PLEASE FIX: Battlegrounds & Uneven Matches

billywink3b14_ESO

Hello!

There are multiple posts in the Battleground (BG) forums but I've seen no response.

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/504647/7-10-matches-start-with-one-or-two-players-less#latest

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/506454/full-4-man-team-with-healer-vs-3-man-pug-vs-2-man-pug-what-could-go-wrong#latest

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/505874/bug-bgs-are-not-filling-with-players-before-or-after-start#latest

And more....

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BG's are insanely fun for small scale PVP. Cyrodiil is large and can make some feel insignificant as it can turn out to be a massive zergfest. I won't lie, it is fun taking down large forts & having huge battles, running the scroll across Cyrodiil with your teammates, etc. but sometimes you want to feel more important and feel as though you are making a difference yourself in the game. This is where BGs come in! You have the ability to to pull of some amazing feats and run into some very intense long lasting small scale battles added with multitasking & trying to complete the objective and win as well.

Unfortunately... barely anyone is getting to enjoy this aspect of the game since the BG games are not filling up. If you do not already know, BGs (like Cyrodill) are a 4v4v4 so there are 3 teams of 4 fighting for the same goal.

These days you are lucky, as a PUG, to get into a group of 4. This weekend I believe I was in maybe 2-3 games where it was 1 person and myself other person on a team vs two teams of 4. Or us vs one team of 3, one team of 4, etc.

Every single match i have been in there is one team, if not two, who have less than 4 players. You already wait in a 5-20min queue depending on the time of day to get into a BG and honestly that's fine, the queue times I could care less about as there is so much you can do while you're in queue... but when you wait that long in queue to just be part of a 2 vs 8 it's just really discouraging to even want to come on to play.

Please do something about this. If you are, please let us know. I haven't seen it listed as being addresses so I apologize for my ignorance if I have missed something.

Thank you!

Reeb

I wanted to bump this thread because the bug still exists and seems to have become even more frequent. I regularly do Battleground dailies and since the last patch, on average every second day I see at least one team not being filled and staying like this for the entire match. This has a huge impact especially in the case of landgrab games and is really discouraging. Every time this happens, I submit a bug report and I don't understand why ZOS is not even addressing (like 'sorry, we are working on it') the issue? I can't believe fixing this is rocket science and there are so many possible solutions, e.g.:

• just fixing the team allocation algorithm, so people end up in even teams (including e.g. 3vs3vs3 if necessary);
• making sure empty spots are quickly filled up because I can't believe there is nobody queueing for a BG match during the whole 15 minutes of the match;
• assigning the weakened team a bot until it's replaced with a real player from the queue and/or giving it a small score boost (similarly to the low population bonus in Cyrodiil).
  
  Once I submitted a ticket through the 'interface technical support' channel because I was tired of not hearing anything from ZOS in response to my regular bug reports and they asked me to send them my DxDiag file Because the issue of the game server not allocating players to teams properly must be the fault of my computer...
  
  Instead of adding radiant ponies or your mother-in-law houseguest to the crown store, they should finally start fixing such persistent and fun-breaking bugs. But is anyone listening to us? @ZOS_GinaBruno

Reeb

Bumping this again because the issue still persists and hasn't been acknowledged by ZOS. @ZOS_GinaBruno, could you reply and let us know what is the status of it?