Call of Duty: Vanguard offers a new feature in multiplayer that allows you to designate a player as the top gamer of the round. This gives you additional experience points. Players appreciate it, but unfortunately, there is a catch that fans do not like. Here you can find everything about the new MVP system in Vanguard.
What is an MVP feature? MVP stands for “Most Valued Player”. In other words, the player who is most valued. After each round in the multiplayer mode of CoD Vanguard, the game evaluates the actions of the players and the three best gamers are selected at the end of the match.
Then the achievements are listed, including heroic feats such as multi-kills or kill records. The corresponding player avatars perform their victory poses while players have the opportunity to cast a vote for one of the three candidates. Anyone who knows games like Overwatch will find this feature familiar.
What’s the fun in it? Each vote gives the player who cast it a small bonus of experience points. Currently, that’s 25. It’s not much, but the gesture counts. The winner of the voting is then the MVP of the match and can boast with their glory.
Players love the MVP feature, but one thing is really annoying!
How is this received by the players? Initial reactions from the community to the MVP feature are quite positive. Players think it’s great that they can show appreciation to their teammates and the small XP bonus is well received.
Moreover, players are delighted when they win the MVP award and are appreciated by their teammates.
What’s bothering about the new MVP feature? However, there is a significant downside to the MVP system that quickly diminishes the joy of many players and causes them to complain about the feature: the voting lasts a whole 35 seconds, and before that, you have to watch the animations of all three players for over 10 seconds.
You cannot cancel or skip all of this, so you have to stay until the end of the voting and cannot start a new round.
In that time, you could have already started the next round of multiplayer in the predecessor Cold War, and that annoys many fans. One player on reddit succinctly summarizes what many are thinking right now: “I like the concept, but I think voting should take 15 seconds or so, not 30!”.
Other players don’t like the whole thing as they see it as a cheap ploy by Activision to sell more skins and animations. After all, you see these in all their glory when you enter the MVP selection.
It remains to be seen whether the developers will reduce the voting time with the next patch or make the voting phase skippable.
If you want to know more about the innovations in the new Call of Duty, here is a list of important changes in CoD Vanguard.
