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Colourful_Cube's avatar
12 years ago

Gold Battlepacks, missing knives, and too many 25% exp boosts...

So...I've been max rank on BF4 for a pretty long time now, and like most people out there, I still haven't unlocked all of the knives from the gold battlepacks. The problem is, once you're max rank you can no longer receive gold battlepacks apart from the monthly ones.

So my only option is to wait a whole month, to have a gamble at receiving one of these knives. I currently need two gold battlepack knives and two premium knives. The gold battlepack knives are the Boot Knife and Improvised Knife.

So after a long time waiting for monthly gold battlepacks, I still haven't received these knives. But, DICE kindly reward me with this instead....Them 25% EXP boosts though...

So not only am I not getting the content that I need/want, but they're flooding me with USELESS content that I don't need.

1) I am max rank, I have no need for EXP boosts.

2) Even if I did want to use them, they're only 25% so it's not much use anyway.

3) THAT'S 437 HOURS WORTH OF EXP. HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO USE IT ALL?

Why do I need so many exp boosts? I should be able to compress them in to 200% boosts, or at least be able to GIVE THEM AWAY to a friend...

Getting gold battlepacks is basically non existant when you're max rank, my only options is to wait for monthly battlepacks and PRAY I get a knife, or wait til DICE increase the max rank again, and then work my ass off levelling up to get gold battlepacks, only to receive more 25% exp boosts....

Please find a solution to this DICE...I don't think BF4 itself has 437 actual gameplay hours left, never mind me wanting to play for that long AND use them.

5 Replies

  • I have the same problem.

    DICE please unlock for us BOOT and IMPROVISED knifes. :mansad:

  • Carbonic's avatar
    Carbonic
    Hero+
    12 years ago

    So, they made so many knives that you potentially can risk not getting all of them. Personally I don't see the big deal with this. Perhaps the maximum level will go higher with the next expansions and you can get them that way.

    In either way, since it's not a problem that the community can fix you should probably post your suggestion on the Battlelog forums.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
    At least you've unlocked knives. I'm level 86 and still have not seen one. I know i still have a ways to go until the cap, but i know people who have unlocked several and are a lower level than i am. Until recently, it was just portraits, 25%, 50%, attachments i don't want and emblem shapes. Didn't get a dog tag until 82. It's annoying when i can't get the one thing that i want haha
  • Wait till this next update, you will experince very good gold battlepacks.  The update is early setember.

  • I completely agree. EA/Dice did not think this Battlepack through at all. I had the same thing happen to me twice. I maxed my rank out before the release of the next expansion pack. Still not haveing all the available knife unlocks, and no Gold battlepacks left to get them. I stopped using the 25% XP long ago. I have over 150 of them.. collecting dust. 

    Where the developers had their 'heads' on this I have no idea. I really hate to think it was just to be able sell gold battlepacks for cash like they are doing now. The knife is the only weapon where the only way you can get it is through a gold battlepack. Every other weapon unlock you can get just by using the weapon and getting the kills required. Personally battlepacks are just a kick in the loyalty groin everytime I get one. 

    Seriously how many winter, urban, woodland etc cammo's do you need? Definitely not 8 of each. Do we really need 4 silencers for each gun? Basically EA, you ahd a brain fart on this one. No one really cares about portraits or emblems. You have just created a huge sore point for many of us. If I want to unlock knifes, I should use a knife to kill enemy with, just like every other weapon. 

    I have over 2000 knife kills and still am missing 4 knives. I have a friend who doesn;t even have 200 kife kills, and he has all knife unlocks. It is ridiculous. I also have 2,500,000 more points that a friend with 250 more hours, and he is 5 ranks higher because he never reached the max ranking prior to the release of the next expansion 2 times in a row. Makes me feel like I have been penalized for playing more than others. 

    But the real pet peeve is the knife unlocks..... I used to think I was just unlucky that the random draw of battlepacks had me getting the knives at the end of my final gold battlepacks. But that just isn't the case. You roll the dice and you may get all the unlocks. That or EA knows they pooched this, and a token gold battlepack will be given to those missing knife unlocks. In that case, I will open up the gold battlepack, it will have 4 knives in it, ..... and one 25% XP boost 🙂 ....... 

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