Ok… wait time is estimated as short. Gearbox, you do realize short doesnt mean long right?
There is so much waiting in game. Character selection, map voting, the beginning of each map, increasing spawn times… Can we cut some of it out? Maybe get rid of map voting for quickmatch?
I dunno… I just feel like I’m waiting too long to play.
Is this a joke?
If you don’t want any waiting time - just don’t play multiplayer games. You can’t speed up the necessary things.
How I feel on the issues at hand:
Character selection: Needed, I want to be able to pick my character based on my team’s choices not picking a character then enter matchmaking if that is the suggestion you want to make for getting rid of the character selection screen.
Map voting: Prefer to keep
Beginning of map: can you explain the wait time here, do you mean when nova is explaining the mode? I still think that is needed I see some terrible lvl 100s that could stand to listen to this.
Increasing spawn times: A basic moba element used to prevent snowballing and should stay, if I am several levels ahead of the enemy team and die their reward should be “Time to catch up” since having a level advantage includes increased damage, health, stronger abilities because I have more helix choices unlocked.
I think it’s been mentioned before that the ‘estimated wait time’ given is for getting a server. Not for getting a group/game. Not exactly intuitive, but there ya go.
Well thats just weird.
I don’t wan to get rid of the character selection, just cut it down a bit. It feels like I’m sitting there forever.
Map voting doesn’t need to be there. Voting really only promotes players to pick one or two maps over and over again rather than experience all of them. It isn’t necessary. Its nice, I guess, but doesn’t actually do much for the experience.
At the beginning of the match- yes, when nova is giving her silly explanation. It isn’t bad in itself, but combined with the rest of the waiting its onerous.
Increased spawn times: yes I’m aware its a moba. But its still another instance of waiting to play the game. When we look at ALL the design choices that have gone into this game there is a lot of waiting- and that didn’t need to be the case.
In regards to the beginning of the map dead time I kinda like that period. I usually use shard gens so the minor boost in shards is kinda cool. But what I do like the most about the down time is I use it to cleanse my pallet(take the time to adjust to a characters skills from a prior character I just played) get some stretching time in(practice landing some pillars, practice shield less Rail shots, etc) and to indicate particularly important level 1 skill choices(you see that geyser? See how it heals you? See how it’s not riptide healing you? Maybe try standing next to em and not run away going "what a terrible geyser placement… That won’t hit anyone on the enemy team… Noob…)