How to make 4v4 Brawls more popular? | Forums

[Bill_Scoldberg]

So i enjoy this game. I initially played it for the 1v1 duel mano y mano environment. Then I had a friend, and we played 2v2 brawls. This was very fun, adding a partner to a dueling theme.

Now, I have more friends that I would love to play this brawl mode with 4v4. But we sat in the matchmaking (4v4 elimination) lobby, and 7+ minutes, the lobby doesnt bring in anyone. I know dominion is the most popular. But i don't enjoy the capture the zone on the map mode, I like the dueling aspects in 1v1 and 2v2. My friends feel the same way. Don't like skirmish either. We like one life per round.

Ubisoft CMs and Devs, is there anything you can do to increase the population for 4v4 brawling (elimination). Special rewards ? or cosmetics? Move the playlist to the duel & brawls section?

And for 4v4 brawls, can there be lane dividers, so that people can't gank on duels that are still going on? Let them duke it out, then take away the lane divider, and let the remaining duelers fight.

[Tyrjo]

Increase the steel and XP for Elimination could be one way of making more people play it.

[Bill_Scoldberg]

Sounds good to me! Perhaps the rationale for a non-respawn game mode should warrant some extra reward.

[EvoX.]

Elimation is a mode I enjoy quite a lot, if I can get into a game for it. When everyone but the last pair is finished with their duels and they gather around them and watch, encourage, mock... reminds me heavily of Dark Souls 2 and 3 fight clubs.

I don't think higher rewards are the way to popularize it, though. People just don't fancy having to wait so long for duels, something they can much more easily get into already.

[Bill_Scoldberg]

The only way to make it more popular is to increase rewards. use what they have in their toolkit of incentives.

Yeah the idea of spectating alive players and hope for a comeback, clutch, is very excitng and entertaining.

[Tundra 793]

Boosting the rewards is risky; The players who'll flock to a game mode just to game the system, and earn maximum rewards, are not the players we want to see in that game mode.

Maybe just start doing more events/orders/promotions for Skirmish and Elimination. They're great game modes, at least they used to be, but they just keep getting overshadowed by Breach, Dominion and the ranked stuff.

[Bill_Scoldberg]

Good idea on events or orders. Perhaps if we do an order for like say do 5 eliminations in a row, and get bonus steel?

But i feel 4v4 elimination should be moved to the duels/brawls playlist because it is more in that theme, or spirit of gameplay. Perhaps it would help the the visibility for ppl who like this one life only gameplay

[PandasStick]

The best way to encourage people tbh is just simply increasing the reward payout.

[Tatsu147146]

I do agree that the devs should probably at some point do something about death match modes but with everything else going on it's likely a low priority. On the other hand we as a community could try to make it somewhat easier to get a match by posting timestamps on a thread so if anyone is interested in playing it but doesn't want to wait a lot could refer to the time stamps as a way to measure likely activity. For example there could be three hour intervals to try to spike activity on said hour and keep the game going for a long time and if people begin to leave the game mode you just have to wait (not in matchmaking of course) until the next timestamp and a possible activity spike.

Just a thought that's been on my head lately and I don't really know if it'll work but I felt like sharing anyway. If this idea gets good feedback we could try to get a mod to sticky some timestamps for the game mode, the mods are generally more helpful than the devs anyway.

[Lord_Cherubi]

I might consider playing elimination if it was in a separate matchmaking list as it is a pretty fun game mode. But i despise skirmish, it's basically dominion but even more trash as it doesn't even have the slight chance of teamplay/tactisisms as there is no zones to be captured.