Solos and Duos are needed
This game lacks of solo and duos. Making people to play in party with randoms is a good idea, but forcing them to do so is not. Sometimes its possible to find a great teammates and win a game with th...
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As of right now, there is undoubtedly a decent amount of people that like the game but are discouraged by not having the option to play solo's. Adding solo's would just make the game more appealing to a wider audience while changing nothing for the people that like the current team aspect of the game.
I see a lot of people complaining about getting teamed up with selfish randoms who don't communicate and just do their own thing. These are people that would solo queue if the option was available, leaving you with a better gaming experience since you would generally be grouped up with people who want to be in teams.
If they add solo's and you don't like it then just continue to play the game the same way you are right now. It literally doesn't affect you.
"This is a topic where you have to be very careful of what you wish for. You add one mode - you slice the playerbase in two. Add another and the queues are 1/3 of what they used to be. Then say you want to add another selection like between two maps and numbers are multiplied so your queues are now divided by 6. In PUBG you have players divided between TPP and FPP, then into solo/duo/squads and then people also have an option to select one of the 4 maps which combined can potentially reduce the queues by a whooping factor of 24.
Reducing queue sizes does not only increase the wait times but also, perhaps more importantly, destroy the matchmaking. BR games are very sensitive to this because of how many players are required for a match. Despite PUBG's record breaking player counts, matchmaking in there is practically non-existent. Best players get matched against the worst all the time. It does not have to be like this.
When you have a single huge queue of players ready to go, there's a lot of good things you can do. Not only can you better match players by performance stats, you may match by ping, match random squads against random, pre-formed against pre-formed, mic-equipped players with mic-equipped, match players by the languages they speak etc. Say you add a solo mode - you smash the efficiency of that by half. You may say that it would increase the player base but it would never increase it enough to fully compensate for the split. So the argument that new modes would not hurt the squad one does not hold water.
Ultimately this is a choice between getting the best game possible or attracting more players. A choice between a bigger but divided audience or a more engaged one. A notion that more players would always bring more revenue is flawed. Since Respawn seem set to monetize though purely optional and mostly cosmetic things, engagement is king. They don't just want people to play the game, they want them to love it. Because that's when people are suddenly happy to pay 10 dollars for a piece of texture."
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bring on Solo PLEASE, im so sick and tired of playing with teams who cant even be bothered to plug in a mic, this game is supposed to be very team work focused but how does that work when nobody talks and coordinates with each other. Solo needs to happen really soon.
That's why they have a Ping system.
I refuse to believe that the devs did not consider the possibility that solo/duos would be heavily requested or even needed for long term success. It’s too much of a genre standard. Hell, even many heavily cooperative games still support AI companions to some degree to cater to solo players, like Payday and Left for Dead.
Also, while it’s certainly not confirmed, an individual on Twitter posted what is, allegedly, game code suggesting solo/duos was already partially implemented or at least the framework for it to be added later. He also posted what seemed like a very convincing screenshot of a possible future Legend, named Cooper.
- and how will this be the best game possible when I get queued with 2 Russian kids?. And does this game seem like it is PUBG and it has third person? To be honest right now I cannot see why the queues would be increased I mean yhea there will be less people that play one specific game mode and with the 10 mil players that got the game I don't think there will be much of a difference, ultimately I tnink most players that are competitive will go away from this game because they cannot depend on their own decisions, people wouldn't play another game they will play apes when they play solos. You say you want the game to be the best it can be right? do you consider "the best" forcing players to be punished because they didn't get lucky in match making? Abilities would be creat in solos because it just adds a new layer of complexity to the game.
