Bald and Balder

I started playing on the last 2 days of the test #2 and I played solo barb, oh boy I cried like a baby. The 1v3 just sucked. Then the test #3 happened, I picked up some friends and it was a lot more fun. But I relized someting about playing with 2 other people was kinda off, I had to split the loot, help them fight mobs and stuff. AND THEN I WENT SOLO ROGUEE BRRRRRRR and that was the most fun I ever had. In most cases (only if u have balls) You can take the 1v2 or even 1v3. I figured as a solo played the Dark in Dark and Darker is my friend. I always extinguished every torch and played around my invisibility cd. Simply Invis, w8 for two of them to pass you, stab the 3rd guy to death, run to the dark w8 for invis cd and repeat. Had a great time 10/10 and no friends = more loot for myself

The game loop is addictive, and the constant promise of better loot is what makes the game so compelling. Can't wait for release. I managed to unlock the skeleton skin during the last play test. As a solo player, I still survived a lot.

The key thing when asmon was mentioning the "inconveniences" is that they make sense. There are choices you make, and while some of them are required (like time gated door opening, picking chests, putting loot on, etc.), they make sense and alot of times its a trade off for a tactical advantage. Nearly every inconvenience can be taken advantage of with the right class, and because of this, each class feels fresh and unique to play with.

Dark and Darker really makes feel like I'm playing Oblivion again. Great game

The most fun I had with the game was being a solo player and out classing trios most new players don't know yet but the game gives a lot of tools to solo players to one of the biggest its the darkness , I think this is something that with time and no changes will make the player base adjust and enjoy the tense moments . My biggest hate against solo q will be the rushers and lack of tense moments in the game turning out like a slow mordhau for those good with movement that just run and shred every thing

The solo play aspect was one of the major reasons Everquest players flocked to Warcraft. Actually being able to accomplish something in game beyond lvl 10 by yourself after your friends logged off for the night was a vast difference between WoW and EQ. While a few classes in EQ could solo to some extent, that left out the majority of the player base.

Dark and Darker is a masterpiece

I'm addicted to dark and darker aswell, or was, can't wait for the next playtest

Might be the most fun i've had gaming all year. Just playing a rogue and stabbing people to death

As a solo and team player, I don't want to see a solo que. However, I would love that if you que solo, it would prioritize solo players first, duo's second and lastly trio's, but not a full prioritization if that makes sense. I still want to see duo's and trio's, just slightly less of them if I que solo. I don't want a separate que button at all though, just for the game to recognize there's only 1 of me, so it takes a few extra seconds to fill some parameters to start my match. Also, a solo only que I think would be detrimental. I witnessed and high amount of teaming from solo players. Players give a small tbag, then explore the dungeon together. And since they were together, less players wanted to fight them, so they just got fully looted and left safely. I think it's way too easy to take advantage of unfortunately, that's why I prefer the method I listed above.

To answer the question on what the argument against solo queue is. IMO solo queue would be a place for the best players to freely farm loot with little competition compared to fighting even a "decent 3 man" and potentially losing. It would cause market changes since solo play would be easier to farm than normal queue. The game is balanced around team play stated by the devs so some players will complain about solo balancing. Bossing would be near impossible for majority solo queue. Likely what would happen is they add solo queue it it becomes a 16 rouge rat off whoever can rat the hardest and stuff the pockets the most wins. Solo queue just seems like a cop out for players who arent willing to adjust to difficulty. The games 1vX factor is the main thing that keeps you on your toes, you hear foot steps u then have to think about everything before you make a choice. How many are there? How geared? Wheres my escape? ETC but in solo queue u hear foot steps u run at them bc its 1v1 and thats that. I think solo takes away alot of the core that makes the game fun. Its your choice to meet people and play in a 3 man if u want or to queue in solo knowing u can be against multiple players. When someone says "get good" its not just a matter of winning a 1v3 its game sense, knowing ur escapes, knowing when to run knowing when to fight. Its like do you think a wow raid would have the same effect if they just let you solo it? Just my thoughts on that topic.

