Credits are now based on how many waves YOU actually complete

Actually, what it says is "0 experience remaining," because your character cannot progress beyond level 20. That number doesn't refer to your experience award, it refers to the remaining experience required to reach the next level.

Edit: And as Kenni pointed out, you joined during Wave 7, which is currently not worth experience in GIPs (we're not sure if that's intended.)

601 xp in game implies you arrived late in wave 7, so you don't get anything as per the current assumed rules.

So, I presume you are thinking the "Mission:" line is not below the scoreboard but a part of the scoreboard?


I am not sure what "late" means, but I did spend some part of that wave waiting to be revived, and there wasn't a whole lot left to fight by the time I got back up (I zoned into a mass of enemies and they cleared them out before reviving me).

I suppose it would be interesting to find where the time threshold is...

Late is an later than whatever the set threshold is.

Yeah me3 only objective waves gave credits. And you got more credits as you progressed, so wave 6 gave more credits than wave 3. Made a lot more sense.

This is what getting into a game is like now.

Join lobby, host ready? Leave lobby. Search again, get put into same lobby. Leave again try a different search, same thing repeat. Alt-F4. Play something else.

Yup. If you're hosting a lobby, it's advised not to ready up until all slots are full, so you don't scare people off.

When they can add a ping indicator, they can add an indicator if a game is already in progress.

I think it's actually a case of losing 9K for wave one and 9K for wave 2.

The current testing is still in the anecdotal phase, but appears to show that you consistently receive no credits for the wave you join* or wave 7 when entering a GIP. The only exception appears to be if you are rejoining a game you started with everyone else but were dropped from. In that case, you still receive full (or at least very close to full) credit for the match.


* So in your case, if you had joined during wave 1, you wouldn't receive wave 1 or Wave 7 credits, but you would receive credits for every wave you were present for the start of and conclusion of, even if you disconnected during a later wave.

If you join on wave two and drop on wave 6, you'll get credit for waves 3, 4 and 5. I believe. Subject to further testing and elaboration.

So far, it appears that all waves except 7 receive equal value, which is even more terrible for the future of GIPs.

Worst case scenario is landing at the beginning of Wave 6, as people are inevitably going to do without knowing about the change, and have no idea why they don't get anything for it.

I still join games in progress because I don't like farting around for half an hour finding the right lobby, but I'm definitely paying a price for it. Lots of drop-in-on-wave-1, get-40-something-thousand-credits games lately. It's nice getting rewards still when I get disconnected during later waves but I hope they make further adjustments to the rewards system to make it less punishing to join games in progress.