The goal main and ONLY goal of a BR game is to survive and be the last man/team alive. Fighting more does NOT increase chances of achieving that goal. So it makes sense to promote the correct play in ranked mode. In general getting kills, especially early game kills, should not be rewarded at all, because that goes against the idea of the whole game.
Leaving superior position to get kills outside of the zone should be punished, not rewarded. Awarding points for fighting promotes incorrect gameplay - it should NEVER be beneficial to sacrifice win% for kills. Fights should only be taken to increase chance to win (e.g., fight to take superior position, take a highly advantageous fight for loot, etc).
P.S. If everyone played correctly and aimed for just survival, it would NOT be easy to even get to top10 without being FORCED to fight. And yes, the game SHOULD be very passive overall with short bursts of intense action. This IS a survival game after all, not a deathmatch.
P.P.S. How passive the game is, is generally determined by match duration, which in essence is time to last zone. If the last zone closed within 8 minutes, the matches would be very intense (and quite random though) by necessity. Hmm, maybe a blitz mode (maybe during some timed event) would be fun for a while (would get boring fast though).
Imo if anything it should be top 10,top 3 and then champion.
Especially on ranked in which I can only assume because of the camping I am seeing many more Bloodhounds.
You can't win a game without fighting. You get a minimum of 1 fight. And that's the only fight that matters and is fun.
I just don't get ppl who come to a BR game and try to fight it all the time no matter the reason. When you play to win and only to win the fights you actually have to take have considerable weight and tension. When you fight just for the sake of fighting, you generally just die in some useless fight you should not have taken at all and your death has absolutely no meaning or value.
The beauty of BR is that everyone is free to do whatever they want. But it's good if you still understand the main idea of the genre - survival and tension built by valuing your own life. If you want a deathmatch game - there's more than 100's out there, you're free to go play them instead of trying to turn a BR game into one.
Eliminating other players should absolutely be rewarded. If anything there should be a penalty for going certain amount of time with out a kill or damage to prevent the run away and hide style of playing. minus X amount RP for every ring closure with no damage. Or minus X amount RP for making it to half the sqauds left and no damage delt. Something along those lines. This could be individual or sqaud based. So it could be if one person on the sqaud deals some damage then no one gets penalties or completely based on individual damage delt. The hide and seek style of play should only get you so far up the ranks. Soon enough you need to start performing or face an extra long grind.
If you can hide n seek your way to a win, sure, Net positive RP. But those RP returns should scale back in the higher tiers
I'm not saying that style shouldn't progress if it gets a top spot. I'm saying the returns for that style should diminish in diamond and higher tiers. Anyone can absolutely play how they want.
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