Well, thats a risk ofc but I just base it on my experience and I almost never get raged by good players, only by bad. Its very rare that some guy who does 3-4k dmg when you only have 1500 rages at you.
But it might actually be more due to the fact that I mostly play ranked either premade 3-man squad or solo ranked. In the 3-man premade, you will ofc not get raged on but as a solo, perhaps its just a duos defense mechanism to blame their fails on the stranger (to minimze strain on their friendship etc). Always a bit funny when you get hard flamed by a premade duo who did 50+150 dmg when you sit on 800 when they died. =)
But I disagree that it generally wont help make better decisions. IMO, more information is better (unless it clutters which a small dmg dealt number next to the name wont do). Ofc there are some players who just are to stupid to use this information as something positive but those players will make stupid decisions also without that information so I think there will be a "net positive".
@Balladalidila If this is what the Apex community wants then I'm not against it. It personally screws me over because of how passive I am but I won't stand against idea that has no real flaws to it. I just know it won't decrease the overall level of toxicity just redirect it.
As for this helping players make better decisions... it certainly can. I honestly just have no faith in the Apex/Online community.
Had to delete a lot of my message since it started to be more of a rant, my bad. In favor of your idea just don't be shocked when the toxicity remains or gets even worse.
This information is most likely hidden to stop toxicity from happening. If someone has 1200 damage and one teammate has 20 then there will be some issues brought up in coms. (My speculation mind you) It is in arenas most likely due to the games do not last long and there are fewer variables to consider when it comes to why someone does not have a lot of damage. So I am sure one reason is to prevent some bad issues with dogging players.
Yeah I agree. Its probably Respawns intentions that hiding dmg dealt will reduce toxicity. I guess I just think it would be an interesting experiment to see if this was a correct assessment from Respawn or if reavling dmg dealt would actually reduce toxicity for the reasons I mentioned which are:
1) Its rarely the good players that rages but usually the bad, in my experience especially premade duos towards solo randoms.
2) the ragers who feel the need to flame might instead shup up if they see that the player they want to flame have significantly more dmg dealt. Perhaps they will start to realize that they are the problem and not their randoms.
Bumping my own thread but I though of another reason this would be a good idea. It would put pressure on people to not be loot goblins who shamelessly loot all enemies after a fight when they did nothing to win that fight.
Just came out of a game. A random teammate got pushed by one enemy. I rushed to his aid and downed that guy. Then I fought a second enemy and downed him too but immediately got shot by the third and last enemy on semi long range. Faught him for a while and cracked him but he got me to literally 10 hp so I jumped off a bridge and started to heal. Meanwhile, one of my randoms finished the third guy. Guess how much of the loot I got from that fight that I literally 1v3ed? NOTHING. Because when I had to slow heal my now evoed purple armor and health with cells and syrignes. They ran around with full health (since they did squat in that fight) and looted everything.
And during the next enemy encountered we died pretty fast.. And just as I suspected: I had 800 dmg, they 150+ 200 where 100 each was from executes on my downed enemies.... IF I had known this after the fight, and more importantly, if THEY had known that I knew how I hard carried that fight. Then they might act more "honorable"
Bottom line; current dmg dealt is the truth. No reason at all to hide this information away.
