As the title suggests.
MSE, I believe I'm speaking for the overwhelming majority here - WE DON'T WANT ANTAGONISTS IN OUR DAILIES.
Three teams in a row, with beginners, fighting high weapon build and bonus stats antagonists is not only not my idea of enjoyment but incredibly unfair and dreadful matchmaking.
Since the (No) Prizes Galore update, 24 days ago I've received 2 rare BP's. Today I lost my first chance at winning one. What's worse is, I won't be able to use my bounty weapon bonus character to maximise payout in tomorrow's pot.
Pre Prizes Galore patch, I would have had AT LEAST 24 rare BP's by now. And, depending if I played all thee 8 hour rotations, around 48 common advanced.
Thankfully my daily pot had a beginner antagonist who I destroyed, even on a low build weapon, but the last antagonist destroyed my team, before Cortez got back from his first aleph run.
Think about everything I've stated?
2 rare BP's in 24 days compared to 24? That's a 2,200% decrease! You think this is acceptable?
Again pre Prizes Galore you had gold, faction points ( and xp multiplier) specific missions where you were GUARANTEED the award provided REGARDLESS of score attained. Now you have 'this is what you can win with a perect 10 score' dailies. And unlike pre update you get one chance to win.
MSE, your gaming community are not happy. I was very lucky to win 27k gold and 8k faction points in my daily pot today. but I had to work very hard to carry the team of beginners. I stuck to the antag like glue, locking him down instantly. Racking up around 14 kills. I never died and I was using a maxed out bounty & affiliation weapon. I also carried out objectives. This could easily have gone all wrong.
You need to drastically increase rare BP awards, at least by 1,000%! You need to guarantee BP acquisition as well, along with NO duplicates.
Four dailies played 3 losses - 11k gold & 5k talent in the pot.
MSE, will you please come clean? Do you actually have a match making mechanic or are you haemorrhaging players?
Fully agree, man. It's a shit system that gives no incentive for Raiders at all and even when you do win against an antag you are getting less than what you would have gotten in PvE.
Do what I do, lower MMR. At about 0-20 the chances of getting an antag iv very low. And even if you do, they will be low level antags who will not have much, if any, of an advantage with forge and passive stats and/or they will not have the AI advantage. It's now the current "soft switch" for PvP. Until they can get WAY better rewards for Raiders in a PvP situation or until they make a hard switch for PvP this is the most optimal path of success. I have every character and every weapon maxed forges in the game and can tell you that much of my progress was done by lowering MMR.
The ways to lower MMR come in two different forms (3 technically, but one is unethical):
1. Surrender/Suicide Squad: Get a team of at least 3 players and surrender in every match you get. Try and only suicide if you have a full 4 man squad, otherwise it's unfair to the 4th player not on your team and he doesn't get a vote. This is the quickest way to lower MMR.
2. Peaceful Antagonist: This is the most peaceful way to lower MMR, but it takes forever. you queue up as antagonists and then just don't spawn and purposefully lose. this lowers MMR by about 2% each loss. Just be sure to nudge the controller/keyboard from time to time as you will incur an "idle" timer that will boot you from match if you don't refresh it. If you keep your MMr low and trim it up before it gets too high Peaveful antagging isn't so bad. Just keep shaving it back down to at least 20% when you reach no more than 305, otherwise it will take you forever to lower it back in this way and then you may need to get a surrender squad.
Hope that helps out.
Extra tip: Stay away from the Discord. You aren't to criticize PvP, antagonists or, get this, Harec and his Ignis Rifle. they will actually punish you for doing so, no joke. There is a heavy bias there for antagonists, griefing and cheap weapons there and the "git gud" meathead logic. The Admin doesn't even play the game and a few of the mods are big time antagonists themselves. It's not a Raider friendly place.
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