another Ultra Container question

[Joeguy 941]

So after finding my UCs as "Old Ultra Containers" with your help, I now wonder about contents. 

1.  During some upcoming event that features UCs will my stash of UCs become non-old ultra containers or get restored to the point where they might contain whatever goodies the future event might be featuring?

2.  If not, and the stay "Old Ultra Containers", will they maintain the chances of winning the specific goodies that were featured in the event in which they were aquired...like TO's B-Day?  Or are the event specific goodies just removed from the possible rewards and the old UCs become a sort of generic version UC?

 

The upshot of this is the real question:  Is it more advantageous to open UCs before they become "Old Ultra Containers"...like while the generating event is still going on?  Or does opening them at a later date still give you the same chance at acquiring the event generate goodies?

 

I hope I'm explaining my question clearly enough.   Can I get more cool stuff from opening UCs during an event or is holding them going to generate the same outcome?     

 

Thanks in advance (I did look in the Wiki and could find nothing regarding this)

 

 

 

 

[Stratosphere 2,234]

Ultra Containers (and often coinboxes as well) are generally tied to the specific event the container was released for, as of late usually featuring a special item as the main "theme" of the celebration (such as Healing Emitters or Blunderbuss). Once the celebration is over, the UC is renamed but the rewards stay the same.

So to answer your first question: most likely not, as each event generally has its own unique UC (they are stored as separate items in the game).

As for your second question, the devs haven't disclosed exactly how the mechanics work behind the scenes.

 

Some interesting trivia:

Spoiler

 

There are currently 40 containers in the (desktop) game, of which:

• 8 are old coinboxes
• 20 are old UC containers
• 8 are currently "in-use"
  • 2 kinds of regular containers
  • 1 Container XT
  • 1 UC container
  • 1 Skin Container
  • 1 Pit Stop container
  • 1 coinbox
  • 1 weekly container
• The other four are miscellaneous old containers: the old regular container, the old XT container, the old skin container, and the old weekly container.

[kydapoot 570]

Some theorize either way and I wish I could give you a definitive answer, but the way that probabilities are handled are not released by the devs. We're sure that the possible rewards don't change over time, but don't have any information about whether the probabilities of items or rarities are constant or not.

If some buyer was willing to risk losing the best drops out of a batch of Ultras, they could compare fresh and old ones and see if there was a significant difference, but as of yet I haven't seen anyone attempt that.

Edited June 21, 2021 by kydapoot

[Spy 14,687]

Answered, closed.