the awkward role of "Ultra Rares" in this game

The only way they could fix it is rolling it back entirely, which there is no fucking way it would ever happen.

Better solution - new effects are weapon mods

Compromise solution - there is still a whole new weapon that unlocks at rank X of base but it's only one rank - 3 new cards per weapon instead of 30

Likely solution - none, fuck you, game is is maintenance mode soon anyway

Best solution; replace all variant lvl I - IX with X.

Isn't the point of the game as designed to unlock things? The primary goal is to unlock cards via matches. Winning means unlocking everything and not defeating a boss or epic final battle. There is no end boss or epic final battle in MP to complete the game. I think they're just missing the guaranteed UR unlock pack in the 200,000 credit range.

so not only doesn't it help anymore getting weapons to X - it makes things even way worse?

It hurts to realize that we now hope UR weapons never reach X.  

That's crazy - especially when you consider it used to be the biggest "help" and source of satisfaction we had in terms of "mid/late-term" grind in Mass Effect 3.
"Satisfaction" because you even saw something positive in getting crap weapons as you knew this fucker will never come again after it reached X.

Sometimes (actually always) I wonder if the makers of Andromeda have ever thought something through to the end.
Even on behalf of THEIR own sake - because as it was said - who would spend real-life money now?

It may be comforting to know that it seems like 'basic' weapons and characters have a better chance to drop than any weapon variety, so it's still possible to get your URs to X within 'reasonable' time.

This may have been true prior to 1.09.. but on platinum it is not sustained low damage that gets me.. its almost always a massive hit that takes me from full shields / health to dead in 1-2 hits (hydra volley is almost always fatal if you take even two thirds of the volley). In gold and lower 99% of the time I knew i was going to die a few seconds before I did because damage was coming in steady and I knew I wouldn't reach safety before I went down... but on platinum I can be sitting in cover with full health / shields and drop dead near instantly fairly often unless you're playing a very resilient class like turian soldier etc. 

My huntress has been picked off more times than I can count when at full health.. its why I switched to human infiltrator because it has 200 damage resistance when at low health, allowing you a few precious seconds to seek cover or stealth rather than just falling over dead on the spot time and again.

Extrapolating the acceleration rate of drop table dilution projects to having 10 million UR cards to unlock by September. So start saving up, everyone.

And all rank XX characters? That would take forever.

Yep, I almost always finish plats with all 5 ops packs. By the time I realize I'm gonna die, I'm already dead.