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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Ok skippy, lets just go ahead and flesh this out then.
You and only YOU, are aware of this top-secret cabal that everyone else is "oblivious" to that is conspiring to hack/cheat YOU, assign hit squads to hunt YOU down, to stack teams so that YOU lose matches, is that what you are actually proposing?
Are "they" spying on you through your microwave too? Have they found a way to bypass your tinfoil helmet as well?
Seriously man, get help.
The teams are pretty much identical, the vehicles on each team have an almost identical set of gadgets so if a game is unbalanced its either the map or the people playing.
More often than not I end up being on the winning team, and I find generally the best way to get teamplay happening is actively doing it.
I spawn as Angel with an ammo box, motion sensor, and I'm constantly reviving and supplying people whilst also revealing enemies on the map.
I stick around hot areas to keep large groups of the team alive and supplied so they can push forward. More people start reviving each other and the teamplay starts flourishing.
If the team is getting wrecked I will spawn in a transport that allows other players to spawn - MAV, ECM parachute spawn, Condor, or Hind and then go take a rear base. Generally enough people spawn in so that multiple flags can get taken.
I would say that the previous games had better individual balancing by way of having classes. Right now you can get some very Rambo focused combinations of weapons / gadgets so a lot of people do that and just care about their kill count, but a lot of the time teams with those players end up losing because they aren't playing the objectives.
Furthermore the previous games had incentives and more direction in terms of teamplay - commander mode in BF2 and BF4 allowed squad leaders to place markers / coloured smoke as move to locations so you could co-ordinate your squad. There were also points given for carrying out squad orders in quite a few of the previous games.
However, this is also meant a co-ordinated team could absolutely dominate more than in BF2042.
So my suggestion is if your team is losing, try and be the one that helps them win - don't go for kills, go for far off flags, revives, supplies, spotting, healing, repairs. Maybe others will join in.
@Ga-Knomboe_Boy I'll revive, give ammo, repair, keep gunners on target, pick people up, cover them with smoke/shields/APS, alert them to enemies, SOFLAM. I will do any and all team-oriented actions, and I still get crap for it. I tell people if flags are at risk of being capped. I'll take out vehicles that are sitting around for ages because nobody else will. I'll run 80m to revive a person if I can. It never changes the dynamics of my team. They act like a gathering of individuals while the enemy team acts like something coherent. Low ranks, new starts on either side, but only the enemy team behaves like they know what they are doing. Single digit heli gunners hitting every target in sight, always filling the gunner positions and hitting everything. Mine? They pop off all rounds at empty terrain and then don't fire at targets right in front of them.
I went through a round last night where everyone (and I mean everyone on the enemy team was carrying an anti-armour weapon) as I drove my vehicle from one flag to another. Player after player streaming after me like I was the only thing in the entire match. Enemy tank? Parks right next to our flag and nothing happens to it. No rockets, no Lis rockets, no anti-armour, no Leroy Jenkins with C5. I got shot down three times by EM tanks that inexplicably hit my aircraft at extreme range during erratic movement, despite the cannon on that thing being atrocious for moving targets. Enemy aircraft? Zero opposition.
In what sense are you getting "crap" for it? Do you mean the team doesn't take advantage of your actions, or do you mean people in team chat are actively harassing with you?
If they aren't taking advantage of your actions I'd suggest sticking around the gathering of individuals so they actually push forward, they probably won't notice you jumping in throwing down an ammo kit and reviving if you do all that in 10 seconds and then run off.
If its people on team chat then maybe don't use team chat, I find its pretty much just trolls, people making jokes and sometimes a "gg" at the end. So if you are telling people to attack a flag in chat the response will probably be a troll or a joke.
As said the teamplay in this title isn't as good as previous games, and maybe players in your region are just worse at teamwork.
However its a bit odd to be on the losing side all the time. You can check your profile to see your win loss ratio. Is it heavily one sided?
- I feel your pain. Have experienced the same thing. I've learned to not take the game so seriously and just try to have fun, is the game really worth getting so worked up about?
@Ga-Knomboe_Boy Trolls. Usually come in pairs who just harass you throughout the entire match. My win ratio is higher than my loss, at present, but its literally within a hundred matches now, and the losses are creeping up. At least five losses for each match win.
@Karen0202 Its just frustrating seeing some people play matches and seem to have no problems finding good games (in the same country no less, no idea what server they always connect to), and I'm constantly stuck with these painfully mismatched games.