Having too many queue types can really slow matchmaking down, but if there are enough people playing then I can't see it being an issue, but it's an argument against solo queue. I played mostly solo, and I actually had the best luck as a barbarian because I could drop monsters quick only wizards and rangers were really an issue. I played every class up to 15 so I could check out all the skills/perks/spells

Fun game, every thing played well together and I can't wait to play next test or full release. Both playing with friends and without was fun but since most lobbies had 3 stacks and you can't search for solo games, I tried getting a full team when possible

In Dungesons and Dragons small increases like +1 stat or to attack actually means A LOT and the same is true in this game

As a solo Rouge: Don't you dare touch the queue system.

The Solo queue debate is one that really interests me. I've personally been playing solo as barbarian and having a blast running around smashing open chests. What people don't understand is that looting a big treasure room solo will give you 3x the loot of a trio (assuming loot is shared equally), allowing you to obtain gear that is much more powerful than that of an individual group member at early game (however groups that manage to fight bosses or big rooms uninterrupted often become very rich). Barbarian also has a perk that gives him a decent chunk of health when he kills a player, meaning he can get up to 40% of his large health back during a 3v1 fight and still be in a decent state if he wins, as well as a perk that gives him a quick health/damage boost for 4 seconds after killing any enemy. When you look at other classes, you will actually find a lot of perks or abilities that can give you a fighting chance against groups, not to mention the fact you can interrupt a group that is busy fighting enemies, using them to your advantage. Solo play WILL reward patience and intelligence, unlike group play. Altars are also designed specifically to benefit solo players. There is an area with a damage and damage resistance altar beside eachother. With these both activated, I almost managed to wipe out a trio on my own simply by rushing in and yelling, no tactics required. The effect also seemed to have wore off shortly after the fight started.

Me a month later after finishing playtest 4 and looking for dark and darker videos because I thirst for more dark and darker. Also I love knowing what the 3rd playtest was like. The 4th was so much fun can't wait for the 5th. It's funny how people thought solo q was gonna be bad. I personally like the solo q the goblins were annoying but it was fun

Having solo que for the main map would actually make it harder, because people will STILL group up but it would be more random... which means they are also more likely to turn on your near the extraction.

EVE Online's combat was an amazing excersize in combat game design because of microadjustments. It was basically turn based and you tweaked things on and off, boosts, move position, adjust orbit, expand orbit, stop, line up warp, run away... etc. I have never quite found another game that replicated that feeling in any way but deeply hunger for it.

Ironmace has said that the game is designed for a mix of players per match. For solos they are aiming for what they call "Rat Gameplay" with hiding and using the darkness to do sneak attacks. you are not meant to fight a 3v1 if you do not want to (use your ears), duos are there to shake up on both ends where trios have way more of a challenge to fight then a solo but a solo could still take out the duo. The portals at the end were another point they made that the 3 person exit and deep portals do not show up until the end so the party is made to split to get out/down or having to fight everyone on the path to the 3 person portal. Again this is not my opinion this is what Ironmace has said in post when asked about solo queue.

In my opinion solo queue is not necessary because in the current state of the game playing solo just means having a different playstyle than group players. The objective of the game is to get loot and escape, not to kill everyone you encounter, so while playing solo you should be more aware of your surroundings and make decisions whether to take some fights where you are at a disadvantage or not to do it. If you are seeing yourself as a solo killing machine attacking everyone you see you are guaranteed to encounter unwinnable fight, but sometimes the decision to attack a group of 3 as a solo player is akin to attacking Fel Reaver when you are leveling in Hellfire Peninsula. If you play solo you should avoid groups and attacks them only when you have a factor of surprise on ur side, for example, when the party is fighting with monsters or with another group of players and i think that goes for every class.

