Okay so I'd love to hear other ideas in the comments and I'm sure many other people are having the same problem. Almost every engagement I get into lately has been getting 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th partied. I think we have 5 acceptable solutions but we could come up with more if we put our minds together. A. This is unbearably necessary: Reduce the distance that shots and explosions can be heard from, especially snipers and airstrike ultimates. I don't like that I can tell what guns the people in Bunker are using from swamps while I hear bangalore's ultimate going off in Spotted Lake.B. This ones a bit far fetched but I think it might work perfectly, along with some substantial volume reduction: Make it so that as soon as a squad gets wiped, any team that did damage to them gets their shields and health instantly restored, but remains knocked down if they were.C. Downed players can use healing items but remain down so that when they get revived they are at full shield and health. They can't use their knockdown shield while healing and are therefore vulnerable to thirsting.D. Barrel stabilizers also act as silencersE. Reduced revive time

@afishthatvapes Spotted the guy that made 95% of his kills with 3rd parties.People like you make the game s**t.

@kellanammann I've replied to your other post about this, you can read that thread here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Feedback/3rd-Party/td-p/9194810/page/2The only other thing I have left to say, is that I personally think you have to be within at least 50-80 meters to even see ability ultimates, as everyone knows where Lifeline, Bangalore, and Gibraltar drops their things, and where Crypto ults, etc. Gun sounds should also be reduced to less than 100 or so meters, snipers can be a little louder, but we shouldn't hear fighting from where Slum Lakes was, when we're in containment or even in the bunker.Also, you'll think that with less things to render on our side of things, we might even have less lag issues as the server doesn't have to tell our games everything. Someone once turned up a sound setting (by a method not provided by the game), and you can hear every healing item, abilities, weapon reload, drops, player knocks, etc. being played at once. All these sounds are just quiet unless you're "near" them. No wonder why we have sound problems as well. They don't even have a proper play distance, they're just global with the volume tuned for each player. This was found out around like season 5 or 6. Don't know if they fixed it already.

This is a battle royale. Third partying is a strategy. Don't get into an engagement unless you know you can finish it quickly and get the armor swap, otherwise be the third partier. The game is third partying and map rotating. It's the best strategy if your goal is to win, which is the point of the game. To survive and become the champion. What you guys seem to want is that whenever you engage a team, no one in the entire map is allowed to engage you and must wait for you two to get out of battle. The thing is, that's not how battle royale games work. Maybe you just don't like this game mode and should play a game with Deathmatch instead where there are two teams instead of 30.

@kellanammann I would suggest a few thing as well.I can basically fully agree with Point A.About Point B...mhhh it COULD work. But maybe not. Maybe what they should do instead is implement the auto heal feature. So automatic heal starts after 7s maybe you could do it in a way where the heal accelerates the longer you don't take damage. So it starts at the speed at which it was going in the flashpoint LTM but as the time during which you don't take damage increases it gets faster. This would also help prevent 3rd parties at least to some extent because you could just run away and over time you heal and eventually you are fully healed the wannabe 3rd party now faces a fully healed squad again. It would also maybe bring more spice into close combat fights because you no longer drain your heal items when you fight people over greater ranges.Additionally they could also introduce silencers to further reduce the range at which shots are heard. But maybe this would also go too far when combined with Point A.

@afishthatvapeslol what a stupid comment. It really is cowards like you that call it a "sTrAtEgY" that ruin this game. Obviously if it works so well then something needs to be done to reduce it. That's the whole point you dipstick. I want a fighting chance against the third party, not the removal of 3rd partying. I actually enjoy fighting teams one after the other I just want a fighting chance if my shield is cracked and both my teammates are down. You can't always shield swap either. What about long range engagements? Obviously cowards like you are gonna continue to hide and wait for the best time to easily wipe what's left of a squad no matter what because you're terrified of a fair 3v3 or 2v2 fight lmfao, but the rate at which it happens desperately needs to be reduced, and 90% of players with actual balls would agree. A fighting chance also needs to be given to the victims of 3rd parties. I'm not asking for an advantage over 3rd parties, I'm asking for cowards like you to not be given an absolute landslide of an advantage. And it doesn't matter how quick you wipe a squad because every pathfinder and octane within a half mile are gonna be there to crap on what's left of you in 10 seconds anyway. Even if this change is made, how much is it gonna help when both your teammates are knocked and a full team of woosies like you comes through? Barely if at all. Enjoy your pitiful, undeserved wins you absolute invertebrate.

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MrGameNfit
5 years ago
@E9ine_AC third party threats dont take thinking. all you so is hear shots and run. thats not an in depth well thought out strategy. its basically running to get easy kills. i understand its part of the game, however, when you are balls deep in a firefight and left with 1 health. all it takes is one bullet from a third party and your done. no matter how good your exit strategy is. my frustration comes when my team clears out another then i have no time to heal before a third or fourth squad is right on your *. shield swap is great and maybe i need to get better at that, but its not always feasible when your getting slammed back to back.
MrGameNfit
5 years ago
exactly!!! all my randoms either 1) dont land with me or 2) start rushing teams by themself
SugaryJuice
5 years ago
The problem with third parties is that King's Canyon is a small map and is very poorly designed. There are too many fishbowls, valleys, and restricted spaces that make maneuverability impossible, so you get backed up traffic of teams because there is literally nowhere for teams to go after they get into a fight so they can't filter out. There is no breathing room on the map. I'm sitting in diamond lobbies and when I queue with my PC squadmate, one team magically turns into seven in the blink of an eye. Not sure what it is about PC, but I don't have this problem when I'm in console lobbies.
DesertDust91
5 years ago
Reducing the distance people from which people can hear shots would help to solve the problem, in my opinion the best solution. 🤔
From the other point of view and in current situation - you can adjust your playstyle too:
1) Play Crypto(from time to time): You can see a number of squads in 200 meter radius. 🤔
2) Wait at the rings border until it will close itself - at least you will know, that no one is following you.
3) If another squad is attacking you, no one is forcing you to stay and fight, you can always run away and let them fight, or simply increase the distance from them.*
3rd partying will always remain a part of the game anyway - to some degree, and it cannot be eliminated completely.
*not that random people will listen to you, they usually prefer to die in combat, unfortunately 🙌
E9ine_AC
Hero+
5 years ago
@SugaryJuice Ehhh I prefer kings just because of it being smaller. I get sick of running around trying to find people having to use a trident at times to even find them. The bigger the map the less encounters. I hate looking at squads left and only 3 left while we not heard a single gun shot.
E9ine_AC
Hero+
5 years ago
@MrGameNfit If third party fights dont take thinking then how do some of us win third party fights even while in the middle of the current fight? It 100% takes thinking.
kellanammann
5 years ago
You try having both your teammates knocked and low health and then running from a 3rd partying octane and pathfinder while you're playing as anyone else. Let me know how that goes. Pffft. Clueless.
kellanammann
5 years ago
@Lygerk_p That doesn't help at all. It's really how loud gunshots, explosions and ults are that make it like a "free kill" bell ringing for everyone nearby to hear. Even if the 3rd party is close enough that the sound is fair, there's nothing that's gonna stop them if they time their attack right after the 1st squad gets wiped. I just thought what if they let downed players use healing items while they're down ? That might work perfectly.

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