You know. The feature that is already in War Thunder? Or take World of Tanks as an example.
And to stop the riff doing it en masse, make it a premium feature. Perplexes me why this hasn’t been added yet. And I am not the only one that thinks this way. This will stop your desertion issue.
WT has shit preferred map feature and we need a better one(too many shitty maps/modes). idk about WoT. also it should be feature available for all players and not only premium ones.
btw if you make it only premium feature, it wont stop desertion issue.
In the year of our Lord 2025 we should be able to select what maps and gamemodes we want to play, not humbly ask a computer program to please consider our wishes.
Next week (maybe). They tested those maps at BR5 for a good reason.
Soon ™.
I have a feeling that the map preference system is going to be implemented horribly.
TF2 did it fuck nearing 2 decades ago now. Why cant we have it now, the soonTM has to end, this is ridiculous that such a requested feature has been pushed off so long by the devs with no explanation as for why.
I have a sinking feeling that your right, a proper map select feature would fix far too many issues in this game for the devs to do that.
I disagree with this. I have no clue why F2Ps should be making longers queues or potentially influencing what maps will paying players get.
It’s quite obvious this feature should be only accessible to paying players.
if you want for current status of deserters to continue, then make it available only to premium players. f2p players will continue to desert. also there are over 150 maps when you include all variations and modes. do you think that veto of 1 or 2 maps is enough? or do you want premium players to have power to ban over 20-30 maps?
also i have mentioned before how preferred map system should work in an ideal world:
simply there are no longer queues and you get rid of most shitty maps that people dont want to play in that MM lobby.
Yeah I do want to be able to veto 149 out 150 maps if I want, I just have to wait in a longer queue to allow for it.
Yet again player choice should be where its at.
Those who want fast matches and fast queues have no need for such a system, but people who dont mind waiting for what they want should get those things.
if you want to have 12 hour queues for full match, then go ahead. hard rules will do that to the game. imagine tens of thousands players only selecting one map and one side when you have 150 maps with attack and defense and 5 BR. you could theoretically get >1000 queues depending on player distribution. some queues could also be never finished cause people just dont want to play one side of it(e.g. defense on reverse d-day)
also if you want to play specific map, you have customs.
I somehow dont think it will be as big as an issue as you make it out to be.
Lets also be realistic here, the system we get is highly likely going to be campaign based, if we are lucky map based, there is very little chance we get variant based.
I also said nothing about queuing for either attack or defend, but searching by gamemode should be a thing, lord knows the sooner I can never play conquest again, the better.
Realistically here, we are looking at a 5 minute queue at absolute maximum (Assuming you did select ultra specific options), hell you could set a soft rule of “If after 5-10mins of queue, you dont find a match, move to normal queue.”
Its also not going to be a case where you can set in your queue filter “downtiers only please”.
If your so worried about it, just give premium players an unlimited filter while F2P only has some filter options.
csgo ~10 years ago which had 50-100x playerbase of enlisted didnt have specific maps, but 3-4 map groups
why do you think that enlisted could manage to do something that game with magnitudes more players, less maps and simpler MM couldnt do?
certainly if all players could select maps that they would want to play, that would be ideal. but when you take into account concurrent player number, 3 server regions, split among 4 factions, 5 BR-s with ±1 BR MM, hard rule about selecting maps is impossibility. you could maybe have this option for premium players(or whales), but you would see dead game in few months.
that is why best option is to have soft rule with voting. out of 20 players that are in lobby, all people have preselected votes what they dont want to play. most unpopular maps are removed and only maps with lowest amount of votes stay in map pool. it may not make you happiest person, but at least it will be best for majority of players.
That’s why we need effective penalties for desertion.
Definitely not.
I have no clue why F2Ps should have ability to have influence over what I am going to play.
There’s no real reason why such ability should be available for F2Ps.
Unlike Slots, it effectively doesn’t have any real impact on gameplay itself. It is not pay2win.
And just like in literally every other business. If you want a better comfort, you should pay.
But I assume you would rather prefer some real p2w aspect then. If you somehow believe that F2Ps should have influence over what paying players are going to play.
i have no clue why premium players should have influence over what f2p are going to play.
implement preferred map for premium and not f2p and you will see blowback. i can guarantee that you will have dead game in few months.
Better have premium time still left otherwise we will send you to Tunisia with your Super Pershing.
Voting wouldn’t work. Especially not with the current MM.
You’d have the wannabe deserters voting against, where the normal people who don’t mind fighting a map would miss out or end up in an endless queue waiting for another map that everyone likes.
What chuckles me most, is the so-called “veterans” and “Youtubers” cowardly deserting on games they don’t want to play. This, to me at least, confirms the fact that we need the map selection now more than ever.
The devs are working on a solution, let’s all just hope it’s the right one.
If we won’t be able set specific BR for each campaigns, map filter for those said campaigns and also mode we would like to play it will be a complete failure of a system.
