Disruptive Frontline Gameplay

[OliviaLugria]

Who are you talking to? XD

[Bonoki]

They should remove objectives. Just make FL an all out brawl to the death. Also, they need to cut the timer to 10 mins. 20 mins in it's current state is just dragging out the frustration. I'm tired of PvPing by myself while my "team" abandons me to go hit the objectives mid battle.

They've tried a similar mode called "Slaughter," which was an absolute failure. It became the least popular PvP mode in the game's history. While some players argue that PvP should focus solely on killing each other, history has shown that having objectives is necessary for a successful mode. To this date, it's the only Frontlines mode that's been straight-up abolished instead of revamped.

[Aidorouge]

At this point I just treat Frontlines as a chore I do for the weekly challenge and then ignore it until next roll over, it just isn't worth trying to get any better at it anymore with everything that determines the winner before the match even starts.

[Mawlzy]

PSA: If you push back against mansplaining on these forums by using a certain synonym for "donkey," you will get 10 days on the naughty step.

Did you miss me? Lol.

Actually I'm flattered that someone would negotiate the complexities of the reporting system to get me kicked off these boards. Seriously. I don't deserve all this attention. Bat bat bat.

Thanks to those of you who contacted me inquiring about the resistance (VIVE LA RESISTANCE!!!), and sharing your evidence for FL griefing, win-trading, and other shenanigans. It's clear there is a tumor growing on Discord. We are sharpening our scalpels.

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."

[Mawlzy]

The Princesses will next be disrupting Aether FL on Wednesday, 6pm Pacific. Another single job event. Not too sure how obnoxious 40 red mages will be.

[Mawlzy]

I am not one to put my two cents in, or even bother with sharing my opinion but, this is a special case. Everything that you suggest, is absolutely horrendous. And if you put 0.1% of your complaining into actually learning the mode and jobs you'd not have any reason to come to the forums and complain as much as you do. Good thing developers do not listen to people like you who have no idea what they are talking about, if so the state of PvP would undoubtedly be unplayable. Also, refrain from blaming others and worry about your own skill and contributions.

I assume this is directed at me?

Thank you for the advice.

[Mawlzy]

I am not one to put my two cents in, or even bother with sharing my opinion but, this is a special case. Everything that you suggest, is absolutely horrendous. And if you put 0.1% of your complaining into actually learning the mode and jobs you'd not have any reason to come to the forums and complain as much as you do. Good thing developers do not listen to people like you who have no idea what they are talking about, if so the state of PvP would undoubtedly be unplayable. Also, refrain from blaming others and worry about your own skill and contributions.

One observation.

It was "people like me" who pressured the devs into introducing FL freelancer and reducing full parties to light. Simply because you disagree with me does not imply I know nothing about PvP/FL.

The battle continues.

What I object to most is griefing, but clearly the issue there is what qualifies as griefing?

You can see on one of your Discord servers to day a discussion of the next Princesses Q-synch. In response to a suggestion (that would produce a completely horrific match), responses include:

"That would be the most annoying matchup for all the non-princess queuers"

"Reddit about to be on fire"

I have it screenshotted. I don't intend to post it here out of respect for privacy even on a public Discord.

But I don't see how this can be regarded as anything other than griefing.

And every time this sort of thing goes down, the steel of la resistance is hardened.

I imagine you and your friends will now ban me from all your servers. You seem to enjoy vote-kicking, suspending and banning.

Have a lovely day.

[Mawlzy]

Do you think when SE decided the ideal Ballroom Etiquette emote for the current PvP series should be "Defeatist Attitude" they were sending us a message?

[Volfe]

You're the only sane person in this forum, it's kinda impressive

[KageTokage]

I'm not sure there's any way they can ever make Frontlines a decent gameplay mode as long it remains a three way free-for-all and Battle High continues to persist as a means of letting the winning team win more (Which just exasperates the issue of the nuke premades dropping people like flies with their AoE spam).

It's just a chaotic mess that inherently favors whatever team happens to have more players with gigantic AoE abilities.