It’s unfair B.S.
In the past, I haven’t seen it as much, but this past week, it’s been NUTS. Like the algorithm changed. I do random “play any army” ALL the time and play BR2. This past week, at least 50% of the matches have been vs. BR3.
It’s the type of thing that will make this “whale” (I have spent more money on this game than I care to admit) to take a break until they change it.
Lol as br2 you either play with br1 or br3, 50% of the match playing against br3 is fair enough.
Or you are just unhappy that you get less chance to farm br1 newbies.
They didn’t put much thoughts about matchmaking in the game at all. It is the same on high too. Enlisted now has enough player base to call for a more balanced game.
People are BR1 newbies for about 10-20 matches, tops. It’s stupidly easy to get BR2 gear after the recent changes.
Do you not know the differences in BR2 vs BR3? Thompsons become available, T34, Shermans, flamethrowers - heck, even the Germans get decent AT.
Since I play any faction, I’m not complaining about one faction being stronger than the other - but BR3 vs. BR2 is a HUGE difference. It’s not impossible, but it’s unfair. If it weren’t so many people wouldn’t be playing it, and then dropping out of the BR3-5 matches.
So what? There will still be new br1 newbies coming in.
You are still facing them 50% of time since you met br3 50% of time.
It is nothing comparing to br3 vs br5.
How do you figure? There may be a few BR1 in every match I play (except for the BR3 matches, as they supposedly have fixed the MM so that BR1 and BR3 aren’t in the same match any longer) - but again, people do not stay BR1 very long. As they level up, they will just increase the number of BR2 that are available. Eventually, they might even increase the BR3.
BR1 is like a trainee on a job. They don’t stay trainees for more than about the first month. After that, they are usually just normal workers, and may stay at a job for years. People seem to act like BR1 is some static thing. It rarely is.
I beg to differ, but ultimately, so what? The point is, BR3 players tend to hit the eject button on BR5 matches anyway.
Since I play “Join any army” - I’m in the one group of players in this game who get penalized for abandoning a match.
And other trainee come and replace them, you also act like br1 is partly static where no people come in.
You are gonna use the same excuse for other br anyway. "It is so unfair while playing br3, br4 player hit the eject on br5 matches anyway, I get penalized for abandoning a match blah blah blah. "
Your posts are so…illuminating.
BR’s should be “hardlocked” 
as they call it, before everyone flees due to bad decision making.
Agreed. Should be something along the lines of BR1-2, BR3-4, BR5. Trouble with that, is I imagine you wouldn’t get enough people playing BR5 on it’s own, but maybe so. I don’t really know the player numbers when broken down like that.
I desagree.
I’m playing BR2 with my Russian’s, and no problem to deal with german br3 stuff
And… Sometimes There is a server bug and I fought inside Berlin’s ruins against BR4 Germans. I funished in the top 3 with my poors Bolt action riffles and the Russian’s wins !
I dislike uptiers as well which is why I never play BR4, but 50% is decent especially since not all of your enemies are BR3 and even those players are not pure BR3, there are many players that only have Panzer IV J/M1 garand/IL-2 or something that was easy to to get pre-merge.
You are only complaining about not getting to farm new players, if you don’t want uptiers, go play BR5.
I got all amped up the other day when I figured out that my level 2 Germans were in a level 5 match, and I was getting my ass kicked. So after getting pissed cussing DF, I realized that I had changed my medic squad to Kiraly’s to use in some BR5 matches and forgot to change them back when I reinstalled them into my level 2 lineup. So, that one was on me. 
The only faction I have a problem with DF uptiering is my level 3 Allies, as I don’t seem to get uptiered with any other faction.
Lots of people moved to BR2/BR3 because of the event Puma
then if you do not like it stop just pressing join any, you do know the point is to balance games. to replace people who left games or never joined that means a higher present of uptiers. you are touching a hot stove and getting angry at the stove, a turn the stove of or b do not touch it. that is why the q time is lower and the reward higher. they are matches people do not want to join. its join any not free boost to rewards fun button.
I didn’t say I don’t like “join any army” - I’ve done it like 500 times, that isn’t the point I’m making. And having played that many times, I know for a fact that it’s not to replace people who played uptiered and abandoned the game. Frankly, I like the “join any army” option a lot, though it’s not perfect, the pros outweigh the cons.
I HAVE joined a few games late - typically while playing Japan - though, that having happened perhaps 1% of the time, I chalk that up to typical MM craziness.
You were not wrong until your last sentence.
On that last sentence - I’d thought more of you based on your previous posts. Opinion updated.
Have had that happen before, no doubt! Particularly when grabbing a new unit (or getting it in an event) and not paying attention and going, “WTF!” - and then realizing what happened (since DF just sticks new units in your selection whether you want it or not!)
I haven’t seen a pattern in the uptiering except that it’s happened a lot more the past week or two.
how, how do you know, and what do you think its purpose is
I put in my post that I’ve played 500 games of “join any game” and if it was set up simply to replace people who have dropped out, I would have been put in already started games far more often than 5 times out of 500. Devs do not code things for it to only happen 1% of the time unless it’s a drop-box or something. Juice not worth the squeeze and all that.
The purpose was as the Devs stated when they released this new mode of play - to encourage competition, improve match making, make match making faster, reward more silver and research, reduce research times, etc.
Their exact quote was:
DYNAMIC BONUS FOR “JOIN ANY TEAM”
Many of you noted that the planned 20% boost to experience and Silver when opting to play with a random country is insufficient - primarily because it does not compensate for the potentially higher chance of defeat.
We have taken this into account, and now you will receive 20% bonus Silver and experience for winning (combined with the 50% for victory, so the reward multiplier will be calculated using this formula: 1.2 x 1.5 = 1.8), and 50% bonus for losing (reward multiplier: 1.5).
In the future, we may increase this bonus as a temporary event if the game needs more players on a random side.
DF uses bots to replace people who abandon the match.