Dominations and Revenges are in, thoughts?

ArmedZealot · 2012-03-07, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by Malorn

Dominations and revenges encourage personal killwhoring and detract from team play.

I see K/D and other teamplay discouraging stats to be bad for the game.

There are plenty of better alternatives, namely "Score", since "Score" is something that can be generated from doing many types of activities, like having people spawn at your well-placed galaxy, or giving ammo, or reviving/healing, or capturing objectives, or defending objectives, as well as killing.

Score and Score/Min should be the universal "Stat" that people strive to maximize, not Kills or K/D. This isn't deathmatch.

I know many common FPS games have K/D stats - but much like the running of the bulls, just because its always been done doesn't mean its not incredibly stupid.

There's an awesome demotivator poster illustrating this point.

http://www.despair.com/tradition.html

K/D is bad for teamplay. Axe it. You won't lose any players over it, and the game as a whole will be better.

I disagree that this will affect teamplay that much. Games like Tribes: Ascend and CS revolve around team combat with these features and have even grown to form competitive team leagues. K/D ratio doesn't affect teamplay but allows a player to do exactly what Higby said in the video said it would do, which is to get better in the game by providing hard evidence of play style and skill.

"Score" in PS2 is experience earned. You earn it for being a Galaxy pilot and other support roles as much as combat. Higby said this in the video as well.

Deathmatch mechanics bring a large following in FPS games. Along with F2P this will bring a large zerg into the game which is a good thing IMO. They make the game conducive to casual play, and makes a 20 minute game session fun and exciting.

If you want to be more involved in the outfit ops playstyle, nothing about these mechanics says you can't.They don't detract from that style in any way. Don't take away parts of the game that other people enjoy just because it doesn't fit with your style of play.