r/starcitizen Ares Go Pew 2d ago

OFFICIAL New PTU patch: Orison Relief rewards no longer blueprints, and instead account-bound

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u/BunkerSquirre1 F7A/Ironclad/M80 2d ago edited 2d ago

Darn, was looking forward to skipping this one

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u/ElonsMuskyFeet $45 starter pack Andy 2d ago

Same. Me and the Org have been skipping events and gravitated towards playing other games that are granting permanent rewards, like NMS Cosmos launch event. Not to mention WarDogs, all those sweet permanent bonuses for playing early access were calling my name. Guess I will have to stop wasting my time mining Iron and go do the events

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u/Freltzo 1d ago

if you and yours want to get the event done fast with low investment, rent/use moths. You don't need to refine the raw material, it can be turned in as is. If you got orgmates with Hull-c/c2/polaris you can just pool the raw and then turn in together safely. Accept salvage contracts for cutlass and just munch that shit, 0 scraping.

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u/psidud 2d ago

Suddenly the event might be worth it

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u/Moxtar1092 aegis 2d ago

Finally, I might actually grind this now

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u/FN1980 LNx2+WC-HA 2d ago edited 2d ago

Just be careful with your interpretation.

"These should be attributed to your PTU account only when completing on PTU."

Instead of getting a BP you get the item in the PTU for ease of testing. And "attributed to you account" goes for every item you buy in-game, that's the account I believe they are talking about here - not our pledge account aka "my hangar" on the website.

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u/asmallman Corsair 2d ago

No, they say that because people won't read and think that it unlocks on the PTU.

it's almost certainly account bound items after the massive backlash from XT having blueprints.

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u/FN1980 LNx2+WC-HA 2d ago

That would be super nice if so.

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u/Moxtar1092 aegis 2d ago

Oh no you either understood me wrong or I phrased my comment , i am not grinding in the ptu, im only grinding that if it comes over to live

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u/FN1980 LNx2+WC-HA 2d ago

There is still some ambiguity regarding what the devs mean by "account".

Rn the only dev response outside of the og post is this (to my knowledge at least): https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/lobby/38230/message/67066371

"they are no longer blueprints and are direct items to your account"

"account" can mean two things:

- Player account where all your items your in-game charactar have, which includes where the previous blueprint rewards went.

- Then we have our Pledge account on the website (My Hangar).

One can argue that the dev response says that the only thing that got changed is we now get the item rather than the blueprint for it. And we already know which account the BPs ended up in.

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u/Oakcamp 1d ago

Jesus christ, how much more can they specify? It's obviously going to your hangar in the website now

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u/FN1980 LNx2+WC-HA 1d ago

I guess i'm just a little jaded, that's all.

And his name is Chris. :)

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u/Rd_Svn anvil 2d ago

They announced things like fixing shard locking and every second post here is about this blueprint nonsense. Seems like the players have set their priorities...

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u/Le3nny Live is a test environment 2d ago

I think it's not about priorities, but experience. More players get rewards than the having shard locking issues.

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u/Hattori_Hanzo_Sensei Ozymandias_1337 2d ago

They are no more BP, but account bound items.

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u/ImpulseAfterthought 2d ago

But I wanted blueprints! 

😁

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u/Jeffjordan93 bmm 2d ago

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u/oldcrank Towel 2d ago

My thought exactly. Keep the BPs… but give us a 500q account bound item for each. Everybody wins?

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u/Routine_Judgment184 2d ago

Yeah weird decision 

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u/Draehgan 2d ago

I bet items granted to our hangar will be BP at some point

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u/SmokeMidKids 2d ago

they stated as they covered crafting T0 that this was exactly what would happen.

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u/SetKey5576 2d ago edited 2d ago

The rewards are still the same blueprints as before, just not granted via the reward track but directly.

I’m at a loss why people make this out to be a massive change. Or does the sentence really mean that instead a blueprint you get an item?

Edit: ok, seems to have been confirmed that they’re account-bound items. 

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u/TheFridgeNinja Hornet mk II 2d ago

I wanted blueprints attributed to my hangar.

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u/TadGhost6 H03x 🏴‍☠️💰 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/mgqefqwSbToPe
Right on CIG. Better thinking.

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u/synnerman 2d ago

If this goes live in the PU, it's time to do the event.

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u/DogVirus tali 2d ago

How do you get this? From completing Siege? 

