The fact you can deal 2 damage to a Roadhog and get credited with an elimination boosts statistics. I honestly feel like eliminations should only be worth a full elimination if it was a solo-kill. Otherwise, split the elimination based on percentage of damage done.
If everyone on the team hits the same target, it’s 6 eliminations for killing a single hero. These numbers should really be changed.
Alright. What’s the ‘reward’ for getting an assist, a kill, even?
Bragging rights, even though you lost.
This is why they need to add an “Assists” counter to the tab menu that appears while in game. Maybe those Genji’s with no damage medals and gold elims can stop saying they are “carrying” then.
It’s just a number, whoopty do.
Credited as an elim when you may have only done 2 damage and someone else did 598. Why are both people getting an elim? One person did less than 1% of work.
Just add in an “average Elim damage” stat. Whenever you get an elim, it tracks the percent of damage you dealt to the target to get the elim (so as not to skew from tanks).
So Moiras may only have around an average Elim damage of 30-40%, but a Hanzo might be cruising around 75%.
So… what’s the reward?
Skewed stats, maybe? Suppose someone is playing DPS, and have chipped away at a lot of the enemy, but didn’t do any major damage to them. They’ll have 6 elims in their stats, when all they did was shoot a stray bullet and it hit someone before they died.
It’s part of what makes the medal system completely stupid.
I really shouldn’t have to spell this out for you tbh.
… but what’s the reward?
You don’t get anything out of any of these. Your random number that only you can see the majority of the time doesn’t decide the outcome of your games, or the lootboxes you get, the quality of friends you make, or the amount of direct channels you have to Jeff Kaplan.
It’s not my fault you’re putting a number that means essentially nothing to the point of it being ‘a reward.’
If you want to be so proud of a number, just look at solo kills. Nobody can take those away from you.
But the devs want OWL to be a success. They want this sad messed up balance of a game to inspire players to chase that big eSports dream and become a hero. But when the players are given skewed stats, they have a very inaccurate number of just how much they’re contributing to eliminating enemies.
“Reward” was probably the wrong word to use here. There isn’t a reward. Players will just have a skewed perception of their eliminations.
Trust me, the people who care about eliminations as a statistic are not the type of people that are going to move on to OWL. Once you get high enough up in rank, any mention of what medal you have oooh but i have gold elims!!! just gets you ridiculed.
There’s just no point in it. Until they get rid of medals altogether and show everyone peoples’ stats, there is zero reason to split out kills and assists.
You also have a kills stat. It’s final blows.
They really should just have a final blow and assist category. Get rid of elims
Not my fault you don’t understand the value of an elimination. A tiny bit of chip damage shouldn’t inflate your elimination numbers. Right now they’re given out too loosely. Not every elimination should be equal.
It’s clear you can’t grasp this.
The irony hurts me.
The entire time I’ve asked what the reward is for eliminations, in other words, what the value is for an arbitrary number that has no effect other than inflating your ego.
It just doesn’t matter.
Nobody cares about the stats they can’t see anyways so what’s the point?
Maybe your overbuff stats will look good but that’s about it.
If elims were not given in full for chip damage, there would be more “reward”. As it is now, they are more meaningless only because of the fact that 2 damage nets the same elimination as a player who did 598.
Elim numbers get inflated in the current format. There is a reward for minimal work. Not difficult to grasp tbh
No there wouldn’t? Where did you get this weird notion in your head that you’d get rewarded for kills? There’s no experience in this game. No gold to get from kills. No talents or quests that get stronger off of kills.
What is the reward?! What is this mystical gift you’re getting from a flashy number appearing on your screen?
Talking strictly about stats and numbers. You don’t understand the concept of reward in this essence. You’re taking it to mean some sort of value that earns loot boxes or some nonsense.
Your elims per life would drop tremendously if you were only got credited for the amount of work you put in. That’s the reward.
Literally NEVER have I ever spoken about experience or gold, etc. That is NOT what this is about. lmao