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[Dalllus]

What is the difference between the Huntsman Prime and the Prime (S) variant?

Thanks!

[TITANIUMsmoothy]

The Prime (S) has a custom camo and a 30% c-bill bonus

[TercieI]

The Collector's packs are almost never worth it.

[Ace Selin]

Youre better off with standard pack and Hero

[Felicitatem Parco]

TercieI, on 17 October 2016 - 03:11 PM, said:

The Collector's packs are almost never worth it.

Collector's packs are there so you can get a cbill boost on the non-hero loadout, and to donate more money to game development. That's why they give special "loyalty rewards" to those who buy the Collector's Packs.

[RestosIII]

If you do plan on getting it, wait until after the 18th so you'll qualify for next year's loyalty program.

[Dalllus]

Alright, thanks guys. I'll just go with the 20 buck option. I appreciate it.

RestosIII, on 17 October 2016 - 03:16 PM, said:

If you do plan on getting it, wait until after the 18th so you'll qualify for next year's loyalty program.

What do you mean exactly? (New to the game)

[RestosIII]

Dalllus, on 17 October 2016 - 03:19 PM, said:

Alright, thanks guys. I'll just go with the 20 buck option. I appreciate it.


What do you mean exactly? (New to the game)

The main point of collector's addons is that every year they have a loyalty rewards program. This is this year's:

https://mwomercs.com...rewards-program

Basically, the collector's packs purchased before tomorrow count for this year's loyalty program, while any after this point will (most likely) count for next year's. A decent amount of people this year lost out on qualifying because they bought packages too soon last year.

[Bombast]

Dalllus, on 17 October 2016 - 03:19 PM, said:

What do you mean exactly? (New to the game)

Every year, they give out free stuff to people who spent money on the game. The 18th is when next years free stuff cycle starts.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Actually it depends and people are leaving out alot of what you get with the Collector's pack.

First, if the quirks on the prime are important to you, you might want to get the Collector's pack just so you can take advantage of those quirks for your 30% bonus mech. They are pretty good quirks on the prime as well with both a 10% reduction in ballistic cooldown and 10% lower ER Laser duration, probably the best of all the variants to be honest.

Second, you get an additional 30 days worth of premium time. If you usually run premium time this by itself has a value of about $12.

Third, you get 3 of each cockpit item which means you don't have to play switcharoo every time you want to mount one of the items in a different mech.

So when you add it up, if you can use the premium time your only investing $8 more for the +30% bonus prime variant, the extra standard prime variant which you can sell for probably like 12 million C-bills, the extra mech bay it comes with, plus 2 extra of each cockpit item. That is a pretty good value.

On the other hand, if you are like me with about 6 months of banked premium time laying around, it gets hard to justify the extra $20 just for a 30% c-bill bonus mech that is copy of what your already going to get when you can buy the Hero for $15 and get a +30% c-bill bonus mech that way. This is especially true due to the fact that the hero is unique and the ONLY way to ever get access to the Hero's Omnipods, is to buy the Hero. That in itself has a fair amount of value.

Edit: Yes I had forgot. The Collectors Packs will potential unlock loyalty rewards you can't get any other way.

Edited by Viktor Drake, 17 October 2016 - 03:41 PM.

[Dalllus]

Well, I ended up going with the 20 buck option and then getting the 15 buck hero as well. Thanks again for your help everyone.

[Wintersdark]

Viktor Drake, on 17 October 2016 - 03:39 PM, said:

Actually it depends and people are leaving out alot of what you get with the Collector's pack.

First, if the quirks on the prime are important to you, you might want to get the Collector's pack just so you can take advantage of those quirks for your 30% bonus mech. They are pretty good quirks on the prime as well with both a 10% reduction in ballistic cooldown and 10% lower ER Laser duration, probably the best of all the variants to be honest.

Second, you get an additional 30 days worth of premium time. If you usually run premium time this by itself has a value of about $12.

Third, you get 3 of each cockpit item which means you don't have to play switcharoo every time you want to mount one of the items in a different mech.

So when you add it up, if you can use the premium time your only investing $8 more for the +30% bonus prime variant, the extra standard prime variant which you can sell for probably like 12 million C-bills, the extra mech bay it comes with, plus 2 extra of each cockpit item. That is a pretty good value.

On the other hand, if you are like me with about 6 months of banked premium time laying around, it gets hard to justify the extra $20 just for a 30% c-bill bonus mech that is copy of what your already going to get when you can buy the Hero for $15 and get a +30% c-bill bonus mech that way. This is especially true due to the fact that the hero is unique and the ONLY way to ever get access to the Hero's Omnipods, is to buy the Hero. That in itself has a fair amount of value.

Edit: Yes I had forgot. The Collectors Packs will potential unlock loyalty rewards you can't get any other way.

Yeah, it's mixed. IF you want the other stuff in the collectors pack, and intend to use the Prime CT in your builds, then the collectors pack can be an ok deal. If you're just after mechs, go standard+hero; that gets you a cbill bonus CT you can use all the omnipods on at $35 instead of $40, and it also gets you 4 sets of unique omnipods instead of 2xPrime and 2 other sets.

If you'd consider buying premium time, for example, the a collectors edition gains in value.

Personally, I got standard+hero, and will probably grab reinforcements in a week or two as funding permits.

[JediPanther]

You can usually upgrade the standard pack with a hero add on. You'll save about five bucks that way over collectors. For me, if I were to get a pack it would actually cost the same for a standard plus hero as the collectors by the time I'd add in transaction fees using a c-card. I'd be better off just going collectors.