Sucks that the play test ended I need more of this game.

I played Barbarian. THere was one rogue who ran away from me, but I had an axe and destroyed the doors between me and him. It was fun just smashing through every door he closed in front of me and him just giving up when he had nowhere to run. Or when another rogue shanked me 4 times, i screamed for help from my team, one shotted the rogue and went: "Or maybe I dont need help. Nevermind." 33:19: YOu just hear " I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING!" very loudly when youre close.

Had so much fun playing Dark and Darker, honestly bummed out I missed out on the last few playtests (I only got to play the last four days of playtest #3) but those 30 hours I got to put in was some of the most excruciating yet addicting time I've had with a game for quite awhile. Really excited for the next playtest!

i think it should just have both option to solo que and play multiple groups. When i first saw this game i immediately thought i want to play this with my friends as group going through a dungeon. kind of like DnD campaign

Dark and Darker is a brilliant game imo I'm having so much fun playing, even when I'm dying I'm having fun and laughing at stuff, it's great.

i would love a custom ui that gave me the the same hud as something like diablo 2 and hopefully they open up the world so you are in troll tunnels and caves and all sorts of other scenes not jus a stone dungeon but from the two playtests i have played i have loved every second of it and its nice to see the devs are so transparent on what is goin on.

I knew this game was going to go hard, from the first playtest.

I missed the play test but I can't wait to get a chance to play this. I never got into Escape from Tarkov but I love the idea of Tarkov in a classic fantasy dungeon delve, it also reminds me of Ultima Underworld which is great.

I don't really mind solo how it is currently but would like a solo mode as well, but i've had some really fun moments killing 1v2 or slowly hunting down a trio as a rogue taking one out at a time and then dipping

i liked playing the cleric alot and my friend played ranger , it was really fun. I personally think in the right hands the Ranger is literally the best class

I think the only issue with solo que is it splits the diversity of interactions up. Probably more benefits than negatives though

For the 80s crowd, this game reminds me strongly of Ultima Underworld, I wonder if it was an inspiration for this project.

Not having a solo queue or any kind of separate queue is that it helps the matchmaking be as fast as it is. They mentioned this on an interview over a month ago. But the dev did say they are debating a solo queue

Maxed out the cleric in this alpha and the one on October cannot wait for February!! Some of the best laughs iv gotten from a game in awhile! Just the boys rollin deeeep

Id like them to either have a solo que option, or simply just have some kind of match maker so you can que up with 3 random people

Just two words: Friendlyfire. Fireball. Yes, I was the Wizard. >:^D How to make a team of three work: 1. Make a rotation in which you establish who escapes first. P1 goes the first round, next round P2, etc. Have a rogue or ranger open the portal for the wizard etc. 2. You can just press shift and you walk slowly. That muffels nearly all your steps, and if you crouch additionally then no one can actually hear you.

So as a guy that has had over 110+ hours in the playtests as solo and duo and trio I can say that the game is as fun as all get out. Now I do have to state something. The extraction shooter genre is known for not really having solo ques and it most of the time for not only the challenge but for que times as well since it's not the most popular genre. The devs stated that their willing to try many different things besides solo ques as it's not in the game plan. I would suggest making going solo more rewarding with having a increased drop rate of some form or making it so after escaping the vendors buy everything on your body that you escaped with for double the amount to help mitigate the grind as much (even though I was personally doing fine with gold). It would be to help the new players trying it solo to build a stash and feel more rewarding as a result. Quick tip is to play like a rat and around 6 out of 10 runs you make it out trust me. Also if you took the time to read this your a legend thank you.

As someone who only played solo during the play test I would hate to see a solo que. The game is balanced for team play and anybody who chooses to go alone should accept the reality that it’s gonna be more difficult

Also, logically, Cleric should be the single most OP character in Dark and Darker to deal with the PVE enemies since they're all undead.

