[solved] A perfect example of an ill-conceived Battlepass mission

I have a leftover from another week.

It involves getting 6 objective + logistics ribbons within a round.

Because there is a limit of 3 ribbons one can get in a round one has to do both objective capturing and healing/resupplying the living daylights out of the team.

The logistics part reasonable since there is always people with injuries or spent ammo.

But the objective ribbons.... You are at the mercy of the performance of the team. If your team is too good you will have trouble finding objectives that can be captured and if it it too bad you will have trouble capturing any objectives at all. Either way one team will run out of tickets before your third objective ribbon (often annoyingly close to getting the third one)

So right now one has to feel lucky that they will either end up in a round with evenly matched teams so the round drags on or a full progression portal server with very very inflated ticket counts as well as enough people to run the server...

BFV has set a precedent about how bad any missions that need to be done within a round or a life can be. Please consider more carefully how reasonable such tasks are in practice.

PS: Perhaps there is an alternative way to getting objective ribbons with lots of offense or defense kills but I believe the slippery slope issue with the "in a round" and "in a life" objectives still stands

discussion

kregora
3 years ago
@Ironhead841 No he is talking about week #9 👿 battlepass points "Objective and Logistics Ribbons earned in a Round 0/6"
Logistics and Objective play doesn't work well for my play style. It is usually either, or.
So I did it with Falck and an ammo crate attacking objectives in Breakthrough.
But yes, objective ribbons depend on your team willing to help with an objective, or a weak opposing team not interested in an objective, but still slowing your team down.

A 6min match on Orbital Breakthrough most likely gives no one 3 objective ribbons in either team.

18 Replies

Ironhead841
Hero
3 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye
Are you talking about the week #10 mission? Because that one is Logisitics and Combat ribbons not objectives.
Boro666pl
Rising Traveler
3 years ago
Yea, it wasn't the easiest one considering how bad teams are usually, but that's the game. BF is an objective based game. If you want just to shoot, go play Call of Duty. Getting objective ribbons is not that hard, if you, again, play objectives. Not only camp or run and gun like an insane person. I've took many flags by myself with no problem.
kregora
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Ironhead841 No he is talking about week #9 👿 battlepass points "Objective and Logistics Ribbons earned in a Round 0/6"
Logistics and Objective play doesn't work well for my play style. It is usually either, or.
So I did it with Falck and an ammo crate attacking objectives in Breakthrough.
But yes, objective ribbons depend on your team willing to help with an objective, or a weak opposing team not interested in an objective, but still slowing your team down.

A 6min match on Orbital Breakthrough most likely gives no one 3 objective ribbons in either team.
Ironhead841
Hero
3 years ago
@kregora
Ahh gotcha, I don't recall that one being too hard?
I don't know, maybe I just don't remember doing it, lol.
UP_Hawxxeye
Legend
3 years ago
@Boro666pl wrote:
Yea, it wasn't the easiest one considering how bad teams are usually, but that's the game. BF is an objective based game. If you want just to shoot, go play Call of Duty. Getting objective ribbons is not that hard, if you, again, play objectives. Not only camp or run and gun like an insane person. I've took many flags by myself with no problem.
I dare say that I am one of the most objective focused players out there, willing to take many deaths to just nail that objective which we need.
That still does not make me able to able to control how much the rest of the team focuses on that ☹️ .
UP_Hawxxeye
Legend
3 years ago
@kregora turns out Breakthrough was better than Conquest for this. Who would had though
Boro666pl
Rising Traveler
3 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye wrote:
@Boro666pl wrote:
Yea, it wasn't the easiest one considering how bad teams are usually, but that's the game. BF is an objective based game. If you want just to shoot, go play Call of Duty. Getting objective ribbons is not that hard, if you, again, play objectives. Not only camp or run and gun like an insane person. I've took many flags by myself with no problem.
I dare say that I am one of the most objective focused players out there, willing to take many deaths to just nail that objective which we need.
That still does not make me able to able to control how much the rest of the team focuses on that ☹️ .
Of course, but still all you need is to take or hold some. Even if you loose them after like 60 seconds you will be awarded anyway. Drive around some, hold few flags for some time and you will get those objective riboons. Drop ammo box in one of those places where people go nuts with CQB, and points will flow for that support one 🙂
SleepyWeasel68
3 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye You got to put in some over time. I ran Angel with a med pack on Breakthrough. I just dropped the med pack and the ammo at the choke points, and was a reviving demon. This worked on taking and defending objectives.
ATFGunr
Legend
3 years ago
@UP_Hawxxeye I’m a little late to the thread, but I wanted to add to throw ammo, not meds. Players don’t care so much for meds as we can self heal, but they will run a mile for ammo! Just ammo and defend a point. Defending counts towards objective ribbons as does pushing. You’ll pull extra logistics if you’re Falk and revive too. One round of Stranded was all out took. I had to work a little harder than I usually do lol but it’s doable.
DaMutha1
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
This is literally the only weekly mission from the first two seasons that was even remotely challenging. Let's not write a treatise on how unfair it is. It takes about an hour of effort, maybe.