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EA_Alexander
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8 years ago

Game Balance and Matchmaking - We want your feedback!

Hey everyone, To keep things in one place and easy to keep track of, we're encouraging you to share feedback regarding game balance and matchmaking in this thread. So what's game balance? A cou...
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rifleSim
6 years ago
I have a question for the game developers, who invented this splendid matchmaking. I am in the Master league, all my units are level 9 and below, while the level cap for the league is 13. I get 95% challenge battles and for the remaining 5%, 9 out of 10 battles are again against heavily out leveled units. What is the reason for these 9/10 to NOT be indicated as Challenge, I have no idea (yes, I'm perfectly aware of the 3 conditions, but they do NOT apply). The season ends in 14 days.

So, finally my question: What am I supposed to do in the game for the next two weeks till leagues get reset? To log in every next 7 hours to get a supply crate? To fight 100 hopeless battles for that 1 where my enemy might be on a beatable level? Or to take part in the events that you lunch now and then which take only 8 fights to complete? Tell me, please, how are you going to keep my interest in the game for 14 more days?! And after the next season starts and I get in Master again in short terms, then what?

Is it THAT hard to come up with a PERMANENT not ranked arena where you get matched with players based on their units level and prove your skills in fighting them, maybe not for medals, but for some rewards? Or for a separate, non-resettable ranking?
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TegliG
6 years ago
@rifleSim Complete events, complete bounties, complete free cloning chambers, collect convoys. So, in summary, collect money and cards, then level up your units.
Also, try out new strategies. Challenge matches can be won.
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    rifleSim
    6 years ago
    @TegliG wrote:
    @rifleSimComplete events, complete bounties, complete free cloning chambers, collect convoys....Challenge matches can be won.

    And how I am supposed to complete events when it chooses my opponents for the events again based on my current league? Here there are not even Challenge battles - the game drops you again somebody with much higher level units and when you expectedly get obliterated it still decrease the number of remaining fights for the event.

    Yes, completing bounties, cloning chambers and collecting fuel is quite doable as neither of these require if you to win the battle. But I believe there is something very, very wrong to enter a fight with no intention of winning it, just to rush a given high level unit for the bounty and then leave. 

    Yes, challenge matches CAN be won. I win about 5% of mine. But for the rest 95% pushing your tactical and micromanagement skills to the limit, plainly outplaying your enemy and still getting kicked in the @$$   just because his units being on the cap - it's quite disheartening.

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    Mister_Crac
    6 years ago
    @rifleSim wrote:

    And how I am supposed to complete events when it chooses my opponents for the events again based on my current league? Here there are not even Challenge battles - the game drops you again somebody with much higher level units and when you expectedly get obliterated it still decrease the number of remaining fights for the event.

    Actually, events have a level cap. For some of them this is as low as level 6, sometimes it is 9 or 10, but usually it isn't higher than that. So if your opponent has level 13 or even level 15 units, it does not matter in an event, because they will not be able to use their units at that level.

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