Best way to describe the combat would be slow but super intense and you can go from wiping teams to just pure chaos in seconds i love it never know whats gonna kill you next but its most likely gonna be something stupid or just bad luck even when you get good at it but that just makes me love it all the more.

They need to add more stuff that you want to keep on extraction, what exactly no clue, maybe some kind of tokens that you need for training? Or just spell scrolls and more other consumables, maybe even add some kind of perma-loot that can give you slightly better starting gear?

"Thanks to the over 1 million testers who joined us during this playtest." "We collected a ton of data over this period that we will putting to good use to help improve the game for the next playtest."

I love this game dude, I wish I could pay to keep playing it while supporting the devs. Cya next year bois

Should just have Solo que and then also have an option for team a team que where you can go in solo if you really want. IMO seems like a win/win for players who want it purely solo or players who like the thrill of fighting teams solo.

Y'all seriously sleeping on the cleric. The prayer skill can literally wipe an entire room of zombies and mummies and bats with enough magical power. Bats just die with a naked loadout. I was swimming in gear and cash as cleric because I never died, kept finding good melee gear, and PvE was essentially nullified until I went down a level. It was only High Roller and going down a level that gave me any challenge as cleric. It's basically McConnels version of a paladin.

I'm 19 years old, and this game reignited my passion for games. Growing growing up on basically 3 to 4 main games like modern warfare 2 and 3, minecraft, and more recently Sekiro, compared to countless less played games (a few months top spent in them) this game has rekindled the dampened fire that I have had for video games in general over the past 4-5 years. For anyone like me who usually just watches other people play games because we don't want to bother, or we think we are already so behind in skill development, please give this game a chance next playtest as I have.

You can throw your torch at the traps to set them off!!! I never knew about it but it's a very useful thing to know

I tried it out the other day but I was getting horrible frame rate issues for some reason even on low settings. Kept dropping to 10fps for seconds at a time. Going to have to reinstall and try again in the future but I like the premise of the game

Most fun I've had gaming in awhile, and it has only been play tests so far. I'm excited for this game's development!

Personally loved this game, played mostly as a solo and would still prefer having the chance of going into a party of 3, The developers clearly want the game to be close to what D&D could be. If you dont have friends to play with maybe they could add a party finder instead of pushing solo content?

I don't mind not having "solo queue", but they need to put in some sort of group fill mechanic like Apex has. Just group you with 2 other random people. But still give people the option to go in by themselves if they want. If they do wanna add solo queue where everyone is just by themselves, they should cut the hp of monsters down a decent bit because right now it's pretty damn tough to clear any room by yourself.

Having solo and party ques will work when the game comes out because everyone is playing but as soon as the matchmaking takes more than 2 minutes everyone will be force to play with random at party to get a game fast, so I don't like the idea of solos and party ques

They should have a solo game and a team game where solo could join and be placed into groups.

i honestly would want a pve mode simply to learn the map too, of course items from pve cant be used in pvp and vice versa

I think the main point of floor traps is less about hurting the player, and more about memorizing their locations to use that to your advantage. Lure NPCs into it, lead players into them, etc.

This game recently reminded me of that one cancelled Sega game that wanted to be like the new Dark Souls. They had a really cool trailer where they animated a dragon spewing fire as this dude is holding a shield and you can see how it melts. Now this game captures so well that mystique of dungeon delving. Like seeing and playing through the game and fighting monsters and the whole drama of meeting a group or another solo is so cool. I wish there was Voip or better ways to interact. But if anything It captures that dungeon delving itch i've had. It doesn't have to be extremely graphically impressive, its fun in its own right.

