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Post by crashsuit on Jul 29, 2017 18:33:11 GMT
I'll like to help test Expert pack UR drop rates but I have to wait until they add more stuff to the store.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 22:07:02 GMT
Do we still need to nail down the new UR drop rate for Expert packs?
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 20:54:59 GMT
So do you have boosters if you don't buy packs or you just play without them? I'm one of those jerks who seldom uses Boosters on anything below Platinum. Also I have a shitload of Boosters leftover from when I had maxed all Rares prior to 1.09. But yeah, getting more Boosters is just about the only thing that will get me to buy packs. That and gathering data for the research thread, which isn't as entertaining as it used to be now that crashsuit has spoiled everything with his 2000 packs and shit. I've only mined data from Premium packs though, you could always go for Arsenals or Reserves. In addition to verifying the UR drop rate for those, it'd be interesting to see the character vs gun weighting in the rares and URs that drop from those packs, vs the weighting in the Premiums. Also, holy shit, I have so many boosters.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 20:46:12 GMT
I've decompiled a couple apps and edited the smali to remove ads but that's about it for me. I guess if I could track the tools down again and had time to look through the code I could probably eventually find something to do with store items but I don't know if I have the time for that these days. Yeah, that's the big obstacle for me too. I don't have the tools I would need in order to peek under the hood, nor do I give enough of a fuck about it to track them down. A lot of apps tend to be roughly equivalent to spaghetti held together with chewing gum, so it would be amusing to see how bad the APEX app is, but I have better things to spend my time on. OK, well, I was curious enough that I ended up pulling the app apart. Nothing to report so far on editable code but I did find some cool stuff in the bundled resources. There are a lot of pretty icons and map pictures, plus some stuff that's hidden, or at least that I don't recognize seeing before. This is an icon for a weapon mod class (I think) described as "taser": A skill tree evo icon titled "about to die": Icons for Warp and Double Warp: Interesting to note that while there are icons for Warp, there's no icon for any of the kits that'll have it. Can't remember if I've seen this before or not but I think it's labeled Proximity Mine: Skill tree evo icon called "in the trenches": Can't remember what this one's called but not sure if I've seen it before, something about encumbrance? And then there's this, the EA Access pack: Pretty sure that's everything visual that I don't recognize having seen, though like I said some of this might be stuff that's already there and I just don't recognize it. Edit: I realize a couple of the power evo icons I posted are already in some of the trees, I guess I need to look at unused evos more often. Still don't recognize some of them though.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 19:01:42 GMT
Maxed manifest, as in all characters to rank XX and all guns and standard mods to rank X. It's doable... if you're on PC. Even if your suit game crashes every so often? On the other hand, I remember that somebody here has a ridiculous amount of credits on his hand, and I'm betting even after opening those thousands of premium packs... Yeah, if you take a look in the drop rate research thread, you'll see in my videos that I lost connection quite a few times just buying packs in the store. In the end, it took around 2150 Premium packs to max all the URs added 1.09. Rares were maxed along the way about a fifth of the way through all of those.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 17:39:12 GMT
Depends what you're after. Experts definitely give you more boosters per credit than the 100k packs and will unlock your rares faster, but if you're going for a maxed manifest, Experts will cost you more time and credits in the long run, since 100k packs have much better UR drop rates than Expert packs, and buying the 100k packs will max your rares long before you max your URs. On the flip side, I can understand the fun in getting to open a pack and get a rare card after every Gold game. I did the same thing earlier on to max my rares with Expert packs, back when they still had the same pity timer and UR drop rates as the 100k packs. Unless they stealth changed the UR drop rate in Expert packs recently, though, Experts are not a good value if you're after URs. Now... you need to define that a bit more.. because maxing manifest might mean few different things now a day... haha Maxing all of Concussive/Siphon/Bulwark weapons might be one of them.. but I highly doubt if more than 30 people on entire world will achieve this... Maxed manifest, as in all characters to rank XX and all guns and standard mods to rank X. It's doable... if you're on PC.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 17:26:36 GMT
Depends what you're after. Experts definitely give you more boosters per credit than the 100k packs and will unlock your rares faster, but if you're going for a maxed manifest, Experts will cost you more time and credits in the long run, since 100k packs have much better UR drop rates than Expert packs, and buying the 100k packs will max your rares long before you max your URs.
