Introducing Silicon Valley's Encrypted Items

[Smiit]

You see how I find that hard to believe right?

[Roez]

I appreciate the honesty but how y'all are so oblivious to why people don't blow money on bits for boxes and arkforges highlights, yet again, the enormous disconnect between you, the developer, and us, the players.

So let me spell this out for you.

We don't buy arkforge because the price is insane and lockboxes have no guarantee of supplying anything worthwhile. A four blue lockbox is the same as burning money.

The bit store purchased lockboxes, as designed, are likely here to stay. They get the same complaints you give, in other games, and yet they tend to be extremely profitable. They aren't aimed at the normal, or typical user. They are there for those who don't mind throwing down $50 bucks to see what they might get, and some people will spend hundreds or thousands. The fact some of the items are rare (outfits here), and this is the only way to get them (ie, it's expensive), is the draw.

[N3gativeCr33p]

Upgrading item level should cost salvage, IMO. At least that would make salvage useful again.

Here! Here!

[UniqueOne]

Upgrading item level should cost salvage, IMO. At least that would make salvage useful again.

/signed

Keeping my weapons around my rating has been impossible due to lock box nerfs.

I don't care much about upgrading rarity, but I would like to keep the same weapon for more then a few days before I can't afford to upgrade it.

[Z0mb1E]

Scapes can we please get some clarification on whether or not encrypted items will still be able to re-roll mastery bonuses?

[EroticJellyfish]

ffs.. whatever trick suggests.. Do the exact opposite. I've been playing the game a month and already everything he's done is ******ed and driving me away from the game.

[OrpheusXI]

[SymbolicGamer]

I'm cool with this.

Just a few questions.

1 a) Will all Legendary weapons earned after this update be encrypted, or are there also going to be "normal" Legendary weapons without the damage boost?

1 b) If normal orange weapons exist, since Legendary is the highest rarity does that mean we won't be able to encrypt them?

2 ) Mission rewards and other unique guns. Can these be changed to non-encrypted purple rarity? I like using guns like the Firestorm and Thundershock on new characters, but if they can never be leveled above green, that's going to be a disappointment.

[Dorkasaurus]

Still no word on the ability to reroll weapon stats? This change is all fine with me if I can take the purples and oranges that do drop and make them the gun I wanted.

[Xaat Xuun]

I'm cool with this.

Just a few questions.

1 a) Will all Legendary weapons earned after this update be encrypted, or are there also going to be "normal" Legendary weapons without the damage boost?

1 b) If normal orange weapons exist, since Legendary is the highest rarity does that mean we won't be able to encrypt them?

2 ) Mission rewards and other unique guns. Can these be changed to non-encrypted purple rarity? I like using guns like the Firestorm and Thundershock on new characters, but if they can never be leveled above green, that's going to be a disappointment.

your #2 was my only concern for this change, new players starting after SV goes live will have to deal with that issue, if it is one, I hope mission rewards have some immunity to becoming encrypted, some are nice, but only come in green and like the ones you mention white.
hog leg, El Diablo, are just some other named mission reward weapons