[quote=“bontsa;c-216763”]First of all, I’m all in for replacing overall levels entirely with some much more fitting system for a heavily class based, team-oriented FPS like this. Levels accumulated simply by playtime has absolutely zero place here, it works for RPG’s and such for obvious reasons.
I must however agree they allow very rough estimation on players experience (I am not talking about skill here, someone can play 400h without learning anything else than suicide-Proxy sh!trushing onto EV without being any asset to team) which sometimes compare, albeit again roughly, to their actual experience and skill. This is probably the reason SD has yet to do anything about them, because they allow some level of approximation of what kind of opponent one is facing. It has been easy way of implementing it, and showing peoples total playtime in-game. Thing is we’d just need something better and more fitting now.
Its not that they don’t know how to remove them or can’t, its that they won’t until they have thought something else in place. We can all agree we’d like to keep some kind of loyalty reward in place like Arsenal crates now, eh? Those would also need rework would levels be entirely removed, on how to accumulate them, just one example alongside rough skill estimation.
Issue is also godawful imbeciles that games all over are swarming nowadays, people who refuse to accept the fact somebody is better than them or something else than they themselves can be at fault when loss is faced. “Minigun is OP”. “Balance is @$!#”. “Map sucks”. Anything else is wrong than them when they decided to be the 4th useless spawn-sitting sniper when team lacked both medics and firesupport.
Those people are the ones bitching about levels, those people just find another thing to whine about. But reworking levels would mean they’d have to more actively search for the thing instead of just opening scoreboard and blaming the first thing they see there, so it would definitely lessen this idiotism.
I personally would find visibly removing levels for now would definitely be great gesture, but I doubt it’d happen so gonna mute the entire chat in pubs for now.
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Stupid idea : what about showing the public elo ranking which is used during lobby shuffle ?
I know it’s the complete opposite of what every one wants, but it’d actually shut their filthy mouth for good, and give them a proper reference outside the xp level which means absolutely nothing. And they’d probably notice how fluctuating it is, even for long time players. But this would require to have a proper elo ranking not only based on xp/min and k/d ratio which still seem to be the two major parameters.
I won’t support this as I consider community servers are the proper answer to avoid those issues, but it’d at least give them some food for thought before vomiting stupid things.
