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Last week, I started a survey on a Brazilian For Honor Page, with the intention to gather information on players’ OPINIONS about game modes, why do they play certain game modes and why they don’t play others.
So, I would like to discuss about the results now, and propose some changes, and anyone is welcome to propose their own and ask me anything.
Here is the link to the poll, wich is in portuguese, but you can use the option “translate this page” and you’ll get the idea: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nIp...edit#responses
First things first, the survey had 170 people answering it. And now, let’s take a look at their aswers:
When asked if they play more alone or in a group, about 58% answered they play more solo.
And now the main questions, the reason I created this:
When asked which game mode they play the most, it was no surprise that Dominion was the oppressing majority:
( Sorry about the modes’ names being in Portuguese, couldn’t get the translator to work on the answers, but you guys can figure it out ).
Then they were asked WHY they play more this gamemode, and I allowed multiple answers here, so I’ll just transcript them:
49.1% - Lack of players in other modes.
46.2% - Because they like this particular game mode.
39.2% - More Rewards.
19.9% - Because they are simply used to play it.
- Keep in mind that this answer is for all the game modes on the previous question, so, if someone is interested, I could make some cross-references for dominion only, etc; I just didn’t have the time now.
When asked which game mode they WOULD LIKE to play most, to my surprise, most of them would like to play deathmatch:
I also asked why they don't play it, but this was a dissertative answer: most of the answers, however, were some version of lack of players or rewards. Also, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT, when asked if others game modes had more XP rewards, if they would consider playing them, 86.5% answered yes, they would.
Last question was about the ranked duel tournament mode. I asked if they had played it in Season 4, if they have completed it, or not…
77.2% did not try to play it or couldn’t find any matches.
9.4% played it, but did not complete the 20 initial matches.
Only 13.5% played it and got ranked.
So, all of this only leads me to conclude that the vast majority of people don’t play anything but Dominion and Duel because Dominion simply makes you rank up faster. I know, everyone knew that.
But let’s discuss some options to change this. We have cool game modes and events in this game, and it gets on my nerves ( and I believe yours too ) that we can only play Dominion and Duel… with luck some Brawl when there are Contract Orders… hell, yesterday on XBOX we had 4 tribute orders and I couldn’t find a single Tribute match on prime hours, while dominion was instant!
I would like to propose a dynamic XP boost to lesser played game modes;
it would be simple: whenever a game mode is in “Low Activity”, we get a big warning on the Faction War menu ( much like the warning of “Extra Loot” in ranked duel ), that says this game mode has Double XP for the next hour, or something. Easy to implement, and I know we can’t increase steel gain or anything.
What are your opinions and suggestions?
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Another suggestion: Make the Quickmatch option in the main menu actually useful. I get it we don't have something like this because of how the faction war worked, but now the fronts are completelly crazy, they change lots of times during Battle Preparations. Having the Quickmatch option to let us select which game mode we would like to play, I mean, select ALL modes we want, and queue likle that... or even select only if we want to play 1x1, 2x2 or 4x4...
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Very interesting read, and thank you for sharing this! I shall personally contribute to this poll. I manually translated everything for myself, the Portuguese words have vague resemblance to English and I was able to make some sense out of them hahahere we go:
1- On what platform do you play?
PS4.
2- During which time/season did you join?
End of Season 3.
3- What's your overall reputation level?
11-25
4- Do you prefer to play solo or group?
Solo
5- Which mode do you play the most?
Duels
6- Why do you play this particular game mode?
Because it's my favourite
7- Which game mode(s) would you like to play the most?
Duel, Brawl, Elimination.
8- Why don't you play the aforementioned game modes?
Mostly lack of players, and because leveling up in Dominion is faster when I'm not doing Duels.
9- If the other modes had XP bonus, would you consider playing them?
Yes
10- Did you play Ranked Duel Tournaments this season?
No, not yet
11- What would you need to play Ranked Duel Tournament?
Proper game balances/patches before I attempt a tournament, rewards encouraging me to seek them (knowing what they are), improving the time to find matches (as other players pointed out)
Hope I helped!
