Our chief Admin Chandrian took some time to write down his thoughts on one of the most controversial topics in Survarium. Below you can read his article.
I believe that the game's Premium items don't give an advantage over users who are choosing not to pay. The system doesn't force you to pay to be competitive. Every Premium item has a free counterpart with identical stats and is available as a reward in Treasure Hunt.
The Premium weapons come with an exclusive camouflage, 3 modifiers added to them (which the free users can have too), modules (that free users can win in matches, craft or buy with gold) and around +25% Silver/Exp/Reputation gain.
Premium equipment can also be obtained as loot drops by playing the PvE game mode on Hard difficulty.
You get weapon modules for every PvP win and no module is exclusive to real money currency. Modules can be added for free. They can also be removed for free, but remain linked to the weapon you installed them on, or you can un-link them with gold.
You can also craft weapon modules by using Spare Parts, cost ranges from 100 to 200.
Treasure Hunt works by using Stash maps, and gives preference to temporary stash maps over the permanent ones.
- You can get two temporary ones every week at a 20% chance for each PvP match you play. They'll be marked inside the brackets in the Treasure Hunt window.
- You can also get permanent Stash maps that you can store for a higher chance at winning the Ultra-rare weapon in Treasure Hunt. They'll be marked outside of the brackets.
You can get these permanent Stash maps for completing Daily Quests or playing PvE missions on Medium (0.5% chance for each collected cache) or Hard difficulty (1% chance for each collected cache).
There is also a thing called Premium Account. It adds +50% Silver, Reputation, Experience and Spare parts and +90 presets.
Free players can receive vouchers to activate such an account in the seasonal events, Daily Quests, Treasure Hunt or for daily logins.
There is Gold currency in the game that you can use to upgrade your weapons or to buy Premium items. You can get 20 gold on 7th daily login. This might seem like a small amount, but it can be used for the occasional 100% chance upgrade for modules, Premium weapon lottery and more.
There is Premium ammo. One box can be applied to main weapons or pistols and will last for 1 match. Each box has a price of 10 gold or can be won in matches or PvE; in matches a certain score threshold is required to get the best generation, but you can get more than 1 box per match. These ammo boxes do not increase the damage of the weapon or the rate of fire. Instead, they can increase muzzle velocity (so bullets will reach the target faster), material penetration (so you will be able to deal damage or more damage if the enemy is behind an object), effective distance (so the reduced damage multiplier will be applied farther away) or bleed chance. Veteran players tend to use them in Leagues.
Premium ammo shown in the screenshot above is worth 10 gold
There are Silver and Gold boosters, all of them last for one match when activated.
- Silver boosters improve character stats like hp regeneration, re-spawn time, scope sway or movement speed.
- Gold boosters increase Experience, Silver and Reputation gained. But even these can be acquired in Team Missions, Daily Quests, Treasure Hunt or for daily logins.
Modules have different rarities, raging from Factory (green) to Master-craft (purple). There are Premium “Special” rarity modules that share their stats with Military rarity (red), except for cosmetic changes like the color option on collimators, which for free users is available with Master-craft rarity (purple). It's worth noting that Master-craft rarity cannot be purchased directly even if you spend Gold, it needs to be crafted. A Factory rarity module can have a very good positive stat, but its negative stat might be worse; a Military rarity module can have a poor positive stat, but its negative stat will be almost non-existent.
