Veteran PvP logic

Battleborn Battleborn Competitive Multiplayer Discussion
#11

No matter who I’m playing against, this is how I try to play:

  1. I’ll build our stuff, including our bot, as much as possible.
  2. I’ll grab thralls if I’m playing a character able to do so.
  3. I’ll leave the opposing team alone if they run away unless I’m at one of their sentries. Then I’ll only chase them if they stick around.
  4. I’ll hunt down and punish any character who overextends.

The only exceptions I make are for Pendles, Caldarius, and Mellka because almost every time I’ve been matched up against them, they try to chase kills and it annoys the hell out of me when they do. As far as I’m concerned, unless my team is hitting your sentry, running back to base is a viable tactic. If I’ll have to run away after a kill, I won’t pursue it in the first place. I rarely get double digit kills, but I get a whole lot of assists because of how I play. Like @FlamesForAll, I seriously doubt I’ll ever get Worthy of Song.

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#12

@Gulfwulf

I don’t know man!

I got between 20 and 23 kilks a few times this week as Phoebe (who I’m about to Master).

So once I’ve mastered all characters I can stack her or someone with some crazy offence gear and hopefully get it!

#13

I get really upset when better players are better and do things that suggest they aren’t even trying.

Just kidding. I just get better and do it to others, the way I was taught - The right way to gaemz.

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#14

-checks clipboard- Uh, i have a shipment of “This” for @diekthx. Like, a ton of “This”. SO much “This”, guys.

Don’t listen to Charlie Brown, kids; there is no such thing as “good grief”.

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#15

I agree in principle but sometimes it runs the other way.

I’ve had games against low CR teams that try to deathball for kills and ignore the objective (which to be fair probably makes sense if their coming from an FPS background).

In those situations, when four of them are swarming around your spawn trying to gank people, you kind of have no choice but to attack them.

The responsibility of retaining a low population shouldn’t be on the players. Full on griefing I’m against, but simply playing the game objectively and killing players sometimes is kind of the core of the game. If I’m handicapping myself over and over again to accomodate new players then the veterans get bored and leave the game anyway.

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#16

Hey, how about change your title? It’s pretty generalized, and the people you’re actually talking about aren’t even going to bother reading it.

I’m a Veteran, and I hunt down easy kills, you know why? I’ve got characters to level, I’m not going to pass up an opportunity to level up a character I hate faster with little to no effort.

I have to get Rath to 15, but I hate playing him more than I hate AIDS, but I gotta do it.
I just don’t complain about surrenders, because I prefer they surrender before I realize I can farm them. It saves us both the time it would take to destroy their sentry anyway.

(besides, I’m a support main, If I get a kill on you, you need to practice a bit more. xD)

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#17

I’ve found that some teams are simply out to unleash stomparmegeddon on an opposing team, especially newbies (experienced the most on capture) and those that are just really good at playing the objectives.

Sadly in my experience, more often times when I see that full yellow bar of death and they all display kill related titles, I know what ride I’m in for. I often wonder if the titles encourage this behavior - whenever I see people complain their Coopetition title didnt unlock, I often wonder how their team fared and if they got utterly oblitered by a stompteam.

Having said that, it has happened from time to time where you are clearly outskillee by the opposing team. They are better. They obviously coordinate and communicate BUT they give you room to breathe/play while still keeping things challenging and moving towards winning.

I hate being farmed for kills and titles, but when I see this behavior I change my playstyle to try and hinder their attempts.

Some have etiquette and sportsmanship, others don’t and may be more after validation and ego boosting. And some people are just dicks.

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#18

I tend to do that too. The reason is to get familiar with another toon in pvp and probably make it a main character. The funny part is that I often find the level 100"s on my team having a hard time against lvl 30 and below. I swear, there are too many lvl 100"s that play worse than level 10’s in Incursion on Xbox1.

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#19

@RayLightning

I’ve been wanting to make a topic for a looooooong time about the vast universe of skill and experience differentials amongst all of us CR 100s.

Command Rank level can be soooooo damn misleading.

I played with a team of 3’s through mid 20’s the other day and we TOOK APART a mic’d up team of 5 100s.

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#20

Similar outlook. This is how I learned that my Ghalt absolutely wrecks on low level players and gets torn to shreds by people who know his kit. I have gone 12-0-18 to 0-10-2 depending on the skill level I am playing against.

Pretty good sign that I need to actually get good with him, hoping to get the first kill in the match before they nerf his scrap trap stun to the ground. Otherwise I think I’m never gonna get his legendary. When is that happening again?..

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#21

Could be those CR100’s are like myself - PVE only players who ventured into the world of PVP and despite the stomps and issues often discussed, enjoyed most of it and keen to stay and get better :slight_smile:

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#22

I remember when the random gods handed me Ghalt against a team of some new players, and two good players. Against my team which ended with a bunch of good players.
I felt so dirty, and I purposely took poor helix choices, too. I ended up just not using hook unless it was on the two good players cause I felt that disgusted by hook and trap against the newer players.

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#23

I tend to focus the objectives (minions, shards, building, Thralls, etc) and generally just fire at players to push them back if they’re trying to kill our minions or my teammates or whatever. I generally leave the other players alone unless they come after me in which case I am going to defend myself. I only ever really go after players if they get too aggressive or if they’ve been harassing me all match and generally been jerks towards me in which case their hall pass gets revoked.

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#24

At the end of the day people just want to pad stats.

#25

I’ve been in groups with very low level players where I can see we are getting absolutely destroyed and somehow our scores are still tied. I try and get a surrender. When the other team is filled with guys who made 10+ kills and I’m the only one on my team with any, we are done.

#26

I bet they refused surrender too. I detest those matches where one is doing all the kills while the rest are feeding but yet they refuse to surrender. They should learn at least to admit a clear lost and move on.

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#27

Kill chasers just want Worthy of Song so they can feel like a badass.
I prefer Nope Nope Nope, 100 Sentry kills, haha

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#28

Unless the match is super extra brutal or frustrating I will never accept surrender because I am always leveling up characters and can always use the non-surrender-reduced experience, win or lose.

If my team REALLY wants to surrender, I am just one vote out of 5, after all.

@myrickma I was SO PROUD when I finally got that title!

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#29

Yesterday i got in a match with ppl lvl 5- i played toby… My only lvl11 battleborn.

They chosed, alani, caldarius, marquis, orendi and thorn. First orendi dices in trying to kill me and she got swarmed.

I tried to pm him/her telling what to do with orendi, when i came back to the game… Orendi killed me.

After that i spent all the match in the same spot w8 for thorn or marquid to shoot me down but nope… Everytime i killed anyone i taunted, im so so sorry dude taunt.

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#30

With a 5 man team, party, we were put up against 4 people under level 10 and one of level 40-ish.

We decided together to try and win the game without killing ANYONE. Our Alani had 1 accidental kill, other than that our team had 0 kills. We won, and it was an amazing match. The low level guys were able to kill us, and they did pretty good at getting the minions through. But well, a 5 man party against that low level peeps is pretty impossible to win.

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