Why does no one play in t4 matches? There must be a ton of people who reached t4 if the game’s been out for a year. The game just completely dies past t3.
Is the game itself dying? The population seems wayyy low
Nobody plays T4 because they don’t want to face full purple R15 ESB ships.
^ That and the former T3 imbalance is there too. And most people who queued before to T4 and barely got matches moved back to T3 to actually play the game.
Played 2 t4 games yesterday, it was realy interesting. 3vs3 with 2bots and same guy in both matches.
A lot of us who played a ton of T4 prior to the recent patches have mostly abandoned it until match making is tightened up a bit.
Right now there are simply too many 1v1, 2v2 and 3v3 matches - most of them vs. full T5’s which quite frankly isn’t all that enjoyable. The main problem I can see is that many T4 pilots get thrown in the intermediate queue with T3’s and get ‘poached’ by the system, leaving the rest of the players in T4 with tiny matches or matches vs T5 ships. A lot of people are simply not interested in that.
Hopefully it will be addressed soon - as there’s a lot of people with full access to T4 who will gladly play it if the conditions were more favourable.
Played 2 t4 games yesterday, it was realy interesting. 3vs3 with 2bots and same guy in both matches.
you’d think this would be one of the first things the devs would look into. 2/5 of their game is very nearly unplayable (if t5 suffers from the same issues).
you’d think this would be one of the first things the devs would look into. 2/5 of their game is very nearly unplayable (if t5 suffers from the same issues).
T5 doesn’t suffer from any of this. If you’re lucky enough to reach that high, you get to play vs T4 pilots. All the time.
Sometimes the 3v3’s can be quite fun, to be fair (if the teams aren’t completely uneven, or if you’re on the dominant team) but they can be quite frustrating to people on the ‘weaker’ team. And when the ship balance is unfair on top of this, well that’s definitely an issue.
small skirmishes are totally different game modes in on itself.
I love them. But bots ruin it.
4 vs 4 all human teams - now that’s what I consider tactical shooter.
and bouncing back and forth between big games and small skirmishes is fine. but srsly - the bots RAWR.
0.9.2 - nice 8-12 vs 8-12 games.
Huge lag/no connectivity strikes
0.9.3 - no connectivity presists.
0.9.3u - connection issues fixed, trying T4 again - 3v3 bot games all the way, sometimes vs R15 ships on my R10. One out of 10 games different than 3v3 bot games and it is 6v6 or smth.
Ive been off last 3 days and will try how is it tomorrow. Hope it is improved. If not - dropping down to T3 as it seems everybody did and just having fun.
Small matches means unless you’re in a squad, you can’t be a support ship as well. It encourages solo fighter builds. I’m having trouble even playing T3 in full matches let alone touching T4. Still working on synergy for the end game ships.
Small matches means unless you’re in a squad, you can’t be a support ship as well. It encourages solo fighter builds.
you and I both know, those are the best kind of matches - when a squad of solos beat the premade one 
Indeed playing in T4 is a learning experience as it has already been said while there is the occasional full teams … most of the time it 3V3 or 4V4 with the BOTS. Of course my annoyance is that usually the BOTs on my side are TERRIBLE.
My favorite new LINE… ALL BOTS are not created EQUAL.
And when you start seeing the same players… sometimes they are on your side other times against you…
It becomes oh oh I am about ready to get my you know what handed to me or lets see what they do different this time…
T4 cost are high to properly mod up but T5 it is insane. Why does it have to cost a so much to properly gear it up past the substandard MK1 ? Makes those T5 ships you may have just sit there.
They are worried you might stop playing once you have all purple T5s lol.
I want bots only if they’re fighters on my team equipped with Purple Ion Emitters.
Considering the synergy grind gives lots of credits, are the costs actually that much of an issue?
I was playing T4 but I’m done. I’ve been on probably 8 games as 1v1 with 2 bots on each side.
I’ve not played T4 or higher for a week now. And I own T5 ships.
I’d love to level my ships but those tiers are absolutely no fun and don’t represent the game I joined a while back any longer.
Sometimes the 3v3’s can be quite fun, to be fair (if the teams aren’t completely uneven, or if you’re on the dominant team) but they can be quite frustrating to people on the ‘weaker’ team. And when the ship balance is unfair on top of this, well that’s definitely an issue.
I agree with this. When I come in and roll out my SRDS, thats all you see. Well except for the rare 5 v 5…
small skirmishes are totally different game modes in on itself.
I love them. But bots ruin it.
4 vs 4 all human teams - now that’s what I consider tactical shooter.
and bouncing back and forth between big games and small skirmishes is fine. but srsly - the bots RAWR.
You mean to put back 4 man squads? Cause thats another factor that directly correlates this issue to this.
My brain’s fried. So many changes. Squads … for myself and SM generally - no comment.
I hate the fact that 4 seems to be the magic number whenever people on Corp chann wants to squad tho.