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[Valhallan]

Solaris FFA sounds fun, until your that guy facing down 4 mechs whose pilots "secretly" made a solaris agreement to ace out all the other players first. You think the rancor between pug and group players is bad now? you ain't seen nothing yet!

[Bud Crue]

Valhallan, on 17 April 2017 - 11:02 AM, said:

Solaris FFA sounds fun, until your that guy facing down 4 mechs whose pilots "secretly" made a solaris agreement to ace out all the other players first. You think the rancor between pug and group players is bad now? you ain't seen nothing yet!

That and I keep thinking of presumed weight class based divisions.

How exciting that will be (not): Light division: "OMG the match comes down to two Arctic Cheetahs again! Amazing! (In a match comprised of quite possibly only Arctic Cheetahs). Apply the same to the other divisions and swap out for the Arctic Cheetahs: Nova/Hunchback IIc, Night Gyrs, and Battlemaster/Mad IIc/Kodak-3. I expect even less diversity in a free for all, everyone is a Rambo, mode than we currently have even in QP. Variety may be the spice of life, but besides the salt, I expect Solaris to lack any real flavor. (The poor lore nerds trying to play a Legend Killer becaus "story!" in a mode that you know will be dominated by Timber Wolves and Night Gyrs just makes me a bit sad.)

[Mystere]

Valhallan, on 17 April 2017 - 11:02 AM, said:

Solaris FFA sounds fun, until your that guy facing down 4 mechs whose pilots "secretly" made a solaris agreement to ace out all the other players first.

Then the inevitable betrayal comes sooner rather than later. What's not to like?

Edited by Mystere, 17 April 2017 - 11:25 AM.

[Coolant]

time for Solaris?.... : answer: always

[Accused]

lol

Why not include a solaris game mode instead of inventing something with potentially dismal results? Good question, let's ask PGI.

[Variant1]

As much as i and everyone would love for solaris, we cant. Not enough players playing mechwarrior since its a niche franchise. We already have a split queue playing faction war we cant afford to split it even more.

[Mystere]

Variant1, on 17 April 2017 - 12:22 PM, said:

As much as i and everyone would love for solaris, we cant. Not enough players playing mechwarrior since its a niche franchise. We already have a split queue playing faction war we cant afford to split it even more.

By having a Solaris mode, the pure "comp" and pure "lore" folks can be isolated from each other. I call that a good start.

[Pr8Dator2]

Valhallan, on 17 April 2017 - 11:02 AM, said:

Solaris FFA sounds fun, until your that guy facing down 4 mechs whose pilots "secretly" made a solaris agreement to ace out all the other players first. You think the rancor between pug and group players is bad now? you ain't seen nothing yet!

That's solaris for you, it happens, even in MW mercs...

Variant1, on 17 April 2017 - 12:22 PM, said:

As much as i and everyone would love for solaris, we cant. Not enough players playing mechwarrior since its a niche franchise. We already have a split queue playing faction war we cant afford to split it even more.

Why deny the majority the fun just to preserve the perverse of a few?

[Roughneck45]

Id swap FW for Solaris in a heartbeat.

[Pr8Dator2]

Roughneck45, on 17 April 2017 - 01:21 PM, said:

Id swap FW for Solaris in a heartbeat.

THAT!

Not to mention how much easier it would be to build and promote such a mode... basically take everything MW Mercs did and modernise it will do... I wonder if they could get that same announcer haha

Edited by Pr8Dator2, 17 April 2017 - 02:50 PM.

[KodiakGW]

Variant1, on 17 April 2017 - 12:22 PM, said:

We already have a split queue playing faction war we cant afford to split it even more.

And yet, PGI has already announced an 8v8 leaderboard queue. Don't think that is going to split players off even more? So that argument is no longer valid seeing they are willing to take groups of 16 players out of other queues instead of just two.

BTW, we currently have three queues splitting the player base. Solo PUG, group PUG, and (well, not really anymore) FP (which actually has two of it's own separate queues). Plus I happen to know players who no longer play unless it is private games/scrims or MRBC drops. So the player base is pretty well split already, and about to be split even more. If they add a mode that will bring back players who detest solo PUG, hate FP, are indifferent to Group Play, and just want to 1v1...I say get it done.

[Accused]

Variant1, on 17 April 2017 - 12:22 PM, said:

As much as i and everyone would love for solaris, we cant. Not enough players playing mechwarrior since its a niche franchise. We already have a split queue playing faction war we cant afford to split it even more.

It's not split as nobody plays Community Warfare anyways. Besides they already have solo que in FW and nothing has come from it.

Edited by Accused, 18 April 2017 - 10:04 AM.