The veterans boxes are a step in the right direction when it comes to incentivizing veterans to play. However, these boxes are only temporary and although fun, are not really a goal to work towards. In order to improve this, I am going to make a few suggestions of new achievements that I think would make people want to play more after they completed the BP or an event. This idea is really inspired by Battlefield One in which I had a lot of fun collecting all the guns, which was the only thing that really kept me playing that game.
Examples
- ‘500 semi-auto sniper kills’ - SVD-38.
- ‘25 pistol kills in one round’ - Event pistol.
- ‘become the crusher battlehero in 30 matches’ - GL tank?
- ‘kill 50 soldiers by shooting trough a wall’ - Uh … Gewehr 1888 idk.
- ‘destroy 5 spawnpoints in one match as guerrilla’ - ČZ vz. 27
- ‘destroy 100 planes with AA guns’ - Luftfaust
To make it even better you could have different achievements for every faction. So then you have four achievements to play for the price of one. For instance;
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‘Kill 20 soldiers with an SMG in less than 5 minutes playing as [faction name]’
Rewards: Thompson 50.cal (US), Suomi GL (Germs), PPD-1929 (USSR), Type 1 SMG (Japs). -
‘Kill 150 soldiers with a knife playing as [faction name]’
Rewards: A Sword for the faction you completed the achievement with.
There could also be archievements for new players or to incentivese mains to play others factions like ‘Complete all factions TT’ with a suitable reward. They could also add wierd stuf such as ‘heal 20 allies in one match without any kills’ and then call it the ‘pacifist’ or something.
Some of these suggestions function more as challanges, others more as a grind. This is intentional since it would give the players both short term and long term goals, adding to players experience. Now these reward suggestions are not really that important, however, a gun is much preferable over silver. Currently there are achievement with silver rewards, but that feels sort of lame since veterans will have enough silver anyway. So rewarding players with old GL or event weapons, or maybe even GL vehicles is a must (unique potraits could also be considered for this). To put it simply, without real rewards, there would not be any incentive to play.
Just for the devs, this is a seriously good move. You already have an achievement system, you already have these GL and events weapons. Doing this will make players play more in downtimes with releases pressure on the devs to release stuf quick.
(not that I am under any illusion the devs will see this but ah well …)
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