Drop Rate Speculation

[Hellmeat]

One drop on my first game since the update.
25 to 30 games since, nothing.

I know random is random, but that seems like a pretty low drop rate!

Same experience here. I got an "Exceptional" skin for the Medic Pistol within a like 30 minutes of playing a game after the update ... about 10+ hours / numerous games (mostly wins) and I haven't seen anything else.

I chalked it up to being broken and went back to playing other games until it's fixed or tweaked a bit.

 

[Gregs2k2]

LOL says the guy who got to preview the update and make a video!

Of course my friend, I did it for all the TW forum goers and the supporters of our YouTube/Website. I took no pleasure in it, whatsoever.

 

[UserSD]

About 20 - 25 games done, haven't droped anything still, not even a case. Either it's bugged, or the rate is astoundingly low.

Seems bugged as Gregs seemed to have dropped a lot of things in the preview. @Gregs, did the "fake drops" drop in the preview? If not I'm sensing this is a bug in all probability.

 

[Patros]

After all these matches and hours without a drop I did a 4 wave offline run and got a flatcap.

 

[Egg_Chen]

Another thread suggests that the drops are 1 per week...
Kind of makes you wonder why they even bothered.

 

[Gregs2k2]

Seems bugged as Gregs seemed to have dropped a lot of things in the preview. @Gregs, did the "fake drops" drop in the preview? If not I'm sensing this is a bug in all probability.

I've played a lot, lot more since the preview, so i'm on the same build as everyone else and i've not received anything, so I expect it is bugged and hopefully being fixed/tweaked. The drop rate is none existent at the moment.

 

[VastSpartan]

I've played a lot, lot more since the preview, so i'm on the same build as everyone else and i've not received anything, so I expect it is bugged and hopefully being fixed/tweaked. The drop rate is none existent at the moment.

What's a drop rate?

Havent seen one glimpse of a drop since the update launched

 

[Diman]

Ok there is nothing about the "drop rate fix" in the current hotfix (Don't think that they would announce that anyway). But at least this was fixed:

-Fixed AAR reporting wrong dropped items or items when none were dropped.

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[Slie]

How come we can't get an official statement on this? It seems to be one of the prominent questions and every time I see it brought up, it's ignored.

It's a simple question. Either the rate is supposed to be extremely rare or it's not.

 

[weeman2412]

How come we can't get an official statement on this? It seems to be one of the prominent questions and every time I see it brought up, it's ignored.

It's a simple question. Either the rate is supposed to be extremely rare or it's not.

Tripwire isn't exactly known for being transparent with game functionality and features.

I mean just look at the state of hidden game mechanics of Killing Floor 2 that requires data mining to figure out. It's pretty silly.

Tripwire also has a habit of not wanting to communicate or interact with the community. Jared Creasy aka Yoshiro is the so called community manager. Makes you wonder what his role in the company is when he basically never interacts with the forum/community besides deleting threads.

 

[HeatSurge]

I've played more than 20 hours since the update.

What are "drops?" Nevermind about a "rate."

I'm guessing it's probably like the dosh jacket, 5000 per year for all players?

 

[jd641]

How come we can't get an official statement on this? It seems to be one of the prominent questions and every time I see it brought up, it's ignored.

It's a simple question. Either the rate is supposed to be extremely rare or it's not.

I'm wondering this too.

72 posts (including mine) and no response. Clearly everyone has noticed it, so why not say something about it? :/

 

[KaleidoKittles]

Tripwire, if you're reading this please take a leaf out of Grinding Gear Games book (developer's of Path of Exile) and try and communicate properly with your playerbase. You're obviously aware of the questions and/or problem so why not shed some light onto the matter?

Is the drop rate not working properly, but you're working on it? Or is it working as intended, but they're just very rare? Just let your players know. Not saying anything doesn't do any good.

I used to be a big fan of yours but your lack of communication is becoming very frustrating especially when other developers seem to be doing a better job at it than you :\ Damn.

 

[Diman]

When you're checking the market on steam, you can see that the number of items is the same since friday/saturday when everybody got their first "free" drop. If there is a problem, it's not solved. But if this status is wanted and we'll get like 2 drops per month!? Then what, I have to wait for my first crate/usb two years? (as this is a T6 drop and has the lowest chance to drop)

 

[juliex011]

I've played more than 15 matches and haven't gotten one single drop.

 

[Diman]

I've played more than 15 matches and haven't gotten one single drop.

Try a short solo game, any difficulty. (if you've never tried one ofc)

 

[UserSD]

Try a short solo game, any difficulty. (if you've never tried one ofc)

Tried solo game, got 1 drop.

It's bugged. I mean, they could at least drop an official statement but given their track record on these kinds of issues I'm not really surprised, they probably haven't got a single clue what's causing it (yet) and prefer not to look as clueless as us .

 

[2Clicks]

Try a short solo game, any difficulty. (if you've never tried one ofc)

Yeah I tried again after 5 victories and 1 defeat on hard today.... no drop this time

 

[Yoshiro]

To my knowledge the drop rate is working as intended. The team will be tweaking and changing it as things move forward and we receive feedback on the system.

 

[HunBonus]

That is baffling.