You've just completely screwed over a large portion of the player base just now by turning off weapon and attachment XP in portal servers.
I don't have time to play this game all day every day. I will never be able to be on par with other players without being able to unlock attachments and weapons faster. It takes incredibly long in a normal match for casual folks like me to unlock stuff.
I am a legitimate player who plays breakthrough and conquest matches against bots. I am too old and this game is sometimes too fast for me. I just want to relax after work and kill some bots with my friends, or by myself.
Now, i can't. I'm out until this is changed. This was the last straw for me. EA just completely screwed a lot of us over.
I agree with the idea that bots shouldn't count towards the KD, that was ridiculous from the beginning (in my opinion).
I wouldn't mind if bots gave less xp either, potential for abuse is very high otherwise.
I don't care about statistics either. But I understand if other people do.
So I wouldn't mind at all, if bot-kills wouldn't be taken into any statistic at all (in fact it would make sense to me that only playerkills would count towards stats like KD, weapon statistics and stuff like that).
Weapon- and player statistics should be glanced of botkills - I'd consider this fair.
But regarding weapon xp and challenges, this game is so fast paced in public lobbys, that its simply "no fun for me" ... or at least not much.
If you don't want to get killed every 2sec, by some "ADHS Kid" running around like a headless chicken, your optins are very few.
You have to play a very specif and effective way, which is pretty "stressful" and feels pretty restricted to me and frankly ... pretty lame.
You have to use specific weapons and the according attachments. Otherwise you are just a "victim" in in a public lobby.
I like to "do my s%it in peace, play the guns I like (not necessarily the "fastkilling-op-stuff").
And thats simply not smart in a normal lobby, not to speak of getting my challenges done in a public lobby.
Not only will you get gangrÆped at every second corner you peak around, you also will be a weak-point for your team...
Both nothing I like to experience continuously - pretty much sucks all the fun out of the game.
Two examples just from the top of my head:
There is a higher probability to get hit by lighting and win the lottery simultaneously, than to get 5 (?i think) captures in one "standard public match".
Or try to get a 200m headshot ... rofl.... find out how much fun this is bringing into your life in a public lobby.
Like I said, I like to do my stuff in peace, sometimes in a team with my friends, hanging out in discord talking s%it while doing my daily and weekly stuff vs bots. Sometimes alone.
If I can't do that, because some cod-child thinks his e-pen demises, if somebody who doesn't like running around like a headless chicken all the time also gets his weapons and career leveled, this simply is not my game and I need to move on.
