Have we had the Banger Duck as an unlock before?
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Nope. First time The Drop has gone live since the CelebrET Ducks became a thing.
In other news, it seems that IOI is skipping doing a campaign for The Drop in the IOI Creators program - first time they’ve skipped a CelebrET since its inception. Make sense though. The optics of giving away free DLCs to promote your game and make some money while laying people off isn’t great.
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So I think I’m missing something then. How do we obtain the Banger Duck?
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Same as the other celebrET ducks just complete the live et or arcade and you’ll get it added to your ioi account eventually
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Still annoyed that we don’t have the butcher outfit to go with this meat fork.
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Oh, I see. Don’t know why that didn’t click, it’s right between the ducks you get for Bruce Lee and Slim Shady. I guess because I’ve already got those and didn’t focus on them, plus we’ve had the Drop for so long now, I didn’t realize it was a duck tied to him.
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It’s got nothing to do with optics. Gabe announced on the discord that it’s because they’re all taking their vacations now, so that’s why there’s no new campaign
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Also, the roadmap doesn’t really indicate that it’s a reward for doing anything. It looks more like it’s just a duck you get for having an IOI account…
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Precisely, hence my confusion. Although, looking more closely (I didn’t zoom the image), it very clearly is dressed like the Drop, which would have been a hint for me.
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I’ll wire the money to your account! 
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Seriousely? I am done with to draws all 26 Rubber Ducks yesterday, now a new one appear? Duck 27 - From IOI with Love.
24-48h delay? Good to know.
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Mine just showed up after hitting request updates.
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Well I haven’t got mine yet but I wait
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I forgot that outfit actually existed
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The new challenge made me realize the meaty bone is fixed.
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Finally did a cross progression of my main profile, from Xbox to PC.
With some clean 0xp Lvl1 under it
I had forgotten that PC players have a bonus Featured Contract.
(in hindsight I think I remember seeing the information passing by on the forum once or twice. A competition during the H2 time I think.)
Also, good heaven the DLCs.
- I bought the limited time celebrET packs when they first came out, to assure I had them, buying Part 1 on heavy sale at the same time to open the DLC purchase.
- Added the Makeshift one when it was free a few months ago (it was a bribe for a vote in a Steam popular contest)
- Then upgraded to the Deluxe Edition around the 10th year anniversary.
- (it was on sale, and I wanted to pop the achievements on the day of the anniversary via a secondary profile cross-progression to avoid some Year 1 progression tracking bug)
It was still a hit to realize the number (8) and cumulated price on all the rest.
It’s one thing to buy one every few months, and I don’t mind with the amount of time I have in the game.
But seeing them all at once… 
I am not rebuying them right now.
Some fun Freelancer cross-progression quirks:
- if you are wearing a DLC suit in Freelancer not owned on cross-progression it is automatically replaced by the Signature Suit.
- Cosmetic Safehouse furnitures stay.
- Weapons do not transfer (obviously), but do not disappear from the original platform if you come back there, all are still present. It does make Diana say that a new weapon has been added, and pops the “new weapon
” icon on the lowest rarity one though.
update: on a second back-and-forth the weapons did disappear on the original platform. Giving me a reason to earn and spend merces I guess.
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With the new challenge, since it shows as being available to complete in The Serial Killer ET - I wonder if whatever marks NPCs as BBQ guests got put onto the target as well…
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It wasn’t until doing this challenge that I learned that the BBQ King actually leaves the grill eventually. I don’t think I’d ever listened long enough to see the full conversation between him and Cassidy.
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What was broken about it?
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