So, something that always crossed my mind: why do the game reward players in vehicles with high assist points?
Today tanks gets 25 assists points and planes 30 assist points.
I see no real reason for this, can someone please give a counter perspective?
Sure, we all experience this every game, but it was so obvious for me the other night. Had a battle in Berlin against mostly bots and I decided to run my VG/Kriegsmodell squad and manage to get 105 kills at the front line. It was pretty surprising and discouraging to see the guy who was in the Tiger II scoring higher than me.
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So my question: why is it so rewarding playing vehicles?
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How do you grind your squad and tanker/pilot if only one dude is getting xp? Dev give assist to the crew for faster the squad grind
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That seems like a weird solution since you easily could make an unique XP modifier for vehicle squads.
And this is not common here.
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I’m not complaining, because I’m a sucker for tanks and I love playing them, but I find the huge score gain through assists questionable as well.
Having an XP modifier for squad progression is fine, but giving extra battle score? That has some disadvantages.
First of all, it is simply unfair. It is easier for vehicle players to get placed higher on the scoreboard and get medals on most maps. This will give them even more XP in the end. Secondly, it leads to overuse of vehicles. Tank wrecks everywhere and players fighting over limited vehicle slots do not enhance the playing experience.
Many players will spawn in vehicles even at times, when they would be more useful to the team as infantry. But they crave the easy XP and they don’t want another player to occupy the slot at an inopportune time. So better to spawn in a vehicle now, rather than later, when it would actually help the team.
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I can completely relate to your opinion. 
Yeah, pretty much sums up what I think.
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They are strong but not that strong, remember this match on Tunisia that axis had two or three real players and we had this guy on a Sherman that got 100+ kills with 60 assists and still was behind me on the scoreboard because even if I had 30 less kills I had almost all of my kills as objective defenses while he only camped the bots on the spawn the entire match.
If objective attack and defense still enough to make up for the assists you get on a vehicle then they are on a good place.
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It’s not like vehicles can’t kill enemies on objectives, though. Depends on the map, of course.
