With the grind for marshal doubled, having to deal with bad teams is becoming more frustrating to the point that I hate playing certain campaigns outside of battle pass missions because of noobs playing the faction I play to the point that I have to cut my losses and just desert a losing match to find a better one right away since there’s just no point in staying on a losing match as its just going to be a waste of time since I don’t earn anything for the ranking even with battle hero.
It makes me hate the noobs and bad players even more making my grind much slower so I would suggest removing the penalty for battle heroes of the losing team so atleast there’s the incentive to try to win the match more instead of just deserting where a battle hero of the losing team instead of earning nothing just earn one point so it wont be a complete waste of time for the effort.
Couldn’t play my favorite campaign and faction so had to rank my way up to Marshal through Normandy Axis or Pacific Axis to free myself from this ranking grind for the season.
Cant agree more, obviously we’re speaking of moscow axis.
To make matters even more fun the soviets has been buffed to level that this game is probably only place where soviets thru out history has actually been good.
I agree. The balance of the campaigns is so badly off in terms of winrate (based on my own experience at least) that for anyone not intensively masochistic and wanting to rank up should just avoid certain campaign sides (EU normandy allies, for instance).
This is likely just going to end up making the structural issues we have with the campaigns (like EU Normandy Axis being an easy mode) just worse and worse when people connect the dots.
Agreed. Logically, I don’t care about rank but the completionist in me is annoyed. I’m grinding Berlin Axis a bit and just barely into Moscow Axis and it will force me to ignore rank or I’ll lose my mind. Top of team several times this morning yet I sit at rank 49 having started at 50. Meanwhile I could go to one of the campaigns I’ve completed and join whichever side is popular and stomp my way to Marshall. It really doesn’t make much sense.
same… i dont care about rank, but my OCD is triggered when i have something unfinished in game. ffs even when i play rpg i need to get all side quests before going with the main quest even if the rewards are shitty.
To be fair, its the exact opposite in console only lobbies. Moscow Axis wins out far more often by far. Meanwhile Moscow Allies don’t seem to have a chance most games. I’m not really sure exactly why there is such a massive difference, but there definitely is.
My problem with Moscow nowadays is that many noobs prefer to play Soviet making this a real headache to carry. Right now I play Stalingrad Soviet which is much more manageable than Moscow even though it suffers the same noob problem too along with stackers. Recently besides Stalingrad Soviet, I mostly play Normandy Axis, Pacific Axis and sometimes Tunisia Axis depending on what the BP asked. Maybe later on would start playing Moscow and Berlin again soon once I have a huge buffer without getting demoted or when I get marshal rank with a huge buffer zone allowing me to play what I want without worries.
I don’t disagree that this is rather annoying, but there are 2 major reasons for this and I think its fairly easy to solve.
Its the first listed campaign and the default faction is soviets. A lot of new players don’t bother changing it, just jump right in.
I’ve come across a surprising number of new players (I reach out to offer advice if I see they could use it), that don’t realize you can play the other campaigns without finishing the Moscow campaign! It doesn’t say that you need to anywhere, but then again, it doesn’t tell players that they don’t need to either!
If some players avoid playing with newbies in order to improve their rating and get together with other people who are already at a higher level and have better equipment to beat newbies, that action makes the rating system, which is supposed to manifest the skill of the players, meaningless.
I can understand not wanting to play with newbies, though.
But, there is no honor in the current rating system and it only further unbalances the unbalanced team balance.
I think the mistake in this game is that the rating fluctuation rate is constant no matter which team you play on, even though the player base is skewed.
They should rethink the rewards for winning based on the team’s winning percentage. For example, if the Allied win rate in Normandy is less than 30%, then they should be rewarded 3x for winning with the Allies.
Since the winning percentage of a team changes daily, there should be a mechanism to dynamically change the rewards.
I don’t think the adjustments DF has made this time, increasing the points to become a marshal, will make the rating system healthier.
rating is meaningless anyways for veteran players… it is just matter of grind and not of a skill. if i dont desert match and get -1 there, only rating i get will be 0 for defeat or 2 for win… and i just need to play enough to get to marshal if i want the rank.
Except that is incorrect. If you are 50 or above (which you will be as a “veteran player”) you lose a point for a defeat. So if you get placed into a horrid team and spawn in after a CP is already lost… well there’s a reasonable chance you’ll lose a point despite your OP veteran skillz.