3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

[Nalien]

That Darkside adjustment makes me think they don't realize the problem... It's the same issue Ninja has with Hide; You can be fairly far away from the action, but the game still counts you as in combat, so you can't use Hide, or in Darksides case, it keeps draining MP. That's assuming they're not just reducing the initial cost of it by 1/3... I've never found the cost a problem though, it's always been the fact that it drains MP when I'm not actually in combat.

Honestly, just give Paladin and Dark Knight Mana Draw... If it can be justified on Bard and Machinist, it can be justified on Paladin and Dark Knight...

[Februs]

I've never found the cost a problem though, it's always been the fact that it drains MP when I'm not actually in combat.

Agreed. I've never had an issue paying for Darkside in PvP, even in a map as big as Frontlines. The problem is that it can often continue to draw Mp LONG after I'm out of combat. I've even seen it continue to draw Mp from me because a member of my party was still in combat (though, I'm pretty sure that was a glitch of some kind. It doesn't seem to happen often). It's not terrible to work around, but if you're not paying attention and don't notice it's happening it can be a shock to suddenly be bottomed out on Mp when you weren't even fighting.

Regardless, the reduced cost should at least help a little. It's not too frustrating to deal with Mp in PvP as it is. Feast's game mechs should make it fairly straight forward, and FL has a lot of down time when traveling to new node spawns, so maybe the reduced cost will be enough.

[Februs]

Pretty sure they are referring to the unranked 4v4 and Solo queue previously announced with the live letter, but then recently abolished in favor of faster queues and more players in ranked.

So you're thinking that the "circumstances surrounding non-rated matches" means how popular they are for queues? That would make sense.

I think the general feeling among a lot of PvP'ers right now is to queue for the ranked modes, since the rewards are juicy. 8 v 8 sounds like a lot of fun, but it just doesn't have the same allure when you know you're not getting ranked for your wins. If you have a competitive streak in you, the choice is obvious. In any case, I'm happy that they will at least be monitoring the situation as time goes on. If they really plan on making game mode adjustments based on popularity of queues, we might avoid some of the problems we've had with previous game modes (optimism). They could also use that information to best decide what kind of future game-modes they should be implementing (extreme optimism).

[kuma_aus]

Live Steam of The Feast is in progress currently. If you're late like me, you can rewind the show to when it started. If you come when the broadcast is over I'm sure the archive footage will be up not that long after.

Youtube link

NicoNico link

I have to say I love the BGM of The Feast.

[Vaeria]

Climbing up me walls waiting for tonight ;/ Can't wait for it. Probably won't touch 8vs8 for a month. Solo q 100%. No more FL premades, no more 3-man pts, just a cointoss and a worthless prayer. Can't wait to see what people are REALLY capable of with just their own skill and no consistant friend to depend on/ bail em out. Rank will really be informative since everyone'll be given the same random opportunity~

[Februs]

Live Steam of The Feast is in progress currently. If you're late like me, you can rewind the show to when it started. If you come when the broadcast is over I'm sure the archive footage will be up not that long after.

Youtube link

NicoNico link

I have to say I love the BGM of The Feast.

Fantastic. This looks like it's going to be a blast.

Also very interesting to see that they had the score screen up at all times. I wonder if we, too, will have that option. Guess we'll find out soon enough.

Climbing up me walls waiting for tonight ;/ Can't wait for it. Probably won't touch 8vs8 for a month. Solo q 100%. No more FL premades, no more 3-man pts, just a cointoss and a worthless prayer. Can't wait to see what people are REALLY capable of with just their own skill and no consistant friend to depend on/ bail em out. Rank will really be informative since everyone'll be given the same random opportunity~

I agree. I can't wait give this a shot. Though, I won't be so quick to streamline my queue to just solo. The ranked solo queue matches won't count for anything until the pre-season is over (except for practice, obviously), so we might as well have fun with the occasional casual match while we wait.

[Dimitrii]

Wait so neither mode of 4 v 4 allows for party of 2 or 3? Not that I care in the sense I solo queue anyway but seems weird to me that they would have a mode strictly for a premade party of 4 and another strictly solo queue, with no mode allowing for something in between.

[Nalien]

Climbing up me walls waiting for tonight ;/ Can't wait for it.

I'm starting to freak out about how utterly useless my Dark Knight is likely to be in Feast... Hope there is some balance adjustments to come along with its release, or maybe the extra DPS will be worth the complete and utter lack of crowd control and Medal denial Dark Knight brings... I should probably dust off my Ninja or Astrologian...

[Zhexos]

Hey kuma_aus,

I have to say I love the BGM of The Feast.

Just a heads up, in case you didn't know! You can buy the Orchestrion roll for "Starved," the new song featured in The Feast, at the Wolves' Den Pier from the Materia Provisioner for 10,000 wolf marks!

[Februs]

Just a heads up, in case you didn't know! You can buy the Orchestrion roll for "Starved," the new song featured in The Feast, at the Wolves' Den Pier from the Materia Provisioner for 10,000 wolf marks!

Now this is cool news. Seeing additional items for sale from PvP vendors is always a good thing. We've been aching to spend those marks on something. Can we expect any other items to hit the market soon (such as mounts, furnishings, minions, consumable items, relic items ... Anything, really), or was this just a one-off thing?