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I like this idea best. It balances things out. It won't make the butcher skin a lot more common considering the amount of people who won the event more than 5 times through out the weeks and wasted chances for the rest of the server. And the people who really want the Autumn Assault skin but couldn't due to performance, time etc can still get it and such events can be handled better in the future. This is as fair as it gets imo. Besides, many of us were hyped for the Butcher Skin since this even was even talked about originally. P.S: Also, make both the Butcher and the Autumn Assault account bound rewards!

If you really felt true to giving away the skin, I believe that you should only give it as a redeem code for one character. At the least it will leave the winners will feel better, because they won and got the account bound version.

LO creates a poll offering to hand out free lifetime account bound versions of ALL ARs to all players. Golds decide to rig the poll and silvers decide to continue complaining about both golds and LO in-game and on the forum. Prunes are now the official currency in the Euro-zone. Consequence being that prunes are too valuable to consume, so old people are shitting their pants from no longer being able to shit their pants.

Hi everyone, I have already commented a couple times about the event. Many players have asked us ‘what were you thinking?’ So here is a bit of an explanation. - Autumn Assault was based on some existing mexhanics that we tried to polish up to make more fun. - We had just come off developing Epidemic as a mode we let players join any time, so we thought we would do something different for November. - We intended Autumn Assault as a fun series of GM run events where players could interact a little more directly. - Since we needed to fire off the event manually, we decided to publish a schedule we could stick to in advance with multiple times a day, so players would know when the events were happening. - We came up with a skin and joker ticket amounts that we felt would make the games worth it for players. And then we had some significant problems: - There was not enough testing. Period. - We swapped the skin at the last minute and made it account bound, so that players wouldn’t keep trying to win. GMs tried to encourage players who had already won to let others win. But the joker ticket inventive was too high. So very good players kept winning anyway. - One of the main games had very bad bugs and had to be replaced, and there were issues overall that prevented the games from being very fun. - We had performance issues in full districts, so we eventually moved the events to a version of Financial with lower player caps. That led to lower amounts of people who could get in at a time, so we tried running the games more often to give as many players as possible a chance to win. - We didn’t have enough staff to run the events later in the evenings so that players with schedule conflicts would have a chance to join. Overall, not great. Lots of lessons learned. Going forward, I think these sorts of events are best left as one-off things we can do here and there for minor prizes. They don’t work for larger scale extended events, and I doubt we’ll do 1st place rewards like this, because there is a finite (small) amount of players who can actually win. It has been proposed that we give out the Autumn Assault skin, which I’m not opposed to. Tell me what you’d like to see happen. Thanks, Matt

"repeat winners even on a different character were being kicked" As the skin will be account bound.

If they had A. been able to verify that it would be account bound from the start and B. rotated the times throughout the event, then I'm sure it would have been relatively fair (as far as time goes) for everyone. 6-9PM could have been alright within the continent the server's on, but that still fucks people over who live in, say, Australia. I believe 6-9PM is 10AM-1PM in Western Aus and 1-4PM in Eastern Aus. Given that a lot of Australians play on Jericho, I can't exactly say that's acceptable.

uhm.. around 1000 bucks and up i'd expect account bound stuff which you just get in the mail when you create a new character, i mean if you don't want to be passive until support gets back to you (busy times) and yes as said, definitely support

So I bought this pack sometime ago this year, and to my knowledge there were certain items that came with it that are account bound. For example, everyone I know who had purchased the pack, said that the 'Steampunk' title that came with it was account bound. For me, nothing from the pack was account bound, and was only on the character I redeemed the code on. So please help me out with getting this sorted out. Is this pack account OR character bound?

Hey, the fact that you figured something out for having it be account bound is cool at least, I'll admit that's impressive at least for such a short turn-around. As one of the people who asked for it to be account bound. It seems like you all kinda' jumped into the deep end in a lot of ways, you'll figure it out.

So will people who already won get the skin account bound? I already won, I'm just playing for the 100 JT a match now, gotta get that Firebomb somehow.

So any plans to fix it so the same "that one guy" on Jericho doesn't win another 13 times? (even with it being account bound)

Hi all, Autumn Assault has been a flawed event at best. We are working on patching it one more time before the event ends, but various QA issues have prevented us from implementing a lot of the feedback that players have provided. I assure you that the feedback is being collected, and we're going to make a number of change so that GMs can run these events in the future with better results. We change the reward on the event at the last minute (and apparently didn't announce this on the forums), but the 1st place player gets an account bound skin for all their characters. I understand the appeal of 250 joker tickets, and that reward was implemented before we started modifying the event to make it somewhat more fun. But given how bad the event is, we have started asking players who have won repeatedly to not continue participating so that other players can get the skin. GMs have been announcing this request in District Chat at the beginning of the event, and then periodically repeat this request. We did announce the change during Kriosasacil's event, but there was some miscommunication on our end, so it wasn't clear. I can see why he was confused. I have reached out privately to him to apologize. Thanks, Matt

Nope. We're batting a 1000 on this event. We swapped out the Butcher for the Autumn skin, sorted out how to make it account bound (wasn't trivial), and then never changed the post on the forums to let the players know. I have now edited the forum post to reflect the change. And GMs are mentioning that the skin is account bound at the start of matches.

