Please revert the gamemode to 4-Team Shootout

[craZy_y0 13 / 1,175]

Hi, making this thread regarding a few complaints about the server which was discussed on the Steam Discussions for this game along with a few other opinions that people have brought up since the update that downsized the max slots from 32 to 24.

 

I did message Xy (who I'm now aware doesn't fully manage the FoF servers, k2nod as far as I know does) about this in private messages, as he initially answered on this suggestion thread I posted in the main Fistful of Frags forum, however he did not reply to this and generally said he didn't have time to make any changes to the servers. I am aware that the servers were downsized to 24 players per server, losing 16 total slots in the process but we also noticed that the two GFL servers changed over to a free-for-all gamemode instead of the 4-Team Shootout gamemode which the servers had ran since GFL returned to FoF.

 

I'm not at all sure if the gamemode switch was an intentional change or if this was just done for the sake of resurrecting the servers but I would personally like for the servers to return to the 4-Team Shootout gamemode, much like a couple of others. My reasoning is that Free-for-All Shootout is pretty frantic for 24 players and I personally find 4-Team Shootout more fun for the sake of being able to hold down areas and take ground off of the other teams (a few spots being the bar on Winterlong, the El Paso bank on Fistful and the train on Cripplecreek). Sure Free-for-All Shootout has its own fun and a generally fast paced game but you do also sometimes run into the problem of having people team up with eachother which defeats the object of playing the gamemode since you're basically playing against the rest of the world in this type of gamemode. It can especially be unfair if two very high skilled players team up to get very high scores and it can become a big problem if they get to take control of a strong area which can be hard to contest against.

 

Generally I'm against the gamemode switch for the aforementioned reasons and sure, I've seen people talk about it on the Steam Discussions as said above but also on various Fistful of Frags discord servers. You can also take a look at my original suggestion thread as linked in the second paragraph as it might still be possible to open up a third server and run a variety of gamemodes (Free-for-All, 4-Team Shootout and maybe even Teamplay or Team Elimination?) regarding the slots lost in the June 10th update. Hopefully this can be looked into along with my original suggestion, since that hasn't gotten very far nor have I still really been told anything about my suggestion being accepted or declined, thank you in advance.

[Chitch 3 / 404]

Since there's two servers, one could be ffa, the other 4 team.

[craZy_y0 13 / 1,175]

53 minutes ago, Chitch said:

Since there's two servers, one could be ffa, the other 4 team.

I agree to be fair and I did in fact mention this in the bottom paragraph of the OP.

 

We could possibly have a Free-for-All Shootout server alongside a 4-Team Shootout server. I think it would be super cool if we could also have a third, possibly smaller server using the 16 slots lost from both servers, to make a Teamplay or Team Elimination server (since 8v8 is around as much as you'd want for a fun time casually playing those gamemodes)!

[Kringlez 0 / 7]

I'm totally in favor of at least one of the servers being made a 4 team shootout. I miss being able to play a populated 4 team server where i have good latency.

 

PS. The zombie gamemode is fun. If there's ever another server make it zombie mode.

Edited June 21, 2020 by Kringlez