So…why are there NO commendations for objectives or winning games? Did Bungie just completly forget about objective fans? I find it pretty dumb that you capture all three flags and the game doesn’t even acknowlage your achievment. Here’s what I propose…
Add commendations for the following, complete with tiers from iron to onyx:
-Capturing a flag/ scoring a point on any objective game
Taking down a high value target, such as a flag carrier
-Winning a game (as well as a bonus for winning it FASTER not slower)
It would be harder to add commendations for returning objectives due to boosting issues…anybody who played CoD 3 would know this.
What are your thoughts? Were Bungie right to leave out Cr rewards for objective fans?
Yup, along with the fact that winning a game hardly gives you any more credits than not winning it, this leads to statwhores. It’s a shame really, MLG, Multi Team and especially Grifball are mostly populated by people wanting to pad out their K/D.
> Yup, along with the fact that winning a game hardly gives you any more credits than not winning it, this leads to statwhores. It’s a shame really, MLG, Multi Team and especially Grifball are mostly populated by people wanting to pad out their K/D.
Multi-team and Grifball yes, but no one goes into MLG to pad stats. That would be absurd. If you really want to pad stats you’re better suited in Living Dead or getting a full team and going into BTB.
Honestly I think your K/D should just be invisible, but the game should find a way to show that you contribute to your team. The guy in objective going barely positive with 2 flag caps in much more important than the guy who sat in the base with a snipe the whole time to go +20.
Also yes, I think there should be specific commendations for objectives, as well as more sprees. I would love to see a headshot spree(not in swat, obviously) since less skillful ways of killing get sprees. Also a medal for destroying a vehicle would be nice. It sucks to be the guy who plasma pistols a warthog, blueberries it, but dies in the process and get nothing acknowledging what you did for the team.
> > Yup, along with the fact that winning a game hardly gives you any more credits than not winning it, this leads to statwhores. It’s a shame really, MLG, Multi Team and especially Grifball are mostly populated by people wanting to pad out their K/D.
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> Multi-team and Grifball yes, but no one goes into MLG to pad stats. That would be absurd. If you really want to pad stats you’re better suited in Living Dead or getting a full team and going into BTB.
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> Honestly I think your K/D should just be invisible, but the game should find a way to show that you contribute to your team. The guy in objective going barely positive with 2 flag caps in much more important than the guy who sat in the base with a snipe the whole time to go +20.
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> Also yes, I think there should be specific commendations for objectives, as well as more sprees. I would love to see a headshot spree(not in swat, obviously) since less skillful ways of killing get sprees. Also a medal for destroying a vehicle would be nice. It sucks to be the guy who plasma pistols a warthog, blueberries it, but dies in the process and get nothing acknowledging what you did for the team.
I know that more people go into Multi Team and Grifball to pad out their K/D’s than MLG, but it still happens quite a bit in MLG. I play MLG a fair bit and you’ll be surprised at the amount of 0-0’s on CTF Sanc etc.
Maybe this is one of the reasons for objectives absurdly low population? You get in a game and there’s no incentive to win. You could be near the flag and think “Why should I bother? Either my team won’t help me, or the enemy team won’t try and stop me. It won’t be fun or challenging. I won’t be rewarded. I’ll just be ending the game faster.”.
Well okay maybe they wouldn’t think all that in the three seconds they drive past the flag but you get my point lol…
> > Did Bungie just completly forget about objective fans?
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> Yep, pretty sure they did actually.
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> I think Commendations are BS entirely, but they definitely left them out pretty hard for Objective players.
I think this needs to be number 51 on my Reach list
> > > Yup, along with the fact that winning a game hardly gives you any more credits than not winning it, this leads to statwhores. It’s a shame really, MLG, Multi Team and especially Grifball are mostly populated by people wanting to pad out their K/D.
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> > Multi-team and Grifball yes, but no one goes into MLG to pad stats. That would be absurd. If you really want to pad stats you’re better suited in Living Dead or getting a full team and going into BTB.
