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If I get one more DM about Skulltown...
If I get one more DM about Skulltown...
Can we have something definitive said on whether or not it's staying as an arena map or if it's only for the event? Devstream led me to believe the latter and it'd be good to have some clarification on that.
Sorry! Skulltown in Arenas will only be available for the duration of the Collection Event. Once the event is done, it’s gone. It can always comeback later. :)
Ouch, that hurts to hear. Any insight into why it’s only coming back for a limited time? I can imagine you guys would like to have Arena mode focused more on the specially-designed Arena maps and only have the BR locations added for now to give a bit of extra variety until more maps are made, but I’d also think Skull Town might have been the exception considering it’s such a fan favorite.
Yea, it sucks but it’s a slight tech limitation. Currently, all BR Arena locations are using the full BR map to run. You might notice that they take the longest to load when matchmaking. This saved a ton a dev time during production of Arenas. To keep Skulltown, we’d have to find a way to separate it from OG Kings Canyon, which is also a limited time map. This requires other departments to get involved (Art, QA...etc) and they’re pretty busy on future content. So we made the call to keep it limited.
Hope that explanation helps a bit. Wish I could go into more detail, but... you know... dev secrets and stuff.