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[StarSauron]

Faction Play Phase 3. Several Game play issue with Freelancer/ Mercenary and long wait time.


I did play for some time today this new mode and well, I don't like the design.

-Why play Freelancer if you get only C-bills for that ?
-How play as Mercenary if you need to find 4 people who want to play in same time the game for that mode ?


In my opinion both modes dont fit, you probably want find #a group and you get more c-bill by quick play, so people would just join "loyalist"


And you cant see now where people do wait for attack or defend planet, you must wait for "random" invites.


I think that need rework.


-Why not simply give Mercenary ability to play solo like by Freelancer ?
-Why not simply give Freelancer ability to collect faction loyalties ?
-Why not simply show where you can join the fight ?

Mercenary does give an own Bonus, "Mercenary Bonus", why additional faction bonus ?
So give Mercenary ability to play without a unit and giveto Freelancer a little bigger "faction bonus" than by Mercenary. that would make sense and somehow provide people for that game play mode.

[Mechwarrior1441491]

Ours isn't to ask or reason why, ours is but to do and die.

Something like that.

[TexAce]

You do know that not even like 5% of the population have patched and started the game yet?

[Metus regem]

xMADCATTERx, on 19 April 2016 - 01:51 PM, said:

Ours isn't to ask or reason why, ours is but to do and die.

Something like that.

That's more the motto of faction loyalists....

[Felbombling]

Long wait time complaints a few hours after the patch went live. That never gets old. lol

[Mad Strike]

Another issue:

Phoenix pack mechs don't get Faction bonuses according to freelancer and mercenary rules.

Phoenix pack was made to promote CW too.

[Lightfoot]

Yes. I don't see any reason to play CW if you are a Freelancer. To me Freelancer means bounty hunter. Whoever you work for pays you in double C-Bills and you go your own way after. You get nothing but C-Bills, but you get a lot more.

[Triordinant]

This belongs in the CW Forum.

http://mwomercs.com/...tent-read-this/

[StarSauron]

This recent patch just makes the mode even more unplayable.
Because by that design we have now much less people to play it.
So it's a divide by 10 house loyalists and now 4vs4 random teams,
great , which makes even less people to play that mode after all.


So far I expected Mercenary and Freelancer to be mods where you can more simply join the battles, so you want have to wait that long.

So why wait 10 min for match start , if you can in same time play 2 times in quick mode?

In my opinion the game is missing the point why it did go on steam.
With steam yes it did get more attention, but it must provide something to keep the people.
One of that 2 modes must allow me to join fights. And collect the bonuses.
But both do fail, and loyalist is even more underpopulated now.

The design really needs a fix, or people just switch to quick play.

Edited by StarSauron, 19 April 2016 - 10:36 PM.

[NextGame]

Split queues up to service the twitter qq-game-too-hard brigade and now there are problems. Surprise!