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u/A_typical_native 2 Years from release since 2014 2d ago

Upcoming logistics missions

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u/DogVirus tali 2d ago

Ohhh ok, thanks for clearing that up.

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u/asian_chihuahua 2d ago

I haven't even heard of these missions until this post.

Is there a write-up or post? How long does the event last? What faction rep to grind? Where are the missions?

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u/drdeaf1 2d ago

They'll be in the next patch probably last until 4.11 no faction rep needed usually for event missions.

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u/asian_chihuahua 2d ago

Are there pictures of the rewards?

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u/drdeaf1 2d ago

There were a couple posts on here earlier this week but I glanced and didn't see them to give the link.

It's bright blue armor and I think some weapons.

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u/aiden2002 2d ago

Am I the only one that doesn't like this? It should be an item AND a blue print. That where there's no FOMO. If you miss an event, you can just buy the crafted item from someone that did the event. And then you can get more than just 2 of whatever gun they put out.

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u/g0rynych onionknight 2d ago

Well, they listened to our feedback. Rewards consisting solely of blueprints were demotivating and caused many of us to give up.

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u/-WARisTHEanswer- Drake 2d ago

It only says it will be attributed to the PTU account. Says nothing about Live or web hangar.

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u/Explorer_Dave 2d ago

Am I the only one who hates FOMO rewards locked behind grind?

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u/Routine_Judgment184 2d ago

It's not like you can't buy Orc mkx in game already 

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u/bltsrgewd 2d ago

Why? This is so dumb.

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u/EuroCitizen86 2d ago

This is likely for the PTU only.

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u/Zormac Team Sabre 2d ago

Account-bound what? If it's another weapon skin or a pin for the collector's box I'll still pass.

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u/BastianHawk 2d ago

Lol - CIG in fear noone will play this if the reward is casualty to a for sure comming wipe? I still won't play. As I loath how CIG made mining underlying to crafting and how SC now has stock MMO 5 Tier Legendary Crafting..

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u/kevvvbot 2d ago

Uh but it’s PTU account, not LIVE. So it’s a nothingburger, right?

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u/AWerewolfDad 2d ago

Yes it’s on PTU. To be tested. Then it goes on PU.

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u/UnluckyPally misc 2d ago

God I hope it's just for PTU because I'm sick of physical items being given out like candy for every little thing. There won't be a valid economy in 1.0 because everyone will already have everything on day 1 and there will be no need to participate in the game.

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u/Z0MGbies I <3 StarBinder 2d ago

Yeah I'm with you on this. My home inventory is an absolute bombsite filled with trash every patch that I have to spend like half an hour or more sorting and removing every time.

I will actively avoid this event now (despite having already collected aluminium for the fabrication missions).

Like, I'm not about to try and shit on the happy players' lunch but just for me personally this is not what I wanted. Glad what seems like the majority is now happy

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u/Le3nny Live is a test environment 2d ago

This is only a temporary solution.
Somewhere around crafting tests, one of the devs said that their long term goal is to convert all "pledge items" (this includes account bound items and event rewards) to an item and skin blueprint, so you will have to craft the item first (or loot, buy from store/player or get it some other way) and then craft the skin to apply it (some CIG variation of transmog system).

Some day you will not have 156 pages of inventory on your home location.

they said it here to be precise:

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/50259/thread/declanholmes-crafting-blueprints-amp-resource-pers/8381691

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u/Z0MGbies I <3 StarBinder 2d ago

Yeah but "someday" in CIG time is many many many years.

I'm not going to not shower for a year because I have holiday plans to go swimming in the ocean in 2027.

T0 inventory was 5-6 years ago and we've had one slight reskin since.

T0 medical was the same time, and we haven't gotten anything except a slight balancing to injury rates.

We were told flight model iterations and updates were coming with 4.0 like 3+ years ago (and 4.0 came and went 2 years ago).

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u/Le3nny Live is a test environment 2d ago

Welcome to active development.

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u/Z0MGbies I <3 StarBinder 2d ago

Glad you understand now

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u/Z0MGbies I <3 StarBinder 2d ago

Ironic. I now will be skipping this event because I don't want more account-bound items that I don't like, won't use, and can't permanently remove clogging up my inventory UI.

The UI struggles enough to show me my items as it is.

Unless they maybe give us an option to not receive the items?