I got into this game in a big way that I wasn't expecting and I haven't spent a single dime on it.
I guess this game was just the kind of game I needed right now. The art style and environments are beautiful. It's so good for just putting on a podcast or some music and just exploring the world and randomly stumbling upon puzzles and loots. Just mindlessly exploring.
Now if only RNG would just freaking give me Venti, goddamn it!
The good news is Crystal Dynamics is very active on twitter and reddit and communicating with the player base. So, I have hopes that they are taking in feedback and will hopefully overtime get this game to a better place. They did just release a new patch this morning that addressed a lot of game breaking bugs and have confirmed they are currently testing the next patch that addresses more bugs and a bunch of quality of life things. I'm optimistic.
I am personally very much enjoying the game, but I also think there are many things it could do a lot better. But that's not rare for these kind of games.
So for the Marvel Challenge Card things, it looks like if you spend your points right, you can get everything without spending a dime, albeit much slower than if you just paid for it. The rewards on the individual challenge cards are the same for every character (but specific to each character. So, for examle level 1 is an emote, level 2 is resources, level 3 is more challenge credits, etc).
By the time you finish acquiring all of the challenge card rewards for one character you've collected well over 1,000 credits (which is the currency used to buy challenge cards). Since the first 6 are free, assuming you never spend your credits, you could potentially end up with well over 6,000 credits by the time the first DLC character rolls around, and use those credits you saved up to buy the new heroes' challenge card...and then by the time you finish that heroes' challenge card you just make it all back again, and then some.
Again, it'll take you longer obviously than if you just outright bought everything, but for people who intend on playing this game for a long time it's totally doable, and I think those are the only people who really care about battle passes/challenge cards/etc. Anyone else just in it for the story or to play for a few days and never go back to it again probably doesn't care as much about battle passes.
It's funny to me that Alex accuses the others for not doing the objectives, when the first objective was completed by Vinny and Abby and the second one was completed by Vinny and Brad and all Alex did was push the button that was only activate because the others DID do the objectives lol
@vinny for your question about the missed training manuals and such that you miss. They DO put the training manuals in the next safe you open. It happened to me where I progressed the story into a cutscene before I meant to, and missed a safe (I then went to youtube to check what I missed because I was obsessing over it) and the video showed the player received a training manual, but in the next safe I came across I ended up getting that exact manual.
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