Quite a good post on "Assignments"

DICE, the way you designed the assignments is somewhat baffling.

In my mind, these should represent goals that encourage people to play the game as it was intended, play it well and foster, in general, better skills. This is not the case with some of the Assignments.

Starting with the game type requirement; forcing people into not only participating in some game types, but winning, is just annoying. You are forcing people to potentially play a game type they have absolutely no interest in. It’s one thing to create a hurdle, but creating one that forces people to play outside their comfort zone is not a positive one.

If the game types you have created cannot stand on their own two feet, forcing people into them for the sake of in game unlocks will not cause those game types to become relevant and will only breed contemptment. At best, it will only be targeted towards the game type; at worst, it will be targeted toward the brand.

Onto the weapon usage requirements.

In particular, I am looking at the Assault requirement for UBL usage and the Engineer requirement for RPG kills. By now you, DICE, should be well aware of the stigma around “noob tubing” and launcher kills. Neither of which are considered skillful kills, in most cases, and a large part of the gaming community looks down on abusers of these weapons as sort of in-game trolls. In a very quick stroke you have shown you do not care about this issue and want to see more people running around as if they are playing Rocket Arena. This is just a flat out disconnect from your fan base. Instead of putting in skillful challenges, you are encouraging bad game play that will only make the current landscape worse than it currently is in regards to these types of weapons.

Replacing the Assault requirement with “Kills on Enemies Behind Destructible Cover” and Engineers with “Vehicles Kills” would have allowed you to still promote these weapons, but in a more positive and truly useful way as you are promoting smart use of secondary weapons rather than primary use of secondary weapons.

For Recon, the knife kill requirement isn’t as bad, and I see what you are doing here, but this is a bad way to encourage Recons to get close to the action where many of their weapons do not support this type of play, or worse, you are encouraging snipers to hunt each other down which means you are encouraging the Recons to focus even less than the current match in play. Replacing this with completing objective oriented goals would have been better as you would have encouraged Recons to smartly tell when a particular MCOM or Flag is unprotected and moving in to do whatever deed is necessary.

I really hope that future assignments do more to foster smart, respectable game play.