PVE ISO bonus

[system]

This may have been answered somewhere on here already, but…what happened to the bonus ISO that you would receive the first time you won a mission in PVE? Any thoughts on bringing that back?

[system]

I’m sure they’ll tell you some BS line about getting rid of the bonus to make the other rewards feel more rewarding or whatever.

Truth is, they probably figured without it people would be more likely to buy ISO packs with real money.

[NorthernPolarity]

There was a time when you didn’t see the 1k / 2k iso rewards that they handed out in some of the previous PvEs. In order to add those types of rewards, they took out the PvE iso bonus to make those missions feel more substantial (which it does). This way they give out the same amount of iso while making completing all the nodes in certain PvEs more meaningful.

But wait I forgot, selling health packs / iso/hp packs is the reason why they make every single update in the game, so that must be the reason instead.

[system]

@NorthernPolarity

There was a time when you didn’t see the 1k / 2k iso rewards that they handed out in some of the previous PvEs. In order to add those types of rewards, they took out the PvE iso bonus to make those missions feel more substantial (which it does). This way they give out the same amount of iso while making completing all the nodes in certain PvEs more meaningful.

But wait I forgot, selling health packs / iso/hp packs is the reason why they make every single update in the game, so that must be the reason instead.

Not every sub has a 1k/2k iso reward bonus, so this is still a large net loss of rewards. And what about the prologue - do those missions still have the first time bonus for newbies?

[GothicKratos]

@NorthernPolarity

But wait I forgot, selling health packs / iso/hp packs is the reason why they make every single update in the game, so that must be the reason instead.

Don’t forget because Sentry is OP! And stealth nerfs!

[system]

Wasn’t there a time when we didn’t have the 500 iso rewards on the nodes? They’re shooting for a constant number in the average iso you get per node done in PvE as well as PvP so if they give you more somewhere else (like the 1000/2000 iso8 payoff nodes) it’s got to come from something else.

[xequalsy]

@kalirion

@NorthernPolarity

There was a time when you didn’t see the 1k / 2k iso rewards that they handed out in some of the previous PvEs. In order to add those types of rewards, they took out the PvE iso bonus to make those missions feel more substantial (which it does). This way they give out the same amount of iso while making completing all the nodes in certain PvEs more meaningful.

But wait I forgot, selling health packs / iso/hp packs is the reason why they make every single update in the game, so that must be the reason instead.

Not every sub has a 1k/2k iso reward bonus, so this is still a large net loss of rewards. And what about the prologue - do those missions still have the first time bonus for newbies?

Yes on prologue, unless they’ve changed it in the last week or so.

[Spoit]

@Phantron

Wasn’t there a time when we didn’t have the 500 iso rewards on the nodes? They’re shooting for a constant number in the average iso you get per node done in PvE as well as PvP so if they give you more somewhere else (like the 1000/2000 iso8 payoff nodes) it’s got to come from something else.

No, I’m pretty sure that there was a even mix of the 70/140 and the 250/500 ones in the early pves

[system]

@xequalsy

@kalirion

@NorthernPolarity

There was a time when you didn’t see the 1k / 2k iso rewards that they handed out in some of the previous PvEs. In order to add those types of rewards, they took out the PvE iso bonus to make those missions feel more substantial (which it does). This way they give out the same amount of iso while making completing all the nodes in certain PvEs more meaningful.

But wait I forgot, selling health packs / iso/hp packs is the reason why they make every single update in the game, so that must be the reason instead.

Not every sub has a 1k/2k iso reward bonus, so this is still a large net loss of rewards. And what about the prologue - do those missions still have the first time bonus for newbies?

Yes on prologue, unless they’ve changed it in the last week or so.

Yes, it is still on the nodes of the prologue. Seen it just yesterday and got confirmation by the kids…

[wymtime]

This bonus went away a long time ago? At least with the PVE’s like Prodigal Sun there is still a lot of ISO to farm. Much better than the Heroic’s that are bruatally hard and are limited in the number of Nodes and rewards.