As the title says, I would play comp for hours in a day to get up to 2100 points and beyond but as there isn’t, I play roughly 5 matches a week as the thought of falling back to zero points is too much.
I like to state first of all though, I am a below average player but I try and I always try to get better in every match I play. I also (although I don’t agree with doubling loss points) don’t want loss points removed - Loss Points has to stay within comp or there s no difference between comp and Quickplay.
When doing Vanguard/Gambit Pinnacles and Service Revolver, I grinder for hours because it was all about progression, there was no fear of something going wrong where I had to start at the very beginning. I could get to a quarter of the way through and positively say to myself, I am almost there now - I cannot do this with Lunas Quest. I am under 800 but instead of thinking, I’m more than a third through this, I’m thinking, if I play one more I could lose and then I’m further away from 2100.... so I simp,y, don’t p,at.
Please do not mistake me asking for Sub-Rank/Ranking Locks as a way of making it easier, because it isn’t! I am still going to have to win matches, I am still going to have to win against much better players - but at least I have a safety net and hope! I can go on a string of losses but I won’t end up back at zero points - so I can say to myself, right, lost 5 matches I’m back at beginning of Brave II, time for a smoke and a cuppa, then I’m getting back on that horse and I’m going to get to Brave III. Instead it’s, okay I’m done for the week - I’m going to wait til Reset and get the bonus points then I will play 3-5 matches and leave it at that for the week.
Last week, played 4 and lost all 4 - I started with 900 points and ended I think with 660 points? This week I played 5 matches, lost 3 and I’m on 776 points so I have only gained 116 points - not much progression there at all. But this week though, I played relatively well, in one match lost I had 27 opponents defeated but I noticed I was playing against people on the rank above - not sub-Rank above. I was round about 800 points and couple I played against were 1100 and 1200 points? I thought with comp, you only played against those within the same rank?
So again, it’s not about making it easier - it’s about giving players like myself some hope and belief.
EDIT: There was a comment made about how I and others don’t care and how we don’t want to put effort in - it bothers me, because that is far from the truth.
I care about doing this quest, I care that I do it best I can and I am more than willing to put the effort in but not under the current system. I could play 8 hours a day, and still have less points than what I started out on. I would easily play 8 hours a day, 7 days a week but not when there is a system that does not reward my time and where my progress can be massively damaged!
If I didn’t care nor willing to put effort in, then I simply wouldn’t do it or I pay someone to do it! The fact I’m asking for one change to be made from Bungie, and I would then be willing to put all my time in comp (Least most of it) shows I care and that I’m willing!
I know Gambit is different to comp, but bear with me please - I am working on my 15th Reset, why? Because apart from Legend Rank, you are rewarded for your time and each game you play there is progress and you see that progress so it motivates you to continue. Even when I lose, I still have the motivation but I’m not asking that comp rewards you when you lose, no, I don’t want Glory Loss Points to go - what I’m getting at is, Comp does not have that motivating side to it, if you are losing you don’t want to keep going cause You worry that all that progress, all those points will disappear and you will be back at zero. So, you stop and you wait til Reset, then you play your 3 games - now it shouldn’t be like that, you should be wanting to play game after game after game but for many, that will never happen under this current system and this must be affecting comp playerbase in general and it cannot be good for game!
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5 RepliesMy personal OPINION... Is that until you hit 2100, you should be unable to lose more points than you started the week at. Start the week at 1008? You can lose every match alll week long and it won't go down past 1008. Manage to get up to 1440? As soon as the game resets next tuesday, that's your new floor, no sinking past 1440. Sure you might get a win streak and then end up losing all that headway... But you won't lose more than you started with. Now. Everything changes once you get to 2100. Once you hit that mark, you absolutely can lose back down to zero points. Because the max rank of comp is supposed to be restricted. But 2100 should be an obtainable goal not just for stacked teams and try hards but for also anyone willing to dedicate the time. Especially considering that the "pinnacle" weapons that people earn from reaching that level are weapons that you are going to have to compete against even if you don't have access to them right now. If they're designed to be better than other weapons, it doesn't help balance if people who are "Supposed" better players, also have better weapons than what you have access to. Just saying. But that said.................................................................................... Prepare to start screaming... I think these need to be the last round of pinnacle weapons. Because the existence of these weapons is going to result in Bungie being incapable of buffing under-performing weapons because it makes this or that pinnacle weapon too strong, and people will freak out about nerfing a weapon "WE WORKED FOR!!!!!"... With every new pinnacle weapon, they're making it harder and harder to buff standard equipment. If nothing else, all pinnacle weapons need to exist outside of the normal "frame/rpm" system. Instead of recluse being a light weight frame have it be it's own thing entirely. Instead of Luna's Forgotten being a precision frame 180 hand cannon, it needs to be it's own thing, maybe a 170 frame (yeah lower it's ttk slightly) and remove bloom to counter it... If they keep adding these pinnacle weapons, they need to exist completely outside the current rpm systems. They need to each be their own thing so that bungie can deal with balance without having to nerf or break the pinnacle weapons.