Guild Wars 2

With the introduction of 5v5 servers a few months ago, I believe that hot join has become a lot more fun. However, there are still some players (new and even old) that don’t know they exist. The new filter feature and browser is much better I do believe, but there are still a few improvements needed to make it great.

I would like to see (and I’m sure there are others whom would like this) 2 new default filters in the Hot-join browser. The 2 new default filters would be: 8v8 Hotjoin and 5v5 Hotjoin (bet you worked that out from the title, have cookie you smart fellow).

The list would then look like the following:

All:
8v8 Matches:
5v5 Matches:
Favourites:
“Curtom Filter YX!@Z”

While I know that you can create your own custom filters, this is not about that issue. It is about showing everyone in the pvp community that 5v5s do exist. I believe that 5v5s would help keep new players around. After they exhausted their 8v8 zerg tactics they could go into a smaller more skill oriented match and work toward forming a pvp team or solo que.

There have also been a few people asking for the matches to not show spectators. I believe (if it is possible within the engine) that the browser should not show spectators as well. This would allow you to see how many people are playing in the match, and wether its worth the wait to try and join (can get up to 30-40 seconds on my pc, even before this patch lag) the game or wether a game actually has players and not just people talking to each other in spectator slots.

Thankyou for your time

-Slasher