Guild Wars 2

So, we get Courtyard in Unranked matchmaking. Some guy dc’s. Another person gives up. 3v5 the whole match. Even if we down someone on the enemy team, they just rez and we get no kills = no points. Even if you were playing THE WHOLE MATCH you get zero rank points or reward track progress if you end the match with zero points. That kitten is broken.

There are some times I love this game. This is not one of those times. Having to deal with broken garbage that the devs put in place as a catch-all that punishes legitimate play is not fun for anyone. Please just remove Courtyard from the matchmaking if you’re going to punish players stuck in a terrible team situation who can’t do anything 3v5. I’m just going to go AFK the next time I’m stuck in Courtyard and we’re down a player on our team. There’s actually no point in playing at that point if you can’t get any points for rewards and THAT is terrible game design.

and how is that different than a 3v5 on any map? This is not specific to courtyard.

Did you read my post? In Conquest you can back-cap or decap points VERY quickly when the team is elsewhere. It’s very common for players to leave unguarded points and insanely easy to do. Even 1v5 I can probably get at least 10 points in any match. That will NEVER happen in Courtyard, EVER. In Conquest you get points for decapping and capping, as well as kills and doing map objectives like hitting with the treb or killing trebs. Courtyard doesn’t have points to cap/decap OR map objectives. This is different in every way possible than Conquest. Did I really have to explain that?

style.6173:

and how is that different than a 3v5 on any map? This is not specific to courtyard.

because everyone hates courtyard…. i rarely ever get 3v5 or 4v5 on any maps in unraked. i get a 4v5 nearly every courtyard game. most of my friends instant close gw2 and surf the internet if courtyard randomly chosen.

it IS specific to courtyard.

Also, hotjoins have a system that decreases your pvp rank points and reward track progress if you joined a match halfway through for instance. I don’t see why it would be difficult to do something similar for Courtyard. I understand why they made the rewards system this way, giving zero rewards if you finish a match with 0 points. That deters afking, but it also punishes worst-case scenarios in Courtyard. Getting nothing for a game that’s impossible to win and getting killed for eight freaking minutes straight is just- well, you get the idea.

Again, my issue isn’t so much with getting stuck with 4v5 or 3v5 garbage in PvP. That’s an entirely different problem. The point of this post is regarding the broken PvP rewarding criteria specifically regarding Courtyard and team deathmatch style gameplay in which it can be literally impossible to score any points = get no rewards for playing = might as well say screw it and go afk = horrible design. Capiche?

Bloodyx.5946:

style.6173:

and how is that different than a 3v5 on any map? This is not specific to courtyard.

because everyone hates courtyard….

No they don’t. I want more DM maps.

dm itself isn’t bad really, this game did need new games modes and players been asking for DM

the map itself is really bad, you can’t see crap half of the time because of random walls, stairs, plants and what not…
also porting skills fails there sometimes
the map favors heavily aoe spam due to small areas

i think map should have had one big open area and some plain pillars (that don’t cover entire view) around for LoS

DM may be new to gw2 but it is used in many games and the best maps for it so far (from own experience) were what i described above