So I saw the post where SD has an early 2016 goal of changing the match balance in game. Even SD thinks the match balance more often than not fail to do its job. It really is a huge pain to play when majority of the matches are severely imbalanced resulting in boring games. I am curious as to how the new system will balance the teams. As of the moment I do not understand how the current system works since there appears to be only one balance which is head count balance. It may be me but most of the time the match balances in a way where high levels are grouped together against low levels. It is such a pain to play when enemy team is literally sitting in your spawn or playing as the team that does it. The worst part is to sit through a whole stop watch game when you know there is no way you can even push a single objective. Would there be a surrender button so no time is wasted? Would there be some kind of level balance? Hell even balancing the sum of levels can be great as level generally represents skill. More experienced players are just better. I have no idea what SD will come up with to replace the current system and I could only wish that day comes sooner so people do not need to suffer more or spend 5 minutes searching for a server where there is a balance game.
Match Balance Curiosity
The current balance takes in count your last 10 games with a hidden Elo rating and balances the teams in the lobby after games.
This does not help if new players join or old leave.
I am often surprised, too, if for example me (if I’m the best in my team since all players are low-levels), and the best guy from the other team, (who is like lvl 20-40, too) get in the same team in a following game. I never understand why such things happen, and I hate it.
I just feel like the balance works great. But just shuts down 70% of the time.
Balancing based on levels is not really a good idea. Rather balance based on the current scores.
I just can speak for myself. But sometimes I carry games with high-levelled enemies and sometimes I get destroyed by really low-levelled people.
There is one thing I really wish this new balance thingy gonna have: A forced swap of (imo the best solution: The best player) to a team which has 2+ less players.
Ya the whole shuffle vote is a joke. Out of the 150 hours I have played so far I only see 1 vote ever get through.
- It requires a lot of votes to pass
- Winning team usually do not want to switch or is too lazy to vote
- Often times when you finally ever shuffle the damage has been done to an extent where the new balance teams are handicapped and put at a disadvantage where it may be irreversible.