On the flip side, I can understand the fun in getting to open a pack and get a rare card after every Gold game. I did the same thing earlier on to max my rares with Expert packs, back when they still had the same pity timer and UR drop rates as the 100k packs. Unless they stealth changed the UR drop rate in Expert packs recently, though, Experts are not a good value if you're after URs.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 6:23:13 GMT
I'm lit up like it's Space Christmas.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 5:26:11 GMT
Played my first actual platinum game and pugged into 3y3vr3. Things went smoother than I thought they would.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 4:56:43 GMT
Played it once so far and got disconnected right when the scoreboard was going to come up. I would say it's just me but sounds like multiple people are having issues with the special mission tonight?
Edit: Just remembered I may have a strike team on the same mission. Maybe that's the common factor? The game has a history of not liking it when people and their strike teams are doing the same mission.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 3:50:23 GMT
...anyone here good with modifying apps? I took one app development course last year and spent the entire term wanting to blow my brains out. Although I would prefer to not incur the wrath of EA's legal team. I've decompiled a couple apps and edited the smali to remove ads but that's about it for me. I guess if I could track the tools down again and had time to look through the code I could probably eventually find something to do with store items but I don't know if I have the time for that these days.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 28, 2017 3:39:58 GMT
I really ike that art style they're going with in Dauntless, but what's with Hammer Guy's doofy rocket move that gets him nowhere? "Hey y'all check out this move!" "Ah shit is he doing that stupid rocket hammer thing again, yep he sure is." If I could jet around on a giant hammer, though, I'd probably be all about that too, I guess.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 23:11:44 GMT
I just did the apex mission in app and it completed in 45 seconds. It crashed the app for me. Edit: then it let me complete it twice in a row in about 20 seconds. Same. Both times, it crashed my app, but then was done immediately.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 22:51:33 GMT
If you've got 5600MF sitting around, you can max the common variant mods, including both scopeless accuracy mods and the heavy melee blade, and if you've got 6300MF you can max the uncommon variant mods, including all the heavy extended weapon magazines.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 21:15:14 GMT
So, if we could somehow trick the app into showing us expired items, we could still buy them. Following that logic, what would stop you from buying items they've not released yet if you could somehow identify them? I'll not take that option, nor do I know how, but it seems possible. ...anyone here good with modifying apps?
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 21:02:32 GMT
So, if we could somehow trick the app into showing us expired items, we could still buy them.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 20:59:49 GMT
Last of the videos. Also realized I accidentally added an extra 100 to the total number of packs opened, which threw off the calculated drop rate. Fixed both in my post above. I was just tired last night and named one of the files wrong somehow. The drop rate is pretty much 1 in 4, which a very few specific people here will recognize as being significant. 1501-1600 1601-1700 1701-1800 1801-1900 1901-2000 2001-2044
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 17:56:50 GMT
I know these livestreams don't have much to do with singleplayer and all, but a while ago when certain fake rumours arose about the lack of upcoming DLC, one of the MEA devs urged that people to 'wait until the end of July, if they were willing to'. If you can cite a timeframe we can dig back through the reddit threads.... www.reddit.com/r/MECoOp/search?q=livestream+summary&sort=new&restrict_sr=on&t=allEdited to add: actually I can't believe anyone on the Twitch stream would ever have mentioned DLC. They have been really careful about not committing to anything. I remember that too, but the one I saw was from the Mass Effect news twitter account. It's not officially affiliated or anything, but here's the tweet.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 17:25:19 GMT
25 minutes past when gear normally rotates, and nothing else new in the store, so it's probably safe to say that they're not going to rotate these out this morning. I guess their gear person just pushed the button early, or something?
