Couldn't agree more. Feel like EA haven't thought this through at all when other games offer a solo coop experience. Been a massive bf fan since bf1942 & now I'm loosing faith fast.
Would have been nice to know the dumbing down or completely removing xp from those modes while in game at the time.
They got the “dozer” shield thing on the main menu. I saw that in game often, but not one word about the xp in portal. Like keeping it a secret or something. I mean realistically if I knew I wasn’t going to get full xp or any at all I definitely would not have even played the mode those first few hours.
If they had initially said when showcasing the mode there would be all these cool things we could do in Portal but it was just for fun and no xp would be ever given then that part of the game would have been DOA. Yeah people would have played it a few times for practice or a nostalgic hit but that would have been about it.
EA/DICE made such a big deal out of this mode and couldn’t foresee human nature or scumbaggery could turn servers into xp farms really is kind of weird and shortsighted. And then to just kind of mention it on twitter or reddit as a “oh by the way…”
This may be a controversial opinion but I'm masochistic so I'm going to pay it anyway.
Remove the XP Farm servers and reset the progress of the people that were in them. It isn't difficult. If you really want to take a firm stance on stuff like this, don't ruin it for everyone else, send a message plain and clear. If you were grinding unfairly for a large chunk of your levels, you're now back at 0. It's fair, it's honest and although it's controversial, I doubt anyone would disagree with me. At least, the people that aren't on those servers wouldn't.
I've said a lot about this in other threads so nothing new to add here, except add my voice to the list.
I'm only interested in this game because of the solo mode, not interested in being farmed by sweats, and still haven't gone into MP even out of curiosity.
I personally don't mind if they kept any unlocks in solo mode just in solo mode, but I don't talk for anyone else. I just want to unlock EVERYTHING that MP players can. I paid just as much.
Increase the difficulty of bots, more kills of bots whatever, just fix it.
I agree with that. Let the exploiters pay the price.
Last night (on the 16th) I got tired of getting melted by level 60's, so decided to try coop-conquest with bots. I saw that I was earning XP and unlocking attachments. Started as level 15 and ended the evening at level 19. However mastery unlocks are not working, but at least I got a couple upgrades on my tanks and helis (impossible to get a heli in a match otherwise) and got a couple of AR attachments. I'm sure it's still gimped, because the end or round scoring is not counting any of the "special" objectives even though I know I did them.
Is this what it was like on day one? Or did they stop all unlocks and quietly turned partial XP back on? I also got a message that "Limit Reached" when it was counting XP after my last round. I'm still level 19 but almost level 20. It seems you can only rank up to level 20 (which is fine because I can get the scout heli then.)
Multiplayer is just not fun at all. I can't devote 18hrs a day to play this game. (job, family, life) so can only play 2 hours a night and going up against level 60's (I was going up against level 20's on day one) is frustrating. I keep spawning in front of all these SMG * every single time unless I spawn at base, and it never fails. I feel like I suck, even though I do ok on COD (I know, it's not the same) It's also impossible to get any worthwhile vehicles because the sweattards are hogging them all round going 60-0
Anyhow, seems like COOP/AI play will partially unlock and rank up things, at least enough to get you some weapons and unlocks so you can get melted later but at least you're dying with some attachments 🙂
@KineticYeetSquadDay 1 on Friday, till about half way through the day, solo / co op mode was working just like multiplayer.
You could get full xp (I think),
ribbons,
unlock all attachments from mastery kills and challenges,
get specialist skins from kills / challenges including the mastery tier 1 skin
the 30 kills carbon weapon camo
the tier 1 mastery weapon camo
and whatever else you can unlock from mp.
Now, they've reduced the xp to a dribble, and the only unlocks you can get are the first 1 or 2 from non mastery normal kills. After that, theres no progress at all, for anything.
What I`m asking myself:
Who the * is disturbed by XP Farmers? Who the * cares if people unlock everything in 2 day`s?
If thats really an issue the whole progression system is * - Like People who are invest more time into the game get the better equipment?
Clearly that should and hopefully is not the problem.
What is the issue for us players with XP farms? Please tell me!
I know only one thing:
I could not care less about XP farmers but I care that I cant get XP for playing my kind of Battlefield Experience (as promissed).
The performance on AOW is horrible, i can atm enjoy only portal servers.
People who whine that unlocks shouldn't happen for solo mode and be used in mp can go do one.
NO ONE who plays CoD cries that guns and attachments are unlockable in zombies, it makes absolutely no difference to the game or its players, and it doesn't here. Not that I'm going to grace your toxic cesspool of a mp here anyway.
Anyway, I find it reaaaally strange how this is arguably, nah scratch that, IS the biggest broken issue in this game right now, and no games websites or channels or anything is even mentioning it. They've just mentioned the portal stuff.
It's like there's some weird conspiracy to try and cover up it ever was and was intended to be in the game in the first place.
@c4m3lI mean I can see why they would do it.
If people can go to solo and unlock everything in no time, and then come back to multiplayer and own because they have all the weapons and all the attachments and there's no way people who play multi would be able to rank up at the same speed.
It would give a huge advantage to anyone who level up using Solo/Coop.
A few weeks from now most people will likely be at close tomax level though, so Im sure they'll enable Solo EXP eventually
