If we’re losing the ability to choose which campaign to play in return for a larger player pool, it will result on a lot of players unhappy with the maps they’re randomly dropped into.
I think a ranked choice campaign option would be a fair compromise that would give players more agency in choosing where to play without enforcing hard boundaries leading to split queues.
The way I see it is like so: I can for example select Tunisia as my number one choice, Moscow as second, then Pacific, Normandy, Stalingrad and finally Berlin. Then I enter the que, and if there is a game starting in Tunisia the matchmaker will send me there, if not it will look for Moscow, then a Pacific map and so on down the line until Berlin.
This way everyone is pooled into the same queue, and they’re more likely to find a match in the campaign they prefer. They could even extend this idea to game types so players could choose if they prefer invasion or assault, etc.
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Yes and no.
Atleast for me the reason to quit some games is the game mode rather than the map such as conquest.
Sure there are some maps that are technically impossible to win with current average joes such as the god awful bridge map in berlin where u can just spam the cap point.
Anyway, the new BR system most likely will decrease the amount of not so useful people in certain BR games making such maps more bearable.
And then again havent really read the news how theyr planning the new merge. If I recall there was some mumbling about locking certain maps aka old campaigns to some BR levels or something.
Which pretty much would make entire merge pointless so idk.
So idk id still rather go with the unified matchmake than have different ques such as ranked, histori accuraci hurpderpderp.
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Of course, a unified queue is the major benefit of the merge. That’s why my idea is to keep the unified queue with the addition of weighted preferences for maps and possibly game types. They could even add a ‘no preference’ option for players who don’t care where they end up.
That way if there are enough players you’re most likely to get into the games you most prefer; and if there aren’t enough players for that, you’ll still get into a full game.