This crap of playing stacked teams, while being teamed up with randoms is just pathetic. The game is basically decided before you even start.
This game seriously needs a matchmaker
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Yes. Most of those people don't even want to pubstomp but they are forced to because matchmaking is impossible for anything other than 1v1.
It has one. You just won't often get anything larger than 2v2 without trying.
Global chat can be a good way to find teams to join larger games. Just post something like "searching 3v3 as allies" and people will often turn up.
Global chat can be a good way to find teams to join larger games. Just post something like "searching 3v3 as allies" and people will often turn up.
Okay, it needs a good matchmaker then. """""trying""""" shouldn't imply one hour wait times for two versus two.
Yeah. I think it needs several improvements:
1) Show how many people are searching. Axis and allies and game size.
2) Some sort of Elo difference cap. Differences of 400+ should just not happen. It's no fun for either side.
3) Fix the naughty QP exploits
4) Let us search axis and allies at the same time.
eugen games have needed matchmaking for years now, but devs are either indifferent or incompetent (or both)
I would love to search Axis and Allies at the same time. On number two though, I think the best case scenario would be to do something similar to this:
0:00-4:00 will be restricted matchmaking of within 50 MMR.
4:01-10:00 will be semi-restricted matchmaking of within 100 MMR.
10:01-15:00 will be semi-unrestricted matchmaking of within 200 MMR.
15:01 onward will be unrestricted matchmaking of which any match can be made.
Obviously you can tweak the times and MMR difference but that would be the best way to get balanced games. I think allowing the underdog to play top players would be fine so long as the reward is appropriate. Unrestricted could also act as a fail safe so if no one of similar skill is around we can still get games.
Game is dead.
Sure, I can always find a game. There's always a Collombelles 10v10 to get in on, but I don't like playing those. I can, but why?
Real shame because I thought this game was going to take me back to ALB where me and 2-3 of my buddies would play every night. And then maybe on Sundays I could get my larger group together to fill up 10v10's like we did in Red Dragon.
Fuggin hate it. Game is dead. It's been or less equal with Red Dragon's active players for the last week. Even the patch yesterday didn't help Steel Division.
Sure, I can always find a game. There's always a Collombelles 10v10 to get in on, but I don't like playing those. I can, but why?
Real shame because I thought this game was going to take me back to ALB where me and 2-3 of my buddies would play every night. And then maybe on Sundays I could get my larger group together to fill up 10v10's like we did in Red Dragon.
Fuggin hate it. Game is dead. It's been or less equal with Red Dragon's active players for the last week. Even the patch yesterday didn't help Steel Division.
For the 134th time...Cmon is it really needed....
Reallly wonder how much this will be tolerated before the purge starts and Mr.Bannhammer will be called to fix things.
Dissenting opinion should be silenced? This isn't Communist Yugoslavia, he invested into this game and loves it as much as anyone else. He is frustrated and voicing his opinion in hopes to fix the issue. Contribute to the thread in a helpful manner or don't post.
To the topic at hand: I would really like to get some insight from Eugen on this issue. I know they are aware of the steep population decline. Are they willing to talk about it with us? No one wants to see this game fail.
No,construtive critiscms is always welcomed by Eugen,but repeating game is dead or other "insults to the devs" is just/was always contraproductive and i am pretty sure on their forum people would be banned or warned already.
This is like 5,6,15th post -this game needs a good matchmaker- ,if you didnt get a respond by now maybe you are doing something wrong.And thats that -game is dead - behaviour imo.
I also loved the begin of this game,contributed a lot with suggestions like i did since my Marshals days,but the day i saw matchmaker is just a copy of ranked i gave up and you people should not expect wonders,specially calling the game dead every day.
Soooooooo.... you're telling us to piss off and just not bother with it at all?
Cause it sounds like you have no hope and are just here to moan about other posters.
Cause it sounds like you have no hope and are just here to moan about other posters.
I love this game. It's really a lot of fun when you have a 2v2 or 3v3 with somewhat similar skill on both sides. The NO FUN part comes, when you are paired with random people against (usually a axis team) of players who either have comms or have played long enough together, which basically puts your team into a no win situation. For rank play this is fine, but not for random "custom" games.
I mean who finds it fun to see a team member get 2v1 on a section of the map and get rekt. Then he quits before phase B even comes into play? The match is just a waste of everybody's time.
Again RANK play should have "set" teams. Not custom games.
I mean who finds it fun to see a team member get 2v1 on a section of the map and get rekt. Then he quits before phase B even comes into play? The match is just a waste of everybody's time.
Again RANK play should have "set" teams. Not custom games.
Yep,the hope is gonne,imo they should focus asap on new Wargame maps,puting frontline mode inside and GG,forget about Dre,i mean SD...
...but i didnt moan about your post,i feel empathy towards Eugen and disgussed how people are and expect something in return.Look at the patch thread,like 15 dislikes,you think devs enjoy working after that ?
The problem stems from having the playerbase split so many different ways. Like I said, no one has the intention of coming in custom matches to stomp people but when you can't get a match in a decent amount of time it's all you can do with your friend. They need to just consolidate custom lobbies into the matchmaker so everyone can just find matches via the matchmaker.
Yep,the hope is gonne,imo they should focus asap on new Wargame maps,puting frontline mode inside and GG,forget about Dre,i mean SD...
...but i didnt moan about your post,i feel empathy towards Eugen and disgussed how people are and expect something in return.Look at the patch thread,like 15 dislikes,you think devs enjoy working after that ?
Well to be fair, the patch was pretty meh and this was with a hype thread dropping a week ahead of it so the letdown was real.
And unfortunately, they received a LOT of the same feedback on the overall state (ie, 'fun' level) of the game in beta and didn't really do anything to change it up. So I would guess that a lot of people eventually just lose patience for the slow crawl of incremental changes and hence why you see the outpouring of 'hate' and 'dislikes' etc.
People need to be incentivized to actually use the matchmaker. The current amount of people actually searching for anything is depressingly small.
Now that's not true based on my experiences. I couldn't tell you how many times I've been booted from stacked lobbies with and without a team in tow.