Remove the Grand Company aspect entirely from Frontline

[Tsumdere]

Ever since I swapped GCs from Mael to Adders like a jackass, I have a whopping 8% win rate. Now, I am not the best PvPer in the world but I put forth effort to work with the team to do what needs to be done. Surely that deserves more than 8% win rate. To put that in perspective, I played 12 games today over the course of 6 hours and only won ONCE. And that once was only because nodes spawned on top of us.
In total, since I started playing not on Mael, I have won 3 out of 40 Seal Rock games.

Surprise, if I freelance I never get put on Mael. You bet I am moving back immediately. It's incredibly demoralizing and a terrible example to people trying to get into PvP.

[swiss_Momo]

keep in mind though that queueing as just Mael tends to give me twice as long queues as opposed to having freelancer on. So it's not like there's no downsides

[Fatch38]

SE should start to look at matchmaking beforehand, premade shouldn't be against PUGs (no matter what company it is)

[Kai_Lee]

The problems I see with freelancers are they are not delicated to winning or they lack PvP knowledge. Even when players are given out directions, you see small groups of players wondering off on their own, which reduces the strengths of your GC against mael who sticks together. But I said this before, sometimes to win you need to lose. If both flames and adders just work together to make sure mael doesn't win, you will see a shift in player movements to other GC.

[Enlial]

Miss the old days when there was like comradery and stuff with the grand companies.

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/tear
But yeah that's not really a thing anymore with freelancing. Getting rid of them completely is probably the next logical step, mostly because at this point they really serve no purpose whatsoever, and at worst could be hurting queue times.

[Nihility]

making every team always all freelancer might just make everything a big mess of people milling around with no guide whatsoever. Could cut away any fun there actually is to be had in frontlines.

Only, reason mael wins a lot is it seems to be only GC that doesn't queue freelancer so they get teams with a lot of the same people pretty often.
The funny thing about it is as more people switch to mael to "get wins" they also dilute that and increase queue times so mael a lot of the time has become "wait an hour to play with people worse organized than freelancers that also think they're going to get carried to a free win and have an awful attitude"
It's basically crushing itself and late at night there are teams of people on adders and flames doing the 'let's all queue at same time' strat too

People just need to go back to their proper grand companies and not queue freelancer and build some community, make the game reasonably ok for everyone

[Kai_Lee]

Gotta get that bonus roulette xp and tomes. GG

[Zsolen]

I'd rather get rid of freelancers than remove GCs.

[RiyahArp]

it doesnt matter, the pvp community wants to ruin the mode, thats why they keep running premades. They have to know by now its hurting it, but they keep doing it. So just let the mode get ruined already

[swiss_Momo]

well yesterday evening and night was a complete *kupo*show for Mael here on Chaos.
Removing freelancer again would just kill queues for the mode, or are you forgetting how dead the mode was before they finally added it? Removing premades would be the better cause.