Stat Board ruins the game
is it me, or are people more concerned with where they are on the stat board, then they are with winning the game, helping someone on their team. Forget the board doesnt tell the whole story ...
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Stat boards seem to affect the younger players more due to peer pressure, but less so with older players from my experience. That said, stat boards do have an impact on how the game is played, but not as much IMHO as having season pass challenges.
Season pass challenges can really screw up the online experience, as players simply attempt one single task for hours on end and don't play the objectives, etc. Dice knows this, and tries to balance challenges to get players to revive, etc...but it still is net negative for the objectives and team work in general.
The funny thing about stats is I did notice that my Boris has decent K/D but my Sundance was 3x the K/D ratio as she use to toss "nuke grenades" for muli-kills, but Boris has a pea shooting spotter thingee now.
K/D is meaningless with so many BF classes...it really is only good indicator of skill versus skill in a game like Halo where everyone starts with the same character, same guns, and it comes down to reaction time and tactics. I've had multiple 130-150 kill games in the stealth heli, and hit 205 once in a near all bot online server...which makes my K/D way higher than my actual ground based skill rating should be...is that a fair K/D indicator???
BF 2042 is too chaotic and varied for K/D to have much meaning...unless playing a smaller ground only mode like hardcore TDM/Rush...
If they brought the scoreboard back to what Battlefield games were originally scored with EXP, it would improve the situation.
As previously you could be best at many different roles in the game creating team work and be at the top.
Kills, heals, ammo, revives, flag caps, partial flag caps, flag defends, vehicles kills, spotting.
You name the role, you were rewarded for it in both BF1 and BFV and it worked quite well.
You wanted to be a healer, be the best healer you could be and revive everyone and heal them with not one kill, and you would get high on the scoreboard as you helped your team actually win the game.
@Zebriz wrote:If they brought the scoreboard back to what Battlefield games were originally scored with EXP, it would improve the situation.
As previously you could be best at many different roles in the game creating team work and be at the top.
Kills, heals, ammo, revives, flag caps, partial flag caps, flag defends, vehicles kills, spotting.
You name the role, you were rewarded for it in both BF1 and BFV and it worked quite well.
You wanted to be a healer, be the best healer you could be and revive everyone and heal them with not one kill, and you would get high on the scoreboard as you helped your team actually win the game.
100% this, good post.👍
