The new "Battle purgatory" [March 10, 2018]

i like having the option to just go to the next battle, however, the menu sidebar should be included so the player can act on notifications and interact with the various chats... quest completions for instance. presently if i complete guild quests during a Battle I don't get any notification until after I exit to the "bay", which means that i don't know i can choose new ones... also, many of us VIP players, chat in VIP between battles discussing (and complaining about) the just completed Battle. I do the same thing when fleeting with a friend. we discuss strategy and what went wrong as well as things we want to try going forward.

I'll grant you, I like that i can just go to the next one, but I suggest keeping the community interaction alive at the same time, and actually, a built in context-sensitive voice chat would be the best idea... maybe make a deal with Discord to come up with a way to automatically connect players on the same team to a temporary channel. whether it's Battle Bay or some other game, I feel like this is something that needs to happen for any team based game play, and on all independent voice chat systems... there's gotta be a standardized way to enable integrated team chats... streamers still need the option to choose not to, but for Battle Bay, there's no time nor way to invite a random team to join a discord channel before the Battle starts, and you can only fleet 2 at a time, so it's not like you can set up a team of 5 friends all using discord unless it's a custom battle which of course is by necessity unranked.

 

just want to add, because it's a mobile game, obviously not everyone is in a situation where they can use voice chat while they play...Greystorm's live-streams are sometimes a testiment to when Voice-Chat should be avoided lol

 

+1 :thumbs_up:

 

I'd like to throw in there about a way to keep track of your resources as you play as well.

 

Yes this is exactly the topic I came here to support. I miss the ability to know when people are communicating with me or the guild between battles... particularly if I'm fleeting I have no idea someone stepped away for a minute without the messaging notifications being visible. Guild messages, quest notifications (typically in guild chat) is a required element between battles.

Otherwise I'm fairly ambivalent to the changes... it results the same amount of button clicking before, sometimes more, so the only advantage is quicker battle jumping but at the cost of lack of personal, guild, or quest notifications, that's a pretty terrible tradeoff.