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It must be exciting waiting to play as an Explorer for some action yet so frustrating as waiting for rescue on a desert island 
There's an entire subforum dedicated to it. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forumdisplay.php/163-Close-Quarters-Combat
Along with Power play.
So happy we got these updates over NPC wings, or NPC crews.
So happy we got these updates over NPC wings, or NPC crews.
It is not only dead but they no longer sell it as a stand-alone game (Arena).
It is time they admitted it is a turkey and removed the nonsense about it in our UI.
It is time they admitted it is a turkey and removed the nonsense about it in our UI.
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I agree with this ^^
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dont... it pains me!.
That said... we HAVE CQC now, that time is spent... and it is really fun imo. its just no one plays it. Given for better or for worse we have CQC, imo FD need to go all in on it now and finish it off. its a self fulfilling prophecy. try to get a game, no one playing, wait for 10 mins and give up never to return.
CQC desperately needs lobbies and, even more importantly, drop in drop out support with NPCs. Apparently SJA is meant to know her onions regarding ship AI, so let her prove it. stick in elite npcs in CQC which get replaced by players as matches proceed.
Or better still, add a way to queue for it while in the main game - so you're not sat for hours on end twiddling your thumbs.
That way folks could get into the queue and go exploring, trading etc... and have a notification when the game is ready for them to join.
Give each player 60 (90?) seconds to pull over/put their ship safe/end a fight and then transfer to the arena ready to start the match.
Personally, I would much rather they put a little bit of work into it. Change it to a galactic VR game via telepresence, where commanders from anywhere in the galaxy can log in from their ship’s left panel to compete in CQC. Add matchmaking lobbies, implement AI bots to fill in empty games (let Sarah do her worst with their difficulties!!!), have quarterly seasons and leaderboards so that players can compete and track each other, and put in some nice rewards every season to make it more rewarding, things like special paints, trophies, medals, credits, flightsuits, etc.
In all honestly CQC could be easily turned into a very nice aspect of Elite Dangerous with some relatively minimal additional work. I wish they would, because currently it’s pretty worthless and barren. I mean it is fun when you can actually play it, but you really do need to actually be able to PLAY it to find out…
It was dead on arrival, it boggles my mind why FD decided to put work in to this side project. It would went so much better if CQC was with in the main game and with bots... oh well.
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I really like CQC, it's fun for a quick blast around, I managed to get plenty of games the other week, though trying to Rank up on empire so not bothered with it much. They should split it off from the main game all together though and either give it away free or sell it cheep as hell to encourage players into the Elite universe.
If they pushed it as one of the esports games it would gain quite a bit of traction. And comparing it to EVE:Valkyrie it's a damn sight better.
If they pushed it as one of the esports games it would gain quite a bit of traction. And comparing it to EVE:Valkyrie it's a damn sight better.
All it takes is to include it to the main game, e.g. as a station menu. Waiting for board refresh or ship transfer, play a match. Also a spectator mode would be very cool with the new cam system.
It would be better there were NPC's to play with. But FD seems to think anything NPC is a worthless addition to the game.