[QUOTE=ailmanki;543665]IMHO something feels wrong / is wrong.
Its the first game I see players not wanting to show off with there high level.
First off the level itself can be gained by a complete noob, even after reaching lvl 50 - he can still be cannon fooder.
Then there is the value to shuffle teams, I suppose its something based on ELO…
And lastly there is the real skill of a player and his current mood.
Wrote a lot, comparing DB to ET … but deleted it again. Basically players raging about levels is a symptom of a different problem.
If you don’t show that anymore they will get even more anxious.
Why is there no global stats? Where I can see the top player, where I can see the player having spent most hours, the player having hit most feet with cricket bat… and so on.
I imagine, I jump into a game; get beaten by a strong player - click on his name, get linked to a stats page, and I can see myself what makes that player so much better then me. Best would had been if I could watch his play… but I guess that’s not going to happen soon.
Lastly even if you disagree with all this, at least agree with the notion that LVL is really meaningless, its confusing, and gives a wrong impression.
Actually just replace LVL with something reflecting the real value of the player.[/QUOTE]
it always made me wonder why they even had levels its not like theres any level restricted anything…
at level 7 i had a few rounds with 3 guys in the 57-65 range, who where medocre at best but they been playing a long time and alot, they admitted they where not that good and explained to some people complaing about them being on the same team that, levels just an indicator of how much you have played not how well you have played…
i would like to see K/D go away from end of round stats in objective and stopwatch where the goal isnt kills but…the bloody objective.
k/d being there causes problems as you will get cra for bad k/d evne if you have high score(i know i ahve) i had a fellow giving me crap when spent a round playing aura tonight infact…i had 3 kills like/ 15 deaths…i had a ****load of revieves and healing done though…but…k/d to him was a sign of how useful you where…(i dont get it…if it was tdm of dm yeah but…objective/ctf/cah/ect game types where your working on a goal thats not just more kills…its…distracting people from the objective.
and i think just offering a way to look at their states with the 3 mers they ahve in loadout would be interesting.
i think the lack of ranked board and such comes down to…all the problems they had with xing code and hax causing the death of competitive play, and thus no rush to get out/finish a system to track and report that information.
may not be the case but, i wouldnt in any way blame them…
what needs to happen is epic and other game engine developers need to come up with their on internal measures to help make hacking/cheating harder, so that ngs and the like either arent needed OR are not working so hard and have less things to try and detect…
i would be happy just to see level removed it would stop some stupid arguements…because those 3 high levels…where worse them me at lvl7 (im kinda evil with proxy…aloha snackbar!!!)