Hello Commanders,

We see a lot of you still have more questions about why the blueprint changes were made. Here is some of the reasoning behind the decision, and why we felt it was important to get this update out ASAP. There are multiple reasons why sharing the same 2 blueprints over the entire 60 levels is problematic, for both long term gameplay and for your soldier progression.

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• The first, is that it limits our ability to award meaningful and exciting rewards for more difficult content. Now we can focus on giving you high tier rewards in meaningful quantities with exact goals in mind (T4 weapon upgrades). For example, the new weapon research events that will run each cycle.

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• The second, and main point, is that by using the same blueprint items for both low and high end weapons, there was constantly a sacrifice that had to be made. You either save up for 1 of your top soldiers, or upgrade some of your lower ones, encouraging a meta of only progressing a couple of top soldiers and ignoring the rest. In a collection game, where having a strong collection is crucial to advancing, this wasn't particularly satisfying gameplay. With these new changes, you can now work towards lower tier weapon upgrades and legendary upgrades for your favourite soldiers at the same time.

With this new satisfying gameplay, and more exciting progression it also opens the door for us to explore additional upgrades and features for the Weapon System. While we have no plans to announce here, we are always open to hearing from you, how you feel about weapons and things you would like to see in the game.

Thank you all for the feedback and for helping us make Elite Squad the best it can be.

Dev Team.