Will there ever be a new game mode

[LaFurion.3167]

By this I mean will there ever be a new permanent game mode added that isn't 5v5 conquest.

I ask because over the years the pvp population has gotten so much smaller. And not only that but conquest only has received one (or was it 2?) New maps, with absolutely zero visual updates. I do not count the gladiator arena update where they added the boxes/terrain as an update; it was a much needed balance patch that was long overdue from the start.

If you spend a few hours, let alone your week playing spvp you will notice the same people over and over and over again. Many posts have been made about the unsustainability of 5v5 conquest.

Now, I have read the forum reply of Ben about 2v2/3v3 and how the big update and how they are "nearly done", but the thing that saddened me the most is that 2v2/3v3 is going to be only an event in between pvp seasons, rather than a new game mode.

I've said this multiple times, and I really do stand by it... I think 3v3 at the very least should be a ranked ladder. I am perfectly aware that it will take away from the conquest population even further but honestly that game mode wasn't sustainable anyway.. maybe a handful of people will enjoy it as their MAIN game mode (people like Vallun, Ajaxx, Mukluk etc) who can, somehow, queue over and over again into the same people.

It's a little bit of a long shot, and probably will get hated on but dammmm. We need a new game mode for pvp that are permanent. The spvp content updates are virtually non existent, with balance patches taking far too long to come out, even though they have started doing pvp balancing separately.

For now I'll just continue to roam/zergvin wvw, but I still dream....

[Tharan.9085]

Maybe in a few years, but most likely not

[LaFurion.3167]

@Tharan.9085 said:Maybe in a few years, but most likely not

T_T

[Dreamreaver.4908]

I'm still hoping for EvE.

...Or, taken by a more serious name: Polymock.

[Alin.2468]

To see the future, learn from the past. It's been 7.5 years of same PvP and same game mode. Maybe it's time to embrace the truth and accept this product as it is.

[Avatar.3568]

i think 2vs2 and 3vs3 in offseason is a good idea, if you bring it permanently the pvp community will be splitted, in off season you will have welcome variaty to the at's

[Trevor Boyer.6524]

@LaFurion.3167

@Ben Phongluangtham.1065 said:A lot of this stuff is actually in progress right now. Hopefully we'll be able to give more details soon. I'll give a somewhat vague status update on each one:

Big Balance Patch: First pass is basically done. Cmc is running through some last minute changes and it should start internal testing soon.

Swiss: Almost done (finally!). We ran an internal test on it right before the break and we're hoping to run some public tests in the nearish future. The last I saw of it, there were still some bugs that needed to be resolved. The extra gold for tournament wins not being distributed and some UI problems on the order of columns not lining up properly and tooltips and such. Tournaments themselves have some new bugs that we're looking into (rewards problems).

Mini-Seasons: This is giving us the ability to run alternate game mode short seasons. Code is being added to track additional rating types now! Basically, before we can do these, we need to make it so that your 2v2/3v3 skill rating is different from your conquest skill rating. In addition to that, we still need to set up rewards for them.

PvP/WvW new armorset: There are some art bugs that need fixed, but the the art is done for the most part. We're also adjusting the acquisition method. These probably won't just be tossed on the vendors like previous armors.

Large PvP map (15 on 15). The map itself has been done for a while. But we've decided to hold off on releasing it until we're able to get someone to make UI changes. Currently, the UI can't handle more than 10v10. Additionally, 10v10 UI is bad. It's just one large group rather than using the squad UI. Unfortunately, when the programmers looked into how difficult it would be to add squad functionality, it turned out the current way groups are handled in PvP makes it a difficult change. Basically, it might be easier for us to build a new solution that mimics squad functionality than to try to shoe-horn the current squad functionality into PvP.

Other stuff: There are some other things also being looked into, but since they haven't been previously talked about, I don't want to go into more detail at this time!

Well, this turned out to be a little more detailed than I planned, but that's where we stand right now. Hope this helps!

P.S. Yes, everything takes longer than we'd like to finish. We know.

^ Posted about a week ago.

[Stand The Wall.6987]

you have a problem with 1 pvp mode since release? how dare you.