Thread: VS. Reward the best player .

Originally Posted by SilverCyrus

Maybe what it should do is give you the tank, and give all your SI a little bit of a damage bonus. i think that sounds reasonable.

Originally Posted by Vooodu

Personally i still luv the tank being random..

the tank isnt really random, it depends on ur infected damage score.

eg.

player 1: 10
player 2: 20
player 3: 30
player 4: 40

this means, the total damage is 100, player 4 would have a 40% chance of getting the tank, player 3 would have 30% chance, and then 20% and 10% respectively.

so technically, the tank is a reward for the infected individuals who score higher in damage amount.

Originally Posted by SilverCyrus

has this ever been proven, i always though this was true but never seen anything confirming it.

i never seen proof of it, but a friend (not a noob lol) told me that.

i always thought tanks were random too, but when i pay attention to the damage scores, it basically falls hand in hand with the theory everytime.

like if i had 150, everyone else had a combined of 30, i would always get the tank, and if there was that slightest chance of me (or whoever was the highest) not getting it, it would always be the 2nd highest. i haven't yet seen the lowest person get the tank when i paid attention to it.

if it was random, the lowest person would eventually get the tank on a 25% chance basis.

the way i see it, its basically a 5% or less, so to me, i think its true.

Not sure about the damage determining who gets the tank but I have managed to force myself to become the tank if it spawns at the start of a map. For some reason it always seems to give the tank to the first player that spawns in. So I've made a habit out of spaming the spawn button if I know the tank is coming. Most of the time I end up with it.

I do think there is something to the points system determining who gets the tank though. I've had nights where I've played several games in a row and end up begin the only one on my team that gets to play as the tank. I've even gotten it in finales three times in a row. Usually I'm way a head of my team mates in points when this happens.

Speaking of tank spawns I've had this happen before: Sometimes I will take control of the tank for a few seconds only to have the AI director pass control to someone else. This isn't due to the rage meter or anything. I only get to take a step or two and next thing I know I'm back to controlling whatever infected I was playing as before the tank spawned.

This really sucks because the other team gets a lot of free shots in on the tank depending on where he is and I usually end up controlling an infected that the AI ran to a stupid location so I end up getting shot before I have a chance to do anything.

I say give private matches the option to choose who you want to be (option can be turned on and off). Keep public matches even and the way they are now.