"The Weapon skin will be account bound at the end of the event"

T_T i did purchase a 4 slot pioneer, 2 account bound guns, took me 5k g1c

Theres a lot of things missing account wide options, almost every clothing related pack for example, vehicles and as you pointed out, kits. This is known by LO most likely and since they're working on an ARMAS marketplace overhaul, i'd imagine, hopefully, they'll be adjusting almost everything to have an account bound option available.

no G1 was not generous. G1 made high prices on ARMAS to take as much money from players as possible. G1 made multiple guns of the exact same name and type of gun just so someone would have to buy the gun again to make it account bound. Because Little Orbit released the prizes in this manner many who did not have them before do have them now. Fine by me. do we have those hats and ear muffs in game already?

From the information I have and from what the developers are telling me, account bound items are not available as in-game rewards.

Autumn Assault is a near 3-week event running from Nov 19th through the 4th of December. During Autumn Assault we will be running daily Gun Game matches in each district. Nearly 100 chances to win the 'Autumn Assault' Weapon Skin! Gun games are back but with a twist! In Gun Games matches, players are assigned a pre-set weapon. You are tasked with scoring points for that weapon. Once you meet your goal, your weapon is replaced with the next weapon in order. This will continue until you have conquered the final challenge, at which point you win the game. Here is how Gun Games matches work, in case you need a refresher: Streak: In Streak, you are tasked with killing your opponents. The higher tiers require multiple kills without dying. Should you die your streak for that weapon is reset and you will need to start over from that same weapon. Pistols: This Gun Game is a bit different from Streak. Instead of making sure you have multiple kills in a row, in here you earn points for kills and assists and once you reach the correct score, you are given the next weapon. As the name indicates, every weapon in this game will be a pistol. Explosives: Explosives Gun Game works exactly the same as pistols but every weapon, except one special one, is a form of explosive. Joker Box: The scoring system of Joker Box is the same as Pistols and Explosives, but for this game, you are given the legendary weapons that can be found in Joker Boxes. Score kills and assists with these legendary weapons and if you win, get the top rank, and already own Autumn Assault skin in addition to the Joker Tickets you will also be awarded 10 special consumables that can be equipped and placed on the ground. Once placed on the ground it will spin around and explode throwing a number of temporary versions of Joker Box legendaries that can be picked up by nearby players. For players who participated but did not win the match, they will be rewarded with Joker Tickets based on how high they ranked in the event. The top 2/3rds of players will receive 100 Joker Tickets and the remaining players will receive 50 Joker Tickets. A series of three Gun Games will be spawned every day - that's three daily matches on Citadel, and three daily matches on Jericho. Due to the system intensive nature of the explosive Gun Game match, we will only be running those on selected days which will be announced beforehand. The explosive game requires you to have a very good PC as well as a very good connection to the internet otherwise your game experience might be affected. The schedule for the Gun game matches will be published later this week. During the Gun game matches, we will also be having a Social Media Challenge. You will have to customize your character or your car to blend in with a background of your choosing (it must be in the game). Players will be able to redeem AUTUMNASSAULT to get 2-day premium! Read more about this challenge on our Facebook page or Twitter! We made a change to the skin we will be giving away. Instead of Butcher skin, you will be now awarded an ACCOUNT BOUND Autumn Assault skin. We are encouraging players to only win once to allow other players a chance to get the skin for their account. Schedule: The matches will be spawned on 3 servers. Citadel, Jericho, and Nekrova. Citadel matches will be spawned 5 PM GMT, on Gold Financial and Waterfront districts. Jericho matches will be spawned 5 PM PDT, on Gold Financial and Waterfront districts. Nekrova matches will be spawned 5 PM MSK, one day on Gold Financial, one day on Gold Waterfront district. If players want to have them spawned at different times, we will be making small adjustments to the schedule based on player feedback on the forums.

Quick sidenote to this thread since it's about the ARMAS market; why am I limited to a 3 day trial of the SNR PR1? I legit want this thing account bound, please add it back. Also would like to see this in the JT store as well.

I certainly don't think LO as it is now is completely honest and transparent. They mentioned that 2 major systems needed work, but we have no idea how much work they need, if they ran into obstacles, et cetera. Stating ETAs like old G1 did is a very cheap way to get people hooked and risky when you don't live up to your ETAs. A more interesting way to keep players hooked to your big project for the game is to describe in detail what's being worked on. What it requires, how complicated the systems are, what impact they will have on the game, et cetera. It's not UE3.5 that I feel like they're failing to be transparent about though. IMO they're not doing a good job with ARMAS. We have a new layout even though the content body of the site stayed the same, and some items are debundled. Some items got cheaper, some items got more expensive, no word on account wide availability either. Hell they could've been creative and allow double purchase of an item to turn the item account bound, but it's just same old same old it feels like. Just in a new coat. Overall they're doing alright, but they're not flawless either.

Yeah, I've been begging for years for APB to have account bound options for everything, even if it costs a ton. . . (Legendaries being the exception, as Onadan said.) Agreed, I liked the event the first day, but I haven't actually played it really since the first day. Instead of playing the event, I've been getting angry at activities that aren't fun and are against the point of the event mission. By the time I finish my activities for the game I'm just pissed at APB and want to stop as soon as possible.

Unlocks obtained for events = ACCOUNT BOUND PLS. Instead of doing each character

Not that i want to be that guy but, 30+ euros for an account bound gun is still quite a lot especially for the state the game is in. Tbh you should just remove the entire 3days, 30days and char bound releases and stick it all on account bound reducing the price on it aswell. To say like 10 to 15 euros. One thing that stopped me from spending is the rediculous pricing on everything. Yeah, the reskin is cool and all but i can still get the same ish gun ingame. Props on the new site tho. Looks slick.

I still have a weapon which is character bound, but doesn't give me the option to upgrade to account bound for a discount Support ticket #84809.