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Re: Respawn check in

@Lowigi wrote:
About the "piggy-backing": I had never heard about this until now and I don't really understand what it is and how it is a cheat? As I read your explanation, it is one of the 3 players that tells his teammates where they can find the better loot, or is it something else?

No, piggy backing is basically being carried... almost literally. Say for instance you are the mvp of your team. You have 11 kills 1500dmg, other teammate has 2 kills 300 dmg. Last guy has 28 dmg but has been with you the whole time.

There's almost no way that after playing for 10+ mins when someone has 1k+ dmg that another has less than 100. Either the person is SEVERELY lacking in skill, nowhere near your team or just not participating. This last thing is piggy backing. They willfully decide not to participate in the game and let their team do all the work. This can be either done by a group of friends (in which case it's not piggy backing but 'boosting' or in mmorpg terms 'plvling' since they all decided on it) or by a person in a random squad.

Hope it's clearer for you now.

I've had this happen in the past but like others saying here, there are more prevalent things that need adressing instead of this imo, but good to see an update coming out nontheless

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Flashshark1980
6 years ago
about "piggy-backing":
@Koochi-Q wrote:

No, piggy backing is basically being carried... almost literally. Say for instance you are the mvp of your team. You have 11 kills 1500dmg, other teammate has 2 kills 300 dmg. Last guy has 28 dmg but has been with you the whole time

There's almost no way that after playing for 10+ mins when someone has 1k+ dmg that another has less than 100. Either the person is SEVERELY lacking in skill, nowhere near your team or just not participating.
"Last guy has 28 dmg but has been with you the whole time." = THATS ME!! 🤐
Yes, my aiming is pretty bad and I try hard to get that 28 damage! I am 7of 10 matches the one with least damage and kills in my team. You are right, I am severely lacking skill compared to others!
THATS WHY ME AND MANY OTHERS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR A SKILL BASED MATCHMAKING OVER MONTHS!
Not only "bad" players have asked for a new matchmaking system also "good" players have asked for it!
They don't want to "carry" bad players and loose the match due to one teammate lacking skill.
THE SOLUTION IS TO SEPERATE PLAYERS INTO DIFFERENT SKILL GROUPS!
Other games successfully introduced ranked matchmaking where you can climb up the ladder until you reach your personal limit. Most of those games offer ranked and random gamemodes at the same time.
"PIGGY-BACKING" IS JUST THE RESULT OF RANDOM MATCHMAKING COMBINED WITH SMALL SQUAD SIZES.
If the skills levels are different (and they often are) the weakest player looks like getting carried.
Often (like in my case) these players do everything a bit slower, explore more and need to look twice at loot.
That's why the other teammates leave them behind and often go into firefights 2 vs 3.
The result is this huge dfferences in damage and kills.
PLEASE DON'T PUNISH "BAD" PLAYERS FOR BEEING SLOW OR LESS SKILLED!
BETTER THINK ABOUT A SOLUTION TO MAKE THIS GAME A COOL EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE!