February 2019 - last edited February 2019
Gold and Brass were both available during the beta and I prefered brass. I think it looks more gold than gold.
So don't be upset for now. Brass is a perfectly valid replacement for gold until you get it. Gold doesn't look greatly different than brass in Anthem.
February 2019
Like the others said, Gold for metal materials is behind the 50k grind. However, just to clarify- contracts at 50 pts wouldn't be what I suggest. If you do quickplay, you're eligible for whatever loyalty points whoever's story mission would grant. I did about 10 or so quickplay missions and got about 200 pts of loyalty points on average per mission. The only downside is that its random since its quickplay so you may be working on Sentinel 50k pts but all your qp missions may be arcanists or freelancer based for a while.
Still, even if you end up doing 3 or 4 of the other faction missions you don't want- 1 good mission will still beat out grinding those contracts. Unless they're stronghold contracts, which seem semi random.
I'm also getting a couple masterwork weapons already and once you get them and complete the weapon challenges, the masterwork blueprints will unlock- regardless of if you've hit that 50k benchmark or not. Keep in mind-that only applies to that specific weapon.
Hope that helps!
February 2019
Brass can be unlocked much earlier. And its "gold-ish" looking alloy (the very reason why that alloy was invented in teh first place).
February 2019
50k loyalty points... For each faction, I've barely hit 3k on one of the factions by running everything in the game and then some.
Talk about not scaling up well, it goes from easy to no life in a couple of hours.
February 2019 - last edited February 2019
Take a look into your Challenges > Factions. You will get most of the metal "colors" by completing reputation challenges with the each faction. However, the gold require an additional challenge after that, which is much more demanding.
February 2019
February 2019
You will get a challenge for additional reputation for the factions (50k each, so 150k total) and the rewards are gold metal "color" and some masterwork component blueprints. It's a long-term goal, as there isn't quite easy to get such amount of reputation fast.
You should see those colors in the Forge when some metal surface is assigned to a javelin part, instead of a regular color of other surface types.
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