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[Kyle Travis]

tortuousGoddess, on 03 November 2015 - 01:55 PM, said:

They should have just removed all maps and modes except for Frozen City Skirmish, and saved us the extra 15 second wait time. Same effect.

HATE it - now just same old maps -w ell maybe two with one game mode - awesome

[Blood Skar]

Having played a bit more with this voting system. I can see 1 improvement that could be made.

The ready timer could start as voting commences? This would shorten the 75 seconds(which seems far too long anyway).

But yeah, i'm still loving the vote system.

The question is: Will Terra ever be played again

Edited by Blood Skar, 03 November 2015 - 03:32 PM.

[Troutmonkey]

New selection screen actually looks really good! I'm super impressed. Given it was PGI I was expecting some terrible looking radio buttons, but this caught me completely by surprise.

[Trev Firestorm]

T r a n q u i l i t y, on 03 November 2015 - 03:03 PM, said:

Do not like skirmish? Do not vote for it.

For better or worse, your vote has just as much weight as everyone else.

Maybe people will eventually get bored and begin to select different game modes and maps (or am I kidding myself?).

The problem is before we could just not play what we dont like, yes queue times were longer for us as a result but we weren't forced to play it, now with the voting we can't get games of like minded people together ahead of time without a large group.

[Kyle Travis]

Troutmonkey, on 03 November 2015 - 03:41 PM, said:

New selection screen actually looks really good! I'm super impressed. Given it was PGI I was expecting some terrible looking radio buttons, but this caught me completely by surprise.

They do look very pretty:)

[Burktross]

I like it a lot TBH. Not because I get to avoid terratherma and tourmaline, but because matches are so much quicker now.

[Viges]

Mystere, on 03 November 2015 - 12:44 PM, said:

Conquest is fine. The problem is the horde of mindless brain-eating zombies that prefer Skirmish.

You won't survive!




Seriously, you won't. Steam is coming.

[oldradagast]

Inkarnus, on 03 November 2015 - 11:58 AM, said:

yeah we all needed only skirmish assaults only que bout time! /ironywithout 4th game mode the voting is senseless for the game mode.Maps ok its nice but 100% ice map or the coldest will be voted on. Clearly.

Agreed!

I'm liking the reduced variety in modes and maps. This game had too much depth as it was, and this new system helps fix that.

On the plus side, at least if you're on a team of people with a similarly sick sense of humor, you can now force things like Conquest on Terra Therma. I'm not sure adding a trolling feature is actually an improvement, but I suppose it sort of balances out what normally happens; mindless easy mode murderball.

Edited by oldradagast, 03 November 2015 - 05:03 PM.

[oldradagast]

T r a n q u i l i t y, on 03 November 2015 - 03:03 PM, said:

Do not like skirmish? Do not vote for it.

For better or worse, your vote has just as much weight as everyone else.

Maybe people will eventually get bored and begin to select different game modes and maps (or am I kidding myself?).

Have they gotten bored of top-tier Clan mechs and lasers + Gauss vomit? There's your answer.

Many people whine about how complex and rich they want the game to be. Then, they play the easiest and most repetitive options available, every time.

[Mudhutwarrior]

I am still on the fence. I usually ran any mode so its not going to affect me much but I can see how many will dislike being shoehorned into what they don't like to play.

[Mystere]

Viges, on 03 November 2015 - 04:34 PM, said:

You won't survive!




Seriously, you won't. Steam is coming.

I'm giving myself a whole lot of relevant practice ... in Fallout 4.

[VirtualRiot]

Mystere, on 03 November 2015 - 12:44 PM, said:

Conquest is fine. The problem is the horde of mindless brain-eating zombies that prefer Skirmish.

I really only ever played skirmish. I find it the most fun, isint that what matters, having fun? If liking skirmish makes me a mindless zombie sign me up bby.

[EekaBlitzer]

Yep . I like the Play area/mode vote system. Looks good and feels good.

[Mazzyplz]

Grisbane, on 03 November 2015 - 05:38 PM, said:

it would be even better if it was a CW mode and not polluting the public que. i may be one of those "zombies" that prefer skirmish, but i was also one of those prized "whales" PGI was trying to keep. i have already uninstalled, not just because of the voting system.. it was just the final straw. Less money in PGI's pocket. as i said before, hopefully there is a single player game before Microsoft denies the license extension in 2020 and gives the game to 343.

well if it makes you feel any better never did it seem to me that they were trying to keep anyone from uninstalling at any point. they are politely asking people to uninstall at this point

[Bonger Bob]

to bad if you haven't cashed in on your modes for the event, you have no chance now.

on a positive note, Fallout 4 goes live in 6 days , that will compliment the feeling the bombs have dropped completely

[White Bear 84]

Troutmonkey, on 03 November 2015 - 03:41 PM, said:

New selection screen actually looks really good! I'm super impressed. Given it was PGI I was expecting some terrible looking radio buttons, but this caught me completely by surprise.

The irony is this ^^ is 40% what you get, with the other 40% being frozen city and a 20% chance of something different

[AssaultPig]

pbiggz, on 03 November 2015 - 12:08 PM, said:

So fix conquest, don't force people to play a bad game mode.

And on that note, nobody who didn't want to play conquest ever played conquest, because you could select game modes remember?

lol

conquest is the only game mode where the ruleset isn't ****; I don't want to play a game where both teams are heavily incentivized to bunch up and stand around

I played 10 games and got conquest zero times. Probably just not gonna log in anymore tbh

[Andi Nagasia]

i like the way its formatted it looks very well done,

[oldradagast]

AssaultPig, on 03 November 2015 - 06:24 PM, said:

lol

conquest is the only game mode where the ruleset isn't ****; I don't want to play a game where both teams are heavily incentivized to bunch up and stand around

I played 10 games and got conquest zero times. Probably just not gonna log in anymore tbh

Basically. The only time today we got anything other than Skirmish and one of the obvious maps was when our team happened to connect faster than the other team and all troll-voted some goofy modes and maps to the top. But about a 1/3 of the time, the voting was already done or close to it by the time we connected, so even that trick won't always work with a large group.

Ah, well - should the game now be called Frozen City Skirmish Online or Alpine Skirmish Online?

[Bloody]

fist 10 games

Frozen city
Frozen City
Frozen city.
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