Post by HEATHEN HERETIC on Dec 11, 2017 6:33:25 GMT -5
I want to. Desperately. But I just don't see it much anymore.
I counted out 250 matches. Of those precisely three had any squads in them. And two of them had only a single squad of two hugely disparate league players. The other was an extremely rare three on three event but again with hugely disparate league players participating.
Back in January squading was really starting to take off. We started gathering on FaceBook. Clans were organizing with mostly squading in mind and fighting together. Discord was pulled out of obscurity and voice servers were established.
By March it looked like it was going to be an ongoing growing thing. There was squading in at least 1/8 of the matches. Voice comms was growing in use.
Then April's game update hit. Squading began to evaporate very quickly. Players dropped off like bugs hit by DDT. And it has been going downhill steadily ever since.
December, and squading has nearly disappeared as far as I can see. I'm on all different times around the clock here on the North American servers. I see various clan members all the time. And sometimes it seems everyone is in a clan. But there are extremely few squading together anymore. Are clans just labels anymore? If so what's the point?
I created a clan. The goal was of course to get squad minded players to participate and play together. Instead my lax attitude and rules created a long term parking lot for a lot for more than half the players. Few squaded. Fewer still used Discord. Myself included. I was probably the worst example of a clan leader as I was hugely absent with work and other considerations.
But in truth after April's updates came out I was barely hanging onto the game. I became disillusioned with being in a clan or participating in squads since my main profile was subjected to the Leavers Queue for an ungodly amount of time. But I stuck it out until it was released in October.
Then I took a break. My illusions of any "fair gameplay" or dealings with Pixonic had taken a huge hit from the 6 months in the LQ. And those damned dash bots and those physics defying Sh*ttrain weapons were just destroying what little patience I still had.
But I still had one War Robots outlet. Amazon had just introduced their servers and I set myself up in there. Strangely it was the Leavers Queue all over again. All ranks forced to play together from Recruit to Champion. And since I had previous experience in both the game and the LQ I quickly became a Champion player. There was no clans or squad system in the Amazon servers at that time. You soloed all the time. There was just you and the enemy. Teammates were just inadvertent participants in my eyes. I was just in it for the kills and huge damage, screw winning. I was taking my aggression out on everyone in the game regardless of their rank.
When clans and squads got introduced to the Amazon servers I ignored it for a while. Then I finally reached a point where the kills and damage wasn't satisfying me anymore. I wanted to join with a clan. I wanted camaraderie and teamwork. I was allowed to join ~Relentless~, a soon to be tip top clan in the Amazon servers with all Champions as members. Those guys like to squad and they are enthusiastic about doing so.
But there was no comms. Amazon doesn't have an available game comms app and rooting the Amazon devices to use other app store apps is a precise operation and doesn't always mean that running Discord will work while running the game. So I rarely play in the Amazon servers now. Because I desire coordinated teamwork and the ability to shoot the sh*t while playing.
But is that even possible anymore? Does anyone still squad on a regular basis? Is anyone interested in tactical gameplay and teamwork? Is it all just about the damage and the rankings and nothing else? Is anyone even interested in having a social experience in the game anymore?
I counted out 250 matches. Of those precisely three had any squads in them. And two of them had only a single squad of two hugely disparate league players. The other was an extremely rare three on three event but again with hugely disparate league players participating.
Back in January squading was really starting to take off. We started gathering on FaceBook. Clans were organizing with mostly squading in mind and fighting together. Discord was pulled out of obscurity and voice servers were established.
By March it looked like it was going to be an ongoing growing thing. There was squading in at least 1/8 of the matches. Voice comms was growing in use.
Then April's game update hit. Squading began to evaporate very quickly. Players dropped off like bugs hit by DDT. And it has been going downhill steadily ever since.
December, and squading has nearly disappeared as far as I can see. I'm on all different times around the clock here on the North American servers. I see various clan members all the time. And sometimes it seems everyone is in a clan. But there are extremely few squading together anymore. Are clans just labels anymore? If so what's the point?
I created a clan. The goal was of course to get squad minded players to participate and play together. Instead my lax attitude and rules created a long term parking lot for a lot for more than half the players. Few squaded. Fewer still used Discord. Myself included. I was probably the worst example of a clan leader as I was hugely absent with work and other considerations.
But in truth after April's updates came out I was barely hanging onto the game. I became disillusioned with being in a clan or participating in squads since my main profile was subjected to the Leavers Queue for an ungodly amount of time. But I stuck it out until it was released in October.
Then I took a break. My illusions of any "fair gameplay" or dealings with Pixonic had taken a huge hit from the 6 months in the LQ. And those damned dash bots and those physics defying Sh*ttrain weapons were just destroying what little patience I still had.
But I still had one War Robots outlet. Amazon had just introduced their servers and I set myself up in there. Strangely it was the Leavers Queue all over again. All ranks forced to play together from Recruit to Champion. And since I had previous experience in both the game and the LQ I quickly became a Champion player. There was no clans or squad system in the Amazon servers at that time. You soloed all the time. There was just you and the enemy. Teammates were just inadvertent participants in my eyes. I was just in it for the kills and huge damage, screw winning. I was taking my aggression out on everyone in the game regardless of their rank.
When clans and squads got introduced to the Amazon servers I ignored it for a while. Then I finally reached a point where the kills and damage wasn't satisfying me anymore. I wanted to join with a clan. I wanted camaraderie and teamwork. I was allowed to join ~Relentless~, a soon to be tip top clan in the Amazon servers with all Champions as members. Those guys like to squad and they are enthusiastic about doing so.
But there was no comms. Amazon doesn't have an available game comms app and rooting the Amazon devices to use other app store apps is a precise operation and doesn't always mean that running Discord will work while running the game. So I rarely play in the Amazon servers now. Because I desire coordinated teamwork and the ability to shoot the sh*t while playing.
But is that even possible anymore? Does anyone still squad on a regular basis? Is anyone interested in tactical gameplay and teamwork? Is it all just about the damage and the rankings and nothing else? Is anyone even interested in having a social experience in the game anymore?
