Re: No Party Trios

@hayhor 

You sir are absolutely correct even though I solo Q a lot I also play 3 stacked premade with friends often enough.

the best of both worlds. 

I don't think the primary complaint is about playing against parties queued together overall.  It is about being thrown into lobbies against 3-stacks of triple masters/pred/wrath/wake players.  I also think that what they were looking for is not disallowing such stacks to play, but offering a separate queuing option for solo Q players only.  There are still valid arguments against, I just wanted to tighten up the discussion closer to what I believe OP was suggesting.

@pandareno1999 

Your last post is a great option and would provide a serious benefit to the health of the game.

if this what @DankToliet meant then it is a good suggestion. If he meant getting rid of being able to play with friends then that is a big no no. 

@pandareno1999 hit it on the nose. It wouldn't replace the current system, just be offered as a separate que/game mode. Queing with randoms and being put up against three stacks is an instant disadvantage. This game mode would bring some balance to the solo que experience.

@DankToliet 

Thanks for clearing that up. Your suggestion is then probably the best next step Respawn should do as it would more than likely improve the health of the game overall as well as the Solo Q experience.

@Asmodeus566It won't improve the health of the game. People with friends will have long queue times. And solo people will still complain about other solo people. The idea is good but the implementation is impossible.

@hayhor 

I understand what you are saying, however we do not know how much of an impact that would really be.

I also understand what @DankToliet is getting at and the suggestion sounds reasonable.

EA and Respawn need to really try and find a better balance for sbmm as a whole.

Whilst we are on the subject.  You know the little "tick box" in BR that reads "Fill Team".  That fails on me very often.  I uncheck that to solo queue and sometimes it will add members to my solo death.  How is it EA and Respawn can screw up a simple binary switch??  I have now gotten into the habit of flipping it off and on several times before entering a match.  I don't solo queue to be anti-social, it is done to keep others from dying with me as I learn a new map or character skills.

 Worse yet is when I queue for a solo match, it will ignore me and pass over me like I don't exist. The members in queue will rise well beyond the 50 to 60 mark and plummet back down to less than 20.  Three times in a row waiting for a match over 8 minutes.  All the time having to browse menus to keep from being "timed out".  At which point the neurotic game queue is not attempting to get people in to fill the matches fast or there are too few people actually playing this game at all. 

I am told by friends that the "custom match" allows you to invite friends via a passcode.  I am unaware how or who you need to grease to get access, but obviously that is beyond my paygrade.

Meanwhile... I have been PvPing elsewhere.  I am holding off spending any real money at all on this season, until I know where this is all going. 

@DankToliet  Why do I prioritize queue time? Because I only have so much time to play. I'd play less if queues take multiple minutes.

Again, I'm not opposed to solo queue only lobbies. But yes you will see queue times go up. Unless you have the answers for the below
Is it automatically a thing if you solo? Or do you opt into it in some way?
What happens to duos in trios? If every solo is in the solo mode, they can't have a full team?

@hayhorOr, respawn could just add a waiting map where players can go and kill each other while they wait, like most other games.