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Post by crashsuit on Aug 7, 2017 19:19:00 GMT
I realize this is probably of interest only to a very specific subset of PC players, but I have a low-priority question for possible future consideration: Is there a cap on consumables, and if so, what is it, and why was the specific cap chosen?
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 7, 2017 19:13:22 GMT
In fact - if this would be done, his detonating melee would be a bit of excessive. I.e. - either auto-detonation on Charge with Annihilation on and normal non-detonating melee, or as it is now, no auto-detonation and detonation with melee strike. huh? It can do that? I always wanted a kit like that in ME3MP.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 7, 2017 18:43:49 GMT
It seems like bad luck but it's just statistics. You're going to get more of some things and fewer of others, and some people are bound to get a more uneven distribution than others. Getting the same amount of everything in the long run is very very unlikely.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 7, 2017 18:29:38 GMT
which in turn is a Halo rip-off (understandably), which in turn is a generic space marine game that can trace its roots back every shooter ever made + the designers read Starship Troopers that one time (and maybe The Forever War too) Having played the Marathon trilogy many times, I thought it was the biggest influence on Halo.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 7, 2017 16:42:58 GMT
I can help with info on speeding up credits earned, but AFAIK there's still no way to get MF faster. There's a chance that the Apex app may supply an attack vector via altered store prices, but I'm still wading my way through the code. It's slow going though, I'm not much of a programmer, my relevant skills haven't had practice in years.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 6, 2017 22:21:51 GMT
I'm pretty sure people have used modified coalesced files on X360 before but there's frustratingly little info online.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 6, 2017 19:39:08 GMT
I left messages with the creators of Wenchy's and Gibbed's to see if they ever got anything working properly with the X360 coalesced but I'm not expecting they did. I never did hook my console's HDD to my PC but I'm gonna try that again soon to see if I can just replace coalesced that way. If that doesn't work though I think the last resort would be to get a RGH or JTAG but I'm not sure I want to have to go through all that.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 6, 2017 17:10:43 GMT
I can pull it apart with Gibbed's and edit it, but it won't repack to its original size, so right now I can't reinject it without overwriting other stuff.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 6, 2017 9:49:49 GMT
Anyone know of a good way to edit the X360 coalesced.bin? Wenchy's and ME3Explorer can't properly process it. Gibbed's can unpack it into readable parts but can't repack it to its original size.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 6, 2017 9:25:01 GMT
Not sure if you ever wanted the X360 coalesced, but here it is. I've got the disc image on my PC now along with a compatible file browser so I can pull pretty much whatever you need. Still can't figure out a way to edit the coalesced and keep it the same size though. mirror 1mirror 2
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 6, 2017 9:00:44 GMT
Update: Managed to unpack it with Gibbed's but it can't repack it small enough to go back into the disc image, so I'm stuck there right now.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 6, 2017 8:32:56 GMT
I've got an image of my game disc, and I've extracted the coalesced.bin, but Wenchy's and ME3Explorer aren't much help in reading it, something about a difference in endianness I think. Anyone know of a good way to open and edit it?
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 5, 2017 4:56:48 GMT
High: free month of Live Gold Low: first game on Xbox in like a year and I get this shit
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 5, 2017 0:08:05 GMT
Did 1.10 change the UR drop rate? I could just be unlucky but I've gotten 3 URs out of the last 35 premiums/reserves i bought Assuming the UR drop rate for Premium packs is still ~25%, streaks with more or fewer are still going to show up often just because of how statistical distributions work, so I'd say it's probably bad luck. If you keep tracking your packs and still have a 10% drop rate after a few hundred packs, that'd be a lot stronger evidence that the rate is different.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 23:59:24 GMT
Spreadsheet updated again (finally) and thread caught up. Also updated the Discord link(s) in the OP.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 22:43:12 GMT
Finally caught up on this thread and gave the spreadsheet a long-overdue update. Also I realized that because the ME MP subreddit changed their advertised Discord link a while back, there are two major competing Discord servers, so I updated the OP to reflect this.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 20:39:07 GMT
I get off on being able to bust out the definitive numbers whenever people argue online about store RNG. It's actually the only way I can experience arousal these days, it's a highly specific fetish.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 18:48:05 GMT
I only just now actually read the full text of your OP at the beginning of the thread, so I guess I should mention that when testing the Expert packs, I started with everything maxed except the new Batarian and the Shorty and variants. I don't have any photo proof of that though, sorry.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 17:36:32 GMT
