@VOLBANKER_PC wrote:
@lzilchetlFor me, a fun match is a balanced match that runs close. Sadly some people are more interested in artificially boost their K/D and ego through fighting weak enemy teams match after match.
I totally get that - but how do you square the clan concept? If you take the game seriously (as some do) then teaming up with mates is a natural thing to do. There is no functional difference except that you have more players who are familiar with each others roles and play style and they probably have good coms set up. Are we saying that these people should not be able to play? Yes, they will win if they do not face a similar team (not always though), but to be honest, back in the BF2 hay-day, everyone had a clan tag next to their name. We now have a game where lone players want to change the functionality of the game because they lose. It is, and always was a team game - by definition, we are simulating (ish) warfare, and as such the most organised teams win, and in my book that is perfectly correct.
Same argument i've heard about Warzone when Jack Fraggs, Westie, Broken Machine and Stodeh mop up BR quads. Good on them I say, they are playing the game at it highest level - that is what it was designed for. I'm by no means a great player, but I would hate to see either game dumbed-down because some players want to play without attempting to communicate with their team-mates.
@VOLBANKER_PC
I'm not saying that there are not clans who enjoy the "bullying" of gate-crashing a server on mass and, but in all of my years playing all versions, I can't say I've left a game feeling particularly abused. I think there is something about balance that could be done, as you say, but also how Dice, encourage and reward collaborative play. TBH, PTT really puts me off. I think coms should be open. I've played a lot of Warzone (waiting for 2042!), and love it when you get into a four-up with people who talk, and d'you know, I always get further in the game when that happens.
In all my years of playing solo, I have only ever seen an actual platoon stack 2, mayyybe 3 times.
In theory, a proper and more robust RSP/Community Games should help alleviate this and other problems people are facing - Platoons can initiate clan wars, players can create their own kind of Hardcore, and TTK/TTD can be tweaked with relative ease.
I know a lot of players like to be one-man armies and the lone wolf hero, but it pays to be part of a team, part of something bigger than yourself (you're almost never forced to use your mic if you don't want to either).
One thing that people seem to be forgetting.....
We were all randoms once.
The vast majority of my friends list were 'randoms' who joined squads and played well together. Friend requests are exchanged and years later we have a core of 6-10 people who, when the mood takes us can play well.
When in multiple squads, we allow the balancer to do its thing so sometimes we are all on the same side, sometimes against but always a hoot.
I would not want to see ANYTHING that jepodises that fun.
