Suggestion for improved matchmaking

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Newish player with about 100 hours played, thought I’d give it a go despite having played Warthunder.

Sometimes it’s a really good game, though far too many stomps which aren’t fun on either end. This seems to be at least 60% of the time.

So how about adding a ‘willing to wait’ setting where you’d rather wait a couple of minutes or more to get a good game with people somewhere around your level? Could match on K/D ratio for instance.

Certainly feels as though there’s lots of pure bots off peak and I don’t really see how you can get a game after 10 seconds wait unless there’s more than a smattering of bots making up the numbers.

I’d far rather wait for a while than waste 20 minutes or more on a completely one sided game, indeed I’ve started deserting rather than wasting my time on such.

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Lol

Less than you think…console players can see exactly who is and isn’t a bot, and there aren’t many unless players desert….

It’s hard to do SBMM without a sizable portion hating it, but maybe they can make it work somehow

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Well I recently unlocked the M1 Carbine and it’s a completely different game. Trouble is it also popped up on steam achievements that only 8% of the player base have completed the unlocks for seven BR2 weapons, which really isn’t very many.

So 92% drop out before getting a semi auto of some description. Guess there’s only so many willing to take jet fighters on with biplanes, weird huh? Or put another way 92% don’t get to play something vaguely similar to the game the higher level players are playing.

There’s still just about as many stomps, maybe slightly less, though even they can be pretty darned exciting as you feel you’re more a part of it.

I checked a few random games during the day, usually at least half bots according to a spreadsheet, a Marshall or two on either side with 70-100 kills and some bolt action dudes getting 10 kills per match. Frankly desertions don’t seem to change the game all that much in those situations.

As I mentioned, I’ve played Warthunder, I know how it works. Ftp means you are the product, buy this shark and feast on the little fishies. I get it. I volunteered for this, wasn’t conscripted!

Though not all the sharks and premium stuff are going to be controlled by nimble wristed leet egamer types. Some will be average, some utterly retarded. So maybe stick all the retards in the same match every now and again?

If you don’t feed the little fishies the sharks have nothing much to feast upon.

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I like this idea and goodluck with your grind.

For myself I usually want a quick game, so for those fine with waiting a bit longer having that option is good.

I already have to wait about a minute or more to join a match so Id be okay waiting 2 minutes if it was guaranteed Id have a proper match rather than a massacre by tryhards from uptier

cough BR III Allies VS BR V Japan every single Pacific match cough

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Yeah, complete piece of garbage ain’t it? DF did it dirty. And yeah, since they isolated BR I moving into the real game of II-III and III-V would be a major change of pace. Going from some of the worst guns in the game to suddenly there’s LMG’s and tanks and planes everywhere. I’m sure that would be a giant shock to the system

There are a grand total of 0 jets in Enlisted

That being said, I can’t say anything on the player retention. I love this game, and I’m sure there are plenty others who do too. Or at least play it out of Stockholm Syndrome like I do with War Thunder. If most people who try the game don’t like it, well, that’s not really my problem. I see almost entirely full lobbies every match and usually only see 1-2 bots when it isn’t full, and mainly see bots when people pussy out of the match

As for your “sharks vs fish” analogy, I still wouldn’t know cause I guess I’m the “shark” at the top of the leaderboard every match with 100+ kills. The thing that irritates me the most is when I have a bunch of idiots for teammates who don’t know how to get on objective to save their life. I genuinely don’t even know how you can be bad at this game unless you’re an actual 12 year old because every other FPS game I’ve ever played I have a negative K/D in. In Enlisted I’m top of the leaderboard. I don’t get it

It honestly just sounds like they downloaded it, played it a little, didn’t have fun, and quit. I know I certainly got mislead a little when I watched Russian Badger’s video on the game before getting it, but I still had a lot of fun playing it. I’m still playing it to this day. Just played it for like 2 hours earlier and I got the event requirement done yesterday. So I don’t know about the 92%, but I have fun playing Enlisted

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Maybe, recoil seems a bit much. Though it’s still night and day compared to running up a hill with a bolt action waiting to be mown down.

You do still run up the hill and get mown down or course, but you feel more as though you’re in a more equal fight.

Find someone who loves you as much as Gaijin hates British tanks is a good mantra for life.

Could it be something to do with you mowing them all down when you’re on the other side to them possibly? Like, maybe they never learn, or have a positive enough experience to think that they might eventually? So they go and find something a bit more forgiving instead. This is part of my point.

And frankly don’t assume I have a problem with sharks mowing down hordes of newbies. Quite the opposite, long may it continue. Just don’t run out of newbies.

Indeed it’s pretty much the thing that I liked about it. The sheer brutality. 100 hours in and played a map I haven’t seen before, or a part of a map I didn’t recognise. So the ‘I don’t have a clue what I’m doing here’ kicked in again. Though if told to take an MG bunker you wouldn’t know about that sniper position, or the tank that’s already racked up 30 kills shelling the same area. It’s really quite realistic.

In Afghanistan we were told there was a person of interest in a compound and we were to get a monkey in there. You can’t see through the armour of a Ridgeback, could vaguely see a compound / village ahead through the windscreen up front. You don’t know the layout, whether they’re doing the washing up or sitting in ambush. Whether they’re armed with a vicious slice of mango or a Dushka.

Can’t imagine why. It’s a mystery I tells you.

Maybe if the retards were given a taste of the higher level gameplay but against other similarly retarded folk every now and again? King of the dunghill, only for those with a < 0.5 KD ratio over a decent number of matches. Or maybe objective is to capture an armoury which has gucci semi / auto weapons in it? Blow up a bridge so no vehicles can get in, raining and cloudy so no Stukas taking the piss. All sorts of options.

Course the Marshalls toting leet skillz and wielding the premium unlockiness of Doom wouldn’t even know it was happening as they wouldn’t be invited.

But they might find that the fishies, having been fed, grew a little.

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Eh, maybe