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The rift is too grindy
The tomes give you approximately 90 rift fragments assuming you play both survivor and killer so that is 360 fragments. The rift needs 690 fragments for tier 70 to be unlocked so that leaves us with 330 fragment to be farmed by game experience.
1 rift fragment equals 800 exp
10 rift fragments needed for a tier to be unlocked
So to farm one tier you need to play around 14 games assuming you last in a game for about 10 mins (1sec of game time = 1exp, 10mins = 600exp the cap for one game, 14 x 600 = 8400, you wont always get 600 exp out of a game)
In order to unlock the entire rift you need around 460 games which is absurd. The rift lasts for 70 days that means you need to play 6-7 games EVERY DAY. You can shave off a game every day by getting your first game of the day bonus but still that's a lot of games. Keep in mind the queue times for killer and sometimes survivor are long.
I don't know if the devs intended for the rift to this grindy, if they did it saddens me deeply and I regret buying it.
Possible solutions:
Raise the number of rift fragments earned per levelup to two cutting the games needed in half, or put more challenges for possibly more fragments.
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I mean thats odd i finished mine in 2 days xD
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Lol not a chance you finished the rift in 2 days
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You aren't supposed to earn many fragments while playing regularly, this is done to make the challenges more incentive and keep you from getting to high tiers before most the tomes are released.
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I did actually the challenges are very easy. :D
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You're working toward those xp fragments while doing the challenges as well. Its not do the challenges then grind the xp fragments its simultaneous.
700-100 hours is reasonable.
They just need to make the later challenges not ridiculous but we'll see when they release.
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My bad, I thought you meant all the tiers. Yeah level 1 challenges ain't that hard really
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This is the Tome, not the Rift. The Rift is the track with the 70 tiers.
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Yes I know, still with all the challenges completed you will only unlock little more than half of the rift meaning that you need to grind the remaining tiers through exp.
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ooo yeah i thought they meant the first tome.
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Not everyone can play 6-7 games every day. When I saw that one tier also costs 100 auric cells I was kinda pissed.
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I know i messed that up still it doesn't change anything it makes it even worse.
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The xp is based on time in a match? Why am I not surprised lmao... Having it based on actual objectives completed and BP earned in a match would just be absurd 🤦
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It surprised me also when I learned that it was that way
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6 or 7 games is an hour.
If you can't play an average of 1 hour a day you probably shouldn't complain about grind you're barely playing of course it'd be a grind.
1 hour a day is what the devs were aiming for also.
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That sucks. Reminds me of the player level, which is based on time rather than effort given in a match. So if you escape fast or get a quick 4K as a killer you get punished rather than rewarded.
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I can barely play 5 games in an hour with all the queue times and pregame stuff
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Then switch to whichever role has instant queues at the moment.
On ps4 thats usually killer it takes me a minute tops to go from starting up the game to a lobby with 4 survivors
The other stuff isn't the games fault thats player behavior
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2 to 4 games is an hour.
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I've been done with the challenges since yesterday
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the devs also have to eat you know. also its just cosmetic, you dont need to buy it.
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Impossible such a rate is unheard of and is actually literally impossible
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This isnt about the challenges in Tome 1. Most people have these finished or almost finished at this stage. This is about the fragments earned via in-game time and the difficulty of challenges in Tomes 3 and 4.
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This game was on life support before the rift. No one was eating. Seriously, give me a break.
There is no such thing as "just cosmetics." If you are okay with all the killers and survivors wearing potato sacks and only potato sacks, you can say "just cosmetics."
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That is the tome.
The rift is the thing where you get rewards and goes to lvl 70
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The rift is not the challenges
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If you do all of the challenges you'll likely have played enough to not have to worry about xp fragments
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Except it is just cosmetic.
There are no killers/bloodpoints/shards/items/add-ons/perks or survivors locked behind a rift pass purchase.
Its outfits and charms you can ignore
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I personally like having some grind, it gives me incentive to play. I don't want a handout, and I want the items to have some meaning to them. Just my thoughts.
