the bird has been flipped

Yeah, I only play BR under duress when squadding. Much prefer Domination. So losing the ability to play my preferred mode is infuriating. How hard would it be to allow people to choose their mode OR choose Random? You can do it in the custom match menu!

My beacon-runner hanger is now near-useless 50% of the time and my gold-earning has suffered. My gekko-sniper too. Not happy.

Game design 101, you adapt the game based on how people play it. You don't force players to play the way you think they should.

I suspect the answer is that the player base will not support three different modes without long wait times, hence the grouping of BR and Dom. into one queue.

The obvious answer is to get rid of Beacon Rush.

I will be a voice out of the Choir.
My love for Beacon Rush has made me forego many useful midrange builds.
I think that a random mode, that forces to have a more balanced hangar, will help with diversity
and with hangar turnover.

Introducing Mk2 is much worse than taking away the choice between BR and DOM, IMO. It's just another step in the monetization scheme, but it proves that Pixo will not deviate from the path of making the game even more p2w in every release. They dangle the Haechi-for-gold-or-WSP carrot in front of the players, creating the illusion that they can catch up a tiny bit to the whales. But of course those full Mk2 Dash hangars finally allow the whales to stomp over the "normal" TT players, probably because giving Haechis to the whales wasn't enough.

The community has been asking for TDM for YEARS and Pix has delivered. They've already said TDM is temporary, the same way BR was temporary, based on feedback. While there have been people who have posted their enjoyment hopefully issues with TDM will be addressed and a decision will be made to keep it long term or not soon. Until that decision is made and to address 3 different queues for players I understand why they combined the 2 existing modes. Is there a level of pain/discomfort with that - yes. Is it the end of the world - no. The decision around BR came fairly quickly. We can hope for the same for TDM. Hopefully people are sending reasonably worded and detailed feedback Pix's way. It doesn't have to be long but they can't do much with "TDM suxs". Does that mean the concept needs to be scrapped, the concept isn't bad but tankers hose your teams score making you not want to play that mode, etc.

This is the response that I received from Pixo when I registered my disdain for the Random mode:





I don't know about you, but I took it as the standard "Tell the people what they want to hear." response.

I agree with the sentiment that it sucks that they just decided, willy-nilly, to lump them together. And ya know, I can't imagine that they are oblivious to the amount of people that came back JUST for B/R and that really enjoy it... along with the folk who prefer D/M. Thing is... Hangars are absolutely geared towards the individual mode that a player prefers when there is a choice between them, so this change, especially being so abrupt and without any forewarning, was a bit on the "Eff you!" side of interaction with their customer base.

For those of us that prefer the balanced approach to hangar building, anyway, then it isn't that much of a change. I fall into this category. TBH, I had been playing D/M more than B/R on all of my accounts b/c it seems like whenever I choose B/R I get SF or Canyon or Yam and campers but if I choose D/M I get DC, PP Moon, and Valley more often. This has been over the past 2 weeks or so.  I actually like D/M on SF, Yam, and Canyon because I get to run my Gary, try out my Butch builds without feeling like I am screwing my team, and I have time to try and think about the game more on the strategic side of tactically.  So D/M just made more sense for me.

This was happening before the update and after. I ended up having to put L/R or M/R or both, back in my hangar, no matter what mode I chose. A balanced hangar was what I learned with, and it appears it is still the easiest to make work in most situations... for solo play, anyway.

TDM shifts my thoughts to re-prioritize the factors that determine my hangar... towards survivability being at or near the top. A dead bot is a point for the Reds. Anciles and Physical shields are necessary. But you deffo have to either be able to kill, too, or run with a Blue that has High Damage Potential that is smart enough to use you for your shield(s).

Anyway... I guess to this day the biggest issue I have with Pix is the lack of communication with us. Even if they do tell us something, it is either only a small part of what we need to know, misleading, or in some cases an outright lie.  Getting a bit old.