Reenable XP on Portal
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 ...
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No, cause Stat Padding
Progression is for the "Primary" game mode. Not for make your own rules modes.
@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.
@Rev0verDrive wrote: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.
.....and I don't think it's as hard as you think it is.
DICE has all the information they need and whether it's XP caps based on time / amount, instances of rapid progression, etc., etc., there are ways that they can at least flag unusual scenarios for either an automated action and/or review. Perhaps that auto action is shutting off progression at a certain point (capping) and allowing a cool off period. ......or maybe resetting progression gained in a suspicious scenario back to where it was before the player started. For those really obvious offenses, perhaps full resets of progression or a ban.
It wouldn't be difficult to at least set up progression thresholds for a given period of time played that could trigger these caps, warnings, resets, etc.
I would think its pretty easy to flag reviews i.e.
XP Farmer
Mode Mins Experience Gained Kills XP per Min % Playtime Adjusted Playtime/XP Gained AOW PVP 600 10,000.00 200 16.67 0.722891566 23.06 AOW PVE 0 - - 0 - Portal PVP 200 3,500.00 70 17.50 0.240963855 72.63 Portal PVE 30 30,000.00 600 1,000.00 0.036144578 27,666.67 A simple BOT could farm this data from their servers - set a threshold of lets say 1,000 XP Per min/%Playtime the stats won't lie after a certain amount of mins have been clocked.
I don't have my actual stats but something like the below:
Mode Mins Experience Gained Kills XP per Min % Playtime Adjusted Playtime/XP Gained AOW PVP 30 100.00 2 3.33 0.036144578 92.22 AOW PVE 500 15,000.00 300 30.00 0.602409639 49.80 Portal PVP 30 150.00 3 5.00 0.036144578 138.33 Portal PVE 100 3,500.00 70 35.00 0.120481928 290.50
The damage has already been done by this point. When I get into a game with a level 18 with 3 tier 1 badges it’s it is easy to immediately assume they boosted somehow. Xp farm or just flat out cheating. I lean toward xp farmer. Why would I want to play against or with them.
The least they can do is open up the solo/co op AoW xp. When the portal thing happened they freaked out and adjusted xp gain all over the board except in MP.
@bgp2332 wrote:The damage has already been done by this point. When I get into a game with a level 18 with 3 tier 1 badges it’s it is easy to immediately assume they boosted somehow. Xp farm or just flat out cheating. I lean toward xp farmer. Why would I want to play against or with them.
The least they can do is open up the solo/co op AoW xp. When the portal thing happened they freaked out and adjusted xp gain all over the board except in MP.Agreed total panic stations, I would have thought that warnings with reset and perma bans would have been the solution not screwing over HC & Solo/Co-op players, as the warnings/reset/ban seems to work in other Online FPS's.
There no reason to "throttle" anyone. They bought the game thinking they could play it how they want. If they want to boost, who cares? No one is making you do it. Dont tell other people how to play their game.
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