Bring back Combat Efficiency Ribbons/Medals

Battlefield 1 General Discussion
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I want these to come back.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why they were removed for BF4 besides catering to those who could never hope to unlock all the dog tags and get all the medals because they couldn’t stay alive longer than 2 or 3 kills per life.. or less.
There isn’t any other ‘reward’ for killstreaks/staying alive besides your score at the end of the round.

Discuss

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Absolutely, I loved getting combat efficiency ribbons and medals in BF3 especially! It just feels so rewarding when on a good streak. Plus, it’s not really something I think people would go out of their way for, so it wouldn’t be essentially ruining the game with killstreaks.

3

THIS

4

Oh I loved those, even in harder to get maps like TDM canals (64p)

5

Indeed. I love medals and badges ^^

6

Doesnt sound very hard to get

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Yeah, I liked them as well. Though, I’m not sure if I liked how it was implemented in BF3; you got a ribbon for a killstreak of 5 and then one ribbon more for each 3 kills until you die. BC2 had two separate pins (equivalent of ribbons) for killstreaks: the other pin was awarded after 5 kills and the other after 8 kills, then the killstreak “counter” reseted and you got the killstreak-of-5 pin again when you reached 13 kills and the other pin with 16, etc…

I think I’d just like to have one ribbon for a decent killstreak, let’s say after 6 kills, but you’d only get that one ribbon even if your killstreak is 20 kills, so the ribbons wouldn’t encourage people to only play for that stat instead of playing the objective. Of course, once you die, you’d be able to get another one with a kilkstreak of 6.

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You don’t get anything for 5 kills. You need 3 streak bonuses which only start counting up after you’ve killed at least 5 enemies. You get a ribbon at 8 and another at 11, 14, etc.. Bad luck deaths don’t end your streak, only deaths to enemies.

Anyhow, I can’t see it causing any teamwork issues. People who go for these tend to learn to stay alive longer and be smarter, which eventually leads to more success at objectives.

Of course, lots of people can’t even stay alive for 1 or 2 kills per life. Getting these ribbons/medals/associated dog tags is nearly impossible.

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Here is a guess it was scrapped as part of the Anti-camping campaign, a few things fell foul of that. Like Defense ribbon, scope glint and bullet velocity.