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[Meksikinietis]

Elimination and Skirmish feel VERY different when playing. I strongly feel we should have the option to only play one mode or the other. Personally if I'd rather have Skirmish grouped with Dominion - they feel more alike than Elimination

You can. In deathmatch play F1 for settings

[CursedLostOnes]

Please PLEASE just fix the Peacekeeper bug T~T We have like NO Damage when our Triple Jab only applies half a bar of bleed because the 2nd and 3rd jab don't apply bleed at the moment, PLEASE Fix this >.<

[SirCorrino]

It's broken again. I got 3x Skirmish in a row within 2 seconds of queueing up a short while ago before it finally gave me an Elimination game.

[Peanut-uk]

I never queue up more than a minute and still get thrown into Skirmishes. Get rid of preferred and make it a choice.

I totally agree that skirmish feels more like dominion than it does elimination. I don't care if it means the servers have to be down a few hours to patch, I'd rather that than lose all the time having to queue, join, apologise, leave, re-queue, etc etc

[asenkah]

Feels like the change didn't really have any impact to the rate of skirmish games with Elim being set to preferred. Getting contracts for Elim completed are beyond frustrating when you can't reliably get in the proper mode.

[Pillowseller]

...So, did devs give up on this and pretend that this isn't a major issue?

[Phyllla]

I think the problem is that, once an elimination match ends, if enough people stay for the next, and noboy votes for an elimination map, it launches a skirmish map by default. You have to remember to vote first. I guess that when people join a skirmish when starting matchmaking it's because of that.

[S78pro]

Thanks to your feedback, we discovered this morning that the “Preferred Game Mode” option in Deathmatch wasn’t working properly. At 11:30AM EST (16:30 UTC) today we will perform a seamless maintenance (no restart required) which will guarantee your preferred mode (Elimination or Skirmish) takes priority in the first 2 minutes of every Matchmaking attempt.

Note: Skill and Location Parameters will be relaxed in priority over the Preferred Mode parameter.

This **** is not fixed yet... still getting ****mish 16 times in a row...

[Tazimuss]

Listen to these people. I appreciate that you took the time to make it so we can "prefer" Elim over Skirmish. I do NOT appreciate that they're in the same playlist to begin with. It's the only playlist like that, and clearly we don't like it or want it that way.

Split the modes. Ask anyone, go around the office, do whatever you have to but please realize that absolutely no one wants that queue to be Skirmish AND Elimination.

[Phyllla]

Making it a separate new game-mode option would be the best, and, if that would be a problem because it wouldn't fit in the faction war map, where you select the game-mode, what could be done is replace that selection (with the map on the background) with a typical vertical menu (like the options menu) to select the game-modes, and, whenever we wanted to deploy assets, we would go to an option in this proper menu and then have the map displayed.

I know the current menu looks good, but it's impractical, at least for PC. If you made this change, you could add as many game-modes as you wanted while retaining the map just to deploy the assets, since that's all we can do with it really.

Not to mention that many times when I'm deploying assets I have to hit Esc (go back to the entire map) and click on a different game-mode because I cannot fight in the section where I am. That's just too much work when a simple classic menu has always worked just fine.