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Black Market is the next generation of the legacy Capsule Shop.

Descriptions[]

Black Market upgraded the interface of the Capsule Shop and added a few more features which make the system more generous and encouraging players to keep on going for the main prize. Instead of the old Capsule Machine, it's now a large revolver cylinder resembling Russian Roulette. It is now possible to set up the machine (space-bar key) before spinning it. Players still get to charge their spinning power which decides how long the cylinder will spin - once stopped, it will shoot out 3 prizes (2 prizes in Mini Capsule) chosen randomly from the pool. If the Golden Capsule lands in the barrel, it will be a guaranteed best prize win. Prizes will now show up on the right side of the screen with the best prize pinned on top and highlighted in yellow.

This system introduces the Lucky Gauge: every time a player fails to win a permanent item in a cash crate, the gauge increases. When the gauge is full, the next crate spin (excluding GP and Free Ticket crates) will have an increased winning rate and all the prizes won will double. If the player still does not win the best item with a full gauge, they will be given a free crate ticket, which they can use on any cash crates of their choosing. The Lucky Gauge takes exactly 20 crate spins to fill up.

Every item won (both permanent and temporary items) are now moved onto a new storage tab in the Black Market. From there, players may transfer their items to their storage or dismantle some of them into coupons - only temp weapons can be dismantled, however. This allows users to not get any unwanted duplicate weapons if they don't want it. Only 12 items can be transferred at once, however this can be circumvented by transferring one item and mark "Transfer all Duplicates" to move all of them to Inventory at once.

The coupons system has been revamped to increase the cap from 100 to 200, and Reward Tiers have been replaced with Coupon Shop, which now lists available merchandises to purchase using earned Coupons. In most servers, the last tier (150 / 200 coupons) now includes permanent weapons, allowing players to "win" consolidation prizes should they fail to get anything from the capsules.

The Recent Winner List has been revamped to show only one player at a time and tells exactly what best prize they won off multiple prize capsules. Players can click a menu to see the full list in a popup window, which tells more about the winner (Showing their ranks and all recent wins).

My Gacha[]

This is a new type of capsule that's been released in CF Vietnam in August 2022 patch, followed by CF West then CF Philippines. My Gacha Capsules come with a pool of Permanent Prizes (Up to 50) that players can pick out 3 to attempt to win, which they can do so as many time as they want. This gives players greater control of what they want to win and potentially be able to win all permanent prizes without duplicates if they're lucky enough.

Batch opening[]

This feature was added to CF Vietnam as of April 2023 patch, allowing players to rapidly open capsules, skipping the opening animation altogether. Players can choose to open up to 10 capsules at once, and a menu will show up, displaying three prizes won from bottom to top. The 4th slot will display a Free Gacha Ticket on the "Lucky Roll" (every 21th spin on cash capsules) if best prize isn't won. A simple trick to tell if best prize is won is to look at the cylinder: If the Golden Capsule lands in the barrel, that batch is guaranteed to win something. Players can then press Esc to back out of the prize menu and click "Open 10 times" again and check the cylinder, rinse and repeat.

Tricks[]

Upon clicking the batch opening button, the cylinder will spin once and show a capsule landing in the barrel before displaying the prize list. If this capsule is not the Golden one, players are sure they didn't win a permanent prize this time. A neat trick is to click Batch Opening, wait for the prizes to fully show up, then hit Esc and click Batch Opening again. This allows players to check if they win anything every 10 capsules, as opposed to being completely in the dark when staying inside the Batch Opening screen all the time.

Availability[]

  • Available in all CrossFire versions.

Trivia[]

