Overflow/Arena Feedback
Arenas has been plagued with issues and complaints since launch, whether it be leavers, afks, bugs, daily and battle pass challenges, match-making, and maps that just don't seem right.
I, myself, have made many such complaints, as I have felt that the whole Arenas experience has been awful, but now is also time for praise. Overflow is easily the best Arena map yet!
IMO, Arena is meant to be close-combat 3v3, where the majority of a map can be utilized. The Arena gameplay should be about fighting, not about hiding or camping. The rest of the Arena maps that we have seen so far have had large areas of wasted space, whether that be horizonal or vertical wasted space.
Arenas should feel frantic, intense, and meaningful, rather than minutes spent trying to find the enemies and/or camping a great spot. It's all about the fighting.
Overflow provides that.
I look forward to Ranked Arenas, where we can look forward to much improved match-making, allowing for better matches and more fun. Also, more improved maps that allow the close-combat fire-fights to really shine.
Most of all, I look forward to a time when Arenas is no longer a game-mode that needs to be propped-up by events and free skins, but a fully different mode that people play when they just want fights, without the looting and huge maps.
Importantly, Arena needs to be different than BR, maybe even drastically so, otherwise why wouldn't you just play BR? Maybe that means more emphasis on smaller maps, removing the need or use of sniper rifles, since the entire purpose of being a sniper is antithetical to the gameplay of Arenas. (So is making multiple Sniper Battle Pass challenges for a mode that has no use for them.)
In the end, the Arena mode will either succeed or fail based on how similar or different the devs feel it should be from the main BR.
I'm no dev, but I can tell you the closer it is to BR, the less players will play it, and the more events and skins you will need to prop it up.
Allow it to be different, focus on the fighting, less wasted area.
Players love action. Give it to them.
