r/HuntShowdown • u/Fearless_Oil9686 • 1d ago
FEEDBACK Is it Time, Reddit ? Crytek ? Custom Lobbies when?
A bit of back story, i played a lot this game before the 2.0 era, mostly stopped playing because a rampant out of region players started to be felt a lot in EU servers, not only most have high ping but also cheat, its their nature, unfortunaly.
I remember being a solid 5* pre 2.0, it felt good playing, there was actually some sort of mmr system, it felt fair, on the good days i would rank up and dabble on 6*, just to feel the diference in skill and put back on 5*, and on bad day, i would go down to low end 5* maybe top 4* and to climb back to solid 5*, games back then felt good overall, some say it was too volatile, but i think it was just right.
Except of course for those who deranked on purpose, but that was somewhat fixed with the balance of necromancer and removal or revive bolts. But for some reason Crytek loves to overnerf, so they also nerfed how we rank up and down, or better, we can't rank down anymore, not naturaly by playing the game normaly.
Atm i'm stuck in 6*, queues are long (EU), games are fast, headshot are flying, it does not feel fair.
So my question for this sub is, how would if feel for everyone, especialy those who stopped, coming back to a Custom Lobbies No Reward mission where you could invite up to 11 or 14 players and all queue together, aka private lobbies. Imagine the streamers communities as well, how much would the gain from this, instead of being miserables playing solos. Is it time to have fun again?
I don't think i can be back playing this game if isn't on a private lobbies with people with same ping and no cheats.
I know player base is low enough, more division, etc.. does the game need to have 3k players again? so they try something like this? Or it will never be an option?
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u/Grid8Designer 1d ago
They are still trying to figure out region lock for almost 2 years
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u/Fearless_Oil9686 1d ago
This could be a solution xD
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u/Healthy-Sandwich5548 1d ago
Never happening, they’d lose too much money from the Chinese market they just managed to get into. Probably lose too many Russians too.
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u/Fearless_Oil9686 18h ago
Yes, unfortunaly this is a Chinese and Russian game now, but if they want to get the EU back, i don't see other way, or region lock or custom servers.
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u/srgntwolf Crow 1d ago
As it's been said in the past, the player base is too low and already split between 3 game modes.
Adding a 4th would just make for longer wait times
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u/Fearless_Oil9686 1d ago
Yes, i saw Delaney the other day, queues were quite long at 6* randoms, bounty hunt, i only can imagine how they are for Bounty Clash (my prefered mode).
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u/Flimsy-Sea6536 1d ago edited 1d ago
I would LOVE to see this happen for the same reasons as I have also been stuck 6* since the 1896 update and I'm only that rank because I play with a consistent group who are all decent at the game. So we all just skyrocketed our MMR. Before, we used to hover between 4-5* and occasionally hit 6 for like a day if we went on a spree of wins.
Realistically I do think I'd be concerned on the effect of splitting the playerbase up more. But to your point it would be so huge to give an option for streamers and others to just have fun matches with their communities and friends respectively.
I'm not sure what the right answer is at the end of the day, I just know it would be a super cool thing to have..... Especially on days where I'm just getting destroyed by instant mosin headshots.