new stuff?
 

Ryuhza

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
11,440
San Diego County
Do you only mount at the beginning of a match? Is there away to report afk players? Are their chests to get with coins or battle pass really the only way to get new stuff?

You only have a mount when you first spawn in and respawn. They're for getting you to the objective (or further, if you're flanking), not mid-combat. There's also strategy to be had in knocking players off their mounts shortly out of their base, as there's no way to get them back without dying, and thus delays them greatly in their return to the objective, giving your team lots of space to capture. More important in Siege than Onslaught, obviously.

I don't think so, unfortunately. There might be a report button, but I've heard that nothing really gets done.

There aren't currently any chests you can get with coins, no. They're all crystal or promo based. But you can get 50 crystals per week by logging in each day. There's also supposed to be a one time crystal bonus for referring several friends, but I went through that whole process with 7 friends and the rewards system never granted me anything. This was some months back, however. Occasionally there are also "crystal storm" weekends where you earn crystals by getting a win in each queue (Siege, Deathmatch, and Ranked).

Otherwise,

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arimanius

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Oct 27, 2017
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You only have a mount when you first spawn in and respawn. They're for getting you to the objective (or further, if you're flanking), not mid-combat. There's also strategy to be had in knocking players off their mounts shortly out of their base, as there's no way to get them back without dying, and thus delays them greatly in their return to the objective, giving your team lots of space to capture. More important in Siege than Onslaught, obviously.

I don't think so, unfortunately. There might be a report button, but I've heard that nothing really gets done.

There aren't currently any chests you can get with coins, no. They're all crystal or promo based. But you can get 50 crystals per week by logging in each day. There's also supposed to be a one time crystal bonus for referring several friends, but I went through that whole process with 7 friends and the rewards system never granted me anything. This was some months back, however. Occasionally there are also "crystal storm" weekends where you earn crystals by getting a win in each queue (Siege, Deathmatch, and Ranked).

Otherwise,

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Makes sense about the mounting since the maps aren't to big. Thanks for answering my questions. I'll have to give that strategy are try when I'm playing flanking or dps. Enjoying support right now. I'm enjoying how many different characters there are and the buying of passive skills during the game more than I thought I would.
 

NeoRaider

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Feb 7, 2018
7,365
One thing that really bothers me is difference in quality between some early and new characters.

For example i can't stand Skye's design and default skin, everything screams LQ. When you press G, you can really see how bad her weapon looks, textures are just tragic.

Same for Cassie for example or Maeve. Sure there are new skins that somehow change and improve all this but it still looks bad compared to recently relased characters.

It's the same thing with maps too.
 

TheRuralJuror

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Oct 25, 2017
6,504
Decided to bite and get it on the Switch. Been having fun all morning with it. Had to adjust to the speed. Seems a lot slower than OW and even Realm Royale. As everyone said hope they reduce the load times. That's really my only complaint. I do have a couple of questions tho. Do you only mount at the beginning of a match? Is there away to report afk players? Are their chests to get with coins or battle pass really the only way to get new stuff?

I asked HiRezChrisL about that during the AMA yesterday and he said we should see some improvements next patch and they'll continue working on it in follow up patches.

They also said that revenue was up in addition to player numbers, so hopefully, this frees them to keep on the polish.

Off topic, FN-01 Helios skin is lit. Love it.

One thing that really bothers me is difference in quality between some early and new characters.

For example i can't stand Skye's design and default skin, everything screams LQ. When you press G, you can really see how bad her weapon looks, textures are just tragic.

Same for Cassie for example or Maeve. Sure there are new skins that somehow change and improve all this but it still looks bad compared to recently relased characters.

It's the same thing with maps too.

Isn't Skye getting a rework soon?
 

Alek

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Oct 28, 2017
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Why on earth did Hi-Rez think that if you disconnect the bot should spend all of your money? Why? The AI don't do shit, they walk in a straight line to the objective and die over and over again. Any player replaced by the AI typically ends a game with 0 kills and 1 or 2 assists, 20+ deaths.

