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The State of PvP: A Tale of Two Matches
shroommage
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 0 Arc User
I just played two PvP matches.
In the first one, as I was capping the center point, I thought I might be lagging. Nobody was capturing the enemy point, and no enemies were coming to the center. After capping, I rode to the final point with my team and capped that, too. At the enemy spawn there was a team of one player and his four AFK bots, each with "afkbot" right in their names. It was a fast match, and I even got the top score, but I also discovered that I could find no report button in the game, with the exception of reporting spam, which obviously doesn't help me. Am I to request GM assistance for every botter I find? I took a screenshot of the scoreboard with all the account names in it, but I don't know what to do with it.
The second match went much better, but demonstrated just how broken the scoring system was. The entire enemy team focused almost exclusively on getting kills. They would leave the point to chase people down, and if one of us was back capping, most or all of their team would leave the center point to come after us, sometimes even shooting at us from a distance instead of attempting to block the capture. By the end of the match, every single one of their players had a higher score than every single one of our players. I had the top score on our team with 0 kills, 8 deaths, and 5 assists, and my team's combined kill count was only 5 kills. I assume we got bonus glory for winning, but the bonus items must have gone to the losers. What's more important? Winning, or getting a high score? (The answer should be fun, but currently we're not even close.) Gaining points is so completely different from doing well that points might as well be removed.
PvP is a state. I know it's "beta", but seriously? This is stuff that could have been predicted the moment it was conceived.
In the first one, as I was capping the center point, I thought I might be lagging. Nobody was capturing the enemy point, and no enemies were coming to the center. After capping, I rode to the final point with my team and capped that, too. At the enemy spawn there was a team of one player and his four AFK bots, each with "afkbot" right in their names. It was a fast match, and I even got the top score, but I also discovered that I could find no report button in the game, with the exception of reporting spam, which obviously doesn't help me. Am I to request GM assistance for every botter I find? I took a screenshot of the scoreboard with all the account names in it, but I don't know what to do with it.
The second match went much better, but demonstrated just how broken the scoring system was. The entire enemy team focused almost exclusively on getting kills. They would leave the point to chase people down, and if one of us was back capping, most or all of their team would leave the center point to come after us, sometimes even shooting at us from a distance instead of attempting to block the capture. By the end of the match, every single one of their players had a higher score than every single one of our players. I had the top score on our team with 0 kills, 8 deaths, and 5 assists, and my team's combined kill count was only 5 kills. I assume we got bonus glory for winning, but the bonus items must have gone to the losers. What's more important? Winning, or getting a high score? (The answer should be fun, but currently we're not even close.) Gaining points is so completely different from doing well that points might as well be removed.
PvP is a state. I know it's "beta", but seriously? This is stuff that could have been predicted the moment it was conceived.
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PVPer rocking it Solo queue style since the dawn of Neverwinter
Oh, don't get me wrong. We definitely deserved that win. I even screencapped the scoreboard because of how hilarious it was that they got so many points and we barely even had any kills. I just think your individual score should reflect your actual performance. As it is, bad players are likely to chase after meaningless points as long as those points exist.