Battle-casual punished by XP changes
EA,
I am a Phantom Edition owner, and bought the game to play with my friends. I am also 57yrs old and no longer have the "try hard" "sweat chad" reflexes of the live server crowds. I was thoroughly enjoying my time playing on the community servers playing with Bot + Human composition teams.
I want to host my own server for when we all get together, and have more than 4 of us playing at once.
The pacing was far less hectic, and I wasn't insta killed every two seconds, and felt like I could contribute to the battle.
Now with Bot servers only providing "Completion Bonus" I am being punished and forced to go play on the live "try hard" servers. Too be honest, that kills the game for me.
Suggestion:
Keep live servers with *improved XP changes"
Keep Bot servers with "Original XP" this way we can at least progress our challenges, and continue with progression. The more efficient method of progressing, and earning XP is to go live -vs- community bot servers. This would reduce the overall incidences of bot farm servers.
To combat BOT enabled servers clogging up server space. Make rule changes for them. Only 1 per player to be hosted, only able to be hosted for 24-48hrs max (Alternately make them peer dependent *only allowed to run while the owner is connected and playing).
Also can we get a harder difficulty / smarter bot?
Respectfully,
I ain't as young as I used to be, and don't want to be "try hard".
IDUnknown