I get why putting an AI into the game might help players feel like they have a full team, but if by making purchases they're actually hindering the match should the player return.

It was on sale on PC for 2 days, i think that it ended few hours ago (replaced by High Elf Lian) and i was able to buy it. Really not sure about PS4, maybe they will fix it later.

Tried for 2 days and it just didn't work. Missed out on the sale because of it seemingly.

Can't purchase the next bundle on PS4 either, must be broken for PS4 users? The PS4 version of the game seems straight up broken anyway. For example, the loading screen only covers 1/4 of the screen, with the other 3/4 filled with empty black space. The game crashes on a semi-regular basis, and there are so many weird bugs and glitches related to individual characters.

I was in a game last night with a Khan who had some weird visual glitch where he was filling the screen with weird green particles. As Strix, it was almost impossible to get a good view of what was actually happening and what I was shooting.
 

Ryuhza

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
11,440
San Diego County
Something hilarious and sad about the second to last reward of the Battlepass--for those who bought it--being a measly 5,000 gold.

I really hope they improve the rewards structuring for the next ones.
 

arimanius

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,274
Something hilarious and sad about the second to last reward of the Battlepass--for those who bought it--being a measly 5,000 gold.

I really hope they improve the rewards structuring for the next ones.

What's gold good for? Everything seems to take gems. Unlocking Champions?

Edit. Ah I see some things take a combo of gems and gold.
 

Fonst

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Nov 16, 2017
7,071
Don't understand how we have 99% of the siege control and no one tries to step on the point. Why? I appreciate people playing and not trolling around but we were right there!
 

TheRuralJuror

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Oct 25, 2017
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Why on earth did Hi-Rez think that if you disconnect the bot should spend all of your money? Why? The AI don't do shit, they walk in a straight line to the objective and die over and over again. Any player replaced by the AI typically ends a game with 0 kills and 1 or 2 assists, 20+ deaths.

I get why putting an AI into the game might help players feel like they have a full team, but if by making purchases they're actually hindering the match should the player return.



Tried for 2 days and it just didn't work. Missed out on the sale because of it seemingly.

Can't purchase the next bundle on PS4 either, must be broken for PS4 users? The PS4 version of the game seems straight up broken anyway. For example, the loading screen only covers 1/4 of the screen, with the other 3/4 filled with empty black space. The game crashes on a semi-regular basis, and there are so many weird bugs and glitches related to individual characters.

I was in a game last night with a Khan who had some weird visual glitch where he was filling the screen with weird green particles. As Strix, it was almost impossible to get a good view of what was actually happening and what I was shooting.

They mentioned that they were fixing this in their patch stream the other day. I always noticed this though before I moved to the switch version. My wife came in asking what was wrong with my game lol.
 

Fonst

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Nov 16, 2017
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Do they have a map of other sales going on this weekend? Not sure if I should spend my 50 crystal on feudal pack or not. There are a couple things in the Feudal pack I wouldn't mind having.
 

Alek

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Oct 28, 2017
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Do they have a map of other sales going on this weekend? Not sure if I should spend my 50 crystal on feudal pack or not. There are a couple things in the Feudal pack I wouldn't mind having.

Feudal bundle seems pretty cheap relative to the quality of the skins / ratio of getting those skins. Only 8 items in the chest and there's 3 good skins inside (split into 2 items each with weapon I think). Pretty good odds of getting something decent, less so if you want something specific.
 

Alek

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Oct 28, 2017
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Just completed my qualifing games on PS4, not too bad.

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.hacked

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Dec 10, 2017
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Never touched this game before this morning on the switch. I am loving it, playing as some turtle guy and having a blast.

Anyway to link the switch version to the Xbox one X version, would be cool to try in 4k but would like my progress to carry over like Fortnite.


Switch is rocking it for me, lunch breaks at work and going to be sweet this week.
 

