Eliminate Naval Arcade to Improve Queue Times

Machinery of War Discussion Navy
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I would so love to embrace Naval but extreme queue times make it impossible - especially in Coastal. Seeing as there’s really no need for both Arcade and Realistic modes in Naval (the differences are negligible compared to Air and Ground, and I doubt Naval would lose it’s existing players over a mode consolidation,) one mode should be eliminated, with a fusing of the current mechanics - perhaps Realistic motion/damage mechanics with the prior Arcade aiming mechanic.

Or, how about letting us queue for both modes simultaneously and joining whichever pops first, like every other PVP game I’ve played? Are their servers not able to do that?

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If they bring those damn cursed Arcade aiming system to naval RB
I will just stop playing Naval then.

But agrees that both mode has the laziest waiting time when queueing.

Edit: Ah, I misread the article.
Eh, then did ‘old-arcade’ aim and ‘current-realistic’ aim have a large differnce?

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There is no problem in queue times in NAB right now, just enable all servers for queue.

That will kill interest for both types of players.

What difference in Realistic and Arcade damage where it written?

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My queue times are very long. And I don’t care about the specific mechanics, per se, just merging the modes to cut the redundancy and improve queue times and, therefore, player participation, which is very low - especially Coastal.

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Do you enabled all servers for queue? And what time queue do you feel acceptable?

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Yeah I have, and anything over 5 minutes and I get antsy. The problem is there’s nothing to do during that time but stare at a grayed out screen with a big gray box that gives completely meaningless player queue counts that bounce up and down with no indication of when I might actually join a match. And what’s the gray screen all about? I can’t even admire my vehicle in it’s hangar during that time, let alone take test drives while I’m waiting? Every other PVP game I’ve played, big and small, let’s you queue for multiple matches at once and has some bare thing to do while waiting. But here, it’s just a boring grayed out screen. Mystifying.

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Do you have join in progress enabled?

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No b/c I play mostly Air where that’s not useful and to have to keep remembering to switch that setting back and forth every time I want to play Naval is a pain in the neck not worth remembering. I tried it and kept finding myself in Air matches that had largely ended.

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Enable it and your problem will go, there were improvements in JIP for naval couple of month ago.

Ask for butchering 2 modes for you comfort is not the best choice, when you can tweak it by game options.

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It’s not for my comfort, it’s b/c Naval has a minuscule player base and bifurcating it into two modes with little difference between the two does it no favors.

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There is not so small difference in modes and that why they liked, you propose butcher them both. In NAB after patch is ± enough players on all BRs if you enable all options.