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Is it safe to say the RGM needs some work?

Skorch··20 votes·1,750 views

At the start they were rotating game modes every weekend, but then realized that they wanted some to be rarer, and some to be mainly on the holidays (Too much poro king >.>) So by the end we have maybe 2 or 3 game modes ACTUALLY rotating, now we just had Poro King for Winter, then Blood moon, then Urf. So now we are getting back into Ascension -> One for All -> Hexakill, with Nexus Siege and Definetly Not Dominion every once and awhile. With some gamemodes repeating. And there is talk about Nemesis Draft not returning

Now we have quite a bit of game modes now so i dont think we need more. But one person said we should have Mutators.

What this means is that We have a gamemode selected, then when it goes live (while someone said it would be random every game i dont think it would be a good idea) a random mutator would be selected for that weekend.

So how im thinking is we have:

Normal Weekends: Ascension Definetly Not Dominion Nexus Siege One For All URF and the long awaited BMB if they get around to it. Rarely Holiday Game modes but they are rare.

Holiday weekends: Always 2 weekends in a row, never more. Or 1 week maybe. Holloween Doombots Winter Poro King Early January Blood Moon (This made me realize all the interesting game modes are at the start of the year so i will make one more up) We should have a Pool Party gamemode, no clue how it would work but we should.)

Mutators: Normal 40% All Random 20% Nemesis 20% Hexakill 20% If you want Hexakill to be a normal game mode then make the others 50-25-25 One for All would be a hilarious mutator I definitely think normal games should have i higher chance than the others.

When you log on for the first time in that week a flashy animation could play that is like a hextech wheel showing up and then spinning for the mutator. (I mean it would be the same for everyone so the wheel wouldnt technically be random) Itd be a cool little animation.

I think this way RGM would be much less bland and more diverse than it is now. For being Random it is kind of stale.

15 Comments

FilDaFunk5 votes

Can we actually have them rotate? 3 consecutive weekends shouldn't be the same game mode.

Erockandroll3 votes

ya know, I've been suggesting Nemesis Ultra Rapid Fire (NURF mode) as a solution to dealing with the unbalanced teamcomps that came up in ARURF, while not having to deal with rebalancing every champion in classic URF.

I'm not sure about Brawlers, but the Black market itself can be a mutator. All you need is a bunch of Rioters to code out their half baked ideas for new items, And some of those items might even become legit. (like it was with Dead Man's plate)

Also, I wonder what happened to that Poro king portal party, that was on the PBE not too long ago? I was under the impression that it would be the next game mode because of it's testing on the PBE, but we got Ascension instead.

Skorch3 votes

We need to go deeper, Nemesis, One for All, Hexakill, URF.

Cheekynorth2 votes

Hexa NURF for All

Skorch2 votes

And its Howling Abyss, (I wonder if maps should be random, probably not as that would cause MANY Issues) One team got hiemer, one team got illaoi. Both teams got crashed computers.

bill841 votes

Aatrox vsTahmKench

Skorch1 votes

Oh god

GigaPube3 votes

whys it so hard for riot to comprehend. RGM, 1 weekend, the mode is played, then comes back in 1-2 months. WHYYYYYYYY run it 2 weeks in a row only for it to come back DOUBLE/TWICE/TWO TIMES LONGER than if it were only run for 1 week. if you like the mode, you play it, then play it again in a shorter wait time. if you hate the mode, you only wait until after that weekend to play a new one. do i have to jeff kaplan rant for me to get onto the team and influence you'se to pull your head out your ass?

Cowseed1 votes

Why no more nemesis draft? People can't handle losing to champs they thought were laughable?

Skorch1 votes

I think it was just WAY less played than all others.

Although i will say our team DESTROYING theirs with all utility supports was hilarious. They never realized Soraka Sona Nami Janna and [Any Tank Support] Is a scary amount of sustain and CC

Sexy Jack Rabbit1 votes

It's a very stale game-mode that gets old fast. It's the same repeated champions over and over and a lot of people don't know how to have fun with it. (Think why old URF never came back, but the opposite reason). It was by far the least played game-mode we had seen in the RGMQ.

It needs some serious changes in order to come back and be viable.

Jeddy0171 votes

I just want them to last throughout the whole week rather than just the weekend.

ModCaptainMårvelous1 votes

The problem is the quality of the RGM vs. stuff like OW, using that as the example.

If you look at OW's brawls (NOT the random game modes), they have:

Total Mayhem (which is basically URF) MOBAWATCH which is now the standard QP mode. All of one class x4 (offense, defense, etc. ) All of one gender x2 All of one-to-three characters. (McCree only. Snipers only. Etc.)

And that's about it for normal modes, all of which play the exact same as normal maps sans some slightly edited rules. The holiday ones have a bit more variant and are WAY better (Mei Snowball, CTF which is now a main mode, Lucio ball, etc.) but they're way more spaced out.

League, by comparison, pretty drastically alters the standard play with each map. You have:

Ascension, a 5v5 Deathmatch on a unique map. Poro King, a fairly standard ARAM but now with snacks or some shit (also boring) URF, which is URF. DND, which is dominion. And hexakill, which is 3v3 map but 6v6.

Sure, there are less modes, but those modes are often a little more different than the other maps in Overwatch, also the occasional holiday mode which varies things up even more. That's not to say that Riot shouldn't have more (I'd love to see some more experimentation like a mode where several supports have to escort one character to the other side of the map), but in general their game modes are higher quality and do more variation. Please note: Higher quality =/= more fun. Ascension should be a perma mode though. Fuckin' love that mode.

SiG DxD1 votes

poro king sux

Skorch1 votes

i mean personally i dont like it either.

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