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> > Honestly I think your K/D should just be invisible, but the game should find a way to show that you contribute to your team. The guy in objective going barely positive with 2 flag caps in much more important than the guy who sat in the base with a snipe the whole time to go +20.
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> > Also yes, I think there should be specific commendations for objectives, as well as more sprees. I would love to see a headshot spree(not in swat, obviously) since less skillful ways of killing get sprees. Also a medal for destroying a vehicle would be nice. It sucks to be the guy who plasma pistols a warthog, blueberries it, but dies in the process and get nothing acknowledging what you did for the team.
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> I know that more people go into Multi Team and Grifball to pad out their K/D’s than MLG, but it still happens quite a bit in MLG. I play MLG a fair bit and you’ll be surprised at the amount of 0-0’s on CTF Sanc etc.
Just stop. You have no idea what you’re talking about. The reason you see 0-0’s on Sanctuary is because in order to pull the objective and score you need to force spawn the other team opposite of where you’re running the flag then outslay them 3on4. No one goes into a playlist full of try-hards and 4-man teams to boost their K/D.
> > Yup, along with the fact that winning a game hardly gives you any more credits than not winning it, this leads to statwhores. It’s a shame really, MLG, Multi Team and especially Grifball are mostly populated by people wanting to pad out their K/D.
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> Multi-team and Grifball yes, but no one goes into MLG to pad stats. That would be absurd. If you really want to pad stats you’re better suited in Living Dead or getting a full team and going into BTB.
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> Honestly I think your K/D should just be invisible, but the game should find a way to show that you contribute to your team. The guy in objective going barely positive with 2 flag caps in much more important than the guy who sat in the base with a snipe the whole time to go +20.
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> Also yes, I think there should be specific commendations for objectives, as well as more sprees. I would love to see a headshot spree(not in swat, obviously) since less skillful ways of killing get sprees. Also a medal for destroying a vehicle would be nice. It sucks to be the guy who plasma pistols a warthog, blueberries it, but dies in the process and get nothing acknowledging what you did for the team.
You’re completely wrong the person with 20+ is just as important as the guy running the flag, if it isn’t for them the person running the flag would not have even had a chance of coming near capturing the flag. its called teamwork.
The biggest problem with objective based commendations, I would expect, would be betrayals. I could see someone betraying their flag carrier right as they reach their base and taking the cap for themselves. If 343i did implement this and provided an auto-kick option for betraying the flag carrier, it would still cause problems because someone can accidentally betray the objective carrier and receive unjust boot. However, a commendation for wins is a great idea.
> > > Yup, along with the fact that winning a game hardly gives you any more credits than not winning it, this leads to statwhores. It’s a shame really, MLG, Multi Team and especially Grifball are mostly populated by people wanting to pad out their K/D.
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> > Multi-team and Grifball yes, but no one goes into MLG to pad stats. That would be absurd. If you really want to pad stats you’re better suited in Living Dead or getting a full team and going into BTB.
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> > Honestly I think your K/D should just be invisible, but the game should find a way to show that you contribute to your team. The guy in objective going barely positive with 2 flag caps in much more important than the guy who sat in the base with a snipe the whole time to go +20.
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> > Also yes, I think there should be specific commendations for objectives, as well as more sprees. I would love to see a headshot spree(not in swat, obviously) since less skillful ways of killing get sprees. Also a medal for destroying a vehicle would be nice. It sucks to be the guy who plasma pistols a warthog, blueberries it, but dies in the process and get nothing acknowledging what you did for the team.
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> You’re completely wrong the person with 20+ is just as important as the guy running the flag, if it isn’t for them the person running the flag would not have even had a chance of coming near capturing the flag. its called teamwork.
I’m not referring to people slaying as teamwork, I’m referring to the 95% of statpadders(the word I want to use isn’t forum approved) that will do things like betray for the sniper just so they can hit 1 out of every 5 shots and then throw a tantrum because the flag was never captured because they never left the base.
Camping your own base for kills isn’t teamwork. Maybe you should watch or play some MLG or something so you can have an idea of what teamwork is.
