It's always reflected the XP rewards in-game previously, at least that was always my understanding of how it worked. It was a reflection of ALL your actions, not just kills/assists/captures, but also suppression (which doesn't exist anymore), vehicle assists (which also don't exist anymore), resupplies, heals etc.I get that much of that information doesn't need to be tracked on a granular level on the scoreboard but...why does it seem that it isn't reflected at all? Instead we get 2 points for a kill, 1 point for an assist, 2 points for a revive, 3 points for what I assume is a full flag cap/defend. Why don't these numbers correspond with the actual XP we earn in-game? Why doesn't it give credit for partial flag assaults or partial flag defends (which you leave early since you don't need 10 people to finish capping a flag with no enemies around).Like...it took me a bit to notice this, but it makes me worried that the game/engine is fundamentally busted and that despite 3 months of work, DICE still had to essentially fake a scoreboard...

they had one job in 3 months. make a scoreboard and the still ****ed it up

@OskooI_007 Dude it's ridiculous, that score is completely irrelevant with random weights? What is the point?Maybe they could also show a completely random stat in your squad EOR screen so no one has hurt feelings when they are last in every category because they camped the entire round, but hey they had 1x Ranger kill!

Good that you braught this thread up again. For the first time I was able to realize how the scoreboard works.And now I know that I can forget asking myself how the score relates to the XP gained.

You get placeholder numbers because there wasn't any underlying score system developed for this game, just an XP system. Another crucial failing of this games design.I did my take on why this is a bad mistake in another thread and hey-presto, here are the results of its implementation.It's took 3 months to developer a few UI elements to show whilst holding down a key. What a misery the development process is for this game. When will they admit that the state of the game engine is currently utter trash?

@OskooI_007 But it was Elden Ring that had the bad UX, don't you understand the genius that is DICE's UX/UI guy?!?!

Why does the new scoreboard show fake scores?

27 Replies

OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
There's 8 columns. Place, name, score, kills, deaths, assists, revives, and captures.
Killing 1 player adds 1 kill to the kill column. The same is true for the deaths, assists, revives, and captures columns.
The score column is where EXP points are added up. Like +25 EXP for a kill.
I don't understand what the x0, x1, x2, stuff is. But as you can see FlyingSquirrel only has one flag capture despite that column having x3.
I'm guessing x3 is some kind of EXP multiplier for the score column, but that really doesn't make sense and I have no idea what the designer was thinking.
RMEChief
Legend
4 years ago
@OskooI_007 The multipliers for the columns do equal the score column. That's what Edge is saying, the score column has no relation to your actual XP.
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
I see now. Yeah that's a really weird way of scoring EXP. I guess DICE never coded anything into the server software to add up the actual EXP players earn during each match.
RMEChief
Legend
4 years ago
@edgecrusherO0 I think you are correct and I still feel like the entire game was originally centered around other game modes where only certain actions (other than kills and damage) were tracked. That's also why heals and repairs are randomly 5 XP and not based on the actual amount of healing or repairs (no mechanism in place to track).
RMEChief
Legend
4 years ago
@OskooI_007 Dude it's ridiculous, that score is completely irrelevant with random weights? What is the point?

Maybe they could also show a completely random stat in your squad EOR screen so no one has hurt feelings when they are last in every category because they camped the entire round, but hey they had 1x Ranger kill!
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
ActMan shows how the scoring system in BF2042 is dull and unexciting compared to the scoring system in BF1. There's a huge difference in the excitement level.
edgecrusherO0
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@OskooI_007 The x2/x3 are multipliers, so for each kill you get 2 points. For each flag capture you get 3 points.

It has nothing to do with the actual in-game point system that exists and it confuses me as to what purpose it serves.
edgecrusherO0
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@OskooI_007 That whole section of the video is 100% correct, and how you use game design to encourage and reward intended behaviors and squad-play.

Now, sure they don't necessarily need the UI elements to be so big or in your face as they are in BF1. But those elements mattered, and were a way the designers provided players with frequent in-game feedback in terms of when they were engaged in beneficial/intended behaviors vs. those that did not benefit them, their squad, or their team.

This in-game feedback doesn't exist in 2042 in any way, shape, or form, and IMO it's one of the major reason the game feels so weirdly "solo, and why there's so little actual squad/teamplay.

Never heard of the guy (don't YT much), but I'm enjoying it so far and will have to give the whole thing a watch.
OskooI_007
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@edgecrusherO0 wrote:
@OskooI_007The x2/x3 are multipliers, so for each kill you get 2 points. For each flag capture you get 3 points.

It has nothing to do with the actual in-game point system that exists and it confuses me as to what purpose it serves.
Good catch! I just assumed DICE was adding up EXP like they did in all previous Battlefield games. It seems obvious BF2042 was built around Hazard Zone. Conquest and Breakthrough must have got shoe horned in at the last minute because the scoring system is completely missing from Conquest and Breakthrough. It's all quite horrifying!
GebeeLAoW
4 years ago
I think it was the sheer size of 128 people that led to poor scoring and the lack of a scoreboard,It is no longer possible for 2042 to present the old scoring mechanism.All I can hope for now is new content updates, performance fixes, and patient polishing of the motion system.