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just like fortnite seeing more and more elite players abusing default skin to look like a new player and or avoid getting targeted...very scummy tactic. Played against 6 of 8 default corns and impos...
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@Iron_Guard8 wrote:I tend to customize the heck out of my characters so in GW2 once I was targeted, I'd often switch to a different character to avoid it. I haven't had this in BfN yet barring the first few matches after unlocking wizard. Unfortunately there's no real way to prevent targeting, which at best is obnoxious to be a part of. Even newer players tend to use at least some customizations so being a plain Jane basic skin would itself stick out.
Hate prefacing a post but for anyone that doesn’t know, I respect Iron Guard greatly...
That said, I just don’t think you play enough competitive BA/PvP, buddy. (Which is sad/unfortunate for the PC crowd; I know you’d play more, if the community was thriving.).
On PS4, I can find a game of BA in a matter of seconds. Most matches, there’s regular gaming - I’m sure relatively close to the same as you experience in PC. About 5-20% of the matches (varies greatly day to day) are toxic or unfair... another small percentage of matches are extremely competive/nail biting.
In those toxic or competitive matches, you’ll see the taunting or sneaky strategies employed.
I’m betting the lack of community keeps much of this less common activity out of PC games more than console?
Dang - you need to buy a PS4 and KBM converter already!
As I've said before I play quite a bit of PvP, just never BA as apparently it's pretty dead on PC so haven't tried it (I do want to though), it's all TT and the weekly events as they pop pretty much instantly when I normally play. I have played many other shooters where PvP was the only mode available going back to the old days with no mouse look and of course our favorite controller based shooter; Goldeneye on the N64 (although it's only on the console before they connected to the internet so it doesn't really count since it was friends only). I've seen all kinds of garbage plays and terrible teammates, people exploiting terrain, using costumes or skins that let them blend in or are glitched to a certain degree that provides an advantage and so on.
When BA goes ranked, I expect it to get MUCH worse. Clan Wars in WoT made regular matches look like lovefests and I used to turn my chat off in those pick up games after getting all kinds of lovely messages from people that include various degrees of self-harm so you can imagine how bad those could get.
For BfN, the worst I saw was in Zack Scott's video where he kept getting targeted by a couple of people that always taunted after they vanquished him. I loathe that kind of behavior and anyone that needs to exploit mechanics to win needs to reevaluate their life choices.
Wolfy and Zero get targeted a lot in both GW games and some in BfN too. I have been targeted in all 3 games but when it gets bad I will likely switch to a different character/variant to confuse them, and so far it's only been as Wizard in BfN or if it was happening elsewhere, I was able to smack the other person enough that I didn't notice.
To be honest, considering the nasty messages I see console players show that they receive, it sounds like the console community is significantly worse than the PC crowd is. I have 3200 hours between the 3 games and a large chunk is PvP, especially in GW1 that lacked bot matches and real solo play, and I rarely see the same behavior I've seen in OW, WoT, and some of the stuff console players have linked from the messaging service that the modern consoles have.
@Iron_Guard8 We co-mingled with the PC crowd in UT3 (some 10 years ago) and the console crowd was 10x more toxic then; I can only imagine this has perpetuated further? 🤷🏼♂️
@spIash_damage that could well be. The PC shooter community isn't some bastion of fair play and sunshine, but it seems a bit better, at least from what I've seen. Also, if the console community is larger, that means that even if the % of nastiness is the same, you'll see more of it on console as you have a larger population, so you'll see more people being nasty unfortunately.
I just want to play, do well, and have the most enjoyable (i.e. closest) games possible, and to wear silly hats while doing it. I have R6 Siege when I'm in a more serious shooter mood!
I welcome targeting, if you want to target me have at it but when elite players going 20 kill streak because they can run and mix with a sea of defaults it's scummy. like using default corn with legendary upgrade.
ba is 4 on 4, team vanquish is 8 on 8...try figuring out who you were shooting at with 6 defaults.
My feeling is if you use default you should have a big number 1 through 8 stamped on your face.
