Community AdminThanks @EA_David for typing this out for the community. Now I don’t have to watch the full stream again just to get the info I’m looking for!
Completing the Prize Map is actually not hard especially if you get your character challenges done every week. 15 bulbs for a few matches of play, plus all the daily challenges, you can accumulate a ton of bulbs. In all honesty, ever since the total XP needed to get a Prize Bulb dropped from 15,000 to 5,000, obtaining bulbs is a much quicker endeavor even for the casual player. While some are stating we need a Prize Bulb increase (which would make it even easier), I think it should continue to be a challenge and making the Prize Map more difficult is a must IMO.
What would be cool is if we could set some type of difficulty for your Prize Map at the beginning of a new event and depending on the difficulty you select, the gear is better and more rare the harder it is. I know this wouldn’t happen and I know I’m not being fair to the players only on once or twice a week. But I spend a lot of time grinding and leveling up my characters and getting some gear that’s very hard to get (and that only a select number of players have) would drive me to play BFN even more.
@ToastedSarnie I calculated the prize map for next month, it looks like there's only about 204 bulbs you need to spend to buy everything, and it looks like you don't need to complete the entire prize map to get to the Shogun-guard legendary upgrade, if you skip particular items, because the 100% complete prize map item is not the legendary upgrade, rather it's another (really cool) costume for Corn. It looks like, if taking the shortest route, you only need 115 bulbs to get to the legendary upgrade - great for people like me who would like to get it and find it desirable to get the upgrade as soon as possible! 😃
@shurikeninja Agreed, if grinders save up bulbs for February, they'll get a huge head start for this upcoming prize map and make a significant amount of progress towards the legendary upgrade if taking the smallest route. So, people who grind the prize map will get extra bulbs ready for next month. So grinders have a distinct advantage over casual players for that reason!
