Rage quitters/unbalanced games

(Tom2160) #1

Hello, so today I’ve been playing DB and been seeing so many rage quitters/unbalanced matches. For example I’ve been in two matches today were it was 3v6 because half my team rage quit. Furthermore, I found this unfair (obviously) so I called shuffle, but to my surprise 4 people voted “No”. The community lately has been getting far more ‘cancerous’ as its full of rage quitters, kids saying “get rekt” when they finally get a kill or people saying “Gg” after a game that was 3v6 or unfair in anyway.

There should be some sort of system which automatically evens the teams out if they have been something like 3v6 for over 2 minutes or so. Either way I hope the community learns that a stomp is not something to be proud of. I do disagree on shuffling if the teams have an even amount of players on each side (e.g. 6v6) as in that case its just a matter of playing better.

(everlovestruck) #2

Try different servers? That worked for me.

(Naonna) #3

I’m still confused as to why the DB dev team is so against auto-balance within games. I’d rather the lowest-scoring member be switched than it becoming a 4v6 stomp-fest with our team on the losing end.

(Boory Marks) #4

[quote=“Tom;29067”]Hello, so today I’ve been playing DB and been seeing so many rage quitters/unbalanced matches. For example I’ve been in two matches today were it was 3v6 because half my team rage quit. Furthermore, I found this unfair (obviously) so I called shuffle, but to my surprise 4 people voted “No”. The community lately has been getting far more ‘cancerous’ as its full of rage quitters, kids saying “get rekt” when they finally get a kill or people saying “Gg” after a game that was 3v6 or unfair in anyway.

There should be some sort of system which automatically evens the teams out if they have been something like 3v6 for over 2 minutes or so. Either way I hope the community learns that a stomp is not something to be proud of. I do disagree on shuffling if the teams have an even amount of players on each side (e.g. 6v6) as in that case its just a matter of playing better. [/quote]

One day, one day we will se the light.

(nokiII) #5

Because no one likes to have their progress work against them if they get switched, just look at TF2 auto-balance and how much rage it induces every day.

(Tom2160) #6

@hypnotoad At the end of the day we only play this game for fun. Is it really that fun to stomp in an uneven game? I would understand if it were a new player who doesn’t want to switch but when there’s levels above 30 that still don’t want to switch in uneven games. That’s what really pisses me off since I myself like to swap if I see a team doing badly or lacking players and its actually quite fun facing your own team (my opinion).

(nokiII) #7

I would rather eat a bag of dicks than get vote shuffled/auto-balanced into the winning/losing team just because someone left. Especially in stopwatch, even more so on the second half.

(SaulWolfden) #8

It is neither fun to stomp another team or be stomped by another team, a good game is when it is actually close, the advantage swapping between the attackers and defenders throughout the match, sometimes the attackers are winning, sometimes the defenders are.

(LifeupOmega) #9

Because no one likes to have their progress work against them if they get switched, just look at TF2 auto-balance and how much rage it induces every day.[/quote]

Whole reason we had AB disabled on our community servers back in TF2 was that most people would just quit as soon as they got balanced or switch to spectate. Fortunately with 12v12, player imbalance is far more lenient, and our playerbase were mostly regulars who didn’t care anyway so would switch all the time.

Can’t ask that of public though, and the AB still applies - people would just quit and it’d clean out servers even faster.

(DeadPixels) #10

Tom i completely agree with you. Rage quitters are making teams unbalance lot of times. They said it already, that players will be punished for leaving games like this.

I have nothing against shuffling the teams, but shuffling can break the team balance even more. The best solution is if one player just joins the other team.
Also shuffling at the last 2 min should be disabled. If i have played really hard the whole game in one team, then i don’t want to be put on the other just because somebody left

(RyePanda) #11

If the player imbalance is greater than 1, an autobalance should occur, switching the person on the larger team who has been there for the least amount of time to the smaller team.

(Cletus_VanDamme) #12

It’s gotten that out of control that I just spam V52 in chat when they call the shuffles.

(Apofenas) #13

It would be better if shuffle vote system (not auto balance) worked like in TF2. So it shuffles teams, saves progress of each player and restarts a game.

With current system, i vote for shuffle only in first minute of game when there is obvious imbalance like <5 lvl team vs 10+ lvl team. In other situations i vote against it no matter what. Even if my team is 2 times smaller than enemy.

If shuffle passes and i get switched to other team against my will, i’d rather play “plant-reclaim ammo station” game at the spawn(and top score from giving ammo) or simply rage quit. Anything exept playing for that team.

Now about auto-balance. I believe once one team has 2(or more) player disadvantage, system should ask players to change team and give them credits for balancing game at the end. Something like 20 +1 for every second of game to 200 max. I doubt that reward would get higher than 50 expecially in last minutes of game. Make a good use of people’s greed and mistrust.

(Chris Mullins) #14

Once we’ve implemented Casual Matchmaking this shouldn’t be an issue as matches will naturally be a lot more balanced. We’re hoping it will fix the majority of issues, but we’ll be keeping a close eye on it once it’s released.

(NetflixandKill) #15

Are their other changes to team balance / an auto-balance (similar to how @Naonna described above) coming along with CMM? Will server browser still stay with CMM?

(powi_) #16

Honestly I dont mind autobalance as long as my xp isnt lost. Fun and balanced games are much more important.

(powi_) #17

Anyway i have 50/10 stats usually on minlevel 10 servers, i feel dirty :blush:

so just to add one more thing, as far as my xp AND frags arent lost, i dont mind being put in the other team.