The Problem

(Fish-Man) #1
  • Pub match starts, 7v7, numbers balanced
  • One team loses first push badly
  • 7v3
  • Shuffle is called
  • F2F2F2F2
  • “switch?”
  • radio silence
  • Team fills back up with new players
  • New team takes time to adjust
  • Game ends
  • “gg ez”
  • “fuk u” “lol umad”

I see this over and over. I don’t find it fun on either side, and I don’t like playing with people who do. Fair games are much more fun and instructive IMO. The responsibility for solving the problem is partially on SD, but also partially on us. What can we do?

  1. Don’t abandon games so easily; try switching characters, ask your teammates to plan something (don’t try to command them), etc.
  2. Check the scoreboard if you’re having an easy time, and make sure it’s not team size and/or skill gap
  3. Switch teams or vote shuffle if the difference in number of players is 2 or more
  4. If teams are full, shuffle usually doesn’t work very well at the moment; instead switch to spectator, someone else switches teams, and you join their original team
  5. Don’t gloat over easy victories
  6. Don’t get too angry about losing, and don’t try to make other people angry
  7. Don’t be a DICK! ™
(Nail) #2

gl

(Fish-Man) #3

hf

(MarsRover) #4

Pretty sure you’re preaching to the choir on this forum :slight_smile:

(brennanfreak) #5

I’m not a dick about it, but I am a DELETED about it.

(HunterAssassin5) #6

i think when it gets to 1:2 or more, an autobalance should automatically be activated, and what’s more, why would the winning team vote for balance? bunch of dicks want to get a free win and free kills, no way they would vote. not everyone’s idea of fun is a close match, yanno.

(Melinder) #7

I believe in autobalancing being an automated thing, not requiring a vote. As soon as there is a 2 player difference between the teams (e.g 6v4, 7v5, 8v6,) a player should be swapped over to the smaller team (this player should be chosen by checking the levels of all players in each team and swapping accordingly).

In saying that, I only believe this should be a thing within a certain period of the game. This should only be applied to the first half of the game (if the game is Stopwatch), as auto-balancing in the second half means the winning teams efforts in the first half have gone to waste.

(LifeupOmega) #8

Yeah I’d just quit the match if auto balance was a thing.

Also, levels mean jack. Anyone can reach any level with enough time. I consistently meet level 30s who’re absolutely useless players. You should be balancing by their Elo Rating or whatever we call it now.

Or we all play matchmaking when SD finally fixes it and get balanced matches that way wow.

(N8o) #9

If I took a shot every time I saw one of these posts on this forum, I would have died of alcohol poisoning a while back.

(XavienX) #10

I agree with you but seriously, SD is working on it. It’s been mentioned a lot of times T_T