HELP, I wanna have fun with 'for fun' but every match is just a taunt party :(

[RotflMaster]

If you don't know what a taunt party is it's where everyone just screws around and doesn't attack eachother and if you try to attack people you just get ganged up on and owned. THIS ISSUE NEEDS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF NOW!!!

 

[Kamui Nohr]

I just leave the lobby and enter another one.

 

[Malicious_]

Welcome to Super Smash Brothers.
That's what 'for fun' is all about - having fun. Most people just like to chill and mess around in that multiplayer mode. If you want to fight serious, go on 'For Glory.'
Or do what Kumai says and just enter another lobby!

 

[Tino]

Pretty much what the above posters said. There's always another room to jump into the action.

 

[TurboLink]

If you don't know what a taunt party is it's where everyone just screws around and doesn't attack eachother and if you try to attack people you just get ganged up on and owned. THIS ISSUE NEEDS TO BE TAKEN CARE OF NOW!!!

Report them.

 

[Retro X]

Taunt parties are the best! Reminds me of the good ol days in Basic Brawl!

This isn't going to be fixed because there's no way for the game to actually judge when a taunt party is happening, so just deal with it and if you can't find another room. If this turns out like Basic Brawl you'll probs find taunt parties is the vast majority of rooms, and sucky players who actually fight in the others, though most people should be sucky in general with For Glory being an option. I still think taking on a taunt party 3 on 1 is a load of fun but that's just me.

 

[Caryslan]

Welcome to Super Smash Brothers.
That's what 'for fun' is all about - having fun. Most people just like to chill and mess around in that multiplayer mode. If you want to fight serious, go on 'For Glory.'
Or do what Kumai says and just enter another lobby!

Don't take this the wrong way, but this is a fighting game. A taunt party to me is as pointless as someone playing Call of Duty and doing nothing but mess around the level.

The issue is that it punishes players who want to play a serious match with items and on stages that aren't all flat.

Just saying "go to for glory" is not a solution to the problem. For Glory is intended for matches where the players who want no items, a FD style stage, and their win/losses to be recorded. If a player wants to play a competitive but casual free for all match with items, stages with hazards, and who don't really care about win/loss ratios.

As for the idea of going to another lobby, that's not a bad idea. The problem is that you just can't drop out of a match anymore in Smash 4. Which means a player who has no interest in a taunt party either has to waste two minutes waiting for a match to end, get ganged up on for trying to fight, or take a ban that they should have never gotten.

I get that taunt parties have their fans, but Smash Bros at its core is a fighting game. People should expect to go online and fight other players without having to deal with such nonsense. Just like I expect to race when I play Mario Kart online or play death matches against other players in Call of Duty.

Taunt parties ruined Basic Brawl, and its going to be sad if they end up ruining Smash 4's free for alls.

 

[GhostUrsa]

Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do if you're stuck in a Taunt party. Switch lobbies is pretty much the only thing to do. I'd recommend changing how your personal win condition works if you find yourself stuck in one. You want to 'brawl' and know they'll gang up on you so make your win condition more of a survival match. Since you don't know if the next 'serious' For Fun match won't have everyone ganging up on your anyway, you can use the experience to improve your group fighting techniques. (I find these tactics work great when playing in an 8 player smash fight locally, so they can be good things to learn.)

Then once the match is done you can find a new lobby that has a more 'as designed' fight. We can't change how others have fun, but we can address how 'we' approach fun.

As Mary Poppins likes to remind everyone...

 

[SuaveChaser]

I don't even get those people just finish the match and make sure to report those clowns.

 

[Boo Jr.]

You buy one of the greates game of the last decade, hook the Wii U to the internet, join a free for all battle...just to stand there and do nothing.
Those people are just...sad.

 

[Muskrat Catcher]

For fun mode is a strange beast. The only time I ever go there is when I want to try to do some hilarious or ridiculous things, for example trying to win by using only Mr. G&W's side-B, or only falcon punches/kicks (I do not main either of these characters). However, sometimes I play for fun matches where I just can't stop laughing! For instance, I once played a match where I tried to get as many 9s with G&W as possible, and at one point I KO'd a little mac and a link in one 9. The match was far from serious before that, but when that happened, everyone just stopped and basically partied. I taunted as long as the game would let me, the ganondorf player just walked up to me and spammed crouch, the little mac just used his side-B off the edge a few times, and the link just taunted as well. That was one of the most hilarious matches I ever played!

Basically what I'm saying is that if you go into for fun, remember that victory means almost nothing, and your goal is actually to make the other players laugh as much as possible, and try to make a match where you want to save the replay and show it to all your friends.

 

[HYP3R]

I have edited this post multiple times, I'm trying to make this sound as clear as possible, hopefully it works.

It's very hard to explain to someone what taunt parties are, without the other person actually having participated in one. I can speak from experience, back in the Brawl era I would try to fight these Taunt Parties, and not understand why everyone was teaming against me, like they all had some sort of grudge against me.

Let me make something clear: Taunt Parties are NOT sitting there and taunting all day. That is a very boring room and I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving. They are instead a group of people that all commonly agree not to fight seriously, and instead mess around doing silly things. This could be anything from 4 jigglypuffs resting each other, you could even be practicing tech skill if you're that hardcore, just try not to hit anyone on purpose.

The sole purpose of Taunt Parties is that people want to have fun playing a game without fighting, either because they just want to mess around or they are bad at fighting and just want to make friends. If they team up against you, that's because you want to fight and they want you out of the room. Personally I do not like the 3v1's and I will sit off to the side, but that is honestly their way of forcefully removing you from the room in attempt to find someone that is friendly.

It's a sad concept really, beat them or join them, regardless they aren't just going to go away no matter what anyone does. I'm just trying to convince anyone that they are not as boring as they sound and you should at least give them a chance.

 

[David Wonn]

Report them. The manual specifically addresses this.