First: Add a new type of field lockers, which guarantee to get new cosmetics and not a single dubplicate. For example in Dragonball Fighterz you can buy capsules with Zeni and get coins for dublicates, which in return can be used to buy capsules which are going to give you stuff you don’t have yet. These coins are harder to obtain.
So you can either add a new currency for dublicates or just make these new field lockers more expensive, like 5k. But not ridiculous expensive like some Predator shaders. I thin 5k, 10x the normal field locker is fine. 25k or more is the wrong way to do it.
You could also change the chance of getting non-dublicates, so it’s less frustrating when opening the lockers. This was the tl;dr.
Backstory and why I think the game need this.
I’ve reached Lvl 100 and I was aiming for 100k to get 200 field lockers and get this endless cycle for veritanium, when the patch hit. I can understand why the amount of veritanium for dublicates was reduced, but to be honest I’m not happy how it was handled. The amount was reduced, but we didn’t get anything in return. (Like a higher chance for non-dublicates)
I continued the farming and bought my 200 field lockers. In the end I got 34092 back. (These are 68 field lockers.)
From these 200 field lockers, which contained 600 cosmetics (simple math) I got not even 15 new ones. I didn’t count, but I took photos of 9 and there 3 or 4 I didn’t take a picture of. Let’s assume it were 15 new cosmetics, which make 2,5%. Consider us sitting there playing the game and farming for two days or more. Then sitting there and pressing and holding one button repeatedly until we got 200 lockers. Then opening all of them to see the high amount of dublicates and knowing we won’t get much back, so we have to farm again more veritanium. There’s no fun in it.
Specially if you get Pink/rare stuff and these are almost always dublicates. And I know 5 of 9 locked Predlocks are also rare. I opened now about 500 field lockers in general and got only once a Predlock out of it. Yet it feels I always get the same “rare” stuff out of these lockers. I can’t see how the chances of getting some stuff from one rarity class is the same, as the other. It feels like the pink Predator cosmetics are more rare than the other pink cosmetics.
One could say, I should just buy everything in the customization menu and don’t buy field lockers. Yet there are trophies, which can only be obtained via the field lockers.
I’ve also read the suggestion here for different kind of field lockers, like a Predator field locker for a higher chance of getting Predator stuff. This is also a nice idea.
Please change something about the field lockers. It shouldn’t stay the way it is. Maybe I should do a more detailed statistic the next time, noting how many blue, purple, pink dublicates I got and how much weren’t dublicates and what is still locked for me.