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[Kenny Banja]

I have been playing competitive pvp for a long time and finally decided to get a "chill account" where I can just relax and have fun instead of bothering about score, kill steals and whatnot.

 

Got my copy of ME3 and although I have met and played with a lot of cool people from BSN I still hear too much talk about the score at the end of a game when playing pug. I've also noticed for a long time while lurking BSN that score is a frequent concern amongst players, and I just have to ask why?

I almost never even look at the scoreboard because I know that the score is not the same as how much I actually helped the team, and it definately doesn't depict how fun or relaxing the game was. What I do is that I go by the feeling I get during and after a match, if it is a good feeling then it was a good game regardless if I was last in score or not.

If this was CoD, Battlefield, Counter-Strike or something like that I would understand (that's my usual world so I know what it's like), but in a coop game like ME3?

 

I just think it's a bit sad =/

[Chala]

Brag.

Plain and simple, even if the game is coop, we feel better when we know the others are beneath us.

[DarkFaerie316]

I use my score as an indicator of how much I'm contributing to the team. If I have a character that is not a 'support' character and my score is terrible, then I feel like I'm not helping the team as much as I should. Other than that, I'm really not bothered. 

[mrs_anomaly]

I can understand why you find it refreshing to play a co-op game and relax. I think the simple answer to your question is that you're dealing with gamers and secondly humans are naturally inclined toward hierarchy. 

 

Also a lot of the people that play ME3 multi- this is their primary game. They haven't come to ME3 for a gaming vacay   Having a score board, seeing scores, no matter how flawed the scoring is makes an impression on most people. 

[Caineghis2500]

Score doesn't matter in this co-op game. Never did.
The score mechanism is broken anyway

[Killlashandra]

I use my score as an indicator of how much I'm contributing to the team. If I have a character that is not a 'support' character and my score is terrible, then I feel like I'm not helping the team as much as I should. Other than that, I'm really not bothered. 

 

Yeah well except there are days when you think you are supporting your team, your team has just so many more hours then you into this game, that even trying to pretend to care about the score is a moot part.

 

Play for fun, play for the socializing.

[cronshaw]

I like stats and looking at what I've done
As crappy as the score system is, it's all BioWare gave us unfortunately
If there is MP in the next iteration of ME I'd welcome more detailed stats: headshots, accuracy percentages, ect
People who have a bug up their ass about score either way are probably taking the game too seriously

[Derpy]

Because scrubs like myself want to look better than all of you and stuff because we think we are sexy and disserve better scores which means e-peen which gives us more swag which just shows in IRL that we are epic and gangster.

[DarkFaerie316]

Yeah well except there are days when you think you are supporting your team, your team has just so many more hours then you into this game, that even trying to pretend to care about the score is a moot part.

 

Play for fun, play for the socializing.

 

 

True, like on xbox, others are soooo far ahead of me. I run around trying to help but usually end up dead. Being on a new profile is hard sometimes 

[didacuscarr]

It really doesn't matter.

[Killlashandra]

True, like on xbox, others are soooo far ahead of me. I run around trying to help but usually end up dead. Being on a new profile is hard sometimes 

 

yeah I gave up on my xbox profile, it's why when I do have time I play ps3, less stress, and people who will duo with lil ole me.

 

As for new profile, holy cow, me3 was on sale on origin last weekend so I got it for the PC. This resulted

[Killlashandra]

It really doesn't matter.

 

Dida it won't let me like your post!!!!

You have reached your quota of positive votes for the day

 

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[mrs_anomaly]

True, like on xbox, others are soooo far ahead of me. I run around trying to help but usually end up dead. Being on a new profile is hard sometimes 

Aww don't be so hard on yourself DarkF! It's hard to restart. I attempted a restart on PC but I found that while having a new challenge is nice- it wasn't so fun for me to deal with varying speeds of the game on PC nor dealing with a wimpy manifest and my brain is programmed to use an xbox controller for the ME universe. I am at a serious disadvantage when playing ME3 on PC and it makes me feel like not playing. 

[DarkFaerie316]

Aww don't be so hard on yourself DarkF! It's hard to restart. I attempted a restart on PC but I found that while having a new challenge is nice- it wasn't so fun for me to deal with varying speeds of the game on PC nor dealing with a wimpy manifest and my brain is programmed to use an xbox controller for the ME universe. I am at a serious disadvantage when playing ME3 on PC and it makes me feel like not playing. 

 

 

I know what you mean, when I first got on xbox, I had such a hard time as I've played for soooo long on PS3, couldn't get used to the switch in controls. Now I find that if I go on ps3, I use the xbox controls and if I'm on xbox, I use the PS3 controls  Think I'm gonna have to just stick with one platform for a while!!

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

Under Game Options in the main menu (I think it's under "Extras") or in the lobby, go into mission settings, and then press the prompted button for further options (I think it's Y/Triangle.) Under Controls, you can set your bumpers to flip to whichever you prefer. I altered my PS3 bumpers to activate powers, and the triggers to activate aim/shoot, since that was what I was used to from Xbox.

 

EDIT:

 

On topic, I think score matters much less than people usually think. And the people in here are probably right, the existence of the scoreboard awakens the competitive nature in people, and it changes the way they play.

 

I've often said that if you lost 5000 points every time you went down, you would see a dramatic change in the way people play, and average scores would (at least temporarily) come way down! ;D

[FasterThanFTL]

When I started of 2 years ago I was the ultimate team player, reviving everyone without any hesitation, doing all the objectives by myself, detonating explosions, stripping shields etc. But the elitist players thought I was an average player because I chose to play the game the way it should be played. I felt I deserved more respect so I became a scorewhoring monster that the world had never seen and probably will never see. Those same elitist players now dislike me because I have become much better than them and I feel much better about myself when I outscore them very easily on or off-host.

[ALTBOULI]

Who ever claimed it did?

[me0120]

When I started of 2 years ago I was the ultimate team player, reviving everyone without any hesitation, doing all the objectives by myself, detonating explosions, stripping shields etc. But the elitist players thought I was an average player because I chose to play the game the way it should be played. I felt I deserved more respect so I became a scorewhoring monster that the world had never seen and probably will never see. Those same elitist players now dislike me because I have become much better than them and I feel much better about myself when I outscore them very easily on or off-host.

Oh, you...

[Moby]

OnlyCareAbootMe20Headshots

#yoloswagKennyRush

[HeroicMass]

the people that care about score are a small minority.  Unfortunately, they are also very loud so it seems that they are greater in number than they are in actuality.

[Jugger nuggss]

Its proportionate to ones e-peen or e-boob

[Derpy]

Its proportionate to ones e-peen or e-boob

Don't you be hating my e-peen.

[Kenny Banja]

Who ever claimed it did?

 

No one really, but when people keep talking about being top in score and "outscoring" everyone then it becomes pretty obvious that it matters for those people. But it's not pvp, it's coop where everyone plays together against an AI which means the final outcome will be a team effort and not an individual one. I don't know, just thought it would be different in a game that's not competitive by design =p

[Creator Limbs]

It doesn't.