War 2.0 Events

I feel like if you introduce something like this, the people that test it will get bored of it easily when it's finally released. I personally think that it would ruin any excitement some people have, and it'd just be like another old gamemode when it's finally released.

 

War 2.0 will be a lot more customizable too, so having events such as kill the VIP, staff vs players, clan battles, etc, I think this would be pretty sick to do.

 

@SoCool21 I feel as if you're one of the few staff members who gives a damn when 2.0 comes out and actually cares about the community and the way it'll receive 2.0 so thanks for that.

 

I don't really get the whole we can't release it because no one will fix any bugs thing... It's not like war got any bug fixes in the last years...
Also you first need to find the bugs before you can think about fixing them.

 

That, of course, makes sense but you first need to figure out what kind of bugs are still existing and from what I have seen war 2.0 looks pretty much bug free.
One weekend of beta testing should do the trick. If you don't find any major bugs release the gamemode and if you find any wait till you got the new dev.
Bugs didn't kill mc-war, the lack of updates did. (and of course, the idiotic idea of adding a buggy updated called recoil)
Everyone knows that more and more people are quitting war every day.
Brawl is high in the voting ranks and gets so many new players, they join and think hell every ****ing gamemode is outdated! Why the **** should I play on here? You think they will come back? Hell no, why should they? They already made up their minds about the network.
Give them something the can play on, something that isn't outdated.

On the other hand... The next minecraft update is right around the corner... It would make sense to wait for the dev so war 2.0 will be playable on the latest mc version on release.

I personally would still say go and start the beta of 2.0. Even if it is "only" a beta, new players at least have an up to date gamemode they can play. At least for a few weeks.

 

Look we had many "mini betas" over the past months. If we continue to test it 4 hours a month how the hell are we supposed to find all the bugs?
A 48 hours stress test will reveal at least 100 times as many bugs as the small testing sessions ever could.
And it also will reveal the long term bugs that only appear after the server has been running for multiple hours.
And no I actually don't think that small testing session will get more players than one weekend of testing.
There is a reason why big gaming publishers only have their game out for a weekend and not every week.

Not everyone uses the forums so most players will miss the testing session anyways, so we don't even need to start to talk about getting players. Just look at the other testing sessions, only old players have been there and those who play war 24/7.

If we have it up for a whole weekend more people will see it and maybe if they like it they will even call their friends... Well, in the end, that's what happened at the release of war.
Can't get your friends when the event already ended now can they?

 

You can't compare Wild West or KitPvP 2.0 to war in any kind of way. Wild West is way too slow and kitpvp is nothing special and simply a server you play on for 10 minutes before it gets boring.

It makes a lot of sense to look at how the big guys are doing it. Let's look at Overwatch's beta. At first you had all the blizzard guys and some hyped people playing it. The game was great so they spread the word and more and more people joined the beta. Can't do that if the beta is only 3 hours long now can ya? And also saying stuff like no one does that is bs because my friends at my school actually got me to play the beta after we talked about it.
Also you cannot really figure out if youtrulyy like something within 4 hours. You need much much longer for that.

I got to know war because someone actually told me about the server. And even today people still come to me and say "hey let's play this or that, it's fun" Of course some people hide the fact that they are still playing mc even tho there is nothing wrong with that but guess what? They also have friends who still play mc. They will be the ones they talk to.

3 Hours event = 400 people get to know it and 150 play it.
48 hours event = 3000 people get to know it and well many are going to play it.
I can assure you, the ctf guys won't stop playing ctf because 2.0 is running. Why stop if you're having fun. But they might give it a chance once the get tired of the gamemode and want to play something else.

But we want to get the attention of new players don't we?

Let's just do a pro con comparison.
48 hrs 4hrs
Will we find long term bugs? yes no
Amount of bugs findings many less
players who test the gamemode many less
new players who test the gamemode many less

Now let's talk about "hype".

That simply is not the case.
Make people wait for something. That's how you create hype. Maybe even build up the testing sessions.
We have already seen that the weekly concept does not work too well if it comes to hype. I can proof to you right now that waiting gets people to talk.
March 18 was the last testing session
So 65 days have passed since the last testing session.
So I simply am going to count every war 2.0 thread made over the 65 days before the testing session and the ones made in the 65 days after the testing session.

After the testing session:
https://www.brawl.com/threads/67077/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/67058/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/66876/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/66808/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/66267/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/66157/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/66041/
Keep in mind those are only the threats made about 2.0.

18th January till the testing session.
https://www.brawl.com/threads/64627/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/64592/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/64244/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/65237/

The talk almost doubled. You could argue that some of them are "hate threaths" but that doesn't matter since they still keep people talking about the server. And don't forget from jan 18th till marh 18 we had two testing session whilst we had zero afterward.

I simply have to say as long as you cannot bring any valid arguments on why we shouldn't have the testing weekend we should have it. Weekly small testing is good for active players. Monthly big testing is good for not so active players.
Keep in mind we have been testing war 2.0 for months and unless you do some real searching you won't find the hidden bugs and that simply take time to find. You said yourself that you want a bug-free 2.0.

On the very last testing session I found a **** ton of oom spots on the new version of summit and before that, I found like 5 new bugs.
If I had more time I would've found even more bugs. There is no doubt about that.
Look at the latest bug reports most of them are the same, the obvious one, those you will encounter within an hour of playing. But rare bugs won't be seen unless we get a real stress test.

 

OK, apologies if someone has already covered this - I didn't read any of the other comments

I think this is a lit idea, but could we PLEASE have them - or just one - at different times? War Fun Sundays are at 3am for me, and every single event hosted by Brawl is at 3-4am. I know I'm not the only person living in Australia, and I think it would be great if a larger variety of players would be able to test it, too. Just my thoughts

 

Definitely.

Also in general if Brawl keeps beta testing War 2.0, when it is released it's going to be back to normal as 2.0 was not really a big thing. The War 2.0 hype would die within 2-3 days. I think it is better to have a beta test for certain people to make it exclusive as it will bring more of a mystery to the rest of the players.
Anyways,
#soon

 

I Agree I live in Australia and can hardly ever play at one of the events.