Community AdminI really don't understand this change; we knew what needed to be fixed (late game camping), and we knew what we wanted to avoid changing (everything else).
How is this change at all appropriate?!?
No matter the numbers involved, the entire approach is flawed; flat increases will never properly address the issues at hand.
As a myriad of others have (and had) already suggested, ramp the damage based upon time & distance outside the ring.
Early game is largely unaffected, late game is fixed, simples!
@TheJumpingJawaIt wasn't only about late game camping though. In fact, I think it specifically was about early game, because what people were doing was camp to get into the top 5. Noone was camping to win the match. And yes, people camped inside the zone to get there. I even did it myself once just to see how much of a streak I could build up by sitting in the zone until 5 squads. The answer was 11, and the 12th broke it only because I couldn't find a med or phoenix kit in my starter zone. It was a cheesy, low skill way to reliably get top 5, and totally devaluated the streak badge because whenever you see it on a person now, they may have just camped it.
Thing is - they've 'solved' a problem that only existed because of another problem. Get rid of the elite lobby entry based on top 5 placement and there's no reason to sit in the tier1 zone. This was never a problem before and end-game zonecamping by lifelines could have been fixed by having the 3rd/4th zones do permanent health damage or exponentially more damage than the early zones.
Making the first two zones this brutal just means you can't have any lasting engagements and those early fights before everyone is purpled up to their eyeballs used to be the most hectic, with 3p after 3p.
Please revert this change. It is not a good change.
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