As a fellow PvE player, I cannot agree more!
I would rather have reduced progression with the AI, than having it outright removed. I bought the game, based solely on the fact I would be able to play against AI either solo or co-op with friends & still earn progression.
They say it's temporary. I sure as hell hope so.
The change is temporary. They announced it on Twitter several hours ago:
XP awards on custom Battlefield Portal Servers are temporarily disabled
XP awards for Solo/Co-Op Experiences have been lowered in All-Out Warfare
XP awards in All-Out Warfare MP are unaffected
These changes are temporary measures which will remain in place to restrict the creation of XP Farming servers in Battlefield Portal.We are performing a restart of all Portal servers to apply these changes XP remains active on Classic Portal Experiences and VIP Fiesta
The 'community' strikes again!
There is a entire PVE audience that doesnt want to bother with multiplayer. These people spent upwards of 100usd to have early access. Every hour you arent returning normal XP and Unlocking of attachments for guns and vehicles to Solo/Coop vs AI is a slap in the face for those people. We paid almost double to have early access and start grinding and now we cant.
They figured out what they did...
@MagenZion wrote:
@Kean_1111It's such a weird choice. If they were so annoyed about how badly people were abusing Portal to rapidly grind XP with hardcore settings why not just temporarily disable the hardcore settings or make it so tweaking certain settings removes progression and full XP. Certainly shouldn't take as long as it has to do this.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by the hardcore settings in Portal but IMO, no, there shouldn't be any limitations based on your choices in creating Portal Experiences as that completely defeats the purpose of how the progression was marketed. They could however cap the progression so that it stops (like they did now) but within reasonable limits over a give period of time. .....by hour(s), a day, etc.
They have put caps on solo and coop but it's way too extreme IMO. ....unreasonable. It's worse in Portal because you can't even level up in Mastery to unlock 2042 items. You are forced to play solo / coop or in PvP matches. The restriction especially sucks for those that can only play once in a while. They can't devote several hours to grinding for unlocks but have to wait for the very short cap to lift again. I get capped in one match of solo. .....and I don't find it that easy to be honest.
They can allow progression but also keep people from exploiting Portal to unfairly gain XP / progression. The fact that they didn't have any sort of safeguard in place that worked to begin with (when they said they did) is what I can't understand.
