Something Nice about Exp Globes

[Monlyth-1121]

@RayRay-1571

Um… no, that isn’t what I said. Snowballing is when one team gets a small advantage and is able to easily stay ahead despite being otherwise equal. In my games the teams were not equal and we just outplayed the other team.

The game wasn’t won because of snowball mechanics, it was won because it is now easier to overpower enemies who have inferior game sense and mechanics. This is something people have been asking for—more individual impact in games.

Or maybe you just got lucky after a few early mistakes and quickly gained an overwhelming statistical advantage over them, with no way to recover. They were, after all, matched in the same game as you. They should all be at around the same skill level as you. Ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect?

This change does nothing to increase individual impact in games, because if your teammates screw up in the early game and lose out on EXP, it’s all downhill from there, and skilled play will only get you so far when the enemy team has a 2-level lead.

I’ll just leave this here, a very relevant post by the devs made in March of 2019:

@BCrawford-21494

Overall, the most important thing to take away from all of this, is that even when losing, the game should still feel close. You can still compete, fight the enemy team, and not be at too great of a statistical disadvantage. If the enemy team still beats you, it’s because they’re actually the better team, and not because early game mistakes lead to unsurmountable level advantages that don’t feel fun to play against.

The devs spent years fine-tuning EXP gains so that the losing team would always have a good shot at making a comeback. Then they threw all of that out the window with this ill-conceived mechanic.

Before this change, it was quite rare for the losing team to be down a talent tier for more than a minute. Now, the winning team often has a 3-level lead by the end of the game, and the losing team spends a large portion of the match down a talent tier because they can’t safely farm EXP.