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NullEffective9's avatar
NullEffective9
4 years ago

For casual queue: a) Good MM b) Low queue times c) Trios vs. Trios -- Choose one

I keep seeing this discussion pop up in General and Feedback forums, and it's high time that everyone is reminded that your casual queue experience has to be weighted against the three items mentione...
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HappyHourSumwur
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

@NullEffective9Why not do both? Instead of combining lobbies after a set amount of time (i.e.- dumping preds & premades in with lower skilled players after the MM timer goes off), why not shorten/shrink the game? Set a player minimum and then scale the ring at the start based off the resulting player count. Say you set the min at 30 players (10 squads), then start the game as is once you have at least that many and the timer goes off. Then have the ring start moving forward based on how full the lobby is. For example, if you have 30 players, the ring would start moving uninterrupted straight to round 2 or 3 right off the drop.
I'd personally prefer smaller, faster matches with players truly of equal skill than the cluster fiesta we get now where you get melted repeatedly by people you have no chance against before the game throws you a bone.

reconzero's avatar
reconzero
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@HappyHourSumwur

It makes me sad that we'd rather turn battle royale into team deathmatch than even have a discussion as to whether the skill gap in this game is too wide. Narrow the skill gap, which in this game is as simple as turning recoil down by 70%, and suddenly normal players become competitive. Which is exactly why Respawn would never consider it, and the vocal minority of diamond+ players would lose their minds. And the $100 they spent on anti-recoil cheats.
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    HappyHourSumwur
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @reconzero I say still keep it BR, just not 60 players all the time. I'm OK with a 48 player match if it means avoiding 4 other squads of preds/smurfs/cheaters.
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      reconzero
      Seasoned Ace
      4 years ago
      @HappyHourSumwur

      If the theory says that this would only affect the preds/smurfs/cheaters (as they exist in much smaller numbers than the rest of us) then I'm all for it. I genuinely do not give a tinker's damn whether or not their experience changes, or whether it's for the better or the worse. But there are plenty of scrubs to go around, so I'm assuming my lobbies could hit 60 players in a timely fashion no matter the time of day or day of the week. Because I want a 60 player lobby and a full map and nothing cut off the timer at the start of the match. Anything less than that is, to me, backslidding toward arena shooters - a place I came here to escape.

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