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BattleBit Remastered is dominating Steam because there's no catch: it's just a lot of game for $15 (www.pcgamer.com)
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One of the best new multiplayer games of 2023 has no microtransactions.

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[-] gk99@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Despite the "no microtransactions" label, the communication all-around for the cosmetics kinda sucks and I want to clarify some stuff.

  1. While there is an absolute ton of stuff to unlock in-game, a bunch of armors and handful of weapon skins are labeled stuff like "VIPs only" and "Veterans only."
  2. In reality, most of that stuff is available via the "Supporter Pack" for $20. The only exceptions here are some scoreboard icons and anything labeled "Veterans only" or "Content Creator only."
  3. Despite plenty of paid/event/status cosmetics being shown in the menus, that's not actually everything. For example, there are currently Twitch drops available to get purple gun skins for a bunch of weapons.

But unlike games like CoD, you can ignore the vast majority of this shit and just play. There's no in-game store or anything, you load the game up and they just go "here's all the available quickplay modes and the community servers button, have fun."

[-] Pankakke@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I personally feel like the “no-microtransactions” label is still accurate despite these inclusions. It’s free to link your twitch to your battlebit account and watch some streams for the drops if you really want the purple skins.

The supporter pack is really just some skins to say thanks to anybody who wants to throw some extra money to the developers. The game already has a really low cost of entry anyway so I see no issue with this.

With you not being able to pick up weapons off the ground, I’ll be honest I haven’t really noticed the skins that anybody else has. Seems to really just be for you and you alone.

[-] gk99@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not trashing them for having the pack, I bought the Supporter pack myself. I'm just saying their communication sucks. All of the beard options are locked behind the Supporter pack, and I had no idea because I didn't know what a "VIP" was or if it was possible to become one or anything, and they don't explicitly mention it on the store page or anything. There's no in-game announcement of promotions, so had I not been a Discord member I'd have no idea that there were Twitch skins.

Just trying to inform people so they don't miss that kinda stuff. Keep your downvotes to yourself.

Edit: @Pankakke or don't, the decision to just block you got a whole lot easier since this whole "downvote because I can't have a real discussion" shit is one of the things I was hoping would stay on reddit, but I guess you're why we can't have nice things. Thank goodness votes are public info on the fediverse.

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