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27 Jan

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Originally posted by TheMarioManiac

Any chance team rumble could have the grappler back in like how it was in chapter 1?

Generally we don't want rumble to have vaulted items in it, but I wouldn't be surprised if the grappler comes back some day... such a fun item.

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Originally posted by SamdeRamBam

Can it maybe be a bit higher? Health only is a good idea but in TR no one wants to carry healing considering there is a slot for Glider Redeploy (no hate)

That's true, for now...

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Originally posted by [deleted]

Just wondering, if you did add join in progress, we would still be able to join a "fresh" game, right? I think a lot of people, myself included, wouldn't really like to join a game that's already halfway over.

It would work more like COD where the first match you join might be join in progress but if you stay on you will be in fresh matches from there.

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Originally posted by CHL_LoneWolf

Maybe have like a mercy rule so if a match is ending up too lopsided it starts a final countdown?

I think it's more likely that we will add join in progress to the mode to solve this problem. 150 would be a lot more feasible if the lobby remained full.

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Originally posted by TheRedtone

Cool! Thanks for responding (and to the other post....boy I'd love to see the stats!)

FYI circle had a very slight bias towards the middle, I pulled it out for 12.0

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Originally posted by charlieeatsstickers

Dusty, Can you confirm that SBMM is in Rumble? I would just like to hear it officially. All my lobbies are 12 on 12 to start and my wait times are 2-4 minutes. It would just be nice to hear that it isn't a glitch with my account.

@charlie Can you let me know what region you are in and in fact exactly how long your wait times are (time it). One of our programmers would like to investigate, as MAX wait time should be 2 minutes. If you could send us logs, that would be ideal.


26 Jan

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Originally posted by TheRedtone

Being time based doesn't prevent that happening. Lots of sports are time based and still have those dramatic last second moments of drama.

The problem I have when I drop into team rumble is that the good games seem not to last long enough. I understand the issue with the higher kill count (especially on the old map where people could loot quicker and get to circle quicker) that some games would drag (especially the 200 kill games when half the lobby left!!). However the best games are the ones where a bit of individual rivalry builds and the speed that current TR feels as though it finishes in (accepting this is subjective), they rarely have chance to really become as enjoyable as they could.

It’s a fine line either way, but I’ll check the stats and make sure average match length isn’t too short.

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Originally posted by TheRedtone

Also unrelated to this comment (but I really appreciate you getting involved in the discussion on TR)...

Some of the best games I've had in TR (this season) are on the edges of the map where the terrain is more unusual. I really feel the nature of TR lends itself to these places far more than the BR modes. It's also a fun way to getting to play in areas of the map that are far less often visited but are really interesting in their design. Don't know how that gets incorporated into the current spawn mechanism but it's something I'd love to see given a bit of thought.

Thanks for the input, I’ll take a look at the circles tomorrow and make sure they’re not biasing towards the middle at all.

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Originally posted by [deleted]

Since skill based matchmaking is in TR, have you considered adding Siphon back? Getting constantly shot in the back or as you land gets quite annoying and removes a lot of the fun from the mode.

(Making the SBMM a bit more loose in TR, would also be nice. Ever since it was added, TR has become a bit too passive IMO)

We are talking about doing 25 siphon to health only, to give you a little bump per elim. Not sure if it’ll ship yet or not.

MM is much looser than core modes, but I’ll take a look at it.

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Originally posted by TheRedtone

Would TR work better if the end was time based rather than elim based?

Preventing people from being able to continually join, do a challenge, quit and join another game for the weeklies would probably help too.

I think you would lose those cool moments where you got the last kill for the win, or it’s 99-99 and everyone is trying to get the last shot in.

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Originally posted by Slicala

Maybe remove gliders?

Maybe...

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Originally posted by ShaXBangtanPink

Hey devs

Can we have disco domination or food fight in this season??or any kind of large team mode ltm. We totally done playing rumble

Please let me know. Both mode deserve more love

We are working on bringing deep fried to the new map

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Originally posted by abileneamy

Getting good guns is difficult. The care packages don’t have two legendary items like they used to. Maybe take out common rarity guns and beef up the supply drops like they were in days of yore and we won’t loot compulsively in early game?Just a thought😃

We are play testing blue and up right now

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Originally posted by italomartinns

I agree with you but I'd rather have a long game happening a few times, than a quick game happening every time.

we saw that during the couple weeks we ran it at 150

Everyone loved the way it was during those weeks, a few people complained but it was in the end of season 9 when team rumble lobbies ended with sometimes 4 players per team, because people went crazy to get 100 fortbytes and the season challenges, people used to immediately leave the match after doing a couple fortbytes or other challenges, so please take this into consideration.

I’ll look into nudging it up a bit, no promises though 😀

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Originally posted by charlieeatsstickers

Dusty, Can you confirm that SBMM is in Rumble? I would just like to hear it officially. All my lobbies are 12 on 12 to start and my wait times are 2-4 minutes. It would just be nice to hear that it isn't a glitch with my account.

It is


24 Jan

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