As someone *'who played it'* I can only say... they need to add + only solo groups against other solo's + dou's vs dou's and the usual three-party meta. But if they keep it up that everyone is always getting thrown in with three-er's, this will not take off as much as it could. 😎

solo is kinda torture, thats the only thing they need to fix, like a solo only playlist

I definitely loved playing this alpha test. Had a group of 3 and it was really great. My only gripes was that my fighter's shield didn't really help him in pvp because people were able to attack through it so that was a bummer a bit, and I personally feel like the zone is a bit too fast, don't get me wrong I'm fine with it as is but I feel like making the match as a whole last a little longer would be nice, like 10-15% longer nothing big. A friend actually suggested making the zone be more of an urgency by making it consistently collapsing after so many minutes. Almost like more of a cave in than a zone with it summoning the portals every so often after the zone begins collapsing.

Maybe it was because I solo'd as ranger, but I frequently found myself easily managing most confrontations with both monsters and players. Sometimes While I solo I would get caught out by a team, but the majority of the time I found that I had a much higher escape rate while playing the game solo verses with a team. On top of this, YOU GET WAY MORE LOOT. Like, literally 3 times the loot because you don't have to share. Also, the spear was disgusting late game. Barbs go down in 3 hits and you are faster on top of having a range advantage even in melee. Poking heads over shields was fun. I don't see why people can't have their solo player lobbies, but I myself would likely never que for it because the feeling of team wiping as a solo is next to nothing else in the game. Fundamentally I prefer if the game is balanced for teams because that is what I think would make for a more interesting experience myself. The best part of this game though? Definitely being a filthy rat who's only mission is to make others have a bad time and not making survival a priority.

The reason why most people don't want a solo queue added is two fold: 1. They only play with friends, 2. they're average gamers at best. This means that the majority of the time when they run into other parties of equal size they're going to sustain heavy losses if not get wiped. Where as if they run into a solo they have the best chance at getting free lot. The majority of the ' average' player base doesn't want to take away the chance for them to get lucky and stumble across someone who they can actually kill because they don't win pvp in any other situation.

Fact is solo ques arent ever a bad thing. Not everyone has 2 other friends, most people play alone. Hell after dying to a group of 3 as a solo your gonna quit playing. I like the guy who said "its boring" then dont play solo LOL. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to play it. Hell i dont have friends and I like to play sometime so I'll have to 1v3 which sucks or not play

they just need to add matchmaking to fix the solo issue, the whole game is engineered around having a team, bosses and hell etc, if they have to reblanace the whole game for solo thats so much work for a small studio.

I started playing on the final day of the first play test they had and I’ve been hooked since.

The argument get good on 3v1 is that those are three v players who like ganking one player and know that if they have to fight three players all the time they would lose. And technically they think of 1V players is loot pinatas so they have easier time collecting loot.

i havent played this yet but watching this i feel like if they had a solo mode itd be all rouges all the time and 40 min matches of hiders

I started playing solo cleric and had good fun. Obviously going to be steam rolled vs a group. Though 1v1 not so bad, and they’re strong pve.

i played in a team and much solo and as I played rogue in solo teams teamed up to two or sometimes 3 I can kill. It is very very hard but very fun and if you win this fight your heartrate is over9000 but you happy af. the thrill in fighting against more players and thinking twice of what u r doing next is so satisfying. If you make up a solo mode you split up most players and if u keep go in 1-3 mode you get much more 3 people teams. I like it how it is. Kind of telling developers of Escape from Tarkov they should make a solo queue that would be absolute nonsense.

i wish there was more players on a map + healing loot drops, i played a lot of darker matches and there were many times where i spent the entire match moving forward without fighting mobs, looking for players, and i would go the entire match without finding a single player, half the players die to pve in the first 2 minutes, it would be cool if they 2x the map size and 4 x the player count

People misunderstand that 1v3 case. It's not 1v3. It's 1 v potential 15. And the team of 3 is playing 3 v potential 13.

I think the storm would be better if it wasn’t a circle. And instead was rooms collapsing over time. Paths and places would get cut off while you’re exploring, it can kill you, and it physically stops you from going into those rooms, feel like that would be cool.

