With the imminent arrival of the 1.1 patch and the addition of 6 unlockable promo characters, I thought it would be a good idea to to start a thread for spoilers, hints, and speculation on how to unlock them. My hope is that we can limit the spoilers to this thread to preserve the gaming experience of those who don't wish to be spoiled, while providing necessary information for those who want the promo cards and don't particularly care about figuring it out for themselves.
Please limit this thread to facts and speculation based on appropriately obtained information (e.g., first hand experience). If you have information as or from a playtester or if there is some way to view the programming code and glean information from that, please do not post it here.
MigrantP has stated that the unlocks will be hard to do. A reviewer for the patch said they had played all morning and not yet unlocked one. For these reasons, I assume the promos are unlocked by something more interesting than "win in Insula Primalis x times" or something like that. They may even be related to the story challenges here on the forums.
We also know from screenshots posted on BGG that the six promo characters are Rook City Wraith, Super Scientific Tachyon, GI Bunker, Young Legacy, Mad Bomber Blade, and Cosmic Omnitron.
The first two theories I'm going to work on are beating Baron Blade in Megalopolis with the Freedom Four. I'll try regular and Advance Mode and if that doesn't work I'll try the Freedom Five.
For Tachyon my gut tells me that I need to either do a Lightspeed Barrage with 21 bursts in the trash or 3 Barrages in one turn. Or if MigrantP and Co. hate us, 3x 21 burst Barrages in one turn.
All I wanted to say along these lines is the following -
At least a couple of the unlocks are the kind of thing that you could easily stumble upon while playing normally. The goal was not to force you to play the game in ways that are counter to how it's meant to be played. and in general, the villain variants are harder to unlock than the hero variants.
Mad Bomber Blade: Agree with powerhound, probably have Legs deal the final blow to Baron.
Young Legacy: Beat Baron Blade with Legacy defeated.
Rook City Wraith: Defeat a villain with environment damage in a game with Wraith.
GI Bunker: Have Visionary die to psychic damage, openning a portal to the past, then have Wraith use her grappling hook to pull GI Bunker out of the past??? Bunker might need to be incapped, I don't know.
Cosmitron: Play the game against Omnitron during a solar flare.
We've said it in many places but I'll just reiterate here - Variant Characters (aka, promos) are all completely free additions to the game. The only cost is having to play the game and work out how to unlock them.
Longer term, expansions (aka completely new content) will be paid, Variants will continue to be free unlockables.
It will let you know immediately. If you do unlock one take a screenshot, we'll be making a post about a little promotion we're doing starting this afternoon.
