Junior Member
On PC every single game mode says low other than duels, brawls, and dominion.
It hurts me to say but the game is going downhill fast. 4 minute queues for the very high activity dominion, and at least 2 minute queues for duel and brawl.
Look at the game brawlhalla, it’s a f2p game that a group of friends can all hangout and play together in custom or online matches. Although the game mechanics differ from for honor by a lot it shows that a f2p game can still be very active, it takes me max 1 minute to ever find a ranked game in brawlhalla and 5 seconds for experimental 1v1s.
So pretty much what I’m trying to get at is if the game wants to get more active players they should make it permanently f2p since a battle pass is coming out which mind you can only be acquired with real money it would make sense that the game could do even better financially.
Now for the better option imo, making the game optionally crossplay on all platforms would combine the player bases and communities. As someone who has played mainly on console then moved to PC I don’t see much of a problem crossing the both. The timing of the attacks does not change since the game runs on a millisecond system and not a frame system. Animations will be worse on console but reading your opponent and making split second reactions will still be the core purpose of the game. Although as previously said, it would have to be an optional setting. (Having it on be default but can disable it in settings)
But even making the game f2p and cross at the same time will see a large jump in the player base and a lot of newer active players.
Senior Member
I'd agree that it's time FH went free to play, especially with a battle pass system coming. It won't fix matchmaking wait times for new players and high MMR players though because the matchmaking algorithm is broken, has been for over 6 months. So all the new players that could potentially come into the game will be chased right back out after constantly waiting 5-10 minutes for matches against rep 250+ and competitive player 4 stacks. Until they fix their broken matchmaking I would not recommend going free to play because that would end up permanently damaging FH's ability to entice new players.
Cross-play between consoles can happen pretty much immediately, as soon as they want really. Cross-play between PC and consoles I don't really see it happening until the next generation of consoles are released. They need to solve two problems in order to make cross-pay between PC and consoles work:
1) Find a way to solve the issue of input delay on consoles so that it is closer to that of PC. This might actually be solved by the next gen consoles having better hardware.
2) Limit PC to 60fps maximum when opting into cross-play. This will equalise the playing field not only between consoles and PC but also between PC users with that gap between 60 and 120-144fps.
Senior Member
Agree with Vakris. I don't think console vs PC crossplay will happen until next gen, and even then there is no guarantee the input delays on console will get any better.
They could make it optional, maybe some console players won't mind, but it must be optional. COD said they would make it optional and then forced crossplay on one of the most popular modes, ground war, it ruined the game for me.
