Arena or Battle Royale?

[Yhexadai]

Am I the only one disappointed with this whole "battle arena" uproar? I actually got excited when I saw Shadow Arena, but if it keeps the whole B.R. ♥♥♥♥ I can't really stand it.
I didn't find anything about modes, like AoC Apocalypse said they would add...
Is there any hope for me or will it be Battle Royale forever? (or should I say few months?)

[[CM] Petra]

Hey, kaillarkz! Thanks for your comment.
Besides solo and team match modes, there are no other modes that will be available during this beta. We're looking to get a lot of feedback from players during this beta so that we can try to improve and expand on the battle royale genre. But I'll make sure to pass on your feedback about having different modes available in the future to the dev team!

[Ninja Gaijin]

How will the melee combat play for high ping players?? I'm guessing finding server in Australia/Asia would be hard for beta most likely?

[血液月 jack]

I love battle royale, you can get arena pvp in black desert online

[[CM] Petra]

Origineel geplaatst door Ninja Gaijin:

How will the melee combat play for high ping players?? I'm guessing finding server in Australia/Asia would be hard for beta most likely?

We are planning on having an Asia server during this beta :)

[[CM] Petra]

Origineel geplaatst door 血液月 jack:

I love battle royale, you can get arena pvp in black desert online

That's great! We hope you try out Shadow Arena and then let us know what you think.

[KingOfPawns]

Battle Royale is cool, consider a mode that is just a straight tournament ladder of 1v1 or xVx battles culminating in the best solo or teams VS each other with the losers able to spectate... i think battle royale is ok but the constant running for the circle can get boring... a good old arena tourney can be fun too and its not that difficult to add.

[Yhexadai]

I don't REALLY think adding survival elements makes PvP battles close to "best solo/teams", if something it only adds a layer of strategy based on resources. To be fair, it might be fun enough to fool around and mix with "official battles", but tournaments and stuff? Nah, I pass, I'm kinda sick of these "genre festivals" (i.e. autochess, battle royale and TCG).

I really miss experiences like Rakion (RIP servers), Forge (RIP) and the arena of Continent of the Ninth Seal (RIP eternal grind), so far For Honor is the closest right now.
I thought "Shadow Arena" would kick something like this including Black Desert level of gameplay (IIRC BD came from the same developers of C9), however... Well, I hope for the best and maybe they'll add stuff later, but Battle Royale easily makes me look for other titles.

Just to be clear: I'm just venting my frustation on this whole "genre festival" and hoping Shadow Arena won't fall completely to it. If it keeps its path I'll just leave and wish for its success =]
Seems like I should still keep waiting for Siege Mode in AoC:A!

[Yhexadai]

Well, it has been almost a year now and it seems what I posted actually overlapped the whole Battle Royale stuff. I'll check it out asap!