I’m actually really enjoying comp and the grind to improve but holy hell, nothing makes me want to quit the game more than having to play flashpoint.
Its just an awful gamemode that produces zero high-quality matches. It’s determined by which team happens to stagger less. The spawn time+long walk back (I’ve literally seen the point be 180m away from spawn) is both boring and doesn’t give you enough time to get back to the point. The moving point is unintuitive and leads to many scenarios where half your team is running to the next point and the other half is trying to intercept the enemy team, which obviously just staggers and splits the team up. A lot of the time you get 1 good fight and then can’t get a 2nd fight because someone staggers, or someone gets picked off early before you actually touch point, etc. And because of this the map snowballs extremely hard off of who wins the first mid fight, which isn’t fun to play for the losing team. Most of the points feel clunky and generally not produce good and fun team fights.
My solution is to add map bans to comp, so you can ban maps you’d like to not play. There are currently 26 maps in the ranked map pool, so you could give each player 2 map bans and have zero effect on queue times.
pls pls pls I hate flashpoint so much but otherwise I’m really enjoying the game
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It’s only bad when the team staggers. It’s felt more in this mode it seems. I’ve noticed much less staggering as people learn the mode better though. I just had a good one. Game could have gone either way. 2-3. That game was fun.
They definitely could improve the spawn points,… the mega run back to point is ridiculous.
I agree with the desire to just remove it from comp altogether. I wish it weren’t in there. I hate it when I lose, I hate it when I win. It feels like a mandatory commercial break I have to wait through before getting back to the game I actually came here for.
But if it had to stay, I would like something akin to what the Gears of War games have. Where every ranked match starts with a vote between three randomly picked maps. Everyone casts their votes, and the map choice with the most votes is the one we play. If the community doesn’t like Flashpoint, then it’ll show when no one picks the Flashpoint maps.
id rather it be gone completely in all modes. it should be one of those random arcade modes because it sucks. ive left several flashpoint games as soon as it shows up. they are too big. too many flank routes. no one plays together. we cant heal through walls. it just sucks for anyone who isnt lucio
I agree that it has awful games 90% of the time. but the fault lies with the players. the reality is that it’s impossible with the wide skill disparity currently used in the matchmaker to get players to properly turn and group. they all rush to point even when one or two of their chars have no movement skills…so of course the enemy tank engages and kills them for free.
Tank gap. flashpoint is just an autowin every game if you are the better tank
Kind of hard to imagine they neglected OW1 for over four years, and all we got was these things.
At the expense of all the other maps I didn’t mind playing.
I just leave these games as soon as I’m loaded into them. I’ll gladly take a twenty minute penalty, I can go rub one out and be back in time just as the penalty expires.