declined Blacklisting modes for quick battle

[It_Aint_Too_Late 144]

Plain and simple. If you don't particularly like a mode, an option to exclude it from the modes pool in quick battle.

[NikmanGT 4,481]

Declined

Been suggested a lot of times in the past, and you can guess, gets declined every time.

The reason is plain and simple, with the introduction of map choices or blacklisting modes, the queue time to get into the desired one would increase drastically. We just had bots to fill rank gaps and queue time on large maps. This is just the polar opposite of what Devs intend to do.

[Hypersomnia 1,759]

On 4/22/2025 at 11:05 PM, NikmanGT said:

We just had bots to fill rank gaps and queue time on large maps. This is just the polar opposite of what Devs intend to do.

the bots in higher ranks do nothing for the wait time. if anything it's worse.

you wait 60s instead of 60s like pre bot era just to end up in a bot battle and be forced to leave because playing with bots in high ranks is just masochism.

pretty sure if i black list TDM, CTF and ASL from my quick battle i would logically assume that my quick battle wait time will get longer. im not completely braindead and im pretty sure it applies to the rest of the player base. the fact that it's been suggested many times tells you that its a natural QoL update. people are already doing way more annoying version of it anyway. joining thru quick battle and leaving if its not the mode they wanted. just have a single button for it now. simple

[It_Aint_Too_Late 144]

On 4/23/2025 at 1:35 AM, NikmanGT said:

Declined

Been suggested a lot of times in the past, and you can guess, gets declined every time.

The reason is plain and simple, with the introduction of map choices or blacklisting modes, the queue time to get into the desired one would increase drastically. We just had bots to fill rank gaps and queue time on large maps. This is just the polar opposite of what Devs intend to do.

Reasonable. I just felt like posting this because assault is very undesirable right now. More than half of players joining on the attacking side leave as soon as they join, so...

[Maf 32,336]

On 4/23/2025 at 12:05 AM, NikmanGT said:

The reason is plain and simple, with the introduction of map choices or blacklisting modes, the queue time to get into the desired one would increase drastically

That's not true.

If I have missions that require me to play SGE, RGB and TJR, then I will go into mode-specific MM for each mode separately. If 1000 players do this, the waiting time will be far greater than if 1000 players instead blacklisted all modes except those three, because the player pool is split into three separate groups.

Same thing happens if I really hate playing TDM and TJR. Instead of being able to blacklist just these modes and leaving myself available to be put into any of the others, I'm currently forced to pick just one mode instead (say CTF), taking myself out of the bigger MM pool.

A-la-carte mode selection seems like a no-brainer and idk why devs wouldn't implement it.