Ban premades from frontline, fix all issues

[Exmo]

Casual players join once a blue moon, get stomped by premades, have a terrible time, don't want to keep playing it. There's no reason to get better at a game mode you don't enjoy upfront. Premades just encourage negative attitudes and low effort from most players who suffer them.

[TofuLove]

Casual players join once a blue moon, get stomped by premades, have a terrible time, don't want to keep playing it. There's no reason to get better at a game mode you don't enjoy upfront. Premades just encourage negative attitudes and low effort from most players who suffer them.

Hm I suppose a lot of regulars would say that it wouldn't change anything - casuals would still get stomped because they don't recognise the movement patterns and bursts. However, I guess that would disingenuous as realistically it wouldn't be as frequent of an occurrence.

It comes down to how we view frontline - is it a competitive mode or casual mode? If it's casual then premade or not - doesn't matter because it's just for fun anyway, right?
This seems to be the direction SE takes it, as wins only have significance for achievements and nothing else really.

However, if it's for just fun and not competitive, then "stomping" shouldn't happen - right? Not being able to react to burst is not fun for casual players - and that's fair enough.
Which makes me think that the biggest issue is how many aoe and cc effects there are in the pvp right now - it's very punishing and very easy to gain kills.
This wasn't as much of a problem in shadowbringers pvp (as far as i can remember).

Battlehigh change of 7.2 kind of countered that, because it's much easier to recover battlehigh, but dying is still not very fun.

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Another thing to think about is catchup mechanics - LB gauge gain for 3rd place & nerf for 1st place. Is that not significant enough of a boost/nerf to equalise the games to counter stomping?