MacKenzie-Prime

I've gotten conclave up to rank 3 or 4. Not maxed, but up there. My kill count, with all weapons used combined... mid range double digits. 700 on a single weapon sounds absolutely insane to me. And yeah... I think the other poster missed the fact it was "conclave", not regular missions. For regular missions, my mk1 brat and paris are towards the top of my most used list, and my mk1 brat has the most kills out of my braton collection... And when you're in missions with a bunch of bramma-bros, yeah, you might not be getting as many kills as them with the mk1, but that you ARE getting kills should say something.

Why was it audacious to bring back an event they bring back every summer...? That is like saying "they had the audacity to bring back Nights of Naberus halloween event in october"... I'm not knocking on you to be mean, I'm just not seeing what the problem with dog days returning as it normally does could possibly be. Same... which has led me to consider the value of the money I spend more than ever since I have people relying on me to NOT throw away money. This isn't saying "don't buy luxuries", no, not at all... it's "don't buy overpriced luxuries" The pack is a bad value. Same... I saw some people posting their look links before I had looked at the packs and prices... My thought was the packs would be priced like other similar skin bundles. Deluxe skin bundles typically offer the skin, some cosmetic that can be bought separately for plat, and a deluxe bundle exclusive cosmetic. Having a similar setup with similar pricing would have been zero issue. Then I went to the market, and saw the packs, what was included... and the prices. The inclusion of regal aya was a flat out mistake. I am not one of those "regal aya should never have existed" players. I will, and have purchased regal aya. But I completely 100% understand those players, support their objections to the regal aya, support their decision to vote with their wallets, ect. I completely understand the negative contraversy around regal aya... And including regal aya in the pack as a mandatory inclusion is a bad decision. That there is no option for buying JUST the skins... that too was a bad decision. The FOMO aspect of the argument as well, I have no issue with FOMO stuff, because I do not have the fear of missing out. If I miss out, I miss out. It is what it is. HOWEVER, combining limited time exclusive purchase along with the pricing... bad decision, DE. THAT is indeed pretadory, especially with the short window of time for such a high priced cosmetic. And let's all be extremely clear and transparent here... these are skins. You don't even get a base frost and mag with reactors and slots in the bundle... It's all purely cosmetic. For a price tag that is up around prime access pack prices. It's like buying a bare bones basic economy car for luxury car prices because it has some fancy exclusive paint in it's paint job... no wait, it's not, it's buying the paint for the full luxury car price, but you don't even get the no options included economy car in the deal... just the paint. These packs are a pure cash-grab. No shade towards the creators of the skins. Total shade to whoever set up the pricing.

Apples and oranges. The founders pack was a unique situation. And they also were never available to F2P players, while the Mk1 weapons have always been available to f2p. THAT is my biggest complaint. I have all the mk1 weapons beefed up with everything, including the incarnon adapter on my mk1 furis. And the complaint isn't "I'm losing the stance forma's, 20+ regular formas, arcane adapters, incarnon adapters, orokin reactors", it's also that I'm losing weapons that I enjoyed building up and continue to use. For the longest while I had a dedicated arsenal loadout that was excal, and all the mk1 weapons and taxon, default colors, default skin, no fashionframing at all. I'd use that loadout for sorties because I found it fun. Everybody else going in with their meta gear, number crunched mod configs, ect... and me with the newbie gear looking like I just finished vor's prize... I can understand DE wanting to streamline things, and overall no, not every player's gonna be like me and keep every single weapon. But it still doesn't sit right with me. I do hope that when they remove them, they refund the resources spent. I also hope they adjust the build costs for a couple of the non-MR locked weapons to be credit purchase only for new players. Having 1 weapon of every basic weapon type available to build for just credits allowed brand new players access to them to get a feel for how a shotgun plays vs an assault rifle vs a bow, ect, WITHOUT having to invest material resources they do not have being mr0 literally just out of the tutorial. The Lex is, as far as I recall, the only non MK1 weapon that is credits only, no bp+ resources. Yeah, I know, the resources needed to build the baby weapons is nothing.... for anyone mr1 or higher. But again... brand new players, literally the newest of "new player"...