Looting Gear ! you doing it wrong !

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@Raizurhk wrote:

The game even gives more exp for surviving longer so getting kills isn’t the point.

Gun ho players tend to just die first

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The system needs to be that way or else people like you still wouldn't have reached level 2. Just kidding!

But seriously though, XP is often allocated this way regardless of a developers intentions for more than one reason. If the XP distribution weighs too heavily in favour of solo actions it breeds a culture that does not work well within teams (such as actively kill steal/caring about having your kills stolen). And as I hinted to above, lower skilled players would put the game down because they weren't getting anywhere.

As that official guy posted earlier, people have their own way of getting to the end. It's fair if some of us draw the line between looting and time-wasting differently. But I certainly wouldn't read into the level system too much. It doesn't' take long before the levels become a meaningless number, no longer giving you freebies nor affecting who you are matched with. At best it's a rough measurement of how long you have played.