1. Caustic town transport is impossible and map is imbalanced for control: other maps you can take trident and move from A to C in a second, in this map you can almost never attack enemy base as it is too far. One of the bases has significant advantage over the other one2. Balancing the matchmaking seems to be an issue, since the release of the mode in late March, I couldn't get more than 2 wins in control mode, I mean can't losing every control match be blamed on me, right? shouldn't teams and match making gets double checked?The control map in the Strom point was the most balanced control map in my opinion

I disagree with #1...The problem is they just need more permanent movement gimmicks at spots. As it stands right now you need to select Pathfinder or Octane first in order to build these pathways that allow you to move from A to C faster. Then you can play any character without the slow pace feel. All you need is 2 ziplines or pads and you can get those within your first 2 deaths. Here are 2 of my favorite zipline pathways in a couple of angles when coming from A...And one from C...

It's crazy how much just a couple players can ruin a match for everyone on your team in a 9v9 game mode. I played a game today where two players on the enemy team each had more kills than all the other players in the lobby combined. It was miserable, and as I suggested, confounding that a mere two players could cause such drastic imbalance. Contrast with yesterday, I had a match with 14 kills, top in the lobby. What is this matchmaker even doing?

@AlphabetsAdditionally, I’m confident that Respawn has taken measures to stop high ELO accounts from entering lower lobbies in Control.I spent about 2 hours swinging directly off the map in control with no kills or damage— so I amassed a huge amount of deaths each game, for many many games in a row. This had absolutely no impact on my lobbies. I continued to exclusively get Masters and Preds as teammates and opponents.Heray for experiments! Lol.

@AlphabetsSome Control matchmaking facts:1) The matchmaking is super aggressive if you’re playing on a high ELO (BR account). My first (and every match there after) match pitted me against all 4k 20 bomb players. Literally everyone in my lobby is Master and up, or sporting the 4k 20, even my teammates.2) On my TEST account, I have 200+ BR games played and 0 damage and 0 kills. Playing Control on this mode put me against super low ELO players. After dropping an insane amount of kills (54), my immediate next game placed me in the same lobbies that I’m playing in on my actual account. This is good, as it stops people from smurfing in a consistent manner. So Control indeed has totally separate SBMM than BR for everyone except high ELO BR accounts.

Two problems I found in the new Control mode

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pandareno1999
Hero+
4 years ago
It's crazy how much just a couple players can ruin a match for everyone on your team in a 9v9 game mode. I played a game today where two players on the enemy team each had more kills than all the other players in the lobby combined. It was miserable, and as I suggested, confounding that a mere two players could cause such drastic imbalance.

Contrast with yesterday, I had a match with 14 kills, top in the lobby. What is this matchmaker even doing?
Axs5626Sxa5001
4 years ago
@Alphabets

Some Control matchmaking facts:

1) The matchmaking is super aggressive if you’re playing on a high ELO (BR account). My first (and every match there after) match pitted me against all 4k 20 bomb players. Literally everyone in my lobby is Master and up, or sporting the 4k 20, even my teammates.

2) On my TEST account, I have 200+ BR games played and 0 damage and 0 kills. Playing Control on this mode put me against super low ELO players. After dropping an insane amount of kills (54), my immediate next game placed me in the same lobbies that I’m playing in on my actual account. This is good, as it stops people from smurfing in a consistent manner.

So Control indeed has totally separate SBMM than BR for everyone except high ELO BR accounts.
Axs5626Sxa5001
4 years ago
@Alphabets

Additionally, I’m confident that Respawn has taken measures to stop high ELO accounts from entering lower lobbies in Control.

I spent about 2 hours swinging directly off the map in control with no kills or damage— so I amassed a huge amount of deaths each game, for many many games in a row. This had absolutely no impact on my lobbies. I continued to exclusively get Masters and Preds as teammates and opponents.

Heray for experiments! Lol.
meece
4 years ago
That might be a suicide only calculation, but conversely means you can spend 2hrs with a 0 kd and get the same lobbies 🙂
Axs5626Sxa5001
4 years ago
@meece
It’s entirely true that they detect suicides. So I will now just run directly into the enemies without shooting for a few hours— so we can see if that indeed changes my lobbies.

I will report back here.
CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Another huge problem, just got stuck under C on Hammond. Was literally stuck inside the wood foundation of the platform. I could see everyone coming but shot the invisible foundation. It seemed to highly confuse the enemy that they could hear me shoot, move, and quip but couldn't see me. Two of them spent a whole minute looking for me.
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@Axs5626Sxa5001 54 kills in one control match? 🤣
CrazieAtesPS4
4 years ago
I disagree with #1...The problem is they just need more permanent movement gimmicks at spots. As it stands right now you need to select Pathfinder or Octane first in order to build these pathways that allow you to move from A to C faster. Then you can play any character without the slow pace feel. All you need is 2 ziplines or pads and you can get those within your first 2 deaths.
Here are 2 of my favorite zipline pathways in a couple of angles when coming from A...
And one from C...
Axs5626Sxa5001
4 years ago
Correction, 53
Axs5626Sxa5001
4 years ago
@hayhor 53. And rightfully, it immediately changed my lobbies. I hate SBMM but no one should be consistently mowing through lobbies like that.