I have no idea what updates you made in the past month or two, but the matchmaking for me has become almost unplayable. It’s really frustrating.
I feel like I’m playing against players with perfect aim — they always shoot me before I even spot them.
I even created a new account to play lower-rank matches. The first battle was fine, full of beginners, but the second one was full of high-rank players with Panthers and other top-tier vehicles — and it kept going like that! What is going on with the matchmaking system? Is it assigning my IP address to my skill level somehow? How is it possible that even on a new account, I’m being matched against high-rank players? Or are those bots?
Also, I have a T-34/85, and I keep getting matched against Panthers or other vehicles that I have no chance of defeating!
Why has it changed into something so frustrating and unbalanced? It wasn’t always like this!
And another thing — I disliked all the maps I don’t enjoy and liked the ones I do, but it almost never puts me into the maps I actually like. Why does the game feel so unfair now when it used to be great?
game is always a bit more sweaty during major events.
Many veterans are actively playing to get the 20K score every two days so it will stay like this till dec 8.
You should probably pay attention to BR ratings and go play a lower BR like BR1 or BR2 which has more new players.
It really happened. I have got a Panther against my T-60 tank… in a second battle on a new account.
I have already set preferred maps and I’m saying that it almost never gives me preferred maps.
Yes, I’m only playing normal queue.
“T34/85 is on the same BR as Panthers” that’s true…
Also when I received nickname symbol “V”, I then get in every battle players with the same symbol in their nickname… Just why, a such thing change the matchmaking…
It’s unplayable because it feels like I’m playing against AI ultra difficult BOTS, they shoot me through grass without being able to see me, prefire me all the time, headshot me with full auto weapons along big distance and I just noticed they all do the same burst fire pattern… and they shoot straight lines, no recoil or spread… So am I really playing against bots?
I used to enjoy this game, I liked it so much it felt so fair and unbalanced, but now it’s like no joy or anything except being pissed off.
What happened? If you don’t believe me, I will record you a video
Because if so, know there’s NO battle rating restrictions in those. A br1 can meet a br5.
If you play regular matches, then the only possibility is you probably have a single thing in your lineup which is minimum br3 (can meet br4) OR if you play with friends, one of them have a high br thing in his own lineup.
Note:
It feels like you don’t fully understand how the matchmaker functions. You don’t need to create a new account to play low battle rating matches:
Matchmaker IS NOT skill based. It’s equipment based.
So merely remove high battle rating weapons and vehicles from your used squad and equip them with low ones, to play low battle rating.
Now as for map preferences…
It doesn’t really work. A multitude of players noted it changes nothing at all in what maps and modes you end up playing. It’s a placebo devs implemented to justify their desertion penalties, nothing more.
No one will serve you.
As shown in this battle (Invasion - attacking side), there are 4 console players and multiple pc players.
I use BR1(with 120~220 Ping on internet), but when matching the teammates I encounter, they use br2.
They refused to bring out the capabilities of better weapons and vehicles.
It also refuses to actively build and replenish resurrection points.
They prefer to use snipers, or even any other soldiers, to crouch behind and carry out meaningless or inefficient sniping activities.
They only care about their K/D like developers do, rather than victory and how to pursue it.
Even some pc players perform worse in battles than console players.
According to your idea, those players who rank lower and fight passively will be very happy for winning and they will praise this battle.
Because there are nine of them.
So the pain and torment I feel alone will not be cared about by anyone.
that called unplayable only for myself.
Look, even I use the BR2 Germany, my teammates will deliberately gather within the range of the enemy’s artillery fire.
Even when I was forced to leave the battle at 15,000 ping and returned again.
For such a long time, they won’t do any useful work except running away.
This has been a pain point for many players, your either:
playing the wrong faction
keep getting bad teammates
playing during sweaty times
Playing the wrong faction means everyone’s playing Germans and the Soviets are all AI bots for example. This issue leads into the second point, bad teammates which in some cases are worse then bots.
Playing during sweaty times is during events and peak times when everyone is playing.
ALL of these issues are solved very simply with one change, play a different faction.
There has always been a very bad problem with faction player stacking, (everyone playing a single faction at the same time) this normally happens during peak times, events centered around a particular faction, and during major updates that add new equipment to a faction and not to others.
Adding a tank and a weapon to a faction, then choosing the rival faction to get a plane, a tank, and 2 weapons is something this game has seen since it first went through the merge. Sadly the devs, history and direction the game is going to all influence the unbalanced systems of enlisted.
One of these can be fixed, but that’s on the devs to listen to the players (seems like the forum changes is a attempt to filter out the bad feedback and get more of what we want?). That just leaves 2 more issues that will never go away unless we want to go full paper weapon mode, and that affects history and the game direction.
It doesn’t consider equipment strength, it only cares if it’s in BR 1-2 range.
It doesn’t care if I go with T-60 tank, it will give all the tanks within BR in the battle, and sometimes it crosses to higher BR for some reason, because I think that it merges me with different BR players
That mixed BR only happens when you have less players then the 20 required to play a match. The game expanded its search when your playing BR I - II and you face a BR III so your not waiting for 5+ min in the que.
I agree, we should have a toggle for those who don’t care to wait. This way we can either play the game how it currently is or wait for a match that’s exclusively within your chosen BR even if your waiting a while.
This can divide the community as some would argue, but it’s going to happen anyway if we implement ±0 BR. So it’s better to lay the ground work until that point.
