Deathmatch Only BGs queue

xylena · February 8

Since you guys are revisiting 3s, can we also revisit the DM queue?

Many of the issues with 3s were due to objective modes becoming incoherent.

The combined queue has failed year after year.

Decimus · February 8

They should just redesign "competitive" 4v4, remove the objective modes from it and turn it into 3v3 solo shuffle or 3v3/4v4 group match with proper MMR, ranks etc.

Objectives in 8v8 have a lot of issues but can be fun when they're working properly... Crazy King for example results in some pretty good matches typically.

Other modes can be fixed, as can be seen on so many other (more successful) MMOs employing objective game modes in their battlegrounds format.

Thumbless_Bot · February 8

Decimus wrote: »

They should just redesign "competitive" 4v4, remove the objective modes from it and turn it into 3v3 solo shuffle or 3v3/4v4 group match with proper MMR, ranks etc.

I think this is a good idea and I think a lot of my bg guild mates would agree... as long as MMR was implemented appropriately and based on kda and not whatever it is now. If anything. Healbots never dying and winning a 0-0 DM because they outheal the other team is not my idea of a fun bg/dm experience. Also a lot of my guildies would likely agree.

They should bring this back with two and three team formats as well. That way people can....

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xylena · 12:00PM

The combined DM/OBJ queue is like showing up at a poker table, half the table has standard playing cards, the other half shows up with Pokemon cards.

So I'm not sure why any serious deathmatcher wouldn't want DM queue, unless they actually prefer to stomp on casual objective players in objective matches?

Wouldn't surprise me if that were the case, but catering to pug stompers is a dead game, basically bad PvE with extra steps, e.g. the horrendous ball group meta that killed Cyrodiil.

Maitsukas · 12:49PM

I personally would have a random 4v4 (ranked), 8v8 (unranked) and 4v4v4 (unranked for the time being) as options, but I'd wait for the player reception to 4v4v4 weekends on LIVE servers first.