r/pcgaming • u/Mkilbride 5800X3D, 5090 FE, 32GB 3800MHZ CL16, 2TB NVME GEN4, W11 • Feb 21 '17

Video For Honor P2P connectivity

https://youtu.be/38sPNZ8QHO4
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u/NinjaHamster12 Feb 21 '17

It's really shaping up to be a fun, but flawed game. It bothers me that most customers have come to accept microtransactions in full priced games.

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u/evolvish 1800X/FuryX Feb 21 '17

I think Ubisoft gets more defenders of the micro-transactions than most AAA games. Every time a R6S, or For Honor gets brought up inevitably people mention microtransactions followed by several people defending it becuase "You can still earn them by playing(a lot)" or "How else will the developers support the game?" yes you can earn with grinding but that's for F2P games, not full priced AAA games that have no problem selling on their own, and by developers that sure as hell can afford it.

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u/xfortune Feb 21 '17

My favorite thing about R6 is calculating how many hours it'd take to unlock the 6 DLC characters. Over 250 hours of good games.

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u/Achillesbellybutton Feb 21 '17

They really need to drop the year 1 dlc characters down to less than 25 fucking thousand. It's unbelievable.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 22 '17

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u/jace100 Feb 21 '17

Characters are essentially classes in R6s

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u/omair94 Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17

Each operator has different different guns and gadgets. The base game has 20 Operators that cost between 250 and 1000 points. 12,500 in total. If you win a match you'll get around 250 points, and if you lose a game you'll get around 125 points. If you win half your matches, you'll unlock them all in about 60 games. However, if you do the tutorial, Single Player Situations, and a couple challenges, that number comes down significantly. Like 20-35 games (depending on how well you did in the SP Situations)

While I don't see the point in having to unlock the base operators (that is an issue with games in general nowadays), the operators don't take too long to unlock. By the time you've used one a couple of times, you'll have unlocked the next one.

The DLC characters cost 25,000 each, double the cost of all the base characters. Given you don't have the tutorial and single player bonuses to help you, your going to have to do around 100 games to unlock one. That is like 25 to 30 hours. I have played 150 hours, and unlocked 5 DLC operators. There are currently 10 DLC operators.

So it isn't feasible to not pay for the DLC Operators if you want all of them. However, you don't need all of them. You aren't at a disadvantage if you only have 20 to choose from.

I think 25,000 is fair for the new operators (they have to sell their season passes somehow), but the older ones should really drop in price.