Review of 3 vs 3 TDM Event

I enjoyed the 50% cooldown. 3v3 was a great idea too, but I think it was ruined by making it TDM on just 3 tiny maps.

TDM is fun, but we did that last week. And I got fed up of those tiny maps within the first 5 games.

Altogether it felt like a lame rehash of last week’s event, just with fewer maps, less progress, and reduced prizes (why no free item?).

I actually lost interest pretty quickly, didn’t even bother finishing the Rare perk.

I appreciate the Devs giving us weekly events, but this one gets a thumbs down from me I’m afraid.

 

I personally think TDM awards should be based solely on kills, and assisting kills (for fixers and burners/frosters). There is no such thing as ‘kill stealing’ when so many games finish 8-7 (or 10-9 last week). Getting faster kills is what wins games, and it’s something everyone can do win/lose.

 

90% of my guild and my global hate the second event. It was horrible impossible to win, it was nice to do all the time the best damage or kill but you will never win.
Personally I spent my day at the same time that I did not go beyond the rare trunk and moreover I did not even advance in the quests of the ducoup. There is really a problem of matchmaking, change it for the next event slvp.

 

● Reduced reloading was nice, to redo.
● But I did not like the 3 vs 3 at all.
Too many people who commit suicide, who go into the heap, it was absolutely horrible to play. I look forward to the event where we can create our team for strategy.
Because shooting like a beast is boring ...

 

When I won it was only thanks to me that the others did not really do anything.

I stopped the event on the second day because I knew it was impossible for me to have the epic benefits and that the rare and common benefits are useless for me with my lvl40.
I won 1 game out of 10 ...
It was really annoying to always win and do half the damage and kill each time. : /

 

In TDM there isn’t time to do that unless you want to lose 9-10. So long as there is a bonus to incentivise winning, then it shouldn’t be a problem.

If you’re wasting time whittling down an 8k Defender, on your own, in TDM, then you probably don’t deserve any rewards. You could have killed 3 Enforcers/Speeders in that time and won the game.

That was the problem with the Star Rewards system. You could focus on a big defender all game, get zero kills, lose, and still walk away with one star. While someone who was actually taking kills, and scoring points for the team, actually lost stars because of Overkill.

In TDM winning and scoring more kills faster are the same thing. If you’re doing loads of damage, and not getting kills, then you’re not playing right.

 

had great trouble winning in the second event...problems with peeps droppin gear score but still retaining doped items for overkill...i reckon the idea of progress by stars is better than wins as mentioned previously, if your team is throwin you can still get some stars instead of yielding nothing from the expenditure of one ticket (in the case of battle win progress)

 

This event break the balance of all weapons, everyone just keep spamming torpedos and mortars to deal as much damage and as quickly as possible to win the match, if you are unlucky get stuck teaming with defender then you basically have nearly no chance of winning.

 

It cuts both ways.

Look at this game, 10-9 victory, so it was a very close game. I got more kills than the rest of my team put together.



Yet the top rewards go to a guy who only killed one ship, just because he got 1k more damage than me.

How much damage do you think I wasted with 6 overkills? Probably enough to put me in the top spot right?

But then my team probably would have lost. The unfriends only needed 1 more kill to win the game. Imagine if I’d left each of those kills for my teammates to ‘finish’ in their own time, and all the extra time that would take (multiplied by 6)? They would have lost, hands down.

I should have got 3 stars for carrying that game, but instead I got bounced to second place.

I don’t mind stars as a rating system, but kills need to be more valuable than they currently are.

 

Yeah! The win system nullified all the fun from participation in the event.
I've noticed that I become angry after a series of defeats with the top contribution.

 

It also made matchmaking more critical.

In the last event, if I got killed a bunch of times by a Nightmare guy with obviously better gear, I would just chalk it down to “whatever”, and not care, so long as I got my star.

But when losses literally count for nothing, any kind of mismatch becomes very noticeable and infuriating.

 

I also prefer star reward system. Because even when you're on the losing side, you'll still be rewarded if you put enough effort and contributions into the match, albeit the reward is a bit lower. It encourages you to put your best in every match.

Meanwhile with win based reward, if your team is on the losing situation, most probably you'll stop caring. I mean, why bother when your team is 4 scores behind, you'll most definitely lose and get nothing anyway.

 

Amount of games required over 3 days was over the top. Add the removed items to the equation and its gets frustrating.
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Happy to see them try out different things;
- 3vs3 was great.
- Hope we get some variance from DM next time around, but it works well though.
- Half CD was absolutely trash, I didnt find it entertainment to cycle 2 abilities on an infinite loop anyway. Efficient method for dumbing the game down, but I hope they have higher ambitions for their game. Hope that trash never makes a return.
- The perks were cool, thankfully none I desperately needed so I didnt have to stommack the horrible gameplay experience of half cd.

Bring on double CD next time & force people to think before they shoot

Looking forward to the next round!

 

Overall fun event. Nice change of pace.

However, one thing definitely needs to be addressed: teams camping at their spawn. Games where this happens are infinitely less fun. Others have suggested a capture zone but that goes against the purpose of the game mode. DEATHmatch. I would suggest some other forms of incentive for pushing out, fighting, and controlling the middle of the map.

1) Heal zone in the middle
2) Spawn camping debuff. After re-spawning you have 10 seconds to exit the spawn. If you fail to leave the spawn you will be affected by a debuff as long as you remain in the spawn. The debuff would block all healing (bandage and fixer heals) and deal some % damage of your hp (say 1% for every second). Think fortnite or PUBG zone restrictions. If you are where you are not supposed to be, you will take damage.

Open to hear other ideas to prevent spawn camping games.