Guild Wars 2

You can select Stronghold and/or Conquest on the pvp tab. TDM isn’t an option.

Also, the button to go into hotjoin is gone, but you can still go there from the game browser.

Edit: They reverted the change. Perhaps it was a glimpse of what the pvp tab will be like when Stronghold is out?

It goes away if you close and open it again it seems, must have been a mistake and anet didnt mean to add it. Either way I like the fact they added the ablility to choose what gamemode and that they got rid of the hotjoin button

Yeah, thought it was weird that they had an option to select Stronghold when that isn’t out yet. So it’s clear us seeing that was an error. But it’s nice to see that we will probably have that option in the future. Hopefully, there will be an option for TDM as well.

Also it looks like they might encourage people to do Unranked/Ranked rather than going to hotjoin.

Thats encouraging that they are working on the option to let us choose game modes.

After three years they’re finally gonna remove hotjoin <3 (as the first impression of pvp atleast).

Looks promising, but they still need to address queuing from outside of the mists.

John Corpening.9847:

This is a work in progress and the UI for it made it out on accident today. We have corrected that.

John

Sure

But nice change, I like it.
Thanks for responding to the feedback.

butch.8136:

After three years they’re finally gonna remove hotjoin <3 (as the first impression of pvp atleast).

Consistently. Abolish Solo Que, solo players flee in Hotjoin. Even away. Would be terrible if the premade Gankers find no more victims.

Nice. Definitely happy about queue preferences being an upcoming feature. There does need to be an option for TDM though. =)

John Corpening.9847:

This is a work in progress and the UI for it made it out on accident today. We have corrected that.

Since we spilled the beans on it, I’m happy to let you know that this feature has come about from the feedback we have received from our community during our Stronghold Betas. We hope to be showing it for real in the next test we do for Stronghold.

John

I really hope this means that we can chose to play one or another. If so kudos to you, very good decision. I really dont want to be forced to play conquest when i just wanna do some stronghold.

However, courtyard does neither fit into conquest nor does it fit into stronghold. Question is what is gonna happen to courtyard? We wont be able to queue for it anymore?

I really hope you give us a SEPERATE queue for courtyard aswell and maybe make it 3vs3 instead of 5vs5, because it feels more like WvW zerging atm.

TDM could use more maps and yes should be 3v3 (queue-able separately)

Anyone have a screenshot of this?

Here’s one LordK4G3 posted on Reddit:
http://imgur.com/ICnpLOe

Arcadio.6875:

Here’s one LordK4G3 posted on Reddit:
http://imgur.com/ICnpLOe

Thanks, looks good. Although I’d like to see the inclusion of ranked solo queue, and the removal of hotjoin would only be good if you could queue while being outside hotm.

Please consider also adding the third ruleset, Annihilation (currently only Courtyard) to the filter.

When there’s capture dailies I want it out until the daily is done, and when I’m fed up with capture stuff and just want some good ’ol deathmatch I want to queue just for it too.

Good job anet. You just saved stronghold!

Although the lack of practice mode is a worry. What will you do about leavers in unranked?

How will first timers know to do hotjoin instead?

John Corpening.9847:

This is a work in progress and the UI for it made it out on accident today. We have corrected that.

**cough** git push --force **cough**

John Corpening.9847:

This is a work in progress and the UI for it made it out on accident today. We have corrected that.

Since we spilled the beans on it, I’m happy to let you know that this feature has come about from the feedback we have received from our community during our Stronghold Betas. We hope to be showing it for real in the next test we do for Stronghold.

John

Wait, no more hot join? (no more practice button?)

Or you moved it on servers tab?

BTW i like this.

GJ

John Corpening.9847:

This is a work in progress and the UI for it made it out on accident today. We have corrected that.

Since we spilled the beans on it, I’m happy to let you know that this feature has come about from the feedback we have received from our community during our Stronghold Betas. We hope to be showing it for real in the next test we do for Stronghold.

John

Thank you for listening to the community and doing this, John! That’s a great change!

Nothing for TDM?

holodoc.5748:

cough git push —force cough

They use P4.

please do the same for courtyard and everybody will be happy again.

Sube Dai.8496:

Although the lack of practice mode is a worry. What will you do about leavers in unranked?

How will first timers know to do hotjoin instead?

Well if they turn on the leaving penalty again I imagine they’ll address that problem.

Honestly, I think the advice for first-timers to play hotjoin is part of the problem PvP has had. Hotjoin is almost always a terrible experience – it’s usually thoroughly unbalanced with lots of ganking players looking to carve their way through fresh meat.

Stronghold will probably work better as a game for players new to PvP to work out what they’re doing, because Stronghold has far less emphasis on team fights. Less to learn at once.