all right
open contraband yes go okay
so we got the trifecta micro
uzi and it immediately asks us do you
want to open up another one
or a whole bundle i have enough g coin
to open up one let's do it
open contraband
desert digital car 98 the very next
message
do you want to add more g-coin you see
where i'm going with this
hey what's going on guys welcome back to
the channel in today's video we're going
to be breaking down the brand new loot
contraband system in pub g
where you can open up gambling loot
crates to customize weapon skins and
unlock
different weapon variances now before we
do that there are a couple new skins
that came out with season 12. i figured
we'd just go over those real quick
before we jump into this
all right so starting with new skin
items we have the el solitario
partnership bundle that pub g just
started for season 12.
with this you can have access to the
brand new black gloves
which if you notice that has a an elite
symbol an elite rating
next to the skin and we'll go over that
a bit later when we get to the
hideout section then you have the full
el celetario wolf
bodysuit pretty cool
i'm curious how well this blends in with
darker uh darker areas in the map i
wonder if that's why they kept some
white around the sides
you got the white biker suit obviously
will not blend in
in the darker areas
we've got the whole biker set that comes
with that white uh jumpsuit
the boots the level one helmet and the
gloves
we've got the same thing for the black
wolf set the whole suit the boots the
gloves and the level one helmet
and then of course the new motorcycle
skin if you don't get this skin you'll
have just the standard it's like a
military kind of green and brown skin
which still looks pretty cool but
i mean this one honestly does look
really dope and this one also is an
elite
skin type pretty pretty cool oh for
those that wonder and this is just a
break
fluid line i know a few people that my
streamer asked me the other day what is
that for
it's not like a drinking sippy line this
is for the brake fluid
then if we go over to the pcs4 skin
bundle we're gonna go into more detail
into how to do the pick em challenge and
with the pcs pickum challenge is all
about like i've done in previous
challenges but we do have a few new
skins to cover so we've got
the new crash test emote excuse me the
new crash test emote
which is a team emote we've got the
crash test
costume set which comes with the full
gear the
the top the pants the shoes and the hat
and of course you'll have coupons that
come with it
then you've got the crash test weapon
and vehicle
skin sets you have the new ak which i
think actually is a pretty cool looking
skin if i'm honest
the sks which is honestly one of my
favorite sks skins to date
i think it's very clean and minimalistic
and i like how the only
non-painted part is the stupid magazine
but they did cover the rest of the
entire gun
in the proper color scheme so it looks
really cool
then you've got the pcs4 gold metal
motorbike
which uh i mean if we're being honest it
also looks pretty good too right like
it's
it's kind of understated you know it's
not flashy but i think it's clean
i think it's clean i like the little
detail in the exhaust with the pcs4
the the kind of gold on the wheels a
little camo around the fender flares i
mean
i don't know i like it and of course
that one comes with some more coupons
and then of course you can buy the
things individually or as a big old
bundle if you want everything which
gives you all the coupons
um and then oh i forgot the the loved
one backpack
i did forget about that there you go so
not bad not bad at all and like i said
we'll make a whole other video on the
pcs
um skins and the esport tab and how to
how to do the pick em challenge how to
vote what teams to vote for i'll cover
all that stuff
as usual all right now over to the
highly controversial section the hideout
where the contraband
scrap and the upgraded weapons can be
found now first let's just do a quick
overview of what each tab means and then
we'll break each one down
and i'll give you more details as to how
the system works all right so the first
tab you go to in the hot it is the
contraband tab this is your main home
screen where you're going to be able to
purchase
your contraband crates that have the
possibility to include different weapons
and weapon skins
and you can see here you can purchase
one for 200 g coin or 10
with a discounted 1800 g coin and every
crate you open includes 10 scrap and one
potential cosmetic
polymer or skin now this gear head event
lasts for 118 days so this is not a
short weekend or season only event it
will be going on for quite some time
so you don't have to rush out and spend
a whole bunch of money at once
however if we go to the more detail
section where it shows
all the different skins you can get you
can see there's actually
quite a big selection of different skins
that you can have in here at the very
bottom they also include what's called
polymers
now these polymers are required to
upgrade your actual weapon that you
unlock so if you get the progressive
weapon skin of the barrel which is
currently the only
upgradeable skin in order to upgrade it
to its potential maximum standard you're
going to need these polymers to do so
so every crate that you open has a
potential to include polymers or
one of these skins now if we go up top
to the probability to acquire it this
shows you
the percentage likelihood that you'll
get
each of these items in each crate and
it's here where you can quickly see the
problem with the situation
the skin that everybody is going to want
is the gear head barrel skin which you
only have a
point nine percent chance inside of each
crate that you open so you could open
over a hundred crates before you ever
get this barrel
same goes for schematics and almost the
same for things like the m24
m16 and the akm some of these other
weapons do have higher percentages
anywhere from one to two point nine
percent but if you go down to the very
bottom the polymers
have the highest likelihood to be
included in every crate so you have a
almost 10 chance that you only will
unlock
50 polymers in every crate this is where
people are getting the really bad
micro transaction gambling vibe when
they look at the percentages
of them opening up crates and actually
getting an item that they want
now another detail to pay attention to
is if you hover
over each of the weapons you see at the
very bottom how it has a little labeling
down here like if i go over the m24 it
says epic
if i go over the groza it says the graza
it says elite and so on
those different ratings are gonna be
important when you go to
scrap the weapon which we'll go over in
a second so the next section is the
scrap broker now on this tab they'll
include
items that you can buy straight up with
scrap now scrap can be earned
by scrapping or salvaging existing
weapon skins that you have
or by earning them every time you open
up a crate
every time you open up a crate you'll
get 10 scrap so if you earn
enough i say earn if you buy enough
crates that get enough scrap
you can turn that scrap into either the
