Why? Playing as a Gold Tier player in solo is literally torture. It's asinine. It's BS. Consistently getting paired with new players is rage inducing, boring and straight up BS.
Players recognize your name? They focus you the entire game as if no one else exists but you and your awful healer.
I want the ability to make myself unranked so I can at least have a chance of getting paired with half decent players.
Allow Players to Demote Their Tier.
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03-27-2016, 04:13 PMHouston009Allow Players to Demote Their Tier.
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03-27-2016, 04:38 PMSpawnie
they should just remove names like they do for frontlines problem solved :3
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03-27-2016, 05:54 PMxxczx/wave says hi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spawnie
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03-27-2016, 08:53 PMSynestra
To be honest i dont understand why there is even solo option for this arena mode, arenas are made for premades and not for PuG's imo. 8v8 funzie mode and 4v4 premade are only modes we really need.
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03-27-2016, 11:24 PMjonbo
Take away player names pleeezzzzzzz!!!!!!! Emoting is fine since it takes SOME work to do lol.
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03-27-2016, 11:58 PMNidelia
Or just remove this stupid system in place who force you to babysit all game because you played good when you were with people who have brain.
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03-28-2016, 06:56 AMdwDrama
realtalk with straigus.
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03-28-2016, 07:10 AMIsala
Sad part is, we don't even need an option for self demotion, because our teammates already demote us on their own...
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03-28-2016, 08:00 AMDimitriiThis is a legitimate problem. If I recognize a healer cause of his name and know he's bad well imma ride that poor bastard into the ground fk his dps. It also does work the other way though as I've seen the same ppl focus me relentlessly even when I have no more medals as a DRG (such an illogical fixation i can only assume its because they recognize my name and either dont like me or see me as too much of a threat to let live).Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston009
Yeah this is true but not everyone is gonna bother to do that every game. As it is now you can immediately warn your teammates about your opponents or have otherwise preconceived notions of just hounding a specific player right at the start of the match since you can see their name.Quote:
Originally Posted by xxczx
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03-28-2016, 08:07 AMIsalaNo joke, was watching a PvP stream, and someone recognized me on the enemy team... I spent the match with a 1 on my head for most of it, even when I didn't have more than 25 medals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dimitrii
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03-28-2016, 09:13 AMHouston009You just made my day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Isala
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03-28-2016, 09:45 AMRyuko
I agree that something should be done about names. Once I recognize a player (by either playing with them or playing against them), I'll tell my team exactly how to handle that person. It's really not fair for them in a solo queue. I kind of like that we can tell who people are based on their gear/appearance, so you CAN recognize someone as soon as you see them... but you shouldn't be able to do that a moment before. I wouldn't mind if they went back to the default job names. At the current moment, I try to commit the names to memory in the beginning before the match even starts so I know who to CC, who to focus, etc... even outside of typical numbering systems.
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03-29-2016, 02:06 PMVaeriaQuote:
Originally Posted by Dimitrii
Rofl at the ride healer part! But ya...am sure at some point in his basketball career, Mr. Jordan wished he coulda changed his identity to a non-black dood named Stan McWinkles so as to be unpredictable once more too. /shrug...tis the price of fame lol. When ya think about it, it forces a new element of tacticalness into the matches. I myself have stayed on opponents with 0 medals simply becuase I knew the threat they posed left unchallenged. One has to factor such things into ones strat now..which Im guessing is why they present the names at start to begin with. Good thing is, works both ways. Found out a certain tank was going for me, regardless of buffs or not (as melee and ranged) and built a quick strat around it, and sure enough.
While I miss the job titles 100% for quicker targetting purposes (the option to switch back to em in text adjustment for ps4 at least does nothing) I get the sense the devs wanted to establish a bit of a closer knit community with recurring names lol. Guess it really is a double edged sword though when you see that one (blm who REFUSES to break 10k in a 5 minute match and whose name I am THIS close to typing) guy on your team..it can get a bit demoralizing lol. Alas...pvp is as cruel and merciless as she is exciting and beautiful. -
07-23-2016, 09:03 AMCleanse
I don't think playing anonymously can be resolved simply by masking a name. Sure making John Doe -> Warrior adds a very short term (seconds once you see the enemy team) mystery to who you're playing, but once you're in the arena, you can recognize armor, race etc. Knowing who is good and who is bad also adds an extra layer of depth to how you tackle a match.
