Elite Dangerous Mercenary Edition : Where are the exclusive paint jobs ?

Tas Devil

Tas Devil
Alec Turner said:
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This is the mercenary paintjob.
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Indeed. it is.

It's clearly available for the sidewinder as the 'Mercenary' paintjob. And you can switch between the default and 'Mercenary' paintjob for the sidewinder by removing the optional paintjob.

Other posting here seem to confirm it's also available for the cobra and the viper and I assume doesn't overwrite the default skin for those ships.

My eagle though as a default skin which is the 'Mercenary' paint job and has lost it's default skin. When I select 'paint job' in the livery menu it says No inventory is available and I cannot 'remove' the Mercenary paint job...

Anyone else able to verify this with an eagle ?
 

Brakespear

Brakespear
Tas Devil said:
I have the Mercenary pack as confirmed by just buying a sidewinder and outfitting it and selecting the mercenary paint job for the sidewinder.

I then bought an eagle. And visited the outfitting screen. I have no additional paint jobs available to me and the default eagle paint job is the mercenary paint job. I don't have an option to revert to the old default eagle paint job.

Perhaps you could try this and see how it works for you ? Do you even own an eagle right now or did you assume you knew better ?
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I have flown nothing *but* the Eagle since release. I've tried pushing lots of buttons, but there is never a paint job available for the Eagle, and the Eagle default paint job really isn't the Merc job.

So there are two possibilities:

1) What you think is the merc job isn't.

2) The merc job is supposed to be available for the Eagle, but is really glitched out so that most people don't get it at all, and you get it as default.

Please look at the screenshot that other guy posted, and confirm. Because personally, I'd much rather that it was number 2 (because maybe when they fix it, I can get a cooler looking Eagle)


EDIT: If someone could also post a picture of the default Eagle job, that'd be great. I'm currently on my way to the Pleiades Nebula, so can't really dock to look at myself.
 
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zaccheus44

Z
Tas Devil said:
I tend to agree with this.

I'll also add that the supposed day 1 decal which is the skull decal was in game on npc ships before the day 1 launch. It was a npc decal that was simply made available to players. It does not in any way evoke the 'day 1' concept.

On the topic of the paint jobs the Mercenary pack clearly described an 'Exclusive pack of ship paint jobs' see :

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=cbbe7b15e6

That implies more than one paint job. Given that this is a reward for early backers and pre-orders it seems rather pointless to limit this to just the 3 lower tier ships that is the starter ship the eagle and the viper... Most people who were early backers don't necessarily fly those ships much at all !
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I agree

Another thing to note the merc pack was always advertised with a picture of a bright red eagle. I fully expected that eagle and paint job in my merc pack, plus due to the wording, several more. I actually thought all the paints would only apply to the eagle, but was hoping for more. What we actually got seems a lot more like an after thought and nothing like what was promised, or at least in no way in line with the spirit of what was advertised.

So far FD'S hit list includes offline mode and thw merc pack; and it's looking very bad for wings, meaningful multistep missions, and actually affecting system (seems like their is some movement in Lugh buy it's highly suspicious it's the devs moving the pieces and not the back round sim)
 

Tas Devil

Tas Devil
Brakespear said:
I have flown nothing *but* the Eagle since release. I've tried pushing lots of buttons, but there is never a paint job available for the Eagle, and the Eagle default paint job really isn't the Merc job.

So there are two possibilities:

1) What you think is the merc job isn't.

2) The merc job is supposed to be available for the Eagle, but is really glitched out so that most people don't get it at all, and you get it as default.

Please look at the screenshot that other guy posted, and confirm. Because personally, I'd much rather that it was number 2 (because maybe when they fix it, I can get a cooler looking Eagle)


EDIT: If someone could also post a picture of the default Eagle job, that'd be great. I'm currently on my way to the Pleiades Nebula, so can't really dock to look at myself.
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I'm going to get a screenshot as soon as possible...
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Brakespear said:
So there are two possibilities:

1) What you think is the merc job isn't.
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I'm pretty darn sure the image I posted IS the mercenary paint job. Indeed, if you look at the orange highlighted selection in the top-left of the image it actually says "MERCENARY PAINT JOB".
 

Tas Devil

Tas Devil
OK... so this is what I get when buying a default eagle in game.

As you can see that is not the default eagle paint job of old which was much lighter green and didn't have the white wavy lines on the sides of the cockpit.

I added the skull decal to show I do have the Mercenary 'day 1' pack yet when you look at the 2nd screen shot, I do not have an option to 'remove' the Mercenary paint job from my eagle nor can I add any paint jobs to my eagle !

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Deyu

Deyu
What I don't understand is the plural. "Exclusive pack of paint jobs." Could someone at FD please define the pack? A pack of the same paintjob (available for three ships :( ) or different paintjobs for different ships that obviously are not there...

Oh, and the so called day one decal (the skull) is soooo lame. I'm a trader not a pirate...
 
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Tas Devil

Tas Devil
zaccheus44 said:
I agree

Another thing to note the merc pack was always advertised with a picture of a bright red eagle. I fully expected that eagle and paint job in my merc pack, plus due to the wording, several more. I actually thought all the paints would only apply to the eagle, but was hoping for more. What we actually got seems a lot more like an after thought and nothing like what was promised, or at least in no way in line with the spirit of what was advertised.

So far FD'S hit list includes offline mode and thw merc pack; and it's looking very bad for wings, meaningful multistep missions, and actually affecting system (seems like their is some movement in Lugh buy it's highly suspicious it's the devs moving the pieces and not the back round sim)
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re: the red eagle I agree. All the images surrounding the free eagle included that bright red uniform paint job.

The initial news letter announcing the Mercenary pack is here :

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=cbbe7b15e6

If this isn't misleading I don't know what is !

The fact that this bright paint job exists as per those pictures in the newsletter and yet is not in the store nor part of the Mercenary pack suggests it was created for those screen shots or the screen shots used in the newsletter were photoshopped to create this new look purely for advertising purposes...
 

Deyu

Deyu
Tas Devil said:
re: the red eagle I agree. All the images surrounding the free eagle included that bright red uniform paint job.

The initial news letter announcing the Mercenary pack is here :

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=cbbe7b15e6

If this isn't misleading I don't know what is !

The fact that this bright paint job exists as per those pictures in the newsletter and yet is not in the store nor part of the Mercenary pack suggests it was created for those screen shots or the screen shots used in the newsletter were photoshopped to create this new look purely for advertising purposes...
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Exactly. I also quote "Exclusive pack of ship paint jobs". Why didn't they say "an exclusive paintjob that you can apply to several ships"?
 

Tas Devil

Tas Devil
Actually I just looked at the newsletter number 40 that initially told us about the free eagle and the Mercenary pack...

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=cbbe7b15e6

Now click on the eagle picture with the red paintjob in that newsletter you get to this image...

http://hosting.zaonce.net/elite/website/images/extra/newsletter_2014_09_12/Freagle_01.jpg

That picture is called freagle_01.jpg. Implying that it's a picture of the free eagle !

Now how many of us got a free eagle in that red colour ?
 

DDC

D
Dimensions said:
Lol, I have it. It says exclusive pack of paint jobs. Note the plural.
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Why on earth are you giving me negative rep for being correct?? The pack of paint jobs for the mercenary edition are the mercenary skins for the Sidewinder, Cobra and Viper. How can it be explained any other way, and in a way that you'll accept it? The multi-skin cobra pack was a black friday bonus, and nothing to do with the Merc edition.

It's a plural because you get three paint jobs, one for each ship.

But thanks for the negative rep, you can have some back.
 

TaTooKa

T
Hey, no need to start a flame war here. We are just discussing the fact that the merc edition items were at least misleading, noone is "right" or "wrong" !
 

Huros

Huros
To Be fair FD needs to come out and tell us ship by ship what we should have skin and decal wise broken down by beta, merc and day one because I am pretty sure I was promised more than I have. Further to limit the skins to Cobra and below is poor the bigger ships need to be skinned too.

Frontier you need to do this because I am confused and it is not on. Bad delivery on top of the other PR problems. Come on Michael B. time to get the whip out!
 

SE-Apocalypse

S
TaTooKa said:
The whole issue is very disappointing, given that:

  • In the extras from the Mercenary edition, the paint jobs item was advertised clearly as a "pack of exclusive paint jobs", and we get only one. And for three ships only.
  • The exclusive decal was advertised as "a day one custom decal for your ship" (and we got the skull that really doesn't refer to anything remotely related to day one, and since I saw it in some of the station billboards, really feels like an existing placeholder slapped to pre-order players).
  • The player's manual arrived a week or so later, too late since by that time I already found out anything for what a manual could have been useful
  • The promised digital concept artbook was missing and later delayed too "sometime next month".

The only extra I appreciated was the pre-release access to the combat training. I really hope that Frontier fixes at least point one and two (paint jobs and day one decal) in the near future. I don't mind having to wait a bit more, but being left with those mediocre gifts and not a single official comment makes me feel a little scammed.
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We got 3, one for the viper, one for the sidewinder and one for the cobra, all 3 using the same theme. What makes you think that you just re-apply the same custom paint job to all different ships? It not just a re-paint, you know?
 
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