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Post by unclemonster on May 30, 2017 13:22:58 GMT
The horrible streak continues on... 8 measly UR in my last 73 Premium Packs...
My friends all had a great weekend collecting mass UR. one teammate got 5 UR in a row. my brother got 3 Hurricane upgrades this week (I still have Hurricane I only) Teammates started feeling a little bad as they opened pack after pack (UR after UR) very little for me. I was happy for them, but a little jelly.
Just a sad weekend. :gasp:
On a positive note, I finished leveling all kits to 20.
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Post by evhgear on May 30, 2017 13:58:49 GMT
I know that feel, I still haven't unlocked half the ultra rare guns and I'm almost 11000APEX rating. And they are all at level 1 except my Crusader II & rozerad II.
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Post by unclemonster on May 30, 2017 14:17:03 GMT
I know that feel, I still haven't unlocked half the ultra rare guns and I'm almost 11000APEX rating. And they are all at level 1 except my Crusader II & rozerad II. Ouch! I am only missing the PAW. The Rozerad is my favorite gun (I have Rozerad V) so at least we have that going
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Post by gethadept on May 30, 2017 14:20:18 GMT
The horrible streak continues on... 8 measly UR in my last 73 Premium Packs... My friends all had a great weekend collecting mass UR. one teammate got 5 UR in a row. my brother got 3 Hurricane upgrades this week (I still have Hurricane I only) Teammates started feeling a little bad as they opened pack after pack (UR after UR) very little for me. I was happy for them, but a little jelly. Just a sad weekend. :gasp: On a positive note, I finished leveling all kits to 20. I got 3 UR for 3 million credits myself. ....I am seriously thinking BW did adjust rate again silently. This is terrible way to treat players. I am getting a lot of lvl IV stuffs though.... which I do not really care for...
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Post by unclemonster on May 30, 2017 15:19:15 GMT
The horrible streak continues on... 8 measly UR in my last 73 Premium Packs... My friends all had a great weekend collecting mass UR. one teammate got 5 UR in a row. my brother got 3 Hurricane upgrades this week (I still have Hurricane I only) Teammates started feeling a little bad as they opened pack after pack (UR after UR) very little for me. I was happy for them, but a little jelly. Just a sad weekend. :gasp: On a positive note, I finished leveling all kits to 20. I got 3 UR for 3 million credits myself. ....I am seriously thinking BW did adjust rate again silently. This is terrible way to treat players. I am getting a lot of lvl IV stuffs though.... which I do not really care for... my poor luck dates all the way back to the 1.07 patch/fix. It basically takes me almost 20 gold games to get 1 UR... I sure hope we get platinum soon to speed this up!
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Post by gethadept on May 30, 2017 15:21:17 GMT
I got 3 UR for 3 million credits myself. ....I am seriously thinking BW did adjust rate again silently. This is terrible way to treat players. I am getting a lot of lvl IV stuffs though.... which I do not really care for... my poor luck dates all the way back to the 1.07 patch/fix. It basically takes me almost 20 gold games to get 1 UR... I sure hope we get platinum soon to speed this up! Maybe I was spoiled to get 6 UR for 1.5 million credits before this weekend. .... I guess that still nets to be 9 UR for 4.5 million credits.
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Post by ddrguy300 on May 30, 2017 18:11:34 GMT
I very recently unlocked my last two ultras in a row, the soned and the dhan, thanks to a buddy who convinced me to try opening a few when I've been mass saving.
At 67 ultra unlocks, I've finally gotten all of them. I'd say that's pretty lucky considering the rng can just be stupid and that every specific ultra rare is a 1/19 chance to drop.
So while I might be one of the few lucky-ish people, this unlock system badly needs some kind of a change.
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Post by Kazu on May 30, 2017 18:26:27 GMT
I very recently unlocked my last two ultras in a row, the soned and the dhan, thanks to a buddy who convinced me to try opening a few when I've been mass saving. At 67 ultra unlocks, I've finally gotten all of them. I'd say that's pretty lucky considering the rng can just be stupid and that every specific ultra rare is a 1/19 chance to drop. So while I might be one of the few lucky-ish people, this unlock system badly needs some kind of a change. Premium packs for with a respective higher chance for weapon/character ultra rares come to mind.
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Post by spacev3gan on May 30, 2017 19:10:58 GMT
You got 8 URs in 7.3 million spent. It is not spectacular, but is that supposed to be bad? In ME3 I met people who had 7 million credits drystreak. I once spent 9 million to get one single UR. People would literally beg Bioware for a guaranteed UR pack that cost a million or even 2 million. MEA droprate is far more just, even and generous. Thanks to the 1 million credits pity timer, Luck is not the only factor in place here. Playing the game is also a factor, usually more decisive than Luck itself. So yeah, I guess one needs to be more grateful when it comes to MEA's Rng.
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Post by konfeta on May 30, 2017 19:24:28 GMT
It's hard to be grateful with current drop rate stupidity after having the ultra rare every 500k credits spent thing. And having your booster flow halved.
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Post by gethadept on May 30, 2017 19:29:17 GMT
It's hard to be grateful with current drop rate stupidity after having the ultra rare every 500k credits spent thing. And having your booster flow halved. Yeah. ....and even if MEAMP store is more generous than ME3MP store, they are two different games so it would not be a perfect comparison. Also we must consider the nature of RNG store that is implemented specifically to cause both frustration and false hope within people. RNG store will always cause some kind of frustration.... that will drive some people to spend extra cash. :srs:
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Post by rtrnofdmax on May 30, 2017 19:36:43 GMT
I very recently unlocked my last two ultras in a row, the soned and the dhan, thanks to a buddy who convinced me to try opening a few when I've been mass saving. At 67 ultra unlocks, I've finally gotten all of them. I'd say that's pretty lucky considering the rng can just be stupid and that every specific ultra rare is a 1/19 chance to drop. So while I might be one of the few lucky-ish people, this unlock system badly needs some kind of a change. I am still missing three unlocks (Crusader, Piranha, Ushior) with 45 UR cards collected. I shouldn't have a Soned VI, and not one of any of those guns.
