Parum GBR Impressions

[DarkEliteRico]

It's a blessing and a curse: the population is back to it's better days, people are away from fucking white beast, and people are hunting other items. I'm glad to have people back to play with and to be honest I haven't felt like playing as much since the rollback, I don't like having to redo everything all over, I know I didn't loose as much as some but it's still a pain in the ass.

If they plan on compensating us they'll probably do another week or two of super holy light which = bullshit, a unique item GTFO we've got enough of that crap with the "hand" weapons.

How about working on fixing the game and not fucking things up any more, updating content instead of doing some lame mission spotlight that people only do for a few days and move back to WB. How about give the players what they want for a change, I think most of us have been more then patient enough with the support that's been given to us.

/rant

Ok now that that's said I honestly can't wait to get off of work, these god-damned retards actually make me want to get fired just so I can stay at home and play all day.

[AOI_Tifa_Lockhart]

Ah i know the feeling I wish i was out of work too so i could get home and play up GBR Although i've only got 4 hours left so not too long to wait Yeah its cool that the population is back again, and all the White Beast Spammers are having to re-think their weapons and gaming style.

One problem I'm facing though is people waiting to join a party at the last minute, then usually getting some of the good boss box drops and then leaving. Its hassle putting a password on, ecause its nice to have new people join and the GBR Boost Rate going up, but then again most people only stay for 1 or 2 runs : /


With that in mind, would anybody be up for doing some runs of GBR tonight? I've been doing S2 recently although i'm up for other difficulties. I usually play it all night though so i'm always about. i get back at 6pm GMT, about 10am Pacific, anybody interested?

Tifa

[Arika]

GBR is what ST use for testing on how can they bring population to spam missions instead of a mission.

First round of GBR doesn't go well success, and they realise that they need to add new missions into GBR for players to play it. Then second round, it show better result, although the long gap of GBR and no update make people get bored.
On currently 3rd round, they make GBR to be separate with normal update, something like the moatoob S3 GBR which last 2 months long, however, they have fews update during the GBR running period.

In the future GBR might turn into something that completely separate to update, anyway, it is all up to their trials and error that they are working with this.

[Chibi_psu]

About all these easy s ranks...Dont worry because with the arms dealer and such there will be new s ranks not affordable for all.Its just like the clothier.Not everyone want to waste a har/ quick on an amorosso(i wasted 2 btw lol)

[Zeek123]

I'd have to go with blessing, because it's so nice to get away from White Beast to make a party. Also it's great to finally have enough Par Walna to work with .
But it's a curse in that some of my beloved guns are now merely common items I get to see a level 45 running around with. Best drop I've gotten has to be the Battlestopper, but I did get to see someone else walk away with the Lumirus / Hit Charge thing.

[amtalx]

After the rollback, I'm finding it VERY difficult to find the motivation to play. I actually thought to myself last night 'I think I'll just play Prince of Persia. There's no chance of that stabbing me in the back in a couple days.' D:

[Smidge204]

But the value of items has plummets. Ank Buti's were worth a couple of million Just before GBR, they're now being sold for 150k. Tyrant Spadacs worth 20k, so many of the best category rare items are just going to become worthless

Maybe they were overvalued to begin with. Rare does not automatically mean valuable, and a high price tag does not mean it's actually worth that much. In-game items have no intrinsic value since they do not physically exist. It's like art - a painting isn't worth a million dollars if nobody wants to pay a million dollars for it.

OTOH GBR is creating an increase in money supply so I can't imagine this won't hurt the game's economy in the long run for other reasons. They really need to add more money sinks.

Overall I think it's a blessing, though. Except for a handful of people who seem to take the game way too seriously, everyone appears to be having fun again.
=Smidge=

[Akaimizu]

GBR is pretty cool. It's another nice series of events to go through and see some pretty things drop.

However, it's not really just about the stuff, but about the new levels we get to see. SEED Express is pretty cool looking. A combo level that mixes a few themes, but it's nice to see a non-story take on the train ride, with different monsters, and no robots to bug the mission.

It's also getting more groups to have reason to run mother brain. A nice mission in itself, but one clearly made for groups. It's a short-lengthed GBR. Maybe the shortest. A circuit is completed quite quickly.

I was right back on, on Monday night. Oddly enough, even with a lower boost percentage (at the time), I got much of my stuff back. Needless to say, quite a few good things drop a lot in this Boost Road. So as I expected, some of the nice things I saw the first two days, are something we're going to see quite a bit of. I care less about the rarity of said items, myself. I consider them like cool presents you get while participating. I would venture to guess that once you have a party that adds to a 200 or more percent drop boost, it wont be long before just about everybody in the party has their share of the items specific to these levels and the Illusionary Shaft.

I'm not sure if it is just me, but it almost seems like the Illusionary Shaft is the most likely to show up Secret Level I've ever seen. It's almost like you can't go a day without running into that level. I could not say that about any other Secret Level released so far.

[AOI_Tifa_Lockhart]

Just out of curiosity, does the team leaders Luck affect chances of IS appearing? I've come across it several times, but never been party leader. So say If i had 2 luck and wanted to do some solo GBR runs, would it take alot longer than if I had 3 luck and did the same?

Thanks

Tifa

[Cracka_J]

Just out of curiosity, does the team leaders Luck affect chances of IS appearing? I've come across it several times, but never been party leader. So say If i had 2 luck and wanted to do some solo GBR runs, would it take alot longer than if I had 3 luck and did the same?

Thanks

Tifa

Luck has only ever effected the "drop anything" rate for enemies. It has no bearing on finding any of the rare missions.

As far as it's known, there's a certain timeframe for completing a mission that gives a higher chance at a rare mission (I dont remember the exact time frames). The more people in a party also effects your chance at a rare mission meaning more peeps=higher chance for rare mission. But those are independent factors that luck has no bearing on.

As for soloing, yes. It would take you much longer to find a rare mission without a full party, as luck is not a factor but the # of people in your party is.