I got a USB drop today. For the firebug class........How do I sell this s***? Firebug is top 1 class I dislike.
Drop Rate Speculation
- Thread starter weeman2412
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Still.
No.
Drop.
Not even a phantom drop.
If there's some sort of weird little trick, like play 2 games online then offline and blah blah blah, that's ridiculous. Why wouldn't you reward players for playing 20+ hours, online or not?
I'm starting to lose my patience, honestly.
No.
Drop.
Not even a phantom drop.
If there's some sort of weird little trick, like play 2 games online then offline and blah blah blah, that's ridiculous. Why wouldn't you reward players for playing 20+ hours, online or not?
I'm starting to lose my patience, honestly.
From the sounds of it, there was just a bug where players could only get drops from offline play. Now Tripwire fixed it and drops should be available both on and offline.
I've played a lot and I'm quite sure that there is one drop per week. Timer will be reseted on Thursday again (the day on which the update went online). The offline bug was fixed with the latest patch but if you need a certain amount of wins or hours to get a drop, can't tell you that, as mentioned above got many of both. Till now all my friends, including myself, got 1 drop per week. Next "I have a drop, yay" wave gonna be in 2-3 days.
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So can we try and figure out how many drops we've had since this was released?
I got a Woodland L85A2 on my first solo match a few days after the first patch
and then got a red & black bandana on the weekend. I thought that would be it until the speculated reset on Thursday, but I just received a Dosh L85A2 now after this latest hotfix.
Have they adjusted the drop rate in this hotfix too?
I got a Woodland L85A2 on my first solo match a few days after the first patch
and then got a red & black bandana on the weekend. I thought that would be it until the speculated reset on Thursday, but I just received a Dosh L85A2 now after this latest hotfix.
Have they adjusted the drop rate in this hotfix too?
Interesting commentary in KFGameReplicationInfo.uc
simulated function ProcessChanceDrop()
{
`if (`__TW_STEAMWORKS_)
SendSteamHeartbeat(); // be sure no time is lost at the end of match
SendSteamRequestItemDrop(); // see if we've accumulated enough time
`endif
And looks like actual drop (if enought time accumulated) can only happen during AAR:
KFGFxMenu_PostGameReport, function InitializeMenu calls for ProcessChanceDrop.
simulated function ProcessChanceDrop()
{
`if (`__TW_STEAMWORKS_)
SendSteamHeartbeat(); // be sure no time is lost at the end of match
SendSteamRequestItemDrop(); // see if we've accumulated enough time
`endif
And looks like actual drop (if enought time accumulated) can only happen during AAR:
KFGFxMenu_PostGameReport, function InitializeMenu calls for ProcessChanceDrop.
At the end of the match game asks Gaben whether there should be an item drop, basing (according to dev commentary) on accumulated play time.
At same class there's a constant
const STEAM_PLAYTIME_GENERATOR_ITEM = 900000;
and a float value SteamHeartbeatAccumulator that seems to be a timer that begin with 0 and used to store a total time in seconds of your current game. It resets each next game.
Not quite sure if this constant in use as it'd be literally 250 hrs of time, or this could mean something else.
const STEAM_PLAYTIME_GENERATOR_ITEM = 900000;
and a float value SteamHeartbeatAccumulator that seems to be a timer that begin with 0 and used to store a total time in seconds of your current game. It resets each next game.
Not quite sure if this constant in use as it'd be literally 250 hrs of time, or this could mean something else.
As a software engineer I can confidently say that time constants (and calculations) are often defined in milliseconds, so that is probably 900 seconds, aka 15 minutes
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So that would mean it's not limited to a drop per week, but accumulated playtime?
That's odd with the pattern people are reporting...
false. It is an integer. Whether or not it has to do with time is a different question, but it is not an ID.
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