Hi there, I wanted to bring up the Hourglass commendations that require you to defeat a ship of a faction while playing as the opposing faction. Some of these comms unlock very nice cosmetics which makes it more important to look at. Unfortunately, due to matchmaking trouble early on with hourglass, Rare had to implement same faction battles. This caused a problem because now not every fight counts towards these comms like they used to but helped queue times. The comms were set this way because at first, you were only supposed to encounter a ship from the opposite faction, but it was never changed after the queue change. These comms are now way more difficult and time consuming to complete which is not fun due to queue times still not being great even today. I believe it would be extremely helpful if these comms were changed so that they require the same number of sinks, but instead of only counting only Guardian sinking a Servant for example, have it also count same faction battles. This way, every fight once again counts towards these goals and players can unlock the cosmetics at the correct rate as long as they win their battles of course.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, there’s also some of these that ask for the emissary flag from the enemy ship but it’s the same issue as the sinks. Under guardians they ask for reaper flags and servants asks for athena flags. Due to same faction battles, this should be changed to count any flag marked with “ [Won in battle]”.
