There is no way to tell which factions are currently stacked, so I try to avoid playing specific ones.
But why the hell is “play all” such a masochistic adventure?
I understand it will put me on underpopulated teams, but recently it’s been getting a bit egregious.
The whole BR3 gacha is broken, because you can abuse it through picking overpopulated faction to play as. Why exactly are those people rewarded with often being fed completely new/inexperienced/undergeared players?
Some of my teammates are so new they don’t even have the most basics of ranks. None of them were capable of dealing with endless vehicle spam, often simply because they literally did not even have AT soldiers unlocked. Meanwhile enemy team is spamming 105’s, M8 Scotts, flamers, paras, BR3 semiautos and SMG’s, etc
“oh but they are risking going to BR5”
Who cares? With the faction they are playing as being overpopulated, the “BR5” they are going to will probably have AB41’s and Pz II’s running around anyway
This will literally kill this game. Either by going back to berlin-level PvE or by ending up with “everyone vs everyone” nonsense
And all you have to do is give players feedback that they are stacking and a little bit of a stick.
Overpopulated factions get realistic queue times. Underpopulated factions get REAL SILVER bonus.
4-stacks cannot queue into overpopulated factions at all and generally are assumed to overperform, so they are way more likely to “loose” the BR3 gacha and end up in BR5
At some real imbalance levels you literally have to tell players to knock it off and go play some other faction. 90% of them will grumble for a second and then just keep playing anyway. You caused more people to ragequit via the merge than that would cause. And most probably just the carrots would quickly help.
Ofc, this is a dream,
but i think, maybe stopping solo people from playing with group/stacks?
Or groups should ,only play other groups
Ofc group v group wont work, we know this,
as they will both see other side has real people, and they will all leave
you want USA to fight USSR? Or maybe end up with total mashup where it’s USSR and Japan vs USA and Germany, or some other nonsense (like, just drop all factions into same match on both sides, why not? /s), because thats what I meant, and I’m worried it’s coming, because for past few days i’ve been dumped into germany almost exclusively, just to fight utter BS (so I wouldn’t be surprised if it unironically ends up basically deserted by anyone but the newbies, who will get shat on few times and just leave the game outright)
I actually don’t mind groups THAT much
but it’s definitely a bit much when im BR2, at the results screen I’m the only one with any medals (so the rest of the team was just getting murdered basically, since good half of them I can’t even get because I don’t have required weapons or soldiers) and I repeatedly end up fighting players that are both more experienced and with better gear. And on top of those experienced and fully geared players are often grouped up with voice comms.
And don’t get me even started on the insane “balancing” done to the cap times and tickets
Developer is afraid of doing anything that might give the impression the game isn’t doing well. Anything that might increase que times, or make it obvious that one faction is doing horribly in playercount, or that half your team is actually bots is trying to be hidden from you.
I don’t think there is any other explanation for why we dont have underdog bonus for axis right now, or whatever faction in the future. Hopefully the influx of players from steam (if the handle the launch well and actually fix a few things) will be enough that the BR system that makes no sense now can be adjusted to be more fair.
This game isn’t WT with mixed battles, so something HAS to be done to ensure sides stay relatively populated in matchmaker, and the only way to do that is some kind of bonus for the underpopulated side that is constantly adjusted according to the data the matchmaker has. Is there 30% more allies in que? Maybe a 20% bonus would fix that, 2x as many? 50% etc. a curve depending on the severity. 10% silver/rp bonus isn’t going to be enough for people to get their ass kicked though.
And again its not a player problem, when you got 5 bots on your team, and you got ppl in planes and tanks you might be the only person that is putting down rallies or trying to cap. Yes I know bots place rallies, but guess what? They only do so if your team isn’t getting free farmed and actually make it somewhere to place one.
Main problem is that this is a self reinforcing death spiral. The worse a single faction does, the less people will try to play it. While the imbalance is minor, just slight nudges could work. Once people associate a faction with getting shitstomped, it unironically might be too late
Heroes and Generals had a reward bouns for under populated countries that players were not happy with.
As with all games, they nerfed stuff to try and balance out but most players will naturally play with a side and equipment they will win with and get annoyed with nerfing. At least a bonus may soften the blow of losing all the time. Also, BR1 player should have higher rewards if fighting BR2 & BR3 players in same game and so on.
Also, has this rule for BR now being ignored. My BR2 sqaud was lined up for a battle that could be 1-4.
What ever happened to 1-3!
