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Anonymous

8 years ago

Approved

Re: 1.08 Credit/Exp reward changes

Lol, How much credits would we actually get for joining combotastic wave 6-7 now? 1000-5000? And bronze? 100-500?

On a more serious note:

The current state of rewards is ridiculous. Ideas how to make it better:

*Implement a GIP counter on the GUI: "WAVE X CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS"/"MATCH NOT STARTED"

*Tweak the matchmaking formula to prioritize connection/region/game not in progress and let the lobbies that have DCs get screwed

*Remove "Wave 0": what is the logic to cut someone's reward if they joined mid Wave 1? Wave 1 is a J-O-K-E on any difficulty/map/enemy faction.

*Implement fixed "penalty values" for each difficulty (just an example what it could look like).:

**-300/wave on bronze : 9700 creds if you joined wave 1, 7900 creds if you joined wave 7, full extraction

**-600/wave on silver: 24 400 if you joined wave1, 20 800 if you joined wave 7, full extraction

**-1500/wave on gold: 53 500 if you joined wave1, 44 500 if you joined wave 7, full extraction

*Revert the change

I thought this game was supposed to be co-op and promote teamplay, so why the hell if i have DCs in my lobby, the players that jump in to help me finish the match are getting their rewards cut?

1 Reply

Scathane
8 years ago
To give an account how this has been playing out for me the last two days...
I often log on in the morning (I'm in Europe) and I like to do the APEX missions you can play yourself, you know: "It's still early in the morning, let's start out with bronze!"
All Bronze APEX lobbies I can find are already in progress (I find this out by jumping into the game without boosters to be on the safe side).
If I then quit the mission and start looking for another lobby, I alway get thrown back into them because the game prioritises GIPs.If I then host a lobby, it takes forever to get it filled up with other players because of that same prioritisation
If any players eventually do join the lobby, they ready up and if I don't because I want to wait for the lobby to fill, they get impatient and leave again.
This leaves me with 3 options, all of which I think are undesirable:
Solo the APEX mission in a private lobby (no fun)
Start the APEX mission myself, and have others suffer the missed out waves/score/credit/xp (no co-op/team play)
Have a Strike Team do the mission and not play it myself (no fun)
And, last but not least: if I join an APEX mission which is already in progress, the mission stays playable until I A) play it doing all 7 waves or B) send a Strike Team. ☹️