You should check into a mental hospital, you just went 180 on your usual comments about this game so I fear something might be wrong with you…
You noticed he doesn’t have a GM tag on his name, right? Hence the full 180.
Still, gotta give the GMs some credit. They have to put up with the changes with a happy face and snark remarks from everyone else.
This is not the fault of corporations nor squads
It is.
The “frigballz”, The “Galactic Nuclear Winter” (Aka “STRONG” Heavy Tacticals Commands Bomber), The Quadra Ceptors Captain’s Rush ect ect.
Reducing the squadsize to 3 will not change anything.
This Problem exists only in T4/T5 since you get mostly 4v4 matches there. So instead of a 4 man squad stomping 4 pugs, we will have a 3 man squad stomping 3 pugs. So what? No change at all. Other than taking away a part of the fun that corps have to fly with 4 PPL.
That’s exactly why they’re changing it. They’re only catering to the high Tiers, caring absolutely nothing to anything below T4.
That’s exactly why they’re changing it. They’re only catering to the high Tiers, caring absolutely nothing to anything below T4.
No, it will have absolutely no impact on T4+. A 3 man squad can pull a random through, 4 randoms will still stand no chance vs a good 3 man squad.
I dont see ANYTHING that will change the situation in T4+ through this! (Besides taking the fun from squads from ALL tiers)
If you look at your statistics: How many 4v4 matches were played in T4+ ? How many 12v12?
I can say, since im mostly “up there” there are a lot more 4v4s than 12v12s!
Tbh. I feel this is a very short-sighted design choice. Please dont implement this.
The situation in T4+ will not change in a short time since the Game has become very grindy.
Why not bring the long overdue barrier between T4 and T5 since the “killsquads” fly T5 exclusively?
You want feedback, here it is: Stop making it exactly like World of Tanks. The grinding of tanks actually sucks, and is why I played Star Conflict instead.
This is -exactly- why I play Star Conflict instead. Plus the fact I was really turned off by the squad size in WoT, it doesn’t engage my desire for social interaction and the ability to build a community within a community.
It is.
The “frigballz”, The “Galactic Nuclear Winter” (Aka “STRONG” Heavy Tacticals Commands Bomber), The Quadra Ceptors Captain’s Rush ect ect.
All of our rushes on captain’s have been with 2-3 interceptors. Because generally speaking, we tend to have an Engineer around as well.
This wont prevent us (or other of the frequently mentioned corporations) from killing the enemy captain, but it will reduce the enjoyment of flying with your corporation mates. There are already very few features that make corporations interesting - reducing the interest further is not a positive move.
In addition, think of this - the game is designed and build around a competitive teamwork environment. Tournaments are generally held in a 8v8 format. (Which is 2x 4 - it makes a reasonable amount of sense.) 3 man squads reduce the focus on this and move the game more in an ‘individual’ direction. And that’s a direction this player and his corporation have ZERO interest in.
All of our rushes on captain’s have been with 2-3 interceptors. Because generally speaking, we tend to have an Engineer around as well.
This wont prevent us (or other of the frequently mentioned corporations) from killing the enemy captain, but it will reduce the enjoyment of flying with your corporation mates. There are already very few features that make corporations interesting - reducing the interest further is not a positive move.
In addition, think of this - the game is designed and build around a competitive teamwork environment. Tournaments are generally held in a 8v8 format. (Which is 2x 4 - it makes a reasonable amount of sense.) 3 man squads reduce the focus on this and move the game more in an ‘individual’ direction. And that’s a direction this player and his corporation have ZERO interest in.
Let’s be fair, the only thing Corps give you, at this point, is cooperation. In the eyes of the common player, there are zero benefits to being in a corp other than that.
And, at this point, the game has turned itself into SWoT, so sod this mess.
And, at this point, the game has turned itself into SWoT, so sod this mess.
…Will I get another warning if I say I agree to this?
Let’s be fair, the only thing Corps give you, at this point, is cooperation. In the eyes of the common player, there are zero benefits to being in a corp other than that.
And, at this point, the game has turned itself into SWoT, so sod this mess.
Corp = Pool of (hopefully decent) players to fly with.
Well thats it atm.
3 man squads? this is ridiculous!
everyone is able to form squads! everyone! even without license you arewere able to form 4 man squads!
is this is a team based game or not? why do you want to reduce my possibilites of team-play?
And that is the most xxxx stupid thing they could do with this game. If I wanted to play World of Tanks, I’d play World of Tanks. But I don’t want to play World of Tanks, so why the xxxx would I play a game that is like World of Tanks? It’s like the xxxx at EA who say “Hey! You know what’s even more fun than Call of Duty? A Call of Duty clone! Look! Here’s one! And here’s a sci-fi CoD Clone! And here’s a CoD clone with zombies! Oooh! Here’s a CoD Clone that rapes a franchise you used to love! WHY DON’T YOU WANT THESE GAMES!?”
You know one of the reasons I used to think of this game as a multiplayer-based Colony Wars? Because that game had its xxxx together and it did stuff I hadn’t seen done before. Yes, there had been Wing Commander games, but Colony Wars took it to a whole new level. It had role-specific guns and ships, it had a kick-xxxx backstory. It had gorgeous ship designs (for the time; age hasn’t been kind on the PSX era). It had it all.
