The current system matches faster, but gear gaps are wide—BR3/4 gear doesn’t belong in BR5. One room per BR tier ensures fair fights with matched weapons (e.g., all BR5 players use BR5 gear), but some tiers may lack appeal and player count (debatable). As for players bringing just one BR5 weapon amid mostly low-tier gear—I can’t fix that.
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Not as wide as you think it is. 1 BR only is 1/3 the player pool that they currently have. What seperates a BR 1-5 for soldiers? The primary weapon only. Secondary gear is the same for all BR’s. The tier level is a high level thing but is not calculated in BR. Planes and tanks are all over the place. Sure the big tanks are awesome but how well you handle something makes up for the BR.
I think the current matchmaking system is awful!
In BR1 you often get to fight BR2 people who fields nothing but full 7 man assault squads while the newbies struggle with their 3-4 man medic, rifleman, sniper squads. It scares off the newbies.
In BR3 you often fight along somebody who just got their first BR2 squads while the rest of their squads still are medic, rifleman and snipers.
I understand that the playerbase is to low for us to get pure BR +/-0 but the game is hurting from it.
What I don’t understand is why we, instead of having a system that is based on one BR set up, don’t get a set up for each BR. Then you could opt what BR you would like to fight in and equip squads for each BR. Would give more fair fights at least equipmentwise.
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With BR ±0 i fear that the playerbase will just flock to the most ideal BRs for their faction and the entire game will just more or less devolve into Tunisia 2.0 with matches just becoming a coop PVE experiance.
Given the gear in BR 4 why should any faction othere than germany queue for that? You would be asking for having a bad time so nobody would. On another note why should germany or japan chose BR 3 when this is where they are the weakest if alteratives for an easier experiance exist. People will just optimise the fun out of the game.
The only somewhat viable BR for PVP would be the max BR as that give you the most toys for every faction giving everyone a reason to play that.
It doesn’t seem to matter what matchmaking system the players want, the Dev’s are going to give us the matchmaking system they want.
I think the majority of players would prefer a 0/0 matchmaking system, but that request has always fallen on deaf ears.
And the preferred map/mode system the Dev’s gave us? What a complete clusterf**k that turned out to be. 
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To be fair I am not sure if the devs deliberately sabotaged the prefered map playtest as EVERY SINGLE german item threw you into normandy (aka High BR) which is to much of an oversight to just be an oppsie and kinda poisoned the results of the entire test server.
Given the resulting clusterfuck it was all to easy for the devs to claim that a prefered map could never work even though a proper functional prefered map was never tried.
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Agreed it is bad, but I cannot see an alternative which would not divide the player base / affect player numbers - especially on console
Yes, it feels like every option has its drawbacks.
My biggest complaint against the preferred map/mode is that “EVERY” thumbs down I gave for mode was “ASSAULT”, and damn near every game I got stuck in was “ASSAULT”, so much so that for the most part I just quit playing in the general game mode and moved to playing in Custom matches. I never get stuck in a map or game mode I hate, and if I quit, lose internet or power, no penalties. 