Is it just me or is match balancing severely losing quality?

(HadronZodiac) #1

Ive been playing a lot more DB lately, and ive noticed the balancing has just become pure mierda. The chances of not entering a guaranteed stomp is extremely unlikely. A recent match it turned out most of the players on my team were new. Im honestly baffled on why this is even allowed. 20180627185518_1

(Press E) #2

Seems about the same as usual to me.
I noticed a lot of higher level players returned with the private server update though, so that always messes stuff up. Especially when they join a match in progress or refuse to shuffle an unbalanced match, since shuffling seems to be a stigma for a lot of high level players for some reason.

On another note, it’s not a surprise the server browser allows new and old players in the same server either lol, that’s nothing new. Hell it even happened with CMM frequently. It can be annoying, but it’s unavoidable with such a low player population. Having a new player on your team doesn’t mean bad balance either, it’s when a bunch of new or experienced players get clumped together on the same team

You’re probably just unlucky. Beyond the veterans coming back to try out private servers, nothing has been changed that would affect balance in any way

(K1X455) #3

I’m nearly always trying to keep the team up and healthy so if I don’t play medic, the team has a high chance of losing.

I seriously need to reset my XP to match the lowest player in the lobby.

(DarkangelUK) #4

Quick Join throws you on the closest populated server, it doesn’t matchmake and find a server with similar level players as you, just players in general.

(pumpkinmeerkat) #5

DB doesn’t have matchmaking.

Only form of balancing the game does is shuffle between matches or if shuffle vote passes during a match. There are max level servers but quick join selects the closest available slot to place players in a match ASAP.

(ThePigVomit) #6

you can lead the horse to water, but you can’t make it drink…

(HadronZodiac) #7

So basically you are proving my case that quickjoin does nothing but throw people into a server and expect it to work?

This is my case for basically most games

just joined a game, 3 players were new, 1 player came back after months, and there was me…

(Press E) #8

Seems you’re just unlucky then. My matches have been the same as usual, a few new players, but spread evenly across both teams enough that it’s still balanced. Like I said, DB hasn’t changed anything that would affect this balance.

Also idk why you’re surprised about quickjoin lol. It’s not like this is anything new, it’s been like this even before CMM. And hell, I got about the same number of unbalanced matches in CMM anyways

(HadronZodiac) #9

Before CMM it wasnt even that bad (maybe higher amounts of people)

And you were unlucky in cmm then, because i enjoyed it a lot more

(Press E) #10

Like I said, literally nothing changed with quickjoin that should make a difference. Player population really doesn’t matter when you’re just going to throw them randomly into a server anyways. So like I said, the only thing I can think of is veterans returning for rentable servers or whatever

(kittz0r) #11

Here is a Tipp. Stop crying and improve, tbh i’m so done with you new Players who think you are something special, you are not.
Play the Tutorial, read the Screen for Abilities or Chat Messages but apparently all new Players can do automatically after installing the Games is to spam Shuffle Votes, so the 1 Person who get kills just swap Teams.

(HadronZodiac) #12

How does one improve when youre already better than the whole team?

(DarkangelUK) #13

Please read the post properly before going on an unnecessary rant at someone, you’ll look less silly

(Mc1412013) #14

Balance seems same as before. Usualy its ballanced at beginning half of team leaves then back fills un evenly.

(Muddy Muddy Mud Nade) #15

DB has always had some doodoo matchmaking, it isn’t really getting worse. You’re probably just getting better, and seeing a lot more lower level players because you yourself are of a higher level and skill.
But hey at least godmars switched to an Aura!

Responding to this separately, I’ve always had a pretty simple philosophy: If the game is unbalanced (or at least I feel its unbalanced, since that can come down to opinion a lot), I’m down to vote shuffle… unless it’s on the second half of stopwatch. If one team went through the effort of destroying one side on attack or holding a solid defense, players shouldn’t get rewarded or punished for waiting too long to realize the game is unbalanced, if it even is.

(HadronZodiac) #16

Yeah, but there werent this stompy teams…

Tbh he was the one noob i wasnt annoyed with, at the very least he wanted to improve (i helped him out a bit too) But i swear to god the other ones…

Phoenixes did nothing but shoot
Bushes didnt even use ability or do objective
Skyhammers tossed airstrikes everywhere as soon as possible / didnt know what ammo packs were

#17

It’s the usual for me, heaps of players who are constantly complaining about balance non-stop yet have no idea what they are talking about. Instead of looking at their team composition and realizing something is wrong with it or executing a coordinated push to stop running into the same meatgrind over and over again they would rather invest that time in bewailing about the balance than doing any of the above.

(Freadanator) #18

Closest server? Just the other day I was sent to Asia when there was North American servers with some population in it. I’m in Canada. I think it still has some issues.

(HadronZodiac) #19

You cant really force any team composition, if all the players want to play phoenix .-.

#20

That is still better than no medics at all. :skyhappy: