Player score determination

Battleborn Battleborn Competitive Multiplayer Discussion
#26

[quote=“logie108, post:23, topic:1381548, full:true”]
Not that you can always help it but maybe if you focus on keeping people from running from the battlezone it would be best for all.[/quote] Fair enough, but the assists through healing are still unreliable and depend on the skill of your teammate, not on your own skill.

[quote=“logie108, post:23, topic:1381548, full:true”]
Besides I think what Randy said basically means he agrees they just don’t have the resources to deal with it right now. [/quote] I acknowledge this multiple times (preaching to the choir and all). Still wanted to make my point. If that makes me pushy then I’m sorry. I just don’t want the point forgotten.

[quote=“logie108, post:23, topic:1381548, full:true”]I for one don’t see this being more important than adding characters, maps, and balancing.
[/quote] Well, having all characters have close to the same chance to reach a high score seems like balancing to me. As for the (free) DLC: first the details in order, then the extra stuff.

#27

I up then you would miss the healer who kept your team at very as that isn’t represented in the score well enough.

#28

Guess I don’t understand this question. Score doesn’t affect any stats. Score is a stat tabulated from your kills and assists.

#29

I think you just answered it well enough. It seems some were under the impression that score offered a bonus to XP gained at the end of a match, which is not the case.

#30

Ah, gotcha! Nope. No bonus based on score. Other than giving you an idea of who did the best on kills and assists, score is used as a tie breaker on Incursion and Meltdown.

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#31

Awesome, that’s what I wanted to know, cheers.

#32

I was just playing a few games of incursion last night with a few of my friends that just got the game. We lost repeatedly because they were feeding the enemy xp by continuously running out and dying. When I tried to explain this to them they said they had higher scores than me so obviously I was the problem (I had a low score due to spending most of my time collecting shards and building things). It would be nice if score was removed for the time being so people won’t think they’re actually doing good by going 7 and 13 while building nothing. I guess I could also get smarter friends, but I’d rather not.

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#33

the score sheet in both incursion and meltdown is somewhat irrelevant. like has already been said, kills equal 2 pts and assists equal 1. But there is not currently a value given for the most important objectives that actually translates into actual points. i have had games of meltdown where both my teammates and the opposing team were all just playing team death match on one lane. i have sat for entire games just killing wave after wave of minions while escorting mine in, destroying their accelerator, and both thumpers. i ended the game with like9 pts on the score sheet from 3 kills, 3 assists, and zero deaths. but i literally scored easily 200 pts by myself. i would honestly just ignore the score sheet. the only thing it is good at is seeing who on your team was feeding

#34

I know I contradict myself here, but my perspective has slightly changed since I’ve played more. I’d keep it simple and keep the assist system as is and don’t go for any class specific score. Just Minions/thralls/buildables(build and destroyed, same score given)/ objective (this one is harder, since in incursion I would go for damage, not last hit)/ kills/ maybe deaths (less is better)/ assists

Most of these stats are already tracked, seems to me it would be easy enough to add some score multipliers and make it a more meaningful system.

That should give any character a chance for a good score and would make the score system more relevant and less of a confusing factor. Also it would give players and extra incentive to buy buildables.

#35

I almost exclusively play Incursion and I always lead my team in minion kills, structures destroyed, usually Thralls too, yet I am usually lower on the score because I play objective and don’t play just for kills. I’ve had games with 90+ minion kills, 2 objectives, 10+ structures destroyed, 10+ structures built, and ended up with the lowest score on my team because I might have only killed 4-5 people. It’s stupid. I don’t even pay attention to the player score anymore.

#36

Can someone please explain why the score doesn’t always match the K/A equation. See attached screen where I scored 100 pts .

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#37

Obviously this is because you play on Xbox.

#39

That must be a glitch. Seems he just got max score unwarranted. Might be worth it to put it in a seperate threat to bring it under attention.

#40

What thread do you suggest putting it under?

#41

a quick search came up empty. I’d give it it’s own thread. something along the lines of “false score (glitch?)”. Put it in the according section or general discussion.

Also, how often did you have it happen? Maybe it’s just a one-off glitch in which case it doesn’t matter as much. If it happens more often then it is quite an issue since it might F* up Elo and is unfair in case of a draw.

#42

This was the only time I have noticed it because it was such a large amount. Doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before and I just didn’t realize it.

#43

I think it’s worth to report it so the developers can see. Who knows, maybe it’s a cheat or a glitch. In any case, it doesn’t hurt to let the devs know this exists.

#44

I created a new post in general discussion.

#45

Ah, good I found this… I was about to post this screenshot (sorry for hastily pasted columns)

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and inquire why my score is atrocious when I think I did well (don’t gang up on me, I am new at this game, this is a pretty good match for me personally:) ). Fortunately, it has been answered.
That said, it is very misleading, this is straight from the horse’s mouth so to speak. Since there are dozens of columns, it’s natural to assume that the “score” column is some ultimate breakdown of the other following columns. Often I’ve wondered what am I doing wrong and this has affected my ability to gauge my performance. I am still new at the game, so it’s hard to get the hang of the momentum, timings etc. and I pretty much relied on my score to tell me that.

I look at the whole table of course, but I thought that if I had good stats but low score, that my other stats were worthless for the match as a whole (I don’t know what calculation could do that, but that was my “gut impression”), for example, I might have built a lot of minions, but they did nothing, or I did damage, but it wasn’t “fruitful damage”, I built turrets, but they were taken down without doing damage and so on and so forth.

All that considered, I really think it would be better if the column were removed until the revision, as I assume that 99% of players don’t know the formula. And even those who know it, probably some percentage of them still “chase” it, due to simple psychological effect the “score” column has by itself.

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#46

To everyone who says “just don’t look at the score”

This ^^^^.
Plus, as I said before, score should counteract K/D (give non- assassin type characters a chance to shine), not copy it. It does so barely (by taking assists into account) and only for certain supp chars.