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how to change battleground game mode?
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kargen27✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭It may not significantly affect the population but is impacts how often I queue. I didn't do a tone of battlegrounds anyway but now it is rare I participate.and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."1 -
NeKryXe✭✭✭✭✭
✭Is this problem not solved yet?
I gave up playing battlegrounds since the last year because I never got anything than the boring deathmatch mode.
Now, because of the PVP event I'm trying it again, and once again I always get deathmatch.
I always select "random battlegrounds" I always get deathmatch.
This doesn't make any sense.
It's not a bug, it was well intended because they changed the entire queueing system and how it functions. It was actually a test to see how it would effect BG population, and they stated they'd be reverting the change in the next update. So for the entire event you will most likely only receive TDM's. It'll be in place until march when the update rolls out
If it is intentional then it's even worse and more disrespectful towards players. Anyway, it doesn't make any sense. I still have the random option... what does it mean now? What's a random deathmatch then?
Most probably they did something wrong and came with that excuse to avoid fixing the problem. And the number of players is stupid. Like me, many players still play it a lot, for achievements, tickets or to complete sets. The big difference is that now I hate the game that I used to enjoy a lot. If they are ok with that, then it's all good. Maybe it's a test to find out how long it takes for us to completely give up.
Rich lambert explained how the new queue works on his stream once. The reason you only get TDMs is because most people in the waiting queue are queued for "solo deatmatch" or "group deatchmatch" instead of "random". So when you click random, it goes to find a game to fill and the only to fill are deathmatch and therefore you will only get TDM. Since most people are choosing "deathmatch" over "random".
The old queue was a true random queue of all gamemodes where you had no control over what gamemode you'd be in, whereas here they were testing how it would be effected if they added in a "TDM" specific option. And since most people in the waiting queue are in TDM's, most will be TDM's.
It IS possible to get non TDM games and I've gotten into some but it's VERY VERY unlikely that you will
I understand that, but it means that the game is awful now. They should separate it. I don't mind to play deathmatch from time to time, rarely, but as it is now it's plain trash. They turned it into something atrociously boring for those who want diversity. I always wanted more game modes, and instead we got only one, and the most basic and repetitive of all.
They really should separate it. We already have similar deathmatches all the time in duels and in cyrodiil battles.1 -
draigwyrdd✭✭✭draigwyrdd wrote: »It isn't a bug. It's a (probably unintended) result of the design of the queues. If 11 players queue for random, and 1 player queues for deathmatch, the battleground will be a deathmatch.
They could easily fix that by completely removing deathwatch from the random game. There's an option to play that mode already, we don't need it twice. It's pathetic. We can't even complete the achievements or have some fun with the old good battlegrounds. They turned some nice PVP games into a horrendous thing and now they try to push us to that trash to earn the event tickets.
They are changing the queues back to full random, which is a sort of compromise I suppose. I would prefer a slightly weighted queue so that it's a 50% chance of deathmatch, 50% chance of objective, but full random is what we're getting with update 33.0 -
NeKryXe✭✭✭✭✭
✭draigwyrdd wrote: »draigwyrdd wrote: »It isn't a bug. It's a (probably unintended) result of the design of the queues. If 11 players queue for random, and 1 player queues for deathmatch, the battleground will be a deathmatch.
They could easily fix that by completely removing deathwatch from the random game. There's an option to play that mode already, we don't need it twice. It's pathetic. We can't even complete the achievements or have some fun with the old good battlegrounds. They turned some nice PVP games into a horrendous thing and now they try to push us to that trash to earn the event tickets.
They are changing the queues back to full random, which is a sort of compromise I suppose. I would prefer a slightly weighted queue so that it's a 50% chance of I understand that, but it means that the game is awful now. They should separate it. I don't mind to play deathmatch from time to time, rarely, but as it is now it's plain trash. They turned it into something atrociously boring for those who want diversity. , 50% chance of objective, but full random is what we're getting with update 33.
Well... I wasn't aware of that. It's nice to know. I really want full random, the same chance for all modes. Too much deathmatch makes me sleep.
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draigwyrdd✭✭✭draigwyrdd wrote: »draigwyrdd wrote: »It isn't a bug. It's a (probably unintended) result of the design of the queues. If 11 players queue for random, and 1 player queues for deathmatch, the battleground will be a deathmatch.
They could easily fix that by completely removing deathwatch from the random game. There's an option to play that mode already, we don't need it twice. It's pathetic. We can't even complete the achievements or have some fun with the old good battlegrounds. They turned some nice PVP games into a horrendous thing and now they try to push us to that trash to earn the event tickets.
They are changing the queues back to full random, which is a sort of compromise I suppose. I would prefer a slightly weighted queue so that it's a 50% chance of I understand that, but it means that the game is awful now. They should separate it. I don't mind to play deathmatch from time to time, rarely, but as it is now it's plain trash. They turned it into something atrociously boring for those who want diversity. , 50% chance of objective, but full random is what we're getting with update 33.
Well... I wasn't aware of that. It's nice to know. I really want full random, the same chance for all modes. Too much deathmatch makes me sleep.
With every match as deathmatch it can get a bit boring, but I do think the old queue with barely any deathmatch ever was also pretty bad. It's worse because two of the objective modes are essentially the same thing, so sometimes you feel like you're getting the same thing every time even though it alternates between Crazy King and Domination.
But full random is what we're getting, so... that will be fun, but a bit less fun for me personally than it could have been!0