Bye Bye Straight Drops
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Starting on Tuesday, January 12 around noon ET (17:00 UTC), each 4* and 5* crew pulled from a 1-pack Premium Rewards or a 10-pack Premium Rewards will be presented as a behold offering a choice between three crew of the same rarity.
This change will bring more versatility to the Premium Rewards packs, and will be permanent!
Great change! Who doesn't love beholds? I'd also love to see the behold appear in any slot within the pack, like it does in theme and event packs...maybe for the 6th year anniversary?
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It does. If you got a random 4* or 5* drop it was always a behold. The only time you didn't get a behold was for the guaranteed 4* drop if your random selection didn't include a 4+*.
I like the change, but am a little underwhelmed that this is the big announcement. That does little to address the issue of having way too many crew in the pool and such lousy drop rates beyond the one guaranteed 4* (at minimum).
I think you're mixing up Premium packs and Theme or Event packs. Premium pack beholds always group up at the end of the pack. In theme and event packs, they can drop in any slot. This update may include a change to where they appear in the Premium pack, but without a note about it, I'm guessing that particular behavior will not change.
Honestly, I don't care where they appear in the pack. I just assume that's some kind of sorting going on meant to make the pack appear "more exciting". If that's all you wanted change, then <shrug>, sure why not, but there are probably more important things to spend effort on.
You can [rarely] get beholds/beGolds in other slots throughout the standard premium pack, aside from the 1st one or last 3. The 5th and 7th seem to be most common, from packs I've had or seen photos of on the forums.
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I get that this is useful for early and mid game players. Does nothing for either of my accounts.
Of course, it doesn't solve the dilution problem. It's a first step that's been long overdue. So thanks, TP!
I guess this officially answers the riddle about "something players have been asking for since the beginning of the game". As far as I'm concerned, this is a good change. Let's collectively try not to nitpick it too much.
Does nt look like it, they basic, event and other non premium pulls are excluded.
Basic packs already have a behold for 4*/5* drops. But event packs, theme packs, and merit packs all still appear to still be straight drops.
I agree
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My fault for the expectations. Not TPs fault...
This is good news for my collection.
"There is nothing to gain from haste but error." Surak Second Analects
Not really. I think I'm short of eight 4*s. So 200 honour is still 200 honour. Most disappointed, especially with the 'building up' they made of this new feature.
Ah well, silver linings, my opening twenty premium packs 48 hours before the announcement is not as bad a move as I'd thought.
How about a guaranteed non FF crew member in pulls of 10? That would be a great improvment for veterans!!!
Also, while this change is accurately explained, if I am not mistaken, 4*/5* crew pulled from 1-pack Premium Rewards were already always Beholds - so single packs are unaffected by this change, right?
Now I would need to revisit this week's Timelines Talks show to verify, but I thought WRG Ben's riddle about something asked for since the beginning of the game was referring to February's game-changing new feature, but I could be wrong - I guess we will find out in a few weeks anyway!
It's mostly that I just can't send her out the airlock. Mirror Lorca obviously would, but that's just not who I am.
In addition to the new Q1 feature, he also teased this as something players have been asking for.
I'm a bit underwhelmed when I compare it what I had dreamed up, but it's still a welcome step in the right direction as far as I'm concerned.
I think it would have paired well with a portal update so we could get some of those SR's that we didn't get in Tuesday packs. I might keep sitting on my packs for that reason.
This is the way it should have been all along, but it doesn't actually affect players who are digging around for Legendaries at all as far as I can tell and as such doesn't improve the value of premium packs for many players. Personally I think Premium packs are pure junk these days. The pool of characters is waaaaayy too big and as such the odds of getting anything useful is very very low.
This is an improvement, but it does not deserve any fanfare. They need to do a lot more to improve premium packs to make them worth paying for.
Little disappointed it won't apply to merit/common pulls. While SR drops there are quite uncommon, and Legendaries even more so, it would make these rare instances all the more exciting.
But that's a minor nitpick. And if this is a taste of the upcoming Feb feature, I'm certainly looking forward to knowing more!
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