I played as much as I could Thursday and Friday night, 18 games in total, and I am sitting at 0 progress. I literally have nothing to show for all those hours I put in. This is a truly awful experience just because I wanted some extra competitive points…
I take the blame as far as not playing ranked as much anymore and not having the best games ever, but these games are virtually unwinnable. Every game has the same scoreboard: my team with maybe 2 or 3 elims each, their team with 20 or 30. The enemy team is just playing with their food the whole game. Free win for them I guess. If this is how bad the match maker is going to be during Drives, they just shouldn’t do them. I feel like I’m being punished for wanting to participate in the Drives event.
The devs should know that this event brings out the more casual players (including myself) so why make it so punishing for us? Its a weekend long event that is designed to be a tough grind. It is a poorly designed system. Just another reason for me to not spend any money on this game since playing it makes me feel horrible despite being a loyal player for almost a decade now. I would love to keep playing all weekend and having fun earning these rewards, but the experience has been truly soul crushing so far, I quit.
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I agree. Played it last season. I needed give or take 10 point to get the first point and then i had loss after loss and it went back to zero and barely could win and gave up after and never wanted to care about this system.
Who ever designed this crap and implement is a extremely awful sadistic person.
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Never going to change unless they add performance based mmr
If your gains and losses were more weighted to your individual performance good players would easily finish the drive and not be held back by bot teammates
Went 40/6 yesterday as dps while my tank was 18/12 and we lost so hard cus I physically could not make up for the negative value my teammates were bringing to the game.
Most players nowadays dont even count as a teammate, they count as either a fraction of one or a negative teammate.
Half my games end up like 2.5v5 cus 2 of my teammates would literally be better off afk than continuously feeding the enemy ults and are actively counting as -1 players whereas someone is bringing half the value than they should be. Only 2 of us on the team are actually pulling their weight
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Seriously, given how this system works, performance based SR, at least for drive scores, is necessary. It does not need to effect rank.
It would be easier to just make the event progression based. I am surprised this is like, the fifth one, and the feedback is apparently not negative? Just goes to show that the only people who care less about the game than the developers are the people playing it. Lol
Mahvel. Is. Better. 
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I have settled on the fact that no collaboration or event OW”2” has will ever appeal to me or its general audience.
Always big fails, keep your hopes low people
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I agree. I’m not even bothering this time. Virtually everyone I know is just super frustrated by their games. It’s Easter weekend. I don’t have time to care.
Every season drives seem to be worse anyway. Like they have not improved the experience.
- They need to make progression linear so that you always move forward. No loss of progress on losses.
- They need to reward you equally for every win so that you aren’t rewarded for throwing a bunch of games before drives.
- And it would be nice if even placement matches counted towards drive progress honestly.
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you lads must play a different game then - took exactly 18 games to finish #gg2ez - ok i admit, 9 games have been in a group but still
so want want the easy mode huh?
What a reductionist view of it. No, I didn’t say that. I just want to not lose progress when I lose especially when a lot of losses during drives tend to be because of leavers. At least a higher percentage than not during drives. Like, you shouldn’t be 1 game away from a checkpoint and then basically have to start over. That is frustrating. I don’t want easy mode, I want it to feel good to play.
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dude, you literally have more than 8 weeks to do the placements - if you haven’t done that - that means you don’t play competitive - if you don’t play competitive you are just here for the shiny fast comp points - you really want these qp / arcade fellas in your games?
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Yes, drives are encouraging people who do not play comp to play comp. It’s a dumb system. And they are going to play regardless. Let the placements count so they can get out of comp faster.
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at least open q counts now as well
I dont like the competitive reward system. You should get some points for just playing the mode. Participation points. But nope, you have to win just earn points. Its frustrating to say the least. I just you could just buy thoss Drives with Gold coins 
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eh, open queue is a complete dumpster fire anyway. Like, it’s not worth playing even for drives.
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sounds like easy mode as well ^^
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Personally I think at 3x pts for a loss it would be totally fine. In a group 4 losses would still be slightly less than 1 win.
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I like it. Comp is a committment! Its like playing 2 games of QP in one. Even 1 or 2 Comp points would be nice.
beg to differ, did all in open q, but maybe i was just lucky. once the team realises triple supp is king you should be fine
What if they extended the duration and removes loss penalty but made the checkpoints a lot more grindy. Would you be against that? It would be harder but probably not make losses feel more frustrating.
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Maybe you could earn points individually, like having the least amount of deaths or most kills or most heals. Something!
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