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 16:14:38 GMT
I posted a new thread about this, but for people who don't check for new threads that often, I'm posting it here too as an FYI. There are some new gear items that were added to the store early today. I bought them all in case they pull another 1.09 on us and yoink them in an hour.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 16:09:54 GMT
Better grab em in case they pull another 1.09 on us.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 27, 2017 6:54:18 GMT
Another 544 packs to get 123 more URs to max my manifest. Total drop rate for 509 URs over 2144 2044 Premium packs: ~23.74% ~24.9%. Tonight's run of 544 packs had a significantly lower drop rate than the previous 1500 packs, 22.6% vs 25.7%. Seems like a large variance considering the statistically significant number of packs involved, but I guess given the lack of similar data, for now I'll assume the UR drop rate for Premium packs can vary quite a bit over a large number of packs, as opposed to the chance that there's been a sudden arbitrary stealth adjustment to the UR drop rate since yesterday. Anyway, there you go, I'll have videos up tomorrow some time, and I'll bust open some more packs next time content is added, which may or may not be tomorrow. Edit: I was tired and counted the total number of packs wrong. Number of packs and UR drop rate adjusted accordingly. Looks really really close to 1 in 4.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 26, 2017 23:25:45 GMT
Videos for Premium packs 1001 through 1500. Should finish opening the rest later tonight and then I'll be done until they add another kit, two guns, ten ranks, and five colors, or whatever. Disclaimer: Didn't bother flipping any over, easier and faster to tally this way, plus they're all guns anyway. Sorry to anyone hoping to datamine anything out of these videos other than UR drop rates. 1001-1100 1101-1200 1201-1252 (lost connection after pack 1252) 1253-1300 1301-1400 1401-1500
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 26, 2017 19:09:55 GMT
Not sure if this'll work but here's the link from the email: Andromeda Survey"Go get'er, Ray!" I edited your link to remove the unique user ID and other email-related flags, since if multiple people keep using the same user ID to complete the survey, it might just keep overwriting the same answers. edited link
Edit: You can also delete the parts of the URL from the question mark onward and still get the same survey, though in that case your submitted survey will probably have fewer flags identifying where you got the survey from, how it was sent out, etc. Also, I submitted one completed survey, and then tried reloading it (because I was testing some of the aforementioned flag stuff) and got this interesting message added to my new survey: "I've detected that your browser has already completed this survey but I'll let you in anyway for testing". Edit 2: You can also keep the flags but change them arbitrarily and the survey will still work. For example, I changed seg to 1, list to 0, utm_campaign to HEY_DO_YOU_LIKE_APPLES, Title to HOW_ABOUT_THEM_APPLES, Team to poo, Platform to N64, and Campaign to OPERATION_APPLES, and the survey still loaded fine. Whether that info would get passed along with the survey though would be anyone's guess. Edit 3: I played around with the URL some more, specifically the survey number, and got access to some other exclusive(?) surveys. 170706 is huge, took me like 20 minutes to fill it out, covers a bunch of video game interests and buying habits. Edit 4: yes please Edit 5: The UID identifier in the survey's URL will accept negative numbers and alphanumerics. Also for some UID values it gives an error message that the UID used is already in progress. Whatever that means. I guess most of this isn't really relevant but it's fun to play with to see what happens.
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Post by crashsuit on Jul 26, 2017 6:19:51 GMT
Opened another 500 Premium packs tonight, got another 128 UR drops. Combined with the 258 UR drops from the previous 1000 packs, that's 386/1500 = ~25.7% UR drop rate. I'll upload the videos tomorrow during the day, and then tomorrow night I'll open another 500 or 600 Premium packs, and then hopefully I'll be done. Holy crap though I'm so sick of opening packs right now.
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