Will there be SOLO queue for PVP in Dawntrail

[Kuroka]

Perhaps we can implement the following queues:

Premade queue: exclusively for premade groups
Solo queue: exclusively for solo players
Express lane: for those indifferent to grouping

This way, players know exactly what they're queuing up for.

YES please. But also adept the Rewards, so solo/express gets most and premade the least.

[Astralrisk]

CC would be incredibly epic if I could play with my friends. =)

[saucyshortcake]

solo queue would never pop for frontlines. the only reason people queue this irrelevant game mode is for the daily roulette. If you split the queues you can enjoy the 30 minute average wait times as nothing ever pops. the sooner you realize frontlines are just a casual and afkable adventure to level your level 43 astrologian that you'll never play, the better.

if people want to tryhard it who cares. let them flex their "amazing" pvp skills as they press three buttons on top of a dark knight pull then run away because they haven't figured out anything else yet. they can pat themselves on the back as they aoe down some dad gamers who dont even know whats going on.

[Mistress_Irika]

solo queue would never pop for frontlines. the only reason people queue this irrelevant game mode is for the daily roulette. If you split the queues you can enjoy the 30 minute average wait times as nothing ever pops. the sooner you realize frontlines are just a casual and afkable adventure to level your level 43 astrologian that you'll never play, the better.

if people want to tryhard it who cares. let them flex their "amazing" pvp skills as they press three buttons on top of a dark knight pull then run away because they haven't figured out anything else yet. they can pat themselves on the back as they aoe down some dad gamers who dont even know whats going on.

I've said this in a different thread, but I think separating the queues solos will be the only one to be popping. While I have absolutely no proof of this whatsoever I can probably take this guess by looking at the queue syncs when it comes to frontlines. Can queue syncing currently survive without hopping into the regular lobby? If not, then you might want to find a better argument. I am taking into account that we're at the end of the expansion and that many is taking a break.

YES please. But also adept the Rewards, so solo/express gets most and premade the least.

There's already an offer to split the premades from the soloists. Why are you offering to further punish those that decides to group on top of this offered change? You may as well just make it forced solos and call it a day. I shouldn't have to say this, but besides the dominant light party or parties that everyone runs into and possible knows by name there are other light parties that are out there for just experience points and queues once a day as well.

[saucyshortcake]

i play plenty of pvp. most players don't care about pvp in any form. it's a niche category in its entirety. very few dedicated pvp players aren't going to bother with frontline because it's an outdated poorly designed mode compared to CC. you can see where the development time is going. if you still care about frontlines in 2024 you're just a pub stomper avoiding the only relevant pvp grounds, because large-scale combat in this game is bad and it isn't meant for it.

[saucyshortcake]

if you think all that many people are into frontlines besides getting a roulette done you're absolutely mental. back before they had the roulette existed they had to allow 8v8v8 games to pop because a lot of the time you didn't have anyone queueing it, let alone enough for a 72 player game. beyond pure prime time hours there weren't games going at all. the only one that ever spawned for most of stormblood was shatter, and the literal only reason it was popping with any regularity is because there was an extremely high-use bot that only had routing for shatter. in today's game you'd have to have everyone that wanted to play frontlines beyond a daily roulette on one data center at all times.

i've played plenty of games, sometimes i go for a stretch of them. you can queue 3-5 games in a row and tell me how many repeat players you see. it won't be a lot, and definitely not enough to pop games if they weren't giving a roulette bonus.

[Teno]

i play plenty of pvp. most players don't care about pvp in any form. it's a niche category in its entirety. very few dedicated pvp players aren't going to bother with frontline because it's an outdated poorly designed mode compared to CC. you can see where the development time is going. if you still care about frontlines in 2024 you're just a pub stomper avoiding the only relevant pvp grounds, because large-scale combat in this game is bad and it isn't meant for it.

Of course, you can see it in the very active ranked CC queue. Oh wait...

Even a mode requiring so few players is barely played. And it's not even a matter of roulette.

Talk about a terrible take. Also most FL players are repeat players actually.

[saucyshortcake]

Of course, you can see it in the very active ranked CC queue. Oh wait...

Even a mode requiring so few players is barely played. And it's not even a matter of roulette.

Talk about a terrible take. Also most FL players are repeat players actually.

you're comparing unranked frontlines to ranked cc queues. apples to oranges.

and you call my take bad, lol.

if there was such a thing as ranked frontlines, it wouldn't pop either. and sure. most FL players are repeat players. they repeat it once a day for the roulette.