The only extracts are towards the end where the circle is small. You're pretty much guaranteed to run into a group of 3 who steamrolled their way through every solo they encountered along the way at this point. It does feel great to get out as a solo but there is a clear disparity between how often/easy you can extract as a party of 3 compared to doing it solo. That's not balance.

I'm already facing MAJOR withdrawals...

Best solo is definitely rogue. Best duo is definitely fighter and cleric. Fighter has ranged and melee options. Cleric is busted with a good fighter on your team. Then barbarian is a good addition to that duo.

Clerics will surprise you. They are one of the best rat strat classes. Hide away in the storm and never really need to worry about coming out.

The people that defend 3 man squads are the same type of people that would despise only ever fighting against 3 man squads. I think the issue with 3 man squads is it disincentives solo players to wear cool/powerful gear they find. Solo players have a higher chance of dying because power by numbers can dictate unwinnable circumstances. If I get a super awesome purp wep, I want to wear it right away, but then I'm taken back by the thought that a 3 man squad can screw me out of this cool item more than anything else can. Unless I'm saturated in gold/items if I die, I'm basically always forced to run away from 3 man squads. Where as, in a group of 3 you are far more loot protected because you have teammates to power in numbers smaller groups, and they can grab your gear/rez you. I'm just spit balling ideas, but it might be more fair for solo/duo's to have their game mode, and something a little spicier for group play with friends, like a 3's or 5's on larger more dangerous maps. A solo player can at least potentially quick kill someone in a 2 man squad and be left in a 1v1, making it far more fair than a 2v1 if it were a party of 3. 3 mans is my tipping point of fairness, otherwise they might as well make the entire thing forced groups imo. We can agree to disagree on this. I don't need to argue hate comments saying this is a terrible idea.

The argument that makes most sense on why no solo queue in this game is that solo queue would just end up being mostly rogues hiding in the dark waiting for other rogues. Yes there would be outliers but it wouldnt change what the majority of people would pick what ever the best class is at the time making the game stale quickly. I play solo so I'm not saying this from a perspective of a person who teams.

I wish they gave you a choice of melee weapons for characters. So you can spawn with 2 single hand weapons for free with the barb for example.

Hunt: Showdown has a decent solo queue system. You can't stop yourself from playing against duos, but playing solo puts you in a lower MMR game, which should give you a bit of an edge. Also, you won't be matched against trios by default, but you can opt into it for extra rewards.

This game is so amazing. I’ve put in like 200 hours within the past two play tests. There’s work that needs to be done but it’s all such surface level stuff. The potential this game has is insane. Till February bois

I play games for years and this is the most fun game I ve ever played. I already miss it.

I believe that the best way they can cater to players who want to limit the 1v3s they run into will be to design new maps that cater to the solo playstyle, maybe not fully discouraging the groups from queuing those but making it much less appealing would be staying true to the game vision while giving breathing room for those solos.

Turns out even with solo queue the queue times are still ridiculously fast, other than when the party bugged/servers went down the games were instant

There is Solo Que... Goblin map with lesser items. there is the Up to trio que for the better loot, with better mobs & possibility to go further (red portal) for even more amazing loot and it requires teamwork. and even then the trio has to split loot & sometimes there isn't enough portal for the whole group. so acquiring items there is much harder. hence more valuable & rewarding. So if they make solo queue for the better map & have easier time acquiring what others work hard to do as a group would mean that the loot economy ruined slightly and higher gear less valuable.

put a spellbook on a cleric, fast cast buffs and heals to my two barb friends, brought 2 campfires in dungeon. Fantastic time, we were killing between 8-13 players a session it was honestly a blast. Who needs to open doors when you got two barbs breaking everything open

