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Hi folks!
We wanted to give you some details about a change we’re planning to make to the availability of weapon schematics and heroes from old events, starting in update 7.00.
Save the World has been up and running for well over a year now, and with the constant march of events we’ve built up quite a backlog of weapon schematics and heroes. Some of these are very tightly themed to a certain annual event - such as the Fortnitemares heroes - and our plan for those is to continue to offer them each year when the event returns, so players who may have missed them can have a chance to acquire them. We also have a lot of items that were first offered during an event, but that aren’t tightly tied to a holiday or other recurring event theme. We’ve brought these back irregularly a few times - typically by offering them in the weekly store - but we’d like them to be available more consistently.
In update 7.00 we are going to take some of our oldest event items - the Hydraulic weapons, Storm Zone heroes, Scavenger weapons, and Scavenger heroes - and add them to the “core” set of items. This means they’ll start to show up in the non-event pinatas (Upgrade Llama, Ranged Weapon Llama, Super Hero Llama, etc) with the usual duplicate reduction. They'll also be available through things like Transform, and instances of the weapons will start to appear in treasure chests and other in-world drops too. We’re planning to gradually continue to migrate event items in the future, at a slow rate that maintains a fair bit of separation between when the item is introduced and when it is moved into the core.
For the first two weeks of 7.00, before our holiday event starts up, we’re going to put a Legendary Troll Stash Llama in the store for event tickets, to give players who are interested in these old event items an opportunity to pick some of them up.
We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback on this upcoming change!
UPDATE: After reading your feedback below, we’ve made the call to enable Research and Recruitment from the Collection Book for these items. Unfortunately we won’t have that change ready for update 7.00, but it will be coming soon (most likely 7.10).
Jason
Senior Systems Designer