The rating system on the other hand shouldn't put your whole team at a disadvantage because you are one of the only Gold ranked players (in this case, the only?) on the datacenter. To 'balance' the teams giving the gold player an unranked is ridiculous. At bronze it's acceptable, but silver+ should always try and match with at lowest a bronze. -
07-23-2016, 09:26 AMTiaHariberux3
Just wait until more people are gold since the system prioritize now gold, platin and diamond people together. Tbh most of the time I can tell people by seeing their glamour cause its always the same so no need to make names disappear.
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07-23-2016, 09:33 AMAviars
Just the way it is man, especially when not everybody played on the first day, other good players are starting to level up, so here I am with players stacking accuracy while the other team is full of people in the top 100/10.
Feelsbadman
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07-23-2016, 10:44 AMDimitrii
Why was this thread resurrected lol? I saw my post earlier and was like wtf i dont remember writing that recently, its been so many months now. I still would rather the names be removed though, we see who we play at the end of the match or if we recognize them from their gear, play style, or the /wave emote. That's enough imo.
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07-23-2016, 11:10 AMAviarsI didnt notice that either lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Dimitrii
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07-27-2016, 07:33 PMVaeriaI swear this is one of the reasons there are more lala in the top ranks than any other race. The godforsakken little bastards are so tiny, its udderly impossible to identify em w/o the names, and the rest of the time, your eye naturally focuses on bigger target images. No. No No No. You keep those damn names up there RIGHT where they are.Quote:
Originally Posted by TiaHariberux3
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07-27-2016, 09:05 PMDimitriiI believe there is something to this, though more for Frontlines as opposed to Feast. In Frontlines I've taken advantage of my maximum compact size (made my lala as small as possible) in 72 man's and find I'm often ignored until I achieve battle high/fever except for the occasional few people that identify me by glamour and relentlessly attack me. Back when I was Au'ra for about 2 months I was drawing alot more unwanted attention.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vaeria
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07-28-2016, 06:08 PMChocoFeru
On Season 1, being focused as a WHM was the best thing ever. People recognised me and usually started focusing me first, and that was their first mistake! It was an insta-win everytime this happened.
Not sure if I'm going to play Season 2 because many of the serious PVPrs already gave up playing.
Regarding the matchmakings... I guess there's nothing you can really do :/ people that didn't play on season 1 or gave up being unable to rank, are trying their luck now, so there will be more "bad players" now.
We had enough time to learn how to Feast because we had a long Pre-season. Season 2 started without a Pre-season and I think that was a mistake that is causing this problem right now.
Edit: if we had a pre-season for Season 2, new people in PVP would have a chance to LEARN. Now in Season 2 we have players that never did Feast before, so they have to learn risking other's ranks.
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07-29-2016, 03:27 AMDimitriiSeason 2 has unfortunately been pretty boring because of this. On the one hand I get the idea of letting new people get past rewards (assuming the rewards for this season are the same as last season like ppl suspect) but when doing so starts watering down the field by making the better players queue much less or not at all it makes for an environment thats unenjoyable from a competitive standpoint. The solo rankings on Primal as of 7/28/2016 have 30 people listed in the top 100 with win rates below 50%. 30 freaking ppl lol, that is horrendous and shows how weak the field is so far this season so I can see why some of the more serious PVP'ers wont even bother with this season. I really hope SE announces some time this season that the rewards are actually different to increase interest and participation from the more skilled players who atm may not be queuing cause they feel they get nothing out of it. Otherwise I gotta agree with some of the sentiment among players from the previous top 100 in saying I just dont care about this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChocoFeru