To further infuriate the community, the single-player mode called the “Challenge Series’ is locked behind a paywall, making players purchase Destruction Points (DP) with real money just to gain access to other Challenge Series content, even with the initial price tag of $70.ĭestruction AllStars is enjoyable, but for a certain amount of time. There were no options to change servers, and tons of instances when the game crashed during matchmaking. The exception to this is Blitz, as a competitive mode, Blitz will never feature Bot’s.”Įven if Destruction AllStar launched as a PlayStation Plus exclusive for an entire month, the number of players quickly dwindle when myriad issues slowly became apparent. We want to ensure that matches are filled to capacity with as many real players as possible, but when missing X amount of players when queuing for a match, AI bots will take the remaining places. (The peaks being around UTC 4pm – 10pm weekdays and UTC 2:00pm until 1:00am on the weekends)
“With a community the size of Destruction AllStars, spread out across the world we do have peak times and low times of player activity for online matchmaking.
Destruction allstars challenge series update#
Lucid Games posted an update on Reddit, stating that there peak times when the servers have more players, but more of which they have a low number of players playing during normal days:
Apparently, Lucid Games’ arena-based destruction derby game, Destruction AllStars, just got bots added to remedy the long wait time when matchmaking. It appears that when a live service game thrives to stay relevant and to keep its player base engaged, studios tend to add computer-controlled characters if there aren’t a lot of people playing their games, or worse, shut down the servers and discontinue.
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