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WattsvilleBlues posted:Yeah that would be great.
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So I got heirloom shards earlier today, guess I must've hit the pity counter after playing since launch. Anyone know if you have to actually spend the shards before the counter starts going again? I feel like I heard or read that somewhere but it might be complete bullshit. Don't want any of the current heirlooms but I like to open packs when I get them, even though it's usually just two voice lines and a rare Gibraltar skin.
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Jun 3, 2022 20:38
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Knight2m posted:If you play even semi-regularly, you should have plenty of red tokens to buy new characters each season. They literally throw the things at you. My problem is I only play with Loba, I take it that limits the red tokens?
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Jun 3, 2022 20:41
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WattsvilleBlues posted:My problem is I only play with Loba, I take it that limits the red tokens? No? Why would it? They mostly come from level ups
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Jun 3, 2022 20:42
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Yeah, red tokens come from account level. You get 600 for every level after level 4 and if you would have gained a level after you hit level 500.
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Jun 3, 2022 20:52
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ZeusCannon posted:No? Why would it? They mostly come from level ups From Ranked matches or what? Sorry to be thick as pig poo poo, I honestly just jump in without paying attention to any currency stuff.
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Jun 3, 2022 20:56
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WattsvilleBlues posted:From Ranked matches or what? Sorry to be thick as pig poo poo, I honestly just jump in without paying attention to any currency stuff. Nope, just any match you play gives you experience for your account level outside of private lobbies.
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Jun 3, 2022 20:58
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I must be doing something wrong, I play the poo poo out of the game and my red tokens are a real grind.
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Jun 3, 2022 20:59
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I must be doing something wrong, I play the poo poo out of the game and my red tokens are a real grind. are you rerolling challenges a lot? that's the other thing they're used for, that and store recolours
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Jun 3, 2022 21:00
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the XP you get is somewhat tied to performance so the rate you accumulate it will depend https://apexlegends.fandom.com/wiki/Experience#Gaining_Experience you also get extra XP for playing in a party, and extra extra XP if you or your party members have the battlepass
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Jun 3, 2022 21:01
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The majority of XP is also from match time (which is also the part that benefits from XP boosts) so if you’re just hotdropping and spending all your time in the menus then it’s much, much slower
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Jun 3, 2022 23:04
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I must be doing something wrong, I play the poo poo out of the game and my red tokens are a real grind. if your account level is above like 200 you should have thousands and thousands of red tokens.
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Jun 3, 2022 23:12
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Keito posted:So I got heirloom shards earlier today, guess I must've hit the pity counter after playing since launch. Believe it or not you didn't quite hit the pity counter unless you've gotten literally every single free pack from events and giveaways, and I think you'd still be a bit away from it? So you just finally hit it. I do believe you need to spend the shards if you want a chance at new ones, but tbh I don't think it matters that much. Especially if none of the current ones really call out to you.
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Jun 3, 2022 23:17
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You probably aren't missing anything. I think people are a little optimistic about red currency around these parts. I remember it taking a pretty long time to unlock all the characters, and I started a year or so before you, glancing at your post history. Not, like, League of Legends long (I think I was playing on and off for 6 years before I caught up to current releases), but it definitely took a while.
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Jun 3, 2022 23:19
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Evil Kit posted:Believe it or not you didn't quite hit the pity counter unless you've gotten literally every single free pack from events and giveaways, and I think you'd still be a bit away from it? So you just finally hit it. i plugged all the biggest numbers into the calculator https://mike.zarandona.com/coded/apex-packs-calc/ and got 504 packs, so you are guaranteed an heirloom now, barely, if you've done everything since launch including this seasons battlepass
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Jun 3, 2022 23:21
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You can get more shards even if you have a bunch of unused ones already. Until you run out of things to get
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Evil Kit posted:Believe it or not you didn't quite hit the pity counter unless you've gotten literally every single free pack from events and giveaways, and I think you'd still be a bit away from it? So you just finally hit it. If so I think I'll wait with opening packs until the Valk heirloom drops (probably late this month), and if it's not cool then I'll just have to decide on something else. I main Pathfinder and Bangalore but think both their heirlooms are pretty bad, so I'm maybe leaning towards Caustic's cool hammer, but don't really use him all that much. Difficult choices. repiv posted:i plugged all the biggest numbers into the calculator If it's technically possible to have gotten enough packs from BP/events/treasure then I've probably done it. I've played a lot of Apex. 
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Boxman posted:You probably aren't missing anything. I think people are a little optimistic about red currency around these parts. I remember it taking a pretty long time to unlock all the characters, and I started a year or so before you, glancing at your post history. Not, like, League of Legends long (I think I was playing on and off for 6 years before I caught up to current releases), but it definitely took a while. I think its also one of those things where most of the ppl here haven't actually cared or paid attention to their red token in a very long time. I basically didn't play for a year (last time was dec 2020?) so I missed pretty much every new char from starting with seer. I was still able to buy them all save 2 (new castle and fuse if you're curious). Still had a couple thou left over. Once you've got a decent chunk of the roster unlocked its just completely out of sight/mind since those alternate colorways for skins tend to pop rarely.
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Boxman posted:You probably aren't missing anything. I think people are a little optimistic about red currency around these parts. I remember it taking a pretty long time to unlock all the characters, and I started a year or so before you, glancing at your post history. Not, like, League of Legends long (I think I was playing on and off for 6 years before I caught up to current releases), but it definitely took a while.  At the beginning of a season I click on the new one and buy it.
