I’m going to be frank with you lovely people this is the worst part of Delta Force Boosting. The game does not do a good job of going over the available functionality in its menus. Matter of fact, I’d argue a significant portion of the player base doesn’t even know what to touch. Thankfully the “play” button is easy enough to get to, but if you want to change your player cards, badges, avatars, or whatever, it’s not immediately obvious where to go to change those.
What compounds the bloated user interface are these little notification blips that appear just about everywhere on the Hub. The Armoury tab, the player icon, the operators screen, the events page, the store—gosh, you will be gobsmacked at every bit of corner of Delta Force vying for your attention. It took me months to figure out what I was clicking on, the resources I was picking up, the various currencies that come and go as events change. I played for a whole two seasons of the game before I realised that these blue armoury tickets I was collecting were actually meant to be used in the game’s seasonal weapon skin gacha, for example.
Speaking of gacha, I do want to cover the microtransaction aspect of buy Delta Force Boost. There are quite a few things you can buy in this game with outright dosh, such as various Operator and weapon skin bundles to don and some of them look really cool! Others look a bit… Extravagant. Plenty of skins that feature gold and rubies on them for anyone interested in that. I found the prices for these paid bundles to be reasonable and there’s a solid variety if you want to pay for something off the bat. And as I mentioned earlier, playing the game nets you cosmetics as well even if they’re locked behind a bunch of confusing menus. The Season Pass this time around (and as of this writing) is also giving a unique Arknights-themed skin for one of the medicinal Operators Smee, donning the wisecracking Brit Smee in the clothes of the Executor from the tower defence mobile game.
I’m going to be frank with you lovely people this is the worst part of Delta Force Boosting. The game does not do a good job of going over the available functionality in its menus. Matter of fact, I’d argue a significant portion of the player base doesn’t even know what to touch. Thankfully the “play” button is easy enough to get to, but if you want to change your player cards, badges, avatars, or whatever, it’s not immediately obvious where to go to change those.
What compounds the bloated user interface are these little notification blips that appear just about everywhere on the Hub. The Armoury tab, the player icon, the operators screen, the events page, the store—gosh, you will be gobsmacked at every bit of corner of Delta Force vying for your attention. It took me months to figure out what I was clicking on, the resources I was picking up, the various currencies that come and go as events change. I played for a whole two seasons of the game before I realised that these blue armoury tickets I was collecting were actually meant to be used in the game’s seasonal weapon skin gacha, for example.
Speaking of gacha, I do want to cover the microtransaction aspect of buy Delta Force Boost. There are quite a few things you can buy in this game with outright dosh, such as various Operator and weapon skin bundles to don and some of them look really cool! Others look a bit… Extravagant. Plenty of skins that feature gold and rubies on them for anyone interested in that. I found the prices for these paid bundles to be reasonable and there’s a solid variety if you want to pay for something off the bat. And as I mentioned earlier, playing the game nets you cosmetics as well even if they’re locked behind a bunch of confusing menus. The Season Pass this time around (and as of this writing) is also giving a unique Arknights-themed skin for one of the medicinal Operators Smee, donning the wisecracking Brit Smee in the clothes of the Executor from the tower defence mobile game.