8v8 Discussion Thread

I wanted to add that in the tweet about the 8v8 change, Shaun states he wants our feedback on this. It comes off as a test rather than a permanent change based on that.

@spIash_damage the team swapping/imbalance is the number one issue right now. There are also a few changes some individual characters need to bring them in line, but they can be dealt with better if the teams are more equal in the first place. The patch really did make combat feel and play better but they've got to get reign in team stacking and swapping. I don't know exactly why it feels worse here than GW1 and 2 where it was also rampant, but it sure does.

It’s all about the team play if everyone played as a team it will work great but how often do you get that. 

Notice the date and items number 2 and 3 (hacking was addressed in the #1 spot):

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Game-Information/GW3-Wishlist/m-p/8143935#M35259

We’re on record talking about this years before my thread and Iron Guard made a similar thread months before mine.  

If these issues aren’t addressed, PvP of any size is a lost cause.

@spIash_damage indeed! They've addressed some of this thankfully but the team imbalance is something I never thought we'd have to hammer at like this. It just seems such an obvious thing to fix that I didn't expect it to be the biggest current issue hurting the game at this time. 

Welp, this is just bad, like horribly bad. 

Played some game and can't enymore, its too boring now, its even way more quet on map, they fighting now unconsisted, silence, fighting, again silence, again fighting. 

Capturin TV station is really problematic now, there is just not enough players to keep atleast 2 vans captured im not talkin about 3 vans. 

More, after each match some people leaves, and with 8v8, its drops to 4-3 people in each team, wich is even more boring, new player joins raralely. And if at the beginning of next match we have situation where like 6v4, team with 4 people just leaves. Like after minute of match i saw this!! 

Okay, this is bad and dissapointing, im not gonna start game, until we back to 12v12, only if im really want to play ops, but im not really want. Im definetly not gonna spent the holidays in Neighborville.

Here's a good idea I found from Justin Wiebe's twitter thread. Why don't we bring back 12v12 turf and put 8v8 turf in mixed mode? That way both the 12v12 and 8v8 fans are happy, it wont add another mode to the playlist that further splits the userbase, and helps populate mixed mode a bit.

Letting people choose 8v8 or 12v12 is a good idea. I never had much lag in 12v12 after the first fixes and think it’s to empty as it is. May be with the lag a faster internet and maybe not Wi-fi helps I have a a PS4 on Wi-fi and it would lag but the one on Ethernet was fine.