Why promoting camping
i always saw this game as a kill or get killed game, like Quake, that's what i love about it, very intense fights, but now on plat, everyone is just camping because of those points you get from top 1...
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@NNeil6991 Im not going to say you're wrong because we just don't know but I would like to think that's not the case. I think this is more of an unexpected outcome of the RP points system.
Within reason why wouldn't you provide some sort of bonus for surviving longer? Top 10, top 5 etc. The developers weren't to know it would swing so far this way. Similarly like you wouldn't have thought people would camp in Apex elite, but they did.
Moving forward I do hope the team are indeed looking into this but unless there is an obvious solution it will stay as it is. Obviously lots of solutions are being thrown around and it has probably been mentioned before but why not instead of giving RP for placement if they give RP dependent on the XP gained from the match (minus the kills of course)?
I'm sure some kind of calculation can be formulated to reward RP based on the XP gained which looks at all manor of gameplay: damage, revive, respawn, time survived, kill leader but leave off kills (already rewarded separately) playing with friends and killed champion (is a lottery really).
Within reason why wouldn't you provide some sort of bonus for surviving longer? Top 10, top 5 etc. The developers weren't to know it would swing so far this way. Similarly like you wouldn't have thought people would camp in Apex elite, but they did.
Moving forward I do hope the team are indeed looking into this but unless there is an obvious solution it will stay as it is. Obviously lots of solutions are being thrown around and it has probably been mentioned before but why not instead of giving RP for placement if they give RP dependent on the XP gained from the match (minus the kills of course)?
I'm sure some kind of calculation can be formulated to reward RP based on the XP gained which looks at all manor of gameplay: damage, revive, respawn, time survived, kill leader but leave off kills (already rewarded separately) playing with friends and killed champion (is a lottery really).
@WHITEyy6969
I believe all the changes were intended to produce an environment promoting camping, and the use of characters such as Caustic, Gibraltar, and Watson.
With the ranked system taking into account placements, camping is definitely the outcome desired.
I believe that in ranked damage should be rewarded instead of placements and kills.
- @Vdstrk While you make a valid point and that it does make sense I still have to disagree. Doesn't mean to say you're wrong though.
In regards to rewarding RP on placement, it's a BR. Why wouldn't you? The idea is to survive the longest.
As for rewarding damage this has been discussed on multiple threads and I side with those that say it's too easy to farm damage and will go totally the opposite way and even before the first ring half of the server will be dead.@WHITEyy6969
Sure, I respect your position.
I disagree with the fact that farming damage is as easy as farming kills. I often enough see people with a few kills and maybe 150/200 max damage. How? Easy. They wait for their team mates to either reload, or for them to heal and jump in preying on the player weakened and score a kill. They are kill stealers specializing in just doing that.
To answer your question about why not rewarding placements? I have a better question, why rewarding them?
More specifically, because it is a BR, the goal is to be THE last surviving team. Everyone else won't matter at the end.
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