I feel that XP should be reenabled on Portal, due to the fact it is an advertised part of the game and progression is a major part of Battlefield 2042, and game modes should have some form of reward system. I would say enable half of the XP(as in half the XP earned from a proper multiplayer match)to hinder a large amount of XP farms from popping up.
No, cause Stat Padding
Progression is for the "Primary" game mode. Not for make your own rules modes.
There is no "primary" game mode.
BF2042 has three equal valued game modes, AOW, Portal and HZ.
But this XP-farm exploiting had to be stopped, so they did right to disable XP in portal.
Thanks to those players exploiting in video games.
I guess they are working on a way to balance it in a new way so they can enable it again, without having the XP-farm issues.
Maybe they could implement something like "diminished return", so if you e.g. kill a set amount of enemies in a short time, they give lesser and lesser XP.
But they LEGIT made a selling point saying you gain progression no matter what you play (solo/coop, portal, etc.) A major reason why MANY people bought the game.
Totally agree with doing something about the XP Farm nonsense
Weird that they didn't anticipate that, they should learn from bf2 that people will be stat-padding
i remember the servers on bf2 with people just sitting in tanks for hours or burning cars to get heals haha
Portal ... Can change game rules, weapons, factions etc and so forth.
AOW (Conquest, Break Through)... No modifications allowed.
Hazard Zone... No modifications allowed.
Thus Primary GM's are AOW and HZ.
Its temporarily disabled so they can do something against exploiting.
So thats no breaking their promise that you progress in all modes.
Like I said, thank those players that have to cheat their way to progress instead of playing the game and having fun the way its meant to be.
Its the same people that post "first" under YT videos. No one cares, but they think they achive something.
Easy... No XP against Bots... problem solved
Who said that modifications are the measurement if something is a "primary game mode"?
Thats so stupid. Its a primary game mode, that exist for modification.
There is no reason to sort those modes by any meaning.
@Rev0verDrive wrote:No, cause Stat Padding
Progression is for the "Primary" game mode. Not for make your own rules modes.
They need to find ways to mitigate the "stat padding", not penalize all other Portal players for this problem. As others said, it was a big selling point for BF2042 that no matter what mode of the game you play, progression carries over. Portal is just as much a part of BF2042 as Hazard Zone, AOW, etc.
DICE already has access to all the information they need to seek out and identify those who are progressing at extraordinary rates. Now they just need controls in place to help eliminate those who are exploiting the mode for this purpose. .....e.g. throttling of progression in suspicious cases, partial or full resets of progress for obvious infractions and bans for the more flagrant among them.
The problem is Identifying an event that's considered padding....Without False Positives. You might think that's easy to do but it isn't.
Personally I don't think progression or xp in any regard should be gained/awarded for custom games.
