[quote=“Phukka;194890”]Exactly, most games, if not all have some kind of ranking system, hidden or visual.
If you are a new player, an average or below fps player, you’ll soon leave dirty bomb if you get wrecked over & over. Making rooms Max level 5 or 10 is not fixing it, a Lvl 3 can destroy a Lvl 100!
It’s pretty apparent, player retention in this game is terrible & I can only assume this has something to do with it.
It’s also very clear that team balance causes even the better players no reason to bother too. I personally can’t be @$!# to play a game, heal, revive, repair the EV & kill just to lose as my team mates run the wrong direction constantly.
If you were able to have games that were close, almost zero ‘wtf are you doing’ rage, how nice would that be?[/quote]
@Phukka The game already “ranks” you. Every player has a hidden MMR for casual play that is used when the server tries to balance teams that uses your last 25 games as a reference. Ranked does it a bit differently and it’s more weighted on win/loss.
The issue stems from this being a F2P game and there isn’t a global system for matchmaking to try and get players of similar skill levels playing each other. Right now each server attempts to balanced based on the pool of players that are currently on that server. And, as you know, it’s sometimes impossible to properly balance teams since balance itself is sort of an illusion and there is no way it can factor in certain issues like a player on a team choosing not to use the medic/eng in their squad because they want to play Thunder.
That’s why so many of us want the Casual Matchmaking system SD has been testing recently. So players are automatically matched with people who are at least in the same ballpark of skill with each other across all the players in a region. That’s how LoL and many other games do it.
So there is a system for balance in place and it is trying to weight how good you are based on skill as opposed to level (it’s never factored in level for the private MMR rating). It’s just that the system isn’t very good when you get brand new players on a server combined with long time vets.