[thexpl0r3r]

Based on the feedback received so far Holodeck has created this poll to see if our community is interested in seeing some additional games supported by Holodeck and your vote and\or feedback will be highly appreciated. We will keep this poll open till the end of the month and based on its results we will explore options for supporting any of the listed games.

Links to the suggested games:

Unreal Tournament
Heroes of the Storm
World of Tanks
World of Warships
World of Warplanes
Warthunder
Civilization VI
Rocket League
Marvel Heroes
Neverwinter
Warframe

Note: This is a public poll.

[Minnow Raydor]

Being a long time World of Warships player I would like to offer some input on that topic not sure if this will apply to all wargaming products but for ships it does to some extent.

The issues I see is that you have many servers be it North America or EU to even Asia servers the broadscope of our player base might find it hard to join in with people that some what brings up another issue you can only team up with three people so your event is basically three man teams or trying dropping syncing that does not always work out. The server issue again if your the event host and your a EU player and you get NA players that show up but not enough for them to really join in how would you go about making that a stable event for a division.

I learned long ago that UFP was such a larger community with players all over the world but I noticed that we did not have enough people showing any interest in that game so I joined a dedicated clan for the NA side and with many people doing there own thing or teaming in threes it works *if you have lots of people so that all can share in with the fun to some extent.

The game itself has become very unbalanced as of this past year match making is all different compared to what some older players might recall T6s now get in matchs with the big scary T9 Iowas that being the example I will use but its like that in some other Tiers as well you are very much outmatched. This is a free to play game and they want the cash from you they made that point very clear in two areas I can recall with the over charged store ships of up to £50+ to the so called Goldilocks zone of T1 to T5 being the "protected tier" its there way of pulling you in and you enjoying there product but after you go past T5 they dont care if your outmatched they have hocked or your cash.

Players will be at all sorts of levels I just dont see this being something holdeck can run on a semi permanent basis, as for the solo players that might be thinking of playing I advise you to be in a team and have teamspeak dont rely on your match making generated team players will do there own thing and not care about looking out for you or doing whats needed to win. Lets not even go into the topic of battleships sitting at range sniping away not pushing with the group or destroyers that will not scout for there team to even that latest strike WG has done to piss players of adding AP Bombs to the CVS now battleships are even more scared to push up because this unbalances the game all that Armour is on the side of the ship not the deck so bamm your dead the CV just citadel'd the hell out of your but and there was nothing you could do be it skill or your team was not covering you.

The list goes on and this was more than what should have been typed but just wanted to give a large picture of some issues.

[JarekCyphus]

I STRONGLY support War Thunder, but mostly due to the fact that I'm a huge fan of vintage flight and have a slew of friends with whom I regularly play WT already. Having more would be that much more awesome

[thexpl0r3r]

Thanks for the feedback Minnow!

[Adster94]

Whilst Minnow does raise some good points about World of Warships, I personally disagree. Generally the game itself is ok, the only reason the occasional T6 may be pulled upwards is because of not enough players in the higher brackets - although I have never gone against T9 in a T6, and my T6 Warspite is my most played ship. However, I don't disagree with their matchmaking, as a game design decision they have to allow all their players to play - if there is only 2 T9 players online at the time, and the rest are T6, it will put them together so everyone can play, that's the element that none of the players appreciate when they complain about matchmaking (it is designed to get people playing together in a balanced environment, if there is a high tier in the game, the other side will have one too).

There are some issues with the game, like with any other, but I don't think it is as broken as suggested, the key issue is lack of team work, but with some friends to play with I think it is a very viable option. However, Minnow has raised some points, that are a good highlight of some issues, but none that are game breaking in my opinion.

I have recently been playing it with Jonathan and Sammy, which has led to some good times on there - with the occasional unexplained one hit kill deaths, but sadly that is part of what cruisers are like. Which leads me to the main issue in my eyes - having enough people on the same server as some EU players go over to the NA server as opposed to the EU one, or even vice versa so not sure really which server is most popular. But I know there are several UFP players on the EU server.

I have cast my vote for World of Warships as I love the game, and would love some company on the EU server - that is if people are going to be on the EU server anyway.

[Mack]

Neverwinter, Warframe and Marvel Heroes has a good guild system, which if UFP gains a core group of members to play and learn the game mechanics with - I'm sure we'd be able to be one of the best in!

Its been a while I've touched those games however I do have some progress in those games and will be willing to download them should UFP members consider involvement in the above and contribute with any assistance required!

[Petrarch]

Heroes of the Storm is a fun little game. I've not had a chance to play it recently, but it's a good little blast and matches tend to be over in about half an hour and don't drag on for hours.

My only real complaint about the game is that life is difficult for the melee characters, the ranged toons have a much easier time of things. Or perhaps I'm just rubbish at it

[Bedders]

World of Warships/Tanks both only support 3 people grouping together, but in previous clans for these games in the past we've simply split people up as evenly as possible (e.g. 4 people, two platoons of 2, or for 7 people, one of 3 and two of 2) then done a countdown and everyone pressed 'Battle' at the same time. Often can result in different matches on World of Tanks due to the large number of players, but I imagine on World of Warships that will be less of an issue. Also there's no guarantee of being on the same side which can be fun

I'm up for supporting whatever the community votes for, and will be happy to run events for any of the free-to-play games or ones that I already have.

Going to raise the point of Civilisation - games can last for hours, and getting a decent number of players together for that length of time is always tricky!

[Caymen Greener]

What about web-based games, such as Elvenar (there are MANY like this, but I like this one because it is not combat-focused). The downside is there may not be enough people playing each web game, but perhaps a few could be picked out and guilds/clans/fellowships could be created?

[Silynn]

Though I do not know how the server situation will be, something that one has to be keenly aware of in this community (i.e. EU and NA), I'd like to see:

Chronicles of Elyria - MMO Open World. Game entry is Buy-to-Play/No sub.
ForteNite - Build/Defense Co-Op play. Game entry is Buy-to-Play/No Sub.
Ghost Recon Wildlands - Co-Op FPS. Game entry is Buy-to-Play/No Sub.

I would also suggest Archeage or Black Desert, but I know that the servers will be very divisive (i.e. that servers are somewhat railroaded based on your geographic locale, EU or NA).

[War_Adm1ral]

I guess I could comment on the Games I voted for.

1. Unreal Tournament - UT was perhaps the first PC game that got me to where I am today. Starting with UT 99 I've played nearly every Unreal Tournament game that was released. Even though the likely hood would be support for UT Online I strongly suggest looking at partially supporting or running events on older games provided the infrastructure supports it. My understanding is that this game should be easily doable.
2. Heroes of the Storm - I only recently started playing this a little a couple of months ago. I only briefly played LoL and I never caught on to it. Since I'm a big blizzard fan I enjoy the implementation of this game better. This game is more than a viable option for another section.
3. World of Warship - Perhaps my favorite of the Wargaming Games I do have to agree with the points mentioned that may make running a section for this game challenging. Natively there is only really support for limited group play. While my understanding is that there was supposed to or is to be support for clan infrastructure. This is probably going to be a game that will be difficult to support a section I do believe with its similarities of star trek (naval/space) warfare it could be a good fit.
4. World of Warplanes - I'm quite surprised that I never did wind up playing this game but I would be willing to try if it goes somewhere here.
5. World of Tanks - Tank was something I know my father played a lot and kind of got me interested in. However it seems to be the world longest grind to get to top tier. This game requires a different bit of skill and patience than I willing to give most of the time. I prefer world of warships game play to this.