Blunoise

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,885
Atlanta, GA
I don't understand!!!! How are you in rank but don't know how to play siege!!! Why is a healer the only person trying to stand in the circle while my whole team is scattered around the map, while the other teams know to stick together!!!!
 

Ryuhza

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
11,440
San Diego County
I don't understand!!!! How are you in rank but don't know how to play siege!!! Why is a healer the only person trying to stand in the circle while my whole team is scattered around the map, while the other teams know to stick together!!!!

Half the playerbase is right boners no matter what the mode or platform. That's just most games. Some on purpose, some just don't know better. And some ignore their better consciences.
 

Incite

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Oct 25, 2017
2,409
I really wish I could have two separate control profiles for when I'm using the joy cons and when I'm using the pro controller on Switch.
 

NeoRaider

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Feb 7, 2018
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Do they have a map of other sales going on this weekend? Not sure if I should spend my 50 crystal on feudal pack or not. There are a couple things in the Feudal pack I wouldn't mind having.

https://www.paladins.com/news/summer-sale-2018

Only "Rekt" and Feudal chests. The rest are regular ones.


Btw. I think that it needs to be said for new players that lootboxes in this game work little different compared to Overwatch and some other games.

For example if there are 10 items in specific chests, and you already own let's say 3 items buying chets will not give you duplicates. You get 7 items that you don't own, it does't matter if it's Epic, Legendary... etc. You can't get duplicates.
 

Alek

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Oct 28, 2017
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Something else you can spend coins on are character level ups. Wouldn't necessarily recommend that though.
 

Fonst

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Nov 16, 2017
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https://www.paladins.com/news/summer-sale-2018

Only "Rekt" and Feudal chests. The rest are regular ones.


Btw. I think that it needs to be said for new players that lootboxes in this game work little different compared to Overwatch and some other games.

For example if there are 10 items in specific chests, and you already own let's say 3 items buying chets will not give you duplicates. You get 7 items that you don't own, it does't matter if it's Epic, Legendary... etc. You can't get duplicates.

Thanks for the link!
 

hipsterbodega

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Oct 30, 2017
603
Is there anything to spend your coins on other than a single mediocre alternate skin for each character? I'm not seeing where I might be able buy sprays or emotes or any other cosmetic item with them.
 

HeRinger

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Oct 28, 2017
4,305
Can someone explain to me Battle Pass leveling? It says I gain a different reward for every level, but do I only get the rewards if I buy the Battle Pass? If so, kind of lame this pass wasn't included with the Founders Pack on Switch.

Is it worth buying anyway?
 

NeoRaider

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Feb 7, 2018
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Is there anything to spend your coins on other than a single mediocre alternate skin for each character? I'm not seeing where I might be able buy sprays or emotes or any other cosmetic item with them.

Spend it on Iron Maiden Furia and get your best waifu. :D

Can someone explain to me Battle Pass leveling? It says I gain a different reward for every level, but do I only get the rewards if I buy the Battle Pass? If so, kind of lame this pass wasn't included with the Founders Pack on Switch.

Is it worth buying anyway?

There are few free rewards, but you don't get them for every level. There are many empty levels.
And there are also rewards for Battle Pass owners, they are much better.

For 500 crystals i think that it's worth buying. But only if you can level it to max.
 

HeRinger

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Oct 28, 2017
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Spend it on Iron Maiden Furia and get your best waifu. :D



There are few free rewards, but you don't get them for every level. There are many empty levels.
And there are also rewards for Battle Pass owners, they are much better.

For 500 crystals i think that it's worth buying. But only if you can level it to max.
I'm level 9 right now. Don't think I have won any chest so far.

How long do I have to reach max level?

If I wait until level 50 to buy the pass, do I retroactively win the rewards of previous levels?
 

Alek

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Oct 28, 2017
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Is there anything to spend your coins on other than a single mediocre alternate skin for each character? I'm not seeing where I might be able buy sprays or emotes or any other cosmetic item with them.

