Bad Balance

[nuttyNavy]

Hey, The balance in this game is sh!t… Sry but it realy is!! I played 3 competitive Matches and my team was unranked and the other team was gold… This also is in the normal game modes. I win 1/8 Matches… Thats bad! The game realy needs a batter balance! (Sry if something is written wrong, im not from England/US)

[Jostabeere]

Sadly but yes. Game does balance after a match, but this doesn’t help if you join a running match where one team is stronger than the other.
Comp is just 2 cases: Stomp or get stomped. Many people say that.
This game needs 2 things:
Balance based on levels (many people will scream: “But lvls don’t show how skilled u are” Sure, but many game I’m in with a guy being 10+15 lvls higher than the rest of people he dominates the whole room just because level means playtime and experience. If I’m 10-15 levels higher than the usual 1-15 and the only high in the room, I brutally stomp teams)
Forced balance once or twice max per game everyone can call-in to balance the room based on current scores. Objective gets switched teams and adds 5 minutes to the counter, stopwatch adds a third half to the games score and doesn’t count the first half if the forced balance was called in the second half. FIrst half behaves like an objective game.
Edit: And an automatic forced balance if one team has 2 people less than their enemies, the best in the team gets switched.

[_Grim]

They should just rename competitive to 5v5 and apply the “competitive rank System” to all forms of gameplay to balance matchmaking.

I’ve seen threads complaining:

No one plays competitive
Matches are uneven because higher levels are being placed again low level due to a low player base.
Complaints that level 6 isn’t the time to get thrown to the wolves against level 40+ players

So use the one system in place to evaluate skill level for all games and it may just start working as intended and balance the matchmaking.

[Jostabeere]

The biggest thing that bugs me isn’t just one high vs. many lows. But most of the time there are 2 highs. And I can’t switch to help those poor guys because they have a full team so I either dtomp them or just leave if I have no missions. Or I get stomped by some lvl 60+

[_retired]

I could swear that:

-When I join ongoing game I join team that has no chance of success or that chance is so small that it’s just ridiculous. The worst was probably yesterday when I joined Bridge, Trainyard and Chapel match. When I was just gotten to the game it said “they go the objective” and then just after that it took like 30 seconds to say “they delivered the objective” which was the first one. Then it took like a minute and it was over. I mean, you could only ask, what on earth happened at the start? Was there a point it was somehow “even” by any standards?

-When I join game that starts from the beginning it’s the other way around. It feels from the start that the other team just doesn’t got it. Example sometimes repairing time in Chapel is like 15 seconds for my team or other way around the other team doesn’t get out of the spawn. Also even if they get the first objective (on Bridge this doesn’t even happen) then it’s very likely it will stop in specific spots…like forever. As defender this is worst since you just waltz around fragging. As attacker you feel there’s bit more pressure and hope that maybe defence can stop you at some point, most likely not.

And you can almost always see this from the levels of players. The balance based into those levels is awful.
Yesterday there was match that was three 30 levels plus two 15 levels against some total random folks ranging from level 3 to 8 to level 18, mostly under level tens.
How many think this latter team have any chance to win or even get out of their spawn?

That is pubs, ladies and gentlement. And I’m also done soloqueeing for MM.

Balance currently is a total joke.

[Sir_Slam]

In comp matches I go back and forth from playing with silvers to cobalt in seemingly random order.

I stomp the silver players and can almost stand up to the cobalt, so you think that would put me in…I dunno gold 3? 2 maybe?

Naw. Just more silver players for me slaughter and never gain enough ELO to rank up.

All of that being said, they know its bad and are working on it. This is BETA, the ranking system takes a back seat getting out content.

[RyePanda]

In comp matches there probably aren’t enough people looking for a game so it takes what it can get.

[HoopleDoople]

You’ll get a whole mess of different ranks in the same match because so few players are willing to play competitive. If the entire enemy team is a higher rank than yours odds are they queued as a group. I have no idea why this is allowed, because it all but guarantees a stomp even if the ranks were equal.