Have you considered an anonymous mode for Battle Royale to prevent teamwork?asked by Nightbird
TL;DRBattle Royale is the default competitive mode despite being a poor fit, so they want to shift competition to Squadron Battle and Duel (hoping 3.20 fixes their bugs), and anonymous mode isn't committed to.
Yeah, so this leans into what Sean was mentioning there about noob stomping. Battle Royale is unfortunately the default game mode. Everyone just goes there to experience flight really quickly in Arena Commander, but it is not the best game mode. And it has the most active leaderboards. So the competitive community, they go into Battle Royale. But Battle Royale, being named Battle Royale before Battle Royales were a thing, it is just free-for-all. And free-for-all is not the best place to have as your main competitive mode. So we want to take Battle Royale away from that position and make the competitive focus Squadron Battle and Duel, where Squadron Battle is team versus team, whereas Duel is one versus one. It's a much more controlled competitive environment than a free-for-all. And I see the requests about Battle Royale and the complaints about Battle Royale. Well, it makes sense, we should do these things, like maybe anonymous mode and all that. The real problem is that that is the competitive mode. That's where people go right now for competitiveness. We need to move that focus to the other modes. And the reason it's not in the other modes is because they were buggy or there were problems with them, like Duel didn't have rounds and so forth. 3.20 fixes most of those. So we're hoping to see that transition to those being the competitive modes. And then again, we'll visit the leaderboards: should Battle Royale even have a leaderboard? We need to get the Duel leaderboard in there, so that people actually have a leaderboard to grind for that 1v1. And there already is one for Squadron Battle, but again, the bugs prevented people from enjoying that as they should.