Japan Adrealine TV 3.4 PvP Update

There's too much PvE focus in Shatter because that is exactly how the devs designed it due to the ice tomeliths being big score piñatas (and how poorly they scale between 72-man and 24-man matches) and the added point-boosting of stealing bases. Both are supposed to dissuade lingering and fighting so long as there is an uninvolved 3rd team that benefits from 2 teams being preoccupied (which is why large leads/run-away games even happen, to the fault of the 2 teams caught in a fight). There's very little they can do to salvage this mode outside of letting kills/deaths give ridiculous point gains/losses or do something about how much points ice tomeliths give.

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Originally Posted by Nyhmzy

LS chat in PvP when, the reason behind not having it is dumb if people want to wintrade they'll use external methods of communication anyway.

And also GC restrictions lifted when.

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LS chat for what`? You may want to focus on pvp if you queue for it not dying somewhere cause of "talking to ls". In feast ls chat would be even more useless than in frontlines too so really no reason to make that possible.

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Originally Posted by Eorzean_username

I think this is a good idea, based on your stated motivations, and I support the idea of any incentive to compress the PvP playerbase into a more focused, competitive, and active time frame.

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What would be great is if you create a custom match, that you could "advertise" it on your server/across world which would be cool. :)

I'd add that on the topic of times for "The Feast" perhaps it would be great to offer big bonus rewards for prime time, this would be even cool to see where there would be bonus times / days for different pvp content. For example - Tuesday is Frontlines bonus, Wednesday is Feast (I don't know, but something that might help drive people into the content around the same time/day) :)

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Originally Posted by Rhaja

I'm kinda on the fence with the restricted time idea.

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With custom games still being allowed, and 8v8 options open, that might help.

I hope that if I host a custom game, that I can bring my friends in, as well as open it up for others to join in if they wish. Options like (Friends only - must be on friends list), LinkShell/Free Company, Open would be cool. I think they said that you'd have two full parties that would set the match up. But what would be even better would be to setup some type of lobby and allow players to switch teams/parties, etc and queue up matches back to back to back. So you'd leave the match and back into the lobby. Wouldn't need to take you out of the game mind you to be in the lobby, you'd just join it, and the UI would show you in a pvp lobby. :)

@Rewards - Can we have it so we can store this stuff in the Armoire sooner, rather than later? Sounds like we're basically getting the same rewards for season 2, they'll just be slightly altered... No real complaints there, other than potential inventory woes, of course...

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Originally Posted by Nalien

@Rewards - Can we have it so we can store this stuff in the Armoire sooner, rather than later? Sounds like we're basically getting the same rewards for season 2, they'll just be slightly altered... No real complaints there, other than potential inventory woes, of course...

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Gotta get u to buy that third retainer ok???

Peak times only for Feast? You do that, and you effectively kill it for anyone with an evening, or night shift job. Can't PvP while at work, or asleep, after all.

It's good to have limited time slot for Feast. Returns Frontlines to the glory!

i agree with everything but the restricted times on rated feast. as many people including I actually raid during peak times and some may even work those times, if this was implemented you would effectively alienate those people from participating in the season. giving those who obviously can play during peak hours an advantage.

I welcome the addition of 1v1 dueling while waiting for queues to pop, but could you possibly add a "Role Waiting List" for PVP? Players that queue after others often get in before people that queued before them. Often times it feels like the queue lottery. This would be especially helpful when you have been sitting in a frontlines queue for 30+ minutes with no hope. Even if 1v1 might keep us busy it still really sucks to have no idea when your frontlines queue is going to pop.

Regarding feast: I don't think it's a good idea to have rated times. Lots of people like to do their rated matches at different times of the day, and if you could only rank up say during prime time hours for frontlines I feel like this would end up hurting frontlines participation and queue times.