About the current matchmaking

(slyVeil) #1

I really enjoy dirty bomb , especially when playing with my friends. We do love being competitive and really play objective in every stopwatch we join. Though , since the game offers an actual competitive gamemode , we decided to try that one out too.

First , to play this mode , you either need to queue alone , with a friend , or with 5 people. My group of friends mostly consists of 4 players , well , how unfortunate. If we feel like playing competitive , we have to split up into two 2Player groups or find a 5th one , which mostly prevents us from playing competitive in the first place. I remember it used to be different earlier , you could just queue up with as many ppl you want , and I dont know why this was changed… Playing with 3 or with 4 people is a huge difference in terms of fun , I would really like SD to adress that. Dirty bomb can be really competitive , but there are not 5man teams scattered all across the community to make the current system work.
How about you keep the solo/duo pool , but add another pool for 3,4 and 5 premades. Thanks

Another thing i want to adress is the lack of possibilities you have to coordinate with your team. If you play solo , you dont really have an idea of what mercs you should pick and what stradegy you can develope with your team.
First , the time you have to pick your mercs before the game starts should be AT LEAST 3 times longer , if not unlimited ( maybe a ‘ready out’ system?). You should be able to look at your teams mercs to see whats missing , and possibly adjust all your choices , which is not doable in 20 seconds. Also , enabling voice chat for the team in the lobby would really help , would just be much faster. The warmup time should be doubled as well , more time to work out defense/offense postitons etc.

Let me know what you think

(Firestorm7112) #2

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(nokiII) #3

You can’t split the ranked community even more. Right now it’s split into 3 regions and those into 2 queues each, solo/duo and 5man stacks. The problem is, there are so few people queueing, that everybody now queues solo/duo EU or you won’t find a game otherwise, unless you know another 5 man stack who queues at the same time and at this point, you can just scrim on a DBN server. Splitting the player pool further up wouldn’t be helpful at all.

But I agree with the merc selection time and better VOIP functionallity.

(slyVeil) #4

@effervescentPudding said:
slyVeil wrote: »

really play objective in every stopwatch we join.

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Whats so bad about that?

(slyVeil) #5

[quote=“hypnotoad;178351”]You can’t split the ranked community even more. Right now it’s split into 3 regions and those into 2 queues each, solo/duo and 5man stacks. The problem is, there are so few people queueing, that everybody now queues solo/duo EU or you won’t find a game otherwise, unless you know another 5 man stack who queues at the same time. Splitting the player pool further up wouldn’t be helpful at all.

But I agree with the merc selection time and better VOIP functionallity.[/quote]

I dont understand how this would split the community more up, it would make it even bigger. You still have two pools , one for 1-2 players , one for 3-5 players , the amount of ppl playing would probably get much bigger.

(Firestorm7112) #6

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Whats so bad about that?[/quote]
just sounds funny like objective mode in stopwatch mode lol

(nokiII) #7

And how exactly do you put 2 5 man teams together if your queue pool is 3-5 man stacks? You need to incorporate the solo/duo queue at this point, but that is nothing SD wants to do, as they just seperated 5 man stacks from the solo queue.

Also when they reintroduced 5 man stacks, alot of people who queued duo before, queued as a 5 man after but couldn’t find alot more games, because not enough new 5 man stacks got into the pool and the solo queue got longer aswell, because the 5 man queue cannabalised the solo pool. After about 2 weeks, everyone went back to solo/duo to get more games faster and 5 man queues are dead for now.

(slyVeil) #8

[quote=“hypnotoad;178358”]And how exactly do you put 2 5 man teams together if your queue pool is 3-5 man stacks? You need to incorporate the solo/duo queue at this point, but that is nothing SD wants to do, as they just seperated 5 man stacks from the solo queue.

Also when they reintroduced 5 man stacks, alot of people who queued duo before, queued as a 5 man after but couldn’t find alot more games, because not enough new 5 man stacks got into the pool and the solo queue got longer aswell, because the 5 man queue cannabalised the solo pool. After about 2 weeks, everyone went back to solo/duo to get more games faster and 5 man queues are dead for now.[/quote]

Oh i see lol, I really didnt think about that you cant fill a team without another person/ 2people. My bad. I still think the current system is not optimal , I guess that’s a hard one to improve though.