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So, Let me say this first.... my favorite mode in this game was always elimination.
But.... Lets face it. Tribute and deathmatch are now dead. So dead in fact, that in two weeks, I have only managed to find 3 groups for either of them without waiting for over 15 minutes.
So, I think its time these modes were retired to the event pool; and both of those are replaced by Carousel of Death in the Duel/Brawl area. As the mode is much more fun, and honestly, might be your best mode yet... as far as balance and fun.
We dont have the population base to have as many modes in this game as we do already. No one is playing them.
I cant find ranked duels within five minutes of queue.
I cant find regular brawls without waiting longer than that. BY FAR.
In multiple days I have consistently been joining dominion games where one side or both sides have bots.
Breach is the only consistent mode with players, and those matches also have at least one bot on one side for most of the past week.
So we need to look at this realistically. More options doesnt look good if you cant queue and get a match. All that does is make your new players and even your older players realize how dead your game is, and that is BAD PR... honestly. Thats just the reality.
So, it may be time to retire a few modes.. maybe even retire regular brawl.
Put in Carousel. Take away deathmatch and tribute already.
Put some LEGITIMATE rewards for ranked duel.
Give players unique rewards for hitting certain milestones in dominion and breech and regular duel and brawl and carousel.
Need to give some incentives... the game is in a weird sort of decline, because things typically move so slow through the fixing process, and because the game lacks interactive features to make the player feel like he is ACTUALLY in a war.
Its more of just a fighting game. And while it is in my opinion, maybe the best there is in that genre... its player base is fluctuating because of lack of incentives to return daily. and to draw in new players and KEEP them for longer than a free weekend or a new hero release.
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I agree with nearly everything you said, but I do find it kind of ironic how you say people need incentive to keep going, but were very vocal about ditching the old gear system in favor of perks, which gave the most incentive over everything else to keep playing.
Ranked rewards are crap, that's why no one ever played ranked, that reason and because ranked modes never had gear stats... see a pattern here? Ranked had slightly better rewards than unranked, yet no one played it, that's because of the gear stats being turned off.
I know there's an extremely slim chance gear stats will ever come back and if the perk system was better I wouldn't care if it ever comes back anyway, I'm just pointing out that it has a lot to do with the decline of players currently, that along with unbalanced heroes and the game moving toward a style that is much faster with many unreactable attacks that leave defense a guessing game. It feels less like the original For Honor with every update.
I agree they should scrap the boring modes that aren't played, but they use popular modes like Carousel of death to lure players back to the game, the same way they do with double xp weekends, and extra steel weekends (too cheap to make it double steel weekend) so I'm not sure they will be open to doing it, if it was a permanent mode I think it would lose it's appeal eventually.
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They should raise the reward greatly for skirmish to revive it, just like tribute. They should add two more zones to dominion to make death balls less effective (they couldn't keep everything if they move together). And they should make elimination teams spawn together, the mode is more running after enemies than actual fights.
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i disagree with retiring brawl for the carousel of death mode because i use brawl as an escape from getting ganked by say a jiang jun choking you while an orochi light spams you from the side (actual experience) and I'd much rather carry my teammate on brawl than have 3 near useless randoms on dominion, breach, etc. I agree with replacing tribute with it though
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Truth to be told, Elimination is dead due to that horrible, horrible mode called Skirmish. Before that boring gankfest was merged with Elimination, people used to play that mode more.
Honestly, in place of dead Carousel of Death, I would like to see Test your Metal back. I loved that mode and still today I cry that it has been removed. People loved that.
Other mode I would like to see reinstated is Infernal Dominion, aka how Dominion should have been in the first place.
