as we can all see in recent oddball video’s, passing and/or catching the oddball gains you credits/xp
i can see this ending badly as people will just boost it, i havent got a problem with throwing the ball, just the point system allocated to it?
thoughts?
It’d be one weird way to boost.
> It’d be one weird way to boost.
But it’s an easy one. Far too easy. That’s the problem.
Seriously? Oh dear…
> > It’d be one weird way to boost.
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> But it’s an easy one. Far too easy. That’s the problem.
Indeed. I think to make it even more simpler to prevent boosting on objectives that include chucking: how about not earn any credits or EXP for chucking the ball to other players at all?
It may function in the same way that repairing a tank does in BF3, XP is earned up to a cap in each game. The amount earned is also relatively low. Sadly I think there’ll always be ways to boost.
It won’t work the points are so little and throwing the ball will should stop the time causing ur team to be gaining no points and if the points for winning is a large amount there would be no point. Unless you have a party of eight but with a party of eight there’s many more ways to boost.
That does seem like an easy way to boost. I hope this is fixed.
> It won’t work the points are so little and throwing the ball will should stop the time causing ur team to be gaining no points and if the points for winning is a large amount there would be no point. Unless you have a party of eight but with a party of eight there’s many more ways to boost.
You get 15 points for chucking the ball from far distances towards your team-mate and another 15 points for catching the ball from a distance. Can you imagine how quick people would constantly chuck the ball? I’m not saying that they will chuck super quick because I can’t tell. But it is something to kind of think about.
Is it me or have 343 waited until the last minute to release all the backward–Yoinked!- ideas?
Check the bulletin. They went over this already they have failsafes
Also if you are trying to boost, the other team will probably kill you anyway.
There is an indicator isn’t there? its not like the other team is going to just let you guys play catch.
(unless they want you to >_<).
theres going to be boosting in oddball? easy fix just remove the playlist
More concerning is that, since you auto-pickup the ball, you can throw it at enemies and make them catch it and become defenseless. Big oversight, IMO.
> Is it me or have 343 waited until the last minute to release all the backward–Yoinked!- ideas?
It’s you; I’d recommend seeing a doctor, but your pessimism is terminal, my condolences.
It would, but the trade off is that they do not gain points for the scoreboard while it is in the air. Not to mention you r team is not the only team on the field and are more likely to be catching plasma grenades if your focus is practicing Grifball passing.
It could be weird, nit if a team is dominating the other team, they deserve a few seconds of playing catch.
> More concerning is that, since you auto-pickup the ball, you can throw it at enemies and make them catch it and become defenseless. Big oversight, IMO.
Depends on the distance. If they’re close and they got thrusters, you just gave them an instant kill weapon.
Far away, and you might have just costed the game or they could dodge it.
> as we can all see in recent oddball video’s, passing and/or catching the oddball gains you credits/xp
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> i can see this ending badly as people will just boost it, i havent got a problem with throwing the ball, just the point system allocated to it?
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> thoughts?
It looks that way in the video because there wasn’t 10 other people trying to kill them.
> More concerning is that, since you auto-pickup the ball, you can throw it at enemies and make them catch it and become defenseless. Big oversight, IMO.
Oh my god… I did not think of that. That’s amazing! I can see a lot of funny kills coming out of that.
Also, it may be hard with the enemy team trying to kill you… But what if you go in a boosting lobby? The ole language change trick o.0
> More concerning is that, since you auto-pickup the ball, you can throw it at enemies and make them catch it and become defenseless. Big oversight, IMO.
That… will actually be fun: throw the ball, let enemy catch it, stand at a distance and BR the #$%# out of them, pick up ball, REPEAT.
LOL.