Just a quick poll to see how many people are fighting in the fortress maps. Personally, I've gone from always queue, to sometimes queue depending on my mood, to now never queue again until a change happens. It just gets to be a chore by the end of the match as your trying to break into B.... assuming you get there. So just vote yes, no, or sometimes up top and tell me why you feel this way.
Total meaningless slog since the defender always wins and for whatever reason my framerate dips to 10-20 in fortress battles. If I liked playing heavy weapons I'd queue up, but since I don't, I don't queue.
Haven't queued for Forts in like...5-6 months. I run them decently well and I think they aren't terrible maps, they just don't really suit my melee main playstyle(at least not like they used to). Plus they can drag on for awhile and, this is my opinion, really hurt queues for other players right now since they eat up 30 players and our population is low. I recall a few weeks back I wanted to work on my Eldar and I check the World Map to see that there were exactly 91 Eldar players queuing and all 90 of them were stuck in 3 simultaneous Fort maps leaving me, the 1 left over, to wait 20-30 minute for a queue pop. Felt awful.
Nah, games take too long and I get more exp doing smaller games, it's also very punishing for melee I also don't get spammed with plasma cannons or kannons or when attacking several hundred heavy boltors. It always loads them when I leave the pc for a minute
Actively seek fortress maps to the point i'll look through the on going fights for each flag to find them as I find the 15v15/20v20 incredibly boring now, really miss the option to queue just for the larger fights
I will generally always play on a fortress since I like both attacking and defending quite a bit...... But I may cancel my queue if I am attacking an Ork fortress since the Kannon is a incredible when defending from a point of elevation and can shoot next to a lot of cover and still kill you. (Sorry don't want to make this a kannon OP thread but thats just how I feel, it might have been nerfed recently I dunno I haven't attacked against the Orks for a while,)
Kannon got nerfed it's AoE isn't that bad anymore. It still kills in one shot and wrecks vehicles so Orks defending a fort will still be a bit annoying.
I fucking wish I could get fortress maps, all I get from battle now is fucking Medusa Relay Station. Fucking six games in a row on it the other day.
I wish there was a way to opt-in for fortress maps, like you can opt-out. Skirmish feels like a quore, with fortresses it's either reckless all-out assault against a mercyless timer and a superior, dug-in foe, or it's a tense affair trying to hold off the storming hordes for long enough, every live, every second counting. Fortress mode feels most like 40k battles might feel, if they were limited to 30 participants per side, imo.
