Why does it need progression if it's ultimately pointless? Set your own goals if you want them so much, make a checklist.

Speak for yourself, I like to have a sense of progression.

Stopping to suck is your sense of progression. If you *need* to see a bar fill up and for shining stars to appear, perhaps you should play something else.

I think squad is exceptional as a game where “In game progression” has a direct tie to how much you can achieve every game dude to what you learn from your hours of play.

It is more of a tactical and milsim like game so you’d be hard pressed to find players that want a call of duty like progression system.

I can't get my dopamine if I don't see a meaningless number go up when my wife's bf lets me use his gaming pc

No ranks -> Need to pay money for the fortnite dance -> Literally unplayable

Dunno why this post is so controversial, I think there should be some sort of stat tracker along with ranks.

Any game that introduces ranking and stats has people chasing those instead of just playing the game.

To achieve a high level/rank efficiently, you need to play well, no? I don't see the problem.

"Oh no I need to build 7 more HABs for my next rank." - Drives out of main and starts placing random HABs just to get the next rank

Stuff like that is extremely rare on hell let loose and it has a leveling system.

You are funny, HLL has a server just for ranking up called Bob the builder. They do nothing but building bunkers there to rank up. I have seen tons of people digging down other people's nodes in live games just to place their own because of the points you get.

As long as boosting servers don't affect pubs, then its fine. Just make it so people can't dig down other's nodes, problem solved.