Why are you so bitter about the scoreboard change?
Because of posts like these:
not having a scoreboard is genuinely embarrassing.
like I actually would be emberassed in not having such a standard feature.
Like, dude, there
is a scoreboard. You press tab, or whatever it is on console and it pops up. Saying that there isn't is internet hyperbole, and I'm pretty damn tired of it. You may dislike it, sure. People, specially gamers, don't usually like new things.
Look, after all these months, I only have around 40 hours of play in this game. I like it, but it wasn't that great to keep me coming all that often and life's too short and there's many great titles unplayed out there. By this time, in comparison, I already had over 100 hours of BFV because I loved that one. Yeah, game has tremendous issues. But the scoreboard has been such a low hanging fruit, useless, childish complaint by the community (as well as stuff like the Santa skin or Arrgg angel does it again!, which I know is more of a meme but a lot of people didn't get that memo) that it completely exahusts me. But as I've been sucked into the internet black hole, I still can't let go of how stupid all of this is.
Like how many times in Era or Reddit or Twitter or whatever have you read people pointing how to improve maps, the specialist systems, or whatever? I've read a couple of them. They're really cool attempts by good faith people who wants things to be better. And community feedback has been an important part of improving a shitshow of a game, like what happened with BF4 and stuff like community maps and the test servers. Sadly the loud crowd who just like to vent has taken over (and I understand why, but c'mon).
The complaints about shit like the scoreboard are just a drive by. It doesn't add or take anything to the game if there is or if there isn't a traditional one, changing this is wasted resources on a game that's on life support. It's tiresome.
How come? Isn't this supposed to be some sort of hero / military shooter? I enjoy seeing how I'm doing compared with other people, I guess that's fairly standard in pretty much any competitive setting. I mean, it's kinda the point, really. I guess it is only an useful feature if you happen to use it?
What boggles the mind is how such a mundane feature, just something presenting numbers on screen (because the data is collected all the time, for sure) can be so divisive and take such a long time to be put together by what is accepted to be a top notch developer.
No, it's a squad based shooter. Does it succeed at it? I don't think so. However the scoreboard isn't what has the game on the state it is. So that's the point, it's not an useful feature only if it happens to work for me. It's that it
is useless. Traditional scoreboards tells you
nothing apart from individual kills and deaths
. Like how many times have you gotten into, say, a CoD match, and went "whew, thank god there's a traditional scoreboard here. I don't know how I could have fun without it!". It means nothing at the end of the day.
Seriously, the one on this game even tells you if your team's ticket bleed is caused by deaths and not capture points. People always complain that medics don't revive, well you can actually know if your squad is reviving or not this time instead of just being anecdotal. That's useful information in a game like Battlefield.
Sure, the scoreboard can improve. But changing it into the old system to please a loud crowd? As a priority? In a game with
this many issues? That's fucked up.
And clearly it isn't that easy to implement. If it was it would've rolled out already. So yeah, DICE is wasting resources to please a crowd that already made their minds and won't care until influencers and reddit tell them "hey you can come back now" and they keep hate-playing until the next game releases.
The real reason there's such a buzz around the scoreboard is that the rest of the game came in too hot. If the rest of the game was fine enough for most people, the scoreboard would be a minor complaint and an update around a year after release when major updates already rolled out.
"Fortunately we have a product for people who don't like team play; it's called squadboard."
But the squadboard
is for people who like teamplay š¤
