Random Mode Sucks

Rant already started Here. 

Complain loudly to Pix. I've sent and endless stream of complaints to them about it. 

i love this post-gep generation

I never play TDM but though I loathe BR I loathe ejectors more. When I personally get shafted with BR I play it like Dom except I don't try to flip beacons until I see the Reds are botting out. It's crazy to me how many pilots are so addicted to not walking to the battle zone that they will spawn over and over into a kill box.

I also only spawn into the blue team spawn area. I have no issue with walking to the battle. So yeah, I certainly play it suboptimally but that's the way it is until random mode goes away again.

Screw that, I do not eject! I just play any mode they give me. Doesn't matter which mode, I just continue playing.













Wait, am I the only one?

+1

I still play the random as best I can and tried to modify my hanger so it has a chance on both options as I only have 1 hanger and no 5th slot. I run 3 faster bots and 1 supporting. I go with my Haechi Orkans Bulg tarans a thunder carnage and fury Zeus. I find this works best for me..allows fast play for beacon rush...stopping power for domination and distance for beacon clearing.

Although a second hanger would be nice I'm still spending gold upgrading what I have. Rather have 1 good hanger than 2 average

Just for the record, I don't eject when I get a Dom mode match. I'm set up for BR, but when I get Dom, I just deal with it as best I can. I hate it, especially on Yam and Springfield, but I deal with it.

I don't hate random mode. You said everyone hates random mode, so that makes you either I'll informed or a downright liar buddy. Now I will say that domination mode is pretty lame compared to beacon rush... But it's the only thing we used to have so no prob here playin it when it comes up. TDM jus takes forever, and I lose interest after about the first hour and a half or so of the match. Well it seems like it's been that long.

Depends on what task I'm working on. I detest the Random option as well but I force myself to go through with BR when it comes up because I ain't risking that damn LQ again by dropping out of matches.

I also spend a lot less time playing the game at all because of the Random mode and all these damn events. I've long since stopped sending PIXONIC any of my own money too. Been saving my free GooglePlay bucks up as well and stopped giving that to PIXONIC as well. With 12 player accounts that's starting to add up. I've got over $190 saved up in my GooglePlay account now because I stopped dropping it on PIXONIC.

They made a huge mistake by testing out the new TDM with back to back events. Why see if a new mode is popular or working well when you have to play the other modes for beacon event tasks to get free stuff, lol. 

This is just more evidence that the team over at Pixonic doesn't have a clue how to run the business of the game, but they have creative and talented designers.

I don't like the random mode since people are making setups for each mode.

But I would never leave a match, although I might be the first one to mech out due to my overly aggressive play style. I would rather die side by side with a teammate than abandon them (unless my connection makes me disconnect).

The question is, do we only get two modes to choose from because of the UI or the player base?

Would wait times be too long with more modes?

That is exactly the claim made by one Support person going by Precious. That wait times might be affected adversely. 10+ million Android downloads and they believe that implementing a third game mode would affect wait times? So I have to wonder..just how many of those 10+ million Android players are left?

I have definitely noticed with my Diamond profile a huge number of Bronze-Silver players in matches where I should be seeing only Gold-Expert, maybe even a few Masters. And my Silver profile is seeing Recruits-Diamonds. For certain neither is in the LQ.

Player base. Guess they managed to tank the player numbers sufficiently. It's more visible on some platforms like FB GR, where it now takes 20s to find a match (and there the matchmaker has all players from Bronze to Champion in one group).

I think I did a calculation like this once (and I guess HEATHEN HERETIC hasn't done it): Assume 100k active players, averaging 10 games per day. That way, you would be able to fill a game within 1 second. However, if you divide them into roughly into 5 groups (depending on the leagues), and then 3 more groups (game mode) you're already up to 15s on average, or much more on an "unpopular" mode or less densely populated groups. Say just 10% of the players want to play TDM, then you're up to 45s. And now consider stuff like matching up squads against squads...

Oh, and don't forget that they stubbornly insist on dividing the player base among 4 platforms. FB GR would be way more playable if they allowed players to share their Android/iOS hangars.

Downloads, last time I checked most (f2p) games are happy if the number of active players is within 1-2 percent of the downloads. And that are games without artificially increased download numbers - from what I've heard a lot of new short-lived accounts were created to farm influence points.