…Not what I anticipated. What makes you think I got five freakin’ friends? 
Is there any hope for being able to 1v1 with a friend or partner in this game… ever? Was kind of hoping private matches wouldn’t need a minimum of six. My partner & I like to warm up/practice 1v1 a lot. I mean…
Seriously… socializing? You want me to socialize?
http://i.imgur.com/bpWhVWy.gif
Ew.
I didn’t see anything relating to setting passwords. You can invite friends… like from your Steam friends-list. So I don’t think passwords will be a feature.
If you can change max players, I didn’t see where… It just tells me that I need to invite 5 more people. 
[quote=“Mercy;17424”]…Not what I anticipated. What makes you think I got five freakin’ friends?
Is there any hope for being able to 1v1 with a friend or partner in this game… ever? Was kind of hoping private matches wouldn’t need a minimum of six. My partner & I like to warm up/practice 1v1 a lot. I mean…
Seriously… socializing? You want me to socialize?
http://i.imgur.com/bpWhVWy.gif
Ew.[/quote]
If you look at it from a resource point of view and you might understand the “why” a bit more.
It’s still in Alpha so things can/will change. And I’d wager right now they do not want to stress their virtual server system by having 5,000 people spin up their own 1-2 man DB server. After it’s been up for a while I’m sure they will discuss lowering the requirements to start.
Why not just have the option for a p2p server hosting? You don’t get rewards from private, do you?
Because this game has no p2p system and developing that and adding it to the game would require quite a bit of time and would be mostly useless outside of this one use case.
[quote=“Amerika;79025”]
…and adding it to the game would require quite a bit of time and would be mostly useless outside of this one use case.[/quote]
That’s actually pretty reasonable. I guess technical limitations and time will always be the bane of video games.
[quote=“Mrlong2;78984”]Wow, that 6 minimum REALLY Sucks.
+1[/quote]
Now now.
The system is still in alpha. Alot of things can change.
[quote=“BlackFro;79065”][quote=“Mrlong2;78984”]Wow, that 6 minimum REALLY Sucks.
+1[/quote]
Now now.
The system is still in alpha. Alot of things can change.[/quote]
we hope so, really not what we spected
[quote=“Iceqw;79069”][quote=“BlackFro;79065”][quote=“Mrlong2;78984”]Wow, that 6 minimum REALLY Sucks.
+1[/quote]
Now now.
The system is still in alpha. Alot of things can change.[/quote]
we hope so, really not what we spected[/quote]
Pretty much this. Obviously the private matches feature caters to only specific people… who have at least 5 other people they play this game with. Like cool, I get this is a community, but it kind of sucks that I can’t use this feature because I only play with my gaming partner.
Really hope that it will change. I feel like two people playing in a map wouldn’t cause a lot of server load.
I like the way QuakeLive went. You can start your own server with your own rules, choose the map rotation and mode, set it on private/invite only or public etc. and choose the location. In QL it’s the way they monetize it.
Private matches should have a ton of options, starting from amount of players and ending with gravity values.
I still don’t see why the players can’t host private matches so Splash Damage doesn’t have to host the servers. I don’t mean public servers, just copy COD except only for private matches.
