Quick update: I just joined a combat recon with my team’s captain already dead. Couldn’t even spawn
Guys, we have adjusted it a lot today, the time of waiting should decrease dramatically… So how is it going?
It’s not bad at all, I like it in general, but it changes the game entirely. You can’t really start the game with the most suitable ship role anymore, you get ganked by pilots who weren’t even in your match a minute before. It makes the game more dynamic, which I sort of like, but it also takes away the last bit of strategy, if you can call it that.
Domination is a madhouse at the moment, and I think Combat Recon is just bad with this queue system. You can kill enemy captain before most people join, you can’t estimate that well if your current team could use a defensive or aggressive role… It’s similar with Capture the Beacons - this mode is played completely differently with large and small teams. Just finished a game with about 5 or 6 engies on my team, and it looked like most people didn’t know what to do at all, as about half of them had T2 and T3 ships equipped. Guess they got used to the mixed tier thing, so if you’re finally over that idea, please block them from joining T4 matches with less than three T4 ships equipped. It doesn’t work especially in this new system.
All in all, I prefer quality matches instead of quickies, so personally I would appreciate if the new system were used only when there are not many pilots in queue at the time, but I don’t think most people would agree with me on this.
I do hate the new match times, though. In most game modes, 7 mins into the game is usually exactly when most pilots get desperate enough to make things interesting and actually turn the tables.
Guys, we have adjusted it a lot today, the time of waiting should decrease dramatically… So how is it going?
I needed someone to actually unplug the power on my pc, i’ve got addicted by 3 seconds que in t5 and 12vs12 matches :fed015:
Really nice job, still something should be tuned in order to make team equally strong and some gamemode should be fixed (like team battle). Apart that: this is freakin awsome.
positive:
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queues are shorter indeed.
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More people in T5
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some very nice ships
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weapons have potential
negative:
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you cant realy play with tactic if you start with a 3 vs 3 and end with a 6 vs 6.
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Matches are sometimes half over or totaly over before i can join.
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7 minute matches? Thats just too short. It changes the pace of the game. For me personaly it becomes like a mini arcade game, full of chaos.
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Lag spikes when people spawn in. Your servers are not suited(not good enough) to run this game with so many players.
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Monocrystal grinding in open spaces for ships ( Open space bores me to death, cant you give monocrystals as a possible reward in pvp?)
All by all i m worried (but i might stand alone on this one) Good to see some change either way.
cant you give monocrystals as a possible reward in pvp?
THIS please. Open space just feels forced
cant you give monocrystals as a possible reward in pvp?
+1 This would be awesome, especially considering how many crystal you would need now to build all ships and Mk5 gear, it would take ages, and those OS missions get boring fast.
Make them a potential T4/5 reward. Would solve you’re problem with vets populating T2/3 wink wink nudge nudge
Has no-one noticed that t3 is playable again? That was the objective of this thread no?
Has no-one noticed that t3 is playable again? That was the objective of this thread no?
who cares, it is T5 time
who cares, it is T5 time
I fully agree! The past two days have been the most fun I have had in a long time! Finally t5 is populated and has a purpose! I will still drop down to t3 every now and then, but I’ll play t5 mainly now if it stays like this.
+1
now that t5 is attractive again i will do only t5 more fun and Nice looking ships!
since the new joinable matches the efficiency has dropped by half and noone gets mixed tier matches from what i gather. the big 12v12 clusterfu^%$ just make it very hard/impossible to go over 1-2k score, which in turns lowers your overall score. also win rates have dropped by a lot. a single person just cant do enough to turn the tides. the only time i see a single person achieve this is if they use a Sai that noone can hit or catch(to a lesser degree fighters with cruise engines).
since the new joinable matches the efficiency has dropped by half and noone gets mixed tier matches from what i gather. the big 12v12 clusterfu^%$ just make it very hard/impossible to go over 1-2k score, which in turns lowers your overall score. also win rates have dropped by a lot. a single person just cant do enough to turn the tides. the only time i see a single person achieve this is if they use a Sai that noone can hit or catch(to a lesser degree fighters with cruise engines).
And that is bad because?
And that is bad because?
This.
I thought the Sai was invented to be a workfly to carry bombs.
I love the new MM. Also for me T5 and possibly T4 gets a lot more attractive by this.
I do think, if there is really big crowds, games should start a few seconds later but with more people, also of course the mentioned bugs in TDM, and similar.
I do see the need to create buffer queues for more experienced players playing T3 mixed together with people still developing, all I said was, that mixed tiers are not a good solution for this.
I like the effort behind trying mixed tiers pvp, and I’ve actually suggested it in the past. However, I have mixed feelings about the implementation. But I think with the new queue changes, mixed tiers may no longer be necessary.
On the other hand, it’s a fair point that vets with maxed equips in a given tier have a similar advantage against new players. E.g. I’ve probably been in T3 for most of my ~2 years, so I’m guilty of that charge.
Edit: Late to the convo, with the new queue change I dunno if mixed tiers is still an issue or not. Plus, it looks like I’m finally missing out in T5, so I’m actually pretty far behind the curve now…
Plus, it looks like I’m finally missing out in T5, so I’m actually pretty far behind the curve now…
told you… so many times…
told you… so many times…
Hey, I’m still working my way up. With the ship sale (I was waiting for it!), I finally just bought the Hyena, Prom X, Anaconda M, Achilles, and Crusader, woohoo! =)
with the new queue change I dunno if mixed tiers is still an issue or not.
It should not be an issue now