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Doc2FX's avatar
5 years ago

Early solo drop / detach from squad possibility removal

As of today, being able to solo drop away from the squad...

- In the drop ship adds nothing to the game, removes chances to win

- At the start of the fall has almost the same impact on games

- In the middle of the fall usually ends up in 50/50 chances to have a spoiled game or a larger initial loot zone

- Just before the landing is mandatory to be able to play the game at start, unless going for a punch fiesta

In other words: the more people split early in the fall at game start, the less the team will score globally, individually and resolve daily quests or get ranked points.

I won't tell you to track this, you more than probably already do. I did it and the results are absolutely without appeal: they totally demonstrate what I wrote above.

Considering solo dropping brings absolutely nothing to the game and usually ruins it until ~100 meters from the ground, is there any way this could be definitly removed?

I would propose 100m from the ground to start allowing it, or 5 seconds after dropping from the ship.

Thanks! 🙂

7 Replies

  • Then there is the flipside of the troll jumper who tries to jump his team off the map.  No thanks, fine the way it is.

    If someone truly wants to solo let him...there is an option to not fill teammates now.

  • @Doc2FX This can cause quite a few impacts on the game. From trolling dropping people off the map to landing on a single building having heated debates about the loot in said building. Just would not be good IMO.
  • @Doc2FXThe drop solo option has too many benefits to be removed, sometimes I use it so people can’t relinquish jumpmaster to me so they just do it back and forth to each other and get mad lol, then on world’s edge people will try and fly you into the harvester’s laser beam, on Olympus i have had people trying to fly me off of the map so I have broken off and this has also happened on Kings Canyon a couple times, another benefit is so your teammates won’t land with you and steal all of your loot... I wish jumpmasters had the option to force breakoff their team because of this issue because some newer players don’t know to break off and just snatch everything from you then run off and get knocked and start spam pinging

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    Doc2FX
    5 years ago

    Guys, please try to read me before posting. All those problems are addressed in the OP.
    You can't kill your team in 5s drop, on any map. And even if so, just think about 4/3/2/1 seconds. Or another limitation.

    You can kill your team in the excavator laser regardless of what your team did, even if they can split.

    Also, if you're worried about people dropping next to you, that won't change a thing.

    On the other side, forcing the detach is OK (and another topic, probably) and I like this idea, but then this can also lead to pushing teammates into the void at the last moment.

    Again, when counting the drawbacks and advantages, it all falls back to detach lock.

    I was mostly trying to add a solution to the increasing savagery and stupidity of BR games, since season 1, it has become a nightmare to get a team who at least tries to play the game. I'm personnaly below 50%. Needless to say, after 4000 hours of playing and over 1000 € invested into the game, if I ever have a reason to stop playing (which is likely to happen in the next months), it will be this one.

    When I start a game I expect other teammates to play it too. But since AL is F2P, a vast majority of players don't care. The triumph of free anonimity has rotten the fun of this game little by little.

  • @Doc2FX honestly i do love the idea but sadly trolls could use that to make life difficult for people, its not ideal either way
  • @Doc2FX 

    "You can't kill your team in 5s drop, on any map. "

    World's Edge if you jump as the ship crosses the laser beam building it takes less than 1 second to kill your team.

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    Doc2FX
    5 years ago

    PLEASE read the answers completely before posting.

    Thanks. <3