Further Evidence of Why the Medal Score System Makes ZERO Sense

CameraBeardThePirate

This doesn't make any sense.

In a hard fought, back and forth capture the relic in which both teams played great defense, the vast majority of the players in the match earned ZERO MEDAL SCORE. It's not like we were ignoring the objective; in fact, the majority of my kills were on players actively picking up the relic. I earned no score for the defense I played at all.

In fact, the two players on each team that "top scored" were those that simply threw themselves at the Relic, dying over and over again - no strategy, just hoping to get the pickup off in the event that hit registration was buggy enough to prevent an interrupt.

ZOS, the Medal Score system is broken. It needs to be scrapped entirely and replaced with something more indicative of what actually happened during the match.

Theignson

But medals are meaningless any way, right? There are no rewards or achievements related to them are there? I have never really even bothered to look to see if my medals are recorded somewhere

CameraBeardThePirate

Theignson wrote: »

But medals are meaningless any way, right? There are no rewards or achievements related to them are there? I have never really even bothered to look to see if my medals are recorded somewhere

In 8v8s, sure, medals are technically meaningless.

But in 4v4, medals determine MMR and leaderboard rank.

Plus, at the end of the day, having the number on the scoreboard be meaningless and useless for understanding how the match is going is bad design, period. The scoreboard information should display accurate information on what players are doing.

Theignson

CameraBeardThePirate wrote: »

Theignson wrote: »

But medals are meaningless any way, right? There are no rewards or achievements related to them are there? I have never really even bothered to look to see if my medals are recorded somewhere

In 8v8s, sure, medals are technically meaningless.

But in 4v4, medals determine MMR and leaderboard rank.

Plus, at the end of the day, having the number on the scoreboard be meaningless and useless for understanding how the match is going is bad design, period. The scoreboard information should display accurate information on what players are doing.

Before I got bored with BG, I would just look at the K/D/A ratios and if I had a match like you are posting here I would be happy; not really needing more feedback than that

RealLoveBVB

Theignson wrote: »

But medals are meaningless any way, right? There are no rewards or achievements related to them are there? I have never really even bothered to look to see if my medals are recorded somewhere

There is a quest, where you have to earn 1.000 medal points. So that is pretty hard to achieve, if you are defending a relic or supporting a relic runner.