The DLC weapons are side-grades of what you will unlock while leveling, with the "meta" guns being unlocked with levels

No, the DLC equipment can only be unlocked by buying them.

If you mean how to unlock more than just the starter stuff, you get some by leveling up and you get more by completing planets.

>Can i get them any other way?

No.

Dlc weapons are only from buying the dlcs

The war medals, the bright yellow currency you get for completing mission objectives, can be spent to acquire new primary weapons, secondary weapons, grenades, among other things.

Go to the Aquisition screen (Hotkey R on PC) and you'll be able to spend your medals in a pseudo-battlepass system. Keep spending medals there and you'll progressively unlock new equipment and cosmetics.

Through the counter on the left underneath screen with news on. Look for secondary weapons... or through warbonds in acquisitions. In the warbonds you will need the Golden skull medals to purchase

you gain weapons primarily through medals you earn playing the game. You earn strategem from requisition points you earn by once again, playing the game.

I'm level 5 and was wondering the same thing yesterday evening. Unlocked the diligence, is it any good? What is a good assault rifle early on to unlock?

Guns can be purchased with medals, from the battle passes- called "Warbonds" in this game.

There are a few currencies in the game:

1- Requisitions

Source: Found at points-of-interest on the map and earned by completing missions.

Used to buy: Strategems. These are weapons and artillery strikes that you can call in during play. Can be purchased at the ship terminal.

2- Supercredits

Source: Purchase for real life $ or found at points-of-interest.

Used to buy: Warbonds and items from the Supercredit store. Can be accessed in the Aquisitions menu.

3- Samples

Source: Points-of-interest. Level 1-3 have common samples, level 4-6 adds rare samples, level 7+ adds super rare samples.

Used to buy: Ship modules/upgrades available at the ship terminal.

4- Medals

Source: Points-of-interest and earned by completing missions.

Used to buy: Items contained within any warbond you have purchased or the starter warbond. Available in the Aquisitions menu.

Important:

Requisitions, super credits, and medals are gained by all players immediately when they are picked up on the map. They are not split. Every player gets the full amount.

Samples are only gained if you are holding them upon successful extraction. These are also not split. Every player gets the full amount regardless of who brought them on the shuttle.

Thanks for all for the feedback guys this really help me understand the game a bit more as i skipped majority of the tutorial(i was just too excited to play)

You can unlock new armor and weapons with the warbonds, you start with a 10 page warbond unlocked for free, you also have multiple 3 page ones you can unlock with super credits that can either be bought with real money or found during missions.

In the warbonds you use medals to unlock things, you get medals by finishing missions and can also find them during missions.

For the stratagems, a couple are in some warbonds, but for the majority they are unlocked using requisitions (the yellow R) these are given while playing, the same as for xp.

There are also samples that you can find during missions, the higher the difficulty of the mission is, the more sample you will be able to find and the higher rarity samples you will find. To fully obtain the samples you need to extract from the mission with them ( they are shared between players).

Samples are used to upgrade your ship to unlock passives that you will always benefit from, like shorter stratagem cooldowns, more damage and so on.

Battle pass unlocks them

Guns are unlocked from the Warbonds with medals.

Equip them from your armoury or when selecting your gear before you dive.

Starting shotgun? You mean the first shotgun in the free warbond?
You get medals from completing missions, then you use those medals to acquire items from warbonds
You don't NEED to get the Punisher, but you can if you want
Depends on playstyle

Play some missions, missions give you medals, which you can use to purchase new weapons from the acquisitions tab.

The weapons arent insane or unbalanced. They actually all suck besides the incendiary shotgun and thats only good for bugs

Nope, you earn premium currency in game for free with no cap!

Currently there are two ways:

• finding a supply drop (gold beacons) with super credits in them

• using the free battle pass to unlock 100 at a time

Hope this helps! Also battle passes in this game are non-fomo and will never leave even when new ones come out

You can grind the credits to unlock the premium warbond.

Of course the game has a battlepass system. Why wouldn't it?!

Kinda annoyed that a game I paid $40 for has a large chunk of content behind a paywall.
However I'm only 4hrs in and have 35 medals so maybe it's a feasible grind to unlock it all naturally.

Edit: After some more time playing I'm rethinking this. I'm already half way to the 1000 credits I need and I find more in pretty much every game. The cost of the premium battlepass is a non-issues. You can be lazy and buy it but you'll still need to play to get all the medals. I'm thinking that despite my initial impression that they may have got this jsut about right.

Bunkers with 2 button entrqnces to open and fallen spaceships/pods have a high chance of awarding Super Cred

This aspect I totally get and honestly after a few days playing I feel like I've already gotten $40 worth of enjoyment out of this.
I probably won't buy the premium, as I don't think it has much inherent value based on contents, but I'll most likely throw some money at MTX later and happily support the developer that way.

I'm now at ~850 premium credits and haven't finished the regular battlepass. I doubt I'll actually 'need' to spend any money on this at all.

You can earn them through regular gameplay

Good:

• Punisher
• Breaker Incendiary
• Dominator
• Diligence Counter Sniper
• Adjudicator
• Tenderiser
• Liberator Carabine
• Defender
• Pummeler
• Scorcher
• Punisher Plasma
• Blitzer
• Breaker
• Sickle
• Crossbow (niche)
• Eruptor (niche)
• Senator
• Grenade Pistol
• Redeemer
• Verdict
• BushWacker

Decent:

• Liberator
• Diligence
• Spray & Pray
• Slugger
• Scythe
• Pacemaker
• Dagger

"Bad":

• Liberator Concussive
• Liberator Penetrator
• Purifier
• Knight

Personally I feel like its burst DPS is too high and magazine too small, so it absolutely melts part of a patrol and leaves me on reload for the rest.  

YMMV as I've always liked more powerful slower firing weapons. I also don't care for the new carbine (that doesn't mean it's "bad").

What you will usually see it Dominator or Scorcher on bots and Sickle or Incendiary breaker on bugs.

Most weapons however are viable, but this is the general pattern.

The good weapons are the ones you enjoy playing, friend. Go try em and see what sticks with you.

Just use what weapon you like to use, most weapons are viable in some way

The battle pass is free but the premium one is locked behind in game currency that can either be purchased, found in missions or unlocked through the free battle pass.

earn medals in game the unlock them via. the battlepass, I don't think there's an alternative way

We have no reason to believe it's an actual battlepass though, right? There's no time limit and all the Super Credits can be found in the field. Just grind to 1000 and buy it lol

Super credits are not that hard to accumulate there are ones in the free warbond and you find them almost every mission I already have 700 just with free pass and missions.

I mean if you’re grinding for weapons then you’d be grinding for medals, and if you’re grinding for medals then you definitely would be trying to find the medal crates that are scattered around the map, which also include super credits, you also have super credits on the free Warbond, so by the time you’re done with it you’d have more than enough to get the premium warbonds without spending a single dime, so the answer is just to play the game.

how are they doing those tricks with (what im assuming to be) the senator?

Is this the Riddler's loadout?

Riddle me this you Terminid scum!

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