So I’ve now used up 2 attempts at hosting a H40 game this week.
I now won’t host a 3rd attempt as I don’t want to be demoted.
Absolutely terrible mechanic.
No wonder there is hardly any matches being hosted.
Why not simply make it that you have infinite attempts but you get demoted if you haven’t completed that level of mission at the end of the weekly timer?
Then we could…y’know, actually play the game.
2 strikes and back to hours of scrolling party finder again. Joy.
depending on that party finder and risking demotion is a terrible mechanic. no wonder people want the “safe” meta builds in their teams and nothing else, plus a high enough havoc level, no matter how much total experience.
i’m motivated not by fun with playing the game at this moment, but by being annoyed by it. i just want to get through and be done with it so i don’t have to use that menu again.
yeah, you de-rank to highest completed previous week. its amazing how they go on for several posts trying to explain things and still fail to deliver actual info
looks like on has to try and get havoc done as long as there are good players left in this party finder, or you’ll end up like with the twins, no one there except the occasional newbie.
I just played someone else’s level 40 game and we smashed it, then we had a go again just for fun, failed, tried again and smashed it again.
It was immense fun. Great team and really gripping gameplay.
That fun gameplay should be more accessible by removing the 3 strike system so more people are willing to host.
As per my suggestion in op. Just give infinite goes without demotion but each weekly timer ending gives demotion depending on the highest tier completed. Simples.
On the topic: I personally don’t care myself, nor I intend to engage with this bullsh…FOMO system which pushes you to play not to lose ranks, or takes them away with some restrictive mechanics where you can continue playing a specific level only with some random guy I played with few days ago.
If we happen to play some Havoc during a specific week, that is fine. If that will result in us losing access to ranks where the “fun” begins we will simply stop engaging with that game mode. We told you multiple times in the past you dont respect our time Fatshark. If you need another Weaves level failure, be my guest. Except few interesting difficulty modifiers the whole system should be scrapped and just allow us to start custom games with custom difficulty modifiers anyone can join unless its a private game. Clearly that is a forgotten technology at this point.
MadMartigan, I don’t know how to say this, but I’ve got demoted twice so far only to spring back with either random or premade team to higher rank.
Demotion doesn’t mean much. Also I think, something is very wrong with rewards.
After demotion from 30 to 29 I’ve got invited to team attempting level 24 Havoc.
Since there was no one doing levels 30-35 at the time I’ve accepted and got Havoc weekly reward unlocked (Which is weird… shouldn’t it be at least 29 level Havoc?).
I’ve tried to ask StrawHat via post in patch #56 topic, but apparently it’s not something she got intel on, or I finally managed to break her with my tizm.
Also, even if demoted only the highest rank is visible above operatives head (should be 29, but it was still showing 30).
I don’t understand how all that’s supposed to work.
I hear ya, it shouldn’t be that important…but it’s quite a lot of effort to get that 40 rank and to have it swiped away after only 3 attempts, mostly due to teammate RNG, makes for some serious resentment.
I feel my suggestion would fix it really easily and improve the vibe of havoc a fair bit.
I completed 2 level 40 missions today on someone else’s hosted game but that was lucky it popped up. I just want to play some level 40 games without fear of getting them taken away (for a week at least!).
If the fear of losing it made me not want to host any more then it must be the same for some others too. Just an unnecessary obstruction.
Would love to sometime soon. My life is so bloody stressful I never actually know when I’ll be playing so it makes organising anything very tricky! Tends to be quite spontaneous when I feel I have the time to
