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EA_Atic

DICE Team

7 years ago

Re: Progressions thru battle pass is too slow!!!

Comment from one of the Respawn devs on reddit for the time it takes to max out the Battle pass.

The battle pass takes approximately ~100 hours if you use the bonuses and get a few kills here and there. Which is a little over 1 hour of in game time per day.
For the average player leveraging BP bonuses, leveling Battle Pass 1-100 is faster than Player Level 1-100 by ~25ish hours.
You get 6XP/sec for surviving if you have the character bonus going, so that’s 1.3 hours / level if you do literally nothing in the match but live and never do a point of damage ever.
The minimum Battle Pass XP you can get from a 20 minute game (assuming you get the character bonus) is 7,200 XP (6/sec *60 * 20min). That assumes you do zero damage, don't top 3, don't play with friends, etc.

/Atic

4 Replies

Karsot
7 years ago
@EA_Atic"If you use the bonuses" So in other words you have to be running premade parties for every single game you play and get kills to get the max possible xp. Also Playing different characters to get the extra bonus. Yeah still a bad offer still takes long to level up and still not achievable for the majority of the people. Did at any point cross the minds of the devs to look how many people run a full premade team vs how many people queue solo or with just 1 friend? I guess not.
Sati_Sati
7 years ago
@EA_Atic
Thanks!
I have read the dev comment and, yeah, I think it is too slow.
People who bought the Battle Pass need to grind ~100hours(or More?).
Oh, come on. 🤔
I don't think it is a good idea.
Also I noticed that the Weekly Bonus XP for BP has a limit (25,000 for each Legend).
It is helpful, for sure, but not enough IMO.
AyothaKAT
7 years ago
Man, those devs said nothing besides "Yeah it's slow, we like money"
Funny no comment on it's lack of quality as well
MjNaise
7 years ago
It´s realy lacking for the amount of time you need to invest into it.
I regret i bought it and since it seems they wont change anything on the XP rate for it i will never buy one again.
The battlepass in its current state is only worth for people who play a lot like succesfull streamers.... and this is a bad decision from their marketing since no casual will ever complete it.
A battlepass should "ALLWAYS" be target at the majority of the playerbase, which are 99% casuals who only play every now and then some rounds and still should be able to complete atleast 75%.
This way a lot more will get sold .... = more earning for EA.
Take Fortnite for an example... first battlepass it was near to imposible to complete unless you played 8 hours a day (that´s why they later gave all players free levels for the new battlepass)
Nowadays most players can get atleast to 75% while only a handfull with more freetime will complete it.
This way it´s worth it even when only completing a part of it.
In Apex it´s only worth it if you get to max level... and that wont be the case if nothing gets changed ASAP.