Making Custom Matches a Better Place

[Rixas188]

This topic is purely suggesting improvements regarding Custom Matches.

1. New, better UI system. I’ve taken the liberty of mocking up a potential one in about 10 minutes, I’m sure the actual UI designers can make something better with a little more thought and knowledge.
   Creating the lobby:
   

   
   
   Inside the lobby:
   
   

2. Remove or reduce the XP/Progression punishment from low/1-player Custom Matches. For this I’d suggest just swap the Custom Matches (0.2x) and the Desertion (0.7x) punishments around so that Custom Matches is 0.7x and Desertion is 0.2x - this will improve the Custom Matches massively, and might even help reduce Desertion, thus solving two problems at once. Regardless of actual numbers, Custom Match players should not be punished more than Deserters, that’s just ludicrous.

3. Ability to add Passwords should be for all players, and/or everyone should be able to disable mid-game joining.

4. Mod-of-the-Week mods should have their own Custom Match lobby that is constantly running, instead of relying on random people to make their own lobby for it. This will hopefully improve the number of players playing mods, and consolidate mod players together.

5. Mods should give XP/progression, but be severely limited, perhaps to 0.1x. You shouldn’t get nothing for playing mods, but it shouldn’t be an amount that make mods a go-to option for grinding. Heck, just make the Mod-Of-The-Week give XP at least.

6. Allow team imbalance. If 10 people want to play against 2, why stop them? Why make them do a 5v5? Just ruins the idea of using Custom Matches to play with large groups of friends, or organise lobbies how the host wants them organised. It’d be amazing to do a 1v10 or some other challenges. There shouldn’t be any requirement for teams to be balanced.

7. On the other hand, allow host to manually switch which team any player is on as long as the game hasn’t started.

People will probably hate on this suggestion purely because it’s about Custom Matches and “no one plays/no one cares about Custom Matches stfu”, which is unfortunate because, especially with the recent Merge update, it could be a really great feature if people just let us suggest ways for DF to expand it.

[ErikaKalkbrenner]

i’ll just add mines too:

An outcry for custom matches improvements ( you better upvote this suggestion )

Small paragraph for the community i’ll start by saying that customs have been quite abandonded by some time, and even if you are one of those players who simply do not care nor plays customs, please, do us a favor to those who actually tries to play them and just upvote this suggestion. you can go about your day. ( begging for likes ehy? yes. at this point… ) which, yes, no one plays customs anymore. but that’s beside the point. i don’t blain people for not playing it. because customs have r…

in particular:

@ErikaKalkbrenner

Reintroduce 20 bots in squad settings back in the bots selector like it used to in the first days of customs for squad

@ErikaKalkbrenner

ability to view your inventory and squad interface while waiting in the lobby.
as i cannot change weapons nor redeem my bp tasks

@ErikaKalkbrenner

De/Selectable options to make squad balanced.
the reason of the option above, is because i cannot play with friends against bots or make those " historical accurate " matches. i cannot start the match if there are 2 members or more in one side.
so, if the leader wants, he should be able to select or deselect the option.
the second Function of this, would be to create historical matches " just for fun ". example, 4 players on the german side against 8 russian AIs on berlin, or make custom matches with friends ( a few newbies against on vet player and stuff like that ) or even community games.
( P.S. no, the berlin 8v4 it’s not meant for farming. but we’ll get to exp cap that quadro suggested later to counter bot farming)

@ErikaKalkbrenner

Ability to Select how many players, and bots are present in the match per squad. ( LOCK SLOTS )
this one, it’s fundamental for people that are content creator, guide creators ( such as my self ) anbd works best with the previous point. to be able to make the match empty, and be able to catch footage without any interruption from players nor bots. this is not possible to do in the current state. which footage might not be that important ( although it is for me ) still helps the guide creators and help the community with knowledge.
so essentially, the leader will be able to select how many players can join one team, and lock for example team 2 from anyone joining. or, only close some slots.
this would allow for historical games ( for example, berlin german forces against a greater number of russians ) and what not. and once again, as someone who creates PVES with mods, i have no way to close team 2 from people joining.

@ErikaKalkbrenner

ability to select number of players per match
for eample, make 5v5s, 8v8s both for customs and lone fighter. to create smaller matches.
( by @Hiske )

the rest inside, is facoltative. but i’d argue should be one thing one day.

p.s. i did readed, and i’m aware majority of mines were already mentioned/are present, but i would like to make it aware while agree and double down on these points. at least personally.

[ErikaKalkbrenner]

@Rixas188

Mods should give XP/progression, but be severely limited, perhaps to 0.1x. You shouldn’t get nothing for playing mods, but it shouldn’t be an amount that make mods a go-to option for grinding. Heck, just make the Mod-Of-The-Week give XP at least.

perhaps daily cap by playing customs alones similar to the pve of crossouts.

no more than 40k of experience daily

( doesn’t have to be 40k, but somewhere in that range )

after all, enlisted should be for everyone.

could be an idea / just my opinion.

[Rixas188]

I’m not a big fan of putting hard caps on stuff as it basically means once you reach that cap, there’s no point playing,

but in this case capping XP from the modded custom matches would work just as well, it’s already better than the guaranteed 0 we already get, whilst still limited to prevent abuse.

i don’t think there should be a cap for non-modded custom matches though, or if there is maybe its like 3x or 4x as much as the modded one.

[TheOnlyB33]

40k xp is too low a early tier1 even take 20k xp to unlock.
The pve mode can go this way.
before getting 80k per day the xp is given at 100%
between 80k to 200k at 75%
and only 50% after 200k