@dgtlty said:
Not really a CoD player so not sure what this means. How do supply drops work?
In Black Ops 3, quite literally, every supply drop you opened had about a 1% chance of having a weapon. And many of those weapons were melee weapons--essentially new models for the basic combat knife--so your chances of an actual ranged weapon were even lower. And every time they'd introduce new ranged weapons, they'd also add more melee weapons.
If you were paying to open weapons, the estimated cost after factoring rarity and drop rates was around 50 dollars for each weapon.
If you didn't want to pay to open supply drops, you could earn them by getting crypto keys. A reddit poster went through a lot of testing and found the following:
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackops3/comments/46rmx9/i_tested_the_cryptokey_earn_rate_again_there_has/
• TL:DR No mode is better than another for earning crypto keys. Based off my testing you earn 29.20% of a key every minute of a match you won and 22.37% of a key every minute of a match you lost.
So maybe each game you played would be worth two or three keys. You'd have to have 30 of them to open up a supply drop with the best chance of a weapon.
As you can tell, the system was designed so that even hardcore players would never see all the weapons, unless they paid huge amounts of money.
Most of the weapons were not as good as the standard weapons, but they would all still have something unique about them. Here's a terrible SMG, except it has the fastest aim down sights time. That sort of thing. Other weapons would have different properties. A one hit kill crossbow, a ranged plasma shotgun that could reach across the map, and a gun that launched ricocheting buzzsaws are three examples. They were all fun, but not competitive weapons. That doesn't change the fact that it still feels awful to be killed by something you can't use, though.
Lastly, some weapons were actually really good. A shotgun pistol was added to the game that was especially annoying.
At launch, Black Ops 3 was my favorite COD since the original Black Ops. It's a shame that the game they released isn't the game that is available now.
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