I don’t know what the intentions of the mysterious gajin are, but the game design theory clearly says what is better for maintaining balance in the game, which is terribly lacking in enlisted. If developers don’t have some other ace up their sleeve, I think they should follow the following path.
players can drop out of the game at any time without much repercussions, getting rid of win bonus is likely to be a better choice here. Why?
In a concept where only the best players receive point multipliers at the end of the game (battle/hero awards or something else that might come due to this change),
players may feel more motivated to continue playing even if they are not scoring or leading. This is because there is still a chance to be recognized as the “best,”
which is the game’s objective. Since there are no repercussions for dropping out those who remain will have the opportunity to earn multipliers.
In the current state,
players are less motivated to continue playing if they believe their team has little chance of winning.
In such a scenario, the risk of players leaving the game may be higher, potentially leading to an imbalance between the teams.
Ultimately, the choice of the game concept depends on the goals and preferences of the game creators.
but the second concept may encourage participants to stay engaged in the game for longer, even if they can drop out at any time.
This is basically AI proven facts, maybe gajin should base their game design on chatgpt just like they do it with langaugue translations. (last UI translation was so bad i have no doubts they do it)
i feel like it won’t help the issue that you see at all, instead we should incentives other behaviors such as playing underpopulated factions or sticking out to the end
as I said, I basically generated it in chatgpt, for this type of issues, even though you can’t always trust AI, it literally has described all the problems enlisted have without even knowing the game at all and gave a specific solution that many forum members have already mentioned.
this is not equal to the holy truth, chatgpt is not able to take into account all aspects of the game and what the developers’ intentions are (no one knows this, probably even themselves)
I only gave this as a general indication of how it should theoretically be in order to solve problems enlisted suffer from. in practice, we have a toxic axis flame squad so nvm
Remember all good old fps games? Old school CoD, RO1&2, medal of honour etc. ?
There was no concept of xp in those games. Everyone played and gave their fullest because there was no penalty for losing. Nobody deserted at all (except eternal salty skill issue ppl but eh), everyone only focused on fun.
Enlisted is different, being grind based with enormous xp requirements…
In Enlisted, there’s a big penalty for being in the losing side. If you normalize the 1.5% bonus the winning side gets as just the normal amount of xp, the fact the losing side does not get it could also mean a plain penalty. Different way of saying it, but it’s an equivalent.
Now ppl will say “but ppl will stop trying to win without xp incentives!!!” It’s just not true. At all. Humanity being competitive by nature, even with 0 xp involved in game, players try to win. It was true in good old games I mentioned up. Still true today. Just go see custom matchs, like:
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Ppl try to win in this. And sadly we get no xp for it… Yet I get more fun here than base game
Kids starting a race in the playground: Kid who won the meaningless race sure is happy to boast about it.
It’s everywhere. Those saying 1.5x is NECESSARY to incentive ppl to play objectives are either delusional or hypocrites. It’s just a sweet xp bonus. Everyone like xp. I like xp. You like xp. I already win most of the time, xp bonus is nice, but when losing, even when hard fought battles, the no 1.5% penalty is just… meh.
most likely they’re afraid their XP boost will be gone when in practice the missing XP boost will be transfered somewhere else to remain exp gain as it is.
Doesn’t make sense. I am desserting because it’s waste of time to not win. 1,5x is huge bonus. I am wasting time every time I try to carry bad team which is going to loose anyway.
I am trying to get as many things as I can before merge.
There is a problem that can’t be ignored. Players who run away from the team will greatly affect your victory, which is why people are angry. Because the players who stayed were harmed by the players who escaped, and if no one in the team escaped, then everyone might have no resentment.