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I will contribute as well...
1- On what platform do you play?
PC
2- During which time/season did you join?
Since Beta
3- What's your overall reputation level?
11-25
4- Do you prefer to play solo or group?
Group when I can get people, but I am usually solo.
5- Which mode do you play the most?
Dominion
6- Why do you play this particular game mode?
It has the most people.
7- Which game mode(s) would you like to play the most?
Skirmish, Dominion
8- Why don't you play the aforementioned game modes?
No people in the other mode(s)
9- If the other modes had XP bonus, would you consider playing them?
Yes
10- Did you play Ranked Duel Tournaments this season?
No, not at all.
11- What would you need to play Ranked Duel Tournament?
Old characters need new moves and mix-ups to keep up with all the fancy new characters. Characters with small movesets are very easy to read and thus tend to lose more often- this goes double if they move slower (a lot of them do.. to me at least it's physically impossible [because of stagger and timings, it seems] to halt Aramusha's chain of lights when it starts.) than all the new characters... (I actually prefer the slower combat pace, spammy assassins is annoying, like PK had children)...
As for Conqueror (my main), I have a post here for my suggestions.
https://forums.ubi.com/showthread.ph...on-Suggestions
Note: On Pull the Leg, it might do well to get a heal off of it & and make the damage an automatic attack. Dunno, but it does rely on first eating an unblockable and then relying on the opponent to be greedy and not feint or reset.
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Oh, Ubi, a note: I haven't been able to login to account management for about a year now (TO CHANGE MY PROFILE PIC OF ALL THINGS) due to "login error".. what's up with that? Forums login fine, but there's ONE single place to change my profile pic and I can't login to do it?
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I cant agree more on this. The original Characters seem to have an outdated moveset. You can to some extent compare it by counting the amount of unblockables a char has. for ex a raider has ONE unblockable. It is offcorse very powerful. And its in the very hart of the raiders mixup. The attack itself is very slow and anyone that knows how a parry or dodge works can avoid it. So to succseed with it u have to rly get in the head of your opponant.Originally Posted by Rye.Bread. Go to original post
On the other hand we have a char like the Gladiater. Who has multiple unblockables. Sure they do not do tons of dmg. And some do no dmg but has a stun effect. (i belive its the dodge right. please correct me if im wrong here) The toe stab and zoneattack is very fast and rly annoying to face. For me it feel like pure luck if I avoid them. And has no mindgame element to its use. Glads just seem to use them whenever the have no ide what to do. Kinda like most raiders using stunning tap from neutral as an opener, the diffrence being a stunning tap is risky. A glads Toestab/ZA seems more like a free hit.
There is move thats seems outoff place for me in this game. And its centurions ability to knock anyone on there *** and chest stap them regardless of the opponents stamina state.
For Year 2 i hope the UBI team will revamp all chars that need it to match the new chars ingame b4 adding new chars.
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The simplest bet: increase incentive to play a specific game mode. Say, a Double XP and Double Steel weekend for Brawl or Elimination. People will hop in like sheep.Originally Posted by Takuram Go to original post
But for a more logical merging, I do think it's better if all 4v4 modes were merged, in my opinion. All of Dominion, Tribute, Elimination, and Skirmish. This way the majority of the playerbase will be gathered under this menu, with players choosing which mode they prefer, and freely changing between modes whenever they want.
However for Duels and Brawls, they should add a permanent incentive. More XP and loot per Duel, more Steel per Brawl, etc. Because as it stands, most of the XP and loot gain comes from Dominion, and that's the major reason for the lack of balance, because let's face it, most people just want to level up and acquire gear.
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Completelly agree with you. All 4x4 modes should be on the same queue, and scrambled between matches... however, people still play duel and brawl because of the "training" and skilled fights... in my opinion, duel and braw are the elast of our concerns.
I really would like for them to implent the change said in warrior's den, where we would have a front for ranked, another for duel and brawl and another for 4x4... but they really should merge the 4 modes in 4x4 into a single queue labeled "Battle"
