Three suggestions to get more people playing CQC (on xbox)

[Stealth finger]

1) Get arena out on xbox asap. I'm sure you're doing this anyway so moving on. Crossplay would be a awesome!

2) Increase payouts. Like, tenfold or more. The best reward I've had is 10k. Most commanders wouldn't go to the loo for that. Let people know you've done it, galnet, xbl newsfeed, forums, Facebook, the lot. Also as an extension consider putting an option to launch cqc from the station menu.

3) This is the biggie but shouldn't be relatively that much work. Add bots. Get the AI code from the main game and allow bots to fill up empty slots. Even if just one player is in the lobby start a 60-120 sec countdown then fill the game with bots. Have bot kills count for 25\50% xp but not count as a player kill that goes toward end reward. See fighter squadron in battlefront or birds of steel on 360 as analogies.

So, for what it's worth there it is.

 

[Sunn09]

please do this. i'm new and play on xbox and i'm 1000 ly away from civilization exploring. but i still want to take part in combat. i was gonna do that in cqc but it looks like no one even uses it. And I get so mad that hardly any games utilize bots when they could make a huge impact to multiplayer, and this is a situation where they should be able to be easily implemented and improve another feature.

 

[MickyG1982]

1) Get arena out on xbox asap. I'm sure you're doing this anyway so moving on. Crossplay would be a awesome!

2) Increase payouts. Like, tenfold or more. The best reward I've had is 10k. Most commanders wouldn't go to the loo for that. Let people know you've done it, galnet, xbl newsfeed, forums, Facebook, the lot. Also as an extension consider putting an option to launch cqc from the station menu.

3) This is the biggie but shouldn't be relatively that much work. Add bots. Get the AI code from the main game and allow bots to fill up empty slots. Even if just one player is in the lobby start a 60-120 sec countdown then fill the game with bots. Have bot kills count for 25\50% xp but not count as a player kill that goes toward end reward. See fighter squadron in battlefront or birds of steel on 360 as analogies.

So, for what it's worth there it is.

+1 for this.

Making arena FTP for even a limited time would also go a long way to increasing player numbers (a free games with gold game comes to mind!). It is part of the game that is going to fail miserably on the Xbox if left untouched. Plus, people are more likely to buy the full ED package if they see what combat can really be like!