Why does team balance suck so bad?
It seems to be worse on the weekends but I notice the balancing of teams socks something fierce. Like they hired a programming major drop out to write the algorithm...
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Hey there @mrminge2517
The problem with Battlefield 1 and team balance is that it allows people to change teams so easily and you have many ways to "get through" the team balancing such as locking down squads. Due to the fact people make locked down squads and the team balancing isn't allowed to split them apart, it makes for matches where same people end up fighting against the same people over and over again. Quick Searching to a server does matchmake people to different sides, but due to the inclusion of the Server Browser later, the fact it does matchmake at all kindasorta became moot. On Operations the team balance usually is a bit better thanks to the fact you can't directly join to them.
On Battlefield 4 and games before that, the servers were handled largely by third party support and the servers were injected with external scripts that would allow for more harsh methods of team balancing such as breaking apart squads, changing people from one side to the other mid-game, and generally enforcing the team balance with a far more harsh hand.
Very simply, the reason the team balance ultimately sucks is because people themselves break the balance in all ways possible. On BF4 the issue was that when harsh teambalancing is enforced, then people very simply refuse to spawn until new round starts or they leave the server, leading to very much the same situation as BF1 has right now. It did still work a bit better very simply due to the fact it was *harder* to stack the teams due to the harsh balancing, but it still did happen as people actively still tried to stack teams as much as possible. People very simply enjoy unbalanced matches it would seem for the sake of getting good statistics.
Tl;dr : It's not that the matchmaking itself sucks all that much. The problem is in the people who actively want to break that balance and the game allowing people to do so too easily. My only solution is to try and be yourself the change you'd desire from the community and be the nice guy yourself who at least tries and balances the teams even if it means sucking up a loss.
I just got off another round where my team was decimated again, this was 2 in a row, forget the other odd time when team balancing was the direct cause. There are a handful of players some don't even belong to a clan yet play either very well or have managed to build some hacks into their game somehow. Fact is that these players refuse to move and play against each other regularly or fairly. This breaks the game for us players who are average at best and can't get any traction due to always being on the back-foot and off balanced. Regardless of squad locking causing issues, regardless of team switching, this game just needs a good balancing algorithm which can move entire squads (if locked) and put them into the other team (swapping with other, less good players). A player with very good KD should not be allowed to join a team that already has most of the best players. Maybe even a voting system can be introduced which players of that team need to agree for the swap of such a good player or team but at the same time standing off of their own players to the other team to try and balance the odds.
Yes it is probably a little complex but God knows its needed because these teams steam roll some others and its killing the gaming experience for those of us on the receiving end. What is battlefield 5 going to use? I have always said, if people cant govern themselves fairly and decently then they should not be giving a choice, they exploit and that should be fix, even if the developer gets a little flak for it, its the right thing to do and people just have to play within the framework (the one that evens the balance)
- I can not buy the next Battlefield even though I have them all. The team balance is a joke.
