Many ppl have already suggested this. But since comments tend to get burried, I decided to post it yet again.
Change queues from Br 1-2-3 and Br 3-4-5 to Br±1. This will allow to better balance BR of weapons (at a cost) .
With 2 queues there is a big spike in weapon performance. This change would make it more gradual.
For example the recent change of KV into Br3:
Now: Br 1-2-3 where it will masacre weaker oponents or Br 3-4-5 where it will be an almost stationary target for everybody
With a change: Br 2-3-4 where it will have a farier fight
Edit
I forgot to add that it should be BR+1 xor BR-1. So you either have Br3-4 or Br2-3 but not Br2-3-4. Otherweise it doesn’t make much sense.
Please darkflow, implement +/- 1 system. It’s otherwise completely impossible for you to find a BR balance which will not frustrate and piss off the players.
That depends on player distribution.
Also, it’s just a matter of where you want to place the matchmaking problem.
Being constantly uptiered to ridiculous degree, probably is not a lot of fun for many players. No fun playing, might also be quite a problem down the line.
The test server was filled with uptiers because most players don’t know that the test server exists, and only more hardened players among them are even interested in going through the trouble in playing on it when you don’t get anything out of it in terms of progression. This led to the test server being very top heavy. I cannot imagine that being the case on live servers where you’ve got a bottomless pit of level zero console players in Normandy and the Pacific.
As for the actual suggestion, it might work, but it might also cause too much player splitting. I personally think the best course of action would be to decompress tier 3, expanding us to 1-2-3, 3-4-5, and 5-6-7. That way players would still have a reason to queue at every tier other than 1 and 6. Things that absolutely shouldn’t face end-game gear but also absolutely shouldn’t face starter gear like the KV-1 could be placed in 4 and never see either. Things that don’t deserve to be super top tier but are still good like the earlier/lower quality German assault rifles and PPD-34/38 could be in 5 with the possibility of tiering down, giving them a function other than being strictly inferior versions of the StG and PPSh.