I can agree with the concept of the solo queue being annoying from bumping into a 1v3 perspective, but I fear that if folks get a solo queue mode, it'll restrict a lot play styles for means of handling the dungeon. Some classes are very clearly meant to be able to handle players, and some monsters are much more difficult to handle alone as other classes, so they'll just be avoided. One such example would be if a rogue can easily wipe out a player with an ambush quickly, then a solo queue rogue may think twice about ambushing a party of 3. Leaving the game mode of "good luck" as is seems the best learning and potential bonding experience when trying to keep the immersion It's got a lot of room for growth. I just hope changes aren't for appeasing the folks that want to "even it out" that just forces a play style to be less annoying, let alone effective

The map could use fog of war. Show the details of areas you've explored and leaving everything else as black or whatever color until explored with red for the storm

Probably one of the biggest problems with the solo queue is that almost everyone is going to play with rogue and it will get frustrating to deal with the amount of ambushes since it's almost always a insta kill

Played all 3 playtest and been having a blast. And now I'm having withdrawals from it. Next playtest will on February.

i wish they add solo queue but if you play normal and the least players you get a percentage added in profit when you escape

For me, in some ways it's similar to Outward. It's just the Outward doesn't have classes.

As a Dungeon and Dragon and Path of Exile player, I didn't really play Tarkov cause my aim is shit. Dark and Darker just scratch that loot goblin and dungeon delving, adventuring itch that I have. It check all the boxes

Asmond your question on "what the reason to not have a 1v1's only option is because it would kill the game. There are a lot of great battle royale's (aka h1z1) that were destroyed by this option. People would forget about groups and do solo only because they think its cool "The Fad" and get bored with the game entirely resulting in you not getting your moneys worth when you do buy the game????? REASONS TO KEEP 3v3- 1: as a solo player, groups of 3 in your lobby clear rooms faster making mobs eaiser to go through the map after even if you're solo. 2: Solo only would change ppl into campers, *resulting in less fights*. 3: More players would die to mobs resulting in my previous statement. 4: Less groups would excape the map because the group helps each other get all blue portals, if not take red. 5: As a solo it is impossible to finish the 2nd stage (red portal) and there would 100% be less blues resulting in your loot being lossed. I could think of more reasons those are the main reasons why for me. It's a different game from other BR's and I think the devs took most of the things that ruined other games thats why this one is so addictive..

I think the reason of not having solo in game like this, it's because it will have the problem that Apex Legends had in the solo queue mode, is about if a character become broken that's the only character most player will use making other obsolete so they have to balance the character in that mode and probably will affect the trio queue and vice versa, most team games like this are easy to balance in team of 3 or team of 2 cause mage can be OP in solo but can be weak in trios knight can be OP in trios but weak in solo etc its all come to evade the balancing nightmare imagine only having seasons where in solo the only thing you see is berserker only every match and when he's nerf you see mage only and so on that's why teams of 3 its the way to go the only thing I believe they can do for solo players is the same Hunt Showdown (a game kinda like this but is a shooter) is have duo queue so solo players can at least fight vs 2 player that's at least is manageable. (My bad if my writing is not great)

I just love that asmond watches force videos on stream. Go Force go!

I am against solo q because the player base isn't split into skill brackets. So even if the argument of 1v3 of equal skill being unfair is true that would rarely be the case in the actual game. And sometimes going against an unfair odds is just fun. I would however like to see solo players receive additional bonuses to stack the scales so to speak. Maybe solo players upon spawning have a chest in their room with potions, bandages or something else. Or groups would be guaranteed to encounter a mob heavy rooms outside of their spawn points. Or reducing the number or spell casts for groups. Or a myriad of other things of that nature.

This game makes me feel like I'm 13 and just discovered rpgs, its so good.

Rogue has insane burst damage (I was running the ambush perk with def down skill on my Rogue) and the game is just clunky enough that circle strafing is strong even against mobs. It's more of a design and balance issue than skill level imo, at least 1v1, hell even 1v2 as a rogue is not that bad depending on the class combo. At least it's kinda bad at solo PvE due to not having a shield against archers.