Alcatraz Preview: Expeditions

[Tura Satana]

Surprised people aren't taking issue with this.
I don't care, but I know that feature will raise a red flag or two for some.

It has. I believe this is going to be a total disaster. Requiring more keys to revive yourself or someone. How will this even be possible if you are using your one key a week to play? No one has any business going into any of these with randoms. For REAL. If you thought co-op was risky. Now your whole once a week expedition experience is on the line. Do NOT go into one of these without a reliable team. If you do, you're a fool.

People are gonna go down.. making it harder on the team.. then be begging you to revive them. "plz plz" will turn into "f--- you, you a**hole." But you can't blame anyone for not wasting THEIR revive on YOU, given the set up here. I would not revive anyone but my closest friends.. which is why I don't plan on going into any expeditions without them.

I am totally not excited about the Alcatraz expeditions anymore. There are just too many possible issues.. and you know the dev teams track record with overlooking possible issues. I expect total disaster.

[Sonic7870]

I was interested in this update but the fact that it's p2w could kill the game giving no prices have been announced meaning that non pp owners are going to miss out, not to mention many including myself still continue to see pp prices even though the passes wore off during s2's airing in the us.

The restrictions with the self revive means no ones going to work together instead will make players go lone wolf and leave ppl in the dirt so that the lone wolves may have a slight chance at oj rewards and gain blue loot instead

[whit]

Change it ? LOL they are completely shameless lately, the pay to win becomes more obvious with each big update, didn't really look at pursuits in detail but at least 1 of them was complete 100 expeditions, 1 req per week this is going to take almost 2 years!

I raised this point on another thread, apparently, if you don't die, you can string a number of expeditions together. However, I am sure there are other pursuits that will take a long time with only one session a week.

[Tura Satana]

I raised this point on another thread, apparently, if you don't die, you can string a number of expeditions together. However, I am sure there are other pursuits that will take a long time with only one session a week.

I also heard people from the pts saying that the expeditions were exhausting. We may not want to string them together. For instance.. I don't really like doing more than one co-op map at as time. I feel like I need a break after.

[WhiteStrike]

I also heard people from the pts saying that the expeditions were exhausting. We may not want to string them together. For instance.. I don't really like doing more than one co-op map at as time. I feel like I need a break after.

It was SirServed.

[pebcak]

I hope they will add another way to get these hunter reqs via in game currency to give us another use for them. Because at this point and time ark salvage is almost useless unless you use it to buy keys. Which i think is to expensive. script is the same way. ark forge might be a useful idea to have these be bought from. And from looking at the pursuits its gonna take me over 2+ years to get all the pursuits how its this fair to the newer players that are testing out the game, saying if you want to do this open you wallet and pay for it. opps im out pay again and again. If tyhere was another way like i said earlier in my post people wont be as unhappy about it.

[Tura Satana]

It was SirServed.

Then its valid! =D

[Lithova]

Why just Hunter Req? Let us convert our useless Ark salvage to Hunter Req. voila, ark salvage becomes useful.

[r1p]

It has. I believe this is going to be a total disaster. Requiring more keys to revive yourself or someone. How will this even be possible if you are using your one key a week to play? No one has any business going into any of these with randoms. For REAL. If you thought co-op was risky. Now your whole once a week expedition experience is on the line. Do NOT go into one of these without a reliable team. If you do, you're a fool.

People are gonna go down.. making it harder on the team.. then be begging you to revive them. "plz plz" will turn into "f--- you, you a**hole." But you can't blame anyone for not wasting THEIR revive on YOU, given the set up here. I would not revive anyone but my closest friends.. which is why I don't plan on going into any expeditions without them.

I am totally not excited about the Alcatraz expeditions anymore. There are just too many possible issues.. and you know the dev teams track record with overlooking possible issues. I expect total disaster.

Well said.

[r1p]

I was interested in this update but the fact that it's p2w could kill the game giving no prices have been announced meaning that non pp owners are going to miss out, not to mention many including myself still continue to see pp prices even though the passes wore off during s2's airing in the us.

The restrictions with the self revive means no ones going to work together instead will make players go lone wolf and leave ppl in the dirt so that the lone wolves may have a slight chance at oj rewards and gain blue loot instead

While Trion has repeatedly said that the pricing may change, from the screenshots that have been posted the non-discount pricing for Hunter Reqs appears to be as follows:

1 HR = 40 bits = $0.50 per/HR
5 HR = 180 bits = $0.45 per/HR
20 HR = 500 bits = $0.3125 per/HR

You can buy bits in larger quantities at a slightly better rate but this should be a pretty good guideline.

I also want to apologize to the European players for may lack of knowledge with regards to the European store prices. I'm sure they track differently due to VAT and other factors.

To be honest, I stopped playing video games at the arcade when they got to be $.50 cents a game, but at least there if the game crashed an attendant would be on hand to give you a refund. With this ......