And Star Conflict did as well, once. Now… now it’s a shell. It’s a bland, uninspired cash-cow that doesn’t have any faith in itself. Great games are great because they go balls-out to do something amazing, and they make cash because people flock to them to witness their greatness. Mediocre, bland and dud titles look at potential players and try to work out how to steal money from their pockets, then do so in the guise of being “fun”.
Make Star Conflict fun again, and money will follow. Make it a poor man’s World of Tanks, and your player base will go and play the superior product you’re so desperately copying.
Just… Wow.
Seriously, the hate levels are off the charts here.
You will see that we have tuned the targeting mechanics (now the sight will move along an ellipse during targeting)
Locking chage > Hard to imagine this…Will have to see.
I’m guessing it’s an attempt to artificially add skill difficulty into shooting. To help tone down mad sniper skills probably. It’ll be lame, artificial and twitch gamey. Like one of those soccer mobile apps where you have to time your keymashing.
Hope I’m wrong - coz it’ be absurd.
Why not fix synergy to make it less abusive to players instead? Why not make the game less of a grind, so players aren’t turned off by that, because I will tell you this, more people are turned off by the stagnant progression
Steel Marauders being one of the handful of zero admission criteria max capacity all are welcomed casual corp - I can say for certain:
Player retention rate is averaging 6 to 8 weeks
Has nothing to do with game mechanic changes every patch
Most definitely has to do with progression rate
Most of our casual player roster will join in soon after T1 or those who speed ranked to R7
They will linger and learn the game in T2
And quit upon entering T3 after a week or so
Since we don’t keep a farewell thread,I’ve never had the chance to get their input on why they decided to stop playing
Those who did mention about moving house - internet problems - vacation also decided not to come back when they’ve supposedly are able to return
Devs can interpret the info however they want. But 6 weeks retention rate needs massive improvement.
As a corp it’s just friggin weird that everytime 4 of our members reach T3, supposedly the start of end game content, we lose 3 of them the next week lol
So if you’ve ever wondered why you keep seeing the same [sM] names playing the upper tiers (and those numbers are getting inactive aswell) and never new ones despite our admission rate is 6-7 players per week – that is why. You can double confirm with Tealc as he does membership ejections every month and it’s about there last I looked.
Something needs be done here Gaijin.
it doesn’t engage my desire for social interaction and the ability to build a community within a community.
For what it’s worth, these I will consider hotfixes as Corp vs Corp features have yet to be announced. Social interaction and larger scale group play aren’t in yet so there’s that to look forward to…
Seriously … Only 20% ? Its not worth buying the premium ships for that pathetic excuse of a ‘fix’
And reducing squad sizes … Am I reading the wrong forum / feedback from the previous patches - No one has mentioned that from what Ive read
Yet again another patch that DOES NOT address the problems and issue’s raised by the community - Serious Dev’s, pull your finger out and listen to the players - Or risk making a game with little to no following at all
to look forward to…
I flinched reading that lmao … but yep.
All of our rushes on captain’s have been with 2-3 interceptors. Because generally speaking, we tend to have an Engineer around as well.
This wont prevent us (or other of the frequently mentioned corporations) from killing the enemy captain, but it will reduce the enjoyment of flying with your corporation mates. There are already very few features that make corporations interesting - reducing the interest further is not a positive move.
In addition, think of this - the game is designed and build around a competitive teamwork environment. Tournaments are generally held in a 8v8 format. (Which is 2x 4 - it makes a reasonable amount of sense.) 3 man squads reduce the focus on this and move the game more in an ‘individual’ direction. And that’s a direction this player and his corporation have ZERO interest in.
You don’t understand.
All the Gamemode are not adapted for Squad with 4 players.
A 4 men squad have too much impact on battle. They are able to reverse a battle or just Stomp because they can use “Vocal”. (Or sometime Loose the battle)
I agree with you when you said that will kill the interest of Corps/Squad.
The Thing is, devs had 2 choices :
_Reduce the number in Squad —> Easy way to reduce the Squad Impact.
_Rework the Gamemode —> Hard and Long way.
I really hope that this is a temporary solution.
And they will choose to work on the latter.
Now, it is the Corporations to be heard. And I really hope they will.
And reducing squad sizes … Am I reading the wrong forum / feedback from the previous patches - No one has mentioned that from what Ive read
It’s reducing the ESB impact by -25% in T4/T5
Zap who is ESB; along with many others, says it won’t work and I’ll take their word for it.
Core of the issue is T4 - T5 match making and player numbers. That is what needs fixing.
Matchmaking fix is easy - don’t mix them up
then you have not enough players / long wait times problem
that’s easy as well:
Make progression faster lol
/Kine out
I don’t know if it’s a solution that’ll work, but it does look promising as it suggests moving away from the old attitude of “our Russian corps are all that matter”.
At the moment random players are at disadvandantage, this, as it was mentioned above is a way to address the problem. We will continue monitoring the situation of course.
World of Space Tanks!
At the moment random players are at disadvandantage, this, as it was mentioned above is a way to address the problem. We will continue monitoring the situation of course.
Core of the issue is T4 - T5 match making and player numbers. That is what needs fixing.