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I played a fuckload at release to season 3. Then I quit because I realized my quest to get better was having adverse effects on my blood pressure. I had enough points banked to purchase every character up until valk released. I'm trying to get back in now after a mini hiatus though.
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Jun 4, 2022 00:41
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Speaking of spending red tokens, there’s extra legend recolors in the store right now. 15 more hours for this set, then I think there should be another set or two after.
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SubponticatePoster posted:I didn't start playing until late season 8 (like 2 weeks before 9 dropped) and I've unlocked every character Some specific data for the pile: I have 530-ish hours (oh god) logged in. My account level is 325, I have everyone unlocked, and 13,200 red tokens sitting around. Obviously I'm not struggling to unlock legends each season but its not like I'm in a position to spend down red material on cosmetics just yet. Boxman fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Jun 4, 2022 |
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Jun 4, 2022 17:38
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i routinely burn red tokens on daily challenges i dont feel like doing
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So I wasn't around for mad maggies release and just got her recently; how do I use her ultimate? I get the speed boost and that the ball does some damage and knockback if it hits but is there any agreed ideal circumstance to use it etc?
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Jun 4, 2022 20:11
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Boxman posted:Some specific data for the pile: I have 530-ish hours (oh god) logged in. My account level is 325, I have everyone unlocked, and 13,200 red tokens sitting around. Obviously I'm not struggling to unlock legends each season but its not like I'm in a position to spend down red material on cosmetics just yet. Bumper Stickup posted:I played a fuckload at release to season 3. Then I quit because I realized my quest to get better was having adverse effects on my blood pressure. I had enough points banked to purchase every character up until valk released. 
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Jun 4, 2022 20:11
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It takes a few hundred hours of playing to get enough red tokens from scratch to buy every character out now. They don't rain down like candy by any means, until you have nothing to spend them on and they start piling up and it seems that way.
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You get about enough for two champs per season, so I buy the new one and an old one basically as I catch up. I have all the ones I care for now
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Do you mean by filling up the battle pass? Because that is dozens of hours of playing and not casual by any measure. Actually, does the BP even give red? What do you even mean you get enough each season? Like yeah, you can grind out 100k red points in a week if you do nothing else but play Apex 16 hours a day. Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jun 4, 2022 |
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i think he just means playing the game like a normal person, which will, over the 90 day term of a season, generate a particular number of tokens as your account levels up
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Tokubetsu posted:So I wasn't around for mad maggies release and just got her recently; how do I use her ultimate? I get the speed boost and that the ball does some damage and knockback if it hits but is there any agreed ideal circumstance to use it etc? You want to use it in enclosed arenas so it bounces around wildly. A good Maggie bowling ball can completely incapacitate a team that's turtling in a shed and make them easy cleanups. Ironically her ultimate and Fuse's ultimate work great together even out in open space.
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Yeah, the ball breaks doors and bounces, but the real meat of it imo is the stun that keeps people from moving/aiming so you can rush in and shoot em from the side/back. It's also handy if you get caught out of zone and need the speed boost, since it's one of the fastest charging ults too.
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Up Circle posted:i think he just means playing the game like a normal person, which will, over the 90 day term of a season, generate a particular number of tokens as your account levels up This. The amount of time it takes to generally fill the BP will get you about two characters.
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Thanks guys. Right after I posted that question I had a win with her that was at least 70% because of the ult haha. 2 squads left, ring closing on one of the fragments (west?). We decided to third party and right as we're pushing the building they're all poking and fighting in they try to run out to be met with the ball hitting them in the door way. Fun times.
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Boxman posted:You probably aren't missing anything. I think people are a little optimistic about red currency around these parts. I remember it taking a pretty long time to unlock all the characters, and I started a year or so before you, glancing at your post history. Not, like, League of Legends long (I think I was playing on and off for 6 years before I caught up to current releases), but it definitely took a while. https://imgur.com/a/BDOynpt It really does throw a lot at you after a while, though. After you max out your actual levels you'll legitimately never run out ever again.
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MJBuddy posted:This. The amount of time it takes to generally fill the BP will get you about two characters. The vast majority of players do not fill the BP. According to Respawn players take about 1.3 hours of play time per level (in game, not lobby time). So that’s 26 hours per unlock on average. 26 hours of play is a lot. Dogstiles cache of 500k is over 1200 hours of play by Respawns stats.
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Just play for 500 hours, it's easy 
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You really only want to unlock Valk if you want to be "competitive" and maybe horizon. Everything else is dumb flavour characters.
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Bottom Liner posted:The vast majority of players do not fill the BP. Who said they did? I just said what a good, typical estimate would be.
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dogstile posted:You really only want to unlock Valk if you want to be "competitive" and maybe horizon. Blech, this is such an unpleasant way to look at things to me. Everybody is fun, play them all. Sometimes I feel like multiplayer games would be way better if everyone who was good enough that the “meta” actually mattered wasn’t allowed to play (I do not think this would actually be a good idea, but a mediocre player can dream).
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MJBuddy posted:Who said they did? You did. Lol. “You get about enough for two champs per season” is a statement of fact. I was just saying that’s not a static allotment that’s just given out without 50ish hours of play.
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