[2020] Vault Weekend data collection - open for w/e 13 Sept

Hey everyone, unfortunately, I made a mistake when answering some players’ questions about the Epic Vault Key drop rate on Vault event weekends. I answered that we had taken the feedback on and had increased the chance for Epic Vault Keys during the last weekend Vault event.

The correct information is that this change won’t go live until version 5.2 (which is coming soon).

To be clearer, while the normal Epic Vault Key drop rate is roughly 10% of a normal Vault Key when no Vault event is running, the Epic Vault Key drop rate will NOT be 10% of a Vault Key during a Vault Event, but the Epic Vault Key drop rate for the event has been increased independently for those events.

Also just want to reiterate that we did run tests and check player data for the Epic Vault Keys when the community started reporting issues with the drop rate and the data and tests came back that this is correct.

So these changes being made in 5.2 for Vault events is our response to community feedback only, not a “fix”. We will review the drop rate changes for the Vault weekends again after the first Vault event in 5.2.

I’m very sorry I gave the wrong answer about the Epic Vault Key drop rate for last Vault weekend. This is my fault and I feel like trash for it. I know a lot of people not only trusted me to give the correct information but also spent a lot of time tracking their Vault Key data, so I let you down.

Edited post to add this to the end:

I know a lot of people not only trusted me to give the correct information but also spent a lot of time tracking their Vault Key data, so I let you down.

@mitamata I know I said “to be clear” then I was anything but clear haha sorry.

Yes so previously the EVKs were meant to be unaffected by Vault Weekends, but based on player feedback we decided to change that. The increase for EVKs on Vault weekends isn’t 10% of the Vault Keys on Vault weekends.

The reason I’m being cagey about giving a % is because the programmers have left for the day and I’m not sure how to give a correct % for the EVKs on Vault weekends as it’s not a field in the code or something where it says very straight forwardly “this is the EVK drop rate on Vault weekends” I’ll see if I can get a % and if I can disclose it later on.

Well, I have some good news for you…

We will be changing EVK drops to be consistent. This means that whether there is a Vault event on or not, the chance to get an EVK will be 10% of the normal vault key drop.

This will go out with the 5.2 Update.