Thread: 3.2 PvP: Feast Game Mode Discussion Thread.

Originally Posted by JzBen

How will the team ranked work, have they said? Like you pre create a roster within a team and you rank up that team. Or you just q as 4 premade and achieve an "individual" rank for team ranked still? Meaning youre more flexible with how you queue and who you queue with.

They haven't gone into explicit detail on that subject yet, but it sounds as though it is purely individual, even in the 4 man ranked matches. By the way they've made this sound so far, both solo Q (ranked) and matched party Q (ranked) are handled the same way. Your win/loss is applied to your personal record. The only difference is how teams are formed. Solo Q will match you with 3 random players (first come, first served, I'm assuming). Matched Party will be a pre-made. In that way, they are kind of encouraging serious players to form their own teams, because you are increasing your odds of victory by playing with a group of people you know. Solo Q'ing is easier, as you don't need a pre-made party, but it's a bit of a gamble because you're playing with randoms.

That said, I don't think SE has clarified if Solo and matched Q's share lobbies (I may have missed it though). So we don't know if a full group of randoms can be matched against a pre-made group. If they can, then Q's will be faster. However, the pressure to have your own pre-made will be all the more, because the odds of winning against a pre-made with a PuG is much lower. If they cannot, then it's not a big deal. Solo Q'ers in random parties will be Q'ing up against more solo Q'ers in random parties. So it's just a roll of the dice as to who gets the better party. Odds are, the Solo and matched Q's will be distinct lobbies, though, to avoid match fixing.

Either way, the only way to actively stack the odds in your favour is to get together a good team and roll in the competitive matches against other pre-mades. If you want to improve your personal standing, I would advise using the Pre-season time to try and get together a party or join an active Linkshell for Feast.

Originally Posted by JzBen

How will the team ranked work, have they said? Like you pre create a roster within a team and you rank up that team. Or you just q as 4 premade and achieve an "individual" rank for team ranked still? Meaning youre more flexible with how you queue and who you queue with.

I was wrong.

The Preview for Feast was just released today. In it, they explicitly outlined the game modes and stated that Solo Q (4 v 4) will effect your solo rating:

solo ratings will change.

For the party queue option, they said:

Party ratings will change

I would assume that this means that we will have both party and individual rankings; however I do not know how these rankings will be handled. Party rankings, in particular are unusual, as I am not sure if this means you must queue with the same party every time, or if you simply register a party and can swap out the members of said party whenever you like. It did not say.

There was one other interesting note in the Preview of Feast:

In the 27th letter from the producer LIVE it was announced that five different arenas will be introduced; however, only three arenas will be implemented initially. The remaining two will then be added depending on the circumstances surrounding non-rated matches.

Apparently, I missed this in the live letter.

Originally Posted by Nalien

Quite a big arena too, for what I assume is 4v4 (since the other versions we've seen seem larger and more layered). Even just the middle section alone seems larger than Wolves' Den.

That's probably for versatility. They have to accommodate the 8v8 casual version.

In regards to the supply kits, I'm actually more concerned over the possibility of spawn camping than I am over the "most Dmg dealt" thing. One sided matches is nothing new, obviously, but if supply kits are accessible by either team, based purely on who did more dmg, then spawn camping could be much worse in this game mode. Any team who pushes back their opponent all the way to their spawn will suddenly have access to their boxes as well. If any of the losing team are dead, then it is more likely that the camping team will get the boxes. Meaning they can sustain their spawn camp longer and easier with rewards that they poached out of the enemy camp. That said, the boxes could also provide a turn around if the camped team gets to the first ... At this point, I'm thinking that the best case scenario is for them to spawn in different areas of the map, thereby forcing the players to move to get them. It would help keep the match mobile.

I'm also curious how this will play into the "different arenas."

anyone read the 3.2 notes about tank damage bonus being reduced? what does this mean?

[/QUOTE]I've really grown tired of you ceasely adding on to what you have said, to try and explain what you actually meant rather than what you've said. Get it right the first time and there won't be any problem/issue (see what I did there?)
This has been a complete waste of my time, so I'm just gonna go ahead and ignore you from here on out, nothing else to say. Besides, since you've modified what you have said about TP never being an issue on drg, and aren't spreading that around, I don't have a problem here anymore.[/QUOTE]

And what if he was spreading around a falsehood about TP never being an issue for dragoons? Calm ur panties mate. Your reaction was way out of proportion.

Compiled all the relevant pvp patch notes and interviews here.

Originally Posted by nickx

Compiled all the relevant pvp patch notes and interviews here.

Great post. Thanks for the link.

I'm still very interested with the arena types, specifically when they say that the remaining 2 arenas will be added "depending on the circumstances surrounding non-rated matches."

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.