Balanced Games
Whilst I could ask about the absolute disaster of matchmaking, which is clearly broken, that's not what I referring to.
I've been trying to figure out for a while what the algorithm is for deciding whether you are attacking or defending in Casual Breakthrough. I've been monitoring for this last six days, and it would appear that I spend 68% of my time on the defending side.
As you know the game assigns you which side you are on, so why is it so imbalanced? In tonight's nine rounds, I was only attacking on two maps, defending on the other seven. Now whilst you might well believe that defending is better, I'd say no matter I come top of the scoreboard, I more often than not end up losing defence matches.
Matches are generally all over in 10 minutes, because the teams are so unbalanced.
In just 10% of games, do we get a match that goes down the to the wire - i.e. its so well balanced.
But that doesn't even start to address the issue with the bots lately. It's like bots have become hardcore. It used to be that you'd find a good spot for cover and one or two bots would come looking for you.
Now, you don't even have to fire your gun, but once a bot sees you, all the bots know exactly where you are, and they ALL start firing at you. And not only that, but I've had bots shoot at me with their SMG's from 90 yards away, when there are clearly my teammates between them and me.
Earlier tonight, in one map, I had literally scraped through a firefight, and found a quiet place to reload, and drop a medkit / ammo pouch, as it was in single figures health. Then another bot to start shooting the wall behind which I was covering. And of course a real player comes along to find out what the bot is shooting at, and there's another firefight.
That's not the way fights are fought. One person maybe spots you, and give's a rough ping as to where you are, but real players still have to come looking for you. Bots, on the other hand know your exact location, direction of travel, etc. etc.
There's nothing casual about Casual breakthrough any more. I used to love playing it since it wasn't 100% run and gun; it was a little more relaxed, but no longer! We now have bots taking tanks and they never ever miss; there's no fun in it any more.
