How about replacing Battle Royale with a no diplo FFA conquest mode

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@NoraLoralei

@WoodsierCorn696 I only ever saw Empire Wars as something, lemme use this weird term, twitchy gameplay, where it was tried to condense the entire essence of AoE2 in the shortest amount of time for a match round.
Never really clicked with me, I may also be confusing it with death match as well, that also never clicked with me.
What’s CBA standing for? I saw Battle Royale more as a ‘joke mode’ as every game left right and center was making a Battle Royale version for it’s series.

EW is kind of in between RM and DM. You still have to go through most ages (except dark age), but the action can start instantly. Unlike DM you still have to research all the techs and you have much more limited resources at the start.

A common complain about RM is that it is currently too defensive. Walling kills almost all feudal aggression. In EW you can instantly start your feudal rush, so the enemy dont have the time to wall up. So the main benefit of EW is that the action starts much more quickly. This might also benefits the pros for becoming a real esport game. That is mainly the reason why Redbull decised to go for EW tournaments. For non AOE II DE players, the dark age seems like a boring part of the game without the real action. By just skipping this part it might attrack more people. Also the pros seems to really play well in redbull tournaments. All together i really thing there will be demand for a EW ranking.

I also see BR as a joke mode. I think i once have said it is a great mode to play with friends if you are drunk. I also dont think BR needs to be taken that seriously. But in quick play it completely fails, since quick play fails. People that have played the game mode many times just play against people that just play there first game and have no idea what to do. These games arent balanced at all.

CBA is already explained by FinalBucket3743. It is just some other kind of scenario in which you have to fight in the centre. It wasnt my cup of tea, but other liked this game mode.

@NoraLoralei

The main reason I suggested or came to the idea for it was an older T90 video where he talked about how some people play 8 hour long games on FFA diplo or how Blue Coffee got a pretty high rating on voobly only from playing FFA, and I was thinking that there does seem to be a community being super into it, but haven’t had a reason to join DE yet.

I never claim there are no games, but i do think this community is too small to have an own queue. Not sure if these still play at voobly for some reason.

@NoraLoralei

It’s still featuring a hidden elo system

I have seen some players claim this, but i havent seen any evidence for this claim. For that reason my point of view is that it doesnt use any elo system, until someone can give me the proof.

How to make Quick Play useful?

I really dont understand why the devs add quick play to the game. In the patch notes this new mode is describe as follow: It’s also now easier than ever to jump in and play Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition with Quick Play! This feature allows players to set a game type and map preferences, then effortlessly matchmake with others in the Random Map, Empire Wars, and Battle Royale game modes. Quick play is meant to be a more easy way to get into a game compared to existing ways to jump i…

In this thread i have had the same discussion about elo and quick play as well. Until now no one has given me any kind of proof to support their claim of an hiddenn elo system.