With the most recent set of event challenges, it seems to me and those I play with that people will readily play engineer when there is some decent reward for doing so. Therefore, adding an xp bonus for helping the team should encourage players to do this more (as we can all agree there’s a lack of supportive gameplay as playing selfishly usually grants higher xp gain rates, assuming you’re a good player).
I think this would improve the general state of the game as playing support roles other than tank is not well rewarded.
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+1
engineer is badly needed right now.
more suggestions:
- Make new player more aware of the importance of engineer (especially rally point), by making engineer one part of the training when player first join.
- Make it so engineer utilities give more engineer point (the one in the leaderboard) the more they are used by teammate. Right now most of them comes from building the utility not their usage by teammate. cmiiw.
- Actually give the Best Engineer battle hero for the player with the most engineer point. because sometimes they dont.
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I wouldn’t mind if they kept ‘best engineer’ for the player who got the most score playing as engi. As long as there’s something for those who use the class for its intended purpose rather than just getting lucky with impact frags
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I agree. Just played Normandy Allies due to BP task. I have mostly stock understaffed squads there (any update to silver troop orders yet?). The only thing I bough was 1 engineer to each squad and got nice D-Day that we won basically because I was the only one building rally points and flanking heavily because of poor equipment. I counted more than 30 respawns on my rallies yet the score is not reflecting the effort and deciding factor on the match. So those how just shoot turkeys without much thinking are better rewarded.
But the “one” on the leaderboard doesn’t currently count for squat. If you want to reward engineers, give them more BASE XP for fortifications that are used by their team.
Meaningless award that some would probably still chase to combine with additional Battle Hero Awards. Then we’d have people spamming sandbags all over the map for engi points.
I think it’s fine as it is. If an engineer, let’s say playing defense, builds lots of defensive fortifications at the objectives, they are rewarded very well with BASE XP, and base xp is what it’s all about, unless a player has already maxed that campaign.
But….you are looking at your score on the leadereboard……useless except to determine which player receives the “Best in the Team” Battle Hero Award.
Next time look at the FULL battle report. This is where your meaningful data is, such as how much base xp each squad earned and a complete report about each engineers useful fortifications.
4200 BASE XP is not bad considering only 33 kills with no vehicle kills. And your BASE XP is more that TWICE what your total leaderboard score is. That’s because your engineers helped earn quite a bit of base xp.
IMO, people should concentrate more on the battle report and much much less on the leaderboard.
