It used to be mainly via continent unlocks afaik. Did that change?
I locked Esamir two times in the last few days and "only" got 25k XP. No ISO, no A7. Is that new for all continents and if so, how are you supposed to get it? The mission system is really not that rewarding and buying implant packs is not really a great deal either.
To be honest I haven't read the patch notes but I hope you guys can give me a quick answer.
Thank you!
Posted Oct 4, 2020, 4:47 PM UTC
Buying implant packs has always and still remains, your best "deal" for getting implants.
It's designed to be a cert dump once you have a comfortable amount of regular unlocks finished.
Buying deluxe packs yields roughly 225 ISO by breaking down your duplicates. Of course, that requires you to have most of the common/uncommon implants unlocked to get them as dupes, but unlocking them via packs is better value than dupes anyway.
Addendum: I totally certed out two different medic builds, both standard lock ons for HA, most of my engie, and for vehicles the Sundy and the Valk both loaded out with one build, and a couple extra weapons and now I'm dumping certs into implants to cry the lootbox howl of pain.
For a picture of the time investment, I'm BR 68 and about half of my playtime was with membership
I bought all the implants I wanted with alert rewards and just dump all my certs into minor stuff. 1000 certs for 1.25% less reload speed? Still better than lootboxes with miniscule rewards. 90% of them are useless.
You can also break down duplicate quest/lootbox implants
You don't.
Blame the devs.
Welcome to WrelSide, where you have to do useless things at the corners of the map to get rewarded, instead of just playing the game.
After the update A7 is only obtainable through daily missions (as far as I've seen at least). ISOs are now obtained through daily missions or of course... lootboxes. Should be noted that even if you get lucky with reward RNG, ISO gain from missions is pathetic. So the primary way to gain ISO is through lootboxes :))
Devs might add ISOs back as an alert reward, but we'll have to see if they actually do so, and in what amount.
A7 can still be found at random terminal-objects (not normally usable terminals) spread throughout the continent. It's indicated by a glowing light, you look at it and hold E and get a random amount of A7. I've found them 2 or 3 times so far out in the field, it's rare but not too rare.
And then, yes, you can also get them via missions.
Wait what? I had no idea about this. Can you you tell me more? What kind of ”terminals” are they? What do they look like?
https://imgur.com/a/fVqYtqQ
https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/fi68da/what_is_an_exposed_terminal_for_a7/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Planetside/comments/fhgisy/a7_consoles_info_gathering/
First time I found one, I only got 11 A7. Second time, I got 50. I wasn't looking, I just stumbled into them. I don't know where they are supposed to spawn, I just get lucky sometimes.
This is how Wrel originally intended A7 to function, to be something you found at terminals. I think it became an Alert reward only because people didn't know what to look for, but I imagine it will get easier over time. It's also a mission reward now, so, that's two sources I guess. Speaking of mission rewards, I got 200 A7 for a mission after rerolling rewards a few times.
Oh shit! Thank you so much!
I'll believe it when I see it, but according to Wrel's post on Friday Alerts will be un-nerfed this coming week. But again, what amounts? It was hinted that A7 wouldn't be returning to Alert rewards.
Yeah, I think he mentioned A7 wouldn't be coming back. To be fair though, does anyone really care about A7?
Hope that means they're just adding A7 weapons to the mission loot table