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To clarify for future readers. Assuming you do both killer and survivor challenges you would only go to about tier 40 in the rift. The rest you need to grind via game exp (1 game sec = 1 exp totaling to 600 assuming your games last 10 min).
800 exp = 1 fragment
10 fragment = 1 tier
So doing the math that's a lot of games you need to play a day to reach tier 70.
It totals to around 6-7 games a day and that equals to about 2h every day.
I don't know about you guys but I don't have 2h every day to play dbd.
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Well given what's at stake at tier 70 I feel like the grind is justified.
For those unaware:
Free Rift Travelers get a Brand New Part Charm.
Premium Rift Travelers get a BNP Charm AND a Putrid Serum charm.
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Okay, then how is the rift grindy when it can be done if you literally tier up once per day it can be completed
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The problem with the rift is that it feels it was made this way to force us to buy the tiers (100 auric cells per tier) which is scumy and borderline exploitative.
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Everyone likes a good grind. Games like Diablo were made on it. However, once using real money is option to skip it, the grind becomes compromised. The game maker has every incentive to make it as long and tedious as possible to get the player to spend real money.
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I think you ate confusing something or just trolling. Let me ask you straight up to be clear: you completed the WHOLE battlepass in 2 days??
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This one gave me a laugh. 7 matches in an hour?! What a joke. 2 to 4 max. Red Ranks. Queue times. Dc's. Lobby dodges. Honestly. 7 matches!? It's great you're trying to defend the system but damn let's be more honest.
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If you say so. I've done all of the challenges so far and have played enough to be at tier 30 not even a week in.
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Maybe daily challenges can give some?
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Wow must be nice being able to play nonstop!
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That ain't the rift chief, Lmaoo that's the archives the rift is the battlepass mr." I have completed the rift"
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I started at tier 5 or 6. 25 of those were legit from day 1 of the archives.
Thats like 19 days ahead of what i'd need to finish it on time. Not counting the levels from before the patch where i was barely playing and got 5 tiers...
You guys are making it out to be way harder than it is if you care so much take days off or on a weekend and do a few 8-12 hour sessions
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Idk Bout you guys but when I finished all the tomes I ended up at level 16 in the rift so say you get to 15 each tier of the tome, there are 4 tiers to the time. Assuming the challenges won't be horrendously difficult and are doable 15x4 is 60 you can earn ATLEAST 60 tiers in the rift just by the challenges.
So in other words dont complain about the grind when the devs are basically making it so that we can complete the tomes to practically complete the rift almost fully.
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Take a few days off or do 8-12 hour sessions. That is your response? Really? I'm almost in tier 3 and it's only been a few days so that's not too bad with the whole challenge thing completed. But I haven't done the math and will wait to see how this plays out. What these people are mentioning is that the challenges only gets you so far and playing x amount of games will get you to the full amount. And x amount of games comes out to about 2 to 4 hours of average play a day. That is not something the casual gamer can do. That is not how a battle pass style system should work.
Your responses to these comments is so single sided. Congrats you somehow manage to get SEVEN games in an hour (which would average about 8 minutes a match with no wait times for lobbies). It's just frustrating someone comes into a constructive thread and spreads stretched truths while trying to shut down others valid opinions on the subject, such as the original poster. It's great your loving your experience with the new updates but your experiences aren't others. I know this is a bit extreme but rant over.
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So what level is everyone then in the rift? I'm currently at 26
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So you are saying those who play less than 6-7 games every day won’t get the top tier exclusive items in the game? That sounds perfectly fine to me.
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Behavior's aware that the grind is real, that's why they introduced a way for players to buy their way to success. Imagine designing something new with customers in focus.
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Because this is totally not a grindy game at all to start with.
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You finished the tome, not the rift.
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I’m already at Tier 20 so I don’t think getting to Tier 70 in well over two months is going to be that difficult. That is if you regularly play the game.
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>Too grindy
>Already tier 40 something
Pepega
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Lol no way 6 games is an hour there are times when I only get 2-3 in due to long wait times.
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