Kleanur Guy
SyNergy Gaming
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Posted - 2012.08.06 08:58:00 -
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Furthermore, the game should not be set up in such a way to glorify and reward solo-based tactics for greedy players who are willing to say "screw my team, I'm going for more K/D". With all this emphasis on k/d, why is it any surprise that many games have nothing but spawn camping idiots racking up their kills while completely ignoring map objectives? And reinforcing this kind of behavior with more points than other roles will only serve to perpetuate the falsehood that a greater K/D equates to being a better player.
That sort of thing is great if you only have Deathmatch or TDM games. But on missions where the objectives are something OTHER than killing, why should killing be more valuable to the player than actually securing said objectives? If Dust is going to have any kind of emphasis placed on teamwork and objective-based play, then rewarding glory hog tactics such as padding K/D needs to be adjusted, and support and/or logistics roles need to be placed on equal footing.
No one is saying that killing enemies needs to have its value removed completely, but the real value of killing enemies lies in the fact that while they're dead they can't effect the battlefield in any meaningful way! It costs them time to respawn and move back into an effective position!
Putting the emphasis of DUST on killing simply for the sake of killing shows a remarkable lack of depth in what has the potential to otherwise be an amazing game. If all I wanted was deathmatch over and over, I'd be playing Quake Live.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Elitesaint (Screwed up my quoting >.<)
It doesn't, and saying screw my team, I'm going for more KD isn't as easy and mindless as you think. People don't actually think this. They are instead just a BETTER player. The top KD players aren't going for KD. They are PTFO and are good at it. Also, the spawn camping idiots aren't nearly as dumb as the retards spawning at the spawn when there are objectives on the map that are taken. FURTHERMORE these spawn campers would be absolutely brain dead if they went around to objectives when they hold them all. When the game releases, people won't be kind in clan matches and such, the objective WILL be to spawn camp the other team when possible and not let them escape to potentially cap an objective an turn it around. After all, it is the teams fault for letting the other team spawn camp them (not hard to escape from TBH).
Just to reiterate, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, goes in to the game with the mentality that they are going for a high KDR. If you do, you are being falsely led by all the other butthurt people. |