EA Staff (Retired)@Tinogiggedy I hear what you say and yes I am still cautious about MM. I can also get games in HvsV without ping changes. The biggest problem I find with that game is the inconsistency of players. Most use this mode to level up their heroes or to get milestones. Once achieved tend to drop out of the game. Daily challenges don't help either. It has always had a transient population.
In regard to matchmaking, It was never in SWBF1 and only when 2 was released did we start asking for it. Then we asked for Group play and later on we started to complain about uneven numbers in the teams. Now we have Team Sizing. At the moment none of these are compatible with each other so maybe 2 of these should be killed until the other is working correctly instead of trying to fix all at the same time. Maybe the game is too big with 9 multiplayer modes. I tend to agree with @GOD_IV that a simple team scramble could be the solution but if that is the way to go, then the player should also be able to select which team to be on. This would help groups to stay together and maybe spread the more skilled players around. If I were one of these, I would always want to test my skill against equal/better players.
I see a multitude of bugs being reported on this board by PC, PS4 and Xbox players which must be keeping the developers busy, then we request Team balance, adding to their workload and bringing in additional problems to solve. We may say that all of this should have been done before the game was released and we are correct to assume that but I do have a little sympathy for them. You can test a game as much as you like but the only real test is to have every day players in the real world play it. The beta trial was there for us to play and report issues so that they could be fixed but that was basically a campaign mode not multiplayer so no issues with team balancing was ever reported. Perhaps in a game of this size, the beta version should have been multiplayer making the problem reporting more extensive. I am not an expert and can be wwrrrrong!!! at times but I often wonder how much hackers can contribute to bugs in the game by using their code/software to cheat the system. And yes, protection against this should already be there but hackers are always ahead. You can't protect against what you don't know.
In some way, dare I say, it could be suggested that EA remove the game in it's entirety until all our problems are fixed. Then we could look forward to the return of a well balanced, bug free game in 2020! (LoL)
@GOD_IV- Even though I am having a good run at the moment, the fear still remains that it could change. I am not having to spend a anymore time on the menu screens than before except for map rotation when MM kicks in. MM can sometimes take a few minutes to find a new map. Gives me time for toilet/coffee breaks.
