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4 years ago

Mid-Season Arenas Feedback

Having spent the season grinding Arenas, some feedback: Critiques: Winning 50 Arenas games for the badge was a brutal grind. There's not enough variety in matchmaking. It feels like I'm/we're usu...

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EA_Kent

Community Manager

4 years ago

@nebwise

Thanks for writing this up!

/Kent

hulla777

4 years ago

My Solution:
For 3v2, one player of the 3 members team gets a spectator view, so inactive for one round. This status is exchanged among the players of the larger team in each round. There is always another player as the spectator. This way there will always be the same number of active players on both sides.

A player who spectates can exit the game without any penalties or consequences (no Win, no Lose).
For 3v1 and 2v1, things would work similarly.
No credit is available for spectation.
The player who kills moves his killing credits to the next active turn.
Players who are inactive (afk, offline etc.) for more than one minute (or one round) must be kicked out of the game.

TheApexLegendNu
4 years ago
@hulla777Instead of having to spectate I would rather them do midnight’s suggestion and fill in for the missing player (s), this could also work in BR and they could just give a team that is missing a player a new player’s banner card after someone instantly leaves, disconnects, etc and we get queued in solo or as a duo when queueing for trios all the time
- hulla777
  4 years ago
  @TheApexLegendNub But your idea is a bigger change. See challenges, lobby, MM, etc.
  My solution doesn't ask for anything extra. Applies to the arena only. It gives a gaming experience because it balances the number of team members.
  There are many nice players who are leaving the larger team even now. This will help those who stay to have fun with the same number of people. They gave me the idea of how to solve this problem.
  Both 2v2 and 1v1 give a good experience.
  - nebwise
    4 years ago
    @hulla777 Yeah. I've played a few 2v2 matches, and they're pretty solid. Have yet to experience 1v1.
- nebwise
  4 years ago
  @TheApexLegendNub There are technical reasons that adding/subbing a player into an active game would be hard to do (if possible at all). That's why we end up with short teams in the first place.