Ban premade parties in Frontline please

[Mawlzy]

You know what? I've come around to the idea. If premades want to be useless and chase kills all match instead of trying to actually win the game, then yes, please remove them from my matches.

I think one issue is that there many different types of premade.

1. The 70% win-rate brigade [shining example: Olivia]. As the DRK meta seems to be reestablishing itself, it will be increasingly dull to play with or against these folks. That said, their prime directive is consistent with the objective of the mode, even if their win-rates are presumably not what the devs intended.

2. "Just playing with friends." Fine if they are contributing to the team winning to the best of their ability.

3. Padders. This growing group is becoming an increasing problem. One of the "mentors" at a large PvP Discord actively promotes and teaches this style. Naturally, being efficient and building personal stats sometimes coincides with group goals, but frequently it doesn't. It's even worse when multiple such premades Q-synch and are more interested in personal vendettas than the outcome of the match. A special case of this group are the single-job unfiltered Q-synchs that put 30 or so people on the field. The chat makes it very clear these people regard FL as their personal playground, and anyone caught up in the mess is just a stupid normy and SOL.

4. Trolls. Somewhat rare, but incredibly annoying. They seem to be there for the XP, but so hate the mode they choose to be disruptive by spamming chat with nonsense and either not engaging in combat or actively feeding to get the match over quicker.

I think all we can do is actively report those violating ToS.

[Rolks]

1. The 70% win-rate brigade [shining example: Olivia].

Lol, we're on different data centers, and I still know who you're talking about.

Oddly, even though it was Shatter, her methods weren't very effective because she focused on killing people, and the other teams focused on the Ice Crystals. She regularly lost because she ignored the ice. She made some half-hearted statement about being able to kill ice faster with a jacked up battle high, but by then it was too late, her team was too far behind.

[Mawlzy]

Lol, we're on different data centers, and I still know who you're talking about.

Oddly, even though it was Shatter, her methods weren't very effective because she focused on killing people, and the other teams focused on the Ice Crystals. She regularly lost because she ignored the ice. She made some half-hearted statement about being able to kill ice faster with a jacked up battle high, but by then it was too late, her team was too far behind.

She mentioned here that Shatter (which used to be her most successful map, I believe) has become less so since 7.1. Overall I regard her as more effective than any of the other active commanders on Aether. I personally prefer more chaotic encounters. The appeal of PvP for me is that each fight is different. That is less true when the only effective strat is playing follow the leader of the premade.