Why so many 5000+ bad players ?

[TheOz]

. . . both me and wife get higher score do more damage and regularly have the mission take twice as long at least with ramped up enemies which we are killing faster than him.
Sadly it is not a rare occurance.

Bad Luck on your side. Whenever I play with 5Ks I rarely have issues of them not pulling their weight. It is the converse that is nearly always true. When that happens the players tend to be under 1k so it is to be expected that they will struggle. Once players have put in the time to reach your level they should be able to compete considering scaled damage.

That being said . . . since this game released I have constantly had a 'Best' loadout, and I rarely use it because it gets boring. I spend much of my time mastering weapons and experimenting with different weapons and loadouts. If I didn't I would have stopped playing a long time ago. If things go sideways, all I have to do is go back to my killer loadout.

[rydda]

By bad I do not mean evil, I mean bad at the game.

I am only Ego 3300 at the moment, run around quite happily with my wife she is 2600 ego doing daily missions now and then a 5000 ego player joins bumping the site up to 10 and 4750 boost for us, all is great as long as he is on his A game, has good equipment and knows how to use it. These area joy to fight with.

But more often a 5000+ player will join the site and act like it is his first day on defiance, both me and wife get higher score do more damage and regularly have the mission take twice as long at least with ramped up enemies which we are killing faster than him.

Sadly it is not a rare occurance.

A low ego weapon puts more bullets in to a tl10 npc then a higher ego its the bug.
Lower ego will add up more dmg. Cause it takes more bullets to kill them, higher ego take them out faster, the longer you keep that tl10 npc alive you will all ways put more dmg to them. Let the npc charge there shields you will see whats wrong with it.


wait im worng he most have hold his fire so you guys would get the points.

[Festival]

I think I usually pull my weight...but I've certainly found myself not doing so when I'm leveling some of the crappier weapon lines. If things are going really badly, I start feeling guilty and switch to a "real" loadout...but otherwise them's the breaks.

[XPac]

I think I usually pull my weight...but I've certainly found myself not doing so when I'm leveling some of the crappier weapon lines. If things are going really badly, I start feeling guilty and switch to a "real" loadout...but otherwise them's the breaks.

Yeah, I sometimes feel semi-guilty when I'm trying to level up with a crappy weapon and I know I'm not necessarily pulling my weight. But what can ya do? I'm sure everyone's been there.

[Jack Horrigan]

I love being the 5000+guy and manning up. I whip out my sludge RL so the low ego guys maybe see how armor works but also help remove it. Then I Rambo hardcore. I am most certainly not the best, but in general I'm good at games. Skill level varies and high ego with the new scaling punishes lower skill as much or more so than it rewards good skill. I'm also one of those people that loved the more casual, layed back approach to ego the game had before scaling. Sadly, its here to stay.... Heres hoping you get better luck with random 5k+!

[dramaQkarri]

Proud to see everyone not taking offense to the OP's question - it's legit and there's no way to ask it without sounding...not so nice. But, we know you don't mean it that way.

There's a lot of reasons 5K+ may seem like suckage but most of us do slack sometimes. Levelling weapons (for instance I'm about to run around with a rocket launcher all the time to get that done), fear of DC so hiding in a corner until an event is finished (as long as I'm not griefing by hanging around - if my help is needed I don't lurk), etc.

I also like to let lower levels go ahead and get the kill shot if I'm at some event or contract and we're the only two people there - especially in Mt. Tam. So I slack off when the red dots are about to die. I remember how hard it is to get a shot in edgewise when a high level is mowing everything down.

At any rate my skill is medium I suppose, can hold my own pretty much anywhere except PVP...

[drackiller]

Proud to see everyone not taking offense to the OP's question - it's legit and there's no way to ask it without sounding...not so nice. But, we know you don't mean it that way.

There's a lot of reasons 5K+ may seem like suckage but most of us do slack sometimes. Levelling weapons (for instance I'm about to run around with a rocket launcher all the time to get that done), fear of DC so hiding in a corner until an event is finished (as long as I'm not griefing by hanging around - if my help is needed I don't lurk), etc.

I also like to let lower levels go ahead and get the kill shot if I'm at some event or contract and we're the only two people there - especially in Mt. Tam. So I slack off when the red dots are about to die. I remember how hard it is to get a shot in edgewise when a high level is mowing everything down.

At any rate my skill is medium I suppose, can hold my own pretty much anywhere except PVP...

This here.
No matter how bad a 5K player is...
I sometimes pause my killing spree to allow low lvl player get their kick momment.

I have my weapons at max level, i don`t really care to score at the threshold and beyond.

[drackiller]

By bad I do not mean evil, I mean bad at the game.

I am only Ego 3300 at the moment, run around quite happily with my wife she is 2600 ego doing daily missions now and then a 5000 ego player joins bumping the site up to 10 and 4750 boost for us, all is great as long as he is on his A game, has good equipment and knows how to use it. These area joy to fight with.

But more often a 5000+ player will join the site and act like it is his first day on defiance, both me and wife get higher score do more damage and regularly have the mission take twice as long at least with ramped up enemies which we are killing faster than him.

Sadly it is not a rare occurance.

I wasn`t going to...
...but i have: you seem to be one of those...

[BJWyler]

Yeah, I sometimes feel semi-guilty when I'm trying to level up with a crappy weapon and I know I'm not necessarily pulling my weight. But what can ya do? I'm sure everyone's been there.

I did it by hitting up Major Arkfalls. Less of an issue there, and geez - the rate at which I polished off BMGs (level 17-20), Rocket Launchers (level 5-20), Detonators (level 5-20), and Combat and Pump shotties (levels 18-20), it was one of the few highlights I had with the scaling system. Only took a few hours all tolled to level up everything over a week or so.

[XPac]

I did it by hitting up Major Arkfalls. Less of an issue there, and geez - the rate at which I polished off BMGs (level 17-20), Rocket Launchers (level 5-20), Detonators (level 5-20), and Combat and Pump shotties (levels 18-20), it was one of the few highlights I had with the scaling system. Only took a few hours all tolled to level up everything over a week or so.

Yeah, I'm in the process of leveling up by BMG's and Rocket Launchers now, and it's going a lot faster. That's a nice plus to the current system. Prior to the new patch, it took me so long to get anywhere with the freaking rocket launcher that I sort of gave up even trying.