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[SirSoggyDog]

Does anyone know what happened to bringing back 8v8 to Quick Play? I thought I saw something about it a while back, but I haven't heard anything on it for a while.

[Star Colonel Silver Surat]

Can I interest you in a mech pack? We have a new one out today, based on a napkin sketch I made last night after swatting a spider with it in the office cafeteria.

[JohnnyWayne]

I was discussing the very same question this evening after playing the game for the first time since civil war release. Came here for answers. Found a guy selling mech packs.

[Khobai]

would you like to know more about the sunspider?

https://mwomercs.com/sun-spider

Edited by Khobai, 09 December 2017 - 05:15 PM.

[KodiakGW]

Look at the timing of the announcement they were thinking about doing that. Right before a number of sales on older mechs and mech packs.

Then nothing. Absolutely nothing. Makes you wonder.

Never going to happen even though a vote on the forums showed 2/3 of the people who read that thread voted for it.

Edit: Had to fix because someone couldn’t figure out what was implied. Have to absolutely simplify it so they can understand what is being said.

Edited by KodiakGW, 09 December 2017 - 06:09 PM.

[Cy Mitchell]

KodiakGW, on 09 December 2017 - 05:17 PM, said:

Never going to happen even though a vote on the forums showed 2/3 of the player base for it.

90% of the player base does not even come to the forums or post there. How can a poll on the forums show that 2/3 of the player base wants to revert to 8v8?

[ocular tb]

It probably won't happen but I'd be willing to try it.

[Unnatural Growth]

Look for an announcement at MechCon ®

Oh, wait...

[Davegt27]

to me 8V8 is going backwards

but I never played 8v8

but judging from PGIs past decisions its probably not a good idea

[JohnnyWayne]

Decreasing group size means, that individual skill is more relevant again. Each mech matters more and well... Snowballing is reduced.

Personally, I'd like to limit group size for QP queue to 4 and then randomly decide if its 8v8 or 12v12. Maybe even 4v4, if there are good matches.

[VitiateDiabolus]

Davegt27, on 09 December 2017 - 05:45 PM, said:

to me 8V8 is going backwards

but I never played 8v8

but judging from PGIs past decisions its probably not a good idea

It was different, but not worse precisely.

TTK is a lot lower since it's harder to have perfect balls in QP that cover all the approaches. Maps were also smaller though, so no ridiculous massive Polar Highlands to get lost in. More bottlenecking. Assaults could actually assault though, so that was neat.

[Humpday]

I'd LOVE 8v8

[KodiakGW]

Rampage, on 09 December 2017 - 05:39 PM, said:

90% of the player base does not even come to the forums or post there. How can a poll on the forums show that 2/3 of the player base wants to revert to 8v8?

Ahh, always looking for a way to attack me. How about 2/3 of the people who voted, which anyone would have been able to imply from that statement.

BTW - love how active you have been since the Skill Tree, you fought to get implemented, dropped. So how many games over the last 7+ seasons? How’s your alt doing?

[Khobai]

theres no reason we cant have 8v8 for smaller maps and 12v12 for larger ones

[Davegt27]

Khobai, on 09 December 2017 - 05:58 PM, said:

theres no reason we cant have 8v8 for smaller maps and 12v12 for larger ones

now that's a good idea

[Unnatural Growth]

I would be for 8 vs 8 if they made appropriate changes.

Like reconnect the damn MM. None of this "safety valve" BS (valve has actually been wide open for 2 years). Hard lock it to no more than +/- one "Ranking".

Replace the xp bar that is Tier ranking with a running match average ranking, say last 100 or 200 matches played.

Fix the economy that Paul gutted when they went 12 vs 12 "because of all the extra spacebucks we're going to earn".

I think maps could stay same size, I dunno, lets try it out that way anyway and see.