Melee XP Bug

[Chief117]

Today I have been playing about 5 matches and I was consistently using melee weapons (1st the Bo staff and now the dual Skana) yet after every match I got about 90 xp + about 100 bonus xp, yet for my other weapons (like the Strun) I was getting thousands of xp as usual.

Anybody else ?

[striketh]

I've noticed that, even when I primarily use my melee weapon throughout a map, I tend to get a lot less XP for it in comparison to other weapons. I'm not sure if this is intended or not, but it's taking me about twice as long to level up melee weapons as a result. My shotgun is evel 15 and my sword is only level 6, and this is the 2nd main weapon I've ranked up since I equipped this sword.

[Chief117]

Update, still the same miniscule amount of xp is gained per match, usually in hundreds or just tens even with more than 20 kills on high lvl enemies.

Edited January 7, 2013 by Chief117

[Pruney]

Yes this. I can't level up my melee weapon since the xp at level 3 has gone so tiny. While my level 3 pistol is getting 1k xp for shooting 1 guy.

[Mikel88]

A mi en combate cuerpo a cuerpo si me dan la experiencia ganada pero mi hermano no sube de nivel ni la espada, ni la pistola, ni el personaje, empezamos a jugar a la vez y hemos jugado o mismo y le saco 3 niveles en todo

[Chief117]

Good to know I am not alone in this.

Can someone please translate what Mikel88 said ?

[Sealgaire]

It seems to only happen to me in coop games. Solo games have given me the regular amount of XP.

[Kreddi]

Whenever an ally kills an opponent everyone close will get exp for the gun they are currently having out aswell, and since you can't run with your sword out the gun you are holding gets exp instead. This means that melee weapons only get the exp for the kills you make (which is probably around 1/8 if only using melee).

Not really a bug, as much as a gameplay mechanic that could use tweaking

EDIT: This is ofcourse assuming you are playing with more people. If not then yes, its a bug

Edited January 7, 2013 by Kreddi

[Chief117]

Whenever an ally kills an opponent everyone close will get exp for the gun they are currently having out aswell, and since you can't run with your sword out the gun you are holding gets exp instead. This means that melee weapons only get the exp for the kills you make (which is probably around 1/8 if only using melee).

Not really a bug, as much as a gameplay mechanic that could use tweaking

EDIT: This is ofcourse assuming you are playing with more people. If not then yes, its a bug

Thank you very much for your explenation, yet it shouldn't give you 150xp + 350 bonus for 11 melee kills

[Kreddi]

Hmmm those numbers do seem odd, can't really think of a reason for such low exp gain

[Chief117]

Today I got 53 melee kills in one match, literally slaughtered my way through and got about 1000xp. That isn't very much :/

Maybe I am just doing something wrong, I don't know

Edited January 8, 2013 by Chief117

[GeneralDahlman]

Isnet it the more u hit with the wepon the more exp it gets becaus evry hit counts as an exp gain i went only mele on a match and only spam klicked mele got around 2k-5k exp for like 80 kills and bonus was like 5k exp and i got 3 lvl from 5-8 wotch was nice.

[NihilisticGoliath]

Just tested this;

First game;

36 total kills.

30 Melee kills.

Pistol XP: 0, 2.8k bonus

Sword XP: 350, 984 bonus.

Second game;

Used nothing but rifle and sword. Pistol got 956 bonus XP, sword got 555.

Edit;

So, I just had a look at the Profile screen. I used the MK1-BRATON throughout the first system and have only played like four or five missions with the LATRON (which still has more XP gained, so I'm guessing XP ramps up with enemy level, not amount of kills). My melee weapon has been the SKANA the whole playthrough, yet, as stated, it's XP is lower than my new rifle...

Here are the stats (including headshots, in case those give bonus XP or something);

MK1-BRATON;

Rank: 8

Kills: 164

Kill assists: 30

Headshots: 80

XP: 33,285

LATRON;

Rank: 11

Kills: 339

Kill assists: 62

Headshots: 204

XP: 61,851

SKANA;

Rank: 10

Kills: 56,276

XP: 763

Edited January 9, 2013 by NihilisticGoliath