Epic Games Addresses Fortnite Testers' Progression Woes

TLDR: I like the game a lot, but at current progression rates, if it goes like this f2p, after playing for the first 30+ hours or so, if you are not lucky with llama drops and don't wanna buy v-bucks (that it's a risk to, as you still depend on RNG) you are better of making a new account and trying again, and again, until you get super lucky on one account and stick with that one.
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The Long Subjective Version: IMO they really need to fix v-bucks or llama income, so it is good they are aware of it. I really hit a brick wall around 17-18 power, since i was not lucky with weapon drops (no mystic or legendary weapons at all and the epic ones were not that great to a point where i often preferred to use blue weapons), where i was very weak for plankerton and overleveled for stonewood. XP gain around then also has a sudden drop at some point and it drops from gaining 2-4 levels to 0.5-1 levels (with xp boosts). Not like grinding for XP it's a new thing to me, but the drop is way to sudden.
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When you start playing you are spoiled with v-bucks and llamas. Easy first levels of challenges and quests bring tons of v-bucks you open one llama after another, then it slows down slowly (if at first you have challenges like complete 1 or 2 storm shield defense, then it goes up to 3 and 4 and so on), the challenges get more grindy and i am fine with that up to a point. THE problem is that at some point the challenges simply stop. Especially those giving v-bucks. Except one, the challenges i have left (survivors, mythic monsters) only bring me crafting materials.
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You still get 50 v-bucks from daily quests, but you get one daily quest each day and one llama costs 100 (there are also the founder llama daily login rewards, but i imagine that will be disabled for non-founders or give some useless stuff). I still have some occasional main or secondary quests that gives some v-bucks, but at some point i imagine with progression slowing down even more you are only left with the dailies.
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How i passed that brick wall you might ask? Well, i wish it wasn't the case, but got a 1000 v-bucks llama, v-bucks that i bought, llama that guarantees a legendary, and i got lucky with it and it upgraded to a golden llama and dropped me 2 legendary shotguns, 1 mystic survivor (my first ever mystic drop) and some other cool stuff. Now i am back in the game!... for a little while.
If it was F2P, instead of risking my money on the rng, i would have probably just made a new account and tried again, maybe i would have got luckier at the start.
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P.S.: Just to make things clear while the game has some serious problems that need solving, i still find it very enjoyable. I was not expecting it to reach the popularity that it did, but i am glad it did. Maybe that will motivate Epic Games to shift a bit more focus on it.

I think Epic is paying for being SO cynical about this game. I played this months ago as I was lucky to get into the early alpha (or w/e they were calling it). To now charge people for the privilege of playing it for another year (I will buy and then eat a hat if that dateline doesn't get extended) until it goes `Free to Play` is just money grabbing of the worst kind. I got bored of it really quite quickly as I think it is more of a pick up an d play kind of game rather than something I would invest a huge chunk of hours into.

Oh, and have you SEEN the prices for the oh so special `founders packs` ? £34.99 for the CHEAPEST one. Yeah. no thanks...

Pays to test game. Cries about the game.
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Holy sh!t people. What did you expect.