1.) Before the Match starts / while loading it shows you a dynamic Video / Overview of the Battlefield while an General / Narrator makes a brief motivation Speech depending on the Nation you play (and if we were to ever get more historical-themed Battles in GRB/AB maybe also something about the Enemy) before it then zooms into your selected Vehicle and the Match starts.
For example, a Match on Berlin with Germany vs USSR - depending on which Side you are playing the General tells you to finally end this War or to hold back the ‘Red Horde’ while it shows you Footage of the Battlefield with Guns/Artillery Sounds and Explosions going on, then it moves to your selected Spawnarea and zooms into your Vehicle and Match starts.
In Matches like we have now with random Nations mashed together against random Nations on random Maps there could just be a default General / Voiceline for each Nation.
This would make it much more immersive and enjoyable with basically a Story to every Battle.
2.) Maps should be BR-locked depending on their Era, Berlin should only be playable up until 6.7BR, Sun City should only be playable at 8BR and above.
3.) After a Match has ended the Players of the Match get shown four random Maps with random Gamemodes (Domination, Battle, Conquest…) and all can vote on the next Map to be played. People are of course free to leave after a Match has ended and the now open Spots can just be filled by people who are in queue as long as the Vote goes on, Match loads - or have an indicator like ‘Waiting for Players 27 / 32’ and just wait until its full, not much different than from being in queue.
3.1) There could also be increased Rewards for people the larger their Match-streak, for example if i stay after every Match it would be neat to get maybe +25% after three Matches, 50% after six, 100% after nine and so on. This would be an huge incentive for Players to continue playing and stay in the individual Matches as well (as leaving would reset the Streak to 0)
What do you all think about this? I think it would drastically improve the Gameplay experience, immersion, replayability and more people would play longer.
Funny thing… we used to have historical battles… and they were a trainwreck lol. Hence we no longer have them.
Past that, nobody would care about a video at the start or anything except maybe some new people to help learn map layouts. After rank 3… everyone pretty much has their known paths they take (although would be neat for World War mode or something).
Map voting wouldnt work because we can already ban a map from our rotation… would cause conflicts. Plus some maps already are BR locked, but not by historical accuracy. Some maps cant see above X BR, others cant be seen below Y BR, etc.
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I don’t mean historical Battles as in only Tanks who faced each other IRL being allowed into them.
About who can face what i wouldn’t change a thing; what i mean is that within the random Map-Pool when you queue in as say Germany theres a Chance you get put into a Germany vs USSR Match on Berlin (or any other WW2 Eastern Front Map) but its still random and you can still get random Allies/Enemies/Maps.
The Video also isn’t just about showing the Map but to give immersion and a little Story, this is being done in many MP Games and very positively viewed by Players. I couldn’t even imagine those w/o it but when i do its just blank…just like it is here as of now which i hope they change.
The Map Voting would work because it can just ignore the Ban after the first initial Match you got queued into. The Chance of your banned Map appearing among the four random ones and then being voted to be played is extremely low and if it does you can still choose to leave, its infinitely better than what we have now. Many other MP Games let you directly select the Map/Server you want to join in but im not sure whether that would work here with the BR System.
And yes of that i am aware…wouldn’t be historically accurate to have 2BR fight on Berlin but i mean to lock them behind BR-Era not just by BR or not at all - so you can get Berlin from 1 to 6.7BR, Sun City 8BR upwards.
As of now queueing into a Match with a 6.0 German Line Up to get a Match on Sun City is far from enjoyable but i actually do not dislike the Sun City Map but theres no feel at all to it when im fielding a WW2 Line Up.
And that right there is how you get strung up on the poland map while being tarred and feathered…
lets say 24 players in a match, the odds are not small that someone’s banned map would pop up. Suggesting overriding it? Yeah… Gaijin isnt known for intelligence, but they arent that dumb to piss on their players quite that blatently. Still an absolutely horrendous idea. So far as the rest of your idea… we dont have nearly enough maps to even justify the idea of limiting modern vehicles to ‘modern’ maps. Wouldnt work from the start. If you get a map you dont enjoy, take the crew lock and better luck next RNG map roll like everyone else.
The novelty would wear off pretty quick and most people would just skip it after the first few times.
Nah, its fun playing on a variety of maps even if they don’t all “thematically” fit the vehicles. Only restrictions should be in playability, they lock Frozen Pass from high tier for that reason.