I don’t like the medal system, personally. You should be able to gauge how well you are doing just by your performance alone. All medals do for me is frustrate me when I have 3 golds and we are losing, or I have 3 golds and my team tells me to switch because they say I’m not doing anything.
In my opinion, there should be a score screen instead. People would stop blaming off meta picks for losses if the player actually has good stats with their hero.
I don’t see how it can be “reworked”, but rather add a few extra categories.
Medals give XP, besides that they don’t do much.
Alright, that’s fair…
900 damage is nothing, but if they are a few thousand above DPS.
It means DPS couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn.
Medals are the main reason why I like playing Moira. Feels good getting 5 medals per game with ease, usually 3 or 4 golds.
The other reason is because Moira is just a fun character to play. ^.-
I’d rather see more characters represented for potg game personally, rather than worry about medals. Potg seems to almost always miss the actually game-changing moment in favor of the rip-tire triple kill 30 seconds into the match or the bastion who found a good perch that meant little in the long run.
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I’ll be honest, as someone who doesn’t regularly play DPS, I don’t really have the best idea of what a “good” damage stat would be partway through the game, so I sorta have to go off of medals to help me gauge my performance.
Likewise there are other times where I look at my healing stat, feel like it’s pretty low, but even then it’s gold. What I get from that is neither healers are doing much, so either both of us are to blame, or neither of us are. Either way, it’s not strictly a “me” problem so I need to actually look at what the problem actually is.
In both cases, medals are really the only way to get an idea of how the game is going in the moment, something you can’t really wait for the end of the game to see.
I mean like, making it so elims aren’t just 1 damage, maybe it’s 50% dmg = elim Also removing objective kills, and adding a few more medals like deaths, dmg blocked etc.
It’s not me I’m worried about, it’s my team. I don’t normally have people telling ME I’m trash, because I’m a silent healer. I don’t want to hear my team call my other team mates trash.
Its a waste of everyone’s time and helps absolutely nothing. Besides, if you think a team mate is under-performing, you don’t have to berate them to let them know that.
Moreover, having gold medals doesn’t mean you’re doing your job, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t switch. If you’re a tank, and you’ve got gold damage, its either dps or you. If you have gold damage, and that damage is higher than how much you’ve shielded, its on you, not your DPS.
You don’t need medals to see that dealt vs shielded stat.
If a healer has silver healing, a self-healer might be healing more or people might be relying on a hacked Sombra health pack, or Soldier’s healing a lot. This really depends on the healer, but it isn’t necessarily the healer’s fault. The healer doesn’t necessarily have to switch, the NUMBER STAT is more important than the medal.
Relying on medals and medals alone for that justification that you’re doing fine is inefficient and not necessarily true.
I do want to add something off-topic: I’m thankful that you’ve all given good points and arguments for medals.
In short: “McCree! You suck, you can’t do anything you boosted trash!”
The McCree: “I have Gold Damage and Silver elims with 56% weapon accuracy.”
Need I say more?
Hard to explain. It’s a good benchmark for yourself to know how well you are doing.
However it is a terrible team measurement.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t going to people on your team who can’t perform.
To be fair that doesn’t measure how impactful the kills/damage were. The McCree could be shooting tanks with a Moira outhealing the damage and the elims could be from tagging people that would have died anyways.
It kinda like a tool to help identify the problems in the team, well, not all the time. Like if you have 1 elim as a Mercy and it is gold, that means your Dps ain’t doing anything. I use it as a way point to figure out what is wrong at the moment though, and when my medals change, well that gives me relief that something is going well.
Unless I am playing Moira then I have no idea what is wrong since I will always have gold elims from all the assists the balls made.
1 dmg can be worth it if say for example: widow runs away with 1 hp, but you get the last shot before she grabs the health pack.
removing and adding medals make sense though.
I don’t think they’re very useful either. Heroes are quite specialized, so they mostly just say “yes, you are doing what you’re supposed to”. Not even that if you’re losing.
I like them they allow me to know how well im doing compared to the other healer.
This proposition is like “we have evidence that people tend to make poor decisions in elections. Therefore, abort democracy”.
Medals are not to blame if they are falsely interpreted by the users. For sure, the system can be improved to diminish false interpretation, but it is equally false to blame a system itself. Blame the people and think of ways to improve it.
“Performance Based SR (and MMR).”
And that’s where the question is asked, What is the other DPS doing.