So now that we have a confirmed pvp arena release, I would like to open this thread so you guys can share how bad of an idea this is.
Personally, I don’t think people want this mode because outpost rush is a riveting pvp mode with the perfect balance of pve elements. Players can also still feel like they’re important and part of the team, and feel like they impacted how the game ended. For example, if your team gets stomped 1000-67 due to the insightful 3 cap mercy function, you can be assured it was probably due to your poor performance. I don’t like how the pvp arena is going to magnify balance issues; it will create a larger divide and frustration in the community leading to more player loss. Finally with server populations dwindling there will not be enough people to support another ill-advised addition of a mode
Yes everyone will be in instanced content but AGS still won’t offer server transfer tokens to fill the worlds or lift the server capacity. World is already dead. Now it will just be deader.
Where was it confirmed their would be a pvp arena? and as for the idea of it, i believe they need to add cross server queues as someone else said earlier. In terms of you mentioning how it will only magnify the balance issues with the game, i think thats partly why it would be a good addition.
The devs can then have more data to use towards balancing the weapons. If they are seeing that an overwhelming majority of players are using x type of weapon, and x,y,z skills they can then determine in what ways it would be good to balance them. While having OPR and Wars can do the same thing, having another, different set of variable data to use will assist with that to see from different angles. And finally i think it would just be fun
I don’t know what they could offer PvPers besides:
Arena and cross server ranked arena
More meaningful rewards when killing players in open world pvp (basically getting gear at your water mark +gold).
Open world pvp events (push a cart of goodies from ever fall to bright wood while the opposing factions tries to ransack it).
new pvp only zone with a possible new loot mechanic (you drop everything you’ve collected before you get back to the “safe zone”)
Anyway, arenas would be a meaningful way to keep PvPers attention. I really don’t know what AGS is thinking at the moment. Arguably the best part of the game is pvp, but they’re focusing on average/below average pve content. It doesn’t make sense. People will try the next patch. Many will dislike it and quit. I don’t know how long AGS will support the game after that. I suppose they could make the game pretty good and like a year from now re-release again as a free to play game.
If they do add an arena they have to do frequent (like at least monthly) balancing patches until it feels pretty good. The current life staff and void gauntlet would be broken in a small scale arena.
i think it will be smeller but there are people that will sit outside of WW a duel for hours so it could work just that it would be the same people over and over agian.
Im for an arena for small scale pvp and perhaps the devs can throw in a Mykguard commander too to ensure there will also be some pve content… Like the brutes in opr. Maybe a mutated version with AOE killcloud…
Shouldve been like that since launch. So many choices in this game are completely dumb. I’d love to talk to the guy who settles on these asinie decisions. What sort of logic this person uses…
