Scheduled Maintenance and Release Notes - 28th June, 2017

(Mc1412013) #21

@ragnak said:
@stayfreshshoe

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After changes.

I dont give a flying @$!# if duppi and co were waitng an hour in a que, i do NOT want to be matched as a solo player against that.

I told you its @$!# idiotic to allow premades in solo que, it should be SOLO ONLY, i am just constantly punished for playing solo.

Ask that genius that allowed premades in solo Q to explain to me and rest of the solo players how do you plan on balancing high level premades, just @$!# tell him to get here and explain that to me like i am 5 @$!# years old.

Spoiler: you @$!# cant balance that.

Explains why I have so many more losses compared to last season.

And I’m seeing way to many fucked up matches that ranks are not matches right . I’ve already had an all silver ranked team that I was on vs bronse/unranked team. Why wasn’t half the silver on other team

(ragnak) #22

@Mc1412013 said:

Explains why I have so many more losses compared to last season.

And I’m seeing way to many @$!# up matches that ranks are not matches right . I’ve already had an all silver ranked team that I was on vs bronse/unranked team. Why wasn’t half the silver on other team

[SD] confused “+” with “-” (for their super duper “skill boost” that ranked premades suppose to get) so premade teams gets easier enemy than solo players, mystery solved. At the very least every time i am with a 4 man premade (as the 5 solo player) or against 3-5 man premades, the team with more solo players ALWAYS have lower ranks.

I will wait for an explanation how they plan on balancing cobalt premade with current player base, cant fucking wait to see that (also spoiler: they will never tell me, LOL).

(bgyoshi) #23

All you people losing your minds over Ranked. Just…stop playing it. It’s not worth the headache.

They only push the current system because of players. If people don’t play Ranked, they’ll be much more open to more radical changes that we’ve been pushing for.

Like seriously… are Ranked skins THAT COOL? Just play pubs. Ignore Ranked completely and when Season 4 comes out, don’t go back to it until you see the changes you wanted.

“Tweaked match balance algorithm” doesn’t count for shit when there’s under 20,000 players in game. So if your only gripe is that the Ranked balance is bad, you will literally never be satisfied until there are a lot, a lot, A LOT more players.

(videoboy4000) #24

Played 8 matches, wins 1 losses 7. ( I m level 169, i dont deserve this. I m not such a bad player lol)

Always with bronze recruits and unranked vs silver team, or silver premades. Great matchmaking.

(znuund) #25

@bgyoshi said:
“Tweaked match balance algorithm” doesn’t count for @$!# when there’s under 20,000 players in game. So if you’re only gripe is that the Ranked balance is bad, you will literally never be satisfied until there are a lot, a lot, A LOT more players.
Cannot agree more on this. In the end everybody has to decide for himself why he is playing this game. As I stated above I would never ever wait that long for a match, doesn’t matter if balanced or not.

I see so many players complaining about the separation of premades and solos. I am 100% sure that the programmers did that, but the time it takes to make a good match of evenly skilled players is directly linked to player base. I guess it tries to find evenly skilled solos but as matchmaking times of 15 mins tell you, it can’t find something and in the end, there is the last option to just match to have a game, which many players don’t enjoy. These match-making algorithms do take a lot of computing time, but when there is a long search, you can be sure that it won’t be a good match.

Even though it hurts to say, especially from DB as successor of ET with a LOT of potential, I don’t think the game will reach the player base to make a ranked matchmaking.
If you really want to stick to a ranked section in the game, just go for a ladder system, where teams can register and set dates and times for matches. servers would be provided 15 mins before the game starts; games could be spectated and high skill games could be featured in the main menu, so also the casual gamer would get a glimpse of highly skilled players and maybe would want to start as well.

TL;DR: not enough players for a good match-making algorithm. make a ranked ladder system.

(bgyoshi) #26

@znuund said:

TL;DR: not enough players for a good match-making algorithm. make a ranked ladder system.

Solo*** ladder and team*** ladder, SEPARATE.

(znuund) #27

@bgyoshi said:

@znuund said:

TL;DR: not enough players for a good match-making algorithm. make a ranked ladder system.

Solo*** ladder and team*** ladder, SEPARATE.

Ladder would not mean, that you can “search for a game”.
Depending on the format, you would need to register a team and can only team up with the players registered, though you could register more players to have backups". Then you set a day and a time and then it’s on! By winning you get points and depending on your points you move up the ladder. that also means, that there is no personal ranking which is overrated anyway in a team game like DB. Except there is a 1v1 ladder, but god forbid.

(bgyoshi) #28

Ladder does in fact mean that you search for games. Ladder just means that there’s no matchmaking algorithm to determine “fair” matches, it means that the points you gain on a win and the points you lose on a loss rely on the position in the ladder of your opponents. There’s still “searching for a game” and being paired pseudorandomly on a team, against an opposing team.

Solo ladder would be for solo queuing only.
Team ladder is parties of 2 - 5.

(ImSploosh) #29

This change made it much worse. It’s taking way too long to find a match, anywhere from 10-20 minutes. Before, I was finding them in under 5. The balance wasn’t that bad to make the wait even longer.

(SnakekillerX) #30

People will never be happy about the current ranked balance vs wait times. They don’t want to wait long for matches, and they don’t want matches to be unbalanced.

The only solution to this at this point is a large increase in player base. While SD are working on new content which will help to attract more players as well as keep current players, this is going to take time.

People constantly talking about how broken ranked is, which actually just helps to spread an overall negative vibe regarding the game causing even more people to quit, or never start playing the game in the first place…

This is like shooting yourself in the foot then complaining that your foot hurts.
SD knows if its broken or not without every thread being about how much ranked sucks.

Dirty Bomb needs more players, not less. The game in its current state is actually really good. Most things are fairly balanced and the game is a blast to play, there is a need for more content, and it is being delivered. People at this point just need to exercise patience.

The game is continuing to get better, so stop shooting us in the foot.

(pr0nflakes) #31

The positive:

I always get a ranked match on EU servers within max. 5 minutes during peak times.

The negative:

Why the heck is a player with 17h ingame time allowed to play ranked? It’s impossible that these guys know how to play DB in a proper way and they can play the most teamplay orientated mode?

(M4st0d0n) #32

@ragnak said:

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After changes.

I dont give a flying @$!# if duppi and co were waitng an hour in a que, i do NOT want to be matched as a solo player against that.

I told you its @$!# idiotic to allow premades in solo que, it should be SOLO ONLY, i am just constantly punished for playing solo.

Ask that genius that allowed premades in solo Q to explain to me and rest of the solo players how do you plan on balancing high level premades, just @$!# tell him to get here and explain that to me like i am 5 @$!# years old.

Spoiler: you @$!# cant balance that.

XD My god you’re so salty and burnt out…

You dont even deserve the rekt.