Gamemode XP should be replaced with just a general play XP.

(Grave_Knight) #1

People argue that the gamemode XP is to get people to play other gamemodes, but if you need something to motivate you to play those gamemodes than maybe the gamemodes aren’t very good to begin with. Just remove the Stopwatch and Objective XP missions and give us a general Play XP mission. Especially with casual matchmaking coming only for Objective. That’s going to make me not want to play Stopwatch more.

(frostyvampire) #2

I think it’s fine as it is. It encourages me to play stopwatch sometimes and not stick to objective only and play stopwatch only in ranked

(hawkeyeguy99) #3

If they were to remove this then hardly anyone would be playing stopwatch after CMM is released. It’s already going to take a player cut due to the fact that you have to actually go into the server browser to find it and can’t just click “play”. All the noobs are going to be in objective so players on stopwatch servers are gonna drop and all of the pros are going to want to test CMM. Tbh, I’m a little worried about how much stopwatch is going to drop in player base, it’s my favorite mode.

(hurgya) #4

@hawkeyeguy99 said:
If they were to remove this then hardly anyone would be playing stopwatch after CMM is released. It’s already going to take a player cut due to the fact that you have to actually go into the server browser to find it and can’t just click “play”. All the noobs are going to be in objective so players on stopwatch servers are gonna drop and all of the pros are going to want to test CMM. Tbh, I’m a little worried about how much stopwatch is going to drop in player base, it’s my favorite mode.

Well, you’ve always had to use the server browser if you played with friends.

And I think moving noobs into “noob matches” with CMM is good for anybody not involved with their affairs.

(Sairdontis) #5

@frostyvampire said:
I think it’s fine as it is. It encourages me to play stopwatch sometimes and not stick to objective only and play stopwatch only in ranked

People shouldn’t be allowed to play what they want to get credits? I agree that the current system encourages looking at Stopwatch for players who would normally only play one mode. Stopwatch is fine as long as it also gets a Match making system to prevent abuse of the need to play it for missions.

(Gire) #6

I have noticed that if you play a non engineer merc on bomb missions its rather “difficult” to get gamemode xp when your teams engineers hog all the gamemode xp whilst you cant get it from anywhere else than standing right on the point gaining 10 guard xp

(ThePigVomit) #7

escort the damn EV. It’s all the game mode xp you need.

(ThunderZsolt) #8

EDIT: messed up, lol

(hurgya) #9

@ThePigVomit
@Gire
@ThunderZsolt
The phrasing in this thread is misleading: It’s not about the “Earn X Game mode XP” missions, it’s the earn XP in a certain gamemode (OBJ/SW, since execution missions have been removed and execution itself will be removed next week)

(frostyvampire) #10

@ThePigVomit said:
escort the damn EV. It’s all the game mode xp you need.

Disabling it gives a lot more.

But what OP means is to remove the mission “earn total xp in objective/stopwatch” and replace them with “earn total xp in any mode”. Not that kind of gamemode xp

(SaulWolfden) #11

I agree, I auto cancel Stopwatch missions due to hating how long the matches take. Unbalanced matches are worse because it’s the equivalent of two unbalanced matches played instead of just one. I’d rather people be able to play the mode they prefer for missions like that.

(watsyurdeal) #12

Personally I am of the opinion we should remove Objective mode, and just make Stopwatch not suck.

Best way to do that, make the first round of Stopwatch play like Objective mode, then the second round is just like it is normally.

(hurgya) #13

@SaulWolfden said:
I agree, I auto cancel Stopwatch missions due to hating how long the matches take. Unbalanced matches are worse because it’s the equivalent of two unbalanced matches played instead of just one. I’d rather people be able to play the mode they prefer for missions like that.

It’s even worse than two unbalanced matches due to leavers.

Most of the times the losing team not only has inferior members, but fewer too

(Grave_Knight) #14

Them not playing Stopwatch because of CMM is actually the main reason why I don’t think they should do it this way, though. Like if there was CMM for Stopwatch I’d do it then but I don’t want to be thrown into long matches with bad balancing on a team of 1 and 4 while there are a bunch of level 50-100s on the other team.

Also, yes, they do need to make Stopwatch not suck. I kind of want them to take a cue from Overwatch’s comp gamemode where is switches back and forth and it’s about trying to get points to win rather than just see who can do it the fastest (thought it still is a little bit like that).