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Looting
At the end of each match, you will automatically loot the battlefield to find gear for your Heroes. The Gear found will always be based on the Hero you’ve played in the match, it doesn't transfer to other Heroes. The higher the level of the Hero, the better Gear you’ll find when looting.
Scavenging
If you want to gain more Gear than what you loot in matches, you can use the Scavenge Gear functionality. In the Heroes menu, select the Hero you wish to receive Gear, and select Scavenge Gear. Several choices are offered to you, depending if you want to loot random Gear, armor only, weapons only or premium Gear. The premium Gear option will always grant you a piece of Gear of higher quality than your current level. As it is the case with looting, the Gear quality will match your current level.
Gear
Each gear affect specific statistics related to your Hero capabilities. While all gear will increase statistics, some stats will also be reduced depending of the gear selected. This allows you to customize your gear based on your personal playstyle, but watch-out for those penalties. This system ensures fairness and balance in the strength of each customized Hero. The balance of this system will be something we monitor closely during the test.
There are 3 rarities for the gear, each with 6 levels. Higher rarity and level means higher statistics, both positive and negative. Lower level gear can be improved, but only until the max level of current rarity is reached. At this point, you’ll need to find gear from another rarity to improve your stats even more.
Gear Customization
Through the Hero menu, you can customize the gear of your recruited Heroes. Each piece of gear will affect how you look on the battlefield, but also the strength of your weapons and armor. This is done through the Heroes menu by selecting the Hero you wish to customize and select the Customize option. From there, you can select the body part you wish to customize, which then shows you all the available gear. By selecting gear, you can either equip it to your Hero, improve stats, swap gear visual or destroy for XP.
Improve Stats
By selecting the Improve Stats option, you can increase the level of your gear by dismantling other pieces of gear into it. Select the gear you wish to improve, open the Improve Stats menu, and then select the gear that you wish to dismantle and dismantle it. The dismantled gear will be destroyed to improve the level of your selected gear. Improving stats will cost Steel, so make sure you have enough before doing it. The rarity and level of a gear will affect its dismantling value but also how much it will need for it to level up. A maximum level gear cannot be improved anymore, but you can always dismantle it in a higher rarity gear if you want.
Swap Gear Visual
If you have a piece of gear whose stats you love, but want to change the visual, this option is for you. Select the gear you wish to visually update and select the Swap Gear Visual option. Select another gear with the visual you want and it will be applied to your selected gear for a Steel cost. Be warned that it will also destroy the gear whose visual you selected.
Destroy for XP
For any gear you wish to discard, you can choose the Destroy for XP option. By doing so, the item will be destroyed and XP will be given to your Hero. There is no Steel cost for this.
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Discuss!
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Looting
At the end of each match, you will automatically loot the battlefield to find gear for your Heroes. The Gear found will always be based on the Hero you’ve played in the match, it doesn't transfer to other Heroes. The higher the level of the Hero, the better Gear you’ll find when looting.
Scavenging
If you want to gain more Gear than what you loot in matches, you can use the Scavenge Gear functionality. In the Heroes menu, select the Hero you wish to receive Gear, and select Scavenge Gear. Several choices are offered to you, depending if you want to loot random Gear, armor only, weapons only or premium Gear. The premium Gear option will always grant you a piece of Gear of higher quality than your current level. As it is the case with looting, the Gear quality will match your current level.
Gear
Each gear affect specific statistics related to your Hero capabilities. While all gear will increase statistics, some stats will also be reduced depending of the gear selected. This allows you to customize your gear based on your personal playstyle, but watch-out for those penalties. This system ensures fairness and balance in the strength of each customized Hero. The balance of this system will be something we monitor closely during the test.
There are 3 rarities for the gear, each with 6 levels. Higher rarity and level means higher statistics, both positive and negative. Lower level gear can be improved, but only until the max level of current rarity is reached. At this point, you’ll need to find gear from another rarity to improve your stats even more.
Gear Customization
Through the Hero menu, you can customize the gear of your recruited Heroes. Each piece of gear will affect how you look on the battlefield, but also the strength of your weapons and armor. This is done through the Heroes menu by selecting the Hero you wish to customize and select the Customize option. From there, you can select the body part you wish to customize, which then shows you all the available gear. By selecting gear, you can either equip it to your Hero, improve stats, swap gear visual or destroy for XP.
Improve Stats
By selecting the Improve Stats option, you can increase the level of your gear by dismantling other pieces of gear into it. Select the gear you wish to improve, open the Improve Stats menu, and then select the gear that you wish to dismantle and dismantle it. The dismantled gear will be destroyed to improve the level of your selected gear. Improving stats will cost Steel, so make sure you have enough before doing it. The rarity and level of a gear will affect its dismantling value but also how much it will need for it to level up. A maximum level gear cannot be improved anymore, but you can always dismantle it in a higher rarity gear if you want.
Swap Gear Visual
If you have a piece of gear whose stats you love, but want to change the visual, this option is for you. Select the gear you wish to visually update and select the Swap Gear Visual option. Select another gear with the visual you want and it will be applied to your selected gear for a Steel cost. Be warned that it will also destroy the gear whose visual you selected.
Destroy for XP
For any gear you wish to discard, you can choose the Destroy for XP option. By doing so, the item will be destroyed and XP will be given to your Hero. There is no Steel cost for this.
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Member
Thank goodness we have the swap visual option. I truly despise having to wear a crappy looking piece of equipment because it gives me the stats that I want.
A lot of this reminds me of the way they were doing the gear system in The Division.
I didn't see how we were going to be able to pick up more steel, however. Or do they just mean the steel that the piece of gear is made from?
edit: never mind...I see that you can earn steel from completing orders daily or contractually
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Junior Member
Gear
Can you exchange gear with your friends? or can you even exchange steel with your friends? For example if i want to get a gear but I don't have 100 steel, can a friend of mine borrow or give that amount of steel to me and if I can't do that how do the developers think this change might affect the game?
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Junior Member
Honestly the system is great in terms of functionality but it takes to long to earn steel (or the costs are too high), at the very least there should be more ways to earn extra steel because it feels at the moment like you have loads of customization options locked behind the 'steel' wall (presumably to be converted to a pay wall on release) and due to this some people will never get to see the hard work you have put into the complexity of this system. to combat this you could increase the steel earned from a match and make it relative to a players performance, this would add extra tension to matches and have a more positive feedback for the player. You could also include steel bonuses when you level a character up, this would help people set up a basic version of each character quickly and would balance itself out as the player continues to level up their character.
In short people will switch off if it takes to long between opportunities to customize their character.
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Junior Member
Premium Scavenge Gear is still not worth any effort. In the end all I get is 75 XP for 700 steel. I realize it's unreasonable to expect a one day turn around during an alpha, and for a minute, unpopular complaint. Just please take notice to how unacceptable your "premium rewards" are.
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Is there some post that details the exact effects of each gear's stats? I assumed that Attack & Defense operated as Damage & Damage Reduction stats but some brief studies of footage have made me come to question what exactly it is they effect. As far as I can tell Attack affects neither Damage nor Attack Speed, as illustrated here: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...1#post11950754
From less direct study and more anecdotally I think that Sprint Speed, Revenge Gain, Revive Speed, & Throw Distance have noticeable effects but I am not 100% on that.
