by
SharanaEU
» 04 Jul 2018, 19:13
Almost everyone that played the arena so far noticed that the Free for all (FFA) is not really FFS. When there are ratings and win/lose situations competitive players always try to influence the odds. As result they team up at the same time and in almost every arena you will see people making unit(the in game formations for bonuses and identification) and playing as squad.
On top of that the FFA arena is all about killstealing, people running around when low hp instead of dying and respawning on full hp etc. It's fun for a while, but team based arena would be a lot more fun for the players currently playing in the Arena.
It shouldn't be that hard to make such mode using the current mechanics already. Can be separate mode. Generally speaking many suggest something like 5 vs 5 red vs blue matches where you either sign up as a team or random players are formed into a team of 5 (or team of 3 + 2 ransomers filling the number). Should either have the same rules as the FFA arena (sane time, respawning etc) where the winner is the team with most points (summed up and gaining points only for killing the enemy, friendly kill should give penalty) or fast fight with only 1 life.
The rankings can be sum of all players points in the team (max 7 players in team with CD for switching) or can be generated only in team vs team fights to not mix up with the FFA (but it will be a lot less populated with implementation of team mode).
The plus sides of such mode (feel free to suggest more):
- almost any guild can get 5 players and fight as a team (it's not IB. where it's all about coalitions) which would make it popular among smaller guilds too.
- has good chances to bring people to LiF outside of the IB/JH time, because open world PvP outside of the primetime is very limited (people don't go outside) and most players prefer to play other games instead of riding around for 40-50 minutes to get few minutes of PvP.
- another way for guilds to compete with each other and it's not connected to IBs that require big guilds and coalitions.
- t3 and t4 armors will be needed a lot which can resurrect a bit the currently dead economy of everyone having everything and not needing new stuff (t3 and t4 armors weren't made in large amounts as people don't fight with them in IBs, while on Arena you don't lose them and people started making them now)
- no more complains and frustration about people teaming up in FFA, they will have team mode to do it.
Bobik was estimating it can take them 2 or so weeks to make such team mode, but it has pretty low priority atm. That's why it was suggested to make poll here on the forum and see how popular such idea is. The results will set a priority - if it's popular and gets lots of votes it will get higher priority and will be implemented faster.