whats up with casual MM?

(TheStrangerous) #21

[quote=“Ardez;189715”][quote=“TheStrangerous;189712”][quote=“Watsyurdeal;189708”]And thus…why this community, I will never understand.

You complain about games being unbalanced, and want matchmaking, yet we had Ranked this whole time.

Now we get forced matchmaking, and it’s frustrating cause the times are so long, and the playerbase is so low during the day.

Here’s a thought guys, accept that you will lose in a pub, it’s going to happen. For every 1 person on your team who is doing the objective there’s 2 who aren’t. No matchmaking is going to fix this, the players need education, so we need a better indepth tutorial, and more of those trials, but for each type of merc.

And the lack of a server browser will KILL what is left of this game, because not everyone wants to sit in a que, no, we want to play now and get to bed, go to work, or go to school. We got @$!# to do.

Stop wasting the devs time like this, and just accept that there are things YOU must change as a player. If you’re constantly losing, maybe it’s not the team.[/quote]

Every pub server in every game has unbalanced and sometimes balanced matches, it’s how the online gaming ecosystem works. There’s nothing we can do about it.

But I do know, that every online game, which had forced matchmaking and dumped server browser, were more prone to dead community.

DB, fix this quick, or else it’s DEATH SPIRAL to you…[/quote]

I’d be interested to hear what games you are talking about @TheStrangerous . Throw me a PM :)[/quote]

Pick any old online game on PS3 or X360 console. There.

(watsyurdeal) #22

[quote=“defentialDriver;189713”][quote=“Watsyurdeal;189708”]
-valid points here-
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Yeah pretty much agree, I’d much rather have the “unbalanced” games we had before than wait 5+ minutes for a match. I mean most of the games werent even that unbalanced, but i guess thats because i never play stopwatch? dunno.[/quote]

Stopwatch isn’t even THAT unbalanced, it’s just the way it’s designed.

Why should defense be defending the first point for ten minutes??? Why not just 5 minutes, and add time for every objective completed?

That way games don’t last so long, and people would be more inclined to play Ranked. Heck you could even have two halves that way if you wanted. But you have to make the time very strict, like no overtime for example.

That, and I think Ranked would be better off using a different system for squads. Since you can’t pick more than one of each merc anyhow, just let all mercs be available at any time, and just have a limit. This way team composition is no longer an issue.

(Yoma) #23

Since noone said it yet… .
[spoiler]Working as intended.:sweat_smile: [/spoiler]

(Chris Mullins) #24

[quote=“defentialDriver;189716”][quote=“stayfreshshoe;189714”]

We’ve said looooooooooads of times that the Server Browser will still be there even when Casual Matchmaking officially goes live. Server Browser is not going anywhere.[/quote]

You guys need to sticky this quote onto the main page, cause i guarantee ur gonna get 5 different threats asking where it went.[/quote]

“As we’ll be focusing on Objective and Execution modes for this test, we’re disabling Casual Stopwatch matches and the Server Browser for its duration.”

It says it it there :’(

(watsyurdeal) #25

[quote=“Yoma;189723”]Since noone said it yet… .
[spoiler]Working as intended.:sweat_smile: [/spoiler][/quote]

GTFO

And apparently they have to cancel the test, https://www.facebook.com/DirtyBombGame/?fref=nf

gg internet

(TheStrangerous) #26

http://i.imgur.com/OQHmtji.jpg

(Chris Mullins) #27

But we’re not standing on Android 16’s head D:

(Yoma) #28

[quote=“TheStrangerous;189734”][spoiler]http://i.imgur.com/OQHmtji.jpg[/spoiler]
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Good one but i would find some Meme about SD baiting us first with new Maps, then with Balance and last but not least 30k credits awesome. :smile:

Theyre throwing so much bait at the moment, i almost feel like a fish. :confounded:

(Amerika) #29

[quote=“defentialDriver;189705”][quote=“TheStrangerous;189701”]Forced matchmaking will be the nail in the coffin for DB.

Server Browser or GTFO.

Sorry, but with the current playerbase of few thousand, matchmaking is not a good idea. The queue times are atrocious…[/quote]

i was under the impression they will keep both browser and MM, but for this test day, they remove MM to allow everyone to try it as opposed to ppl opting for browser cause its less hassle.[/quote]

They are testing the casual MM and so they disabled the browser so that people wouldn’t instantly use that out of habit. It was only going to be for a day but there were some issues found so the server browser is now enabled again.

So don’t worry…the server browser isn’t leaving.

(Equanimity) #30

[quote=“Ardez;189715”]
I’d be interested to hear what games you are talking about @TheStrangerous . Throw me a PM :)[/quote]

Nosgoth.

RIP MY LOVE.

(Ardez1) #31

[quote=“Equanimity;189773”][quote=“Ardez;189715”]
I’d be interested to hear what games you are talking about @TheStrangerous . Throw me a PM :)[/quote]

Nosgoth.

RIP MY LOVE.

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So there was nothing wrong with Nosgoth beyond the matchmaking? :stuck_out_tongue: I remember playing that game. I’ll tell you now it wasn’t the lack of a server browser that killed it.

(FireWorks) #32

[quote=“Equanimity;189773”][quote=“Ardez;189715”]
I’d be interested to hear what games you are talking about @TheStrangerous . Throw me a PM :)[/quote]

Nosgoth.

RIP MY LOVE.

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Pure gold core game… Never made it to a reasonable framework for it.

Ardez, this is where Raz and many others of us came from… or at least spent a good amount of time there.

(Equanimity) #33

[quote=“Ardez;189788”][quote=“Equanimity;189773”][quote=“Ardez;189715”]
I’d be interested to hear what games you are talking about @TheStrangerous . Throw me a PM :)[/quote]

Nosgoth.

RIP MY LOVE.

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So there was nothing wrong with Nosgoth beyond the matchmaking? :stuck_out_tongue: I remember playing that game. I’ll tell you now it wasn’t the lack of a server browser that killed it.[/quote]

I wasn’t saying that is the only reason why the game failed, but queue times were a huge problem in that game which is a massive reason why it did. They allegedly had a good MMR system, but a small playerbase, and so the game didn’t allow for that matchmaking to ‘work as intended’, ultimately deterring a large portion of the would be playerbase.

(frolicsomeCrane) #34

[quote=“Equanimity;189773”][quote=“Ardez;189715”]
I’d be interested to hear what games you are talking about @TheStrangerous . Throw me a PM :)[/quote]

Nosgoth.

RIP MY LOVE.

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Wait whaaaaaaaaaat? I haven’t played that game in months but I loved it… And then I googled and saw that it got taken down, holy meatballs.

Y’know, I’m not even shocked at this point, quite a few number of f2p games I played were shut down eventually. It’s sad, tbh cuz they were pretty fun.

Edit: YOU JUST HAD TO GET ME TO FIND THIS OUT, HUH?!