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People tend to remember those good experiences because they were on the winning side and vice versa with the losing side/bad experiences. I don't play Escalation so I couldn't judge how those matches are.
That idea of match recovery would not even be relative at all if there was true balancing. I believe the massive injection of COD players (Most of them are corner campers) completely wrecked their balancing system. I say that because I notice that usually it's only a handful of players on the objective now a days. Over the years they lost alot of the veteran battlefield community. I say that because objectives would be crowded with players. Camping wasn't a thing in the community, everyone pretty much pushed, and there was a handful of snipers not doing much but now campers are rampant within the game. Maybe implement A.I. to separate players more based on more of those 'camper like' statistics? An even amount of campers on each side would make that game fair. I've played Battlefield for a long time and I can say for sure this is the worse balancing i've seen so far in the franchise. In the previous titles, 100-0 finish Conquest games where the norm and complete domination was completely rare unless you were going against a whole team on discord. Now it's the opposite.
Well, those days are truly over.
I played over a dozen matches today and tried to keep track. It was actually easy, ONE was close (and had an actual recovery).
As for the play style, I'm at the stage where if I'm with a team that does not seem to care about the obj at all, I actually quit and go for another match. It's sad but I'm not here to play deatmatch, there are other, better games for that.
DICE actually tried to push for team play through their challenges and some of the new systems, but that has clearly not worked. There is definitely more they could do; after all, the scoreboard still displays kdr as the main stat right after score, but I don't see them trying stuff that could upset the remaining player base that seems happy to play a COD-like.