Expert pack videos. Left the cards unflipped to speed things up. I checked the character vs gun unlocks between runs, so I don't have any hard proof of my observed ~60% character weighting, but it's easy to verify for anyone with credits. The game was acting extra laggy while I was opening packs, so hopefully my pack count isn't off, but if it is feel free to let me know. 001-100 101-200 201-300 301-400 401-430 (lost connection) 431-473 (to speed things up, I started doing them by hand instead of macro, but I lost count and needed to stop to do a recount) 474-500 501-527 (maxed manifest)
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 14:41:22 GMT
Ok, you can block people, but it's still goofy. You have to use the "add a friend" function to view someone's Origin profile, and then from there you can add them or block them.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 14:37:58 GMT
AFAIK there's no way to block people on Origin. Well that's dumb. Let me take that back, there might be, but I'll have to check into it. There's definitely some lacking functionality though vs consoles, like being able to view recently played with.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 14:29:39 GMT
Hey PC players -- other than the ¢reative and $uper useful cheating that causes one's manifest to get maxed, what is going on in the wilds of PC-land? Is it like every game you land in is hacked? Can't you block those people on Origin and never play with them again? I don't see any cheating (that I know of) on XBL...??? Haven't seen a hacked lobby since the early days. AFAIK there's no way to block people on Origin.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 14:18:08 GMT
It is/was believed that Experts packs have a pity timer of 30, although that was last verified immediately post-1.07, so it could have changed. Interesting news about the relatively high 11.4% drop rate for URs in Expert packs! I will update the OP. However note that the rate would need to be 12.5% or more (half of the 25% drop rate for Premiums) to make Experts consistently a better deal. We could definitely use more data on the Expert pack UR drop rates, but if they're around what I saw, I think that's close enough in cost per UR vs 100k packs that Experts could be the better value for people still working on their rares, considering they'd be getting a lot more rares and consumables for their credits. Just my opinion, at this point I wouldn't tell anyone they're doing it "wrong" by buying one or the other.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 7:16:24 GMT
One more thing I almost forgot about:
- The game has some really weird FPS loss going on. You know how since the last few patches, some of us have gotten weird random in-game FPS drops? Well, sometimes when I was buying packs or even just sitting in the menus doing nothing, I'd get random temporary drops from 40FPS to around 15-20FPS. No change in GPU or CPU usage percentages or temperature, no other weird processes in the background, no reason at all that I could find. Just random FPS drops for about ten seconds or so at a time. Hope they can fix whatever's going on with that.
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Post by crashsuit on Aug 4, 2017 7:10:02 GMT
Opened 527 Expert packs tonight. Videos will go up tomorrow. 60 URs from 527 Expert packs = ~11.4% UR drop rate.
Thoughts:
- No immediately discernible UR pity timer. Wasn't keeping exact count, but I had some dry runs of around 30.
- Frequency of UR drops varied wildly. First 100 packs had 19 URs, next 100 had 6, next 100 had 8, next 100 had 15, next 100 had 6, and then it only took 27 more packs to get the last 6.
- Getting a really good or really bad run of URs from 50k packs or 100k packs in the short run is normal and expected, but in the long run you'll get closer and closer to the average drop rate. It's nothing personal or unusual, just RNG and/or math.
- Character cards dropped more often than guns, which I expected, as it follows the observed trends for all packs. First 100 packs had a 10/9 split, next 100 had a 4/2 split, next 100 had a 6/2 split, then it was all guns after that. While character cards were still dropping, they were weighted at around 60.6%.
- Post 1.07, I was hearing anecdotal evidence of new UR drop rates from Experts of around 3%-5%, which is pretty terrible compared to what they were before that. I was prepared to spend 50m tonight to open 1000 Experts so I could get a fairly accurate drop rate, which I was expecting to be maybe 4%-5%. 11.4% is pretty surprising, and seems to be pretty close to what the UR drop rate used to be post-1.07, minus the pity timer. Experts may have gotten a stealth buff sometime between 1.07 and 1.10. We could use more data to nail down the drop rate more accurately, but as far as I can tell right now, it's nearly half the UR drop rate for the Premium packs.
- Assuming we can verify that the UR drop rate for Expert packs works out to around half the rate for the 100k packs, Experts will once again be a better value than the more expensive packs, since you'd get around the same URs for the money, but more gold cards and more boosters. The one exception would be if you're spending real money for Andromeda Points and are just after UR cards. In that case you'd get more for your money buying 100k packs.
- No idea if this is working as intended, or something changed by accident, or if it's permanent, or subject to change in the future, or who even knows what.
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