New game mode - any realistic ETA?
They couldn’t give a realistic ETA for simple balance changes, do you honestly thing they can give realistic estimates for completely new modes?
From what has been suggested/leaked it will be in June but will launch as custom arena/hotjoin only.
So essentially there is no new game modes it is all a hoax. Only if the community organise their own games which takes the competition out of it as you wont be matched with people.
Necromancer/Casual Warrior
[Team] Best WvW guild of all time. EASILY.
Tuesday april 1st.
Yes its a guess, but its an estimated one. 4 weeks after the finale of the living story patch. They announced they will take a short break after that and come with a big feature patch. A feature patch that will probably include the two new gamemodes they playtested and talked about.
And a few days before TESO gets released. That way they try and keep people in GW2 despite some competion.
In other words, perfect timing.
From what has been suggested/leaked it will be in June but will launch as custom arena/hotjoin only.
So essentially there is no new game modes it is all a hoax. Only if the community organise their own games which takes the competition out of it as you wont be matched with people.
The finale of the living story will be on the 4th of march. I dont think think a short break means 3 months so june is a bit late.. And I do think these gamemodes will be included in the feature patch.
And regarding the fact that they will be custom arena/hotjoin only; i think its better that way. By adding it to hotjoins first people get the chance to playtest it. If it ends up being really good and suitable for competetive play, great. Then it will end up in rated play eventually.
From what has been suggested/leaked it will be in June but will launch as custom arena/hotjoin only.
So essentially there is no new game modes it is all a hoax. Only if the community organise their own games which takes the competition out of it as you wont be matched with people.
The finale of the living story will be on the 4th of march. I dont think think a short break means 3 months so june is a bit late.. And I do think these gamemodes will be included in the feature patch.
And regarding the fact that they will be custom arena/hotjoin only; i think its better that way. By adding it to hotjoins first people get the chance to playtest it. If it ends up being really good and suitable for competetive play, great. Then it will end up in rated play eventually.
No it is certainly not better. People can queue for both and if it sucks they can go back to just queuing for conquest till it is improved.
No possible testing can be done in hotjoin because hotjoin is a joke. If the gamemode is used for “scrims” between teams then it will be very clunky as this takes ages to set up – getting a 5 man team together at the same time is enough of a mission to do – imagine if you have to organise two 5-8 man teams….
The game mode must be in tournament queues or the forum and in-game QQ will be simply off the charts….resulting in horrible negative PR…exactly what anet wont need when other games are coming out.
And, onto the most critical point, if they release it as hotjoin/custom arena only (which they will) then it will be another 6-12 months before it moves to a proper queuing system which is easy and fun for the average user. That is the speed anet works at.
There is also the possibility they never move it to a tournament queue system because they dont want to split queues. This also seems extremely likely. Remember it took us about a year+ to get solo queue. Well if you want to play the new game mode (outside lol hotjoin) in June 2015 then you should be happy.
Necromancer/Casual Warrior
[Team] Best WvW guild of all time. EASILY.