Nope, unfortunately, you cannot. The prizes are only rewarded once you reach the checkpoint.

Lol, half of the so called "News" from the Vlog is just them repeating the old stuff from forum topics and announcement and heavily pushing buying in the shop.

Really glad I actually hit so many meteorites on the way to the third checkpoint, was worth it ?

Rico is still easy to play, that's why RIco protections skyrocketed.

Gauss has been mega nuked, massive increase to 2.8 seconds for locking, making it basically impossible to get a lock in time on anything, since the lock is so hard to keep with people getting in the way, unless you are locking on camping Shaft or noob unaware of his surroundings. On top of that, you cannot even follow up on lock damage with arcade shots anymore. Even if you score an EMP hit, the effect does not even last till your next arcade shot, relegating Gauss to pretty much a support turret. Even with maxed Crisis, it is almost impossible to score kills.

He does not have to lie, on one of my accs, I too got to the LCs very easily, was pushed just once by the meteorite, on this acc I got pushed like 3 times, on another acc like 5 times xĐ, so it is totally possible to get to LCs without buying and still with some spare energy left, ofc you need some luck for it.

If you roll +2 or +3, you get rewards for 2 steps, or 3 steps respectively,

I do ?

I miss small battles, I remember just how much fun Island, Wave, Combe and Hill used to be. Generally miss the old maps noone plays anymore because of MM, like Deck9 XP/BP, preMagnum Noise, Subway, Canyon, Gravity.. .etc

Will you ever make Juggernaut a mode that is actually not just a boring Viking OD spam mode? Will you make Assault actually playable, it is either a mode with unbreakable bases or with undefendable bases, perhaps you should make both teams having bases and increase the amount of points for capturing flags.

That Rail warm up time is so freaking long... feels like I can get a degree, get a job and start a family before the shot is actually fired

I got Crisis from mission UCs and it is a mixed bag, it can be pretty op at times, other times I feel like Trickster, Booster and Defender would be much better. Also I hate how it is no longer activated by supply drops, that's another huge blow for me as f2p, if I did not have supplies saved from old containers, it would probably ruin my acc.

There's no point in making another Burning Vulcan, as it would make IB obsolete. Literally what would be the point to ever use the IB if there would be another burning augment that does not burn you in return. As for other statuses, I am pretty sure they are coming in our way, I would be very surprised if they would not release these for all turrets since it probably is one of the ways for them to get income.

Would not be so sure about that, I met him in battle as well, burning opponents with Vulcan that did not have IB equipped, soo yeah xD

Opening the Shop today be like: "Wow what a bargain, dirt cheap!"

Citing Wiki: Promo codes—unless specified otherwise—have no expiration dates - that is, they can be redeemed at any time after receiving them. So if you received a promo code, you should be able to redeem it whenever you like, unless you have been informed otherwise when receiving it.

That's why I never ever really try to even get to later checkpoints of literally all of their 'minigames', they are literally all the same boring stuff, the free player is lucky to even get through half of it, and allthough those prizes look nice, that paywall is literally higher than Everest will ever be. I never really understood why they decided on putting these 'progress halting' fields, I too believe that from psychological perspective, it would be much better to have extra steps than being pushed back by so many freaking steps. Imagine tryharding to get those dozens of extra energies from goldboxes as a f2p, spending literally days and thousands of supplies to have all of that gone in a press of one button. Just shame. These games are certainly disappointing and discouraging. At the same time, I think most f2p should have a realistic goal of getting to perhaps 3rd checkpoint at best, I think anything other requires a massive amount of time, collecting those energies in MM and/or massive luck with your rolls.

They could have easily avoid this issue by not adding something as pointless as MK1 equipment. Why they even added something that unlocks within first 6 ranks and is not even worth the prize of old 3500 crystal container is beyond me.

The container update is definitely a major blow. While I appreciate the addition of UC augments, paints, shot effects and drones to the regular containers' prize pool, the rather small chance to grab these very rare items will not be able to compensate for the removal of premium, gold boxes, sets of supplies and the major nerf to the common prizes. Basic modifications of turrets and hulls in containers are completely useless, to be honest. Not only are they badly programmed, they unlock early and are too cheap to facilitate adding them into the prize pool. There is no point in adding a modification that costs 500 crystals, when even on low ranks, you can get this amount of crystals from a couple of battles (or from the common old containers that awarded a common 3500 crystals). Rank up reward is also massively underwhelming as 1 container can never replace a bonus of several thousands of crystals on upper ranks unless you win in the rarity lottery.

Nice sales. I am not disappointed :). Seriously, people need to take a chill pill. There have been an Ultra weekend basically every weekend up to this point, I am certain that is more than enough. People just take this stuff too much for granted. If anything, you can at least enjoy just chilling and not grinding for the Ultra Missions. While I was initially surprised there is nothing this weekend apart from the sales, it is actually looking like a good break from the grinds. Chillax and upgrade your garages....