Japan Adrealine TV 3.4 PvP Update

[Februs]

Greetings, adventurers!

I cannot begin to express how happy I am to see the vast majority of these changes! Thank you, SE, for restoring some of my faith in your ability to manage this content. I'm looking forward to it ... except for one thing...

]Discussing The Feast (Rated) times
While this is still being debated internally, we’re discussing if we should restrict the hours in which The Feast can be played. For example, if such a system was implemented, we’d consider having The Feast open during each region’s peak hours.

The intent behind this idea would be to try and get more players involved in PvP content by having a specified time to queue where players could potentially get quicker matches, and once we have more players participating in PvP, then we could gradually increase the window of the time. Nothing is finalized here, it is still just a discussion we’re having within the team. We would like to hear your feedback on this as well, so be sure to let us know how you feel about this approach.

I understand your reasoning here, but please do not do this.

Some of us work odd hours. I, myself, often don't get home to log in until well after midnight. I'm lucky to get one or two matches a night as things are now. If you restrict the times at which we are able to even queue for PvP, then you'll be effectively locking people like me out of the content we want to play the most. I get that you want to encourage as many new players to participate as possible, and you want to consolidate the queue line, but I really don't think this will help things in the long run. You could just as easily slap a disclaimer on the DF which outlines peak hours for PvP and have the same effect, rather than locking out anyone who has an abnormal work schedule or even just happens to live in a slightly different time zone than the majority of their server community.

[Februs]

One more question.

On a related note, we’d like to mention that we’re currently working on a new cross-world Party Finder feature for Patch 3.5 as well.

Can you give us any more details on this? We've been asking for cross server play for PvP for a while now, so I was excited when I read this, but Ranked Solo-Queue doesn't allow for parties. I'm assuming this feature would only be available for party-queue matches? That's not a bad thing, certainly. It would breathe some life into that game mode, especially on the less populated servers. I'm just curious if party-queue is the limit for this idea, or if we can possibly expect to see some cross-world matches in solo-queue as well via a DF check box or some other such option.

[Divine_Jump]

I understand your reasoning here, but please do not do this.

I agree, do NOT lock queues for certain times, that's a bad idea.

[Dimitrii]

The Feast rated times actually does sound pretty good on paper. Not only would it quicken queues but it would also better the players to the same field as opposed to be selectively queuing at certain times when they know they can avoid the better players. It would also serve to revive Frontlines somewhat outside the window of Feast being open since we clearly don't have the population to sustain both with decent queue times. That being said however I can also for see problems with this. Everyone playing at the same time also means your chances of being matched with new inexperienced players goes up as well. And with matchmaking having a tendency of grouping up the same ppl over and over after matches if they all queue immediately after match ends you can be stuck with the same ppl all night. Not to mention the feast window may not fall within some people's time of availability.

[Dimitrii]

The Feast rated times actually does sound pretty good on paper. Not only would it quicken queues but it would also better EXPOSE the players to the same field as opposed to letting them selectively queue at certain times when they know they can avoid the better players.

Requoted for clarity since phone won't allow for editing of posts.

[Rhaja]

I'm kinda on the fence with the restricted time idea. A part of me wants to say "No it'll block me from playing!", but it's not like I'm getting into matches anyway. On the other hand, if they have two open blocks a day this could actually be decent? Also with this only applying to Rated it might help get more casual matches underway.

[Stormrider]

Curious what rewards and achievements will be tied to custom match mode. This would have eliminated the pages of hate a few days ago if it is the same. It actually might be a better idea then an unranked feast que if your server is somewhat active.

[Divinemights]

Attack on the matchmaking system is stupid to begin with when the issue was caused by a small size of PvP community where a segment has been created. Those who have participated in Feast PvP early are trying to prevent new players entering Feast PvP on top of complaining about the awful queue time. It is clearly that S/E do not like this segment and willing to install mechanics to help a small PvP community to grow. This time restrict is just a temporary band-aid that S/E come up with until duel mode, custom match mode and spectator mode able to remove this segment.

[UnstablePersonality]

We need another Seal Rock for making gear achievement easier! Or just "Connect" Seal Rock achievement to the Fields of Glory =(

This. Mainly the second bit.

[Enkidoh]

At first reading the part about 1x1 duelling, I was hesitant and anxious... but reading it further, it seems SE are being very wise about it and putting one of my biggest fears about it to rest, restricting it to a single zone and, more so, even seemingly locking the very ability to duel to that single zone, thus preventing all those nightmare situations I faced on other MMOs that had open-world duelling (The Old Republic, WoW to name a few) where I was harassed and taunted by idiots with chips on their shoulders simply because I refused to duel with them and even had a 'no-duelling' icon selected. But the way this has been explained, it seems SE may actually have made PvP even interesting to me, (a PvP hater)!

But I guess, as they say, we'll find out soon enough.