Guild Wars 2

Putting aside the notion that the hotjoin format should somehow train you for tpvp, i wonder if we can think of a much more fun format that is suitable for a drop-in at any time game mode.

Maybe some sort of 3p-team FFA CTF?

Players join in groups of up to 3. If you have less, people are randomly grouped into 3.

The map is fairly large, and there are orbs randomly spawning all around the map. The objective it’s to grab an orb and then take it to a central shrine to receive glory. You also receive glory for kills.

The map uses wvw technology for player limits. That means there could be dozens of 3 man teams in the match at the same time. (maybe you would need more than 1 shrine)

Anyway, it seems like something like this would suit hotjoin much better. just log in at any time, kill some people in a massive cluster kitten, and just enough objectives to give some focus to the fights.

Feel free to suggest or speculate your own ideas about what would be a good ultra-casual game mode. The key is that it should work well when people are joining and quitting all the time.

I realy agree hot-join should be changed, it’s just not fun atm. It’s the same every time. Run into a tank 1v1, get him to low hp after a while and hup, there are his teammates 3v1 killing you. I realize i have been saved in that way but still. I like spvp but the problem is you almost never get a fair fight (1v1, 2v2, …).
Making one objective instead of 3 would keep players together and would make it more fun imo. The bigest problem is the lack of gametypes, i realy hope the new one will be good, or i’ll never do hot-join again.
Also nice would be if a full team loses a member, some NPC takes his place till a new player comes.