Twitchy Questioning 13: Questionmatic Twitchmunity

Because there are now 2x as many UR char. cards to unlock, would you reduce the MF price for the Random UR Character? (currently 960 MF)

Bastiaan: added a lot of progressoin when we added plat to extend the game for a very long time. some ppl liked it, some ppl didn't. trick was behind the scenes doing quite a bit w/ wpns and mods to not dilute the pool - very small chance to get a variation once you have maxed wpn at rank X. with vet ranks how it was implemented, couldn't do that. gto add'l time from programmers, went in and mofieid how vet ranks are dropped. need to finish all chars at single rarity before you get any vet ranks.

why we added them: lots of prog. for wpns, in the end UR wpns were over everyting. added prog for powers & melee.



What. The. Fuck.

I say this as among the few who routinely defend dev decisions and/or try to cast their actions in the most charitable light: that is the most preposterous bullshit I have read in a long time (recent US politics notwithstanding).

There were so, so many ways they could have introduced the functions added by weapon variants without fucking quadrupling the RNG drop pool; universal S/B/C mods, S/B/C mods specific to rarity or weapon class (e.g. an individual Bulwark mod that only worked for snipers, or URs), one S/B/C level per weapon. Et cetera, et cetera.

I'm willing to assume the Biodevs didn't have much choice themselves - i.e. that this route of implementation was mandated by an EAdict from above - but don't lie to my fucking face.

FUCK!!!!

I thought about spending a few bucks tonight to unlock the new content, but honestly, that pissed me off enough that I may be done.