Please allow us to exclude at least a few modes and maps when we queue for skirmish. Reasons below:
Reason to explode maps:
Abandoned complex is completely unplayable for several players, including myself. We lag so much, we can barely even move, while we are OK on other maps. We would want to exclude that map from search.
Some players just hate certain maps, and if that map is played they may intentionally throw game, go AFK, disconnect etc. If they could exclude those maps, there were less matches ruined by them for their team.
Reasons to exclude game modes:
Some players just don1t like certain modes, or plain suck at them while they are fine with others, so they may want to exclude those.
With three ship slots, it’s very hard, or even impossible to properly equip yourself for every possible game mode. If you want to be helpful, you are kind of forced to combine specific roles. Even with four slots it’s hard to have an all-round setup. And when you try to farm synergy for ship levelups, you will certainly have weaker ships as well.
Some players just hate certain modes, and if that mode is played they may intentionally throw game, go AFK, disconnect etc. If they could exclude those maps, there were less matches ruined by them for their team. *
* I had captains in Recon repeatedly who went to play rambo, or intentionally died right away, because they hate to be captain so they rather threw the match for the whole team, than “wasting their time”.
If you do not want to kill the random aspect of Skirmish, just put a limit on how many you can exclude. For example: Maximum two game modes and three maps, or one game mode and two maps.
This would make the que times 5x longer, you would get just little matches, and it would be just weird, the actual system is okay, just solve the server choice if i pick Europe, i should get Europe - NOT RUSSIAN!
I would dig this, just because Abandoned complex is almost unplayable on my computer and with my large fps drop I’m as good as disconnected player for my team on this map.
This would make the que times 5x longer, you would get just little matches, and it would be just weird, the actual system is okay, just solve the server choice if i pick Europe, i should get Europe - NOT RUSSIAN!
I want US servers with no packet loss. Guess what I get?
Since they removed the triangle, the map is funnier and more challenging. Now you can’t just frigball all the way to victory like before.
Frigballs never won in my experience; we just outran them.
The current map is utterly unplayable if your team doesn’t hold the centre. Your options are to slowly fly through empty space with absolutely no cover (suicide against a team that aren’t utterly inept) or to bring a fast ship with no staying power so you can be easily driven off beacons. Oh, and you can fly into the middle like a bot and die.
How is that “better” than having 2-3 valid approaches to every beacon?
Frigballs never won in my experience; we just outran them.
The current map is utterly unplayable if your team doesn’t hold the centre. Your options are to slowly fly through empty space with absolutely no cover (suicide against a team that aren’t utterly inept) or to bring a fast ship with no staying power so you can be easily driven off beacons. Oh, and you can fly into the middle like a bot and die.
How is that “better” than having 2-3 valid approaches to every beacon?
Because you need a proper team and fight for the center with the heavy hitters while the fast ships fight in the beacons. Now the middle is a key position, whoever have it, can reinforce the beacons. If they have a lot of firepower in the center they won’t be able to defend the beacons. If you make them move to one beacon, the center is yours for the taking.
It is way better than the merry go round that was the previous iteration of the map.
Anyway, maybe you haven’t noticed, but in each beacon you have two gates. One gets you to the center, and the other closer to the next jump gate for the next beacon. You can actually bypass a center blockade with a ceptor or a fighter very easy.
Abandoned Complex lags for me so friggin ridiculously much that I’m usually just providing free kills to the enemy. Very hard to even move, and figting is often impossible - especially when on top of it I’m put on Russian server.
Why force me to enter a map that is unplayable? It is not fun, I just get killed repeatedly, I hinder my own team, etc.
with that argument, the logical consequence would be to remove all maps/mods except for 2 each.
I for one would be happy to have Recon (captain) mode and Abandoned Complex removed from the game. Seriously, except for 3 players there is nobody in the community who likes either of those two.
So you necro’d a thread that’s over three months old just to declare you are not only ignorant of the popularity of Combat Reconnaissance in the community, but that you can’t even remember its name? Good use of a necro.
Thats an interesting idea, but that will never happen because they are already having a hard time geting a bunch of players together to have a good game, geting into this would have for consequence less players is each team, a more complicated matchmaking, more bots, and more waiting time, wich will make the whole thing be much worse and have more players leaving.