A truly painful Salvage match to watch...*Vid* (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Tuesday, November 03, 2015, 02:01 (3547 days ago) @ Lekku

Its interesting because just recently on Reddit there were several threads made about the Salvage gametype and how 'unfair' the scoring was considering the small gains you get for starting a relic compared to the large bump for dismantling. The scoring in Salvage is actually more complex than I realized:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/3qjzjk/salvage_scoring_gets_you_points_for_every_player/

Essentially, every player you have helping to deploy the probe nets you another 100 points.

I'll confess I typically played a very similar style to Korny when playing salvage as I always thought the deployment was a set score as was the bonus for a capture. So in that scenario hanging back from the relic makes sense as you can cover the guardian deploying much easier. Turns out I may have been doing more harm than good as I could be securing more points, and speeding up the capture, by trying to help get the probe in the first place instead of fanning out looking for targets ahead of the deployment being successful.

I've often felt that it wasn't advantageous to actually deploy the probes but rather just dismantle them, especially when playing with randoms. Knowing now how that initial scoring works I'll try and get more involved with the actual deployment before spreading out.

The only issue that I have with that scoring is that you'd have to have your entire team there in order to get those extra points, and that would mean that not only would everyone in your team be aware of the scoring system (a bit unlikely when playing with randoms), but that would mean successfully keeping the enemy team away with your teammates alive, otherwise the point difference wouldn't be worth the deployment.

We've found that since the enemy team tends to get tunnel vision with the point, it's easy to use it as a trap, rather than going for the capture. We even used it to help Sammy farm her Jolly Holliday: