I find myself playing the normal or Auric board a lot recently, despite wanting to play Havoc modifiers.
I wonder if any of you also feel this way regarding time and havoc committments?
My available playtime is very sporadic and random and sometimes I need to cut it short.
Due to the weight of losing and demotion in havoc, I now don’t bother unless I know I have hours of uninterrupted time.
I think this shows yet another example of why the demotion system is a bad idea.
You need a solid hour spare to play a h40 game and I don’t want to risk leaving a team in the lurch with an unfillable team spot or ruining someone’s game unfairly.
There is just too much pressure on rank when all we want to do is play the higher difficulty and modifiers freely.
i said this a few times. it’s nothing for when you have free time now and then, and it makes for an uneasy game where people are more eager to blame each other in case of a loss.
you go from saying you need “hours” of time to saying an H40 game takes 1 hour.
I don’t see how you want to play high difficulty but then leave your team at all, especially when they can’t replace you with the current system. This is meant to filter out unwanted players so I guess it’s just not the mode for you when you’re pressed for time.
So if your daughter wakes up crying from her sleep during your high difficulty game, then you must not leave the game and totally ignore her. Or you get an important work call mid-game? Or *insert any important life event here happens mid-game?
Martigan, I fully agree.
The demotion system combats the leavers and rejoiners pretty well, but man, the price is too steep.
Add to it the atrocious party finder and there you go. I fired up the game few times already to play Havocs with randoms and just gave up on party finder alone. Bear in mind, I have lvl 40 clearance and even put my True Survivor in the name to flex as I’ve noticed that it boosts the acceptance rate tremendously.
So all-in, you have a significant time investment, risk of demotion and picky party finder. The conclusion writes itself.
Seriously, once you reach 40 you should get as the reward the “There is only Havoc” where you can host your own match with own modifiers on the map you like…
I actually feel the opposite. I don’t like a lot of the Havoc modifiers. Blight just feels like someone is forced to bring beacon of purity. Pus hardened just forces me to play melee builds when I may want to play ranged focused builds.
Cranial and moebian 21st are fine.
I would rather see melee enemies only and no ammo, monstrous specials, extra barrels, etc. in Havoc.
Ontop of this, actually getting a Havoc msision started is annoying. Can take up to 10-15 minutes depending on how anal the host is. Hosting yourself is an option, but if you don’t feel like playing the map you have, or if you want the “help others” penance, you’re out of luck.
Just very annoying if you want to just play two or three games and you know you’ll be spending almost half an hour within the partyfinder system. That’s not quality time spent. Other games have lobbies without this issue. DRG is a good example.
That hurts on a Havoc especially when everything is going golden!