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combat team about many of our questions and got answers to many of the commonly asked questions. Below you will find those questions/answers.
Will we ever be able to choose a specific Warzone to queue for? 2y625n
From the plans for the near future to implement this feature.
Have you considered implementing a Huttball League? 16s1b
We have certainly seen a lot of suggestions around the creation of a Huttball League for sure! Implementing a Huttball League has a special place on our Wall of Crazy but it is not in our current roap.
Why is Bolster in Ranked PvP? Why not just require a high level of PvP gear? 2d724c
This is a great question, and one we put a lot of thought into when the decision made to keep Bolster in gear in the game created two important factors:
- The player needed to know that this is how PvP at max level worked.
- The player needed to then get the gear and actually equip it.
Although this may seem like something which is obvious to many of you who are more seasoned and hardcore PvPers, these factors being players can participate in the system.
The best solution for this situation was a systematic approach which puts all players on an even footing when they enter the system. We know that some feel the best solution is to simply make everyone have the same gear progression is a major cornerstone of its long term gameplay. We feel that Bolster takes both of those ideas into and lands as a nice middle ground.
It is very unfortunate that Bolster has experienced issues since its implementation which certainly created pain points for our PvP community. However we will continue to work to ensure that Bolster is working as intended! I think we can all agree that having the first time you PvP be a positive experience will go to great lengths to ensuring that those folks stick around and continue to PvP!
Will you be implementing Cross-server queuing? 18621z
We have no plans at this time to implement cross-server queues.
Will you be introducing rewards in future Seasons to recognize those players who have achieved the highest of ratings? 1500 seems like a low bar for some players.
For starters, we have seen a lot of around this very topic on the forums, please player as we make decisions about future seasons rewards, we have no announced changes planned at this time however.
Will you be bringing back 8v8 Ranked Warzones? 5o3a2z
We have no plans currently of bringing back 8v8 Ranked Warzones.
Are there any plans of expanding open world PvP? 494zi
Currently we have no plans of expanding Rakghoul event.
Are there any plans to address teams having healer hybrids in Arenas fighting against teams without a healer? 6e3v6f
This is a question of how long we want to wait to pop an Arena match when it relates to hybrids. We could, in theory, create restrictions around matchmaking to pair you only against someone extremely similar to your character in both rating and “spec” layout. However if we did that, it would have very serious effects on how long a queue takes to pop. We had to make a decision to err on the side of having more matches pop than simply trying to mirror the teams exactly. The only option to address this would be to tighten restrictions on matchmaking but this will result in greatly increased queue length, which is not favorable.
What about the issue of 3v4 matches in Arenas? 2f242s
This typically occurs This is because by the time we can accurately detect that a player has crashed, and then select a player to backfill in the crashed player’s place, the first round would already be in progress or over. In this case, backfilling would turn a negative situation for 4 players into a negative situation for 5 players, and we are not fond of that idea.
On the plus side, our rating system takes the 3v4 into when awarding rating at the end of the match. The team with 4 will not be rewarded nearly as well for winning as they would if it was a normal match, nor will the team with 3 be punished as severely for losing.
Matchmaking will sometimes place the same Advanced Classes on the same teams. An example would be 4 Powertechs against 4 Assassins. Are there any improvements planned here? 69r5s
This is a great question, we agree that this is certainly less than optimal. Matchmaking should certainly be better about how it assigns classes across each timeline right now on those changes but it is on our radar.
Huge rating gaps between players in any given Arena match…. 1d516w
Typically this issue occurs when there are not a lot of players in the Arena queue, I think it may help to understand a bit about how our matchmaking works. Matches are based around the game as they are both 300 rating from the original character in the queue.
What about players who “sync queue” to specifically play each other, AKA match fixing? 2q4u5o
This is an Season 1 ends, those players will find themselves without any rewards at all.
Do you have any plans to address overpowered Hybrid builds which are present in Arenas? 41645w
Our history of action if something is not falling into line with class balance. We will continue to monitor these builds and adjust as necessary.
Although this may not be a comprehensive list of every PvP question ever asked, I hope that this will do a good job of answering a lot of the core questions PvPers are asking. Thank you all for your continued !
-eric
