Why does no one play wave mode anymore?

I_Sasuke

People only seem to play it when it's the daily mission which sucks because it's a good mode. Why did everyone stop playing it?

Right2Fight

u can find it in uk4-ch10

Danah

It's no longer fun since they decided to hand out free Steyr TMP's.

M1600wner

I personally just find it gimmicky and boring.

But that's merely because I don't want to move out of my FFA comfort zone.

olpers

cuz its the worst mode out there.The noobs are running around the map with steyr temp to destroy and freezes to death.

I dont like this mode.It takes very long time to complete and nobody got time to play this sick mode. The long mad respawn time and the spamming of rocket launchers all the time made the most of the players to leave this mode.

I dont find any appeal in this mode.I wonder what makes you like this mode soo much?

Ixith

more along the lines of what Olpers said.

The spawn times are just flat out insanity. I can practically play an entire 100 kill FFA match in the amount of time it takes to respawn it feels like.
On top of that the matches take FOREVER anyways. So at least the amount of games you have to play when it's a daily mission is low...but dang does it take forever.
Then to go even further it's rare to find a room that is actually 'balanced'. usually good Wave mode players teaming up on nabs which makes joining in on the room a no go cause who wants to join in on the losing side when it's pretty obvious which side the losing side is. And even when balanced option is turned on and you join in you're likely to be put on the already losing side so if you stay you get to play like 20 minutes of a no win scenario.

This mode is spam incarnate and just in general takes way too long. It'd be MUCH MUCH better if spawn times were like cut in half. Or if the maps weren't so lame duck power house through towers and featured some decent design.
And as annoying as the TMP can be. It's just being used as a scapegoat in the case of Wave Mode's Death. Wave Mode was doomed long before the TMP was introduced to this version. It just added additional annoyance to all modes.

tjgfiddij

I_Sasuke wrote: »

People only seem to play it when it's the daily mission which sucks because it's a good mode. Why did everyone stop playing it?

I think because people are scared to face level 30 people with their hobo +10 Golden Balster. And why does no one play Ranked Match (Wave Mode)? Always see that in Ranked, the most popular match is Search And Destroy, which is pretty lame btw. Just don't cry when shock pro's kill you, low Balster noops. Start using other cards then just shooting blaster and then running away and then coming back in 6 seconds and then cry when people use shield because that'/s causes an bug for balster. I never seem to notice that bug for blaster and don't seem to care about that ugly card, I think they should remove that annoying card. Greetings: +10 Shield and +10 Shock!

Werdna88

You need to have a group of friends play it. Pubbing can be ridiculous. I've had fairly even teams end up completely 1 sided as soon as the game starts everyone leaves on the one team and you are now facing 5 level 30s all from the same clan with your level 1 behind you asking for vip kukri.

The mode was a blast when it first came out. I played it pretty heavily for the first month. Now it's so unbalanced it's not enjoyable to pub.

Ixith

so yea this happened earlier. I log in...see a wave mode match in NA and think 'oh hey let's see what it looks like. Maybe I can knock out some of the Wave needed for the October event'. Join the room and see this:



this...is why (well one of the reasons)...nobody plays wave. It's just 'Wave Mode Pros' ganging on nabs.
Now...I COULD have jumped to the nab team and actually joined and played a fruitless match just getting killed and slowly...ever so slowly....watch my teams towers and base get destroyed after like 10+ minutes of lame game play. But where's the fun in that?

I swear when you actually see a wave match...it's like never a legit equal match. It's almost always like this. And I get it...winning is fun...but what's more fun is having equal teams. Honestly think the card level system, the other level system, and the massive amount of gems you can add into your cards was a HUGE mistake on play-ability of the mode. Class Cards are good by themselves but when you make it so a handful of people can so easily out class another group without even needing to have a better strategy in a game mode that, quite frankly, SHOULD have been a strategy based game mode...well...RIP.

That being said...we need a Super Soldier ZM game mode....that could actually be fun. make certain zombies have certain strategies to being killed or weakened to make easier to kill. Like blowing off the armor with a blaster, shocking one, etc etc.

Incentive

Ixith wrote: »

so yea this happened earlier. I log in...see a wave mode match in NA and think 'oh hey let's see what it looks like. Maybe I can knock out some of the Wave needed for the October event'. Join the room and see this:

From what I've seen, that's only one of the reasons. The mode in general takes a long time to complete and in general is very unrewarding. The class card rewards are basically rendered obsolete with the infinite supply of joker cards that you can buy for upgrading. Upgrading cards basically requires stabilizers for a +10 since it's like literally impossible to get it without them, and the gems are blatantly pay to win when the shop offers zp gems for increased damage and damage reduction crystals at double the effects than the gp ones.

Combine that with the obvious team stacking for unfair matches, rpg spam, and loadout combinations like tmp's and auto shotguns with juggernaut just throws the game experience into the dump. It just isn't fun anymore. The tmp's basically helped kill a game mode that was already rarely played.

Simply put, the game mode takes a long time to complete, is unrewarding, and not fun nor balanced well.

[GM]Kanadian

I actually really like Wave mode from the few times I've been able to get a game going.

As mentioned above though, Super Solider ZM would be awesome too.