It used to be the case that you could spend coins on the small chests, most of them would contain cards (the card unlock system is now gone) but sometimes you'd get skins and whatnot. It felt like a decent reward for playing. However, now there's next to nothing to spend your gold on.

As I said above, you can also spend your gold on levelling up your character. Though, that doesn't really get you anything interesting, and it costs a lot just to gain a small number of levels. You can also buy the master rank stuff that you get (master rank emote, and obsidian skin) but you have to unlock that by hitting the appropriate rank with the character.

Currently I have 400,000 gold. It's really annoying to be honest because I used to own most of the skins, but they revoked them and gave us a gold refund.
 

Alek

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Oct 28, 2017
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I'm level 9 right now. Don't think I have won any chest so far.

1. How long do I have to reach max level?

2. If I wait until level 50 to buy the pass, do I retroactively win the rewards of previous levels?

1. Like 26 days? Something like that. Not too long to be honest, you'd need to play several hours per day to get there.

2. Yes.
 

Ryuhza

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
11,440
San Diego County
Yikes, that's a lot for me. I'll probably never get it then.

All you're really missing out on is the robo cat mount (which isn't terribly special as it's the first thing you get upon purchasing the pass), and three skins for characters you may not even play. The rest is useless currency (gold), a pittance of useful currency (barely 100 crystals), some minor cosmetics (a loading frame, title, spray), and things that only pertain to the battlepass (XP boosts to make the past go slightly faster).

Although, I'm pretty sure you Switch users get more than 26 days on the pass, since the game only came out less than two weeks ago and everyone else has had the pass for well over a month now.
 

AM_LIGHT

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Oct 30, 2017
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One thing i am doing on the switch is making purchases automatic but i don't if it's recommended or not . Also why the fuck can't import loadouts from other players yet on the switch.
 

Alek

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Oct 28, 2017
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All you're really missing out on is the robo cat mount (which isn't terribly special as it's the first thing you get upon purchasing the pass), and three skins for characters you may not even play. The rest is useless currency (gold), a pittance of useful currency (barely 100 crystals), some minor cosmetics (a loading frame, title, spray), and things that only pertain to the battlepass (XP boosts to make the past go slightly faster).

Although, I'm pretty sure you Switch users get more than 26 days on the pass, since the game only came out less than two weeks ago and everyone else has had the pass for well over a month now.

While the rewards aren't that enticing I think the Battle Pass itself is pretty cheap relative to what it offers and more than anything it's a nice incentive to play the game persistently. I enjoy levelling up and completing the Battle Pass missions etc.
 

Alek

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Oct 28, 2017
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Yikes, that's a lot for me. I'll probably never get it then.

The other option is to buy the battle pass then just buy the remaining levels at the end of the season. You can buy one battle pass level for 70 gems. So if you got to level 30, you could buy the remaining 20 levels for 1400 gems.

Not really a good option though.

Honestly it's quite manipulative. The XP requirement escalates per level making it both increasingly difficult for players to hit level 50 and difficult to determine how long it will take. This is intentional, to leave a large number of players short of hitting their target. Players are likely to see their time as a sunk cost. Therefore, their time is held ransom to the cost of whatever remaining levels they have.

I'd argue that Battle Passes are about as manipulative as loot boxes to be honest.
 

Bman94

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Oct 28, 2017
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Why, for the love of God, does NO ONE ever stay on the point? Like your a tank, stay on the point, there's no reason for you to be rushing the enemy when there's no one on the actual point. I feel like it'll just get worse once FTP hits the Switch.
 

NeoRaider

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Feb 7, 2018
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Honestly i thought that it will be much worse. But at the end, it wasn't really that hard.
I am not sure can it be done in 25 days, it depends on how much you play. But Battle Pass also gives you personal XP boosters and few match boosters. I mean for 2 months it's not a problem at all, but 25 days is questionable if you don't play a lot.