progressive barrel skin
the schematics that are used to upgrade
like the barrel skin for instance
or contraband coupons now contraband
coupons are pretty cool because you can
get 10 of these
and it'll allow you to open up one crate
so every 10 coupons
up here you can open one crate now that
all sounds fun and dandy until you start
doing some math
the progressive barrel skin for example
costs 3 000
scrap now if you do it based purely on
math by opening up the contraband coupon
crates
that would mean you would have to spend
about five hundred dollars
on g coin to afford to open enough
crates
to get enough scrap just to purchase the
barrel skin
five hundred dollars to guarantee that
you'll get the barrel skim
now the weapons tab is where they're
going to be able to break down
what progressive weapon you have so
right now it's only the barrel but in
the future you'll have other options to
choose from and here you can scroll down
to the different levels that you have to
unlock
so once you get the barrel you'll have
to use more polymer
and unlock each level of the barrel as
well to keep
upgrading it into the maximum level 10
which is where you can customize scopes
that brings us to the last tab which is
the salvage tab this
is where you can sell or deconstruct
your unwanted weapons and skins
to get polymers or the chance to obtain
a schematic
now most of them will be worth next to
nothing's now i've already sold all of
my tan
weapon skins and for all the ones that i
sold i only got 72 polymers
so if you click on on a particular
weapon let's say we list this from low
to high and i click on the tommy gun
if i scrap the tommy gun skin i only get
eight polymers
if i go to high to low
i could scrap my stat track and tommy
gun and get 800 polymers
so the more expensive or rare the item
is
the more polymers you'll get by
scrapping it this is why you see the
steam
market flooded with those tan skins
right now people are buying
and selling those like crazy all right
now the next thing we have to talk about
about the contraband system
is a way that you can earn these skins
and items for free
that for some reason pub g doesn't
promote that well so if you look at the
top right hand of your screen you've got
this little loot crate if you click on
that
you'll see that you have two different
events you can participate in right now
number one is the battle of the
contrabands event this is only going to
last from june 2nd
to june 15th this is a daily occurring
event
every day you can log in check your
missions
complete your four missions and unlock
up to 85 points for that day
once you've reached 100 points you can
redeem
your 100 points for 10 contraband
coupons
10 contraband coupons get you
if you remember one crate now you can do
this five
times over the whole event timeline
which means you could potentially
open up five different crates for free
just by playing the game so that is
pretty cool
now the el solitario event is very
similar but instead of getting
contraband coupons you
merely get a chance to unlock the face
scarf
or the wolf sweater same thing you do
daily missions
you get 55 points per day and once you
accumulate enough points you can redeem
those there for the skins
now i'm going to do a little example
with you guys because it's a lot easier
to show you than i tell you sometimes so
let's go over to the store
we're going to go to items contraband
coupon you see it says i have nine left
i already bought one you can only buy
ten of these so let's go ahead and get
all nine or is it gonna uh okay reach
the limit there we go
so let's go and get nine of these guys
for 7200 battle points boom we got him
we're gonna move
now we're over here to the contraband
tab of the hideout section and you see
we have ten coupons and it says hey you
can open up
one crate with your tin coupon so let's
go ahead and do that
all right open contraband yes go
okay so we got the trifecta micro
uzi and it immediately asks us do you
want to open up another one
or a whole bundle i have enough g coin
to open up one let's do it
open contraband
desert digital car 98 the very next
message
do you want to add more gcoin you see
where i'm going with this
so now if we go over to salvage
and let's say we severely dislike the
items that we got
where's that oozy at boom i can sell
that uzi for
28 polymer
and i could sell the um
where the heck is it
the card 98 also for 28 polymer so i
could get 56 polymer for doing that
and if we go back to more details
you can see that the likelihood to earn
those items are still there
they didn't get removed from the uh the
weapon pool which means
if i opened up two more crates back to
back i potentially could open up
those same two items again now here's my
closing thoughts on this
i don't agree with the way that pubg
decided to implement this
especially seeing that pubg is a pay to
own game it is not a
free to play game and you see this kind
of um
loot crate system this gambling system
usually
and a lot of free to play games which
kind of makes sense because the game
developers have to make money somehow
right and so they they put that inside
of cool cosmetics and skins
that players would want to own but in
addition to that the reason why i
also don't like the way they did this
system is because if we go to the
more details section again remember how
i said every time you open up a crate
it has the possibility to include one of
these items
well and another really good game that i
play a lot is called smite
and it has a very similar um setup where
you open up a crate and it tells you
you know a list of say six items that
you can earn
the cool thing about smite is that once
you open up the crate
if you were to earn let's say the
crossbow
it would take the crossbow out of the
pool of items that you could earn
if you open the crate again so
essentially every time you open the
crate
your chances of earning the better skins
got higher and higher and higher
pub g however decided to take the
approach to where
you have an equal opportunity every time
you open a crate and you could get
duplicate skins so you could be one of
those people that are really unlucky
and get the chrome up 10 times in a row
by opening 10 different crates
and your only choice would be to
deconstruct nine
of those ump skins
for what maybe 50 polymer a piece so
that part i really don't agree with
i hope they take that into consideration
and adjust it going forward
however i do appreciate the way that you
can earn
the coupons and the crates for free just
by playing the game this needs to be
on the forefront of the screen players
need to know about it and i think they
honestly should have more
than just four missions or at the least
if it's only going gonna be four
missions
it needs to not only be for two weeks
this this kind of availability or
possibility
should go on for the whole event
timeline for 118 days
i don't know that's my thoughts what do
you guys think about it let me know in
the comments below
if you have any specific questions about
the skins and how they work that i
wasn't able to answer
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