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UP_Hawxxeye's avatar
2 months ago

The current XP progression rate is the disease. Farming is just the symptom

So we have the portal server quota full, just like 2042 in the last weeks.

What is common here?

You have had people do a grind and a lot of people decided that they do not like how long it takes so they have tried to level the classes and weapons faster via portal servers where the bots are generaly easier to take out than players.
These servers can be more or less separated into two categories: The Official rule tag verified experiences that work mostly like normal matchmade servers and those servers which are adjusted specifically for more efficient bot kill farming.

So far what you seem to have done is to make the bot kills give a lot less XP than player kills.

This sounds great on surface but when you think about it, this means that you have made the more normal servers even less efficient and increased the incentive for people to do their darnedest to farm even more efficiently in some servers like those that allow only 1 player inside to farm 62 bots. So there will be even more 1 player servers right now.

What do I propose? I think you need to understand that the farming servers are the "shadow in the cave wall" so to speak. They the silhouettes cast by the glaring issue that is your horrendous XP grind for everything. 
What you need to go is to MASSIVELY reduce the XP needed to unlock everything that is a gameplay unlock instead of a cosmetic/accolades for bragging rights. This will make it so people will either prefer to be more efficient and fight players or that they will be done much faster with their farming servers and there will be less people who want a farming server.

You might want to also bring back the Solo mode from 2042 for the sake of those who just want to grind gun unlocks without players in their way or who just want to PvE.

PS: If all fails please understand that you have a much larger player base than usual and you should be having many more servers for portal or let us rent extra servers

15 Replies

  • Loyd-UA's avatar
    Loyd-UA
    New Traveler
    2 months ago

    There is a way, just play Breakthrough training with bots. I found out that it is good XP farm, just leave battle when "hardcore" papa comes to spray to win in CoD style. They actually easy to spot as they come with level 50+ and unlocked meta weapons from farm to win Portal.

  • UP_Hawxxeye's avatar
    UP_Hawxxeye
    Legend
    2 months ago
    R1ckyDaMan19 wrote:

    It sounds like your lack of patience is the problem.

    I stayed with 2042 till the end. That makes me more patient than most people.

    I can be patient in a solo PvE game where there are no other people to compete with who may have the advantage purely because of having more unlocks. Was particularly bad with jets in some older BF games where you may have had a barebones jet while the other guy has missiles and advanced countermeasures.

    If you are happy with giving a handicap to the enemy, be my guest. I do not.

  • MassofBiscuits's avatar
    MassofBiscuits
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 months ago

    In Battlefield 2 did you have to get to rank 21 in order to unlock your basic kit?

    The biggest problem isn't the grind, it's that you HAVE to grind in order to unlock base game comtent. As a Battlefield fan since Bad Company, casuals shouldn't have to put in 100 hours to unlock their basic kits that have been in the franchise for over a decade. That's for accolades.

  • For me personally I don't mind grinding but even with my awful skill set I feel like actually gaining exp is so difficult, I hope they can find a nice balance with all excitement. Currently maxed servers with 1 player per server is frustrating.

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