“I need to see my stats to know how well i did or my build performed”
“i cant “just tell how it went!” i want proper numbers”
Solid sensible arguments at first glance, but think about it how is the scoreboard more accurate a reflection than just noteing how you did in each situation as you play?
If you want to test anything what do you need? as many repetitions as possible and as few variables as possible.
Just imagine testing the stopping distance on your car with a selection of differing brake pads , you ned each run to be the same in all regards esxcept the one variable. same discs, same tires, same pressure on pedal same road , same speed , same temp , humidity same car at the same weight. just one thing being different can throw your results out.
Now in a Tide game , there are 3 other people, differing skills, quality of performance, builds weapons who would run the same level in vastly differing ways if you could repeat the exact same elvel (which you cant). on a level that different with unique spawns . just who walks into a room first can have run changing consequences.
Are there enough mobs that capacity is being tested or is it a race to kill non threats? woop you killed 60 specials what does it mean? without knowing if they would of caused any trouble maybe they were all half a second from death you just beat them to the kill.
your seeing one data point in your spread of wins or losses what you need is the break points
a level could be 99% trivial 2 people afk no probs any stats earnt here wont mean anything but just one room where there was the chance to loose , but these moments that matter are going to be buried in irrelevance.
if the run is fast and efficient the numbers will be lower, if your slow struggling and on the edge the whole way all of the kill stats will be padded to hell.
whose the more usefull the kerrilian shooting every elite through her team just before the heavy overhead takes its head off winning all the green circles or the kruber who had every kill stolen but pulled off that clutch charge/res?
how can the scoreboard even be relevant with all this variance?
then there is all the bad behaviour this sort of competitive scoring promotes. which is an entire other thread by itself.