People have been heavily requesting a exp/silver bonus from playing a random side in matchmaking for awhile and I agree with more experience for the top person or top three getting more experience as if they were on the winning side if they lost.
Probably the main reason for Germany being better in higher BR’s is because when the merge was announced Axis grinded Berlin for the later tech since we knew the research tree was going to be gaijined. That and Axis has way more coordination team wise than the other’s majority of the time.
Also of note most of the Russian player base decided to stick with Moscow and Stalingrad before the merge so that handicapped them at later BR’s while America’s base stayed with Normandy keeping them on equal footing most of the time.
You ever play a match with all his soldier carry 3 impact grenade? insane unlimited throwing? have soldier Riflerman III with bonus perk +15 med pack +75 all of em. and he place like 30++ anti personal mines in objectives defense point? 100% accurate bombing and high dogfighting skill play in br1 not being called smurf doing stuff like that? or you just a FUN player just sniping sittin around tax asses being useless never feel hows ur tryhard being a core in team and you dont need to talk with me in another level. you made my day better
Balance issues have nothing to do with smurfing - for smurfing you would first need a performance based ranking system to begin with, which doesn’t exist.
Then again, it seems to me that the Soviets keep winning. Only one win out of 40 battles. Team balance is lacking here, and it’s been made worse by the update.
Its smurfing, no matter what as a Vet play in place of newbies tier I xD with different gameplay and skills… cant call itself balance issues. the systems cant detect how good the played because no rank based for matches
As someone who plays primarily German but also USSR, I see the games I’ve personally been in as relatively fair and decent. I’ve had a few games where we steamroll, and A BUNCH of games where we get decimated by Soviet veterans in a matter of minutes. I think it depends on the time of day you play in relation to your time zone. I feel that when I play at night into the early morning (11pm-4am) I have some GREAT games where I literally say out loud “ wow that’s a great game”. It depends.
I understand your frustration my friend. I wish you well!
-MissingMayhem13
VERY TRUE! I recall seeing comments under Paradivisions and Quadros YouTube videos mentioning the grinding for Moscow/Stalin and Berlin by both SU and AX mains.
It’s an unfortunate situation and I believe it can be resolved by allowing the FLOW of XP to be increased based on if you win it lose, against high ranked players and/or being a Tier 3 against tier 5 people etc.
We need more XP Regardless, it takes about 20-40 games (each game being 15-45 minutes) to unlock a Tier 5 BR5 item. It’s a grind like no other.
If the game implemented a “skill-based” matchmaking, most players would quit.
SBMM doesn’t work for COD, it ruins games and runs them into the trash.
I think the matchmaking should stay and remain randomized. Some games you win, some you lose. Sometimes you lose game after game, sometimes you win time after time. It is what it is. It’s the joy of being able to play. Winning every game is never fun. Losing every game is never fun. Thus why it’s up to the PLAYERS to determine their victory. Fight hard and to the death for the victory.
You made great points, if people were restricted to high BR for being veterans, the merge would have solved nothing.
P.S. As a veteran German player, I primarily use BR 2 equipment and weapons, I use two BR5 vehicles which is what puts me into BR5, which I am 100% okay with. I hold my own with the MP40 and K98K very well. My personal skill and experience with each weapon I use allows me to be a very well played player in game.
It’s not about the rank or position in BR of the player. It’s about the skill. You can’t nerf good players to make them bad. You can’t buff bad players to make them good. It’s impossible.
As far as I know the term “smurfing” comes from games like Dota and League of Legends, where every player is always placed to play against people on their own skill - you win more often? The Matchmaker ranks you higher. - you loose a couple of matches? The Matchmaker ranks you lower.
Some players don’t like this and create new accounts so they get placed very low in the rankings.
That is called “being a smurf account” - a veteran disguised as a noob account.
However this does not apply to Enlisted what so ever, there is no SBMM system in this game.
Exactly, there are a lot of bolt action fans in this game that like the slower pace gameplay with less automatics.
BR1 is exactly right for them to play.
People don’t realize what the BR system is actually for, it has never been about new players not playing against veterans - instead unlike old enlisted now new players don’t have to compete with only starter gear against MAX BR equipment.
The chances each player has to compete are brought more in line.
Now all that said, even that wasn’t actually the main reason for the Battle rating system, it was actually done to reduce empty lobbies by getting rid of too many campaigns that split the playerbase.
SU is now full of sweaty players and Germany is unplayable/abandoned. The issue is from players themselves. This started happening after they added stats. Now everyone and their mother is a winner team joining wimp, because they wanna brag about their meaningless number. Remove stats and add deserter penalties, that would fix it.
The grind is insane, especially on the axis tank tree, multiple panzer variants that are the same and then three jagdpanzer (the tank destroyer after the panther G) having three almost identical variants for 170,000+ each. Each game gives between 3k-6k research if I’m not wrong if you lose with a bonus if you win. So yeah takes about 20 games for one unlock which is an insane amount of grinding.
Also not to mention a game lasts between 20-30 minutes on average with some that can last up to an hour.
Yup! Thats an ABSOLUTE issue. I’ve seen people say that it’s “not bad” and I would say that having to grind out multiple items in a tech tree regardless of tier to unlock something you have already researched is ABSOLUTELY horrendous. They need to fix this and address the overall issue of research. It has killed my motive and drive to even play the game. I have grinded the Tiger II and STG44, while already having been on campaign level 37 for Normandy and lvl 12 for Berlin (both axis) I have lots of tier 5 equipment that is so close to being researched but now I’m unable to unlock them because I have not unlocked late campaign Moscow and Stalingrad equipment from campaigns I played but not as often as Normandy. I feel like I’m being punished. I’m being punished for paying for premium, for buying the battle pass and spending money on the ability to just gain more XP per game than someone who is playing for free and for that, I have to go backwards 10 paces to walk forward 1. I’m truly upset about this.
What the point of playing the game if each game is 15-45minutes, and it takes 20* games for an XP of 3-5K? I work many hours and I am unable to play as frequently as I used to… I’m unable to retrieve and use what Items I have spent hours already researching. If you can research it, you can buy it. Thats how it should be. Plain and simple.
The Axis base taking the Berlin Campaign has been a double edged sword post merge, we have everything for BR5 and usually dominate around that BR but will take forever to try and research anything new that’s added to BR5 or even lower BR’s.
Same, I’m busy with a job and college and can’t spend hours a day on enlisted just to get halfway done with research on a vehicle or weapon I’ll never use and the newest event for the German STG squad and the Russian AS-44 squad is way to grindy when trying to get all 5 objectives. Needing 10 completed battles takes around 3-5 hours alone
I definitely remember running into you multiple times in Tunisia months ago and all you did was spam impact grenades and rifle grenades, so funny you complain about such spam.
