You changed over the battlepass, that previously was actually very helpful to both new and old players alike, to now have a bunch of cosmetic orders. While some players may have been asking for more cosmetics, its actually less useful to players overall.
However, I’m not asking to necessarily remove the cosmetic orders from the battlepass, but INSTEAD give us the option to exchange them for silver.
I for one have TONS of the callsign orders stacked up collecting dust because I don’t see any point in it. (Other players don’t see the callsigns, so other than maybe for the sake of organization they don’t really do anything.)
I definitely don’t see any point to accumulating more, and would much rather have the silver with which to keep building my armies.
The same goes for the cosmetic clothing orders.
Basically give players the option to have them if they want them, but if they don’t want/need them, they should be able to get the silver instead.
This would be good - the new battle pass really isn’t any different - there’s nothing of interest in it this time round. I’m just in it for the gold/gold orders/xp. Just chock full of small silver amounts and cosmetic orders over and over. Notably though barely any call sign orders - I think only 6 total.
Add in more xp boosters I say. And maybe same total amount of silver but over fewer levels - leave room for something interesting.
Maybe add in actual unique cosmetics, tank/plane camos, decals etc. Maybe even introduce an order for full squad cosmetic. And chuck in some weapons/squads/squad upgrade points/research points.
There just needs to be more variety. Suppose cosmetic orders wouldn’t be quite as bad if it wasn’t so tedious to equip every soldier for every map - I mean why do I need to buy 4 faces for one soldier!!
Side note - I’ve started using the call sign orders so I can easily identify my soldiers max rolled stats. I’ve just prefixed their surname with a rank - i.e. “Capt. xxxx”
The selection of cosmetics is too limited for all these cosmetic orders to be desirable at all. If they give us way more options, I’d be happy to use these orders for their intended purpose.
But they don’t function on the already very limited vehicle customization, and infantry can only get the standard-rolled visual variants for each campaign. I don’t see why players would want those.
As many of us have seen as of late, any time we get an xp booster, we get thrown into conquest or a bad game overall. Making the xp booster essentially worthless.
In terms of new players especially. (Some people may think this is harsh, but hear me out.)
Getting the xp boosts that makes them get higher in BR faster is actually NOT a good thing if they haven’t built up their armies first. At that point they would be trying to walk into T3-5 fights with barely even a worthwhile T2 squad built up.
They would only be a liability to their teammates. (Just like how it was pre-merge.)
So instead, making it more focused on silver, weapon, soldier, and vehicle upgrade orders, they will actually build up their squads, making it to where they can (hopefully) hold their own, and not be a liability to the team.
Yeah, but still better than conquest with no xp boosters…?
Kinda see your point though on new players I guess - maybe add in separate soldier xp/squad xp boosters then. Or squad upgrade orders or something - levelling squads can be quite tedious. For example - just to upgrade the Bren Mk I , I would currently have to level a whole new MG squad because it’s not in the tree for the squad I use.
That sounds exactly like unlocking the Horn STG paratroopers, except with the option to balance out your build with the exp. In fact any player who focuses on a certain type of squad or weapon will go through this to an extent.
The issue is rather, like you said in point 1, that exp boosters often go wasted on unlucky matchups that you have no chance of getting a very high score in.
