14 replies to this topic

[Sakon]

Have the Dev. team released the size of the teams for matches?
is it going to be only lance vs lance or are we going to beable to get to batalion and regiment size?

[Sunny0]

Right now we only know there will be 12 vs 12 but it's not fixed so maybe there will be even more.

[Celldoor]

they trying to work at 12v12 lvl, may back up to 8v8

[Reoh]

Sunny0, on 12 July 2012 - 06:25 AM, said:

Right now we only know there will be 12 vs 12 but it's not fixed so maybe there will be even more.

Like Sunny said, they did mention they were looking into joint-matches. Say a battle for a planet might include multiple battles at different locations which helped win the planet or not. That's all community warfare stuff though and isn't expected out for a couple months post launch (so they can make sure the basic gameplay is tight before adding to it).

[Steven McWayne]

12 vs 12..company vs company seems nice

[Wurzelsepp]

would be great to see 20vs20 or more ...

[Arteste]

Would LOVE to see 12 v 12 or even more! Maybe (if the program were profitable for them) they could go to a 2 tier system where smaller matches were always FTP as an enticement and then a one time fee to pay for entrance to LARGE mech battles? Just a suggestion!

Respectfully,
Arteste
DWAR Mechwarrior

[zwerchau]

In the developer chat yesterday they said that smaller maps; Forest or Winter City, for example, 8 vs. 8 is the match size they are looking at.

Here is the relevant section:

Question 10

<IGP_Mike> =============================== <Pilot2543> How do you see the future maps in MWO? Will their size be closer to those we saw in videos(Forest and Winter City)? Or will they be closer to classic MW huge open maps?

<[PGI]Omid> This is one of the areas we're continuing to experiment with. In beta we are currently running a large number of 8v8 matches - maps like Forest Colony and Frozen City are more suited to this balance and game length that the huge, sprawling mw maps
<[PGI]Omid> I should really leave the rest of this question to our designers, but I just want to say that the map fits the game mode - when/if we have game modes that need larger maps, thats when we would consider them. Otherwise it's tuned to feel right for the number of people playing against eachother.

Edited by zwerchau, 12 July 2012 - 06:40 AM.

[Reoh]

They might change it up based on what the map could support, best of both worlds (big/small matches).

[Sunny0]

Reoh, on 12 July 2012 - 07:01 AM, said:

They might change it up based on what the map could support, best of both worlds (big/small matches).

Yep they also told that they are still testing there hardware to make even bigger maps with more ppl.

[Draelren]

I'm looking forward to 36v36 one day.

[Sakon]

Thank you everyone for ancering... was woried that it would be a lance as lance only....

[Ryunkasa]

12v12 is a good solid start. From what I have seen of the gameplay, the matches seem to have a slow pace, and I really don't know how it would alter matches if the amount of players were increased. Solely based on other games that I have played, between 12v12 and 16v16 are just enough players to make the games big, but not large enough to overwhelm the players. We would have to get into some actual gameplay to see how things really are. We shall see.

[Sakon]

Can't wait... counting down the days

[Sighard Aglachad]

Arteste, on 12 July 2012 - 06:33 AM, said:

Would LOVE to see 12 v 12 or even more! Maybe (if the program were profitable for them) they could go to a 2 tier system where smaller matches were always FTP as an enticement and then a one time fee to pay for entrance to LARGE mech battles? Just a suggestion!

Respectfully,
Arteste
DWAR Mechwarrior

Please don't suggest anything that would segregate paying from non-paying customers.