unpopular opinion: if you’re level 350+, you need to go to pro-servers.
disclaimer: this is my opinion from personal experience as a level 46 that has played since 2017.
i understand the dynamics in pro-servers can be a bit more difficult, but that’s why it’s only for people with hours upon hours upon hours of time played in-game, which level 350+ people have
i’ve been playing the game since 2017 or so, and i’m only level 46. if you’re level 350+ you have a TON of compiled hours on this game. level 50s and under literally stand zero chance against you unless they’re playing on an alt, and are secretly higher level, or maybe once in a very blue moon, a lower level person is really good. but my point still stands.
lower levels literally don’t even have a chance against players of a level this high. it’s unfair. i’ve heard the point that playing with higher levels helps you get better at the game faster by watching and learning, and that higher levels save you more, but this only goes so far.
higher levels take out all the comps before lower levels have a chance, because often we aren’t as familiar with the maps. not everyone plays this game super seriously and wants to search up all the maps and take the time out of their day to memorize them. some of us want to play casually, and that’s fine. if you’re really serious, like i said before, you belong in a pro-server. plus, for many, sitting down and attempting to memorize the maps via complicated map drawings is one thing, but actually playing and forming muscle memory is another. muscle memory from hours of actual play in the different maps absolutely trumps attempting to memorize a map layout via a photo.
higher levels also in general are super hard to escape from when they’re beast because they know the maps so well from hours upon hours of playtime. lastly, higher levels team more, i feel this is obvious. many higher levels often play so much because they have other friends they’re playing the game with, be it in from roblox, over a call, IRL, etc; the in-game hours they’ve accumulated has given them more time to make friends directly from the game as well. i’ve noticed that because of this, many higher-levels will always prioritize saving their friend first over other low level players, leaving them to struggle and die. so the rebuttal that higher levels save more isn’t always true in my experience.
while newer players would eventually adapt, learn and improve regardless, it just gets so frustrating and causes people to quit flee the facility as a whole prematurely and cast it in a negative light. it makes me sad. i want new players to enjoy flee the facility for years to come. most people on roblox are children (<18) including FTF players. children’s attention spans and patience are less developed, and they will quit the game entirely and easily. this just isn’t fair for new kids trying out the game for the first time, or players coming back after a while who don’t play all the time. it’s overwhelming and frustrating. higher levels deserve to play too obviously, that’s why we should have level-matched servers.
a better solution aside from pro and regular servers in my opinion would be to add level-matching in servers, and ensure that everyone in the server is of a similar level. SOME people that are higher level would abuse this feature by using alts to get into the lower level servers, but it would be better than what we have now in my opinion. for example
- level 0-25
- level 25-75
- level 75-150
- level 150-300
- level 300-500
- level 500+
this isn’t meant to be a definitive list, just throwing numbers off the top of my head. something like this would be nice.
until then, people that are 350+ should absolutely be in pro-servers in my *opinion* for the reasons listed above. it just ruins the game for other players. thank you for coming to my ted talk. i would like to hear your feedback and why you agree/disagree.