Replace a round of 3 vs 3 with this.
3 vs 3 is substantially worse than 5 vs 5 and although I have come to terms with 3 vs 3 I think many would like to see its role diminished. I would suggest a new form of GAC with a new map call Big 3. This would replace every other round of 3 vs 3.
The map would have 3 zones all on the front line each allowing for one 5-man squad defense to be set for defense. Similar to ROTE one zone would be dark side, one zone would be neutral and one would be light side. On defense, only dark side characters can be set in the dark side zone and only light side characters can be set in the light side zone. For your attacks it would be flipped, you would have to attack your opponents dark side defense with light side characters. You get unlimited attacks per zone but the defense scores points for each attack they resist.
In each zone the defense would get environmental bonuses to make them more formidable to resist attacks. Proposed bonuses below but CG should toon according to testing.
Dark Side: Each character gains 10% offense, 10% crit damage, and 10% potency for each relic level.
Neutral: Each character gains 10 speed, 10% max protection and 10% offense for each relic level.
Light Side: Each character gains 10% defense, 10% health, and 10% tenacity for each relic level.
Tying the bonuses to relics will reward players for building up relic levels rewarding quality over quantity, something that has been missing since rewards moved out of arena. 3 vs 3 Omnis could proc an environmental bonus instead of their typical functionality if they need balancing but honestly you could probably just let them apply to all 5 toons without any repercussions. You could incorporate ships as a back zone but honestly people probably would miss ships. This would represent a return back to what arena used to be where having the best squad was important not having the best squads, while acknowledging the game has progressed and you would need multiple defenses with buffs to make the game mode more enjoyable.
The map would have 3 zones all on the front line each allowing for one 5-man squad defense to be set for defense. Similar to ROTE one zone would be dark side, one zone would be neutral and one would be light side. On defense, only dark side characters can be set in the dark side zone and only light side characters can be set in the light side zone. For your attacks it would be flipped, you would have to attack your opponents dark side defense with light side characters. You get unlimited attacks per zone but the defense scores points for each attack they resist.
In each zone the defense would get environmental bonuses to make them more formidable to resist attacks. Proposed bonuses below but CG should toon according to testing.
Dark Side: Each character gains 10% offense, 10% crit damage, and 10% potency for each relic level.
Neutral: Each character gains 10 speed, 10% max protection and 10% offense for each relic level.
Light Side: Each character gains 10% defense, 10% health, and 10% tenacity for each relic level.
Tying the bonuses to relics will reward players for building up relic levels rewarding quality over quantity, something that has been missing since rewards moved out of arena. 3 vs 3 Omnis could proc an environmental bonus instead of their typical functionality if they need balancing but honestly you could probably just let them apply to all 5 toons without any repercussions. You could incorporate ships as a back zone but honestly people probably would miss ships. This would represent a return back to what arena used to be where having the best squad was important not having the best squads, while acknowledging the game has progressed and you would need multiple defenses with buffs to make the game mode more enjoyable.
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15 battles that often hit staring matches where you have to wait out the full five minutes and then fleet after just doesn’t appeal to me. I’d rather play the squads the size they originally intended them to be.
For now I'm content to see 3v3 as my 'off season' and only engage with it when I'm exceptionally bored. To my opponents last round that scouted me and expected I wouldn't do anything in 3v3... I'm as surprised as you are.
Yeah I guess some of these suggestions could just be overlayed the current maps as well.
I think those that like 3 vs 3 just have Stockholm syndrome with CG at this point and if they rolled this out they would defend it as a good choice but if somebody that is not CG suggests it they would just defend CG’s current decisions. To me 3 vs 3 was never intended to be a thing and in order to make it function properly it would take years of introducing new characters and rebalancing things.
Nope
Please dont speak for me or others
https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/13cf82d/thoughts_on_3v3_gac/
Let’s start from some data about 82% of users prefer 5 vs 5.
Maybe meathead should do a poll to see if doing 3v3 every third GAC would improve the GAC mood?
You could also interpret it as more don’t mind it / like it (68.7%) than hate it (31%). So it’s a minority opinion to want it removed.
18.7% like it
31% hate it
50% prefer 5v5 but don’t mind it
Preferring 5v5 does not mean it should be removed necessarily. I may prefer 5v5 as it’s easier, I can play on autopilot. But I enjoy a switch up and 3v3 challenges me to learn kits more than 5v5.
I would like to see more consideration for squads in 3v3 during development / datacrons though but it’s understandable that 5v5 is more dominant in the game with other modes in consideration.
I also know some players who really dislike it have not meaningfully engaged with it hoping it will go away. I don’t think this is a good idea as they likely have a worse experience because thier rosters still adapt to it poorly. That is a personal choice, with small tweaks it can be very fun.
Does he have to explicitly qualify every opinion? OP avoided words like "we" and "everyone". He even used "many" instead of "most". Methinks you are being a bit hypersensitive here.
The 2nd reply is an equally qualified opinion. Should you not also jump on them for trying to speak for you or others?
OP's Stockholm Syndrome comment is an example of him speaking for you and others, though.
Citing reddit as a source of data? Ha!
This thread seems to show the inverse of the reddit data.
That said, while I don't think the idea of 1-team defense is a great one, I sort of like the idea of classifying a zone by faction.
Would be interesting to see a zone that didn't have Jabba, LV, JMK, & Rey all forming a wall of GLs.
It might also be interesting to "blend" the teams instead of rotating the event, so something like 5v5 in the front & 3v3 in the back zone which is faction mixed.
Actually the more I think about it........
4 Zones:
LS 5v5
DS 5v5
Mixed 3v3
Fleet
And then "Randomize" the placement for each GAC.
LS & Fleet up front one time... DS & 3v3 as a top back/front another, etc etc.
Not sure how much the coding would need to change to account for the Blend & the Rotation, but, it would make things more interesting each month IMO.
There are a million places in the game you can do 5v5 fights, leave our one 3v3 mode alone.
This would actually be another fun shake up.
After, i dunno, 2 weeks the loser would be excluded for a year of GAC.
Let the people decide and then suffer the consequences of democracy in action.
Yeah, make a purge of all the people who think different than the majority. That is the perfect definition of democracy, right?
Or just let people pick each round if they personally want to do 5 vs 5 or 3 vs 3. I would honestly never play a round of 3 vs 3 again.
Lose the 9 rounds and then play and enjoy the 5v5 vs easier opponents 😁
Do sandbag 🍻
This has gotta be trolling. There’s no way.
You already get to choose if you do it or not, no different than choosing to do fleet arena, TB, or TW. Time to accept that GAC is a game mode that will always include 3v3 and 5v5.