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Post by gethadept on May 30, 2017 19:39:43 GMT
I very recently unlocked my last two ultras in a row, the soned and the dhan, thanks to a buddy who convinced me to try opening a few when I've been mass saving. At 67 ultra unlocks, I've finally gotten all of them. I'd say that's pretty lucky considering the rng can just be stupid and that every specific ultra rare is a 1/19 chance to drop. So while I might be one of the few lucky-ish people, this unlock system badly needs some kind of a change. I am still missing three unlocks (Crusader, Piranha, Ushior) with 45 UR cards collected. I shouldn't have a Soned VI, and not one of any of those guns. Hey! I have Soned VI too. lol I know it first felt very unfair and unlucky.... but give it a shot with Krogan Vanguard. A guy first mentioned about it before patch 1.06... but now it actually works. The irony!
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Post by unclemonster on May 30, 2017 19:40:01 GMT
You got 8 URs in 7.3 million spent. It is not spectacular, but is that supposed to be bad? In ME3 I met people who had 7 million credits drystreak. I once spent 9 million to get one single UR. People would literally beg Bioware for a guaranteed UR pack that cost a million or even 2 million. MEA droprate is far more just, even and generous. Thanks to the 1 million credits pity timer, Luck is not the only factor in place here. Playing the game is also a factor, usually more decisive than Luck itself. So yeah, I guess one needs to be more grateful when it comes to MEA's Rng. It is pretty bad as that is almost the worst that you can do. I almost always seem to hit the pity counter! Yes, I also maxed my ME3 manifest, but they also had way less UR to start AND let us get one guaranteed weekly UR through the challenges. I just posted my numbers as other postings have averaged around 1 every 4 crates. Hopefully it turns around for me.
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Post by unclemonster on May 30, 2017 19:42:10 GMT
It's hard to be grateful with current drop rate stupidity after having the ultra rare every 500k credits spent thing. And having your booster flow halved. those were the days!
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Post by spacev3gan on May 30, 2017 20:31:27 GMT
It's hard to be grateful with current drop rate stupidity after having the ultra rare every 500k credits spent thing. And having your booster flow halved. UR droprate buying Premium Packs is, on average, significantly better than buying Expert Packs used to be. Here are some statistics spending 17 million credits.
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Post by rtrnofdmax on May 30, 2017 20:36:08 GMT
In the long run, this is true, but the increase in cost has a huge effect on perceptions. Like, when it's good, it's very good, and when it's bad... My personal experience saw 3URs in my frist 10 packs, followed by a double UR, a single UR and then one more two packs later. Things were amazing right after the 1.07 changes. Since then I have gotten URs in 10, 5 and 4 packs. All of this is to say that I have felt either very lucky, or very unlucky, without the middle ground.
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Post by spacev3gan on May 30, 2017 20:37:51 GMT
It is pretty bad as that is almost the worst that you can do. I almost always seem to hit the pity counter! Yes, I also maxed my ME3 manifest, but they also had way less UR to start AND let us get one guaranteed weekly UR through the challenges. I just posted my numbers as other postings have averaged around 1 every 4 crates. Hopefully it turns around for me. So let's be grateful there is a pity timer in MEA. Otherwise you could simply spend tons of credits and get nothing out of them. ME3 had less UR to start, but as they added more UR they also added Platinum to compensate for them. MEA might take a similar route, we hope. I maxed my manifest on both (btw: playing, not paying like some did). I can tell MEA's journey so far took less than half of the time and hardly a fraction of the stress RNG-wise ME3's did.
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Post by christsuperstar on May 30, 2017 22:02:34 GMT
I just about used Premium Packs exclusively to max my rare manifest - resulting in 46 UR cards. Do with that info what you want.
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Post by wingerjd on May 30, 2017 22:21:14 GMT
Just hit the pity timer-the 10th premium pack with nothing in the previous 9 and I got a Rank 3 Kineticist with no skill points. Yay.
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Post by Kenny Bania on May 31, 2017 4:46:32 GMT
Just hit the pity timer-the 10th premium pack with nothing in the previous 9 and I got a Rank 3 Kineticist with no skill points. Yay. Odd ranks don't give you skill points. Just customisation options.
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Post by wingerjd on May 31, 2017 6:54:57 GMT
Just hit the pity timer-the 10th premium pack with nothing in the previous 9 and I got a Rank 3 Kineticist with no skill points. Yay. Odd ranks don't give you skill points. Just customisation options. Yeah, I know.
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Post by dariat on May 31, 2017 7:23:10 GMT
Saved ~150 K gold last night and bought 3 Expert Packs. Got another UR
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Post by f3rociouspanda on May 31, 2017 9:01:02 GMT
I've gotten 8 ultra rares in my last 7 premium packs lol
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2017 11:12:50 GMT
Generally, I would advise against saving up on credits and spending them in the millions. Just empty your virtual wallet after every gaming session. Everything will stay about the same, but you will retain your sanity that way. Psychologically, I think it is better to, let's say, buy 2-3 Premiums and not get an UR while thinking "Oh well, better luck next time" than spending 5 - 10 million credits and go: "FUCK! I just spend ***** millions and got JACK SHIT! FUCK THIS FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!! FUUUUK!!!" - Or something along that line
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