  • This system has undergone some significant change since its initial release to make it more appealing and easier to use to players:
    • On its release, the prize revealing animation is slightly different - after the cylinder stops, the capsules will move 3 steps into the barrel before being shot out. This animation is bugged as sometimes the Golden Capsule might not land on the barrel but the best prize is still won. Later on, this animation is removed altogether, so when the cylinder stops, whatever capsules at the barrel will be shot out.
    • Also when the best prize is won, the game simply gives the player a normal congratulations before going back to crate opening, regardless if players are using Auto-spin or not. This was later changed so that when the best prize is won, the congratulations screen stays put until players click their mouse, and if this happens during Auto-spin, the process will immediately stop.
    • Auto-spin was initially limited to 100 capsules, but this number has been expanded to 200 in a later update, which allows players to collect the maximum allowed Coupons before taking a break.
  • Depending any CF version maximum crate quantity either 30 or 50 pieces.
  • CF China is the only version can only shoot out in single prize. Possibly for reduction of unwanted junkie prizes at the cost of only one coupon if dismantled. To compensated this: Coupon exchange remained maximum at 100 coupons.
  • Only items from Cash capsules can be dismantled into Coupons - GP capsules items can also be dismantled but it will give no coupons at all. This process is likely to counter farming Coupons with GP capsules for permanent weapons, although it does not stop normal coupons from dropping from the capsule (Such as servers with permanent Coupons drop in GP capsules like CF Vietnam).
  • If players win the Best prize with the Lucky Gauge maxed out, they will not receive doubled prizes and Free Capsule Tickets. However, in certain cases that does not mark permanent prize as Best, it is possible to win duplicate Best prize this way.
    • There's a random chances that may win by two or more best prizes, if repeatedly won any duplicated with same prize. Doing the same process can lose the chance of landing on the golden capsule in consecutive spins, this leads to consuming all remaining capsules as a consequence.
    • Repeatedly in exact spinning power after winning best prize will lose the chance of landing on the golden capsule, presumably for fair gamble.
    • After the CrossFire 3.0 all version now resets the golden capsule at the same pot, by taking a break. Pressing space-bar or visiting back to Black Market, golden capsule will reshuffle on different pot.
      • Same goes if player returned to Black Market shop after checking their capsule inventory.
  • Recent Winners list now only shows players who won Black Market weapons from cash capsules. This also applies to the global announcement.
    • However in CF Philippines and CF Europe, after every server maintenance, the Recent Winners List somehow shows only players who won BM weapons from GP capsules. It is unknown if it's a glitch/bug or not.
  • CF West has recently increased the auto-spin crate feature from 100 crates to 200 at a time. This later applied on all CF versions.
  • Black Market is no longer offered a rare stock weapon (only in Cash capsules), despite being not appealing among players which currently spinning any VVIP (including Noble Gold set) seldom in any WS set. In contrast, rare stock weapon is in-favor for like-minded players for collection sometimes bringing to battlefield for impression.

Issues[]

Listed below are issues with the new Black Market system:

  • Removed capsules will not inherit the new mechanics (such as gold ball win, pause congratulations screen, and fireworks), because they are not programmed to work with New Black Market. If players still have these (or won them via events) and win the best prizes with it, they will be treated like normal prizes instead (However, best prizes are still not dismantlable).
  • With the revamped Black Market, players can't buy large several crates quickly - once the purchase is made, players are thrown into the cylinder UI menu right away and they would have to back out to the shop, select the capsule and buy again. The "Buy More" option now only appears once players spent all of their capsules, which is inconvenient. This problem is partially addressed in most servers by offering the option to purchase 30 and 50 capsules at once, but it's limited to cash capsules only.
    • In a recent update, the buying process has been modified: Upon completing purchasing capsules, a message will pop up asking if players want to open them immediately or not. By clicking 'No' will close the pop-up message, so will remain to Black Market, hence players can continue shopping capsules before opening them.
  • Duplicated characters won from the new Black Market are not automatically dismissed as the old system, but instead thrown into the Storage tab. Players will be unable to receive or dismantle it, meaning it will be stuck in the Storage tab forever.
    • Unique to CF Vietnam, the Bronze Bandana equipment (GP capsule) also suffer from this glitch because it's a character accessory and can't be duplicated so players can't own more than 1 Bronze Bandana, although technically they could. This issue has been fixed.

Exploits[]

Certain cash capsules, when hidden, have a 100% chance to win best prize (randomized if it contains multiple best prizes). If players manage to make them displayed by hacking, they're guaranteed to win the best prize if they have enough Free Capsule Coupon to spare. This exploit has been patched recently, so if players are in the process of spinning time-limited capsules with Free Capsule Coupons and the capsules are removed, an error message will be displayed: "You cannot spin expired capsules. Please try another one from the Capsule Shop."

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