u/McTaterskins

If a chief concern is how to "balance" the map for Duos when it's made for Solo or Trios, it's simple: Don't.

Just make Duo's use the trios map balancing. When I tested with cross play off, it may have taken longer, but I was solo'ing trios bosses. It's not that big of a deal. (was GREAT loot btw lol)

That way, if we want duos, it's our own choice. "Note: PvE may be harder" or something like that.

I understand the splitting queues argument, but how much is actually being split if you factor the amount of people that just log off because their third isn't on right now and they don't want to 2v3vX because using party fill generally blows due to lack of coordination or comms.

I'm torn. I've always liked tanking, but then I spent a lot of time as hybrids in mmorpg's with PvP and souls/invasion stuff. (Tanking has always been my favorite PvE role though.)

I'm looking forward to Seer, but it looks like Mercenary might be pretty awesome on its own and I haven't seen the Withered Knight yet.

Shadowstrix does* look a bit like ESO Nightblade action prior to whatever tf that game is now. I really used to enjoy that gameplay as well.

Lets goooooooooo!

**Mistfall Hunter Open Beta Announcement**

Greetings, Gyldhunters!

We have kept you waiting too long.

**Mistfall Hunter Open Beta is about to begin on Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation, the servers open June 14 at 6:00 PM PT. **

We have prepared new content and events that will be live from day one, ready for you to dig into.

Push your limits and see what the mist has been hiding. We can't wait to hunt alongside you.

Thank you for waiting. It means everything.

https://discord.com/channels/1274982556743499877/1274984771289612310/1509457842137206835

I'll be coming in fresh off of Arc Raiders. I'm not a shooter fan, but Arc is 3rd person and plays well, to be completely honest.

Before that, it was New World. Played heavily after console release.

Before that Throne and Liberty and a long stint on ESO (pre-U35's downhill slope of the game and it's continued change pushing for thumb removal.) - obviously play throughs of the souls/souls-like games are in the mix as well.

All throughout it though, for the last few years, I've been playing a lot of Naraka: Bladepoint. (melee martial arts BR) as well.

I'm 'old' though. I remember the days of holding zonelines against other guilds and fighting over bosses on EQ1. (Live Service/online: EQ/DAoC > WoW > WAR > WoW > 10yr break from gaming > ESO (covid) > New World > Naraka (simultaneously thru now) > Throne and Liberty > New World > Arc Raiders)

I miss the melee brawling and strategy. I miss the 'D&D'-esque sword and sorcery. But I love PvP. I love fighting others that have honed their builds, etc. - I miss farming to put a theorycrafted build together and seeing how it pans out. - Many things.

I think Mistfall is one of the few upcoming games that might bring that back for me.

Update Edit: Confirmed by beta players on Discord. You don't have to fill your party.

Is there a 'no-fill' option when it's just you and your duo? Or does it force you to take in a third?

(No. I'm not asking for a separate queue. I'm not asking for duo's queue. I'm saying - it would be the default 3's queue, but is there, or can they implement, a 'no party fill' button/setting?)

Was this a thing? If so, how was it? Improved? Fun? I thought I saw somewhere there was a closed test, with an open test in June, and a release on all platforms in July?

Is this still the case? Especially with all platforms? (Console needs this game. Badly.)