Can We Sort the Balancing?
Like the title says, this game is horrifically unbalanced when it comes to teams. 90% of the time, and that is not an exaggeration, I'm being lumped into a team that barely knows how to function. The...
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Sorry bubba, but that is just the nature of pub gaming.
It was the biggest reason I got into clan/platoon gaming and paying for our servers with previous Battlefield titles. I knew a large part of my team would be on the same page and could communicate with one another via TeamSpeak or Discord and it was a ton of fun joking and laughing about stupid stuff or harassing the hell out of each other.
I don't know how you expect EA/Dice to distribute "skilled" players to "even" the teams other than SBMM and that's a hard NO for me personally.
Best you can do with the way EA/Dice has opted to use MM in this title is try and find a handful of friends to play with, squad up, create a "party" in-game and jump on Discord or TeamSpeak together, even if ya don't win all the time it's still a lot more fun than running solo.
@Ironhead841 Except this wasn't nearly as bad an issue in previous titles. In this game it is utterly atrocious teamplay, and basically, one team has a collective IQ lower than my ping. I would legitimately prefer to have bots on my team, because they would at least do more than sit back and toss grenades.
I don't know what to tell ya brother, how EXACTLY would you like EA/Dice to "fix it"?
I've been playing Battlefield since the original BF1942, and I can assure you public servers with random players have ALWAYS been like that, ALWAYS.
As I said that is the primary reason I opted for joining a platoon or clan and happily contributing to paying for our own server and administrating it.
Unfortunately, EA/Dice in their infinite wisdom, have opted to remove this option for whatever reason so we are all consigned to random pubs playing on public servers and all the negative effects that come from that.
It's not just you, trust me. For better or worse, we're all stuck with same experience.
@Ironhead841 They can turn off crossplay, for one. PC vs PC is night and day experience compared with crossplay. Consoles drag the entire server performance down and make just trying to hit 20 kills an absolute slogging chore, whereas PC only I can easily go 35-40 average in a match. The game also needs an actual anti-cheat, not something pretending to be one that does absolutely nothing to the blatant cheaters in this game.
Well, those are entirely unrelated issues to what you originally posted about concerning teams being unbalanced.
As far as crossplay, I'd be fine if they turned it off. Frankly I'm tired of hearing console players bitching about it.
As to the cheating thing I play on the West Coast of the U.S. I've been playing regularly since launch, and I can maybe count on one hand the number of players I have seen that I thought MIGHT be cheating but with the screwy hitreg/net code problems this game has it's hard to definitively say anyone is using any cheats.
In my personal opinion it's not an issue, maybe I am just lucky, but I don't think that's it.
- @Ironhead841 Amen Bubba 😉
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@Ironhead841 Except this wasn't nearly as bad an issue in previous titles. In this game it is utterly atrocious teamplay, and basically, one team has a collective IQ lower than my ping. I would legitimately prefer to have bots on my team, because they would at least do more than sit back and toss grenades.
As one who's been a moderator since BF3 I can with certainty say that everything you say was also complained about on the Battlelog forums, here on AHQ, and even on the post Battlelog Battlefield forums. People always complained about team balancing, team mates not reviving (and simultaneously complaining about rambo reviving them into insta death for points) and spawn traps, in fact these complaints became even more vehement during BF1 and BFV time frames but at least during those times we could team switch to assist with the problem.
Just a reminder after reading the entire thread, debate the OP's topic and keep personal back and forth out of the discussion or the thread will be locked.
I have played 12 games today. I have not won a single one. We are trounced by hundreds of tickets every single time. That last match? Enemy team won by 800 tickets. My team just doesn't try. It makes no effort at all. Zip. They won't attack, they won't defend, they won't use anti-vehicle weapons, they won't use vehicles, they won't revive, or resupply, or repair. When you ask them to do something, they just troll you. I don't understand this. Each match, the teams are mixed up, yet I am constantly saddled with this same calibre of uncaring, trolling player, whilst the enemy team plays for keeps. Its utterly infuriating.
I'm in a vehicle and within moments its personally attacked by five players, three running at me with C5, others firing Lis rockets. Enemy tanks are just chilling in the flags unopposed. Like, who is even playing in the game here? Why are they even in an objective based mode? What is the purpose of playing a game with a clearly defined way of winning, and you just don't bother?
