What I think about the current BR mechanism

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I want to talk about some of the problems currently encountered by the BR system
BR III problem
My opinion of BR III is a watershed move into higher level rooms, many factions have powerful weapons in BR III and their advantage in rooms in BR II can be devastating
But based on the mechanism of the BR system, BR III may appear in BR V or BR II.
It is known that there is currently no penalty for quitting, so we can do the following:
Organize a BR III queue. If I match a BR V player, I will exit and continue matching.
This cycle continues until I find a BR III room, and I use my BR III weapon to severely beat the players of BR I and BR II.

Sounds ridiculous, right?
But this is the problem currently faced by the German camp. As far as I know, a considerable number of players are doing this.
This kind of behavior is very harmful. First of all, when there are more people like this, the system assigns them to BR V as teammates of BR V players, but these guys only want to play games where they are the highest BR weapon. So they will choose to play passively or even quit directly. Then BR V players will get a bunch of incompetent teammates inexplicably, which is unfair to them, and they will give up playing BR V in this camp.
Secondly, BR I and BR II players will be beaten by players who deliberately select matches that are favorable to them, which is very unfriendly to novice players. Many weapons in BR III can be said to have overwhelming advantages over BR II. This will be more obvious with tanks.

The German camp BR V already has serious personnel losses. It is difficult for me to see BR V players these days. Instead, there are players who deliberately use the BR III mechanism to find favorable matches for themselves. They either become deserters or hide in the gray Zone plays passive games like snipers or tanks while firing spam
A small number of BR V players cannot lead these guys to victory, and they either face failure or quit the game.

This is like a butterfly effect. Some players take advantage of the BRIII mechanism but eventually lead to the loss of BRV players.

If someone uses BR III to deliberately use the exit mechanism to screen out games where only he has the highest BR weapon, this behavior is simply… despicable!

Now I want to talk about my suggestions
The BR system is a bit rough at the moment and it needs further polishing
My opinion is to further refine the BR system and divide it into three rooms, BR I~BR II, BR III~BR IV, and BR V
BR V has the most powerful weapons and vehicles. They are the most powerful warriors in each camp, so I think they should be put in a gladiatorial arena. It is a truly high-quality fight. It is unfair for BR players to drag themselves into this brutal battle.
Not only unfair to low BR players, but also unfair to BR V players
Let’s think about it, when you are equipped with a BR V queue and want to have a hearty battle with the highest level enemy, but all your teammates are low BR players who were inexplicably pulled into this cruel battle.
In the end, you can’t lead them to victory despite your best efforts. They will be frustrated, and so will you. They will feel it’s unfair, and you will feel the same way.

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Yes! some great solutions too, your idea of 1-2 3-4 & 5 being standalone might be more simple to implement than the +/- 1 system that I see suggested a lot

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if only, if only someone had told them this would happen before they went and done it!!

i mean, besides the hundreds and hundreds of posts saying this will work exactly like that, from the moment the BR III matchmaking was revealed.

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1-2
2-3
3-4
4-5
Best combinations i think

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I do think +/- 1 could be a good idea, however that does bring with it more queues and potentially more bots? At the moment there’s only 2 - a low tier queue and a high tier queue, with tier 3 filling in on either so I’m seeing a lot more human players and much closer matches.

I played some tier 3 earlier and it wasn’t as bad as I thought. Yes I got uptiered often, but my whole team wasn’t uptiered BR3. It was still competitive and I was still effective. I guess it’s not like we never faced tier 4/5 gear with bolt actions etc before merge.

Was nice to have the chance to play on all available maps too!

I think if the BR were divided further, the balance could actually be worse as the differences between weapons is probably going to be more noticeable with potentially increased bot teams.

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how about a quit penalty and nip the problem in the bud.

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punishment for quitting is much worse perceived than rewarding for not quitting. in the end is just the same in pure numbers, but not in the psychological side.

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Based on current player numbers and no incentive from DF to increase queue time, 3 BR queues would be the most reasonable.
BR5 has probably the most players at the moment so it could do with it’s own queue.

MM also needs to weight teams, the current 10 BR3 guys vs 10 BR5 is extremely unfair.
There should be about the same number of players of the same BR on both teams.

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I had the same idea: tier 1-2 protected from 75mm bullies, average battles between tier 3-4 and godlike tier 5 could face only itself(and in the further future - tier 6)

I want you to play some tier 1 games(e.g. with soviets those facing german PzIV J in almost EVERY match)

Penalty will just reduce amount of players(including myself D:). Devs should fix in-game issues(e.g. balance) instead of punishing players (those are already punished by those issues).

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Look I can play German BR3 just right, except I can’t tolerate the BR5 guys need me to carry their 4sses as BR3, same for BR5, I expect my teammates at least do the bareminimum to hold the cap while I build rally or I hold the cap and they build the rally… Also recently I have weird issue of BR1 and 2 players in my BR5 match… this is unacceptable

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Maybe they should go for something like a point system where players can only have a certain number of weapons from each BR-Tier in their Squads which would also keep lower weapon Tiers relevant. For example:

BR-Bracket Tier 1 to 3:

-A few BR III weapons

  • a good number of BR II weapons
    -unlimited BRI weapons

  • If player chose BRIII tank, the plane needs to have BRI plane

  • or if player choses BRII tank, the player can also use BRII plane

BR-Bracket Tiers 3 to 5 could be balanced accordingly.

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the problem with no penalty is that i see to many reasons for quiting not just bad br match,to tuff matchup or map,dont like the mission goal,bad teamate…